Fan Art Contest + Podcast!
over 3 years ago – Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 11:09:08 PM

Fan Art Contest

We are excited to announce that today starts the Chainmonsters Fan Art Contest! The contest lasts until the end of the Kickstarter, November 19th at 7pm CET / 10am PST! There will be 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place prizes! We will be sharing submissions during the contest so look forward to seeing some awesome Chainmonsters fan art!

Medium

Submissions can be any visual medium including pixel art, vector art, pen and ink, graphite, or any other medium, digital or traditional. It can be a single frame or multiple frames.

Submissions

Submit by posting your fan art on Twitter and tagging #Chainmonsters + #FanArt + @Chainmonsters. You must submit before the campaign ends on November 19th at 7pm CET / 10am PST. You can make multiple submissions, but can only win one prize (you cannot win both 1st and 2nd place for example).

Evaluation

We will evaluate each submission on a 50 point scale with up to 20 points for technique, 10 points for creativity, 10 points for humor, and 10 points for storytelling.

Prizes

• 1st place will receive everything included in the tier 500 EUR Voyager (Mysterious ticket) which includes a mysterious ticket, a crystal Chainmon, a custom in-game appareance in the Founder's Club and all of our physical rewards!
• 2nd place will receive everything included in the tier 100 EUR Alpha Agent (Poster, plushie and more) 
• 3rd place will receive everything included in the tier 60 EUR Starter Box (Plushie) 

The subject can be anything related to the game:

• A scene featuring any Chainmon
• Your own interpretations of an area/route
• What Max does in his free time (in the game)
• What the N-Corp organization might be hiding
• A story involving any of the Chainmons
• A new technology with advanced utility
• Anything related to Chainmonsters that you can imagine!

Good luck to anyone that enters! 

Podcast with Gym Leader Ed

Our friend and youtube personality Gym Leader Ed has interviewed Max recently on his podcast which is available here. They went into much detail on what makes the game special, how it differentiates itself from similar games and why Blockchain is such an integral part of our game!

https://youtu.be/kifl-pBsYxk

Our plans for the campaign and close to being 1000% FUNDED!
over 3 years ago – Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 08:58:25 PM

Dear Bakers,

We are now close to being 1000% FUNDED - which means we are likely hitting our next stretch goal - Eluvia Park - very soon. 

More than 400 Bakers and >1000 players have checked out our demo so far, ❤️thanks so much everyone!

 We would like to mention that all of our stretch goals are carefully chosen and do not interfere with our projected timeline - thanks to all of you we are able to extend our development team and bring in these additional features! 

Now let's talk about some of the upcoming events we have scheduled!

 Events

Behind the Scenes 

During our journey so far we have recorded special moments and are cutting them into a Behind the Scenes video for you to take a look at our team, the processes when creating Chainmonsters and some interesting looks into our personal lifes. 

Battle Mechanics In-Depth

A more in-depth look at how the combat system has been designed, what the main differences are to other monster taming games and what to look out for!

Breeding Mechanics In-Depth

As mentioned in the campaign, the breeding system is something super important as you can trade your Chainmons with each other and create super strong and unique variations in it! Features inheritance, traits, mutations and visual variations!

Community involvement strategy

We want to include you guys into almost all processes including game mechanics, monster designs and other gameplay elements. This will be an in-depth look into how we are going to pull this off!

Discord/Twitch Q&A

We are hosting a Q&A stream in Discord and on Twitch on Wednesday October 28th at 7pm CET / 10am PST! Scroll down for those links.

Alpha Preview 

Towards the end of our campaign (48 hours left) we will be sharing an extensive preview of what to expect in our upcoming Closed Alpha of the game, including locations, designs, mechanics and in-game assets!

These are not the only events we have in store for you during this campaign and we will share more in the following blog posts!

Our links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChainMonsters

Discord: https://discord.gg/p4JnKQw

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chainmonsters

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/cinetek

Thanks again for making this project possible! ❤️

Project 700% funded on Day 1 and New Stretch Goals!
over 3 years ago – Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 11:22:50 PM

We are still a bit overwhelmed by this incredible response to our campaign and have truly SMASHED our first stretch goals on day 1.

Thanks to each of our amazing backers. Sincerely, thank you!

Chainmonsters and B-Side Games has been self-funded by me (Max) for the last couple of years and with our new partner Flow - and especially you amazing!!! people - we can extend the game, add new exciting features and most importantly: work with you guys closely together to make it a truly great and polished experience.

Now let's reach some additional Stretch Goals!

Bonding Activities - 85.000 EUR

The relationship between you and your Chainmons plays a huge role. Think of them more like friends and less like stats on a graph! When trading with other players you may need to take care of them before they can unleash their full potential.

You unlock special interaction systems from time to time and yes, you can pet your Chainmons.

With this stretch goal we are adding additional micro-games into your day to day trainer lifestyle where you can play around with your Mons and teach them new tricks!

Eluvia Park (name not final) - 100.000 EUR

This brand new game area only opens up on the weekends and features some ever changing dynamic challenges on a weekly basis. Also great to hang out with your friends!

Again, thank you all!

We are very happy to see so many people as excited about Chainmonsters as we are! Thanks again to all our backers, and please spread the word about the project so we can make it better and bring it to more people.

What an incredible start!
over 3 years ago – Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 11:03:54 AM

We knew we had an excited community but this blows our minds!

We are answering questions in our Discord all night long and have dedicated moderators for various tasks.

There will be a ton more stretch goals. This is a game changer for us!