RogueBlox: Returning to the essence of the game

22-11-29 14:08
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42 years ago, a game called "Rogue" was born. The game was developed on UNIX by two twenty-year-olds, Glenn Wichman and Michael Toy. Limited by the technology at the time, without a visual interface, Rogue used characters to siege dungeons, and used @ and letters to replace players and monsters.



With the advancement of technology and the birth of a visual interface, a large number of Rogue-like games are popular on the market. In order to better communicate across games, gamers marked this type of game as Roguelike in 1993. And Roguelike has a clear definition that happened in 2008. At the first Roguelike game development conference in Berlin in 2008, the participants clarified the meaning of Roguelike and called it the Berlin Principles.


After the launch of the Berlin Guidelines, the number of Roguelike games has sprung up. GF Securities stated in its 2021 research report that Roguelike games The year-on-year growth rate of games has exceeded the year-on-year growth rate of Steam client games. The total sales volume of the top 50 Roguelike games is about 80 million to 90 million, and the total sales are about 3.9 billion to 4 billion.


Source: GF Securities


In the past few years, the development of Roguelike games is in full swing, while games in the encryption field are expanding into Tokenomics. Although the latter can capture a large number of player participation in a short period of time, the enthusiasm and loyalty of players are often low, which also leads to the short life cycle and serious homogeneity of this type of project.


When the craze faded and the entire encryption industry entered a bear market, some people began to think about what kind of game players really need. Recently, OpenBlox announced that it will start the Alpha test of the Roguelike game "RogueBlox" and start the first step towards the Bloxverse universe.


Return to the essence of the game


Roguelike belongs to a subcategory of role-playing games, mainly referring to a type of game that is randomly generated, has no reversibility, and has a high degree of system freedom. RogueBlox is a Roguelike game. However, unlike traditional games, players need to own at least one Blox NFT before playing Roguelike, and Blox NFT will serve as the player's avatar in the game.


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Blox will be divided into 6 major races, Robot (Techno), Flower (Flower), Shark (Shark), Dragon (Dragon) , Insect, and Hardshell, each race has its own attribute characteristics and racial talents, among which racial talents determine passive skills.


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Each Blox consists of 6 parts: head, body, legs, arms, head attack part and body attack part. The style of the head attack part and body attack part (tentacles and tail) is determined by the accessories worn.


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In terms of specific gameplay, RougeBlox uses a turn-based system and combines Roguelike progression and cards. Through the Blox NFT, players can obtain deck sets that include basic attacks and defenses. In the game, the key to the player's victory is to use the cards in his hand to defeat the opponent through strategy.


RougeBlox PvE 

RougeBlox PvE 

RougeBlox Boss Fights PvE


Currently, RougeBlox is mainly based on PvE mode. In this mode, players will randomly generate different game scenes, enemies and treasures every time they enter the map, so every adventure will be a unique experience.


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It is reported that Blox initially only had 7998 Genesis Blox NFTs, 1333 for each race. Genesis Blox NFT has the purest blood of the race, so it can get up to 20% of the breeding fee from subsequent breeding. The reproduction of Blox will follow the biological laws of reality. Each Blox has dominant genes, recessive genes and sub-recessive genes. Players who are interested in this can explore the influence of genes on Blox through breeding.


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It is worth noting that RougeBlox is about to enter the testing phase, and the game rules may be further improved and modified. Players can Follow the official document information and check the changes in gameplay in real time.


RougeBlox Developer OpenBlox


< p>RougeBlox has launched a complete race setting, gameplay and other rules before it is officially launched, mainly due to the fact that its team OpenBlox is not the first time to participate in game production.


OpenBlox released its first product, RunBlox, a few months ago. RunBlox is a Move and Earn app that uses a specially developed GPS data privacy algorithm to judge the user's exercise status without collecting the customer's GPS data in advance.


The emergence of RunBlox has attracted the attention of Yusaku Maezawa, a billionaire known as Japan’s Elon Musk. Web3 fund MZ Club even invested in OpenBlox. In addition, Shima Capital and Blizzard Fund, an avalanche ecological investment fund, also participated in the financing of OpenBlox.



< h3>Bloxverse Tokenomics


In fact, from the various products launched by OpenBlox, we can see its intention to create a Bloxverse Metaverse.


Using OpenBlox as the platform, the Bloxverse metaverse continues to launch new products and forms its own ecosystem.


From the perspective of Tokenomics, Bloxverse revolves around the OpenBlox governance token $OBX. Different products will also issue different tokens, such as RunBlox issuing $RUX. But it is not known whether RogueBlox will also issue a separate game token.


We who are used to playing games for the purpose of making gold and calculating income, perhaps it is time to experience the original meaning of the game.

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