Welcome to Day 3 of the MonkeyLeague BootCamp Recap Week! We started the week by diving into the Game Overview before then highlighting the in-Game Currency, MonkeyBucks $MBS, and the Game Economy yesterday. Today, we recap and highlight MonkeyLeague’s NFTs!
Monkey NFT Overview:
The NFT world has exploded over the last couple of years, even more so with the rise of crypto and NFT gaming. If you’re new to the game, NFTs are non-fungible tokens or irreplaceable digital assets. Since their rise, NFTs have, for the most part, fit into the visual collectible bucket — deriving their value from its appearance and rarity. MonkeyLeague’s NFTs not only derive their value from its awesome visual appearance and uniqueness of it, but also its powerful utility.
As we discussed since the beginning and in our Game Overview article, MonkeyLeague is a 4v4, turn-based, play-and-earn soccer game — FIFA Street meets Chess! Except in MonkeyLeague, the players are Monkey NFTs that are the in-game assets and income generators. By the end of 2022, there will also be Stadium NFTs in the game which will offer a passive form of income for players as they will be able to host matches and collect fees.
Each Monkey NFT is born with its own unique genetic composition, based on a total of 32 traits and attributes — eleven Appearance, an Alpha Score, four game Skills, starting and Max Potential game Skill levels, and twelve game Perks, or action boosters. The Appearance traits all range from Common to Rare to Epic to Legendary and the potential permutations of all traits amount to nearly 2.5 trillion possibilities. After the initial game launch, there will also be Special Moves, and the higher your Monkey’s Alpha Score, the higher likelihood your Monkey will be able to execute that move.
With four positions on the field — Striker, Midfielder, Defender, and Goalkeeper — each Monkey is born to be better suited at one of the positions. That is realized once all core game Skills reach each of their Max Potentials.
Accuracy, Passing, Control, and Defense are the four game Skills and each Monkey NFT is also born with twelve game Perks divided by the various positions on the field. The game Perks are boosters to specific game actions on the field! Perks are not initiated by the player, as like with a move, but rather automatically take effect when performing a certain move in the right zone. For example, if your Monkey is in the attack zone and you choose to shoot on goal then your Monkey’s Precision Shot perk will automatically boost that shot’s precision based on the percentage of the Precision Shot Perk.
In the game, your goal will be to improve your Monkeys’ Skill levels through matchplay and completing missions. Improving their Skills and your match performance not only empowers you to climb the ranks and achieve higher earning levels in the game but it also increases your NFT’s XP and value.
Off the field, the in-Game Store will be your best friend as you will need it for Energy to play matches with your Monkeys as well as Nutritional items and Med Care items to restore their Stamina and HP, or health points.
When the upcoming sales of Breeding Capsules happen in the in-Game Store, holding at least two Monkey NFTs will be required to make use of the Capsule — leading to the start of Breeding Season! Breeding Season is where you will be able to breed two Monkey NFTs to create future generations of MonkeyLeague Monkeys! This exciting game feature also has its massive advantages as by breeding future generations of Monkeys, you will be able to stack your team with more players, or sell or rent them in the MonkeyLeague Marketplace (the MonkeyMarket).
Game Skills:
- Accuracy: Your Monkey’s Accuracy level determines how likely their passes and shots are to succeed
- Passing: Your Monkey’s Passing level determines how well you pass and the likelihood of your pass will successfully reach its target. The higher your passing level, the more likely it will succeed.
- Defense: Your Monkey’s Defensive Skill level influences how well that player defends against passes, shots, and other gameplay situations.
- Control: Your Monkey’s Control level represents their ability to handle various situations; receiving a pass successfully, shooting the ball, or for example, better control from defenders trying to take the ball from you.
Remember, your Monkey’s Skill stats will be put up against the opposing player’s Skill stats in challenges. So, if the Passing stat represents how well of a Pass your Monkey makes and whether it will be successful reaching your other player, then the chance of that Pass succeeding is also impacted by the opposing player’s Defense stat, which represents how well that Monkey defends against passes and shots.
Game Perks:
- Precision Shot: Boosts shot on goal with extra accuracy
- Protective Holding: Boosts your Monkey’s ability to control the situation
- Hard Header: Boosts your Monkey’s header power
- Flank Pass: Boosts your Monkey’s ability to accurately pass across the field to another Monkey teammate
- Extreme Pressing: Increases your Monkey’s defensive press impact on the opposing player
- Pass Interception: Increases your Monkey’s ability to intercept passes
- Hard Tackle: Boosts your Monkey’s tackling abilities
- Defensive Awareness: Boosts your Monkey’s defensive awareness of surroundings and actions — faster to react
- Last Stand Defense: Increases your Monkey’s ability to stage a last stand protection of or near your goal area from the opposing team
- Golden Gloves: Boosts the Goalie’s ability to defend the goal and block shots
- Goalie Resistance: Boosts the Goalie’s ability to control the area around the goal
- Goalie Long Ball: Boosts the distance at which the Goalie can kick the ball away
MonkeyLeague Rank & Rarity:
Understanding the uniqueness and/or ranking of your NFT within that particular population is an important aspect. Remember, MonkeyLeague’s Monkey NFTs have both visual and utility value, which means there are different ways to approach their uniqueness amongst the population. If you are a strict NFT collector based on the uniqueness of Appearance, the Alpha Score will be your best guide as it represents the probability that that combined set of traits will be generated. Alpha Scores for Gen Zero range from ~180–800.
If you are in it for the game and to win, you will look at the Monkey NFTs combined Max Potentials for their game Skills and combined Perks.
We are working on a MonkeyRanking system to be built into the app, appreciate your patience as we get this developed and live! Will keep you posted on updates.
For more information on MonkeyLeague Monkey NFTs, check out our earlier article.
For more information on how to identify MonkeyRank & Rarity or understand the distribution across the Gen Zero population, check out our article.
That’s all for Day 3’s recap into MonkeyLeague’s NFTs. Stay tuned for tomorrow’s dive into the In-Game Store, or MonkeyStore.
Much MonkeyLove
Oren Langberg
Head of Marketing
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