I'm excited to release to the public the alpha of Steem Monsters; a collectible trading card game with RPG elements. @yabapmatt and I have been hard at work creating the cards, art, a website, and building the game function on the Steem Blockchain. It doesn't do everything we want yet, but we're ready for some users to help fund faster development and unlock the full potential of Steem Monsters.
What is Steem Monsters?
It's a game you can play after you've created an account on the Steem Blockchain. You'll purchase cards and get a mix of summoners and monsters. You'll arrange them in tournments to fight and win prizes and glory. You'll trade cards between players to maximize the heart of your deck and over time you'll empower your monsters with items and new abilities. As they fight they'll earn XP, level, and grow more powerful.
Where are we at?
You're currently able to purchase a starter pack, booster packs, and see cards in your collection.
The starter pack is currently set at $5 USD. This is an intro price and will become substantially higher as new features are added and we move out of Alpha. The starter pack isn't precisely necessary, but it gives you summoners, which you'll need to start playing. Booster packs contain 5 cards each and are set at $2. We'll use funds raised initially to fund development, but as the core game gets put in place we plan to use a lot of the incoming funds to fund tournament prize pools.
We'll be adding the ability to trade cards and combine cards of the same type to help them level in the very near term (should be released in July). We're building the fighting aspect, which will likely take us through early Fall to get rolling. At that point we'll be launching tournaments where your summoners and the monsters they control will fight for glory and rewards!
Once the core fighting piece is baked then it's about game development. Maximize the meta. We'll be looking to add items that will level and gain abilities over time. These items will empower your summoners and monsters. We'll add new skills that the monsters can learn. We'll create some cards to increase stats and grant abilities cards wouldn't normally have. You'll have a completely customized deck unique to you based on your preferences and choices and we'll see how well you compete over time as the meta evolves!
Fivemium
The goal is to make it so you can start the game with just a $5 purchase. You can then level cards and gain new abilities faster with additional purchases, but the goal will be to make it so that everything can be unlocked with time and dedication to the game. We don't want this to be simply a "whoever pays the most wins." Strategy, following the meta, and playing smart combinations of cards should do better than simply plowing in cash to get powerful cards that get smoked when used in combination poorly.
What it looks like so far
Homepage
Card purchase- note that the account you use to purchase the cards is where they will be sent (we're adding a gift feature and it should be ready in July)
Beastiary
Marketplace
We're adding the ability to buy and sell your cards on a common market. We plan to take a small cut of the action and add a lot of money back into tournament prize pools. As your monsters fight you'll win some combination of steem, sbd, new packs, cards, unique items, xp boosts, SMTs, and monster upvotes. You'll trade the cards you have and level for Steem and SBD.
Inspiration for the game
The inspiration for this was watching my daughters play fight with each other and I imagined them throwing buttons down on the floor and summoning monsters to fight on their behalf!
So, the basic mechanic works as follows: you'll get summoners and monsters. Summoners will summon monsters. Monsters will fight using four key stats of attack, defense, speed, and health. They gain experience as they fight and learn new skills and increase their abilities as they go. You can hasten the time it takes to level a monster by purchasing boosters or trading with friends for card duplicates and then merging them into one card that then has increased XP.
As your monsters level skill ranks will go up and abilities are unlocked. Some examples are:
poison: do increasing damage over time
stun: chance to stun an opponent for a turn
slow: chance to slow an opponent decreasing chance to hit, increasing chance to be hit
void: immunity to magic attacks
trample: push damage to a second monster after killing the one you're currently facing.
Summoners will be able to impact monster team abilities. For example every monster on your team will get +5 health.
Sneak Peek into the near future
Tournaments
Over the course of a day there will likely be 10 tournaments that you can enter combinations of monsters and summoners. Some tournaments will have larger prize pools than others and that should draw your best teams to those while the other tournaments will attract different squads.
Once there your monsters will be run through simulated combat and we'll put out reports of how the fighting went so you can see who you smashed and who REKTed you. Then you can make some changes to your lineup and find the best bracket for your team.
You'll have to come daily to see what fights are available the next day, create your teams, and be prepared to fight. We'll work on granting things to you for dedication such that if you fight every day we'll give you some cool rewards for completing your dailies.
The current design will make it so the different tournaments will have different mana pools allowed and different monsters will cost different amounts of mana. Maybe you just send in your one mega legendary kick ass beast or maybe you send in a team of little guys. You'll have to choose the best squad for the best round.
Prizes
The plan is to create tiers of prize pools. Low level tournaments will likely only give XP and a booster deck. Higher level tournaments will likely have hundreds if not thousands of steem, SBD, and rare cards to enrich you and your deck.
Eating magical kittens by the hearth
Without a doubt the game has been inspired by several games in the world out there. The cards themselves pay homage to Magic the Gathering. Building in the idea of classes and unique abilities starts veering a bit towards hearthstone. Putting it all on the blockchain as an internet ready blockchain based collectible card game with RPG elements is inspired by the success of cryptokitties.
That said. This game is about fighting. This game is about rewarding users. This game is about keeping people coming back to the Steem ecosystem and growing our daily active user base. I think as we grow our ability to engage and reward users will be the highest out of all of these games as we're specifically designing the game to do this. My goal is to be the most actively used app on the Steem blockchain and to drive new users and bolster user retention.
We all go to the same moon folks, and activity is key! I'm looking to get people here and keep them here! I hope you enjoy the first release of Steem Monsters and keep with us as we grow their capabilities!
Kickstarter Coming!
Want to design a monster or have your own summoner in the game? We're going to put Steem Monsters on Kickstarter in order to garner some attention from parts of the internet we're not already poked into. As part of that you'll have the opportunity to create a high level monster with us or get your likeness in a card put into the game. Spots for this will be limited so if you're interested you'll want to get in early. That too should go live in July. There will be updates on Steem about it through @steemmonsters and @aggroed as we go.
Let the rewards start!
Put your epics (purple) and legendaries (orange) that you win in the comments below and you'll get a chance to earn some extra decks, upvotes, resteems, and love from me!
PS the things listed here beyond what exists are plans. We don't know what's going to happen during development. Plans and timelines may change. We reserve the right to change them. We're working to build this game quickly, safely, and productively. We're going as fast as we can to deliver a stellar product in as short of a time as possible. We're planning to reward users heavily. How we do that will change over time as we evaluate risks and benefits. We reserve the right to change how rewards are handled as well and it is likely to evolve from the original plans stated here.
First off - Awesome, awesome, awesome! I always was a pretty huge fan of MTG and Yu-Gi-Oh, so this obviously instantly got my interest!
The one thing that bothers me most after opening a few packs is the fact, that the difference between the different rarity levels is rather small.
This especially strikes on smartphones. But a modern game definitely has to be smartphone-friendly imo!
I think at least legendary should look special, shiny, whatever. You need to be flashed when you open a pack with a legendary. Maybe even make a little animation when you open a legendary card.
What also is weird is the fact, that the element "Life" looks different that the other elements. It took me a few packs to realize that it is a own element and not a gold rarity or something like that. I don't know if this is on purpose for game technical reasons or just because you thought a white border would look stupid with the elements white color. However it's irritating imo.
Also Summoners should somehow look different than normal monsters.
Other than that I only can complain about the fact that I didn't get a single legendary yet :P
Greets,
Martin
P.S.:
Now translating this into german like discussed!
Upvoting this for visibility over the screens from booster openings!
Fire nation Unit!
I played Yu-Gi-Oh and loved it a lot. You are right but I am sure they know how to progress, it's only the beginning. I also would love to see something shinny when opening a legendary and something different when opening epics, something like on Clash Royale
My kids and I & @ericvancewalton, who's in town working on HardFork, just went on a buying rampage! Got 3 epics and a legendaryyyyyyyyy!!!!
This is awesome @aggroed! Keep up the great work! Can't wait to play.
Any whales around? Beware of my CRUSTACEAN KING and SABRE SHARK, they will take a bite out of you!
my witch will take you easily!
now you truly dosent stand a chane!
Ha, my "Fire Serpent" will melt your little pets to ashes.
You don't stand a chance.
Bow before my might.
My water elemental will put out your fire!
Ha you think water can beat fire.
However my "Fire Serpent" can evaporate your entire "Water Elemental".
My Legendary ANGEL OF LIGHT thinks you should all just relax and have a foot massage x o x o
Click the Image to View!
Artakush grabs his sword in the bush, and raises it up!
Isn't Sabre Shark the name of a YouTuber? 🤔 I think my nephew talks about him sometimes. Like one of those minecraft letsplayers or something lol
There isn't one with that exact name.
There is also a similary Yu-Gi-Oh! card: Saber Shark
Aw, dang XD Do you think it's a reference to the Yu-Gi-Oh card?? Or maybe a coincidence.
Hmm... I don't recognize those two, so I wonder who I was thinking of. Saber... Saber... Shark... Spark?? Maybe it was Saber Spark lol XD Idk, I might ask my nephew later lol
There are more references to other Yu-Gi-Oh cards.
Here's another comparison from my Comment.
how and what is it?
se ve entretenido .
@drakos you should end your message with ....Fear will find you :) lol
hey @drakos vote me
whats that
How do I get that?
You have to buy card packs, they give you random cards, if you're lucky you'll get it.
Really?
I WANT
LOL
best games!!
Nice one.... The graphics was great
#meme photo taken at at Scripps #aquarium
Is it like crypto kitties which jammed eth blockchain. Hopefully steemit doesn't get blocked in capacity. Steemit looks more suitable for this purpose.
And finally, got my Pirate Captain.
Hell ya dude. I think they made this one on your behalf.
These cards remind me a lot of the god cards from Yu-Gi-Oh!
Here's a comparison:
Yep, but that's somehow pretty cool^^ lol
very nice
Every card you submit seems really better than before
i got none legendary but two epics!! i think i got my favorites for now and with 40+ cards i think i'm ready to fight!!
looking forward for the game! much love to this !
You have quite cool characters, this card game look so fun, guess I need to try it just to see how it works at least
Oh yes, behold my legendary Chromatic Dragon 🐉
Trade you for my gold dragon.
all hail master of the sky, my favourite is the lightning dragon, want it so bad lol
Aw shit, it's Hiram McDaniels, literal five-headed dragon LMAO
What cool looking creature!!!
Good job
Inspiring noobs already. 😉
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WOW
This exciting news to have a game right on top of the Steem blockchain. I wish you had an animation video to explain this. A promotional video will help bring awarenwss about this game. I am pretty excited on how far could this work out the game on the Steem blockchain.
Let's get this party started.
Nice start!
I'm particularly eager to have a feel of this game. Something keeps whispering to me that the game is gonna be awesome.
Great work! You guys show the potential of Steem.
Yay, i got a legendary! =)
This rare looks very nice too. °.°
Damn...I got exactly 100 cards in my deck and still no epic or legendary.
Sorry bud. It's all just stats.
no need to apologize.
I had no expectations to fill.
I'm investing in a worthy project that can not only be fun...but very well may bring people to the our blockchain.
I'm in!
Here is a full upvote jonny, get one of those legendary cards.
Regards STEEM ON!.
This is huge. Respect.
Undead priest looks dope!
wow i love this game i have spended all my sbds in card packs haha
there will be a program for delegation?
Seems that I'll be playing with FIYAAA!!!
First of all thank you @aggroed for creating this great community building card game. That is really a great way to interact with other Steemians and have fun together playing this card game. The community really could need some stress relief after all these flag wars. Let the Battle Begin with SteemMonsters!!!
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I was lucky and got 5 Epics and 1 Legendary Card!!!
Great pack
thanks to team @aggroed
I got two epic cards!!
Got 3 Epics so far, i am looking forward on opening new packs. =)
I got a starter pack and then 5 packs after
got one legendary
2enchantress
and one of these
Doing great job.
So far i got only one Epic , i am hoping that i can get a legendary soon.. As of the moment this Magi of the Forest of mine will surely be headache to you guys. He may be small but a great spell cast will surely be a headache.
Here's mine:
The Elemental Phoenix is one of the rarest ones !
Stop in our Steem Monsters discord when you can!
opened about 10 packs only got one epic oh well :D
After opening a lot of packs, i have acquired legendary cards. I think three legendary cards is enough.
Epic and Legendary...
yisus! how much you spend :o
i hope we can battle >:) or maybe our monsters can be friends :D
Too much... and ironically the legendary came in my first booster pack!
Thanks for joining the Steem Monsters discord!
This collection is amazing wow!
Thank you!
Zappl got our first legendary.
Holy cow! that is one the rarest great job!
i got none legendary but two epics!! i think i got my favorites for now and with 40+ cards i think i'm ready to fight!!
looking forward for the game! much love to this !
Oh yeah legendary too :)
Wao,spirit of the forest, it going be interested
This is my collection ,,, unlucky , my high type card just in rare type ...
i want epic or legend card, hhaaa
btw. i am very excited with this game @anggroed
Very good idea !
Got my first epic. Hurrah!!
Nice, I've drawn a legendary summoner: Selenia Sky
Got 1 epic :P
I bought the starter pack, wasn't so lucky, the best I got was just rare, but I'm in.
Man, this is great. I'm already addicted. Especially the way the cards open just like hearthstone.
I hope this will be a huge success for you.
OMG!!! Finally!!!
i got none legendary but two epics!! i think i got my favorites for now and with 40+ cards i think i'm ready to fight!!
looking forward for the game! much love to this !
Woo hoo I got this one!
i got none legendary but two epics!! i think i got my favorites for now and with 40+ cards i think i'm ready to fight!!
looking forward for the game! much love to this
I scored the Enchantress of the Night!
Me Too!
And now... 2 more epic!!!
And how could I call myself a FireGuardian, if I didn´t had this one...
Getting Ready to Rumble!!!!
I grabbed some of these. This looks fun!
First boosters and already some great cards in them!
Big collectible card game player here. Spent many hours playing MTG and Hearthstone. I am IN THE GAME.
Nabbed a Frost Giant as my only legendary so far out of 5 packs...also got a epic, Magi of the Forest.