What is Holozing?

If you don't know Holozing yet by now, you must have been living under a rock for a while.
Holozing is a roleplaying adventure game that is in development at the moment.
It's a collectible-based game where the goal is to catch and training creatures. Where have we heard that before? Indeed, it isn't a secret that @acidyo got a lot of inspiration from the Pokemon games.
In the game the players will encounter a great variety of monsters in the wild which they can catch with their equipment. By training your creatures you will eventually be able to evolute them which makes them bigger and stronger.
The more rare and powerful the monster is, the more skills it requires to catch one.
Apart from the Player vs Environment (PVE) mode there will also be a Player vs Player (PVP) mode where players can challenge each other to earn weekly rewards based on their rank on the ladder.

If you are interested in Holozing and haven't created an account you can use my referral link to create one.
Until recently I haven't promoted my referral link but I really want to unlock the "Referral Achievement", so using it will be greatly appreciated.

Road map

Work on HoloZing began in 2023. Since then the team has built the 3D Battle prototype, the starter creatures artwork and game logic.
The road map is a bit outdated. The project had some delays, but it seems to be back on speed again.
The next phase will be the Open Alpha. I think it is planned for Q1 2025. During this phase we will finally get to see the real game. I'm really curious how the game will be like.
We will be able to test the game with a default healer and creature character. Progression and history obtained will be reset when the game wil go into Open Beta.
The Open Alpha phase is intended to find and fix bugs and level the characters.

When the game goes into Open Beta we will be able to capture creatures (which are NFT's) The progress is not going to be being reset anymore, so you can start to collect and train your characters.

Getting ready for Open Alpha

To be able to play once the open Alpha phase is there, you need to purchase a healer NFT. This 'buy in' is ment to discourage bot and multi-account usage.
Your healers is the character you play with. Healers are not yet available at the moment.

The different types of healers

Apart from a healer you also need a starter pack. This give you the necessary items like your first creature for playing. The starter packs are already available via the website.

An Alpha Vial includes:

• x1 Alpha Starter Creature which can evolve
• x1 Alpha Healing Gloves
• x1 Alpha Capture Cards
• x1 Alpha Capture Ammo
• x1 Alpha Starter Potions & Elixirs
• x1 Alpha-themed Creature and Healer food & water

And may Include:

• x1 Alpha Capture Device
• x1 Alpha Healer Mount
• x1 Alpha Backpack

An Alpha Vial costs $20 or the equivalent in Hive.

The creatures

As mentioned above, you begin the game with one (or more) of the starter creatures you can receive from a Vial. The creatures are divided into four elements: Fire, Water, Electricity and Grass.
I think the creatures look really cool. The game designers did a really good job there. My personal favorite is the Fire Wolf.

Apart from the starter creatures, the developers also shared some preview of some other monsters we will be able to capture. One of my favorites is Miu which I think is inspired by @acidyo's own cat 😀
Miu can evolve into Miumiu, and Miumiumiu 😂

Another creature is Larvie that can evolve into Noxic.

Follow the @holozing account, @acidyo and/or subscibe to the Holozing Community to stay up to date!

Zing tokens

The main currency of Holozing will be the Zing token. This can be used in the game for things like like:

• Item recharges (e.g. your Capturing Device)
• Crafting gear and gear upgrades/enhancements
• Crafting consumables along with other materials
• Cosmetics
• Tournament entry
• Progression

$Zing tokens are available on the different Hive exchanges like Hive-Engine where you can buy them for Hive.
But you can also earn $Zing tokens. This can be achieved in several ways (the given APR was at the moment of writing this blog and can change over time):

Zing Staking: By staking $Zing tokens you can earn an APR of 14.04%.
HP Delegation: You can delegate Hive to the @zingtoken account. This will earn you 17.01% APR.
Liquidity Pool: You can add $Zing and Hive in the liquidity pool which will earn you 47.34% APR.
Collection Rewards: There are several rewards

On the website you can claim your Zing rewards. Claiming your rewards will add the Zing automatically to your stake which has a compounding effect. The more you claim, the more you will generate.
In the month December they have a special Bonus Reward action. On every day you claim your Zing rewards you will get some Holo Dust. This is also something you will be needing in the game later on, so it's nice that we can collect it already before the game launches.
Last year there was a similar action. The number of days you claimed your rewards equaled the percentage discount you received on an Alpha Vail. As we will need to buy a healer for the Open Alpha I hope they will do the same for that. It's a good incentive to claim my rewards every day.
If you have missed the first days, there are still a lot of days left to claim, so start claiming today!

My conclusions

If you haven't drawn the conclusion yet; I'm pretty enthusiastic about this project. The designs look amazing and I'm looking forward to the Open Alpha.
I am usually somewhat reserved when it comes to investing in games, especially based on crypto coins. But the Holozing team exists of a group of trustworthy Hivers that have been around on this blockchain for a long time and are running other projects as well. The release of the game has been delayed a bit. This had to do with funding issues because of the Hive price in the past months. And it's quite a small team too. But the team is still working hard on making this game a succes! And I think they will succeed in that.
The number of people that are staking Hive and the number of sold Vials (1816 at the moment of writing) indicates that I'm not the only one.

As we're approaching the Open Alpa I've been paying more attention to the game. I've reactivated my Hive delegation to get some additional Zing tokens.
At the moment I have 12,722.132 Staked Zing tokens. 0.011% of the total supply. With my 467th place I'm nowhere near the top 10 spots that have millions of Zing already, but I'm hoping that I will slowly climb the ladder.

The only thing I hope is that the game won't be to addicting since I get addicted to games quite fast 😂

If you're interested in playing this game I would really appreciate it when you use my referral link to create your account.

Thanks for reading my blog1

PS. The credits to all the images above in this blog goes to the Holozing team. I've used the images with permission of @acidyo

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