A Hero’s Journey — 2/23–3/1
Weekly: Contest, Bounties, testing, and constant bug squashing.
This week we concluded our Grind for Gold contest, ran a quick bounty and had s community member venture deep into the game. There was much more action seen in our Komodo discord channels this past week as new people entered to test and play Crypto Rogue for a chance at a 777 KMD prize. Solid dedication to gameplay and diligence through all of the updates and bug fixes seemed to pay off for community member Ronyi, who won by acquiring the most ROGUE via gameplay functions. Ronyi stood unchallenged with 200+ total ROGUE. Congrats to you Ronyi! You have been our most involved tester lately and we hope to have more like you aboard soon! Thank you to everyone who participated, your assistance is highly appreciated and we hope you continue to play and earn ROGUE! See below for some of how Ronyi played the game itself to win.
We will hold another version of this contest and bounty when we feel there are stable releases for each OS installer. Until then keep your eyes peeled and practice the game to give your self the best edge on any new competition.
Most of this past week we have been focused on bug fixes large and small across all features of the game, TUI, chain and dex. Each day we see fewer varieties of bugs and get closer to a solid alpha candidate for a larger testing audience. Several fixes were implemented and we hosted a short test play bounty where users documented how gold was converted (to ROGUE), Warrior token saving, multiplayer character loss, and higher level gameplay specific bugs. The updates did fix some of the initial issues and then shortly thereafter additional issues were found and are currently being corrected. We hope to offer up ANOTHER round of test play for a bounty soon. Please join our community within the Komodo discord to have the earliest knowledge of these events or otherwise make sure to follow us on Twitter.
If you haven't played the game at all, please come test it out. Many of the developer team and community members are here to assist you in getting started and even through gameplay! This also opens the door for playtesting bounties for YOU and a chance to be our next test champion. Our current champion Ronyi has become quite fond of the game and even in its difficulty has made more progress through the levels than the rest of us in the community. It has been quite a journey to follow. After winning the first bounty last week I asked for his perspective on how he played to win.
“In this game, we are always in danger…”
Additionally, he had told me that it took 5 12 hour days of playing the video game to win the contest. Throughout that time he developed some tactics to help succeed getting him farther in the Dungeons of Doom and today he reached as far down as level 21. Just a short distance from the halfway point of the game, Level 25 where the “Amulet of Yendor” will appear to unlock the ability to go UP levels, where 25 new levels will be generated.
