Play2earn and the joy of creating your own kingdom
As kids most of us have had the fantasy to be a prince, princess or king and be a part of a kingdom.
Not everyone is born as a royalty
Being born into a royalty is not a matter of choice however having your own kingdom is a choice you can make make right now.
Let us live the fantasy of having and building your own kingdom
To get started
Kindom is an upcoming blockchain game that one can join by visiting its home page here
Kingdom is a game that give you the opportunity to create your own 2D virtual world.
Its game play is based on the idea of Play share and connect.
Let us get started
to get started you have to sign up and for this you can click on the signup button
What shall we address you as your highness ?
Every king, Queen, princess or Princess is known by a name and the "Getting
started" button is your gateway and first step to choose your own name.
Feel free to choose your name and make sure it represents and reflects well the persona of your virtual world avatar in this 2d virtual game.
In the next screen select your skin
Let us create an account
Account creation on the Kindom platform can be done in three ways namely
- Connecting your google account
- Connecting your Facebook account
- Signup with email and password
I have chose account creation using email and password.
The welcome screen
Post signup a welcome screen greets you
Congratulation you are officially a part of the Kingdom
Let the game begin
Click on the play button to start the game play.
We get 30 energies in this game play session.
My character avatar moves around to a desired tile using the mouse.
Clicking the destination moves the avatar to that particular tile.
Explore the game map
The lower flag like icon is for exploring the game map
Starting your kingdom
Starting your kingdom lets you do a number of things like
- do farming
- craft
- Trade with other players
Best of all convert your gains into real crypto money.
It takes money to earn money
Gold is the currency of the kingdom. To get gameplay gold a player can start with $5
This amount can be in ether or polygon.
The gold can be bought in the in game bank.
$5 worth of gold gets a player one tile which can start his money making adventure.
connect wallet to buy gold
Since Kingdom is a web browser based game so one can connect the browser extension wallet like metamask to connect and buy gold.
Each user can invest a minimum of $5 and start engaging in the economic activities.
However even before putting in the money any one who signs up can explore the various aspects of the game play.
You can edit the tiles you own
If you are the owner of a tile you are free to place it in the free spots that are available to you.
If you want to expand your kingdom in terms of the tiles you are free to do so by buying more tiles.
As the owner of the tiles one is free to drag and drop them to rearrange them.
How to travel between tiles?
Travelling between tiles can be done using the pathway that may be present on the tiles.
So in order to travel from one tile to another there must be a pathway present between the two respective tiles.
Make you of the map view to travel
In order to travel from one part of the gameplay to another one can use the map view
This gives a zoomed out view that looks like the image below
A user can click on any tile of his choice and he gets transported to that location.
Make use if the Pin & the crown icon on the map
The pin icon is present at the bottom of the map and by clicking on it would recreate the gameplay view on the tile that a player last visited.
Another very useful navigation help is the crown button.
Assuming you have invested in the game and own a tile then clicking the crown button would change the view to your home tile. Or else it changes the view to the default tile.
Using energy in the game play
Currently a user gets 30 energies at the start of the game.
The idea is to move around and collect items that are either growing or lying around on the tiles. Unclaimed items are not owned by anyone and can be picked up by anyone.
To reach out to such an article simply click on it with mouse or tap on it if you have a touch screen interface. Doing so takes a player to that location and if the player successfully collects it he gets a confirmation message.
Cost of picking up: Pick up these wild objects costs energy. Each pickup costs 1 unit of energy.
The current available energy units can be seen by looking at the number of hearts present at the top part of the screen.
If you are idle the energy refreshes at the rate of 1 energy per minute. This refresh gets triggered after a player is idle for 5 minutes.
Though going forward there are plans to implement both higher rates of recharge and higher maximum energy.
Drink a potion: Drinking a potion increases a users energy by 10
How to profit in kingdom
$5 in ETH or polygon is the required amount to get started in the economic activity of this game.
A player can use $ 5 to buy his first tile and get started.
After owing a tile move around and collect wild items.
The idea is to sell these items to other players.
There are drop boxes that can be found on different parts of the land in the kingdom.
Using these boxes a player can list items they want to sell or buy.
The aim of the game play is to accumulate gold.
With this you can do the following things like buy
- Wood that helps a player create soil on his dropbox
- A forest tile which gives a player permanent access to wood or
- A player can create his own dropbox allowing him to buy or sell
Pro tip : If a user has some spare funds them buying a forest tile can accelerate his profits in the gameplay.
The math's of the game works like this
The Trees in the forests can be chopped once every 8 hours and yield 3 wood per tree.
The wood in the game can either be sold or used to craft the various in game items.
How should ew players with limited budgets go about?
They can start with a farm if they do not have the funds to start a forest.
Even with small amounts of wood the soil elements can be crafted.
This soil object can be used to grow plants.
Next a player can aim towards getting a forest tile of his own.
Crop selection: Carrots grow fast and be quite engaging for the farmer.
Comparatively a player may find that other crops grow relatively slowly.
A player can select a crop based on how he wants to manage his time and gameplay.
Very much like in real fields the use of scarecrow can have an impact on both the quality as well as the speed of the harvest.
There are chances that more than one item can be harvested from a single soil item.
How to craft basic objects?
Both bonfire objects and workbench objects can be used to craft new objects.
Place it on a tile you own and then using the menu of the craftable items one can craft the desired object.
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The ability to craft an object has a requirement that you own the recipe for the object.
The recipe would be present in its own "recipes tab" in the inventory menu.
Recipies can be bought and sold just like any other object.
A player should be careful not to sell his own copy of the recipe in case he wants to make use of the recipe in the future.
There is a cost associated with crafting and this can be checked from the crafting menu.
In addition the crafting process also requires consumption of energy.
Currently these costs are not mentioned in the menu but would be available going forward.
Make use of Bonfires
Currently any bonfire can be used by a player to craft a potion this feature would change as the game moves to the subsequent levels of development.
Currently the game is in its Alpha version
This means this is very early stage of development for this Play2Earn game so there are chances that players may come across bugs and glitches.
The fun of being so early in the game is that a player can be a part of the journey of the game and can connect with the game team and give his productive feedback and report the bugs and glitches.
Final thoughts
The first look of the game is quite impressive. Despite being in early Alpha the gameplay is smooth and so far I did not encounter any glitch that I could report to the team.
As the game development progresses there would be a lot more features that would get added to the game.
Going forward on can connect their Web 3.0 wallet to the game site and buy their first tile.
Additional information for connecting a wallet to the game can be found here
Through this post I have tried to cover the basics of the game and the steps required to get started.
For any further assistance and help feel free to check out the game documentation here
Hope you try out this game and have lots of fun in the process.
All images taken from the Kingdom site