Honeyland News, September 2024
Office Hours AMA with our CEO
Corey announces Hexagon Studio’s new game: Tons of Dungeons, shares all the Honeyland news, and answers lots of questions!
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QUICK LINKS
∘ Dev Team News
∘ Raffle Update
∘ Flipside Crypto Dashboard review
∘ Breakpoint party
∘ BGS24 update
∘ HoneyPicks 2024
∘ Pollen Pop
∘ FAQs are translated
∘ Training Bees
∘ MasterCard update
∘ Daily Active Users number update
∘ The Fly Wheel
· Tons of Dungeons
∘ Incentivized Game Play
∘ First 48 Hours Stats
∘ Integration with Honeyland
∘ Engagement Goal
∘ Vision
∘ Revenue Generation
∘ Tons of Dungeons Roadmap
∘ Studio Resources
∘ Q3 Theme has been Expansion
· AMA
∘ Does the team play HL?
∘ Wax
∘ U2
∘ Why we picked Solana
∘ Positive Energy
∘ Investors in HXD
∘ Revenues
∘ Queens
∘ Soft Launch
∘ Halving
∘ NOT Coin
∘ Cook.fun
∘ Money raised from the Genesis sales
∘ Honeyland IP in Telegram Games
∘ Marketing and localization
∘ Tier 1 Exchanges
∘ Market Makers
∘ Corey’s Main Focus
∘ Cars not Houses
∘ Here’s the 10 minute version of the highlights of today’s AMA
Corey and the team will be at Token2049 and Breakpoint in Singapore from September 19–21. Then Justin and Corey will head to Vietnam to meet our new dev team!
When he comes back, he plans to do a huge Universe 2 announcement on Friday September 27th. Exact details on that call will be released soon.
Dev Team News
00:06 — In early August, one of our key and much beloved development team members, Masoud, was killed in an auto accident. Our entire development team is a very close family and it was a tremendous blow. He was involved in many aspects of our development and his death really took the wind out of our studio for a couple of weeks.
Raffle Update
00:10 — REMINDER: Premium Raffle Week starts Monday, September 9th!
57 Regular Raffles in the month of August with 15,605 Participants
17 of these were Zzubs entry raffles
40 of these were HXD entry Raffles
1,865,555 Zzubs used in raffles
80,127 Raffle entries across the HXD and Zzubs raffles
27,556 Raffle entries purchased with $HXD
52,571 Raffle entries purchased with Zzubs
Some of the best prizes included: Land #1758, Genesis egg for Zzubs, 5000 HXD Jackpot!, Gold Pass #201, NASA and Cibona Cosmetics and many other prizes
125 Ticket Raffles for the month of August
There were 25 Bronze Raffles and 49 prizes
There were 50 Silver Raffles and 50 prizes
There were 30 Gold Raffles and 117 prizes
There were 20 Rainbow Raffles and 20 prizes
195,044 tickets used across all tiers of ticket raffles
3,055 Bronze Tickets
112,374 Silver Tickets
67,983 Gold Tickets
11,632 Rainbow Tickets
44,648 Participants across all tiers of ticket raffles
3,055 Bronze Raffle Participants
24,354 Silver Raffle Participants
15,200 Gold Raffle Participants
3,087 Rainbow Raffle Participants
There were 236 prizes in total! Prizes included:
9 Lands
4 Genesis Bees
5 Genesis Bee Eggs
2 Rose Gold Passes
6 Chase Bees and much more
Flipside Crypto Dashboard review
0:14 — A review of the HXD token, unique Honeyland holders, Breeding, Wax, and more.
Wax is now capped at 35 for Breeding and 45 for Egg Creation. Due to the drop in SOL price, the actual amount of Wax needed for those transactions is lower than that cap. That will be updated in the game tomorrow so you will pay the actual blockchain fee.
Breakpoint party
0:23 — We are sponsoring a party at Breakpoint. Sharky’s GLOW party on September 19th. If you be at Breakpoint, join the event Discord channel in our server to join us at the party. There will be swag!
BGS24 update
0:25 — Honeyland Founders Corey and Justin along with Cigarros, Honeyland’s Discord Community Leader will be at the Brazilian Gaming Show October 9–13. We will have a booth! Be sure to stop by!
HoneyPicks 2024
0:26 — Genesis holders join our HoneyPicks 2024 NFL event. There are great prizes! Visit this Discord channel for details.
Pollen Pop
0:27 — Pollen Pop iOS update — they claim the game is spam and it’s NOT. We have appealed their decision and are trying to figure out where the confusion is. You can access the game via the Google Play store for Android devices.
FAQs are translated
0:29 — All FAQs are now available in Indonesian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Tagalog as well as English. The translations were done by AI so they may not be perfect. The charts will display in English only.
Training Bees
0:30 — Gen Z Bees will now be called Training Bees. Z shards will be Training Bee shards.
The FAQs and most of the charts are updated to the new wording.
The Bee Bible and the in-game wording are being updated this month.
MasterCard update
0:32 — The Integrated Brand Experience with MasterCard is moving forward and it looks like a Q4 launch. Priceless Planet Collation is the aspect of MasterCard they want to promote. They want to plant 100 Million trees!
Daily Active Users number update
0:34 — Appsflyer is the data analytics service we use. When we dug into the player numbers that we have locally and what Appsflyer was showing us, we found that the numbers weren’t matching.
We have be working hard to determine what the accurate DAU is.
We are still investigating, but feel the accurate number is around 5,000 daily active users with an all-time high of 9,000–10,000 daily active players.
Our average daily engagement per player is 47 minutes!
Corey explains how this is actually bullish for the future of Honeyland.
The Fly Wheel
0:41 — One thing leads to the next and then the next!
Tons of Dungeons
0:46 — At the end of June, Hexagon Studios decided to pursue a Telegram game with the sole purpose of assembling a large community so we can drive way more attention to Honeyland.
Tons of Dungeons is the first title
You can access it at: t.me/tonsofdungeons
This is the first of many planned games that we can add to the Hexagon ecosystem with the focus driving value to HXD.
00:51 — Corey demonstrates Tons of Dungeon game play, explains how the rewards work for referrals, and the gaming layers.
Think Big…. No BIGGER!
Incentivized Game Play
1:00 — It works like a Play to Airdrop campaign, but doesn’t end!
We have already incentivized players to follow us on Twitter, YouTube, etc. See details about how we will incentivize Tons of Dungeons players to play Honeyland below!
First 48 Hours Stats
Honeyland Twitter/X account
Our goal was, by the end of this weekend, tens of thousands if not up to 6 figures of players.
We have over 200,000 players in the first 48 hours
These are just some of the screenshots Corey shares on the call. The engagement on our Twitter/X posts have skyrocketed.
Integration with Honeyland
1:08 — In addition to incentivizing players to engage with Honeyland, the next Telegram game from Hexagon will be “Honeyland lite” game that can serve as an entry into the full Honeyland game.
We will incentive ToD players to do things like set up their Honeyland account, log into HL daily, go on a mission, hold HXD to earn multipliers in ToD, hold HL assets, etc.
Engagement Goal
1:11
For every 1 million Tons of Dungeons players
10% engage with incentivization = 100,000 players
10% of them become integrated into Honeyland = 10,000 new, active Honeyland Players
In less than 24 hours, we have over 200,000 people playing Tons of Dungeons
Vision
1:14 — Our original vision was to introduce crypto and defi to millions of people by making it fun and easy to understand.
Our current guiding light is to build the future of Web3 gaming.
Revenue Generation
1:15 — In-game ads are already set up in Tons of Dungeons. Players can also buy stars (a Telegram currency), and spend those to advance in the game. We receive revenue from both of those sources.
Soon, we will change the current in-game ads to ads for Hexagon Studios games: Honeyland, Pollen Pop, and Word Buzzle. People are clicking the ads in Tons of Dungeons already, they will become millions of commercials for our games. We won’t need to advertise INSIDE of Honeyland; we will advertise FOR Honeyland.
Tons of Dungeons Roadmap
Studio Resources
1:17 — The total amount of effort that went into creating Tons of Dungeons was the same amount of energy we spent on the recent airdrop campaign.
Corey’s goal is build Honeyland and HXD as the most valuable assets in the ecosystem. It’s why we launched the Game Mall games and this Telegram game.
Creating Tons of Dungeons did delay the release of Universe 2 by about two to three weeks. There will be more information about Universe 2 released at the end of the month when Corey returns from Singapore and Vietnam.
Q3 Theme has been Expansion
1:22 — The three parts of expansion: U2, Tons of Dungeons, and a new studio in Vietnam.
The new studio will focus on HiveMind, the web version of Honeyland, Game Mall games, and more. This will allow the main Honeyland team to focus on the mobile version of the Honeyland game.
AMA
Does the team play HL?
1:30 — yes! They are always playing and keeping current with the game.
Wax
1:31 — We can’t collect SOL instead of Wax without rewriting all of our smart contracts. It’s a huge endeavor. It’s on the backlog, but it’s not currently a priority.
U2
1:36 — Mark your calendar for September 27th which is our planned date to announce U2 details.
Why we picked Solana
1:38 — Corey shares the: Hats, Haircuts, Tattoos idea as he explains why we picked Solana.
Positive Energy
1:42 — Corey stays positive through connection with his family, friends, and is inspired by the challenge of Honeyland. He also tries to emit positive energy. Sometimes he has hard days and needs to take a break and go for a walk.
His bigger vision is to have a legacy in Web3. For people to feel like Honeyland and Hexagon “got it right” early and built a game for millions of people.
The stories from players sharing how Honeyland has positively affected their lives really drive Corey.
Investors in HXD
1:46 — Here’s the details on Investors:
69,555,556 (7%) — Seed round — These are locked for 3 months after IDO and linear vesting for the next 15 months. This round was raised in Q1 2022. The vesting ends on September 15, 2024.
36,678,571 (3.7%) — Private A round — These are locked for 1 month after IDO and linear vesting for the next 15 months. This round was raised in Q2 2022. This vesting has already ended.
103,765,873 (10.4%) — Future Investors — Tokens for all investors in any future fundraising rounds will have a 6 month lockup period, followed by a minimum of 12 months vesting from the date of the investment funding. Almost all of these are long-time holders.
50,000,000 (5%) — Advisors — These are locked for 1 month after IDO and linear vesting for the next 18 months. Some advisor tokens will be reserved for future advisors. Any advisors joining after the IDO will have tokens locked for 3 months, followed by linear vesting for the next 21 months. They will be fully vested in October.
Revenues
1:50 — Any HXD we have received is still held by the treasury. We haven’t sold a single token. The funds we have are from mints, IDO, and investors.
This is where the Telegram games are a benefit. We made $750 yesterday (from players using stars in the game) based on 200,000 players. As player numbers grow, earnings are expected to increase as well.
Queens
1:54 — Responding to a question about more uses for Queens, Corey shares that Universe 2 may give us the opportunity to change the ways various parts of the game works.
Soft Launch
1:59 — So far, we are still in our soft launch of the game. We have partners that will be activating. We can build on the momentum!
Halving
2:03 — Corey explains how U2 opening affects halving
NOT Coin
2:08 — NOT coin is the biggest meme coin in the ecosystem and was the largest token launch in the first half of 2024 on the TON chain.
Cook.fun
2:12 — Is a set of tools that will power our Telegram Gaming ecosystem. A meme style platform that will allow for rewarded gameplay.
Deploy — Data — Decide — Repeat
We are in deploy mode with Tons of Dungeons right now.
Money raised from the Genesis sales
2:14 — We are trying to drive maximum value to HXD through everything we do. The same studio has been working on Tons of Dungeons that works on Honeyland. Honeyland engagement is being fueled by Tons of Dungeons.
Honeyland IP in Telegram Games
2:32 — Ideas from WolfOne about ways to have Honeyland integrated with Telegram games.
Marketing and localization
2:35 — Corey speaks about marketing in Asia and how localization (having the game available in a player’s language) impacts that.
Tier 1 Exchanges
2:40 — Corey speaks about different exchanges and the timing of the potential of new exchanges.
Market Makers
2:43 — Our Market Maker is FlowDesk.
Corey’s Main Focus
2:48 — He is focused on three things: Getting all the benefits we can from Tons of Dungeons and the integration with Honeyland, the next two weeks of travel and events, and then U2 announcement/launch.
Cars not Houses
2:49 — Bees are asset earning assets. Corey discusses the different assets in Honeyland.
Have a question for Corey? Submit it here and it will be included in the next AMA
Here’s the 10 minute version of the highlights of today’s AMA
Explore Honeyland to discover unique Lands and Universes bursting with rewards. Take part in the epic story to help the Bees of Honeyland find their way back home.
Build your swarm, Hunt and Harvest, complete Quests, and win PvP Raids to strengthen your Bees.
With vibrant graphics and intuitive gameplay, Honeyland is the perfect game for anyone who loves strategy games and adorable Bees. Start earning Honey (HXD) and manage your Hive today. Visit your App Store to download Honeyland today!
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