SteemHeroes is a creative storytelling game with the ambition of creating a unique comic book universe within the Steemit ecosystem! Any member of Steemit can develop and submit their own original heroes and villains who will exist within the SteemHeroes universe - a game world with growing and evolving storylines, relationships and rivalries!

And you can be a part of it!

How it works:

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SteemHeroes will search for characters created by other Steemians and if they meet the proper criteria, these characters will be invited into SteemHeroes to exist as heroes or villains within the SteemHeroes universe.

What does this mean?

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Steemit members can create their own original superheroes or villains and once accepted, that character will take on a life of its own within SteemHeroes. At that point, the game will consider them to be canon SteemHeroes characters and integrate them into the stories and events that unfold.

How do I create a character?

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Creating a character is easy. Simply follow the official SteemHeroes character template (coming soon), fill in your character’s details and create a new post on your Steemit account detailing your character. This consists of the character’s real name, alias (superhero name), age, height, weight, personality, powers/abilities, weaknesses and more. Creating a detailed, original and interesting character is vital to getting your character accepted into SteemHeroes.

The character creation template will be released in the next few days so submissions are closed until then, but it gives you some time to start those creative juices flowing!

To create characters that are accepted into the SteemHeroes universe, they need to follow these basic guidelines:

• Before you create your character, start by following the SteemHeroes curation trail. We need members contributing to grow the account so we can provide rewards to our members. Yes, rewards! Full details will be posted on the character creation template (coming soon).

• Follow the template properly. If you don’t submit all of the necessary information, your character may not be accepted into the game, therefore don't submit any characters until the template has been released.

• Write an interesting origin and personality. To build a rich universe, we want characters with cool backstories and engaging personalities. The more interesting your character is, the deeper they will be involved in the SteemHeroes story arcs and world building.

• Don’t copy existing heroes or villains! Any characters who are obvious clones of existing characters will be automatically rejected from consideration. We want original characters and while there are some basic powers that are pretty universal in the comic book universe (super strength, super speed, invulnerability, flight, etc.), creating obvious clones of well-known characters won’t get you in the door.

• Don’t create overpowered characters! With the ability to create your own comic book characters, it might be tempting to make Godlike figures that nobody else could defeat. The SteemHeroes account will review each submission individually and if deemed too powerful, the character will either be rejected or suggestions for powering-down your character will be sent to you so you can make some adjustments and resubmit.
  Submit your character profile in English.

To ensure that your character is discovered and reviewed by SteemHeroes, use the #SHsubmission tag when you post your character profile. If you do not use that tag, we’re probably not going to find your submission.

Why should I get involved?

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First of all, its going to be fun! You have the chance to create your own superhero or villain and unleash them into a new and growing fictional world to see what they do! The SteemHeroes account will develop storylines that connect the different characters, which will unfold and expand as more and more characters come into the fray.

Secondly, you can earn SBD and additional author rewards! SteemHeroes will oversee the fights between heroes and villains to determine the winners and losers!

That’s right, there will be fights!

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Sometimes as part of the story and other times as seemingly random fights, the characters that members of SteemHeroes create will be pitted against each other. Its up to members of the community to determine the winners of these fights!

How do fights work?

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Fights are determined in simple voting system where anyone can vote for the winner. To vote, just leave a comment on which character would prevail in a matchup and upvote the SteemHeroes battle post. The weight of your vote will be determined by the value of your upvote. Modification will likely be added in the future to insure fairness in voting.

Earn prizes when your characters fight!

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Fights consist of a battle between a hero and a villain. The fight lasts for one week so the post has plenty of time to gain attention and votes. After the post pays out, the winner will be announced!

For the characters involved in the fight, they will earn two rewards, SBD and experience points (XP). The winner receives 75% of the SBD generated by the fight, while the loser earns 25% of the purse. Each fight will award 1,000 total experience points, which will be split between the two characters as a percentage of how the vote was split. If the hero gets 40% of the votes and the villain received 60%, they’ll received 400 and 600 XP respectively.

Leveling up your character

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The XP you earn from engaging in fights is used to level up your character to achieve higher status within SteemHeroes. A level 2 character is considered to be twice as powerful as a level one character, so fights will normally only occur between two characters of even power levels. However as the game expands, we expect that fights that take place between a level 2 character and two level 1’s, or a level 6 vs. three level 2’s will be possible.

How often can i fight?

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To be fair to everyone, we’ll match up characters based on how many fights they’ve been involved in. This system is in development and more details will be revealed over time. But the bottom line is that we want everyone to get equal opportunities to fight, earn SBD and gain XP for their characters.

Members also get their posts curated by the SteemHeroes curation trail!

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As a SteemHeroes member, you will be awarded with upvotes on your posts from the SteemHeroes curation trail! While the details of how this will work are and will be under constant refinement, you can expect to receive upvotes on your regular posts by creating a great character for the SteemHeroes universe!

What does leveling up do?

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Leveling up increases your prestige within the SteemHeroes universe and makes your character more famous and formidable. The list of all characters will be maintained and regularly updated in the “character ledger” to track every hero and every villain and note level advances.

Another perk of leveling up your character is that it increases the voting weight your account will get from the SteemHeroes! The higher your character’s level is, the more you’ll earn from the SteemHeroes when it upvotes your posts! This is a 'phase 2' feature, so some time will be required to make this work properly.

Keep tabs on all the characters

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The character ledger will be posted on a regular basis, which will show the balance between the number of heroes and the number of villains in the game. To ensure we have balance in the game, check the ratio of heroes to villains on the ledger before creating your character. If the ratio is split by more than 60%/40%, no new characters from the leading side will be accepted until the hero/villain ratio evens out.

Its actually in your best interest to create a hero or villain based on this ratio. If there are far more heroes in the game than villains, the chances that a villain will get tapped to fight is greater, which means more rewards and XP for your character.

How many characters can I have?

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To keep things fair, each Steemian can own up to two characters - one hero and one villain. Submitting more characters after you already have two will be automatically rejected. However, you can ‘put a hit’ on one of your characters, and their death will get woven into the SteemHeroes story to free up a slot for you to create a new character. If you choose to kill one of your characters, your new character will enter the world with 50% of the XP of the character you sacrificed.

When will the beta phase end?

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At launch, the game is starting as a concept only and will be considered to be in beta. Until we have enough characters to start creating stories and staging fights, the game will remain in beta. Once we have at least 5 characters on each side, SteemHeroes will officially begin!

In addition, the game will undoubtably require a lot of tweaking and configuration to make it all work the way we have planned. We welcome input and suggestions on how to make the game work better or general improvements.

I can’t wait to see what happens!

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I encourage anyone interested in the idea to create and submit a character and get involved. Share the SteemHeroes concept within Steemit! Resteem our posts to increase our exposure! The more people get involved, the bigger and better the world of SteemHeroes will be and the bigger the rewards for fights will become.

Follow us to get updates so you don't miss when the character template is released and so you can follow the development of this project from the beginning!

Let’s create something awesome!

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