"Let's Catch the Monster Together": It's good to use the blockchain as a pendant

Introduction: On April 12, 2018, Cai Yige, general manager of Tencent’s blockchain business, released the blockchain game “Let’s Catch Monsters Together” codenamed Z. One year later, "Let's Catch the Monster" started its public beta on April 11 and directly dominated the APP list. In terms of the nature of the game, this is a LBG (location-based game) + AR (augmented reality) game, and the blockchain is just a pendant. In "Let's Catch Monsters Together", players become spirit masters, explore the real world around them, and collect demon spirits around them. The quality of the game is high-quality, and this game has its own blockchain and over-the-counter trading genes. Whether it is from Tencent’s original intention or not, but players rely on the WeChat ecosystem. As long as this game becomes popular, there will inevitably be a secondary market.

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beginner tutorial

After all, it is a mobile game from a major manufacturer. The initial tutorials for beginners are very detailed. Even those who don’t play games can easily get started, and Chinese gamers have basically been exposed to the “Pokemon” series of games, so they have a certain understanding of the process of catching monsters. Understand, let's talk about a few things that novices should pay attention to.

How to improve capture hit rate:

Catching monsters requires the consumption of spirit beads (monster catching balls). There are three levels of spirit beads, and the ability to catch them increases sequentially. When catching monsters, you can also feed them food to increase the success rate. There are two circles when catching monsters. The outer white circle is the volume circle of the demon spirit. When it touches it, it will trigger the capture action; the inner dynamic circle will shrink in circles. The smaller the circle, the higher the hit rate when it hits the area inside the circle. A hit in the middle quarter or so is a "perfect" capture, and the success rate will be greatly improved. The demon spirit sometimes has a counter-attack action, will knock the ball into the air, and often counterattacks twice in a row, please wait for the demon spirit to calm down before making a move.

Here are two ways to improve the hit rate without props:

1. Turn on the AR mode. Compared with the animation background mode, the AR mode can obtain a larger capture circle. Take the following picture as an example, the radius of the circle of the same Huba in the AR background mode and the animated background mode is nearly doubled, and the area is 4 times different. The former is easier to throw a perfect ball, so when you encounter a rare monster, please turn on AR.

2. Spin the ball:

Press and hold the spirit bead to spin and throw the ball to hit the demon spirit, which is a spin hit, which can also increase the capture rate. The disadvantage is that the ball speed of the rotating ball is fast, and the curved track often misses the target, wasting a lot of spirit beads.

The following is the unique secret technique of the DR friends. Take the right-hand spin ball as an example, the release point is moved to the right, and the release angle is at an angle of 40-45 degrees to the bottom of the screen. The core principle is: in this way, the angle between the trajectory of the shot ball before hitting the demon spirit and the plane where the demon spirit is located is much reduced, and the hit area is expanded to the entire width of the demon spirit. Generally, the shot in the middle of the screen only hits the demon spirit. middle and right half of the body. Another advantage of this way of shooting is that you don’t need to wait for the rotation speed of the ball to slow down before you can shoot. Even the fastest ball speed can be hit as long as the position and angle of the shot are correct, and the efficiency of catching monsters will not be reduced. Wait until the ball spins down to make it easier to hit. The only thing to pay attention to is that this kind of ball is more afraid of the demon spirit jumping up, please wait patiently for the demon spirit to stabilize on the ground before shooting.

The above two methods can increase the experience gained. Hitting the inner circle can get 10~20 experience points, and spinning the ball provides 10 experience points, which doubles your upgrade speed. In the picture below, the experience of catching monsters is 20, and the precision and rotation hit +25, which is more than the experience of catching monsters. Spirit masters, please learn how to swing the ball!

3. Level up:

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Advanced Tutorial

Spirit training:

The cultivation of demon spirits is the core of the game. Powerful demon spirits can occupy the arena, complete difficult tasks, and greatly increase the speed of game resource acquisition. So what kind of demon spirits are worth cultivating? The level 1 demon spirit just captured has a combat score and five attribute scores. The higher the attribute score, the greater the increment when the attribute is upgraded. It is especially important that the yellow attribute in the attribute is the main attribute of the demon spirit. The picture below is Highly qualified little Hulu and Huba Huba.

If you want to become a powerful spirit master, then it is recommended to cultivate demon spirits with all attributes higher than 30. The higher the main attribute and the attributes related to the monster spirit’s career positioning, the better, such as the health value and dual defense of tank demon spirits. The lack of non-professional related attributes can be made up for by operations. For example, the physical defense of the output character is low, and the tank can be replaced immediately when facing the physical output character.

The battle in "Monster Catch" is not an instant PVP, but to fight against the system-operated demon spirits left by other spirit masters, so the attack is very important, and the defense can make up for the lack of some attributes by relying on operations, but high-end players still work hard to cultivate A demon spirit with all attributes higher than 30. In the initial stage, demon spirits are generally cultivated for the purpose of attacking. The following demon spirits are relatively common and powerful: golden-nosed white-haired mouse, little fox, little thief mouse, porcelain doll, go-getter, Moxie, Lei Tongzi, ground fire turtle, Beech hair, wooden dummy, Xiao Ankang, etc. Some high-level demon spirits immediately go to occupy the ring next to them, occupy a few more, and their ranking will drop after being defeated, until they fall out of the top 100. The ring can provide abundant reward resources every day.

Blockchain cat gameplay:

When the spirit master reaches level 22, he will unlock the exclusive cat system and adopt a free cat. The exclusive cat is a digital pet generated based on blockchain technology and an original genetic algorithm. Each cat will present a unique image and is exclusive to you. You can buy, sell and breed cats in the trading market. The smash hit blockchain game originator, Obsessed with Cats, also has the same gameplay.

We explain some mechanisms and gameplay of cats from the functions of the cat market:

Cat bell: This is a new 0-generation cat that is continuously generated in the Tencent blockchain according to time. The advantage of the 0-generation new cat is that it may carry genes that have not appeared before. These genes may be very beautiful or have powerful BUFF. Secondly, the production efficiency is fast, and it can recover within one minute after breeding. The price of the newest cat is 1.5 times the average of the last 5 cats bought in the 0th generation, and then the price continues to decrease over time.

Selling and matching: The selling area contains all cats that are being sold. The cats that are looking for matching can breed with the master's own cats and get the baby cats produced. But remember, genes are only inherited with probability, and the baby born may not necessarily have the genes you screened. Both the purchase of cats and breeding services require payment of in-game credits.

Publicity area: After the player sells his cat, the cat will first enter the publicity area for a period of time and then enter the sale area

All cats: all spawned cats

My transaction: query the player's own transaction records

All areas can filter your favorite cats by various criteria

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Analysis on the Possibility of Over-the-counter Trading in "Let's Catch the Monster Together"

A cat with the dragon tail gene in the blockchain game Obsessed with Cats has a single cat with a sky-high price of 170,000 US dollars. The cat in "Monster Hunt" may also have the same value potential. Compared with other popular mobile games, the krypton gold of "Monster Catch" is relatively low. Cats are the most precious resources in "Monster Catch". There can be countless qualified demon spirits, but each cat is unique , the spirit master can enjoy the BUFF of three cats at most. So a cat with multiple powerful genes will be extremely precious.

At present, the most popular angel wing gene in "Monster Catch" is not only good-looking but also powerful. It costs 3,000 coupons (1rmb=10 coupons) for a breeding opportunity, and the purchase price is around 30,000 coupons, which is equivalent to RMB 3,000. All kinds of powerful and beautiful cats may become popular in the future.

After the player reaches level 24, the stall function will be unlocked, allowing the spirit master to sell demon spirits and props to earn diamonds in the game (1rmb=100 diamonds). The function is very simple. If you are lucky enough to catch some high-quality demon spirits, each can sell tens of thousands of diamonds, but the most difficult thing is to grab a booth. I don’t know if it’s a simple mechanism design or Tencent’s black humor. The stalls in these big cities are gone in seconds.

Over-the-counter transactions that "Monster Catch" may face:

Since there is a trading system, it is inevitable that some players will contact outside the game to trade and make profits.

Take the cat system as an example, if player A has a good-looking cat and wants to obtain the powerful BUFF gene of Angel Wings, he can find player B who has a cat with this gene in the professional cat breeding WeChat group, and then add B as a WeChat friend. And pay him a certain fee or transfer money to a third party as a guarantee (such as: group owner), and ask player B to use cats with angel wings genes for breeding. Different from the 15% handling fee charged for breeding in the market, breeding cats with your WeChat friends is free for both parties, so for the breeding fee of 3000 coupons mentioned above, WeChat breeding can allow B to earn more 450 coupons, worth 45 RMB, this part is the profit margin of OTC transactions.

There will definitely be more powerful genes in the future, so the 15% price difference may have a difference of hundreds of yuan. There is also a possibility that a krypton gold player A wants to leave the game, but there are 5,000 coupons in the account that have not been spent. A can contact player B who wants to receive a low price coupon, and ask B to sell a coupon for 5,000 coupons. A low-quality cat, A buys the cat, completes the transfer of coupons, and finally B pays A.

There are also some possibilities of off-market transactions in terms of setting up stalls. For example, player A has a lot of diamonds, and may be a krypton gold player who wants to leave the game but has a lot of diamonds, or a European emperor who has captured many high-quality demon spirits. The demon spirit has been sold and a lot of diamonds (1rmb=100 diamonds) have been obtained. If he wants to realize these diamonds, he can find player B who wants to get diamonds at a low price, and ask B to set up a stall to sell some inferior items at a high price, and then A swallows all of B's ​​goods to complete the transfer of diamonds.

As long as B's price is greater than A's cost of obtaining diamonds and less than the cost of official currency exchange, then A has a market for reselling diamonds.

These three methods can theoretically cash out in-game resources, and "Monster Hunt" comes with a connection to WeChat, and WeChat can easily transfer money, providing the most convenient off-market trading environment.

Over-the-counter trading has both advantages and disadvantages for the game. The disadvantage is that there may be professional gold mining teams who use off-site trading to make profits and hurt the market environment in the game. The advantage is that over-the-counter transactions will promote the circulation of resources, and players will be more willing to play the game after knowing that their contributions are valuable, making the game have a longer vitality.

But it will greatly reduce the fault tolerance rate of game design, and design flaws will be infinitely magnified by off-market transactions. For real blockchain games, tradability is a must and cannot be bypassed. Behavior on the chain cannot be tampered with. The resistance to defects is far less than that of centralized games. Games built on it require incomparable Rigorous design. This determines that the current blockchain gameplay is simple and difficult to innovate.

Conclusion:

Conclusion:

The game "Monster Catch" uses Tencent's self-built private chain TrustSQL, which has been accused of rubbing the popularity of the blockchain, but I think this is the first step in a good combination of the two. For some blockchain concepts, the blockchain also demonstrates another role other than value in front of the public through games.

Tencent has made a breakthrough in the combination of games and blockchain. "Monster Catch" is not a pure blockchain game. The blockchain is just a pendant of it. It does not have the cumbersome and slow speed of general blockchain games. In the game, I learned about the characteristics of the blockchain, knew the state of the cat on the chain, and what kind of transaction records were there, and experienced the market transactions and profit and loss on the chain. Perhaps at this stage, the combination of Dachang games and the blockchain should be in this way, so that players and the public can slowly accept blockchain games, and the blockchain is a good pendant.