Author of the article: Meta Era guest author 0x ShinChan
With the significant increase in the price of Bitcoin in November 2023, the Web3 game token market has also shown significant growth, with the market value increasing by 62% from the previous month. In this market craze, what is eye-catching is the newly launched Gas Hero game by the STEPN team. This game not only inherits the excellent tradition of the STEPN team, but more importantly, it chooses to use GMT as the main token in the game instead of issuing new tokens, which undoubtedly brings new growth potential to GMT.
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According to the announcement from Find Satoshi Lab (FSL) on November 1, Gas Hero plans to conduct community testing from November 24 to December 8, with specific user groups such as Gas Hero badge holders, Find Satoshi Lab ambassadors and partners Partners, etc., will be eligible for testing. As a massively multiplayer online game (MMO), Gas Hero unfolds its narrative in a rich science fiction world, providing a deeply immersive gaming experience and extending its story setting into the realm of comic books, with STEPNs sports-driven rewards The mechanics are in stark contrast. Gas Hero focuses more on providing a deeply engaging and strategic game environment. According to data from Footprint Analytics, in mid-November, the daily minting number of Gas Hero coupons exceeded 30,000, showing its popularity.
(Footprint Analytics Gas Hero Data Template)
This research report aims to provide an in-depth analysis of the gameplay, design philosophy, token economics and game assets of Gas Hero. We will explore how this game has emerged in the blockchain gaming market and its potential impact on the value and utility of the GMT token.
Gas Hero: Post-nuclear recovery and strategy game, exploring power, fame and wealth
Gas Hero, created by the team of last years blockbuster blockchain game STEPN, marks an important progress for the Find Satoshi Lab (FSL) team in the direction of creativity and immersive games. Different from STEPNs sports mode - STEPN attracts users with simple game mechanics and token rewards, but lacks characters and story background - Gas Hero presents a grand science fiction world and in-depth story background, and even extends its narrative to the realm of comics. The story of Gas Hero tells the story of how human beings after nuclear war started from underground struggles in an environment with scarce resources, gradually moved to the surface, and worked hard to revive human civilization. Players of the game compete for power, fame and wealth.
(Gas Hero White Paper)
Gas Hero is not only a game, but also a fusion experience of strategy and social interaction. The game emphasizes the application of game theory, provides players with a variety of strategic choices, and ensures the transparency and security of data on the chain through a decentralized trading platform. The game also introduces a highly participatory governance model, allowing players to deeply participate in the management and decision-making process of the game world.
The launch of Gas Hero is not only an important strategic expansion for the STEPN team, but also heralds a new development direction in the entire Web3 gaming field. Its in-depth exploration of game strategy, social interaction and decentralized economy, It will bring players a new gaming experience.
Strategy and Speed: Revealing the Automated Combat and Character Skills of Gas Hero
In Gas Hero, combat is the key to obtaining resources. Players need to accumulate resources through individual or guild battles. Gas Hero introduces an automated combat system. Players need to pre-arrange their battle lineups before participating in various battles.
(Gas Hero White Paper)
The lineup includes six heroes, each with a unique codename and the ability to equip weapons and pets. Next to each hero is a vertical action bar that triggers an attack or special skill when full, and the speed at which it recharges depends on the heros speed attribute.
Game Architecture: Strategy and Exploration to Rebuild Civilization
The game map of Gas Hero is divided into five levels, including City - District - 9 Guilds - 9 Clan - 9 Bases. There are 175 cities in the game, distributed on the earth that has experienced an extermination war. Each city is a new starting point for players to rebuild civilization.
(Gas Hero White Paper)
Each player will build their own base in unique world coordinates. Here, players are not only warriors, but also civilization rebuilders. They need to use resourcefulness and strategy to find their place in this changing new world.
Analysis of combat mode: automatic combat and hero strategy
Gas Hero adopts an automatic battle mode. Players need to configure their own battle lineup in advance and use this lineup to participate in various battles. The lineup consists of 6 heroes, each hero has a unique code name, and each lineup can only contain one hero with a specific code name. Each hero can equip a weapon and carry a pet.
Matching of heroes, weapons and pets
In the world of Gas Hero, players will encounter 48 unique heroes, which are divided into three categories: damage, tank and healer. Each hero type has its own unique abilities and combat styles, providing players with rich strategic choices and combination possibilities.
In the process of hero creation, players will experience the charm of randomness. The five basic attributes of the hero - attack, defense, health, magic value and speed - will randomly determine the growth value in the initial stage, and in the subsequent upgrade process, these attributes will gradually increase according to the initially determined growth value. . This random design not only increases the fun of the game, but also makes each players hero combination unique.
In the battle world of Gas Hero, players can equip their heroes with unique weapons. Weapons of higher rarity are equipped with more random attributes, increasing the uncertainty and strategy of combat. Gas Hero also introduces four types of pets: dragons, treants, hermit crabs, and pandas, each with five rarities and seven different evolution levels.
In addition, the auction house mechanism in the game provides a unique market trading environment. Each guild and jurisdiction has its own auction house, which displays a variety of items provided by the official. This mechanism skillfully balances the supply and demand relationship in the market. Players can look for opportunities in the auction house to obtain rare hero recruitment posts, and may even recruit rare creation heroes.
Economic model analysis: The key role of GMT tokens in the game
Gas Hero cleverly uses GMT as the main currency for all asset transactions in the game, effectively improving the practicality and liquidity of GMT.
As the native token of STEPN, a Web3 application integrating Game-Fi and Social-Fi, the total supply of GMT is 6 billion. 30% of this will be distributed to users through STEPNs move-to-earn activities and governance participation.
GMT hit an all-time high of $3.75 in April 2022 and has now fallen back to levels of 0.25 – 0.3. GMT plays multiple roles in STEPN: participating in governance, distributing staking rewards, and accumulating protocol income. GMT is burned in order to access in-app features such as sneaker upgrades and new shoe casting.
GMT currency price trend in the past 90 days
GMTs earning mechanism exhibits unique strategies and economic dynamics in the STEPN application. The core of this mechanism lies in its level and energy requirements, ensuring that only users who reach a certain level and activity are eligible to receive GMT. This design not only increases the threshold for participation, but also encourages users’ active participation and long-term investment. Its halving mechanism is similar to Bitcoin, ensuring the long-term value and scarcity of GMT. The total amount is halved every three years. By releasing GMT daily in an exponential decay pattern, the mechanism ensures the sustainability of the token supply and provides users with potential value growth.
The design of Gas Hero cleverly places GMT at the core of its game economy, creating a deep dependence on GMT. In the game, activities such as upgrading heroes and bases require the consumption of GMT, which not only promotes players continued demand for GMT, but also accelerates its circulation within the game. This mechanism effectively links the games progress and players investment with the market value of GMT, thereby closely linking the players gaming experience with the economic value of GMT.
In addition, the guild system and complex five-level governance structure in Gas Hero provide rich strategies and social dynamics, further deepening the participation and interactivity of the game. These multi-level social and governance elements not only enrich the game experience, but also create additional application scenarios and value for GMT.
Since October, Gas Heros aggressive marketing strategy and the recovery of the blockchain game market have had a significant impact on GMT prices. The price of GMT has surged by more than 70% in the past month, reflecting the community’s high expectations for Gas Hero. Despite this, according to Token Unlocks data, GMT still has more than 2 billion tokens to be unlocked, which are not in circulation. The tokens will have an important impact on future market performance. For GMTs future performance, market demand and response will be the decisive factors.
GMT unlocking information on Token Unlocks
Conclusion
The launch of Gas Hero may become a key step for the Find Satoshi Lab team to revitalize the GMT ecosystem. Its maps are based on the earth and cities, which naturally attracts STEPNs global player base and breaks the language and nationality restrictions of current NFT games. Gas Hero is a simple but strategic camp confrontation game with the theme of challenges between humans and AI. It not only provides players with a simple battle experience, but also focuses on tactical combinations and strategic layouts. This global player interaction setting undoubtedly increases the attraction and participation of the game.
Considering that STEPN had 700,000 daily active users at its peak and the team had achieved monthly revenue of over 100 million, these achievements undoubtedly brought valuable resources and experience to the team. However, the Dooar and Mooar launched by the team after STEPN have not achieved the expected success, and the GMT price is still sluggish.
GMT Dune data template
In the current bear market environment, whether Gas Hero can be a turning point in the industry and lead the GMT ecosystem to prosperity is the focus of all investors and players.
