In the previous medium post, we described all the major mechanics in KotoWars. It is a cool guide if a player wants to understand how the game works. Since that time we constantly updated our game client and made huge changes to improve the gameplay.

Specialists-Defenders

Defenders are the major mechanics in KotoWars. It is one of the crucial aspects of the deck building.

They are Specialist-kitties that stay next to the Champion (not on the battlefield) after being played. They protect the Champion. They can not attack but they use their abilities every time their leader is hit.

The first six Defenders are Fancy kitties from the Pages’ family. Page, Pawderick the Lancer, Purrzival the Paladin, Catseye the Ranger, Gwendolion the Champion and Bartholomeow the Trickster are limited fancies. No more than 30000/50000 these tokens can be created. To the moment the KotoWars players can hire some of them from the Tavern.

Please note that current Tavern Specialists will be removed from the deck with the introduction of a progression system. The future Tavern Specialists would be obtained with in-game currency that can be earned through playing KotoWars.

Pages’ family

Magic system, specialists rebalance

KotoWars is still in development, we try to make the game as funnier as possible. Archer, Vexillary and Hypnotist Specialists were reworked, fish costs were adjusted.

Magic system is one of the ways to balance the combat mechanics in KotoWars. The spells were rebalanced to expand the strategies and make the game more active. The future spells are in development.

Emojis

Players can send emojis playing KotoWars Arena. We want to add more socialization to the game in the future, such as in-game chat and friends. Some emojis are part of the progression system and can be obtained only by reaching certain milestones in the game.

Launcher for Windows

Every new update was a headache for Windows users, since every time they had to download the file and unzip it. Now players can update the KotoWars through the Launcher. Also, we are working on the launcher for macOS.

Account

We reworked the registration process in KotoWars. Since we use an account only to assign players and their wallets, we hope Dapper will add a feature to use the wallet as an authenticator so we could simplify the registration even further.

Database

The interaction with the blockchain database and downloading images takes agonizing seconds. We implemented SVG-generator for the images and added a database to speed up loading kitties within the game and this halved the waiting time!