its not quite clear to me if i can mine this in a normal way with gpu, or that i have to play the game in the wallet to mine, or if i can do both.
both if you want
but then whats the point of playing the game when you can just point your rig to it?
that's a bit like saying ...
I have 2 ASICs.. 1 is mining bitcoin, but there is no point mining with the other
you can mine Huntercoin for free if you already have a rig, just setup merged mining..
and you can get more coins by playing