FUN MAKES ALL, DETAILS BLOCKLORDS, Player-Driven Medieval Strategy AAA Game

Ponzi is prevalent. When tradable assets are introduced into the game, how to balance the game's fun and strong financial attributes is one of the directions that the Web3 game track has been exploring.

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Ponzi is prevalent. When tradable assets are introduced into the game, how to balance the game's fun and strong financial attributes is one of the directions that the Web3 game track has been exploring. But it seems that until now, it is difficult to find a game that truly combines fun and decentralization in the market. Perhaps the emergence of BLOCKLORDS can bring new possibilities.

game introduction

BLOCKLORDS (Blocklords) is a medieval grand strategy game developed by MetaKing Studios.

The game story is set in an overhead medieval continent, where territorial disputes continue and the continent is raging. By taking on the role of a medieval hero, players can form your community, command your armies, and lead them to victory on the battlefield.

An immersive multiplayer strategy game, BLOCKLORDS uses an innovative approach to storytelling that allows players to create their own unique stories in a shared universe. By farming, fighting, accumulating resources and ruling in the medieval metaverse, players can determine their own destiny and create a new kingdom of their own.

In the game, players can play different roles, whether they are farmers, hunters, knights, marauders, or lords or queens. Different characters have their own attributes and skills, and can improve their abilities through upgrades. Interestingly, each player's skills and choices not only determine their own destiny, but also affect other players in the game, making the game more "dynamic" and exciting.

Currently, the BLOCKLORDS community beta version has been officially launched on May 10 for a period of 30 days. In-game heroes are available on IMX and Polygon. New users can receive a free Polygon farmer after registering with the Polygon wallet and joining the Discord community.

Team Mission: Fun trumps everything!

When we looked at some interviews with the team behind BLOCKLORDS, they preferred to skip the prefix and directly define BLOCKLORDS with games rather than blockchain games or Web3 games.

As a group of people with passion and boundless love for games, BLOCKLORDS is designed for gamers, focusing on providing the Web3 community with the most enjoyable, richest, and asset-driven gaming experience. In their view, everyone should be free and easy to participate in P2E games and benefit from the advancement of Web3 technology. Therefore, in this game, the team is committed to empowering individuals so that everyone can fully own their income and monetize their talents, passions, skills and hobbies.

But in addition to emphasizing that players have full ownership of digital assets, the most important thing is that the team's goal is to make this experience fun and attractive for everyone, so that players can enjoy the game in this open economy. Everything together to create a sustainable ecology that can last for decades, or even longer.

According to the team, as early as 2017, they had already started the conception and development of BLOCKLORDS. Drawing inspiration from legendary strategy games such as "Age of Empires", "Total War", and "Crusader Kings", after nearly 6 years of polishing, the game has been able to meet players with a more complete attitude, and has been recognized by Cointelegraph, a well-known media in the industry. It was rated as one of the top ten most anticipated games by players in 2023.

Destiny is defined by actions

BLOCKLORDS gameplay mainly consists of 4 parts: farm, battle, domination and conquest.

Each player starts the game with his own BLOCKLORDS hero. Each hero is unique and a digital asset with individual attributes and values. Unless the player already owns a character, they will start as the base peasant.

First of all, players need to choose an area on the world map to settle, and gradually unlock farm life, such as: building houses, recruiting teams, planting crops, logging, mining, collecting resources, etc. Farm life is not limited to planting, players can also manage animals and livestock, obtain better items and buildings through resource processing, and trade in the market to obtain income!

In addition to farmers, players can also choose other paths. If you've amassed enough resources, you can leave the farm and build an army instead. At this time, you will face two new choices: become a knight or a looter. As a knight, you'll pay homage to your lord, defend peasants and villages, earn bounties for it, and even unlock a new character if you save enough. And if you choose to become a looter, then you are completely free to attack innocent peasants and steal resources from the lord, which is dangerous, but if you are lucky enough and have the right strategy, you can The rewards will be great!

The ultimate goal of many players is to become a lord or queen in the game. They have great power, and their actions and decisions will have a direct impact on the entire world and surrounding players. This role can tax players and collect resources, provide rewards and salaries to knights, manage and build city infrastructure, and formulate correct tactics to defend the city, defend against looters and hostile lords, etc.

Interestingly, the heroes in the BLOCKLORDS game have a limited lifespan, which means that players need to continue their legacy through bloodlines and train heirs to inherit the kingdom. Currently, the functions of the dynasty system have not yet been launched.

Community Beta is live

The current community beta will end on June 10th. In this version, the main gameplay revolves around farm building, resource and squad management. According to the development team, they hope to take this opportunity to allow players who have already obtained the hero NFT to participate in the Beta test of the game as soon as possible, obtain user feedback, and continuously improve and polish the gameplay and values in the game.

The beta version adds daily missions and season missions. After completing the missions, the players will get their respective rewards and experience value increases. If they successfully complete the season missions, they can also receive a militia hero for free. And the top 100 players in the experience value will become members of the BLOCKLORDS Founders Association. In addition to playing a special role in Discord, they also have a series of benefits, such as: quarterly dialogues with the BLOCKLORDS founders, upcoming white casting events list permissions, etc.

Conclusion

According to the roadmap released by the team, BLOCKLORDS will launch a public beta version and land on the Epic Game Store later this year. At present, the game economy is more about the market transactions of hero NFT and in-game resources and items, and a more complete economic model has not yet been disclosed. As far as user experience is concerned, hero NFTs are circulated on IMX and Polygon, and the transaction fees on the second layer are also low, and the game fluency is good. In terms of gameplay, heroes have diverse roles, and all actions and decisions made by players will have an impact on the world and economy in which they live, truly giving players the right to define their lives and their own values based on their actions, and Forge your own kingdom and legacy through their passions, skills, hobbies and talents.

For game lovers, there is nothing more important than a sustainable and interesting gaming experience, but under the speculative upsurge of new technologies, this seems to have been abandoned for a long time, expecting BLOCKLORDS to bring Web2+3 players back to the game. Game favorite.