v1 feature discussion

[cankisagun]

Great job with the launch! I think we should consider adding the following features for v1:

• Upgrading cards - burn undesirable cards to upgrade a selected card: We can let the user choose 3 cards to upgrade a single card. The upgrade should be proportional to the combine scores of burnt cards
• Arena: Some of the buy-in fees go to a pool and the winner (at the end of the week) gets the rewards. We can postpone this for a while if the foundation is willing to provide a SNAC
• Premium packs: For 10SCRT you can mint heroes with 3dmin100 instead of 5dmin100
• Selling cards: From Secret Manufaktur code

Lower priority

• Seeing the latest battle skills (like if I see last 3 battles were engineering maybe I'll choose a different hero - this doesn't really matter b/c of independent events but can help with user sentiment)
• Being able to use your hero from the battle history: Now I need to leave the arena and go to my heroes screen to choose the hero to send to the fight. It'd be nice to just choose my most recent fighters and be able to send them to the arena

[cankisagun]

Discussion 5/20

• Build a bot - @johnbrodish is in charge
• Upgrade mechnasim - @floAr is in charge
• Improved "How to play page" + more contextual explanation of what's going on - @johnbrodish

[floAr]

Another idea:

• Simple api and tutorial how to use sh NFTs in other apps

[cankisagun]

How long would this API take?

I think saying "HEy you can use your heroes in other games or sell them in marketplaces" is interesting. At the same time I want to question how much this can increase demand for cards and minting. At the moment there's no other game in the horizon and I'm guessing each NFT platform that's getting built in the next 2-3 months would integrate secretHeroes

[floAr]

The main part would be getting the visuals out of the game. So what I envision here would be a piece of typescript code that has the queries to ask for owned heroes and then return them in a well formatted matter. Additional there would be an endpoint where I could send the 4 skill values and receive back a 2d image of the hero (potentially with the option to receive a head- or full body shot) All in all I think it would 5-10 hours work maybe.

[cankisagun]

It sounds like this API work (query + visualization) will also help with card upgrade process (choosing which heroes to burn and apply to improve what card). If my understanding is correct, this sounds like a no-brainer

[johnbrodish]

Improving How to Play: Providing more explanation of how the game works and how to start playing, both on the website and in-context of the game

Adding FAQ page: Answering common questions asked in SH discord & telegram, including instructions on how to troubleshoot common issues

[cankisagun]

Final v1 feature list:

• upgrade cards: we are going to upgrade the base values. 1) @floAr will run the numbers on the algo. to make sure heroes don't get super powerful 2) UI: Selecting cards to burn and upgrade from a list. We want to communicate the potential outcomes when burning a card to improve a card. We are doing on Unity - @floAr will work on this. This will be a new room 3) Contract: You burn 2 heroes to upgrade 1. @floAr is to finalize the algo and @baedrik to implement the contract

• Arena contract: half of purchased card fees go to the tournament contract + anyone can donate SCRT to the tournament 1) UI: Let's make all battles -> arena. We want to add a countdown and the prize pool on the battle screen @johnbrodish to add to figmas - will be outside of the unity. We will show a tournament leaderboard under leaderboard (will ask sandy to look into leaderboard dev. @baedrik to provide the queries for tournament leaderboard) 2) Contract: will have a timestamp on when the tourney ends + send 1/2 of minting income to the arena contract + allow donations to the arena contract

• Premium heroes: change the algorithm to min3(100). 1) UI: Will be minted in unity, we give ppl 2 options to chose from - @floAr 2) Contract: @baedrik will add the new contract

• How to play and FAQ pages 1) UI Design: @johnbrodish to put together. This will be a new tab on secrethero.es 2) Front-end development: Sandy will work on this

Future development:

• SecretHeroes API
• SecretHeroes selling / auctions