Ant Kingdoms, Free play-and-earn NFT Game

Claim NFT free in Antking dom

Inspiration

Our team is made by a group of friends at the same university working on a graduation thesis. The passion of our team is to develop a game about a tiny little ant that only has a few in the game marketplace. Our main focus is to build a community around the Internet Computer with relaxing gameplay and long-term development by adding battle and social features through NFTs and Tokens.

What is Ant Kingdoms

Ant Kingdoms, Free play-and-earn NFT Game is a decentralized game built and runs on the Internet Computer blockchain. Our team strives to deliver a revolutionary P2E game that transforms existing Play-to-earn games into a relaxing zone. Moreover, players can enjoy an exciting playground and high-profit stream at an identical time.

Users can log in with their Internet Computer to play for free, no need to have tokens to get started. Earn your first Land and Queen Ant just by clicking on the "Claim" button. Ant Kingdoms is a farming and strategy game where you can command your army ant into a battleground to destroy the opponent's Land and claim that Land.

There is a wide variety of Game NFTs from Land, Queen Ant, Worker Ant, and Army Ant from common, uncommon, rare, epic, and legendary all usable in the game. Players can upgrade their NFTs by resource in-game which is farmed by Worker Ant.

We are developing a world map for players to have the battle function, currently working on the upgrade where we can burn resources in-game, and designing NFTs.

How we built it

The game is fully built on Internet Computer blockchain, with JavaScript, ReactJs framework for front-end development, and Motoko for blockchain development. It is playable in the web browser by using your Plug wallet, Internet Identity.

Challenges we ran into

Learning a new coding language Motoko.
First-time create a game application, especially gameFi.
Applying Motoko in gameFi.
Spent more time than normal to design fully decentralized the battle P2P function in Motoko. ## Accomplishments that we're proud of
- Creating first free, play to earn NFT game in Internet Computer.
- Integrating with Plug Wallet, Internet Identity and more in future, allowing users to login, claim free NFT in Ant Kingdom
- Building a testnet version connected ICP-powered service. ## What we learned
- We learned a lot about the technologies that are now pushing the blockchain. Each of us watched hours of videos and read a range of document , workshop of Supernova hackathon.
- We had no prior expertise with ICP as developers, so building a full-stack application that included authentication and the game of NFTs was a daunting task for us. But fortunately with the help of the community, so we were able to test and deploy our application.

What's next for Ant Kingdom, Free play-and-earn NFT Game

In the short term, we intend to tidy up the backend, fix some potential bug. We feel there is immense potential with Ant Kingdom.From Ant NFT we can continue to develop the features :

Token and tokennomic.
- Marketplace: easy exchange Ant kingdom game assets.
- Adventure: Players lead their Ant armies to exploit hidden reward tokens in the new lands using tactical strategies.
- Battle P2P: Players lead their Ant armies to raid other players’ lands to “rob” the resources.
- Arena: Players lead their Ant armies to enter uncompromising head-to-head confrontations to conquer lands in huge Planet map . We see our Ant Kind can become the Axie Infinity for Internet Computer.