Dev Blog #22
a) Game and Web 3 Development
- We have been approved by both Apple App Store and Google Play Store this week! Open Beta will go live on 20th of April Wednesday 11am EST, details on how to download the game will be made clear with a separate announcement at that time
- As we release Open Beta, it is important to clarify what Open Beta is and is not — it is NOT a full game release or a game launch; IT IS one of the testing stages on our way towards full game release and a way for our community and partners to experience our progress first-hand
- The next step after Open Beta is to continue to refine game mechanics and work towards hosting an internal GFC community tournament (late April/early May) and then finally we arrive at the cross-IP tournament which will be accompanied by mass marketing (late May/early June)
- Refining the P2E system and integrating it will be a separate track that is run simultaneously to the tournament track, final integration of P2E system will come after our Q2 milestones including the tournaments/mass marketing and GFC land sale
b) Business Development & Marketing
- Twitter is verified! Please make sure you are following our official Twitter account @GalaxyFight_NFT
- We finalised two big partnerships this month with Ethlizards and Llamaverse, we also hosted AMAs with them
- Hosted a surprise giveaway of 500 Arlens (from Illuvium) NFTs on our discord, the Arlens will be airdropped to the winners within the next 48 hours
c) Community
- Thank you for all those who took part in naming 4 of the Gen 2 races, welcoming Friga, Obsidian, Glorken and Polaris as the first 4 community-named races in the GFC Universe to our family
- We hope the community likes the 1/1 they have received from the vials, while these 1/1 NFTs will allow users to access a stronger character (than the normal gen 2 that it was mutated from), we would like to clarify that we do not currently plan to create unique custom avatars for each of the 1/1s
- Royal Rumble and Poker Games were hosted with the winner walking away from a Wakizashi weapon, the next tournament is scheduled for mid May
A: Game and Web 3 Development
APP STORE APPROVAL
After going back and fourth with both Apple and Google App Store with over 12 versions we have finally been successfully approved, to keep it brief the entire process involved us making changes to our app to make sure it adheres to these platforms’ rules and regulations.
This could be something as simple as not being allowed to have the word ‘Battle Royale’ as part of our app description all the way to whether these platforms have rights to claim 30% royalties from digital asset purchases inside the game, which as you can expect is a difficult situation to deal with especially when we are a cross-IP game dealing with digital assets spanning across double digit number of collections/partners.
REWARD AND ENERGY SYSTEM
Throughout the last two week, after we got the Photon team to set up the new Quantum environment for the game, our backend and game developers focused on getting the custom Photon Plugin built and we are happy to say that the development process went smoothly. The plugin is now ready to be implemented into our game.
In simple terms, the plugin is essentially a consensus system will allow for accurate endgame state, which can be used to prevent cheaters and also facilitate reward and energy systems. The plugin helps us to record all matches that happened, even custom games, and we are able to see what went on in each match and whether anyone is acting suspicious.
It allows us to get data on each match such as, the length of the matches, the KDA of each player, and the winner of the match, etc. All these data can be used for analytics and for game balancing later on. In order for the game result to be deemed valid, all the players that participated in that game will have to submit the same result to the server (which is done automatically by the plugin), essentially each player is acting as a validator for that particular game. We are then be able to filter invalid games and look for foul play.
For our next step, we will be building an admin panel which can later be used by GMs to monitor game activity, revisit game history, and issue rewards or bans if need be. It will be a big step for the GFC game to become a commercially-ready platform.
NFT AUTHENTICATION API AND METADATA API
On a separate track, the dev team have been working with the game developers to allow for unique NFT characters to come to life in our game in the past two weeks.
The NFT authentication API has been rewritten completely to be faster and include 20+ NFT collections, including but not limited to Animetas, Deadheads, CyberKongz, BAYC and others. This means that the GFC game is starting to recognise more collections and will have more collections brought into the game as playable characters soon.
The way we did it in the past was to package all the collections images into the game but it slowly became unfeasible because there are too many images to be included for unique characters as we scale the number of partnerships.
(roughly 10k for 1 collection, 20+ collections = 200k images)
To solve that problem, we took the IPFS link from each collection and created a reroute logic with caching in our API, this way the game can query the API endpoint to get the images without having to store all those images on your devices and caching the images can be loaded up quickly if it was recently used.
OTHER ONGOING TASKS:
GCOIN circulating supply API
We are building our own circulating supply API for GCOIN, as the current circulating supply figure on coinmarketcap is static and it can only be made dynamic if we provide our own API endpoint to them.
Binding in-game account with crypto wallet
We made it so that you can create an account within the game, as per one of the iOS app store requirements, however since the function was made under time constraint, there is currently no way to bind your account with a crypto wallet after it had been created that way. We are working to make it possible and it will be available on the dashboard soon.
Sushiswap Token List
It has been brought to our attention that GCOIN is currently not on any token list available in Sushiswap which makes it hard for some of our community members and buyers outside of the community to buy/sell the token. We will be working to get GCOIN onto this searchable list, in the meantime please use this link: https://app.sushi.com/trident/swap?chainId=137&tokens=0x7ceB23fD6bC0adD59E62ac25578270cFf1b9f619&tokens=0x071AC29d569a47EbfFB9e57517F855Cb577DCc4C
REMINDER: UNCLAIMED $GCOIN WILL BE BURNED AFTER 30 DAYS NOTICE
Any unclaimed GCOIN whether from accumulated OR from daily yield will be burned if unclaimed for more than 30 days. This will be on a rolling/ongoing basis, to take a random date as an example: any coins yielded on the 28th of March will be burned on the 29th April if left unclaimed and so on.
This mechanism will begin on the 21st of April 2022, which means all unclaimed GCOIN yielded before the 21st of March will be burned (both from daily yield and accumulated amount). Once burned they cannot be claimed, so please remember to claim your GCOIN.
B: Business Development & Marketing
It has been a very exciting two weeks since our last update. As promised, we had some amazing partnership announcements as well as several other surprises.
In our previous update (Dev Blog #21), we announced our partnership with Illuvium, including the initial giveaway of 500 exclusive Arlen-NFTs on their Discord. Since then, we have surprised our community by giving away an additional 500 Arlen-NFTs on our Discord.
The raffle and wallet submission lasted until Saturday, March 16th and the NFTs will now be airdropped to all of the winners.
We’re looking forward to doing more marketing initiatives together with the Illuvium team. We addiiton to Illuvium, we also announced two very exciting new partnerships — Ethlizards and Llamaverse.
We invited EthLizards onto a Twitter Space which you can listen back into by using the following link —
The AMA with LLamaverse was on their Discord and resulted in many new members joining our Discord.
We’re in the process of integrating both of them into our game and have some other exciting collaborations planned with them.
In addition to the AMAs with our newest partners, we also had a Twitter Space with HeroGalaxy and Joyride Games, which you can also listen back in using the following link —
as well as a very exciting interview / AMA on the official PathDAO YouTube channel:
and an AMA on the Asian Mints official discord server (https://twitter.com/asian_mint).
Something we actually never tried before was the launch of our first ever whitelist giveaway with the guys over at the Bulls and Apes project. Since we received overwhelmingly positive feedback for running these raffles, we lined up another exciting whitelist giveaway. Just as the previous time, Battle Pass holders will get highly prioritized in these giveaways and raffles.
We also had an amazing reveal party thanks to Tropix (https://twitter.com/TropixOfficial). We will be announcing the link to claim your POAPs soon.
Last but certainly not least, we are now verified on Twitter. Make sure to head over to our only official Twitter account and follow us to stay up to date on a daily basis!
C: Community
Oh how it’s been a busy two weeks on the event/community side of things!!
THAT’S MAD!
In the beginning of April we wrapped up the March Madness brackets! It was a close race and we had to wait till the very end!
The Kansas Jayhawks made a lot of people happy and BigWilbur }{8's#6953 was one of them! They won the entire pot of 858 Gcoin and a Tier 2 Genesis Key. Well predicted Wilbur!
GEN 2 NAMING
And then it was time for the big reveal! THE SECOND GENERATION of Galaxy Fighters came around! And we asked YOU to name 4 races!
We had an insane amount of suggestions from you, the community! Over 100 names per race were suggested and after much deliberating with the help of all Battle Pass holders we narrowed it down to a shortlist of about 12 names per race.
Please welcome to the family:
A massive congratulations (and thank you) to jaydher13#7262, Jagruss#6712 (Twice!) and thebelush#9048 for coming up with the new identities for these Gen2.
MORE RUBMLE
More and more rumble matches have been happening! All building up to the Royally Royal Rumble on the 23rd of April — Are you one of the 82 people so far who obtained a role? You have 6 more days to obtain yours! (a round 100? anyone calling it?)
BLUFF, CALL, ALL-IN!
Today we had our second GFC Poker tournament! Over 120 players were registered and battled it out with cards spread out over 16 tables!
Just over two hours later we had our winner! A big round of applause to Waldbeer I GFC I#7066 for winning the whole thing!
Not only does it come with glory, they also walked away with the Epic Genesis Weapon: Wakizashi!! Congratulations to the top 8 (9 because of a tie for 8th place) for walking away with the prizes, from the Epic weapon to BYOPills to a Christmas cracker.
Next poker tournament is scheduled for mid-May.
