PlaceWar: Product Overview

PlaceWar

Play to Earn strategic artillery game ecosystem. Craft, Create, Conquest.

Video games have traditionally been divided into two models: ‘pay-to-play’ and ‘free-to-play’.

For a long time, pay-to-play was the dominant model, from the early days of arcades to PC and console gaming. But thanks to the internet, the distribution of games has become easier and free-to-play models have started to emerge. These games usually have paid elements, allowing players to pay for access to extra content if they wish, and some can even monetize with ads — as is often the case on mobile, but it is still possible to play without paying anything. In recent months, a new P2E model has started to emerge.

This new generation of P2E games makes the sale of items and characters a key feature. Players are encouraged to level up their characters and earn rare items to increase their value, then the games themselves provide the tools to sell these items in exchange for cryptocurrency. Thus, representing in-game items as NFT allows them to be traded with greater trust by the players and ensures that each item is, in a sense, truly unique (even though it may appear functionally similar to other items or characters).

However, after experiencing many of these games it has become clear that there are many shortcomings:

-Lack of gameplay: the basic mechanism of the game is repetitive and causes alienation of the game itself: it is more like a job, rather than a game

-Lack of social bonding: players are not actually interacting with each other but with the smart contract. Loyalty to the branding of a game is very low.

-Lack of infrastructure choice: Users are usually stuck with a blockchain infrastructure without being able to choose.

-Incomplete game economy: No good incentives for spending and diversification of players’ economic roles.

From these lacks an interesting project was born to innovate and revolutionize the system of blockchain games, PlaceWar.

Inspired by Worm and r/place, PlaceWar is a decentralized play-to-ear strategic game universe deployed on a multi-chain with highly immersive gameplay that allows players to create and define in-game world perspectives through building, battles, and alliances.

In PlaceWar, the team addressed the above issues by solving them with the following answers:

-Allowing players to input UGC and shape the appearance of the game.

-Diversify the P2E mechanism to allow for player diversity.

-Connect the UGC creation function with the main features of the game such as the battle and the P2E mechanism to increase the interaction between players.

Game Features

To understand the potential of this game, it is enough to focus on the key features that keep it different from others out there

-The Pixel Canvas World: join the world of Placedonia, a 300x300 Pixel Land open canvas world where players can own, create or fight.

-Play & Create to Earn: Participate in battles to earn NFTs and tokens, Predict & Craft to earn, in PlaceWar, Players can make real money in different ways.

-Social GameFi: a universe for players to build diplomacy or declare wars based on internet cultures they want to create.

-Multichain NFT System: There are 6 different NFTs categories in the game as- Tank, Equipment, Tech, Pixel, Building, Defender.

Each of the NFTs has its use in the game and all can be exchanged with other players.

PlaceWar will be multichain, first of all, deployed on Binance Smart Chain and later polygon and Coinflux, for this reason, a low fees NFT bridge will be developed to assist the cross-chain transfer, so users can choose to trade and participate in the game wherever they prefer.

-Guild War: Bet and win battles with your team by applying the best strategy!

Game Play

The main gameplay of PlaceWar is a turn-based artillery shooting game in which you can adjust the firing angle and power to eliminate tanks on the enemy’s side. There is PVE, 3V3 PVP, and 10V10 Guild War. You can earn rewards in tokens, NFT, and non-NFT resources in PVE and PVP games, you can bet on yourself and earn bets when you win in Guild War games. You need at least 3 NFTs of tanks to start in the battle system. Pixel is the land NFT you need to start in the Pixel system. Players can obtain Pixel when selling NFTs.

There will be 3 Battle Modes, any player who owns at least 3 NFT Tanks can experience different stages of the game

-PVE Skrimish — Complete daily tasks to defeat NPCs

-PVP Battlefront — 3v3 battles matched with peer players, The mission is to eliminate all enemy tanks with at least one own tank surviving.

-Guild War — 10 v 10 PVP To join a Guild War, players need to put a wager of a certain amount of tokens, The winners will take it all.

Pixel System creates the massive canvas world Placedonia that allows players to create their paintings by invading other Pixels.

The owner of a Pixel is entitled to changing the color representing a Pixel on Placedonia World Map, constructing Buildings, and the privilege to harvest the resources or tokens randomly spawning in the Pixel. Pixels have a rarity level:

C — common, R — rare, E — epic, and L — legendary.

Token $PLACE

Total Supply 1.000.000.000

PlaceWar is developed in a dual token system:

-The governance token $PLACE

$PLACE (Fixed Supply)It’s mainly for governance voting, ecosystem reward, and crafting of NFTs.

-In-game currency $GEAR.

$GEAR token is unlimited in supply and is used for paying for all in-game items and usage. There is a fuel tank mechanism where players will need to either wait or burn $GEAR to put tanks back to action to have control over inflation of $GEAR.

PlaceDAO

PlaceDAO is the decentralized governance body of PlaceWar. Through $PLACE and PlaceDAO, PlaceWar will gradually evolve into a game universe owned and governed by the community. Holders of $PLACE can initiate proposals and participate in decision-making by voting with their token staked. Decisions that users can make the cover all aspects of PlaceWar.

DAO Treasury To create a viable gaming community, a part of $PLACE from the Ecosystem Fund and Play-to-earn program will be injected into the PlaceDAO treasury.

Token Distribution

Team

The PlaceWar project brings together members who are both prominent and experienced in the game development industry as well as blockchain technology.

The core game developers are from Mega Game Studio, a leading mobile gaming studio based in Philippines and Taiwan. With more than 10 years of gaming and development experience in the team,

Myrtle Anne — Founder: Myrtle Anne is the Founder and CEO of Block Tides, an award-winning PR Firm of 2020 by PitchDeck Asia (Marketing, Growth Hacking, Sales, Social Media Management), partner of DAOGamingGuild (DGG). Myrtle is also an official KOL of Coinmarketcap in Philippines.

Ken Nizam — Chief Marketing Officer: Ken Nizam is the head of marketing and operation. Ken has experience leading the marketing team networks with content management, marketing growth, youtube, etc, facilitating Kol’s direction. His responsibilities also include networking with other projects and liaising with them for PlaceWar

Ajay Chan — Lead Developer: Chun (Aka. Ajay) Chan is the CTO of PlaceWar. He is a seasoned developer with over 10 years of experience in game development working for top studios in China, Singapore, and Taiwan. He is leading the Mega Game Studio in Taiwan/Philipines and has been in charge of the development of many successful mobile games which made it to the top 10 in Appstore/ Android store, including Legion Mania, Little Empires. Ajay’s work was also endorsed by Google Editor’s Choice.

Morris Ramos — Chief Product Officer: Morris Ramos is the CPO of PlaceWar. Despite being young, Morris has a talent for blockchain game design. The University of The East. Game architect in Mega Game Studio, he developed blockchain minigames on EOS, Tron, and Thundercore.

Leo Liu — Blockchain Advisor: Leo Liu is one of our key advisors who is involved in our development, marketing, and fundraising. Leo is the co-founder of Sovi. finance, a GameFi pioneer project with strong communities across South East Asia. He offers previous insights in GameFi development and token economics and shared his extensive connections in Vietnam. Leo is also an advisor of Gamestarter, and Pixel Pix.

RoadMap

Conclusion

PlaceWar is not the classic P2E, it was born to become a metaverse of gamified Internet culture, and an open world for gamers and design enthusiasts, not only limited to the cryptocurrency space but with the idea of playing for fun with gameplay and allowing freedom to express one’s creativity, with a sufficiently sustainable and lucrative Play-To-Earn mechanism. In PlaceWar, players participate in the generation of content through the Pixel system. They will also be allowed to customize the design of tanks, defenders, buildings, maps, or even game modes. PlaceWar will encourage the community to develop practical tools and SDKs to help this end. The project’s potential has been appreciated from the beginning by high-level investors like Crypto.com and LD Capital, PlaceWar raised over $400,000 from both VCs in the SEED round. Moreover, after a few days, the team announced they oversubscribed the private round by raising $1.8 Million from industry-leading VCs reflecting the high demand for P2E crypto games. The list of private investors includes AC Capital, AU21, Woodson Game, Exnetwork Capital, Icetea Labs, IoTex, Kyros Ventures, LD Capital, Lucid Blue Ventures, Megala Ventures, Metrix Capital, ReBlock, RoseOn, X2.

Halvings Capital joined this long list of investors to support PlaceWar as it strongly believes in blockchain-based games development. The future of P2E is coming, PlaceWar will surely be one of the most played titles in the crypto space. Soon all the launchPad IDO platforms will be announced and a lot of news will be released, stay tuned for the next amazing updates. You cannot miss the beginning of the PlaceWar battle!

LINKS

Twitter: https://twitter.com/placewar_game

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/placewargame

Discord: https://discord.gg/FCd53DBCjw

Telegram: https://t.me/placewar