This TOWER Game Jam promo began on July 25, 2022, and will end on August 14, 2022, at 3 pm UTC. That’s also the deadline for you to submit your entry. Now, you still have time to create an entry!

Create a tower defense game at The Sandbox

Yes, that’s your goal. Inspired by the Crazy Defense Heroes (CDH) play-to-earn game, you need to create your own tower defense game using The Sandbox Game Maker software. If your game plays great, then you got a chance to win!

TOWER Game Jam prizes

Since this is a TOWER franchise x The Sandbox mashup, the prize pool is a combination of $SAND tokens and Crazy Defense Heroes-inspired PFP (profile picture) NFTs called “The Crazos.”

• 1st place: 6,000 $SAND + 4x “The Crazos” PFP NFT
• 2nd place: 3,500 $SAND + 3x “The Crazos” PFP NFT
• 3rd place: 2,000 $SAND + 2x “The Crazos” PFP NFT
• 4th to 10th place: each receives 500 $SAND + 1x “The Crazos” PFP NFT

Bonus prizes for CDH players 

If the wallet you used for the contest is connected to a Crazy Defense Heroes User ID (you can create one if you haven’t yet before the results announcement), and you belong to the top 10 placers, then you can get:

• The Sandbox Game Jam winner’s badge NFT
• 399 USD Crazy Defense Heroes in-game item package

Now that’s huge! But wait, there’s more.

If you have your CDH User ID connected, and you join the TOWER Game Jam, then Crazy Defense Heroes has gifts for you, even if you don’t win! Here they are:

• 3 Crazos mint pass
• 199 USD Crazy Defense Heroes in-game item package

And that’s incredibly awesome.

Dates you need to watch out for

Again, this promo began on July 25. You still have time to develop the game in roughly two weeks and submit your entry on or before August 14th, 2022, at 3 pm UTC.

The team will then vote among the submissions from August 15th till September 4th. Yes, it takes time because they need to experience the games the participants have created at The Sandbox.

And then, when everything’s finalized, the team will announce the winners on September 11.

Guidelines for a valid TOWER Defense Game Jam entry

As I mentioned above, you need to create your tower defense game using The Sandbox’s Game Maker software. You may include original assets that you yourself have created. Your game also needs to be playable. That means it would help if you’d add quests and missions for players to fulfill.

If you had created a The Sandbox experience before, your entry for this special TOWER x The Sandbox Game Jam needs to be different. You may get inspiration from your previous creation, but your entry into this promo needs to be unique.

To filter entries, The Sandbox x TOWER collab team also emphasized that you can’t just spam the submissions with low-quality experiences. You may even be disqualified.

Both The Sandbox’s and TOWER’s staff members will judge the entries, so make sure to please both worlds.

By the way, here are the more detailed guidelines for each entry:

• The game length needs to be at least 5 minutes. This excludes timed and collection quests.
• You need to use at least 25 different assets.
• Follow the theme. Your game should be a tower defense experience, much like the game Crazy Defense Heroes.
• Only entries created after the start date (July 25) are acceptable. If you’ve built some for previous game jams, you can’t submit them here.

Where to submit for the TOWER Defense x The Sandbox Game Jam

Submit your TOWER Defense experience in both the Game Jam gallery at The Sandbox and in this Google form. If you miss one of either, your entry won’t be considered.

For more info about this promo, read the full post by Animoca Brands here.

Good luck!

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For July 2022, the reward pool is set to a whopping 1,800,000 TOWER tokens. The more XP (experience points) you gain in the game, the more TOWER tokens you can earn.

Get this Crazy Defense Heroes Elite Badge NFT

The game creators have teased out an initial design for the Elite Badge NFT. Players who get to the top 10% in terms of the highest XPs gained will get this exclusive badge. If you belong to these top 10% of players, your badge could be displayed in the upcoming TOWER blockchain PC game.

By the way, you can avail of this reward starting from July 2022 onwards.

Reward Pools for July and August

There will be three reward tiers for July and August 2022. Tier 1 requires 315,000–450,000 XP. If you get this much XP, you will get your share of the 900,000 TOWER token reward pool.

Meanwhile, Tier 2 requires 450,000–600,000 XP. Players reaching these numbers will enjoy a prize pool of 600,000 TOWER. The TOWER tokens are much less, but that’s because there will be fewer players who’ll get to the second tier. It’ll be much more challenging to get to Tier 2.

Finally, players who get 600,001 XP and up will share 300,000 TOWER. Plus, each one who will get to the top 10% of players will have one Elite Badge NFT.

Crazy Defense Heroes Avatar Levels and XPs

What does 315,000 XP look like?

Every time you win a battle in Crazy Defense Heroes (CDH), you will need to gain experience points (XP). Certain XPs are required for you to progress from one avatar level to the next.

Hint: If you don’t plan on buying extra lives or gems or maps, and all you want is to play for free, then you can get one avatar level higher per day. At least that’s been my experience so far.

Suppose you started at Avatar Level 20 in July 2022. That’s equivalent to 250,000 XP. To gain 315,000 XP more—that is, to qualify for Tier 1 of TOWER rewards—you’ll need to have 250,000 + 315,000 XP = 565,000 XP in total. And that’s equivalent to Avatar Level 29.

And, given the hint I gave you a while ago, Avatar Level 29 looks like it’s doable in just 9 days.

That means you can aspire for more. You can gain more than 450,000 avatar XP within the month. If you do that, you can earn your share of both Tier 1 and Tier 2 Reward Pools. 

What’s crazy (in a very good way) is that you can earn TOWER from all the 3 Tiers if you gain more than 600,000 avatar XP!

If you want to be geeky, you can see this table some Crazy Defense Heroes fans have made to learn how much XP you’ll have to gain to reach certain avatar levels and vice versa. There’s even a calculator!

What is Crazy Defense Heroes?

Crazy Defense Heroes is a tower defense and card strategy game. It’s free to play on iOS and Android but it also has play-to-earn mechanics, which I’ve just described roughly above. That is, if you earn TOWER from this game, you can exchange it for other crypto or even real-world fiat currency.

Produced by Animoca Brands, Crazy Defense Heroes is promising when it comes to giving players earning potential and game satisfaction. Initially, I thought it was just a game for lazy players. But, it turns out it can be pretty challenging as you reach higher avatar levels and you won’t opt for the auto-play.

Start playing Crazy Defense Heroes today and let us know what you think of it!

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An overview of Crazy Defense Heroes

Last time, we told you about how Crazy Defense Heroes (CDH) is one of those best play-to-earn NFT games anyone can start with. By anyone, we mean to include those who aren’t even familiar with non-fungible tokens.

Once you download the mobile game from Google Play Store or the Apple App Store, you can begin playing it right away.

It’s among the best in the sense that it’s fun and easy. It’s a tower-defense battle game, but it’s also strategy-based. If you’re fond of role-playing games (RPGs), then you’ll find a taste of that inside Crazy Defense Heroes, too. You have card collectibles inside, plus you can go for a multiplayer mode.

Crazy Defense Heroes: the game experience

To be fair, I’m not yet at the master level of this game, but I played enough with it to describe it to you from the inside.

CDH has an easy-to-follow game tutorial

First up, you will appreciate the welcome tutorial. It’s easy to follow and won’t overwhelm you with so many details. You could also get started with a test game right away.

The above photo shows part of the CDH game tutorial. It describes the summary of the game mechanics. You’ll have battle card options available (the red arrow on the lower left points to some of these cards). Each card represents a “defense hero” or avatar.

Your ultimate goal is to prevent attackers from reaching that blue shield (in the upper right corner in the photo above).

All over the grassy battlefield, you’ll see scattered hexagon-shaped tower bases. You can pick from any of your available cards and choose where to position your heroes among the bases.

You start off with an easy first game

Your first few games would include a simple battlefield layout and a few tower bases. The characters you see in the screenshot below are some of the defending heroes.

Among my favorite avatars are the Centurion and the Archer Tower. The Centurion is the guy who holds a sword in his right hand. You can move him around wherever he’s needed while in the battle. Meanwhile, that yellow-haired Archer girl can’t run from her tower. But, she’s very efficient when it comes to shooting arrows from a distance.

The “Call Early” button on the lower right allows you to call the attackers early on. You could just wait for them to arrive—which would be a good option if you’re in your first one or two rounds—or you could go brave and say, “come on in!”

Add your card characters in strategic locations

Anyway, you won’t be as startled by enemy attacks if you positioned your defense heroes strategically. From my experience, I would say it’s best to put a couple of Archer Towers near the entrance of the attackers, and then the rest of the Archers need to be scattered all around the battlefield.

Once your chosen heroes are in position, you could just watch the game happen. You could be proactive if you want. That is, you could follow the prompts to upgrade characters during battle, or, you could just let them do all the work. And that’s exactly why I described it as a lazy player’s game.

Succeeding rounds would be a little more “challenging”

Well, they may not be as challenging as the ones in Thetan Arena, for example, but you would notice the difference from the first few test games.

To see the whole battlefield, you need to pinch the screen inwards. You’ll be able to discover more places to build towers on. You’d also spot other enemy entrances.

Luckily, you could choose to “upgrade” your Towers while in the battle. That opportunity comes whenever you see the golden plus sign on your characters. You only need to tap on them twice to confirm the upgrade.

At some point while on the battle, you’d also see the remaining (and reserved) battle cards on the deck turn colored (from being greyed out). Tap on the one you’d want to add, and the tower bases would light up. You’d spot a few options where a hero’s presence may be needed to up the defense.

By the fourth round, you can expect the battle to go crazy. Attackers would come simultaneously from all possible enemy entrances. To make sure you’re not losing rewards points, you need to watch out for your vulnerable avatars.

In the image below, my Centurion has 50% of his life left (see upper left corner). Because he’s not on top of a tower, he’s exposed to hand-to-hand (or more appropriately, sword-to-sword) combat. He could be hit and wounded, and that’s what’s reducing his life bar.

Meanwhile, my Behemoth (the big guy beside my Centurion on the upper left corner), is quite tougher. He can withstand more hits, so he’s also a great asset on the ground.

If you come out of the battle victorious, you would level up your Avatar. And, you could unlock new levels and game functionalities, such as belonging to clans.

Anyway, I won’t spoil you with every single game detail. It would be nice for you to experience the game yourself. Before I go, though, I’ll discuss a bit about what makes Crazy Defense Heroes a play-to-earn NFT game.

The TOWER token

What’s a P2E game without a token? Crazy Defense Heroes has its own ERC-20 token on the Ethereum blockchain. They call it the TOWER token. I personally think that’s a fitting name for a game that’s essentially a tower defense type.

Anyway, the TOWER token is the game’s medium of exchange. That means you could use it throughout the Crazy Kings franchise. Crazy Kings, by the way, is the earlier and smaller version of the expanded game CDH. Both are produced by Animoca Brands.

If you hold some TOWER tokens, you could use them both in Crazy Defense Heroes and Crazy Kings. You could earn these tokens by playing the games. Or, you could also purchase TOWER via SushiSwap and various exchanges.

Once you get some TOWER, you could also use them to purchase NFTs from the Crazy Kings franchise.

While you can easily create an account on the mobile app via your Google or Apple ID, you also need to go to crazydefenseheroes.com, log in, and connect your Ethereum wallet. That allows you to claim and use TOWER tokens.

Experience Crazy Defense Heroes today

One of the best reasons to experience CDH now is to be among the first to learn about its Play-to-Earn events on mobile. The same is true for Crazy Kings. You could also join the CDH Discord server to read important updates and announcements.

While the CDH creators are still developing a new blockchain PC version of the game, you could already enjoy the mobile releases.

If you’re the kind of player who just wants to put out some defense strategy at the outset and then laze around the rest of the time, Crazy Defense Heroes might be the NFT game for you.

Let us know once you’ve played it and what you think about your experience!

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If you’re new to the play-to-earn NFT gaming platform and looking for the best options to start your NFT gaming journey, the ones below are sure to give you a quality experience.

Gods Unchained

Native currency: $GODS

One of the most popular play-to-earn NFT games as of this writing is Gods Unchained. It’s an online strategy-based TCG where you battle using trading cards, which are NFTs registered on the blockchain. The value of these digital assets is based on the game’s native ERC-20 token, the GODS token. These tokens exist on the Immutable-X blockchain.

If you’re into trading card games, Gods Unchained is one of the most recommendable ones out there. It’s not only play-to-earn, it’s also free to play—no initial investment needed to start. Gods Unchained takes you on a whole deeper level of gameplay where you get lost in the fun of making tactical choices as you proceed to build decks, level up your cards, and win intense battles with other players.

Participate in battles, earn and stake rewards, trade cards or hoard them—you’re free to do whatever you want. Your in-game assets are all yours! Here’s a more detailed guide on how to play Gods Unchained.

Alien Worlds

Native currency: Trillium ($TLM)

The next on our list is Alien Worlds—an exceptional NFT game that speaks of convenience when it comes to ease of transaction. Its native currency, Trilium or TLM runs on several familiar blockchains including Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain (BSC), and WAX. All of the in-game crypto assets are minted on the WAX Blockchain.

What attracted the players of this game since its launch in 2020 was the ease of joining in. Unlike other blockchain games, Alien Worlds did not require crypto or the installation of a Metamask wallet to begin. That was perhaps how, as of October 2021, Alien Worlds was confirmed by DappRadar as the world’s most popular blockchain game—counting around 11 million daily transactions by over 700,000 monthly active users.

Alien Worlds has partnered with the following:

How to play this NFT game

Players discover asset-based NFTs in the game by exploring and mining in Planet Decentralised Autonomous Organizations (Planet DAOs). They are then given the choice to either keep or trade them, which is set in secondary marketplaces. You may also purchase your own land and charge a fee for other miners.

Besides exploring the planet and obtaining NFTs, players also stake TLM tokens to participate in weekly planetary elections and run for the council. You could even build your own NFT drops with other explorers, strategize on planet politics, and create your own games. As for the rewards, the players acquire them depending on NFT power. There are six different levels of rarity for these virtual Items: Abundant, Common, Rare, Epic, Legendary, and Mythical.

So, if you’ve just started your NFT game journey and you’re into the exploration and mining genres, this one should fit the bill. Create, share and thrive in this extraordinary metaverse. Visit Alien Worlds to learn more about this game.

Crazy Defense Heroes

Native currency: $TOWER

Two of the famous genres in NFT gaming currently are tower defense battle and TCG. Crazy Defense Heroes (CDH) is a symbiosis of both. If this type of game is your speed, you would likely enjoy it. This play-to-earn NFT game was developed by Animoca Brands and utilizes an ERC-20 utility token called TOWER Token.

How to play this game

Players challenge their skills in over a thousand levels of intense defense combats against hordes of enemies across four difficulty modes, which starts from Normal—followed by Hard, Crazy, and Nightmare. As a player, you can use a wide variety of heroes, equipment, spells, and of course, towers.

What appeals to most players of this game, besides the great visuals, are the short battles. These might seem too short especially in the Clan Quest Seasons multiplayer mode where players get to team up with their online buddies. But, hey, you can battle as many times as you want and collect cards of different rarities as you go on.

On another note, Crazy Defense Heroes has a staking system but there’s a requirement for you to be eligible to share from the reward pool. You need to reach the minimum amount of avatar Experience Points or the monthly (XP) threshold. This means you have to spend so much time playing the game.

Townstar

Native currency: TownCoin ($TOWN)

Another game worth looking into is Townstar. This browser-based simulation farming game is developed by Gala Games, which means it utilizes the Gala coin. Being built on the Gala decentralized network and utilizing the Ethereum blockchain, the NFT items in-game can be purchased and sold on secondary markets.

Besides being a P2E, it’s also free to play and is currently in beta. So you are free to explore this game before actually investing in digital assets.

How to play this game

Items in this game are NFTs, which means the players will have to invest in order to progress in the game. Owning TownCoins furnishes the players with a chance to compete in daily challenges, collect TownCoin play-to-earn rewards, and get a higher chance at topping the competitive leaderboards.

The top players receive big prizes every week. If that’s your goal, you’ll have to compete in the daily challenges that unlock and gather TownCoin rewards. This game is not only a farming game, it’s also a town builder. Its core is to grow, manage, gather, and craft your way to building the most productive and efficient town in this metaverse.

Splinterlands

Native currency: Splintershards ($SPS)

Another TCG on our list is Splinterlands. It’s a community-built NFT game built on the HIVE blockchain that has become famous for its incredible utilization of the P2E concept and innovative gameplay. This game allows its players to fight against various monsters and bag digital assets that are traded over secondary marketplaces. 

Players can level up the prizes by combining multiple cards, which greatly helps in increasing their skills and winning matches to earn Dark Energy Crystals (DEC). Splinterlands provides passive gameplay and it currently has the highest social score in DappRadar. If that appeals to you more than active ones, then it’s the best time to play the game and start earning. More info about this game on another post. Check it out!

SecondLive

Native currency: SecondLive ($SLT)

Another metaverse called Second Life might have crossed your mind as you read this game’s label. Second Life, albeit similar in terms of gameplay, is a whole other game (not blockchain-supported). With the similarities in gameplay and the names, it’s easy to mistake these two from each other. If you’re a fan of Second Life and have invested in the game, in SecondLive, you get to own all the assets you paid for—from real estate to day-to-day items—for real.

SecondLive is a diverse 3D virtual space where you can customize your avatar to your liking, create your own content, and roam freely in various spaces such as shopping malls, amusement parks, galleries, dance floors, and so on.

This game aims to be the Binance Smart Chain metaverse and is already backed and promoted by this crypto giant and Binance labs. This big collab has allowed the game to make a ton of airdrops, giveaways, and partnerships, and they’re still going on. You can head out to the game now to earn free items, including the incentive token called Beans that you can stake to earn SLTs.

The Sandbox

Native currency: $SAND

Another and more popular metaverse game is The Sandbox. With its high volume of downloads on Android and iOS devices, this game achieved a stellar ending of 2021. It’s currently on its first alpha test with the second one happening soon.

Even at its pre-beta launch phase, the future is already looking bright for this game as more renowned brands and artists are joining in. These industry giants include Adidas, ZEPETO, Care Bears, Snoop Dogg, ATARI, and even South China Morning Post.

How to play this game

Since this game is free to play, you can choose to roam free and enjoy your stay. But just like in any other NFT game, it’s always more fun if you invest and actively immerse yourself in this metaverse. You can buy your own plot using LAND tokens and decide how to best utilize it. These lands are NFTs that are tradable in the market, so you can choose to either sell them or make money out of them. Build something over them like a mansion, a gallery, or your very own amusement park. You can even create your own games and charge other players who want to participate. With its play-to-earn economy and ease in monetizing assets, this game is a haven for collectors, creators, and designers alike.

Axie Infinity

Native currency: Axie Infinity Shards ($AXS)

The last on our list is is the turn-based strategy battle game called Axie Infinity. This chart-topping game was released to very little fanfare in 2018 and didn’t gain much traction until the onset of the pandemic. Now, it’s one of the largest play-to-earn games in the crypto space. And it doesn’t stop there. It even became the top-traded NFT collection in the third quarter of 2021, toppling the popular CryptoPunks and NBA Top Shot and proving that NFT games are here to stay.

This Pokemon-inspired NFT game has witnessed a spike in popularity and has garnered at least 2 million daily active users across the world over the course of 2021. In fact, in some countries, NFT gaming has become so popular that it’s now accepted as a profitable career. Being one of the most successful NFT games, Axie Infinity has paved the way for players to succeed in monetizing their knack for gaming, especially in countries where there’s a booming demand for mobile games.

Developed by Vietnamese studio Sky Mavis, this game uses Ethereum-based tokens Axie Infinity Shards (AXS) and Smooth Love Potion (SLP). SLPs are what you will need to breed more Axies.

How to play this game

Similar to the mechanics in the Pokemon franchise, Axie Infinity allows its players to collect, breed, and train colorful creatures called Axies and use them to fight against other players. These Axies are NFTs you can exchange for rewards or sell in the marketplace, as are the in-game products and accessories. Besides these, you can also trade your Smooth Love Potion (SLP) with other players. You can earn these SLPs by winning in PVE and PVP matches.

Entering the game, however, requires an initial investment. From there, you can start playing and generate profit out of your Axies and other in-game assets. If you don’t have a budget for it yet, scholarship programs are there to help.

If you’re a Redditor, you can check out this r/AxieScholarships subreddit for up-to-date news on scholarships. For Discord users, check out these servers. We also made a more in-depth guide on Axie Infinity and how these scholarships work for you to check out.

This game is still one of the top blockchain games and it’s fairly easy and fun to play. It’s an ideal choice for beginners in the NFT gaming space. Learn more about Axie Infinity here to have a good kickstart on the game.

A little bit about Play-to-Earn

Play-to-earn NFT games have been leading the digital market last year and there’s no sign of it going down. This type of game requires the players to complete tasks or goals and unlock higher levels in return for rewards that they can monetize. These rewards are provided in the form of in-game assets or cryptocurrencies, primarily NFTs.

Of course, there are numerous other ways to earn in the digital space but nothing beats the entertainment one gets in play-to-earn NFT games. Many of the games we mentioned are also free to play but as with other F2P games, it’s always more fun if you invest. But you have to be careful about which game to invest in. Do your research on the games that pique your interest or visit our site for quality content you might need to move forward. Stay tuned!

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