After The Beacon, the new game Kuroro is launched. Will TreasureDAO have “Pokemon” again?

Written by Cookie, BlockBeats
 
After the success of "Dungeon" The Beacon, TreasureDAO took advantage of the opportunity to list its Token MAGIC on Coinbase and Binance, becoming one of the most dazzling players in the market. Standing in the spotlight of the market, TreasureDAO did not stop to enjoy the long-lost popularity. They are working hard to bring a game ecosystem called "Kuroro" into the world of TreasureDAO.
TreasureDAO’s BD manager @Jpegape1 revealed that he had had a conversation with Kuroro’s CEO and other team members.
Afterwards, TreasureDAO’s Co-Founder and COO @0xkarel once again called out to Kuroro CEO, saying that Treasure welcomes you and will move you with magic.
As can be seen from the tweet above, “Pokemon” is a major tag of Kuroro. What is the magic of this “Web3 Pokémon” that attracted TreasureDAO?
 
Project Overview
 
Kuroro has been operating since the end of November last year and has raised more than $3 million through the sale of "Golden Ferry Ticket" and "Silver Ferry Ticket" NFTs.
According to Kuroro's official website, the team currently has 27 members. The team has not yet been named, and there is little relevant information. The two co-founders are @kurorosage and @ProfOtium. According to the team's self-description, both of them have worked as technical directors in Silicon Valley companies. CEO @kurorosage worked for Synthesis, a company that received $17 million in financing and provides online intensive education for children aged 8-14. Its co-funder Josh Dahn co-founded SpaceX's Ad Astra school with Elon Musk. CTO @ProfOtium has even less relevant information, almost 0.
 
game introduction
 
Currently, there are two games under development in its gaming ecosystem, namely "Beast Brawl" and "Kuroro Wilds: Call of the Islands".
 
Beast Brawl
A strategy turn-based battle game similar to "Pokémon". In Beast Brawl, you can collect various "beasts" and design your own battle lineup to fight other players. You can improve your ranking, unlock seasonal battle pass rewards, and obtain tradable special props through battles.
Kuroro officials said that three Pokémon VGC professional players (including one world champion) participated in the design of the game mechanism to make Beast Brawl a game that is "better suited to e-sports". Some of these design improvements are aimed at the feelings and viewing experience of competitors, such as "reducing random events" and "flexible round lengths". Some may affect the fun of the game, such as "erasing a lot of repetitive operations before getting a full game experience". They chose to develop Kuroro Wilds: Call of the Islands, perhaps to make up for this. Even NFT is part of the concept of "better suited to e-sports" - you no longer need to buy a Nintendo Switch and a Pokémon game card to join the competition.
Since April, Beast Brawl’s two core features, the “roster designer” and “ranked matchmaking”, have been in internal testing, mainly for its community members. At the end of November, Beast Brawl entered a testing phase called “Pre-Alpha”, where the game was greatly optimized and more complete.
Battle interface
“Lineup Designer” interface
 
Kuroro Wilds: Call of the Islands
An MMORPG game that provides a story-based experience for the "beasts" in "Beast Brawl" with a higher degree of freedom of exploration. Pre-registration for the "Open Alpha" test will be launched in the first quarter of 2023.
Game preview
 
Introduction to each NFT series
 
“Golden Ferry Ticket Golden Ferry Ticket“
The Golden Ferry Ticket was released in January this year, with a total of 740 tickets (the team reserved 30 tickets, half of which were allocated to team members, and the other half were given as gifts for cooperation), and the price was 0.15 ETH. The Golden Ferry Ticket was released very smoothly and sold out in a few seconds. It also had a good market performance in the following three months, with the floor price maintained at around 1 ETH. However, the Golden Ferry Ticket was also unable to withstand the bear market. The floor price and trading volume continued to decline after mid-May, and the current floor price on OpenSea is about 0.19 ETH.
Golden Ferry Ticket price trend on OpenSea
Golden Ferry Ticket can be redeemed on the official website. After redemption, you can get 1 "initial beast", 1 "origin beast" and 1 "golden trainer medal". In addition, the "origin beast" obtained by redeeming the Golden Ferry Ticket has a 10% chance of having the "lucky" attribute (just like the Pokémon with the "shiny" attribute). Each Golden Ferry Ticket will be destroyed after being redeemed. Currently, there are 175 Golden Ferry Tickets in circulation.
 
“Silver Ferry Ticket Silver Ferry Ticket“
The “Silver Ferry Ticket” was released in early May this year, with a total of 5,860 tickets (the team reserved 60 tickets). Among them, 3,400 tickets were sold through a fair Dutch auction, starting at 0.45 ETH, and finally sold out at 0.3 ETH. On the contrary, the 2,400 tickets reserved for the whitelist were not sold out at a price of 0.15 ETH, and the team finally chose to keep the remaining 988 tickets for future development. In any case, under the market environment at the time, this sales performance was quite ideal.
Silver Ferry Ticket was born at the wrong time, so its market performance is naturally much worse, and it is basically in a downward trend. The current floor price on OpenSea is about 0.04 ETH.
Silver Ferry Ticket price trend on OpenSea
Silver Ferry Ticket can also be exchanged on the official website, but the benefits are not as many as Gold Ferry Ticket. After exchange, you can only guarantee to get 1 "Origin Beast", and the probability of getting 1 "Initial Beast" or 1 "Gold Trainer Medal" is only 10%. In addition, the "Origin Beast" obtained by exchanging Silver Ferry Ticket has only a 1% probability of having the "Lucky" attribute. Each Silver Ferry Ticket will be destroyed after being exchanged. Currently, there are 1,200 Silver Ferry Tickets in circulation.
 
"Origin Beast"
There will be a total of 6,600 Origin Beasts, all generated by exchanging Golden Ferry Tickets/Silver Ferry Tickets. Currently, 4,315 Origin Beasts have been generated, and the floor price on OpenSea is 0.018 ETH.
There are 12 "elements" of "origin beasts", and more may be added in the future. Different "elements" of "beasts" will have a restraining relationship. In addition, the skills of "beasts" are also divided into "elements". A "water beast" can also learn "fire skills", but it is not conducive to playing "outstanding effects" - not only the "element" of the "beast" must restrain the target of attack, but also the "element" of the skill used.
12 elements: "Water", "Soul", "Wind", "Poison", "Wood", "Light", "Electricity", "Metal", "Fire", "Dark", "Earth", "Fighting"
 
Table of restraint relationships between different "elements"
In addition, "beasts" of different "elements" will also have some unique "resistances", for example, "electric beasts" will not be "paralyzed" or "wood beasts" will not be "hypnotized".
The "Origin Beast" has 6 "basic attributes", namely "health", "attack power", "defense power", "magic attack power", "magic defense power" and "speed". "Basic attributes" are also called "genetic values ​​GV" because "basic attributes" are randomly assigned values ​​between 1 and 10 when NFT is minted (except "speed". Because "speed" determines the order of turns in battle, the "beast" with the highest "speed" on the field can attack first. To ensure the balance of the game, the initial value of "speed" of all "beasts" is 5), which not only determines the innate conditions of the "beast", but also affects its "reproduction".
By increasing the level of a beast, you can gain skill points SP to strengthen the basic attributes. Each beast can get up to 100 skill points SP, and a single attribute can use up to 50 SP. In addition, the beast has 3 evolution stages (the 4 evolution beasts may be opened in the future), and each evolution can break through the total value limit of the basic attributes.
"Basic", "Rare" and "Epic" are the three rarity levels of "Origin Beast". The higher the rarity level, the harder it is to draw, but it does not affect the combat ability.
Finally, only "Origin Beasts" can "reproduce".
 
"Starter Beast"
There are currently only 929 Starter Beasts. Although Starter Beasts cannot be "bred", they are rarer and have some uniqueness. Currently, the floor price of Starter Beasts on OpenSea is 0.03 ETH.
The "initial beasts" have a strong commemorative significance. Based on the three images of dogs, monkeys and toads that have been popular with the community since early testing, three "initial beasts" have been developed: Argos, Koji and Torudo. Each "initial beast" is a "light element blank" and can choose any one of "fire", "water", "grass" and "electricity" as the second "element" after "evolution". This "evolution" will be completed in Kuroro Wilds: Call of the Islands.
Three "starter beasts": Argos, Koji, and Torudo
 
“Golden Trainer Badge Golden Trainer Badge“
den Trainer Badge Gold Trainer Badge "There are only 972 of them at the moment, and the floor price on OpenSea is 0.025 ETH. Although the total amount is not large, it does not have much utility. The biggest utility known so far is that you will get $KURO airdrops.
 
GET OUT
Kuroro has not officially released detailed token economics. What we know is that Kuroro will have dual tokens. $KURO will play a major role in the entire Kuroro ecosystem, while $DIV will be used as an in-game token. However, Kuroro currently has two games on its development list, and there may be in-game tokens other than $DIV.
It is known that holders of "Origin Beast", "Starter Beast" and "Golden Trainer Badge" will receive $KURO airdrops. The more you hold, the more airdrops you can get. In addition, staking "Origin Beast" and "Starter Beast" can also get more airdrops.
 
How to participate in the Pre-Alpha test of Beast Brawl?
 
To participate, you need to purchase 1 “Origin Beast”, “Starter Beast” or “Golden Trainer Badge”. The cheapest one is “Origin Beast”.
Participate in Discord: Participate in various activities in Kuroro Discord (such as tweet forwarding/art creation, etc.), and accumulate 50 "shells" (Kuroro Discord points) to redeem a test qualification.
As long as you are qualified for the test, you can play the game without purchasing any additional NFTs. Every week, new beasts will be available for all test players to choose from for free. Therefore, players who pay for the game have certain advantages. They can bring their own beasts into the game. In the future, Beast Brawl should continue to use this Free To Play concept, that is, players who pay for the game will have more powerful beasts, and can also jump out of the "weekly free beast pool" to form a lineup more flexibly.
 
Conclusion
 
Finally, let’s talk about the potential cooperation between Kuroro and TreasureDAO. I think it is unlikely that Kuroro will become a project in the TreasureDAO ecosystem like The Beacon, and there will not be much progress in the short term, but there should be small-scale linkages (such as co-hosting competitions/giving TreasureDAO Smol Brains holders test quotas and other giveaways, etc.).
First of all, Kuroro has successfully raised sufficient funds and has planned its own dual-token model. Whether from the funds it has or the vision it has proposed, Kuroro does not need TreasureDAO's support and should tend to maintain its independence.
Secondly, Kuroro has been building its games on Polygon (Beast Brawl is currently running on Polygon). Even if it really wants to migrate to Arbitrum, the speed will not be too fast. After all, they have not yet completed the work of migrating "Origin Beast" and "Starter Beast" from Polygon back to the ETH mainnet, Beast Brawl still needs to be continuously optimized, and the first demo of Kuroro Wilds: Call of the Islands is about to be released. Kuroro does have a lot of work on hand.
It is very difficult to maintain the value or attention of a project during the long development cycle after a successful launch. The interaction between Kuroro and TreasureDAO is a good thing for both parties - Kuroro has increased its visibility, and TreasureDAO has laid a wonderful foreshadowing for its own narrative. Will Kuroro help TreasureDAO move closer to the dream of "Web3 Nintendo"? Let's wait and see.