Blockchain game developers are coming up with new ways of giving away tokens while also incentivizing players not to immediately sell them off. This is evident both in the case of Pirate Nation’s PIRATE and Mocaverse’s MOCA tokens and their respective staking options.

As for the latest example, Boomland has worked out an innovative method to reward players of Hunters On-Chain’s current play-to-airdrop campaign.

Crucially, its BOOM token isn’t yet live on the Immutable zkEVM blockchain, which the game is operating on, which means Boomland can’t give away any BOOM right now.

To solve this issue, Boomland will instead give away BOOM tokens in the form of bundled ERC1155 NFTs.

Called BOOM Bags, these will be demarcated in units of 1,000 to 100,000 BOOM tokens. Current Season 1 bags will have a redemption date of month 0 or month 1. Month 0 refers to the token generation event for BOOM on Immutable zkEVM, sometime later in 2024.

Season 2 bags will either have month 1 or month 2 redemption date. 

These NFTs will, however, be immediately tradeable, like any other NFT in Hunters On-Chain.

This means players can sell their tokens but because they can only be sold as discrete NFTs – and time dependent ones at that – price discovery will likely be more nuanced.

In addition, any BOOM Bag NFT can also be immediately burnt for offchain BOOM tokens that are used to level up in-game hunter characters.

Given the game has its forthcoming Season 2 play-to-airdrop campaign due soon, this will drive demand for offchain BOOM for players who want to maximize their position in Season 2, and hence their next future allocation of BOOM.

And neatly, this approach should restrict the selling of BOOM NFTs, while also providing a strong in-game utility for the token, which is exactly what game developers want to see when they launch a token.

Boomland is migrating to Immutable zkEVM. And with this move comes a special, Hunters On-Chain, play to airdrop campaign with over 250 million BOOM tokens in rewards!

Fresh off of the Guild of Guardians launch, Immutable zkEVM already has another project lined up for release — Boomland Games. Their free to play, top-down, action-based, fantasy brawler, Hunters On-Chain is ready to move and relaunch on Immutable, offering over 250 million BOOM tokens in a two month, play to airdrop campaign!

BOOM is the primary ecosystem token for Boomland Games. It will be useful throughout all of their projects (which at the moment is only Hunters On-Chain), with both in-game and out of game use cases.

More about Play to Airdrop

There will be two seasons for this campaign, each a month long. Season one begins in June.

And Boomland plans to make this a play-focused airdrop event. Users can earn points for completing Badges, finishing Quests, and Referring new players. Badges are in-game, one-time achievements for things such as owning specific hunters or doing a certain amount of damage to Kevin the Dragon. Quests are daily game tasks. And referrals, well, you know what referrals are. But aside from that, no other social engagement required. No Discord events or re-tweeting or any of that sort of stuff that often comes with these campaigns.

This first play to airdrop event will start everyone on equal footing. No existing Hunter NFTs may be used. The game is open to everyone at no cost. All players begin with just a single, common, free Hunter, and must use that to earn points until they can acquire a premium Hunter.

How to acquire a premium Hunter, you ask? Option One: Hold Genesis Hunters in your wallet by the time of the snapshot on May 27th, 3pm UTC. Players will receive one Premium Hunter for every Genesis Hunter they hold. Option 2: Participate and win in various contests and giveaways throughout the play to airdrop campaign. Option 3: Trade or Purchase one on the open market.

The team plans to hold an AMA sometime soon. Watch their social channels and join their Discord chat for more info.

What is Hunters On-Chain

Hunters is a fantasy, top-down, casual, PVE action game with a couple of different game modes.

For PvE, each match features four players fighting monsters and leveling up. In Hunt mode, matches last for two minutes, with the top spot going to whoever has earned the most experience in that time, or whoever is the last survivor — whichever comes first. Each player starts the match at level 1 with full hit points. As they kill monsters and grab the stars that drop, players gain experience. Gain enough experience, and you level up, earning the right to choose between two, semi-random promotions. These promotions include standard power-ups such as increased damage, greater attack range, and more hit points, as well as special abilities like Damage Reflect and Demon Pact (sacrifice HP for more damage).

As the match goes on, the monsters get tougher. So players need to be active, get out on the battlefield, and increase their levels. At the center of the map lies a healing square that can be visited at any time.

Other game modes include Boss Hunt, which requires players to try and defeat a Boss dragon after leveling up, and Bounty Hunter, which is a 10 character, FFA fight with no level-ups during the match.

Players earn BGEM tokens from playing matches. They can then use BGEM to purchase chests containing random artifacts and hunter shards or swap them for BOOM tokens. Players need BOOM tokens and Hunter Shards to level up their Hunters.

Hunters On-Chain can be played through a webpage, or with the official app on Android and iOS devices.

To learn more about Boomland Games and Hunters on-Chain, visit the Boomland website, follow them on Twitter, and join their Discord.