First look. Heroes Battle Arena, a blockchain-based strategic RPG with zero start investment

Play-and-earn, a new paradigm in blockchain gaming is shaping the industry now. It refactors gamers priorities from earning only to enjoying the gameplay and having the opportunity to earn. There’s no more need to buy an NFT first just to enter the game and to spend hours trying to get rewards and to cash it out in detriment of playability. So it was in Axie Infinity, Stepn, where the player should purchase first in order to get access to the gameplay. 

Play-and-earn is fun and rewarding. At the same time, the economic reward is not a core, but just a small part of the whole experience. Moreover, this model makes blockchain games easier to perceive by the traditional gaming community.
Heroes Battle Arena from Ukrainian gamedev team is one of the vibrant examples that shows off all the benefits of the play-and-earn model. 

How to play Heroes Battle Arena?

Gameplay

Heroes Battle Arena is a fantasy PvP strategic RPG on blockchain with zero initial investments. The main idea of the gameplay is to gather an army and to eliminate other users in auto-battle or manual regime, depending on the type of the battle.

The army consists of three types of magic units. Each has its own abilities and destination leading to unlimited combinations in the battle. This is the one of the Heroes Battle Arena’s features that is awaited to attract non-crypto users.

From the start, the player gets 100 Barbarians to start up in Heroes Battle Arena. Furthermore, there’s an opportunity to use boosters:

• Power Stones to strengthen the army;
• Poisonous Stones to weaken the opponents;
• Super Stones giving the extra advantage over the opponents;
• Gods as supreme, constant,  limited, and paid boosters.

Start & rewards

To strike up the battle, there are several steps:

1. To acquire units first.
2. To add up to 2 Magic Stones and up 8 Gods, if available.
3. To manage the army: place the units in the right order to get the highest efficiency during the battle.
4. To play.

After the battle, players get rewards: 

• NFT Magic Stones that could be sold or invested back in the game. 
• NULS tokens. 

It doesn’t matter whether the player wins or loses. Whatever happens, he receives the prize all alone. The bigger the army gets, the more precious the reward becomes. 

Guilds

In addition, Heroes Battle Arena possesses a strong and consistent social part as a play-and-earn project. Users can create guilds of up to 50 members. They can choose among 3 types of guilds with different benefits each.

The guild’s head is authorized to:

• Set up a payment for the new members.
• Manage the guild’s treasury.
• Receive the part of all members rewards.

Members will receive more bonuses after the battle and discounts to all the in-game units.

Players can already try on the demo version of Heroes Battle Arena for PC on the site of the project.

How to earn in Heroes Battle Arena?

Heroes Battle Arena is a multichain game, being adapted soon for most popular blockchains: Ethereum, Polygon, BSC, Moonbeam etc. It features the following NFTs as the source of earnings: 

• Pantheons of Gods as super boosters.

• NFT for guild owners providing supplementary rewards for them;
• NFT as Army Supply to enhance the number of battle units and to make the 

reward grow; 

• NFT for premium subscription. It makes mana recover faster and allows to 

use boosters more often;

• Magic stones with extra abilities.

With all of the NFTs, players will receive additional tradable income. In addition,  NFTs could be freely bought, sold, and traded on the marketplace. 

Moreover, the game has its own token, $HBA. With it, players can buy Magic Boxes, vote in DAO being created soon, and purchase an NFT hero. This new feature can help implement better economies and will increase player engagement.


What are the plans?

Soon, the game will be launched on Polygon network and will be promoted by the ambassadorship program.

Future, are planned:

• Release of the mobile version;
• Launch of the gaming assets constructor;
• Adding of 7 + blockchains
• Story mode with quests.  
• and some more.

Conclusion

The Heroes Battle Arena team has already contributed to Gods Unchained, Ancient Kingdom, CryptoBrewMaster and other popular blockchain games development. 

Now, it looks like they have got to turn this experience into their own promising project, being an incentive both for traditional and blockchain gamers. On the one hand, the gameplay system looks familiar to those who spend hours playing Heroes of Might and Magic etc. On the other hand, the game provides earning and owning benefits.

To learn more about Heroes Battle Arena, visit their website, follow them on Twitter , and join their Discord chat.