Defy is a Polygon-based ‘Move-to-Earn’ P2E mobile game that features code-breaking gameplay, AR adventures, learn-to-earn elements, and virtual-to-physical world integration.
Imagine a secure platform, a well-built ecosystem, and sustainable rewards mechanisms; these are the main pillars of a blockchain game that can truly provide decent returns for gamers, financially and in terms of fun. Unfortunately, many play-to-earn (P2E) games focus on flashy promises and aggressive marketing instead of developing these important aspects, depriving players of fun and high-earning opportunities.
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Background
Defy, a P2E game that links the virtual and real-world aims to provide gamers with a genuine opportunity to earn decently from playing a blockchain game.
The Defy team is composed of members with expertise in location-based mobile applications, international finance, and digital marketing, and all share the same passion for a sustainable P2E ecosystem.
What is DEFY?
Defy is a Polygon-based ‘Move-to-Earn’ P2E mobile game that features code-breaking gameplay, AR adventures, learn-to-earn elements, and virtual-to-physical world integration. Its dual currency and NFT asset model allowed the mobile game to be allowed on Apple and Android app stores, giant platforms that currently ban any applications with cryptocurrency functionality.
Defy was built for longevity and sustainability with its series of customizable and tradeable game assets and various options for active and passive earning mechanisms. Earning opportunities include owning lands that can provide players with passive income and the creation of customized NFT assets which they can sell for additional profits.
The game is available as a premium and a free-to-play game to reach out to more gamers, especially those who are not yet ready to spend on new P2E games.
Defy will also launch a “Graduation Scholarship” model to help more gamers gain decent earnings and go against the tide of the broken guild and scholarship systems.
Dual Currency
FCOIN
FCOIN, which is short for “Future Systems Coin,” is Defy’s in-game cryptocurrency and is also used as a pointing system for rewards and purchases in the ecosystem.
The FCOIN can be earned in two ways; first is by hacking the ‘Future Systems Towers’, located across Defy’s virtual world, and second is by accomplishing in-game tasks such as decrypting wallets.
The Coins can also be used to buy or upgrade valuable NFT assets or swap them for DEFY tokens through Defy’s web portal.
DEFY Token
DEFY Token is an ERC-20 token and serves as the platform’s governance and utility token and can be acquired in two ways: First is through FCOIN swapping, and second is by buying it on DEX/CEX platforms.
The Token can be used to buy NFT assets and as a governance token for the platform’s decentralized autonomous organization (DAO)
By functioning as a governance token, it will allow users to participate in voting on proposals, partnerships, and other development plans on the platform.
Defy Story
Defy’s futuristic story revolves around a dystopian world where a giant and faceless corporation called ‘Future Systems’ has finally taken control of the global internet.
In other words, the big Corporation has also taken control of critical areas such as global finance, health, and education, which are all reliant on the power of the internet.
Fortunately, there is a secret rebel inside the Future Systems named “Khaos” who has created a tool called “Private Masks” to help rebel groups, called “operatives,” hide from the intense surveillance of the Corporation.
The operatives’ mission is to hack various Future System towers to gain FCOINs and be sent to Khaos. Once enough FCOINs have been collected, Khaos can finally launch a massive 51% attack on the Future Systems’ network and free the world from its tyrant rule.
Defy Gameplay
Towers
Network Cell Tower Hacking
Network Cell Towers are used by the Future Systems to manage the globe’s financial assets and their premises are surrounded by hexagon-shaped boundaries. Operatives must enter into these hexagon boundaries to initiate their hacking mission.
Defy operatives must hack various towers to extract funds to prevent them from flowing to the Corporation’s treasury and be used for their dystopian control.
Scanning Towers
Scanning towers has a cloaking feature that hides them from citizens, but operatives can use “Private Masks” to find the towers’ exact location, including neighboring towers.
How To Hack a Tower?
To successfully hack a tower and access the needed data, a player must accomplish a series of challenges within a time limit.
Each challenge requires players to find specific codes in a grid of characters, and they must complete a certain number of challenges before they can hack a tower.
Players must also be aware of the time limits on each tower because these time pressures also determine how long before Future Systems can detect them.
They can gain profits from the hacking mission by successfully locating the digital wallets maintained by each tower.
The security of each tower is relative to the assets it handles; in other words, the higher its assets, the higher its security. It also means that towers that handle moderate to low assets have average to weak security features.
Each tower handles a total capacity of 100,000 tokens, and once operatives have successfully hacked it, the tower would be offline for a limited time of 1 hour.
Stealing Wallets
After hacking a tower, an operative can finally see the location of various digital wallets it handles.
When an operative visits the specific location of a wallet, this wallet would now be in his custody, but it would remain encrypted and can be unlocked at a later point in the game.
Once a wallet has been acquired, an operative should move quickly to other locations to collect other wallets.
Threats to Players
ARMs
ARM or the ‘Automated Repair and Maintenance’ drones guards and patrols the premises of each tower, and they aren’t aggressive since they will typically ignore operatives getting near any towers.
But these drones will turn ‘beast mode’ once they detect a hacking activity on a tower and will scramble to investigate the incident.
During a hacking incident, it will close the locations of any exposed wallets and hunt for operatives lurking anywhere near the tower.
ARMED: The Heat-Seeking Drones
Players should also be watchful of the heat being produced by their hacking activities and every wallet in their possession.
Because when these things collectively generate a specific level of heat, the temperature will turn ARMs into “ARMED,” which means ‘Automated Repair and Maintenance (Enforcement Drones).’
And once these drones capture and apprehend an operative, he will lose all the wallets and possibly other items in his inventory.
Through Defy’s Augmented Reality (AR) features, players can battle drones anywhere they might appear, which makes the game more exciting.
FCOIN Fines for Getting Caught
Once an ARM catches an operative, he will be temporarily banned from accessing the Future Systems Network and pay a fine which will depend on the number of wallets in his possession.
There are two ways to return to operation: First is to pay the specific FCOIN fine, and second, wait for the ban to expire (5-120 minutes) if there aren’t enough FCOINs to pay for the fine.
DAO
And of course, this feature-packed game wouldn’t be complete without a DAO, which allows players to vote on Defy’s reward and gaming structure, and even in its story development.
As was mentioned before in the ‘DEFY Token’ section, the DAO also allows players to vote on matters regarding development plans, partnerships, and proposals.
The Defy team is currently establishing boundaries and mechanisms in the DAO voting to streamline the entire process and make it as beneficial as possible to all stakeholders.
Conclusion
Defy has an interesting gameplay that can certainly engage players and retain their interest throughout the game. But what makes the game stand out is its aim to deliver an improved scholarship model for players, which is an attractive offer for gamers who are tired of problematic earning opportunities from various P2E games. Time will tell whether they can truly become a gamechanger, but so far so good.
