GOG Gameplay - Large-scale 3D Blockchain Game on IMX

Forward the Original Title‘IMX链上大型3D链游-GOG项目玩法介绍’

In recent days, the market has seen some recovery and has passed the halving without experiencing a significant correction, so it’s time to look bullish. The big market is coming soon! Today, let’s continue discussing projects, and today’s topic is a blockchain game project. We’ve talked about blockchain games before, such as bigtime, mavia, ACE, PYR, Pixel, Prime, and so on. We’ve also noticed that this wave of blockchain games is heading towards AAA quality, and the participants are all major players. Today’s topic is Guild of Guardians (GOG), a game that has been in development for many years and has been criticized by the community. It’s said that it only took a Chinese team three months to complete, while foreigners have been dragging it out for three years. Currently, the token price has skyrocketed, rising from $0.04 to around $0.3 this year, nearly a tenfold increase. The current market cap is $100 million, with a total FDV of around $200 million, which is relatively low. You should know that its token price is $1.6, so it has room to fall, but why has it risen again recently? Because its game is scheduled to launch on May 15th, and from the promotional video, the game looks quite exquisite. Today, let’s take a look at this project.

1. Introduction

Guild of Guardians is developed by Mineloader, a leading game development studio known for its collaboration on some of the world’s largest AAA game projects, including “The Division 2,” “The Last of Us Part I,” and various “Final Fantasy” series titles such as “Final Fantasy VII Remake” and “Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker.” Over their 20 years of game development experience, they have collaborated with many AAA game studios such as Ubisoft, Bandai Namco, Electronic Arts, 2K Games, Sony, and more. Guild of Guardians is a mobile multiplayer RPG blockchain game issued by Immutable and is one of the cooperative games of Yield Guild Games (YGG). Players will build a team of heroes in the game, explore dungeons to obtain resources, and participate in guild collaboration. Guild of Guardians is scheduled to launch in the second quarter of 2024 (with plans for iOS and Android to be available for download in mid-May), has attracted over 1 million pre-registered users, and has a passionate global community across Twitter, Discord, TikTok, Reddit, and Medium, with over 400,000 followers.

2. Core gameplays

Players will lead a team of heroes into dungeons to battle. Team strategy and skills are equally important. Your team composition and synergy are crucial, as are your skill usage and evasion abilities! Faction, class, and elemental synergy all play a role in combat. For example, teams of all tribes may receive a buff to their primitive attacks, while teams of fire elementals may have a higher chance of dealing damage over time. A combo attack system will allow skilled players who dodge and time their attacks correctly to accumulate massive damage numbers. Traditional RPG roles such as tanks, healers, DPS, and support are valuable in the Guardians’ Guild. Players’ skills in farming management, healing output, and damage output will be tested in our most challenging content. Players venture into instanced dungeons to complete challenges. Each dungeon is unique, filled with monsters, creatures to overcome, and traps. Players can earn rewards such as resources, currency, and equipment. Players spend these rewards on recruiting and upgrading heroes and crafting equipment. Players use newly acquired heroes and equipment to tackle increasingly challenging dungeons.

2.1 Additional Gameplay Features

As the game evolves, we plan to add game modes and features for more Guardians. This may include the following in a specific order: 1) Guild Raids; 2) Guild PvP; 3) Land Gameplay; 4) User-generated Dungeons; 5) Global eSports Competitions; 6) Social Hubs and Trading Zones.

2.2 Guardian Properties

Guild of Guardians is a game centered around collecting, meaning there are a wide variety of Guardians available for collection, along with many ways to upgrade them. Each Guardian will have a unique set of properties that determine their playstyle, strengths, and weaknesses. Our merging and forging systems enhance the strength of Guardians and teams by boosting properties and occasionally altering their abilities. To successfully defeat the Dreadlord, players need to acquire a variety of Guardians to unlock synergies that can change the course of battle. Players can acquire additional heroes, team up with other players, or create stronger characters by looting and combining heroes. The hero categories are as follows: - Ranger - Melee - Mage - Warrior Currently, this NFT system has issued 270,000 tokens and has sold for $14 million at that time.

Combat Attributes:

Health: The amount of damage a Guardian can endure before dying.

Attack: The amount of damage a Guardian deals to enemies.

Defense: The amount of damage reduced by a Guardian when attacked by enemies.

Additionally, there are various secondary attributes such as critical rate, critical damage, healing, evasion, etc.

Level: All Guardians have levels. Most, if not all, start at level 1. Increasing a Guardian’s level enhances their combat attributes and unlocks/improves their skills. Guardians’ levels can be increased through exploration and gaining experience. After reaching a certain level, further advancement of a Guardian can only be achieved through the enlightenment of the selected Guardian.

Faction: Determines the general type of Guardian (e.g., humans are typically empire-aligned). Collecting Guardians from the same faction is a key element in strengthening the team.

Role: The combat class (e.g., tank, assassin, or support) when forming teams before battles is an important factor to consider.

Attributes: Guardian attributes are divided into three categories: Strength, Agility, and Intelligence. Guardian attributes determine the equipment each Guardian can use. This attribute is primarily used in conjunction with runes and other passive effects. Players can also tactically leverage it to gain combat advantages (e.g., using an intelligence-based Guardian to attack enemies weak against magical damage).

Field: Units in specific fields have advantages over units in “weaker” fields, adding strategic depth to the game.

Rarity: Indicates the rarity level of the Guardian, relative power level, maximum number of skills, and potential growth rate. Guardians have four rarity levels: Common, Rare, Epic, and Legendary. Note that each Guardian still has its own strengths and weaknesses; for example, a rare Guardian may be better than a legendary Guardian in certain situations.

Enlightenment: Enlightenment levels can be increased by consuming duplicate Guardians, faction ashes, and souls of glory. Enlightenment upgrades also increase major combat attributes. The starting and maximum levels of enlightenment are determined by the Guardian’s rarity.

Radiance: Radiant Guardians are transformed into NFTs through a forging process that converts the current characteristics of the Guardian (including star ratings but excluding dynamic in-game attributes such as health) into permanent blockchain assets. Radiant Guardians have another special feature, which can be unlocked once the Guardian is converted into an NFT and undergoes the described “ascension” process.

They possess:

Enhanced abilities and/or attributes

UI/UX changes

Ability to be traded

Random chance to generate one of four aesthetic variations (e.g., alternate colors)

Skills: In addition to the above features, each Guardian can have up to four skills, divided into active and passive categories:

Passive skills are skills that remain effective during battles. Automatic skills will be released automatically when conditions are met during battles (e.g., cooldown timers). Ultimate skills can be manually released during battles at the cost of energy.

2.3 Guilds

This game is not suitable for solo players, as the advantage lies in numbers, and players will want to form or join guilds. Guild members can access the most valuable content, fight against the strongest enemies, and earn unique and rare rewards. There are four different levels of guilds:

Adventurer Guild: 20 members, with the guild leader receiving a 1% first-tier share from guild sales.

Warrior Guild: 30 members, with the guild leader receiving a 2.5% share from any sales.

Legendary Guild: 40 members, with the guild leader receiving a 5% share of sales.

Mythic Guild: 50 members, with the guild leader receiving a 10% share of sales.

Players interested in becoming guild leaders can purchase guilds before the game’s release, with prices ranging from a few hundred dollars to over $100,000. According to the website, all guild positions have already been sold out, so gaining membership and leadership may be difficult.

2.4 Energy Resources

Whenever players enter dungeons, their energy depletes and replenishes over time. If heroes enter dungeons multiple times in a day, they will experience “fatigue,” resulting in penalties such as decreased attributes or requiring extra energy to use certain features and abilities. Players will need to rest until their energy is replenished, or they can purchase energy boosters.

2.5 Dungeons

The main gameplay of “Guild of Guardians” involves progressing through dungeons and completing challenges within them. In dungeons, players can find rewards such as resources, currency, equipment, and summoning shards, which can be sold or used to enhance heroes and create new equipment. All dungeons are level-based and unique. They contain monsters, bosses, and traps for players to explore and overcome, providing rich diversity throughout the game. Once a character and team are chosen, players will begin completing missions and entering dungeons.

Dungeons have the following attributes:

Each dungeon is unique, containing monsters, bosses, and traps that players must overcome.

They include challenges to be completed.

They offer rewards such as resources, currency, and equipment.

These rewards can be used to recruit and upgrade heroes and craft equipment.

They may contain new heroes and equipment to acquire.

Better heroes and equipment are required to progress through more difficult dungeons.

3. Followers

Currently, there are 140,000 followers on Twitter and 130,000 followers on Discord. This volume seems relatively average compared to the global online reservation of 1 million people. However, it’s still acceptable because the app store will also contribute to traffic, and there are still some people who do not follow these social software platforms.

4. Token economy

$GOG is a utility token used for various practical purposes within the Guild of Guardians universe. The main issuance of $GOG tokens in the game is for leaderboard rewards and other competitive or cooperative game modes.

Asset Minting: $GOG is used to mint game NFTs, unlocking NFT ownership and tradability, as well as additional in-game features and privileges.

Altar Access: The Altar is a web3-based minting system for network-oriented users designed to help balance the game economy. $GOG tokens will be used to drive Altar transactions and pay for primary creation and minting costs.

Active Staking: Active participants in the ecosystem may receive loyalty rewards.

Payments: NFTs in the Guild of Guardians can be bought and sold on the NFT market using $GOG tokens. Of the market fees charged by the publisher, 20% must be paid in $GOG tokens and used for active staking rewards.

Governance: In the future, token holders will be allowed to decide on game matters through decentralized governance voting.

Token Supply: 1,000,000,000 tokens, currently circulating 569,604,001, with a circulation rate of 57%. The current token price is $0.25, with a peak of $1.9886 on December 25, 2021, so it has also experienced a significant decline. Token distribution allocates 35% to player rewards, 28% to community rewards, 20% to developers, and 6% to the team.

Looking at the token distribution, the team’s share is relatively small, with the majority going to players and the community.

In conclusion, this project can be considered a large 3D game on the IMX chain. Previously, we introduced IMX, mentioning that it only launched some mediocre small games without any major releases. The emergence of this project fills that gap. The biggest advantage of IMX is that the on-chain GAS is almost zero, making transactions very convenient. However, the downside is that this project has been slowly developed over 3 years. Although it is a 3D game, it is essentially a game where players automatically defeat monsters to advance, a gameplay style that has been popular in China for a long time and lacks significant innovation. Moreover, it makes slow progress, and the token price has been declining, dampening the enthusiasm of followers. If this project were placed in China, with a team in Shenzhen, a demo could be developed in just one month. The game’s art style is also quite Western, and it can be played on mobile devices. Therefore, for this type of blockchain game, the best approach is probably to farm gold, and it’s expected to go online in about half a month. As for the token, it’s unclear how profitable gold farming will be, so it’s currently advisable to wait and see.

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