The community beta test is approaching, and the STEPN team's new project: Gas Hero game is beneficial for GMT

The evolution of traditional games is a journey filled with innovation and transformation, from the initial single-player games to later story-driven and role-playing games, then to eSports, and ultimately leading to the era of social interaction and virtual social games. However, Johnny, the producer of GasHero, believes that Web3 games are bringing a brand new element to the gaming world—an experience of crypto game economy.

This economic experience allows users to enjoy the fun of strategic thinking and action by interacting with economic models and communities, something that traditional games find hard to provide. It is based on this concept that Gas Hero was born. Below is an introduction to this recently popular game.

The Biggest Highlight of Gas Hero: Launched by the STEPN Development Team, using GMT as the game token

Gas Hero is the latest social strategy chain game launched by the STEPN development team Find Satoshi Lab, which will conduct community testing from November 24 to December 8. This testing will adopt a data wipe testing mode, with 3,000 users having the opportunity to participate, including Gas Hero badge holders, Find Satoshi Lab ambassadors, partners, and others. Once the data wipe test is successfully completed, the official version is expected to be launched in December.

Introduction to Gas Hero

It is worth mentioning that Gas Hero will be deployed on the Polygon chain and will not issue new tokens, but will use the existing GMT tokens to support various scenarios within the game. At the same time, the game will provide a contract wallet for registered players that supports email login and asset recovery functions to ensure the secure storage of players' assets.

Previously, STEPN, as an eye-catching chain game, achieved great success in a short time, with the number of monthly active users quickly surpassing 100,000 and peaking over a million.

Meanwhile, the trading volume of the governance token GMT also once surpassed Bitcoin due to the game's popularity, marking STEPN's past glorious achievements.

Introduction to Gas Hero Gameplay: Diverse Experiences, Covering Auctions, Battles, and Strategies

Gas Hero is the second chain game launched by the Find Satoshi Lab team, creating an engaging future world for players. The game is set in a post-nuclear war scenario where Earth's resources are scarce, and the surviving humans rise from underground to embark on a difficult journey of revival.

In this world, players will take on the role of survivors, needing to join cities, guilds, or tribes, establish close connections with other players, and obtain rewards through collective combat, making cooperation the core of the game.

Gas Hero Game Product Interface

The game's structure immerses all players in a shared social world. Cities are divided into districts, districts into guilds, and guilds into settlements, with each settlement consisting of 9 players. The team's ambition is to attract millions of users to participate in the game, so scale is an important consideration when designing cities, districts, guilds, settlements, and bases.

Gas Hero employs artificial intelligence to determine 175 cities, based on a comprehensive consideration of factors such as population, GDP, and balance among countries and continents.

In Gas Hero, combat is a crucial aspect, and players can obtain resources through individual or guild battles. The core design of the game revolves around the supply and demand of resources. There are various resources in Gas Hero, each with its unique consumption needs. Players need to adeptly grasp the cycles and changes of different resources to gain an advantage in the market economy.

The auction house mechanism in Gas Hero is also very unique. Each guild and district has its own auction house, with items provided by the official according to system rules. This design reflects the market's supply and demand adjustment mechanism. Areas with lower purchasing power may acquire items at lower prices, while prosperous areas may obtain higher quality goods. Additionally, the auction house provides opportunities for hero recruitment posts, potentially recruiting genesis heroes.

The game's map structure includes some governance-related buildings above the guild level, such as management departments, town halls, and the United Nations. This indicates that the game may focus on resource accumulation in the early stages, while later stages emphasize gaining influence and prestige. Players need to continuously enhance their status through various means.

Overall, Gas Hero offers a diverse gaming experience, including combat elements, strategies, and social interactions. In the game, players can not only gain advantages through payments but also enhance their status and experience through various strategies and approaches. This new attempt provides players with more freedom and depth, making Gas Hero a crypto game full of innovative elements.

Gas Hero Game Economic Model: GMT as the Only Token Asset, Diverse Guild Functions

From the white paper, it can be seen that Gas Hero does not generate tokens, but GMT will be used as the sole currency for trading game assets, and various enhancement activities in the game will burn GMT.

GMT Asset Trend Chart

Gas Hero's enhancement system is very diverse, including hero upgrades, base upgrades, weapon reforging (multiple reforgings can increase the value lower limit), pet evolution, skill upgrades, and more. From a numerical design perspective, becoming a top player will require a significant amount of GMT to enhance one's character and resources.

In Gas Hero, all resources in the game come from player output. Due to the variety of resources, individual resource output in the game cannot meet all needs, so players need to obtain scarce resources through the trading market and auction house to complete development activities. This means that GMT will be frequently used as the universal currency within the game.

Guilds, as the core part of SLG, are also applied in Gas Hero.

The game is divided into five governance levels, including clan leader, guild leader, district leader, city mayor, and world elder. Different levels of managers are elected or nominated based on different criteria, with lower-level managers focusing on players' combat strength, while higher-level managers pay more attention to economic strength, organizational ability, interpersonal relationships, and luck.

Managers' income mainly comes from transaction taxes within their management scope. For example, 2% of the trading volume of genesis heroes and 4% of other NFT trading volumes will enter the manager's tax pool. The distribution of the tax pool is divided into two parts based on the location of the buyer and seller, with each party's managers sharing half.

Although managers at different levels appear to have the same income, due to the hierarchical structure, higher-level managers' tax revenue will far exceed that of lower-level managers. This means competition will be fierce, as management rights are closely linked to money.

Gas Hero began to ramp up its promotion in mid-October, and with the recovery of the chain game market, the price of GMT has shown significant fluctuations, with the market value of the GMT token exceeding $200 million and the price increasing by nearly 50%. This indicates the community's expectations and attention towards Gas Hero.

However, it is important to note that the GMT token has been facing large-scale unlocks since March of this year. According to Token Unlocks data, as of November 1, the circulating supply of GMT is approximately 1.28 billion, accounting for 21.4% of the total supply, with 68% of the tokens still locked. This may have some impact on the price of GMT.

Gas Hero Has Already Attracted Widespread Market Attention, Future Monetization is Worth Looking Forward To

It is worth mentioning that FSL has high expectations for Gas Hero. As early as July this year, when the game was looking for creators for character art selection, the team generously rewarded approximately 2 million GMT tokens and promised to pay a 2% royalty for market promotion and to generate attention. At the same time, the initial player capacity of the game is about 130,000, but the gameplay and technical framework design can be expanded to over 6 million. This number is impressive, especially considering that the development team of Gas Hero previously successfully launched the chain game StepN, which already has over 5.3 million registered users.

The vision of Gas Hero is to create a game that is truly native to Web3, with the core goal of providing an entertaining gaming experience, rather than just pursuing user traffic. There is not much difference between issuing new tokens and using GMT; the team prefers to view the GMT token as a long-term empowerment tool. Additionally, they have expressed optimism about the social field, believing that the future user market will focus more on behavioral social interactions, meaning interactions in constructive social environments, which will attract more people to come together.