It started on the Steem blockchain as Steemmonsters but eventually switched to the Hive blockchain. Thanks to cross-chain functionality, cards and tokens can also be traded on the Ethereum blockchain and on Wax. Splinterlands now has a governance token called SPS.

About Splinterlands

Splinterlands is a unique digital trading card game that allows players to truly own their cards and other in-game assets. Thanks to web 3.0 technology powered by the HIVE blockchain, each card in Splinterlands is a non-fungible token (NFT) owned by a player. That means players can do anything they want with their cards, including battling for rewards, holding them as collectibles, trading on the peer-to-peer market, combining to level up, or even burning to obtain Dark Energy Crystals (DEC), which is the official in-game cryptocurrency of Splinterlands.
The game was founded by blockchain innovators who shared a mutual frustration with mainstream digital trading card games that stemmed from players losing ownership of their assets when trading card games went digital. The companies who actually own the cards that players are supposed to “own” themselves can withhold information, reprint cards as often as they’d like, or even wholly delete a player’s collection based on inactivity or a violation of terms. Through the power of blockchain, Splinterlands solves these problems by making digital trading cards transparent, scarce, and actually owned by the players who own them.
With hundreds of unique cards, Splinterlands is a brilliantly designed and fast-paced trading card game that allows its players to earn by playing (P2E). Unlike more traditional TCGs like Magic: The Gathering, and Pokemon, Splinterlands battles are fast, with each match taking only 2-3 minutes. Rather than turn-based action in which every move is carefully and slowly controlled, Splinterlands’ main mechanic is a drafting style. Once an opponent is found, each player assembles a team of up to 6 cards from their Splinterlands collection. Then according to a unique set of rules that make every match different, the battle is played out automatically in a quick, action-packed format that allows players to learn from both victory and defeat.
Splinterlands is a strategist’s dream, beloved by one of the largest and most loyal followings in the play-to-earn industry. It is translated into nearly a dozen languages and played in over 100 countries worldwide. Each day, thousands of cards are traded for thousands of dollars on the peer 2 peer monster market. Join the fight at Splinterlands.com

Splinterlands is a cross between a deck-building game and an auto-battler. Players use their cards to create a combat lineup based on the rules of the match. Then, once both sides submit their teams, the cards battle it out until only one team remains. Players earn Dark Energy Crystals when winning matches and can also earn additional cards and other rewards through Daily Quests and a recurring, two-week leaderboard contest.

Players combine cards to level them up for better stats and additional abilities. Cards come in both regular versions and rarer, gold foil versions. Splinterlands features its own in-game market and allows for buying, selling, and even leasing cards!

Learn to Play

While it’s easy enough at first to jump right in and give Splinterlands a try, the strategy runs deep, and equipping yourself with the skills to win will take at least a small amount of basic learning.

Official Tutorial

You’ll find the game’s detailed explanation, as well as the playable tutorial experience in the HOW TO PLAY section of the Splinterlands website.

Challenging and Practice Matches

Another great way to put your skills to the test is by extending a challenge to a specific player, by selecting the Challenge option on the battle screen. Here you will be able to select the player whom you would like to challenge as well as set the level limits and cards to be used for the challenge.

By selecting the Practice option from the main battle screen you will be able to practice your skillset in unranked matches. This will help you to familiarise yourself with the battle selection process as well as experiment with battle strategies in a neutral environment that does not affect your rank.
Note that both Challenge and Practice matches will be considered Wild battles.

Watching Battles

One of the best ways to learn to play is by watching the battles of other more experienced players.
You can easily watch the battles of any player from the BATTLE page. By clicking the TOP BATTLES tab, you’ll be able to see the highest-ranked battles in the currently selected League of play. You can also enter the name of a specific player in the search bar to check out their most recent battles.

Top battles can be viewed in either Wild or Modern battle formats by selecting either format on the top of the Battle Screen.
Additionally, you can click on any player’s name on this page to see their profile and individual statistics. By clicking on the scroll circled in the image below, you’ll be able to watch that player’s battles.

Strategy Posts

On Splintertalk.io you’ll find all the latest Splinterlands-related content from the entire Hive Splinterlands tribe. Check this regularly and you’ll find valuable strategy posts, in-depth analyses of seasons, tournament rundowns, and more.

Splinterlands Discord

The official Splinterlands community can always be found in Discord. There is almost always someone in the community or one of the helpful moderators ready to answer your questions, and if you have technical issues, you can bring them up in the #tech-support channel of the Discord server.

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Play and earn our WAX token BOOM, collect NFT weapon parts, merge them into NFT weapons, add NFT boosters and new NFT characters, take down enemies, travel to different planets using NFT spaceships, challenge your friends in NFT arenas.. all on the blockchain!!

What is Crypto Shots?

Crypto Shots is a #play-to-earn game that allows you to earn our tokens and our NFTs, all while having fun! Most of the play-to-earn games on WAX are 2D and simple click-to-earn games. But hey.. the 90’s called and want the 2D games back! ?

We think that the blockchain can be leveraged to power more entertaining games.
And since there were no other Shooter 3D games on Wax and Hive back when we started in October 2021, we decided that it was our mission to bring one to all the players out there that want to play, earn and have fun too!

Other blockchains already moved in this direction but they opted for Console games. We believe that we can reach the masses delivering a 3D game for browsers, so that it can be played across a variety of different devices: desktop browsers, mobile browsers, tablets, VR headsets, ..you name it!

But the development of a 3D game takes time, so in the meantime we start creating the NFTs for our game using the same 3D models that will be in the game, and we put them to use in a Discord game that we developed in order to allow our users to premine our $BOOM token.

Milestones achieved so far:

October ’21: kick-off of the project (personal investment of about $ 50,000)
NFT sales: all sold-out. Raised about $ 50,000 in WAX on top of the initial funding.
November ’21: launch of our Discord Game B-otto and then Teknopolly.
January 23rd: launch of the alpha version of our 3D game on the WAX testnet (https://playtest.crypto-shots.com?test=alpha)
[in progress] February 2022: launch of the alpha on the WAX mainnet
For the next goals see our ROADMAP ..spoilers: HIVE, ETH 2.0, VR/AR #metaverse, Multiplayer, …

Discord Game

The minimum requirement to start playing our Discord game is.. one Base Gun.
This is the very first Crypto Shots NFT minted on the WAX blockchain!

The Base Gun allows you to play straight away with our Discord bot B-otto in its dedicated Discord channel, and pre-mine our $BOOM token.

You can expand your Inventory with more weapons and items so that you can premine more of it. All the NFTs purchased for the Discord game have an use in the 3D game.

The Base Gun will be your default weapon in our First-Person-Shooter Game, and if you have more powerful weapons in your wallet, you will be able to find them, pick them up and use them against the enemies.

Unlike the other weapons that are level specific, the Base Gun can be used in every single level of the 3D game.
Note that all the level 0 (warehouse) weapons can be used on Discord as well.

Another perk of the Base Gun is that you can auto-stake them to earn up to 30% more BOOM tokens every time you win in the Discord game (+1% reward per extra gun). This is higher than the “level weapons”.

So, now that we explained you what you need to start playing to earn, let’s see how..

How to shoot in the Discord game

When you first join you need to link your Wax account with the !REGISTER command,
then to shoot you can just use !SHOOT

Possible outcomes:

Target HIT = +1 $BOOM (50% chance)
Target MISS = +0.2 $BOOM (25% chance)
SHOT back = -0.1 $BOOM (25% chance)

Every time you earn $BOOM (ie. you did not get shot) you also receive additional rewards based on your auto-staked NFTs (weapons and other items from your Inventory).

Extra rewards:

1. Base Gun = +(N x 1) % BOOM reward. N = amount of Base Guns.

2. early-bird Discord role (assigned to the first 300 users that joined our Discord)
= +0.5% $BOOM. Applied to the Discord game only. Gives also other whitelisting perks.

3. Discord XP earned engaging with other users (without spamming)
= +(L x 0.1)% $BOOM
Examples: level 4 = +0.4% $BOOM, level 30 = +3% $BOOM
Users that reach level 10, 20 and 30 will also earn our Epic Badges that have the same booster in the 3D game.

OUR NFTs

WEAPONS:

The Base Gun allows you to shoot every 3 hours in our Discord game.
If you want to shoot more often than that, you can power up your arsenal.

The most powerful weapon that you have in your wallet is what determines your shooting frequency.

Depending on how many weapons you have, you will also earn a higher amount of $BOOM.

How to obtain your weapons:

You can purchase directly the full weapons or the weapon parts the from other players that listed them on AtomicHub;
Or you can purchase the weapon parts packs, so that when you open them you can try and find weapon parts with the same rarity.
Once you have all the required weapon parts, you can then blend them to create the full weapons.

Note: the Base Gun is not sold in parts therefore it does not require blending.

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