The world is torn and broken, and survival is the rule of the land. Still, new Heroes rise to rebuild civilization. Will they find a place among your empire?
Introducing Akane, an all-new Hero in The Walking Dead: Empires. Akane is a hardened survivor whose instincts for navigating the dangers of this world and cool demeanor could prove critical to your empire.
Akane Sale Details
The Akane sale starts on Friday, July 19th at 7am PT. All rarities except for Common will be available in this sale. Here are the prices for various tiers and rarities. 👇
Rarity
Uncommon
Rare
Epic
Legendary
Ancient
Tier
Price
Supply
Price
Supply
Price
Supply
Price
Supply
Price
Supply
1
$3.99
100
$9.99
40
$22.99
15
$55.99
6
$135.99
3
2
$4.99
200
$11.99
80
$28.99
30
$69.99
12
$169.99
7
3
$5.99
700
$14.99
280
$34.99
105
$83.99
42
$203.99
15
Purchase in the first tier to get the best prices!
The sale will continue until the allotted supply has run out, or the Card is removed to prepare for new Hero Cards.
All Akane Hero Cards fulfill directly to GalaChain and will be immediately available to use in the game.
Akane stands ready to fight for a brave new world.. Will you call on her?
The Survivor’s Trial
This week’s Survivor’s Trial event began just a few days ago. There’s still plenty of time left to rack up that experience and rise to the top of the leaderboard (With Akane’s help!)
Fight to Survive
It’s not always easy to survive out there. Akane’scrossbow is loaded, and she’s ready to face any threat out there on your behalf. Stay safe out there, and stop by The Walking Dead: Empires Store tomorrow to pick up your Akane!
Flashing lights and loud noises dominate your senses. Last quarter. This time you’ll get it for sure.
You pop it in and the screen comes to life. Dirk the Daring fearlessly gets to his heroic work. You use what you’ve learned all afternoon to navigate the treacherous path. It’s a perfect run so far. Just as you’re starting to get cocky, the Lizard King creeps out of nowhere. Game over.
Just one of many horrible fates that befell Dirk the Daring.
Totally defeated and having lost your last quarter, you start to slink away from the machine. Almost automatically you sweep the coin return with two fingers – A quarter! Maybe one last game of Ninja Gaiden instead of trying your luck at this one again.
The Golden Age of the Arcade
If you were born before the 90s, chances are this sounded pretty familiar to you. All those of us who grew up in the time when the arcade was king distinctly remember those last quarter feels, or the sensation of poking at the coin return in the hopes that some other kid forgot their last coin in it.
Yes, arcades are still a thing. My daughter is quite fond of them. It’s hard to take her to a half abandoned and dilapidated arcade though and not have my mind drift to those days where games meant more than just tickets. When the arcade was the spot to be all summer long.
Back then, the video games we could play at home were limited. Sure, depending on what decade we’re talking about there were Ataris, Commodores, NES and eventually even those late 90s persistent 300+ game shareware discs. The quality and quantity of games you could play from your couch, however, paled in comparison to wall to wall arcade cabinets and the sure chance of finding at least some of your friends at the arcade.
These were the days of no internet. The days of very limited multiplayer outside multi-joystick arcade games. The days when gaming culture was born… and that culture lived full-time at the arcade.
Dragon’s Lair, which I was referencing above, came out in 1983. Dragon’s Lair BLEW OUR MINDS! This was a time when most games were lines and dots on a screen, or at best they were made up of moving static images. Some of the highest tech out there had sprites for characters that had 2-3 poses at most.
Dragon’s Lair showed up with a Disney-quality, rotoscoped movie as its gameplay. They used the entirely new LaserDisc data format to encode a movie with multiple branching paths… one of the first examples of interactive media at this quality! It was impressive… so impressive, in fact, that sometimes you’d keep draining quarters into it even after you realized how punishing and impossible it was.
Not So Distant Beginnings
We’ve come a long way in a very short time with video game tech. The glory days of the arcade weren’t that long ago. Looking back, however, it’s really no wonder why we moved so fast. At the arcade, you could play 40+ new games in one day, talk about them with your friends, and watch hundreds of other kids playing (who were probably better than you) over their shoulder. We learned quick, which is why gaming learned quick.
Simple shapes and basic mechanics of games like Breakout gave way to slightly less simple shapes of games like Arkanoid. One by one, the kids pumping quarters in the games started to recognize genres and core mechanics. At first it was “Oh! It’s like Double Dragon”, but as our knowledge grew it quickly became “Oh! It’s a beat ’em up, co-op platformer”.
Arcades were education. In those early days of the 70s and 80s, there were great game designers and programmers working on games. That was nothing compared to the kids they were training up though. No one had ever absorbed so much of the previously non-existent media of video games.
Spoiler, some of us who put our time in at the local arcade ‘studying’ would go on to push gaming forward with this education. Soon the kids recognizing patterns in the games they pumped their quarters into grew into the young professionals propelling gaming into the next generation.
The Legacy of Arcades
Arcades may still exist, but they’re not always the bastion of culture they once were. That having been said, that culture is still very much alive. When my daughter used to lure three friends into her Minecraft world so they could run her newly created obstacle course, that felt very arcade. When I watch a Twitch stream and think my commentary actually adds to the group conversation, that feels a lot like crowding around the arcade champ’s shoulder while they’re taking challengers on in Killer Instinct.
I think you’d be hard pressed to find many who work in game dev today that don’t have fond memories of the arcade. This was the shared experience that helped raise us and led to the rapid progression of games through the past few decades. Whether you were setting your coins on deck for Space Invaders in the late 70s or trying to solo run The Simpsons Arcade Game in the early 90s, you helped create this industry.
There are cultures throughout the world where arcades still hold some of their former glory. Japan, notably, has sprawlingly huge arcades with an often ridiculous assortment of all kinds of games. Even those, however, are on the decline compared to their heights in previous decades.
Pictured: The Kabukicho pedestrian crossing in Tokyo, at the corner of Shinjuku Moa 2 Avenue and the Godzilla Road. Though arcades are statistically on the decline in Japan, there are still whole districts with entire buildings devoted to nothing but arcade games.
Luckily, one thing out there is preserving the classic arcade feel… And I’m not talking about a room full of machines that dispense tickets so you can buy worthless prizes. That great force working to save some piece of this culture is probably the same thing that made you read this far – nostalgia. Adults love games too, and over the past decades we’re seeing far more arcades formatted for grownups.
It’s really no surprise that these ‘barcades’ have risen so quickly. Adults do love to play just as much as everyone else. Billions of people out there all have this shared experience of the arcade… is it any wonder we’d want to relive a little of that? Also, compared to the price of some leisure activities out there… my wallet and wife would much prefer I play some Ms. PacMan with a cheap beer in my hand for an hour or two rather than some of the alternatives.
Fun is fun, and arcades are fun that everyone can enjoy together.
Arcade Culture Comes to GalaChain
This long, nostalgic ramble has finally brought me to the point. Those of you who have been around the Gala Community for a while may be aware of the Happy Valley Arcade Bar in Beacon, NY. The owners of this establishment have long been incredibly supportive and involved community icons across all things Gala… and they’re working on something absolutely amazing for all arcade fans.
They are currently building some of the world’s first web3 gaming cabinets. These arcade machines will connect to GalaChain and reward high scorers with $VALLEY. Eventually, these games may be playable on the PC, but the arcade cabinets is where the bulk of these tokens will come from.
Early footage from one of Happy Valley’s arcade games!
We here at a Gala are a bit on the outside looking in on this one, but I personally am VERY excited. Not only is it amazing to see people doing new and innovative things with GalaChain, but I really like the idea of a worldwide arcade high score battle.
Information will be coming out soon from the Happy Valley team. I hear they are planning to sell arcade cabinets with $VALLEY potential among other things.
You don’t have to take my word for it though… head on over to https://discord.gg/5zJ8WqNV to join their Discord server today!
Ever imagined what it would be like to take on a band of rogue and maniacal superheroes, mad with power and hell-bent on turning the world into a post-apocalyptic hellscape?
With Superior, you can live out that fantasy in an exciting and fast-paced roguelite gaming experience.
Save The World
In Superior, it’s already too late, but through advanced teleportal tech (and with the help of the rebel Bartender robot to guide you), we can travel through time and do our best to stop the takeover at various crucial stages of its progress in the past.
The superheroes got carried away, and now it’s time for a bold group of hero hunters to use their own powers against them.
Basically, they run around killing evil heroes and collecting their Juice. Yep, it’s just as gross as it sounds. Then our Primes (the real heroes) turn themselves into freakish experimentation subjects, loading up on Juice-based enhancements that let them use various powers wielded by the baddies they’re up against.
Killing Baddies & Collecting Powers
As you progress through a mission, you’ll smash and slaughter hundreds of freaks, which will come harder and harder at you as you progress toward the boss hero on your hitlist. As you go, you’ll collect all sorts of power ups that enhance your movement, firepower, abilities and more. Choose from a variety of deadly weapons, or use your melee attacks for a more up close and personal approach.
Collect experience from each mission to upgrade and customize your Skill tree to the needs of the next battle. Then once you’ve reached the max level, upgrade your Infamy to start over with a higher max Skill level, raising the ceiling of your success.
Play with NFT Prime Characters
Here’s the fun part. Get in on Early Access only by owning a Prime character. Currently there are three Prime characters available: Ronin, Nomad and Murmur.
NOTE: Prime Character NFTs must currently be held in your account’s connected Ethereum wallet to appear in the game. If purchased from OpenSea, the item will already be available in your Ethereum wallet, but if purchased on GalaChain, you’ll have to bridge it to Ethereum to use it in the game.
Here is an example of each of the three available Prime characters in a different rarity, with a link to the OpenSea item page of each:
Based on your Prime’s rarity, you’ll start the game with boosted Infamy, which can otherwise take dozens (if not hundreds) of runs to grind out the necessary experience. With each new Infamy level, your character’s max Skill Points are increased by one, giving you access to even more of the Skill Tree and preparing you for more effective Challenge runs!
Do you have what it takes to become a distinguished crypto genius, tapping and amassing huge treasure in time for the big minting event?
Treasure Tapper is a game of collecting and (wisely) spending tokens to maximize your future rewards. It’s easy to play on your favorite mobile device:
Launch Telegram – Treasure Tapper is a mini app within the massively popular messaging app, so there’s no need for any additional downloads or purchases!
Interact with the Bot – Treasure_Tapper_Bot is your gateway to gameplay, launching the game for you in a matter of seconds so you can spend more time gathering TREASURE!
The game’s main mechanic is simple: Collect as much Treasure Coins as you can. Some actions will help you gain Coins (tapping, inviting friends, watching videos in the “Earn” area) and others will upgrade your ability to collect Coins even when you’re not tapping (Quests).
Stay sharp, Tappers, because soon enough your rewards will be mintable on both TON and GalaChain, allowing you to trade them with other tokens in the ecosystem through sites like GalaSwap. When that ability is added, make sure you have a nice pile of Coins to work with!
Latest Updates
The team is working fast, shipping new gameplay updates almost every single day. The best place to stay up to date is by watching the Treasure Tapper Announcements channel in Telegram, but we’ll also periodically let you know here on the blog!
Introducing “Challenges”
Challenges give you a chance to play with your friends, inviting them to a quick hi-lo contest. The best part? The winner gets extra TREASURE and the loser loses nothing! The more friends you invite, the more you can win, and you can even invite friends who haven’t played the game yet.
Don’t Forget the Dailies
With another recent addition to the game, you can now collect extra Coins in a daily reward that will increase to up to 5,000,000 additional Coins!
Day 1–500 Day 2–50,000 Day 3–2500 Day 4–5K Day 5–15K Day 6–25K Day 7–100K Day 8–500K Day 9–1M Day 10–5M
“Earn” Tasks
In the “Earn” area, you’ll find regularly updated videos that once viewed will gather quick 100K Coin rewards. But you can miss out on these tasks if you don’t get to them in time, so be sure to check in every single day.🤑
New Languages
The following language options have been added to the game, with more to come! 🌎
Portuguese
French
Russian
German
Bahasa Indonesia
Spanish
Ukranian
Turkish
Polish
Tap, Tap, Tap!
Don’t assume it’s not worth your time just because it’s easy! This game is absolutely free and will eventually result in real minted crypto rewards, so make sure you’re putting in your taps, inviting your friends and upgrading your Quests!
Today, we’re breaking down an ancient terror from our ancestral past – The T-Rex!
This terrifying, fire-breathing beast was first uncovered by Earthiologists decades ago. Research has since revealed much more about this ancient terror.
The T-Rex was an unstoppable menace to early humans, and its ferocity can be seen in the arena. The limited archaeological context that’s been gleaned from the ancient discs indicates that T-Rex were originally bred as pets for human entertainment before breaking loose and nearly destroying the species.
At the height of their saurian civilization, it’s thought that the biggest among them must’ve dined on as many as 400 or more humans a day to maintain their size and energy and ruled over half the planet. The rex was not as massive as the chicken, the long-reigning alpha predator of Earth. It did, however, still tower over all of human creation other than the largest of golf stadiumariums.
In the arena, Rex boasts the most powerful offensive weapon seen by these monstrous human creations throughout the distant history – anti-matter breath.
The King: Rex/T-Ray
The T-Rex Hero Tank is made up of the Rex Body, the T-Ray Weapon and the Prehistoric Skin.
The Rex Body is quick and agile, representing the killer instincts of a true predator. Fabricated to scale, it actually runs quite light for its overall size. This Body won’t give you much in the way of Energy gain or durability, but it’ll zoom in for the kill when needed.
The T-Ray Weapon is entirely unique in the arena, as matter cannot stop its projection forward. It emanates from the Weapon in a very narrow cone. When you fire, your movement and turning motion will be slowed down until your ray powers down. This leaves you entirely vulnerable while your Weapon is firing, but anyone in range is also entirely vulnerable to your Weapon.
A Rex is excellent at sweeping up wounded Tanks after a fight.
The T-Rex struggles without a party to back it up, but with the right tactics it can absolutely destroy any opposing team.
Nowhere to Hide
The only way for enemies to avoid your T-Ray’s beam is by moving too quickly for it to hit them, or just running away. No amount of walls or barriers will save them.
Walls and barriers are, however, still how they dodge the rest of your team. Often enemies will find themselves unable to concentrate on avoiding you and your allies at the same time, since how you attack is so wildly different.
If you find good cover and get protection from your allies, the enemy can be entirely stopped by the perimeter your ray creates. This is especially potent on location-based matches, like King of the Hill, Poultry Pusher… or really any Map with a bridge or choke point.
With the right positioning, they won’t be able to avoid your beam.
Your Rex is squishy, but it’s also super zoomy. Your T-Ray takes a split second to power down when you stop firing. With a little timing, you can learn to predict that delay and easily Speed Booster up and flee when you’re in danger. Put a wall between you and your enemy again using your speed, then crank up the antimatter!
Mix It Up
The Body and Weapon of T-Rex are awesome to use for different combos. The Rex body represents a solid light body with equal stats to the Chicken Body. Not quite as squishy as something like a Flea, but still with significant moving power when it needs it.
The T-Ray can be great across a number of different Bodies because of how totally unique of a Weapon it is. Those who find their Rex a little too squishy may do better with a medium sized, high energy Body like Jet or Hurricane. The extra Energy will leave you more room to apply your strategy flexibly, and the extra bulk will help you not explode.
Big Rex kind of creates cover where there is none.
A very heavy Body with a T-Ray provides a different experience altogether. With this style, you’ll function more like a stationary heavy turret on your team.
Rather than having to hide away behind a wall like you do with Rex, using a heavy Body you could choose to be the wall yourself. How many good shots are they really going to get off on you when you’re spraying antimatter at them?
If you choose to play T-Rex with a heavy Body, make sure that you have a plan in place for melee Weapons. T-Ray doesn’t really have a defense against a Carver or a Flamethrower. Think about packing a grenade, Relay Drone or Reactive Plating.
Happy Hunting
That’ll do it for us at The Spider Tanks Showcase this week. Have fun out there with those T-Rays, and remember to exercise antimatter safety at all times in the arena.
We’ll be back soon with another Spider Tanks Showcase… Next time we’re heading deep into the caves of Cacus to spotlight Dragon Cave. Have tactics you rely on in Dragon Cave? Let us know on Discord for a chance to be featured in next week’s showcase!
