“Project Dead?“ | 2024 Dev Update Part 1

Not at all.

Observing The Market

“Project is dead?“ was recently asked in our Discord, and it definitely would look that way since we haven’t been actively updating..but that’s not the case!

It’s hard to convey in a single post, but making a mobile-blockchain-AR-video game, is no easy feat. Furthermore doing it with authenticity and not a lot of funding makes things even harder. We can never stress that enough..

Rather than chase vanity metrics and farm engagement through SocialFi, or high-def hype trailers that don’t reflect actual gameplay, we’ve been fleshing out our game more and honing in on what we wish to provide to players and communities. We hope you can appreciate that.

FTUE, Story and the problem of Retention.

In a previous post we mentioned that our public demo launch was well received, but suffered from a severe drop in Retention for numerous reasons. So we’ve been addressing this and filling the holes, so to speak.

First Time User Experience (FTUE) - is what it sounds like: what do you see when you first enter Tontachi? How/Who introduces you to the game’s mechanics and is everything made clear? What makes you feel compelled to stay?

We were missing these elements in Tontachi and took the time to introduce characters, tutorials, and non-AR environments in which you’ll base gameplay from. Here’s the new Flow currently implemented:

Story: As a washed up Street Racer, you come to inherit a Pig Farm and with the help of your Uncle Dave, you come to love Pigs and Pig Racing.
Core Mechanics: Win Races to get your StreetCred up, Take ‘Pigtures’ of Pigs outside to get ‘Likes‘.

↑Likes + ↑StreetCred =. Game advancement

Our Racing Mechanics have also been updated, but more on that in later post 🤫

Interoperability & Collaborations

We’ve also made Tontachi more interoperable with other PFP Collections and have carved out in-game space for them to be represented. We can’t quite announce our first one yet, but it’s related to racing 🏁🏎️💨🐖💨💨
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Here’s an old video of how simple it is to import blockchain assets and bring them into AR within Tontachi:

What’s Next?

We’re buttoning up a few things, but in the 2nd half of the year we’re planning to again run race campaigns with external collections and DAOs. We’re also getting new blockchains involved and will most likely sell some Newtons with special race abilities and composable blockchain-based DNA 🐷🧬.

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Thank you all for reading and being interested in Tontachi.

We’re trying to enjoy the game dev journey more, especially when making something on the cutting edge and more importantly we need to keep our feet on the ground with our heads in the sky.

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