$10,000 in Monsters in 9 days... Apparently you dig the game!
So, here's a milestone post that I didn't expect. We just sold $10,000 worth of monsters!!! 4300 booster packs!!! Jeez.
The game is in alpha. It's just starting. You can't even fight!!! I'm completely floored by the overwhelming response!!!
I don't need to tell you I'm a sap. You likely already know. Some of you have heard my voice crack on msp-waves when I get emotional talking about things. I saw this picture from @dougkarr and at first I was excited. A day or two later it really hit me that these kids could get drawn into this game, and use their creativity to envision this whole monster world. I'll admit I cried.
I've been thinking about this game since 2014. I'm really excited by how it's turning out. The scope creep is already hitting me. Gotta put stories to all of this. I'm planning on putting some easter eggs into the game that I bet you're gonna love discovering. I'm working on a story arc for the game, and hoping that how you folks do inside the game will determine what that arc is. I see team play. I see paid tournaments with mega prizes. I'm working on it. We're probably going to hire some devs and bang this out asap.
First update is fired
Hopefully you saw the first update where now you can buy booster packs from one account and send to another. Hopefully you also started playing around with leveling up your cards.
Next update will likely include card stats
We're primarily trying to figure out how to get fighting live ASAP, but in the mean time we're going to be releasing our first planned stats and abilities table. That should come out in the next week and hopefully it'll be in game within two weeks. That way you'll know the rules and how good specific cards are likely to be. You could conceivably run your own scenarios of how the game will play out.
We're looking for some node.js and js developers that want to work with us
Please contact @yabapmatt and me in Discord if you're interested. Priorities include a functioning marketplace and a functioning fighting system.
Once these are in place we'll get the marketplace and fighting system up and running
Official account is @steemmonsters
website https://steemmonsters.com
Discord is https://discord.gg/CAFJRjY
Wow, so touching! My kids and I are super thrilled about this and it’s a very cool way to get them deeper exposure to the STEEM echosystem while expanding their imaginary landscape with the already awesome Steem Monsters world you’re creating. I know all about scope creep from the creative dev on our @HardFork-series. It would be fantastic to compare notes one of these days! Congrats on your amazing launch!!
These are my babies.
You know what we need ultra legendary only a handful, we need some shiny cards too and gif cards those can be ultra epic legendary and promo cards for winning tournaments.
we need like a MEW and a MewTwo type cards maybe even some GOD cards, wow getting too geeky with this but you know what I mean.
We will have all of that and tournaments and 3d ipfs vr worlds to play the card games in thanks to @disregardfiat and his Project @dlux-io dlux.io and duuuude omg we will TOTALLY have holographic GIF shiney cards and we will have MANY features like EGGS and GROWING NEW monsters and breeding them like cryptokitties or Ether Shrimp Farm except instead of just an idle game we can battle with them and we can show the world that spending costly gas transactions for ethereum to play a game may seem cool at first but becomes old and on steem we can put in our OWN transaction fees of people WANT them LOL but we get to save SO much money by NOT having fees on our transactions so Our STEEM based games will have SO much more freedom!
also we will get to have BLOG POSTS about our Monsters so when you use the Steem Monster FRONT end that will SURELY be built in the future, we will get to allow players to have automated posts generated when they reach certain achievements and it will be stamped with a qr code of approval so these types of posts cant be faked it will all be on the blockchain u will be able to use your COMMENTS and POSTINg key as the key to these games like the POCKET tokens
DARE I SAY @biophill and his POCKET tokens now have a SUPREME purpose and NEW life?? Pocket tokens plus STEEM monsters = Steem POCKET monsters OOOH its PERFECT we can use pocket tokens as the in game currency to purchase Steem Balls to capture our steem pocket monster and we can use them to buy the rare candies and items in our game!!!!
Congratulations!
The reason I think is because a lot of us understand how big blockchain gaming is going to be. I'm not saying you guys are necessarily going to pull it off. But you certainly seem like a honest, emotional and talented bunch of people creating this.
However, this is all ready looking so much more promising than boring cryptokitties. I'm sure there will be even more advanced games in the future, but Steem monsters is starting to form and look like a pretty decent concept.
Steem monsters got my attention because
It worked like a charm. Not f... metamask. ZERO hazzle. No slow transactions on a clogged ethereum network which cant even deal with 1 mill transactions per day. Steem blockchain is perfect for gaming micro transactions. 1,9 million transactions per day at 0,15% capacity - not even scaled yet.
Great graphics, cool art
A transparent team with known members with a vision. You get the feeling that you're onboard wit the project. We're all explorers into the mystery cave that is blockchain (I'm definitely not going to write lore,lol)
So, it's deserved. And the great thing is that now you feel even more responsible of making this game great now that people have invested so much money :) No pressure!
Awesome!!! Keep up the good work! :)
Monsters? What about a WARG his bird is yet to be drawn but it's work is made by @drawingly! Could be apart of a booster park! Not sure exactly what you're after but I think it could work!
@drawingly is one of many amazing illustrators on steemit. They do need to get paid though. I really hope some money can go towards that. Real money, not game money. At least steem.
Yeah we're (@IFC) is paying here Steem. Even though we can't afford much @apolymask is doing the best he can he's a generous guy. I'm trying to help out as much as I can too! Will hopefully try and figure something out for her!
Well @aggroed made a post about getting people to draw the game map which requires both illustrations and 3-D skills as well as understanding cartography and the winner gets booster packs instead of steam.
Also, do these cards each have a unique wallet address? Or do many people have the same cards?
Wish I could participate in that! But I dont know ANYTHING about 3d or cartography. So I'm out of that. u_u
hey im still waiting on my paid YETI drawing, can you finish it ?
Refunded. I did the drawing a while ago, but I couldn't do the major changes on the image. Sorry. image.png
Nice!!
it's Kona Red a WARG from Cryptopia. Also has a Bird that it (WARGS) through called RED!
My kids are crazy over it. Great work.
I hate you guys for making this, It's so addicting. I can't stop.
LOL! I love it, But hate it at the same time LOL!!!
I'll take that as a compliment!
Just wait. The first major tournament will be worth at least 1000 SBD. You'll be smiling then.
I bought a pack but I am still a little confused on the whole thing. I an artist myself and would love to be able to make a card or something sometime! I look forward to learning more about this whole game as well!
(Photo of me Pulling a Gold Dragon LIVE on @dlive)
Just got my first set!
https://steemit.com/steemmonsters/@kafkanarchy84/just-bought-my-first-steem-monsters-cards