Milestones, releases, conferences, this post will try to go through the most important events to give you all a broad picture of what’s going on at Experimental.

#1 CryptoWars alpha release

The team had only one goal in mind, being able to launch a first release for the community to start testing and playing around, the goal was accomplished and the alpha version is online. We also worked on a landing page for users to leave their email address, so when the game is ready to be played by everyone, they’ll be notified. You can check it out here.

Members of our community were delivered testnet tokens (e11 & Eth) to their wallets, so they were all able to start playing CryptoWars Alpha in the PoA network we set up. This was an amazing process to learn more on how users interact with the game, and what features they’ll like to see in the near future to adjust our roadmap to their collective feedback.

To learn more about the scope of the alpha Release, read this article.

2# ETHCC

Thanks Antonio Peric for the picture!

An amazing Ethereum event took place in Paris from March 8 to March 10, the Ethereum Community Conference. We were invited to speak about how the future of blockchain gaming will look like and to present CryptoWars.

We focused on explaining how the tech infrastructure will evolve to make the game scalable, you can check the talk here, and the presentation here.

3# Ethereum gaming Meetup in Paris

Manon, COO @ BeyondTheVoid & Luciano, CTO @ Experimental learning about all the amazing gaming and infrastructure projects present in the audience.

Together with the team behind Beyond The Void, we organized a meetup to discuss all the new trends for blockchain gaming, state channels was the main focus. We had people from Loom, FunFair, SpankChain, and many other cool projects!

#4 The team

Demian Levy Polat joins the tech team.

The team has one recent part-time incorporation, Demian, who’s helping us with the Ethereum-Unity plugin. The plugin is already functional and only needs to be polished (UI/UX) to be ready for the Unity plugin store.

Luciano, the CTO, with Federico, Francisco, Sebastian from the tech team and Ramiro, the UI/UX designer, are working from the headquarters in Buenos Aires. Matías, the CEO, will be working from Europe for a month or so, meeting with many gaming and blockchain companies, and Experimental Community members.

#5 Following steps

The fun part is about to begin, the game will evolve week by week as we develop new features and test them in the PoA network for collaborators. The roadmap looks like this:

Adding limits to resources: Right now you can mine unlimited gold and crystal, this feature will put a cap to your mines and storages, so you’ll have to upgrade them to store more resources. Requirements system: There’s a pretty complex system to put in place in order to make the gameplay interesting, fun, and catchy. Users will only be able to create certain assets if they built or upgraded certain type of buildings. Creating units: Users will be able to summon their armies soon! Tiny Warriors, Archers and Guardians, can be created from your “Assets” tab. To learn more about these 3 characters, the firsts to be added to the CryptoWars game, check CryptoWars site. Go to war: We’re all excited for this particular feature. You’ll be able to create a portal in the “buildings” tab — the portal will let you find opponents to battle with, if you win you’ll take a percentage (which is still to be defined) of their resources! Create an alliance: Forming alliances will be key to succeed in CryptoWars. Make sure to find the right teammates and you’ll be invincible. This feature is not only important from a gameplay perspective but also for user acquisition purposes, being able to join forces with your friends is key to get the viral effect we’re looking for.

#6 Community and worldwide love

We’re still onboarding new members to the Experimental community almost every week. It’s an exhausting process but we’re happy with the result.

We decided to make Telegram the main communication channel for the Community but also for Experimental/CryptoWars followers. Please join the discussion here.

CryptoWars got its first review in Japanese! Make sure to check it out here, and yes, Google Translate makes a fairly good work translating it to english.

Final note

Thanks for following our progress, make sure to follow us on Twitter, join the conversation on Telegram, and apply for the Experimental Community.