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Hairy face with thunder mouth, fish head with antlers, cat ears with snake tail... Axie Infinity is a chain game that collects and raises all kinds of strange and weird creatures. In the past two years since its launch, Axie Infinity has maintained a good popularity with its exquisite style of painting and active player community. As an out-and-out veteran Dapp, it is really commendable. Before, Axie has always been a collection-oriented gameplay with insufficient playability. At the end of 2019, Aixe launched its Alpha client version, and the gameplay has been greatly improved. It even has the flavor of "Killing the Spire". Well-known DeFi projects such as MakerDAO, Uniswap, and Kyber have recently cooperated with Axie. This article will take you through the gameplay, community and other aspects to learn more about Axie Infinity after completing the gorgeous transformation. There are benefits at the end of the article!
Axie Infinity is a fairly old game in the blockchain game circle. At first, I felt it was another CryptoKitties with a different skin. Although the pets became cute, there was still no gameplay at all. Later, at various large and small blockchain game conferences, Vincent would meet Axie Infinity’s co-founder Jihoz every time. He kept describing the future development and vision of the game for two years. It is not easy in an industry with a high turnover of personnel. In 2019 alone, at least more than 30% of blockchain game teams have completely stopped developing. Earlier this month, Chainbreakers also announced that they would stop developing and package and sell all developed game content. After nearly two years of persistence in this project, it can be regarded as a spring. Its development team Sky Mavis received 1.5 million US dollars in financing in November last year, and launched an Alpha version with combat gameplay. It finally looks like a playable game. game.
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NFT pets comparable to CryptoKitties
When CryptoKitties came out, it captured the hearts of countless users inside and outside the circle with its cute appearance. Axie is definitely not inferior to CryptoKitties in terms of cuteness. All kinds of cute and funny parts are gathered together, and there is no sense of disobedience at all. Axie has strict "family planning". Each Axie can breed up to 7 offspring, and there will not be as many solid-colored or spotted cats as CryptoKitties. Each Axie has a unique cuteness. On top of this, Axie also added unique combat attributes, becoming one of the earliest NFT pets capable of combat.
Basic attributes:
Health: The maximum damage Axie can take.
Morale: Morale increases critical strike chance.
Skills: Each Axie has four combat skills.
Speed: The speed determines the attack sequence in the round, the higher the speed, the earlier the attack, and the speed will also reduce the probability of being critically hit.
type:
There are 9 types of Axie, including: [Reptiles, Plants, Twilight] [Aquatic, Birds, Dawn] [Beasts, Insects, Machinery]. There is a restraint relationship between them as follows, Axie in the restraint relationship will cause 20% extra damage.
body parts:
Each Axie has 6 body parts: Eyes, Ears, Horns, Mouth, Back and Tail, each of which has its own type. The shape of the horns, mouth, back and tail determine which 4 skill cards Axie can use in battle. The quality of the parts is the most important factor to determine the quality of Axie.
So here comes the important knowledge point, how to identify whether an Axie is strong?
There are mainly 3 aspects. Take Axie No. 1883 in the figure below as an example:
Attribute distribution: The total value of Axie's attributes is 164, so the distribution of attribute points determines whether Axie is a DPS or a tank. Skill value and morale value are the most needed for DPS. 1883Axie's skill value is 31, morale value is 58, and the total is 89, which is a very good DPS attribute.
Skill card value and effect: The skill card consists of 4 parts, energy consumption, attack power, shield and effect. As a DPS, the attack power of 1883Axie's skill cards is around 100, which is relatively high. Card effects are also more practical, such as increasing damage and stealing energy.
Now that we know how to choose an excellent Axie, let's talk about the game's combat mechanism.
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Slay the Spire-like combat system
Energy, cyclic decks, highly coordinated combo... Axie's battle scene is so cool, my first impression is that it has the taste of killing the spire. (DR friends note: Killing the Spire is the most successful Rougelike card game in 2019, with millions of copies sold on Steam, and was recently nominated for the Seumas McNally Award at this year's Independent Games Festival)
Axie's battle deck consists of 3 Axie's 12 skill cards*2. The initial hand has 6 cards and 3 energy points, and then draws 3 cards each round, increasing 2 energy points. Each Axie can only use its own skill cards, as long as your energy value is enough, you can play any number of cards. The faster Axie moves earlier, but some skill cards such as combat lifesteal cards may benefit more from acting later. There is a 60-second playing time for each round. At the end of the round, the cards and energy in the hand will be retained, but the upper limit of the number of cards in the hand is 9.
Axie's cards are as rich as Slay the Spire. According to statistics, there are at least 138 different cards, and there are also various card effects. This article roughly summarizes:
Simple attack/reply cards: generally increase attack power or restore.
Buff/Debuff cards: apply various effects to Axie.
Special effect cards: such as stealing energy, drawing cards, etc.
Point to the target card: Axie attacks the nearest enemy by default, pointing to the target card allows Axie to attack the eligible enemy.
This article also summarizes various Buffs/Debuffs in the game, which are also key points in Axie's battle.
Axie's combat mechanism is far more than these, and also includes advanced game mechanisms such as Combo (combined cards) and Chain (chained cards), which require players to experience carefully in actual combat.
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Axie + DeFi：
Behind the Axie Game
Axie's project team has spent a lot of time in terms of operations and done enough homework. They actively expand opportunities for Axie to get out of the circle. Trying to cooperate with the Defi project in the design of the game economic system has greatly improved the user experience. The cooperation with the Samsung blockchain wallet has given the project greater exposure.
In July 2019, Axie cooperated with MakerDao to launch a series of DAI reward items. Currently, Axie's season rewards are also issued in the form of Axie Dai. Incorporating stablecoins into the game economic system can effectively reduce the impact of Ethereum currency price fluctuations on the game and ensure the stability of the game economy.
On February 18 this year, Axie enabled players to conveniently purchase Axie treasure chests through a variety of ERC20 tokens through Kyber’s on-chain liquidity protocol. Recently, the two also launched the activity of depositing 50KNC to receive Axie land (as of March 23).
The decentralized exchange Uniswap has also joined the new currency SLP (Small Love Potion) in the Axie Alpha version, which can be easily exchanged with other tokens on Ethereum.
Axie's recognition by the three DeFi giants, MakerDAO, Kyber and Uniswap, also reflects Axie's success from the side.
Play to Earn：
Axie+Samsung blockchain wallet:
Axie was supported by the Samsung blockchain wallet last October, and players can start playing Axie through the Samsung blockchain wallet.
Playing games to make money is what Axie has been promoting. In the Alpha version, two improvements have been made to the in-game currency SLP:
Support the price of SLP by giving SLP the ability to pay breeding fees.
SLP is given for playing games and doing tasks. After completing daily tasks, you can receive 50 SLP and level rewards every day, so that players can really make profits.
We also calculated the transaction volume and average transaction value of Axie in the past six months. It can be seen that after the release of the Axie Alpha version on December 19, the transaction volume and transaction value of Axie have increased a lot. Currently, an Axie is worth at least 0.01ETH. Players don't have to worry about their Axie depreciating significantly.
High-end players can also obtain Axie's season rewards by competing for PVP rankings. Currently, the second season of Axie has just started, and the top 50 players have KNC rewards ranging from 5.3 to 67.5. It can be said that an Axie player has a pretty good profit margin.
Game data and information:
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Axie is currently one of the most worthwhile games on the blockchain with a low barrier to entry. After completing the transition from collection to blockchain games to combat gameplay blockchain games, Axie’s appeal to real gamers has also greatly increased. In addition, the cooperation with MakerDAO, Kyber and Uniswap in the DeFi field is more conducive to the balance and stability of the game economic system, and the active game community has also injected strong vitality into Axie. At present, the game has hundreds of online players every day, and we expect the game team to develop more original gameplay mechanisms.
