According to PANewsFinancing Annual Report StatisticsIn 2022, there will be a total of 334 public investment and financing events on the chain game track, with a total financing scale of 4.4 billion US dollars. Among them, there are many projects that star institutions participated in and led the investment. Previously, PANews had written an article introducing the investment led by A16ZCreateraA Web3 game company led by ParadigmThe Wildcard Alliance. N 3 twork Studios, a blockchain game developer and publisher that also ranks among the top in recent financing scale, is about to launch its first game, Legendary: Heroes Unchained. PANews will explain it in detail for you.
N 3 TWORK Studios was established in January 2022 by the game team N 3 TWORK acquired by the blockchain game platform Forte. It is necessary to introduce that, according to official information, Forte is an American blockchain game company with over 40 partners and over 15 million partner game users in the field of blockchain games. Its financing scale is also quite high, with two rounds of fundraising in May and November 2021, with a total of more than US$900 million. Investors include star institutions in the encryption field a16z, Polygon Studios, Cosmos, Animoca Brands, etc., as well as well-known companies in traditional fields such as Sea Capital, Big Bets, Overwolf, Playstudios, zVentures, and Warner Music Group.
N 3 TWORK Studios announced on May 18, 2022 the closing of a $46 million Series A round of funding. The round was led by Griffin Gaming Partners, with participation from Kleiner Perkins, Galaxy Interactive and others. As part of the financing, Peter Levin of Griffin Gaming Partners joined N 3 twork Studios' board of directors. Its discussion A financing funds are mainly used to develop two blockchain games, Legendary: Heroes Unchained and Triumph.
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The N 3 TWORK Studios team has more than 60 members from companies such as EA, Kabam, Zynga, Glu, GREE, Scopely, Machine Zone, Warner Brothers, and Disney. Neil Young is the Executive Chairman. He founded mobile game creator, publisher and operator N 3 TWORK in 2013 and joined Forte in January 2022.
Matt Ricchetti is the president. He graduated from Brown University in 1996, and then worked as a senior designer at Red Herring and Electronic Arts. In 2009, he worked as a senior game designer and product manager at the social game company Zynga, and later as the chief of the American mobile game developer PerBlue. Product Officer, will join N 3 TWORK Studios in April 2021.
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More than 100,000 pre-registrations will open Founder NFT casting and early access version
LHU opened pre-registration in September 2021, and more than 100,000 players completed pre-registration in December. The official will introduce NFT through Drops or Drop Events. In the Drop, players will queue up to buy a given number of NFTs in the Drop, and these Drops will be arranged into the corresponding Seasons. This is similar to how physical card games are released as regular expansions. LHU will focus on Seasons to help organize LHU's NFTs into collections with unique themes and mechanics, while creating special events that can only be accessed or upgraded using NFTs from specific Seasons.
Founder's season will provide players with the first opportunity to purchase NFTs on LHU, priced in fiat currency, commonly held token assets (such as ETH, BTC, etc.) or LHU native tokens. In the third quarter of 2022, users can participate in the Dungeon Crawler Game and License List Pre-Sale Contest on the Discord community, and users can currently participate in the license list opportunity. This includes completing daily adventures in the game in the Discord community, ranking in game leaderboards, community events, Twitter raids, and more.
In the first quarter of 2023, Founder NFT casting opportunities will be opened, with a total of two rounds. At the same time, the early access version will be opened, and users will be able to earn other NFTs in the ecosystem. Note that any hero XP or currency earned during the Early Access build may be reset for adjustment purposes.
LHU officials will introduce Hero NFT into the game ecosystem through Drops. When users obtain Hero NFT, their level and evolution will start from Level 1 and Level I evolution. Heroes can increase their level and evolve through use and progress in the game. The level and evolution of Hero NFT will become permanent attributes, that is, the experience level and evolution level of Hero NFT purchased by users through the secondary market will also follow. These attributes determine its utility and value in the game. For free players, the official will provide novice heroes to free players, these players can be upgraded and evolved, but cannot be owned and traded.
When the early access version ends, LHU will officially introduce Gear NFT. Each hero can increase his strength and attributes by equipping different types of weapons and armor. If equipped gear matches the hero's preferred weapon and armor traits, it will gain higher buffs from that gear. Similar to the Heroe NFT, each piece of equipment in the Gear NFT will also have an experience level and evolution level, which will never change. This drives the need for players to invest time and resources into their favorite Gear parts to maximize their potential.
In the second quarter of 2023, the third round of Founder NFT casting list will be opened, and the second round of early access version will be opened at the same time, and Founders NFT will be used to participate in new game functions. The third round of early access version will start in the third quarter of 2023. Founders NFT holders will be able to use the guild system and guild activities in LHU to participate in the game. Meanwhile, LHU will launch an NFT marketplace and tokens in Q3. At that time, users can earn tokens and trade in-game NFT through the game. NFT will be provided by the Forte team, and 5% of each transaction in the market will go to LHU official treasury. The second NFT collectible will be released in the fourth quarter of 2023.
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Game mode: collectible game based on hero cards
LHU is a hero-based collectible card game that features two teams of up to five heroes battling each other or teams of five against raids. In order to avoid the cycle of rising and bursting bubbles in many previous games, LHU officially opened the play-and-own mode, setting the primary goal as providing an interesting gaming experience.
Specifically, players can obtain hero experience and rewards in the PvE random dungeon, and become familiar with the hero's skills, and obtain corresponding rewards by ranking on the leaderboard in PvP arena battles. There will also be GvE and GvG modes between guilds, offering opportunities to cooperatively defeat ferocious enemies through innovative, engaging gameplay that fulfills social needs as much as motivation.
Each hero has nine invariant characteristics of rarity, synergy, class, type, weapon, armor, leadership, command, perks, which determine its utility in the LHU. From these nine traits can be derived all the stats, skills, and other information that determine how a particular hero will perform in-game. At the same time, each hero also has six attributes: strength, agility, constitution, intelligence, magic, and luck. The number of attribute points assigned to each hero depends on their characteristics, level and evolution level. Players need to allocate attribute points according to the characteristics of the hero and the game scene. For example, when you need to pass a rickety single-plank bridge, you need to increase the overall agility attribute of the hero, so as to reduce the damage or negative status of the hero.
Each hero has an individual strength value. As the hero's level, evolution level, equipment, and skill level increase, its power increases, thereby increasing the hero's ability value, and the ratio is determined by their characteristics. Each hero has a maximum experience level determined by its evolution level. All heroes start at level 1 when forging, and gain experience when winning or losing battles in the game. Raising a hero's experience level increases its power, which increases its stats. Each hero has a maximum evolution level determined by its rarity trait. All heroes start at evolution level I when minted, and as players invest time and resources in this NFT, they can increase their evolution level and gain more power. As the hero reaches a higher evolution level, the evolution will need to consume tokens, which can be obtained through the game or bought on the exchange.
In-game battles are divided into rounds. Each hero performs an action each round, as long as they are not knocked down. At the start of each round, all hero bets determine the order of action for that round. The exact action to take on the corresponding hero's turn depends on its attack pattern. Each round of combat consumes energy. Players can use a power multiplier, at which point the hero's damage output for that round will be doubled. For example, if the player chooses 10 times the energy, then all the corresponding attacks and damage handling skills will cause 10 times the damage in this round. Using power multipliers, combat missions can be completed faster than players who play one round at a time, a convenience for players with limited time. But its energy consumption may end up being inefficient compared to a player who only does one round at a time.
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Dual Token Economic Model
For homogeneous tokens, LHU officially adopts a dual-token model. They are the utility token LHU with a fixed total amount and the functional token HP with no upper limit.
The LHU has multiple uses in the game and the marketplace, mostly around the hero evolution system and the marketplace. Specifically, the consumption of LHU tokens increases the hero's higher evolutionary level, improves the skill level of various skills of the hero, purchases NFTs in certain Drops, and purchases NFTs placed by other players. Thereafter, with the enrichment of the ecosystem, more game modes and activities will be added to add more game demand scenarios for LHU tokens. On the output side, rewards are distributed to the best players in events and tournaments.
According to official information, the output and consumption of LHU tokens will be adjusted and balanced according to the movement of the ecosystem to avoid collapse caused by inflation. Over time, the authorities may no longer mint new LHU tokens as event rewards, but instead will use funds held in the treasury to fund the prizes.
According to the previous article, the NFT market will generate 5% of the handling fee to the project treasury, plus the LHU tokens consumed by users in the game will flow into the treasury, which will accumulate a large amount of LHU tokens. According to official information, the Ministry of Finance can choose to sell its holdings of LHU tokens on the exchange. The first motivation is to increase market supply. Once the system supply cannot meet the market demand, the price of LHU tokens will increase too much, so that the price of users' actions such as increasing the hero evolution level will be too high, which greatly reduces the user's sense of game experience and increases the threshold for users to enter , which is detrimental to the ecosystem. The second is to generate income. This part of the revenue is used to drive business for the LHU team (paying for server fees, development team fees, art fees, driving marketing and player growth, funding the development of additional game modes and even new games, etc.).
The full name of HP tokens is Health Potions, which means health potions in Chinese. Can help players restore hero health. All players have the opportunity to obtain a certain number of health potions through the game every day. When a hero's health drops below 100%, use a health potion to automatically regenerate a hero's health over time to extend game time or tackle particularly tricky PvE battles. It can also be sold to other players on the secondary market, or stored for future campaigns.
The existence of HP is mainly to effectively increase the user's demand for more LHU consumption in the game. Compared to LHU tokens, HP tokens are easier to obtain. Similar to LHU tokens, when a player spends HP it goes to the team treasury. According to official information, the team may recycle the obtained health potion to replace the new health potion casting, or may choose to sell it to generate income.
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From the background of the team, N 3 TWORK, the parent company of N 3 TWORK Studios, has successfully released a number of free mobile games. It has rich experience in game development and distribution, and has the potential and ability to expand the audience of encrypted games. Moreover, its acquisition company Forte has a huge financing scale and abundant resources, which can assist N 3 TWORK Studios to better operate its games.
From the perspective of the economic model, the official has not yet released clear token model data, and the token design is roughly the same as the token in the Axie game ecosystem. However, it can be seen from its planning that the N 3 TWORK Studios team is aware of the current vicious cycle of random bursting of bubbles after FOMO in the blockchain game field. Events, leaderboard rewards are released and other token output, monitor and regulate the difficulty of the game, regulate the number and speed of NFT issuance, etc., so as to maximize the maintenance of the economic balance within the ecology.
However, the initial ideal design of the ecology does not necessarily match the actual operation, and whether it can trigger FOMO emotions is closely related to the number of users entering. It is better than Axie spent two years optimizing historical problems, and is still in the optimization stage. Therefore, it will take time and practice to verify whether the N 3 TWORK Studios team can regulate the economic balance within the ecology while attracting users. Judging from its team background and resources, it is worthy of our expectation and attention.
