An in-depth look at the new trend of the chain game economy: Gas Hero game strategy and GMT value

Article Author: Meta Era Guest Author “0x ShinChan”

With the significant increase in BTC price in November 2023, the Web3 gaming token market also showed significant growth, with a 62% increase in market capitalization compared to the previous month. In the midst of this market boom, the STEPN team’s new Gas Hero game stands out. Not only does this game carry on the excellent tradition of the STEPN team, but more importantly, it has chosen to use GMT as the main token within the game instead of issuing a new token, which undoubtedly brings new growth potential to GMT.

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According to the Find Satoshi Lab (FSL) announcement on November 1, Gas Hero is scheduled to run a community beta from November 24 to December 8, and certain user groups, such as Gas Hero badge holders, Find Satoshi Lab ambassadors, and partners, will be eligible for beta. As a massively multiplayer online game (MMO), Gas Hero unfolds its narrative in a rich sci-fi world, offering a deeply immersive gameplay experience and expanding its story setting into comic book territory, in stark contrast to STEPN’s campaign-driven reward mechanics. Gas Hero is more focused on providing a deeply engaged and strategic game environment. According to Footprint Analytics, in mid-November, Gas Hero saw more than 30, 000 daily coupons minted, showing its popularity.

(Footprint Analytics Gas Hero Data Template)

This research report aims to provide an in-depth analysis of Gas Hero’s gameplay, design philosophy, tokenomics, and game assets. We’ll explore how the game has made its mark in the blockchain gaming market and its potential impact on the value and utility of the GMT token.

Gas Hero: Post-nuclear revival and strategic game, exploring power, fame, and wealth

Gas Hero, created by the team behind last year’s sensational chain game STEPN, marks an important step forward for the Find Satoshi Lab (FSL) team in the direction of creativity and immersive gaming. In stark contrast to STEPN’s campaign model, which engages users with simple gameplay mechanics and token rewards, but lacks characters and storytelling, Gas Hero presents a grand sci-fi world and deep story, even extending its narrative into comics. The story of “Gas Hero” tells the story of how humanity after a nuclear war began with an underground struggle in a resource-scarce environment and gradually moved to the surface in an effort to revive human civilization. The game’s players compete for power, fame, and wealth.

(Gas Hero White Paper)

Gas Hero isn’t just a game, it’s a strategy and social experience. The game emphasizes the use of game theory, provides players with a rich variety of strategy options, and ensures the transparency and security of on-chain data through a decentralized trading platform. The game also introduces a highly participatory governance model, allowing players to be deeply involved in the management and decision-making process of the game world.

The launch of Gas Hero is not only an important strategic expansion for the STEPN team, but also heralds a new direction for the entire Web3 gaming space, with a deep exploration of game strategy, social interaction, and the decentralized economy, which will bring players a new gaming experience.

Strategy & Speed: Uncover Gas Hero’s automated combat and character skills

In Gas Hero, combat is the key to earning resources, and players need to accumulate resources through individual or guild battles. Gas Hero introduces an automated combat system. Players need to pre-arrange their battle lineup before participating in various battles.

(Gas Hero White Paper)

The roster includes six heroes, each with a unique codename and the ability to equip weapons and pets. Next to each hero is a vertical action bar that triggers an attack or special skill when it is full, and its charging speed depends on the hero’s speed stat.

Game Architecture: Strategy and exploration to rebuild civilization

Gas Hero’s game map is divided into five levels, including City - District - 9 Guilds - 9 Clan - 9 Base. The game features 175 cities spread across a planet that has experienced a war of extermination, each of which serves as a new starting point for players to rebuild their civilization.

(Gas Hero White Paper)

Each player will build their own base in unique world coordinates. Here, the player is not only a warrior, but also a rebuilder of civilization. They need to find their place in this ever-changing new world through resourcefulness and strategy.

Battle Mode Explained: Auto Battle & Hero Strategy

Gas Hero features an auto-battle mode where players need to configure their battle lineup in advance and use it to participate in a variety of battles. The roster consists of 6 heroes, each with a unique codename, and each roster can only contain one hero with a specific codename. Each hero can equip a weapon and carry a pet.

Heroes, weapons, and pets

In the world of Gas Hero, players will encounter 48 unique heroes divided into three categories: Output, Tank, and Healer. Each hero type has its own unique abilities and combat styles, providing players with a wealth of strategic options and combo possibilities.

During the creation of heroes, players will experience the charm of randomness. A hero’s five basic stats - Attack, Defense, Health, Mana, and Speed - will increase randomly in the initial phase, and will increase in the amount of the initial increase over the course of subsequent upgrades. This randomness not only adds to the fun of the game, but also makes each player’s hero mix unique.

In the combat world of Gas Hero, players can equip their heroes with unique weapons. Higher rarity weapons are equipped with more random attributes, increasing the uncertainty and strategy of combat. Gas Hero also introduces four types of pets: Dragons, Treants, Hermit Crabs, and XMC, each with five rarities and seven different evolutionary levels.

In addition, the auction house mechanic in the game provides a unique market trading environment. Each guild and jurisdiction has its own auction house, which showcases a variety of items provided by the authorities. This mechanic provides a clever balance between supply and demand in the market, and players can look for opportunities in the auction house to acquire rare hero recruitment posts, and maybe even rare genesis heroes.

Economic Model Analysis: The Critical Role of GMT Tokens in the Game

Gas Hero cleverly uses GMT as the primary currency for all in-game asset transactions, effectively increasing the utility and liquidity of GMT.

As the native token of STEPN, a Web3 application that merges Game-Fi and Social-Fi, GMT has a total supply of 6 billion. 30% of this will be distributed to users through STEPN’s move-to-earn activities and governance engagements.

GMT hit an all-time high of $3.75 in April 2022 and has now fallen back to the 0.25 - 0.3 level. GMT Plays multiple roles in STEPN: participating in governance, distributing staking rewards, and accumulating protocol revenue. In order to access in-app features such as sneaker upgrades and new shoe minting, burn GMT is required.

GMT Coin price action over the past 90 days

GMT’s earning mechanism shows a unique strategy and economic dynamics in the STEPN application. At the heart of the mechanic is its level and energy requirements, ensuring that only users who reach a certain level and activity level are eligible for GMT. This design not only increases the threshold for participation, but also encourages active participation and long-term engagement of users. Its halving mechanism is similar to BTC, ensuring the long-term value and scarcity of GMT, and the total amount is halved every three years. By releasing GMT daily in an exponential decay mode, the mechanism ensures the sustainability of the token supply and provides users with potential value growth.

Gas Hero is cleverly designed to place GMT at the heart of its gaming economy, creating a deep reliance on GMT. In the game, activities such as the upgrading of heroes and bases require the consumption of GMT, which not only promotes the continuous demand for GMT, but also accelerates its circulation within the game. This mechanic effectively links the progress of the game and the player’s investment to the market value of the GMT, so that the player’s gaming experience is closely linked to the economic value of the GMT.

In addition, the guild system and complex five-level governance structure in Gas Hero provide a wealth of strategy and social dynamics that further deepen the game’s engagement and interactivity. These multi-layered social and governance elements not only enrich the gaming experience, but also create additional use cases and value for GMT.

Since October, Gas Hero’s aggressive marketing strategy and the recovery of the blockchain gaming market have had a significant impact on GMT prices. The price of GMT has risen by more than 70% over the past month, reflecting the community’s high anticipation for Gas HeroDespite this, according to Token Unlocks, there are still more than 2 billion tokens to be unlocked in GMT, and these uncirculated tokens will have a significant impact on future market performance. For the future performance of GMT, market demand and response will be decisive factors.

Unlock information for GMT on Token Unlocks

Conclusion

The launch of Gas Hero could be a key step for the Find Satoshi Lab team to reinvigorate the GMT ecosystem. Its maps are based on earth and cities, which naturally appeals to STEPN’s global player base, breaking the language and nationality restrictions of current NFT games. As a simple but strategic battle game, Gas Hero is themed around the challenges of humans and AI, providing players with a simple battle experience and focusing more on tactical combinations and strategic layouts. This setting of global player interaction undoubtedly adds to the appeal and engagement of the game.

Considering that STEPN had 700,000 daily active users at its peak and the team had achieved monthly revenue of over 100 million, these achievements undoubtedly brought valuable resources and experience to the team. However, after STEPN, the team’s Dooar and Mooar have not yet achieved the expected success, and the price of GMT is still depressed.

GMT Dune Data Templates

In the current bear market environment, whether Gas Hero can become a turning point for the industry and lead the GMT ecosystem to prosperity is the focus of all investors and players.