My first foray into blockchain gaming has been with TCG. Blockchain gaming has a lot to do with TCG, you name it there is tons of blockchains TCG games project but what I am going to go thru today is about this unique TCG that has been in development for a few years now. This project got my attention cause of the artwork and the myriad of forging aspects tied to the game.

Introduction

Curran Mulvihill & Mark Ludy The Founders of Elementeum Games

"Officially founded in 2017, Elementeum Games is focused on improving the user experience for gamers that want to own digital content generated, while playing a game they love! The team saw an opportunity to introduce Ether Legends and its gaming platform, utilizing in-game loot and digital currency ecosystems, facilitated by Blockchain technologies. This provides players secure, tangible ownership of their digital content and collectibles.



Dating back to 2010, the rise of Bitcoin fueled the cofounders' fascination with cryptocurrency and the utility of blockchain technologies. Understanding that Bitcoin was just one potential application of the underlying technology, the cofounders were excited to see what innovations would be made in the blockchain space. The 2015 release of the Ethereum platform opened up a world of possibilities for blockchain applications. After much research, the Elementeum Games team concluded that the Ethereum network was the ideal platform launch candidate for Ether Legends, its digital assets token and collectibles. Ethereum offers all the required infrastructure and functionality needed to bring the Ether Legends gaming platform to life.



Our mission at Elementeum Games is to become the preferred gaming platform for ‘player-owned’ digital content while providing fun, secure, fair and balanced gaming. Put simply, we aim to be the best platform and ecosystem where players can earn, buy, sell, and trade collectibles online where players can truly own Ether Legends digital content. Mainstream gaming has brought ease for user experience with digital customization that includes; loot, rewards, currencies and customized skins. The problem is, you don’t actually own any of the content that is generated… The mainstream gaming company does. We want to give the power back to the players and help transform the industry in doing so. The team is committed to designing a ‘player-focused’ infrastructure facilitating the creation of digital collectibles where players can experience a strong connection to all that Ether Legends has to offer."

Elementeum Games the company that has been making Ether Legends that had its first ICO in 2018 has its own digital token called ELET(Elementeum). As everyone's knowledge to raise funds thru ICO was the way back then to make a project successful but not for Elementeum Games, the ICO was a failure as they didn't reach the goal that they had set to reach and in the end, they refunded all the investment made and slowly funded their own project. The two founders Mark Ludy and Curran Mulvihill are still involved in the development of Ether Legends to this day.

The ICO Card That Was Given To ICO Participants

The Digital & Physical Aspect of Ether Legends

Ether Legends a game that can be played physically and digitally, each physical Ether Legends cards have QR code attached to them where users can scan the QR code to redeem and import it to the blockchain as a collectible digital card. It's one of the best features of Ether Legend whereby you can buy the physical card from the store and when you receive it you can scan the QR for the digital version and play with it in the digital game. There are also digital blockchain copies of ether legends cards sold by smart contracts where users can buy these digital cards by sending Ether to the smart contract address on Ethereum.

The First Completed Design of Ether Legends Cards Sets Titled Men's & Beast Sets.

Physical & Digital Gameplay

"The physical gameplay will inherently be a limited subset to that of the digital gameplay. Physical gameplay includes die, physical Elementeum, physical character cards and of course, 2 people face to face!

Digital features that go above and beyond that of the physical gameplay include; leveling, earning experience, digital rewards, ranking, achievements, titles, matchmaking, skybox skins, crafting, online tournaments, campaign mode, PVP,

all secured by Blockchain technology.

Different elements of the game will be handled on/off-chain to keep the gameplay free and a robust rewards system

unlocking special features."

It's interesting to know that there are two possible ways for any players to play the game. It further increases the audience of the product as those who don't want to play the game digitally can go physically.

Ether Legends Forging

Another interesting feature of the game where materials cards like different types of equipment and pets can be leveled and fused to the character to make them stronger and increases their rank. This will make the fused card have better stats and increased rarity. This feature also gives the character card a whole new look with the fused assets.

Ether Legends Forging Path.

Equipment & Pets that are used in the forging.

Collaboration

Ether Legends also had collaboration with other blockchain projects to promote the game. Mainly project that uses the enjin platform like Cryptonom as Ether Legends also utilizes the ERC 1155 standard on their cards mainly the forging cards as their character is ERC 721. Also, Ether Legends did a collab with Silica Nexus whereby their physical cards can be won as a reward from the Silica Nexus arcade games venue. The Silica Nexus project is still in development. The last and not least the collab with the Crypto Gamers Blockchain News site. Those who hold the membership of Crypto Gamers get an airdrop of a limited forging card.

The Limited Legendary Collaboration Card With Cryptonom.

Resources

Ether Legends Twitter

Ether Legends Website

Ether Legends Telegram

Ether Legends Overview

Ether Legends Whitepaper