TryHards is a community-driven NFT shooting metaverse game with thrilling gameplay that provides satisfying rewards. As one of the early adopters of the play-to-earn model, it combines the best of DeFi and NFTs to create an environment where users receive real monetary benefits for their game-time and can create a passive income stream by trading in-game resources, participating in competitions, and more.
The Game Backdrop
Following the Satoshi Massacre, a factional war that left billions dead and the planet uninhabitable, the factions were forced to flee the Earth to find shelter in the voids of space among distant stars. As they ventured out, their societies were divided into different forms called Apes, Robots, Undeads, and Survivors.
Now, 1337 years later, Earth is habitable once again and is called Planet-X. All the factions that set out in search of a new home are now coming back to Planet-X to finish the war and claim ownership of the planet. Game avatars called Fanatics fight for their factions by harvesting technological marvels from within the earth and harvesting their power to upgrade their weapons and dominate the battlefield.
Game Mechanics
To begin the battle for Planet-X in the metaverse, players are required to have at least one fanatic and one weapon. Fanatics are in-game avatars that represent factions — a group with different ideologies and opinions. And there are five different fanatics representing each faction. These fanatics and weapons required for battle can be obtained by purchasing any one of the two different NFTs offered by TryHards in the TryHards Plaza or any secondary NFT marketplace.
The battle has three modes — training, PVP, and PVE. In the training mode, players can familiarize themselves with the metaverse and gameplay before getting into actual battles. The player-vs-player (PVP) mode is where two players in the metaverse challenge each other for battle by staking $TRY tokens. The winner of the battle takes it all. In the player-vs-environment (PVE) mode, players battle with a swarm of monsters and receive rewards proportionate to the number of monsters they defeat.
To keep the battle going and to level up, the players are required to upgrade their fanatics and weapons from time to time.
Upgrading with Crystals
All the NFTs bought on the TryHards platform are automatically staked on behalf of the owner and their rarity cannot be upgraded. However, the levels of the fanatics and weapons associated with these NFTs can be upgraded.
Fanatics and weapons come in six different rarities ranging from normal to legendary. The drop chances vary from 48% for normals to 0.25% for Legendaries. The rarer the fanatic, the more will be the universe power associated with it. So naturally, upgrading the rarity level will increase the universe powers of the players. This not just helps dominate the battlefield but makes them uniquely positioned for receiving more in-game rewards because more universe power brings in more staking rewards.
To upgrade the rarity levels of weapons and fanatics players need to obtain another in-game resource called crystals. The crystals too come in the same rarity levels with the same drop rates as weapons and fanatics. The higher the level of the fanatics and weapons, the more crystals it will cost to upgrade them. Crystals, however, cannot be purchased directly. They can be obtained by staking $TRY tokens and providing liquidity to the TryHards Metaverse or by purchasing loot boxes.
If the purchased loot box has only normal fanatics, the users are rewarded with 100 crystals of random rarity under the TryHards Bad Luck Protection incentive. TryHards also has a decreasing drop rate mechanism dependent on liquidity providing. This means that early adopters have higher chances of obtaining crystals. As the platform grows and the liquidity increases, the chances of obtaining crystals become slim.
Inside the Metaverse
The TryHards metaverse consists of many places that the users can visit to buy or trade assets and participate in the network governance.
- TryHards Plaza: The TryHards Plaza is the in-house NFT marketplace that allows players to purchase, sell, and trade fanatics, weapons, and crystals using the native token $TRY. The plaza is designed with optimized smart contracts that create the best trading experience for users with minimal gas fees.
- Refinery: The refinery is the place that players can go to compose and decompose crystals. Because crystals are dropped at random rarity levels, they can be combined together or broken down to create enough purchasing power for rare fanatics and weapons.
- Guardians of the Armory (DAO): The Guardians of the armory is a crucial part of the metaverse that addresses both in-game issues as well as proposals regarding future game development and funding. Every $TRY token holder is a part of the DAO and can stake these tokens to participate in governance decisions. This feature would be introduced at a later stage.
Earning with TryHards
As mentioned before, TryHards is one of the early adopters of the play-to-earn model which means that players on TryHards get real monetary benefits for spending time on the Metaverse. They can earn money by
- Selling their fanatics, weapons, and crystals as NFTs on marketplaces.
- Winning PVP battles with other players and pocketing all the staked tokens.
- Winning against monsters in PVE mode for rewards.
- Completing missions/quests on the metaverse.
- Climbing the leaderboard.
- Automatically staking NFTs (fanatics, weapons, and crystals) to earn universe powers which in turn brings them $TRY tokens as staking rewards.
- Providing liquidity to the metaverse in the form of stablecoins or LPTs to earn crystals that can be sold on NFT marketplaces.
- Contributing to platform governance.
- Receiving airdrops.
Tokenomics
The TryHards Metaverse is a double asset economy powered by $TRY and $HNR tokens. $TRY is the native utility and governance token of the platform. This ERC-20 Matic token has a max total supply of 200M $TRY tokens out of which 17.5% are dedicated for the play-to-earn model to be distributed among players. TRY is needed in the metaverse to help players interact with each other and the platform. It is also needed for opening loot boxes and for participating in platform governance.
$HNR on the other hand is used for in-game operations. It is also an ERC-20 Matic token with an unlimited total supply. HNR is used to battle on Planet-X, complete missions, and fight against epic monsters. The tokens are burnt when NFTs are upgraded and crystals are composed or decomposed.
TryHards has a Buyback mechanism where 70% of all profits from the marketplace are directed into a “buyback and burn” pool consisting of the token $USDC. Smart contracts will constantly check the average $TRY price in the past 72 hours. Whenever the price falls below the 72-hour average price a smart contract will be triggered to swap the funds in the pool for TRY tokens at a random time.
Roadmap for the Future
TryHards being a gaming platform still in its developmental stages, has quite an eventful roadmap that ensures the speedy development and growth of the platform. This includes attracting advisors, raising funds, building partnerships, and smart contract creation in Q3 of 2021, with NFT drops and web3 wallet integrations planned for Q4 of 2021.
However, 2022 is the year where TryHards actually unfolds with the Alpha launch, governance introduction, and battle launches scheduled in Q1 and Q2.
The core developmental team is committed to creating a next-generation blockchain gaming experience with TryHards.
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