Holo everyone!
We wanted to start this post with a big thank you to the community for a very successful Alpha Vial opening launch. Not only have almost 50% of all vials been opened (even before the collection reward slider favoring opened vials), but also the numerous amounts of new vials being sold since it went live. We also wanna give a big shoutout to @rishi556 and @asgarth for providing us with a very clean and bugfree experience!
In other news, we have recently implemented our own environment design into our world which @anima-shot has worked hard on. This means we will finally be able to start teasing the community with some clips, screenshots and other gameplay shots now that most of the content is ours and not borrowed from unity's database.
Unfortunately, our healer artist is not going to be available for some time to continue working on healer assets and upcoming beta items. This has lead us to look for someone who can replace him and attempt to mimic and match his quality and style (with the artist's permission), we hope to find a replacement soon. If not, however, we may have to put our healer generative nft project on a small pause and mint healers for our future players with gender and class while the actual aesthetic will be generated later. This means that players that mint a healer to potentially try out our game in alpha or get to play it when beta launches, will only know the gender and class of the healer while the exact looks of its 2D version will be revealed later when we finish things up on that front. We do however have a nice little surprise for our healer minters as well, which we will be announcing at a time closer to the minting, so stay tuned for more on that!
Before the beta launches however, we will be creating new capture devices, new ammo designs, new starter healer glove designs, a different mount, and a whole bunch of craftable consumables and healer items. With this of course also different starter creatures.
In the Beta vials, there will only be 3 starter creature types; fire, water and grass. Currently, there is only one electric creature in the wild, so for those of you who absolutely want an electric creature as your main and can't find a Zappit (Alpha Electric Starter) on the market or don't wanna lease creatures, you'll still be able to capture one in the wild or have players who've captured one sell/lease it to you.
Before we get into too many details about the Beta Vials in this post, let's dive into the Advent Calendar. This year it might be harder than any of the previous years due to our change in how often you can claim rewards which is only once every 6 hours. This means that to claim every unique day of december you have to make sure it's within a certain time-frame as there's been many people in the past missing a day or two.
Similar to last year, there'll be Holo Dust rewards for claiming every day, these rewards have however been nerfed from a max 10 Dust per day to 8 that can be claimed now as we are nearing the game's launch and these will be a big proponant of crafting.
Furthemore, we will also be sending Zing rewards to some of the top claimers both based on a specific day and based on the total claimed for the whole month, similar to last year's rewards as can be seen listed here
As always, there will also be a 2025 Advent Calendar achievement based on how many unique days you managed to claim rewards on with different rarities based on your accomplishments.
Happy claiming!
Now let's get to the fun part!
We've started working on the beta starter creatures and are happy to reveal the fire starter in this post!
Wuzaru is a fire-type monkey creature that specialises in close-quarter combat. It generates fiery melee attacks from it shoulders and strikes enemies with melee and fire damage. It'll have a focus on damage output and agility but lack defense and health compared to other creatures. Compared to our Alpha Starter Infurno it will be more melee-focused instead of having many ranged moves.
Wuzing is the evolved form of Wuzaru. Upon evolution, its stat focus will slightly shift towards higher defense while reducing agility. While it may become slower and not crit as often, its attacks are going to remain quite powerful and it starts learning even stronger moves. Similar to other fire creatures in our games, enemy attackers may get some fire damage recoil when attacking Wuzaru and Wuzing.
Keep in mind that these creatures cannot be found out in the wild, the only way to obtain them will be through Beta Vials in a future release.
Anyway, what do you think of our Beta Fire Starter, healers?
Are you excited to claim during December?
Thanks for reading and your continued support!
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Awesome designs!
I really like Wuzaru more 🤩. Looks like he is gonna give some tough competition to infurno hehe. Wuzaru name reminds me of oozaru the great ape form of saiyans from dragon ball. Was the name inspired from this?
Excited to claim the holo dust this year and hopefully i claim it all without missing like the last 2 times lol.
We knew we were gonna name the 2nd one wuzing after wukong, so when thinking cuter names for the first one we noticed that saru means monkey in Japanese so we kind of fused wu and saru together for wuzaru!
Ah I totally forgot about Wukong haha. Definitely suits the new character.
Cutting it fine, sir! The whole of Hive has been waiting for this auspicious annual event!
I've still absolutely no idea about this game but I've got all sorts of items from vials that do god knows what, I've got zings saved up and I'll be collecting dusters again like like a cleaner on drugs.
All good fun down to your infectious excitement.
Looking forward to waking up tomorrow for my daily opening!
Best wishes, hope you've both had a great weekend 😀
Greetings, friend! It's great to see so many new people joining the team. It brings fresh ideas and keeps the project going, which is the most important thing in all of this. The two new creatures are fantastic, and I think they were the missing pieces to finally have someone who can fight in close combat. I'll be keeping an eye out to start collecting this month's rewards. Best of luck! ✊🔥
They have encouraged everyone in the community with their hard work. However, implementing environmental design is really a difficult task. I hope all the tasks are completed automatically. The new version of wuzaru will play an important role in the game of fire fighter monkey. Also, the evolution of wuzing is really interesting. Always respect, respect and love for all of you for your hard work.
Yeah, I missed a single day on the first one. It was kind of annoying, but I eventually got over it. I have a feeling I will miss a few on this one just due to life stuff.
I completed 2023 calendar 100%, then I missed 1 day in 2024, I hope in 2025 calendar I can go back to 100% completion :D
Ok now Wuzing looks like a beast! He seems to be able to smash every other creature lol
Last year it was lucky advent calendar for me, let's see how this one goes!
That monkey looks spectacular
Wow, that's awesome! Awesome😲, I feel like we've been needing characters, or rather creatures like this, for a while now to add a bit of variety to the creatures in the game, as well as some horse-like creatures. The design is also really cool, and what I liked most was the color scheme—that mix of reds and browns was absolutely awesome...great job, guys 👏🏼🔥
Great news for the project! I hope you can resolve the issue with the new creator and find someone. Holographic dust is an excellent way to earn rewards. I hope everything goes well.
Success with the project
I am looking forward to claiming in December. The past two years, I have claimed every day. I also liked the new fire starter. The evolution looks very powerful!
Now I feel lucky to have found two Zappit in my 2 Alpha Vials!
Gonna try to claim all days of the Advent Calendar, as last year.
And the new creature design is super good, as all the previous ones! The style is consistent and quality very high: well done!
Best wishes, I believe in Creatives. I am in.
I will add up slowly, reduced some because I realized my reduced HP impacting my content visibility in general.
But, when I see something like that, I see @thepeakstudio💫 May be he can fit in.
wow my new favorite :D
Awww! It is already December! Time flies so fast!
!BBH
Awesome! I'll be on the lookout to get my holographic powder.
I love Wuzaru, I already have a new drawing, how cool!
Guao! It is already December! vamos diciembre
!ALIVE
!BBH
6 hour window is going to be pretty wild!
We are waiting for this auspicious annual event of Hive. And waiting for something new like HoloZing and hope that all of your good work will not go in vain and that it will bring good things.
Whaooo!!!
Good news.
Is it possible to buy Alpha Vial and give them to someone else? Christmas is coming, so 🎁 🛍
Unfortunately right now it is somewhat difficult to transfer them, maybe @rishi556 has some ideas on when that could become available.
Ok. Thank you.
The vials are just NFTs on Hive-Engine, so you can transfer them fairly easily using code. I'll discuss with @asgarth on adding the functionality to the webui.
Thanks a lot
Hi! It is quite pleasant to observe the appearance of several new persons in the team. New members will introduce new ideas and make the project vibrant. The two new characters are stunning, and I believe that they are the most suitable additions when it comes to close-combat battles. I will also watch out to ensure that I am able to gather the updates of the month. Goodluck in the next games
Incred
This new creature looks spectacular, and the rewards look great. Greetings friend, I'm glad everything is going well.