I agree, the wax sealed paper wallet cards are more to be seen as a collectible and while it still is possible to "redeem" the card by breaking the wax seal in order to gain access to the private key, it would take away some of the magic of the physical collectible.

Your idea to mix digital card purchases with physical collectibles certainly is interesting. I think we are going to try that out in the future. Overall, we have now put more focus into creating physical trading cards with neat holographic effects but we still have to finish development of it.

The card sale has not resumed yet but we are planning to do so this year. There were a lot of bureaucratic things to take care of, which led to a decrease of our creative work, but we have found our way through it and more motivating work is ahead now.

We appreciate your patience!

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Still available. Taking offers.

Thank you, domob, I appreciate your kind words! The first step towards possibly receiving funding is to increase our sales. In 2018 we only published two newly created cards and in 2019 we so far have not come out with any new card. This was due to multiple factors, including personal matters, the unclear regulatory landscape,  as well as laying the focus on more fundamental tasks such as the accounting.

Now I am finally on to more interesting tasks, involving new card creations as well as developing physical goods that you will be able to purchase besides the digital cards.

In order to raise funds from angel investors, raising our traction is key and I hope that we are now moving towards further accomplishing this goal.

For each card that we come out with, we are planning physical deluxe boxes. Do you have any wishes on what you would like to see in them? At this stage we are still flexible and posssibly can make adjustments according to your desires.


Thank you, for letting us know, domob! I forwarded the information to our CTO.


Age of Chains is truly unique in the way it is being played. Of course, we have been inspired by Hearthstone, Magic: The Gathering and many other non trading card video games but once you are playing it, you will see how it is different than the ones mentioned. At this stage, I restrain from posting too much about the gameplay, as the crypto world is famous for copying whatever they find out there. As we do not have the necessary funding yet that is needed in order to reach maximum development acceleration, I prefer to wait with publishing our game mechanics.

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I will keep you up to date with more developments coming up!

Best,
m4nki

Still available!

Still available.

Just updated the thread with my paintings.

Which one do you like?

Winner, congratulations!

After the "Black Swan" from Cryptograffiti, this probably is the world's second cheapest auction. 

I will send you a pm with the details.

Hey domob!

Thank you so much for your comments in this thread and sorry for the delay in response and the hassle you have been experiencing going through Tokenmarkets as a service. Please PM me your Counterparty address, so I can transfer you some Age of Chains cards as an apology. Tokenmarkets has shut down their service as of end of last year and due to your feedback as well as the shut down of Tokenmarkets, we will switch back to the Counterparty DEX as the main distribution method for our cards.

I have posted an update on the Telegram group a while back which pretty much still sums up our current situation quite well:


I hope that the accounting related matters will be finished shortly in the future so that we can again focus more on card releases and speed up things drastically. A continuous card release schedule will help strengthen our position when moving towards raising a seed round involving angel investors.


On some other news, the second Rare Digital Arts Festival in New York City will happen on 18th of May, 2019 and having been a presenting project in the first Rare Digital Arts Festival from January 2018, we are invited to exhibit our art at the show. We hope to be seeing you at the event and possibly play a round of Age of Chains on the side.

Thank you for the 1 Satoshi bid

Now I am already happy!

Thank you, domob and sorry for the late reply. These are all great thoughts you have and I hope we will be able to implement some of the ideas.


Great question! Yes, the Series 2 presale will probably end at some point, but first some things have to happen: First, we want to get to 20 published cards and then start our marketing efforts - the burn of the unsold Series 2 presale cards will follow, assuming we hit certain funding milestones through the sale.

Priority number one for us in the moment is to receive funding in order to move the technical development of the game forward. The immediate burn of Series 1 cards from last year left us with a lot of time with little revenue, as our card creation speed slowed down and people have been buying Series 1 cards only from other card holders, not us. We have to make sure we obtain the necessary funding (hopefully through a seed round) and depending on how quickly we achieve that, we will be more flexible with card burns and so forth.

Tomorrow I will be presenting Age of Chains at the Blockchain Masters Cologne event. It would be amazing to see you there!

I am not involved with this product, but wanted to share this with you nevertheless.

https://therarestbook.com

You might be familiar with the Rare Pepe project, one of the first projects putting art on the blockchain (http://rarepepedirectory.com).

More than 1700 cards were being created and this book is kind of like a directory of them.

The book is limited to 300 pieces.

Have fun!

By structure do you mean the game mechanics? It has similarities with MTG and Hearthstone but we want to have some uniqueness to it, too. So far, we have restrained from making all of our game mechanics publicly available to protect our IP as there are so many copycats in crypto. The digital prototype will provide more clarity for our core community about the gameplay. Also, I am more than happy to show you or anyone else how an AoC match feels through a physical playtesting session. We want Age of Chains to teach people a little about the crypto universe, making it nice to play both for people that have not much of a clue about crypto but are interested, as well as for crypto OGs.

I know from snailbrain that with XAYA you are looking to enable a more decentralized way of creating the game instead of running it on a server. It certainly sounds interesting but for now we just want to do it the simple, known way. One could think about migrating the backend at a later stage but this is still far out.

Having provably fair card shuffling certainly would be great. Since I am not a coder I do not know how easy that is to implement but I will talk with our CTO. Once we are at that stage and if he has questions about how to get that done, I will come back to you to ask for more details!

The game will be mainly developed for desktop. We might do a mobile version afterwards.

You will be able to use Age of Chains cards in the Age of Chains game but you can also use the Counterparty DEX do trade your cards against XCP. A good app for this currently is Book of Orbs, both for Android and web. We once wrote an article on it to read here.

Of course, also other games may decide to add functionality to our cards in their games. An example is Sarutobi Island, wherein you can summon various monsters by putting two different Age of Chains cards on an altar.


Nice to see some activity happening! Wishing you the best of luck in getting your hands on some of those cards!