Calvaria is a Polygon based new play-to-earn project aiming to attract casual and traditional gamers onto the blockchain.
Previous GameFi projects have attracted huge investment, with crypto investors seeing the huge potential for the future, but the player base did not follow even at its peak and has fallen rapidly during the 2022 bear market.
Calvaria is now trying to address that by developing a simple and replayable game that will appeal to traditional and casual gamers and is easy to pick up.
Flagship game Duels of Eternity is a battle-card strategy game that sees players stack their decks with nonfungible token (NFT) cards and assets and beat opponents in best-of-three matches to earn RIA tokens.
The game, which is set in the afterlife, sees players align with one of three factions and use their knowledge, skill and timely use of assets to win one-on-one matches.
Duels of Eternity has a number of quirks that separates it from rivals and will make it attractive to non-blockchain gamers.
The game is rendered in full 3D and available on mobile stores on Android, iOS and PC. Duels of Eternity also has a story mode that not only builds on the lore of the Calvaria universe but allows players to earn assets that can be used in other game modes.
Cards and assets are NFTs that are fully owned and tradeable by the player, who can also spend RIA or combine cards to upgrade them.
To ensure the long-term success of Duels of Eternity, the Calvaria developers will take a seasonal approach to the game, consistently releasing new assets and game modes to keep players coming back.
They will also develop an in-house esports team and invite large esports brands to compete in tournaments for big prizes.
Calvaria will also benefit from being built on super-fast and efficient layer-2 solution Polygon.
