We want our NFTs to also act as customizable art that you can play around with and shape to your desire. For this reason, we are allowing two types of customization — accessories and traits. We want to give some more detail on the difference between the two and you can interact with them in near future.
Accessories and Equipping/Unequipping
Accessories are more alike the typical concept of “wearables”. This includes things like hats, weapons, mouth pieces, and shell armor. These are items that can be removed and added back to turtle NFTs. They act as individual pieces that can be moved between turtles. The technical implementation of accessories will be functionally similar to ERC-1155 tokens, but implemented on the IC. We will essentially be building our own standard to support this. We are excited to include these accessories in the initial drop of ICTurtles! Soon after drop, we hope to enable adding/removing accessories, so you can interact with them as soon as possible!
Traits and Breeding
Traits are more like parts of the turtle that logically can not be removed as easily. This includes things like a turtle’s eyes, mouth, nose, and shell. These are different from accessories, as they cannot be moved from turtle to turtle. These traits will be used in determining the children of a turtle during breeding. More information about breeding mechanics will come as we progress in the project!
Game Integration
Both traits and accessories will have certain rarities and stats. These have been decided on and will be revealed soon! These rarities and stats will be used to calculate the strength of different turtles in our upcoming combat mechanics within our game and larger-scale faction competitions. There will be different types of stats that a trait/accessory can have, meaning different accessories and traits will have utility in different ways!
