Skybreach Dungeons - Open Beta release
Official launch announcement
Today we are launching an open beta for Skybreach Dungeons, an onchain dungeon crawler built on Base.
Welcome to Skybreach Dungeons, the first mini-game within the Skybreach universe. Skybreach Dungeons is a punishing but fun roguelike dungeon crawler built on Base.
When we were working on Skybreach and the smart contracts were ready for all the main moving parts of the game, we realized how complex and intertwined it all is. This meant that if we planned to release it sequentially, it would take a long time until users could actually have fun playing it. So we decided to approach it from a different angle and outline a "Shortest path to fun," as we called it then. Instead of starting with settlement management, resource gathering, and building, which are prerequisites to a lot of fun mini-games we had in mind, we decided to start with the fun mini-game itself, while having all the smart contract logic already laid out for its connection to anything that comes after (A technical blog post is coming soon).
So we outlined a number of goals we wanted to achieve with this mini-game:
It had to be “bite-sized“. Meaning that anyone should be able to play a quick round whenever they feel bored.
It had to be accessible. So anyone can start playing without having to own plethora of different NFTs, tokens and other requirements.
It had to be self-contained while still be connected to all other Skybreach smart contracts, without new players having to know anything about it.
It had to be “onchain”. We wanted to have as much of a game state stored on-chain as possible, without going full FOCG mode and retain a flexibility of rapid development and frequent updates.
Most importantly, our goals with Skybreach Dungeons was to provide a fun way for Base and Skybreach community to spend time onchain. And we are happy to say that we think that we achieved all of the above!
Where
Head over to https://skybreach.app/dungeons/home and press Play Now.
What
Every week, 4 new dungeon seeds are generated and configured on the contract, together with 3 types of rewards for each dungeon. Each dungeon is unique, and each seed ensures that the dungeon has a unique procedurally generated layout. That means that each week, 4 unique dungeon layouts will appear, and each one of them has dedicated rewards and a leaderboard. You will usually have to die at least a few times before you learn the layout of each dungeon, before you stand a chance of claiming any of the top 10 leaderboard positions by either "time to finish" or "total score". Every 7 days, when the dungeon quest ends, you can claim your leaderboard rewards if you qualify. In addition to leaderboard rewards, you can get rewards by completing each dungeon for the first time, and on some occasions, there will be a recurring reward as well. During this public beta phase, all dungeons are of the same difficulty level; we'll talk about hardcore mode in future posts.
When
The Open Beta period starts right away and will continue for at least 1 month. This is still using fully live contracts on Base Mainnet. In terms of game state and smart contracts, nothing should change, but we are working on a lot of UX and onboarding improvements as well as new game features and mechanics, so we wanted to make it clear that this is not the final form of the game.
How
While we wanted to lower the entry barrier as much as possible, there’s still some things you need to know and 1 NFT you will need to ensure the continuity with the wider Skybreach universe. The game should guide you, but just in case, we will list it here too.
Connect your wallet. No embedded wallet option yet, so you will need to connect any compatible self-custodial wallet to start. We recommend Coinbase Wallet.
Have a little ETH on Base. Skybreach will give you an option to use Squid Router widget to fund your wallet if you don’t have enough ETH, but you can use any preferred funding method.
Mint a Chunky NFT (~$0.35 as of today). You can use either Base ETH, WETH or RMRK tokens to mint it.
If you managed to complete the dungeon and kill the boss at the end, you will need to sign a transaction to save your results on the contract and free your Chunky NFT character to be available again. If you don’t save the results on-chain, the contract won’t be able to validate your leaderboard position reward eligibility
Why
First of all we think it’s fun! We wanted to ensure that the game is challenging and requires you to play several times before you learn the ropes and can compete on the Leaderboard.
Rewards! The rewards are a mix of ERC20 tokens and RMRK NFTs.
ERC20s are divided into Skybreach resources (wood, stone, gold, etc. that are planned to be used in Skybreach settlement management in future), And RMRK tokens, but can be any ERC20 in future if any partners want to sponsor a Dungeon.
NFTs - You will get a commemorative NFT when completing any dungeon, but in future you might see Kanaria NFTs, Chunky Items, Skybreach Blueprints, and even NFTs from our partners or sponsors.
Experience. When you save your dungeon results, your Chunky gets onchain experience, you never know how we will use it in the future ;)
During this Open Beta phase and even after, if you have any feedback or comments you can join our telegram group or provide your feedback in this Google form
Please keep in mind that this is an Open Beta, and some rough edges are expected and will be ironed out with daily patches and updates.
Have fun!