PITCH
Castle Overlord is a multiplayer strategy game inspired by Clash Royale and Plants vs. Zombies. Players can collect various NFTs such as troopers, towers, and castles, and use them to battle each other on the battlefield. Winning a battle will yield resources, and players can use the resources to strengthen their units or purchase various items. Players can also download the 3D models of their owned NFTs to use in their own projects, or to be 3D-printed into toys.
OUR VISION
As a game development company with 12 years of experience, we wanted to leverage our strength and focus on product quality. Our vision is to deliver a blockchain game which is truly gamer-oriented, with NFTs that have high utility value and not merely collectibles. We want our players to feel that they really own their digital assets, which is why we give them the ability to play with, upgrade, and download the 3D models of their NFTs. We look forward to seeing how the players will utilize their NFTs and showcase their creativity.
TEAM
Castle Overlord is created by Nightspade, a game development company based in Indonesia. Since its founding in 2011, Nightspade has created more than 50 games on various platforms, and partnered with many global brands and government bodies. With more than a decade of experience, we are confident in our ability to create a polished product.
- CEO: Garibaldy Wibowo Mukti
- CFO: Teddy Pandu Wirawan
- CTO: Edwin Zaniar Putra
- Game Designer: Luthfan Fikri
- Game Designer: Fakhriy Ramadhan
- Game Programmer: Tommy Hidayat Santoso
- Game Programmer: Ending Indramaya
- Creative Director: Lukman Maulana Saleh
- Artist: Ira Kusuma Madani
- Artist: Joshua Manday
- Artist: Nasrullah Zulkarnaien
- Digital Tactician: Ahmad Ayyub Mustofa
PARTNERSHIP
Castle Overlord is a fruit of collaboration between Nightspade and Paras. As the largest NFT marketplace on NEAR Protocol, Paras’ expertise in navigating the NFT space is crucial in the success of Castle Overlord. Paras provided us with initial funding, feedback along the development process, and various marketing and networking opportunities.
PROGRESS
The Castle Overlord project has completed its first major milestone, which we call Phase 1. This means the first NFT collection and the first game beta has been released. In the first collection, we offer a selection of NFT troopers that consist of three factions: Steampunk, Samurai, and Military. The game’s beta already supports NFT integration, and players can play assault battles against AI-controlled enemies (PvE). Non-holders can also try the game for free, but they won’t be able to earn rewards.
Currently, the team has begun the development of Phase 2. This milestone consists of more NFT variations and new game features such as NFT upgrade and players leaderboard.
The game is already available and can be played through https://game.castleoverlord.com
MONETIZATION
Castle Overlord is built on top of the NEAR Protocol blockchain. Every NFT and in-game resource is treated as an on-chain token. We offer users the ability to purchase NFTs, but in the future, we’re also looking to implement resource token trading. Our first NFT collection consists of troopers divided into three factions: Steampunk, Samurai, and Military. Moving forward, we will release more factions and more NFT types (castles and towers).
Players can mint the NFTs directly from our website, and trade their owned NFTs in the Paras marketplace. We offer a selection of Booster Packs that users can purchase to mint the NFT units. We gain revenue through NFT minting, the royalty of NFT trading, and also resource token purchase in the future.
USER EARNINGS
Every resource in Castle Overlord is treated as a cryptocurrency token, and they are distributed in a limited quantity. There are six types of resource in the game::
- Gold ($COGLD) : 10,000,000,000 tokens
- Red Gem ($CORED) : 1,000,000,000 tokens
- Blue Gem ($COBLU) : 1,000,000,000 tokens
- Green Gem ($COGRN) : 1,000,000,000 tokens
- Yellow Gem ($COYLW) : 1,000,000,000 tokens
- Black Gem ($COBLK) : 1,000,000,000 tokens
Players earn these resources by playing the game and winning battles. They can then choose to spend these resources to buy various in-game items, or upgrade their NFTs. We are also planning to implement resource token trading, so the players will be able to buy and sell resource tokens directly from the market. The balance between token in-game spending and token trading will make sure that there is no oversupply and the value of our tokens will be maintained.
By default, the amount of resources a player can collect daily is limited to a certain amount. But this limit can be increased by collecting more NFTs and having stronger NFTs. Thus, playing the game is an important investment to gain tokens effectively. This will be the core concept of our play-to-earn aspect.
We also offer investment in the form of tokens purchase. The token percentage allocation is as follows:
- Play-to-Earn Allocation : 60%
- Investor Allocation : 20%
- Internal Allocation : 20%
ROADMAP
Phase 0:
- Ideation
- Game Development
- NFT Creation
- Community Building
- Strategic Partnership
Phase 1
- NFT Release (Collection 1)
- NFT Integration
- Implement PvE Assault
- Game Release (Beta)
Phase 2 (We are currently here!)
- NFT Release (Collection 2)
- Implement Units Upgrade
- Implement Leaderboard
- Game Update
Phase 3
- NFT Release (Collection 3)
- Implement PvP Assault
- Implement Territory
- Implement Daily Mission
- Game Update
Phase 4
- NFT Release (Collection 4)
- New Faction
- Implement Raid Battle
- Implement NFT Burning
- Game Update
Phase 5
- Metaverse (TBD)
FUNDRAISE
Nightspade is asking for 20,000 NEAR (~US$117,200 as of 08/11/2022) of funding for the purpose of:
- Further development of Castle Overlord (80%)
- Additional factions
- Additional NFT parts variety
- Additional game polish
- Additional features implementation
- Marketing budget (20%)
- Community building
- Social media promotion
- Paid media and/or advertising
- Events and miscellaneous expenses