Dev Blog #19

Galaxy Fight Club

10 min readMar 7, 2022

As usual, our dev blog update will be divided into three sections as follow:

a) Game and Web3 development

Focus has been on getting rid of bugs and improving stability of current build, P2E feature making good progress to be integrated in the next 2 weeks
95% of errors with GCOIN withdrawal and staking is because of Polygon network congestion, please update your RPC settings to get around issues
Lootbox and training features updated, 3 asteroids will give next tier weapon + vial which can be used when training feature is released
Forging price have increased to 500 GCOIN to adjust for the lower GCOIN value
Completed Gen 2 training image generation and QC, will finish frontend for training mechanism within the next 2 weeks

b) Business Development & Marketing

We will be providing an in-game model for the Champs Only collection
Partnership with Chibi Dinos and another top tier partnership to be announced soon
Working with Vaynersports and AJ Vaynerchuk to introduce GFC to athletes in the UFC world
Huobi CEX Listing this week

c) Community

Concluded our 3 week long ‘Series of Fortunate Events’ competition with Sarkasmus emerging as winner
Taking feedback from community we will be hosting poker tournaments next

Before we dive into each section, we would also like to give a general update on what has happened in the past 2 weeks and where a lot of our energy has been focused on.

As a lot of you know Mx had travelled to Ukraine to oversee the production of one of our trailers, because of the sudden escalation of the situation there it meant that the shoot had to be cancelled last minute and Mx was also stuck in Ukraine. We asked for help from the community to get Mx from Ukraine back across to Poland, he then safely travelled back to Germany after crossing into Poland.

Mx and the crew are now all safe, the shoot will now be rescheduled at another location to replace the shots originally planned to be done in Ukraine.

Then on Wednesday this week (2nd of March), our Discord was also compromised.

In short, one of the team members’ account got compromised through a rather sophisticated social engineering method as described by Sentinel below. The appropriate steps have now been taken to prevent this from ever happening again.

For those of you who have lost assets in the recent Discord server hack, we have decided to reimburse the full amount you spent on minting as well as reimbursing all of your fighters lost in the wallet drain. We have also reacquired the CyberKong that one of our community members lost and will be returning this to him in a private deal.

We would like to reiterate that we will never do a stealth mint as a project, any future mints will be announced well in advance. We hope that those who lost assets in this hack can learn from this, we certainly have. While we as a project is definitely at fault for allowing our Discord to be compromised we believe it is everyone’s own responsibility to avoid falling victim to these scams.

A: Game and Web3 Development

GAME DEVELOPMENT

Re gaming, the focus this week has been to eliminate as many bugs as possible to ensure a stable enough build ready for Beta. We are also making good progress on the P2E mechanics and will be working to integrate it inside the game over the next 1–2 weeks.

+ News features we added these two past two weeks:

3 new projectiles: Ricochet/ Bounce/ TrueSight
Projectiles team identification

+ Update:

Death Robot model
Updated weapon skills (Echo chamber, Shuriken, Wakizashi,…)
Weapon Special Ability (Boost special ability for melee weapons)
Movement joystick update
Cyberpunk battleground environment update
Update MVP selection logic

+ Fix bugs:

Fix Invisible bug
Fix UI
Fix weapon logic bugs
Fix some of the weapon handling pose

The game development team will work on the following in the coming 2 weeks:

+ New features:

New game mode (GCOIN Capture)
BYOPills
Battle with bots for training
New projectiles (stun etc)
New character collections integrations

+ Updates:

Improve in-game SFX/VFX
Improve game performance and stability

STATE OF THE POLYGON NETWORK

For the past few weeks, the Polygon network has been under heavy traffic with > 8k pending transactions on the network at all times. A lot of issues have been observed including regular forking, unmined/dropped transactions and syncing issues etc. GFC as a project has also been affected by these issues, since our ecosystem mostly relies on the Polygon network.

If you are having issues with the network, our recommendations are:

Change the Polygon RPC (Refer to https://docs.polygon.technology/docs/develop/network-details/network/)
Use at least 30% higher gas than rapid gas to ensure your transactions get mined (Refer to https://polygonscan.com/gastracker for the current gas fees)
Create an account on Polygon node providers and use a private Polygon RPC (We recommend using https://www.alchemy.com/)

GENESIS KEY LOOTBOX SYSTEM

Maintenance was completed on the contract and the new version of the smart contract went live on 25th of Feb, 2022. You can now open loot boxes with your Genesis Keys normally on https://lootbox.galaxyfightclub.com/ .

The loot box opening instructions can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zJCRvvfUgrPIXcTVLKnuE-w92tiX_S7k7U1QZAe8ThM/edit?usp=sharing

WEAPON FORGING SYSTEM

Forging price have increased to 500 GCOIN to reflect the lower GCOIN value. You can also now forge with OG weapons as well as forge 3 asteroids together to get a special vial in the updated forging mechanic.

Snapshot was taken for OG weapons on ETH: Friday 25th of Feb at 6am EST. Airdrop according to that snapshot was completed shortly after.

Here are the two airdrop transactions:

You can forge your Genesis Weapons and OG Weapons on the forging page at:

https://forge.galaxyfightclub.com/

The weapon forging instructions can be found here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AUmBQpvw_hdDQwudpwqg_mYJOPg6GHaMwmSd9BIcQ0c/edit?usp=sharing

Forging 3 asteroids (1 of each kind together) will give a weapon of the next tier as normal and a vial, this vial is something that can be used once our training mechanism is released.

REWARD SYSTEM

We have been building towards the design we spoke about in the last AMA and we have made good progress on the reward system since then.

We have built 2 smart contracts for the keys, the key minter and their respective test cases. The next step will be reviewing the contract and running the test cases to ensure there is no logical flaw and security vulnerabilities within the contracts.

In order for the user to claim the keys that they have won from the matches, it will require the user to sign a message with the wallet they would like to claim from. We will be hosting a signer wallet with Azure Key Vault on the designated server, this means that none of the devs will know the key phase to the signer wallet, making the signer wallet more secure and less prone to human error.

GEN 2 TRAINING

This functionality is also coming along nicely with the frontend already built and the smart contract already in the works. Training will support multiple wallet types to connect, namely Coinbase wallet, wallet connect and Metamask wallet.

For the Gen2 training page, we have come up with a different design and have made the page look more sophisticated and also connected to the other game mechanics. Once we are done with it, we will be working towards redesigning the other 2 game mechanics (i.e. loot box page and weapon forging page).

We are working on the training contract, Gen 2 contract as well as the image generation logic.

It has been an interesting experience playing with the layering logic and seeing how the results are. Here are some of the weird looking Gen 2s we have picked up doing QC and some which are after optimization.

Gen 2 Female with Hair when the base character already has hair.

Would also like to share some nice looking ones here after we have fixed some of these issues:

B: Marketing

Since our last update, we have worked on a variety of activities to both attract new members into our community as well as re-engage existing members of our GFC-Fam.

We successfully wrapped up our giveaway and grew our Twitter account to over 75K Followers. We are looking to break 100K Followers and will soon explore the option of getting verified on Twitter before the release of the open beta.

The winners of the giveaway are listed at the very end of this article.

Following the official partnership with Champ, he mentioned us in his Discord and Twitter several times and will continue supporting us as we move into open beta as well as further in the future. We will be providing an in-game model for the Champs Only collection, just like we do for all of our official partners — here’s a little sneak peek:

Last Sunday (February 27th), we invited Tropix (https://twitter.com/TropixOfficial) to host a super exciting Discord party for our community and partners.

Make sure to check it out! Our Discord was absolutely popping and we are very happy and pleased about the fact that our community enjoyed the party!

As previously announced during the party, we are excited to share with you that we finally signed off on a working relationship with AJ Vaynerchuck and one of his companies, VaynerSports. Many of you have been asking for the athlete announcement, which was scheduled to be announced in February and as promised, @Yas(Mx) delivered and dropped the bomb on Sunday during the party.

We are excited to share that in collaboration with VaynerSports, we will not only be onboarding one but up to 8 athletes from the UFC-Space.

Instead of giving it all away right now, we want you guys to keep an eye out for these athletes. Some of them will be interacting with us on socials, others will join our discord and all of that juicy stuff!!

Additionally, we will be working closely with AJ Vaynerchuk. He will be joining us as an advisor for our project, especially in regards to the business development side of GFC.

On top of that, we officially partnered up with Chibi Dinos. The Chibi Dinos and @Yas(Mx) have been collaborating for a while behind the scenes and we only saw this as the logical next step and are very excited to now officially be able to call them our partners.

Their team is really dedicated and helpful, to say the least, and we are excited to take our partnership to the next level.

Together, we’ll be hosting a Twitter Space on Wednesday, March 9th, at 7 pm EST. We also have another absolutely top tier partnership in the pipeline, just about to be announced — so stay tuned!

C. Community

We have concluded the three-week Series of Fortunate Events and it was fun!
Not until the very last (Hide & Seek) event finished, did we know who was to be crowned Series of Fortunate Event winner! It was a close one up top!
Eventually it was **Sarkasmus** who just beat CryptoGuepard and ran off with the Battle Pass for first place!

Tier 2 Genesis Keys were handed out to CryptoGuepard and sunnyanon, while Musholo and Gcoin love me some Gcoin received some BYOPills for their vaillant efforts!

The top 45 on the leaderboard was invited to partake in the first Mystery Games, where the winner will walk away with a Genesis Fighter! From plotting and scheming to getting eliminated just for being unlucky, contestants have been loving the game and hating the game master. We are down to the final six, WHO will be sneaky and cheeky and lucky enough to be called the Mystery Game Winner?

On the Beta gameplay front we had a League running, where players got awarded points based on the amount of games they played, games won and just on how good they really are in-game! Every round the top 50% moved on to the next where eventually we rewarded the top 3 with extra Battle Points.
Merlin, Berlin and Sarkasmus will battle it out in 3 games of 2vs1 where the person with the best stats overall will be crowned the GFC League Winner and receive some BYOPills for their troubles!

More events are in the works, with a poker tournament coming up soon, but more about that later!