Web3 Game Overview #2: Towers and Titans
Towers and Titans is a free-to-play and play-and-own tower defense game where players defend against the fallen horde with their titans.
Are you fond of playing tower defense games like Plants vs Zombies and Bloons TD?
... then you may not want to fade out Towers and Titans!
💠 800+ Twitter followers
💠 Being built by game industry veterans who worked for Electronic Arts, Activision, and Blizzard
💠 Closed Beta test has just started for Android users
💠 Achievable whitelist spot
Here's what I will be covering in this newsletter:
1. Team
2. Game
3. Digital Collectibles/Assets
4. Bullish Points
5. What's Next
📍Team
Towers and Titans is being developed by Rumble Games, a game studio that started out making Web2 games.
The team of Rumble Games has over a decade of experience creating games. The members have previously worked for big companies like EA, Activision, Disney, Blizzard, and more.
Rumbles Games is under the leadership of:
Mark Spenner (CEO)
He previously worked as Vice President and General Manager at EA2D, a studio of Electronic Arts (EA) that has been renamed BioWare San Francisco.
To see all the members of the team, kindly visit this link.
Funding
Rumbles Games is fully funded and had four investment rounds from 2011 to 2015, raising a total capital of $45.5 million.
Source: Crunchbase
Rumbles Games was acquired in 2017 and became a subsidiary of Plarium Games for an undisclosed amount.
Plarium was then purchased by Aristocrat Leisure in the same year for $500 million.
Plarium's most popular game is Raid: Shadow Legends, a turn-based RPG game
Here are some insights about the game:
🔹 Google Playstore - Rated 4.6/5.0 (1.86m reviews) and 500m downloads
🔹 Apple Appstore - Rated 4.7/5.0 (422.9K reviews)
Game
Towers and Titans is a free-to-play and play-and-own tower defense game where players defend against the fallen horde with their titans.
🔹 Players can play up to 12 titans per game
🔹 Players create a good team of titans to pass each level, choosing titans that complement each other or are suited for the level.
🔹 Players also have to pay attention to where the titans are placed on the map
There's also going to be a PVP mode, where two players compete in a defense match. Both players start with 8 lives, and the first one who loses those 8 lives gets defeated.
📍Economics and Digital Assets
Digital Currencies
The game will adopt a dual-token model:
1. Governance Token
🔹Also used for the summoning of titans and minting of digital collectibles
2. Utility Token
🔹 Acquired from season rewards and PVP only (not from PVE in order to avoid spamming).
Note: This is not yet finalized. More information about this will be published as they move through their roadmap.
Digital Collectibles
🔹 All titans will be digital collectibles
🔹 One can only mint 1 titan per wallet (not yet finalized)
🔹There will be no additional power for the minted titans, but they will look better.
Titans will have different elements, and their abilities are related to their elements.
Each element will also have a natural counter. For example, water titans deal more damage against fire enemies.
Another essential aspect of titans is their roles and their core position in a battle against the horde of enemies.
Each role determines where a titan can be placed on the map!
Each titan has a 'personality' that works similarly to a Pokémon's 'nature', affecting the player’s titan's stats.
Every titan will have 1 or 2 traits, which are passive abilities.
Titans will have 1 to 6 stars, and 1 and 2-star titans can be obtained for free.
Blockchain Network
There is no chosen chain as of the moment yet. However, the team has stated in their recent AMA that they are planning to be multi-chain.
📍Bullish Points
🔹 Being built by experienced developers
🔹 Mobile-friendly
🔹 Game first before crypto
🔹 Has a playable game product
🔹 Community-driven game development approach
📍What's Next?
A mobile closed beta is now happening for Android users
The beta is going to be available for other platforms too:
🔹 Q2 of 2023 - iOS users
🔹 Q3 of 2023 - PC users via Plarium Play
You need to be whitelisted to join the closed beta 🎮
Here are the different ways to get whitelisted:
1. Every Monday @TowersAndTitans hosts a raffle, choosing 3 users who retweet their post. These users will receive WL, and winners are announced every Tuesday.
2. Through their Discord invite contest
3. If you work for a DAO or gaming guild, you can request a collab to get WL spots for your community in their Discord group.
Please take note that Towers and Titans does not have an official whitepaper yet. All information here was taken from their blog posts and AMAs.
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