summary: SkyWeaver is a free-to-play collectible card game (CCG) developed on the Ethereum blockchain.
content: SkyWeaver is a free-to-play collectible card game (CCG) developed on the Ethereum blockchain. It is an NFT game launched by the Horizon Blockchain Games, providing its users with utilities such as owning, trading, and gifting game-based NFT cards. Skyweaver offers accessible gameplay designed for both competitive and casual players. Overview SkyWeaver is a free-to-play worldwide competitive trading card game that unifies the different perspectives of online and physical card games. SkyWeaver, built using blockchain technology, provides users with an easy-to-play card game, which can be personalized as digital assets. Users can win and trade these digital cards with similar functionalities to physical cards having utilities - within and without the game. SkyWeaver is a player versus player browser-based game, making the gameplay experience accessible for its users, anywhere and anytime. According to the gaming prospects for its users, by winning battles and ascending the termed "SkyWeaver ranks", users can earn 'new cards' (NFTs) all of which can be utilized for gameplay and some of which users can trade. Skyweaver cards are categorized into three levels of cards- basic card, silver card, and gold card. Built atop the Ethereum sidechain Polygon (formerly Matic Network), Skyweaver makes ownership, authenticity, and trading of its Card games available within the platform's store. Features SkyWeaver has the following key features: Free to Play SkyWeaver is a free-to-play game, which places no demand on its users for payment to stay competitive. By playing the game and honing the user's skills as a SkyWeaver, such users always have the opportunity to win and earn cards that impact gameplay. SkyWeaver belongs to its players. Open, Secure, Transparent The SkyWeaver's ecosystem is powered by blockchain, allowing its economy to be open, secure, fair, and transparent. With each card securely registered on the Ethereum blockchain, users can track their cards’ rarities. Users' cards are securely in their deck, with playable features. Dual Deck Combinations & Building SkyWeaver comes with an in-game deck builder for users to customize their playstyle and build the deck of users'. The deck leaderboard lets users see which decks perform best. Non-Rotating Gameplay Users' SkyWeaver cards are eternal, which means that users will never rotate cards out of play. Trading Universality By playing SkyWeaver and ascending the leaderboards, users can win new cards that become their property. The players can play with the cards or trade them with other players. The SkyWeaver Shop is a Peer to Peer (P2P) Decentralized Exchange (DEX) built right into the game. The Skyweaver shop is a place where users can acquire cards of interest and trade cards for exchange. Users can also freely trade their cards on other exchanges like OpenSea and Rarebits or gift their cards to friends. Customized Playstyles SkyWeavers (or players within its gameplay) can choose from four different playstyles, better known as prisms. Each prism offers its users a different deck type and access to different creatures and spells. The first four prisms include Heart, Wisdom, Strength, and Agility. Users can choose the prism that best represents them, or combine two prisms for more gameplay possibilities. Each Sky creature and spell come from one of eight different elements: Fire, Water, Earth, Air, Metal, Mind, Light, and Dark. Different abilities are associated with each element, and users (named as 'SkyWeavers') will require utilizing their mana to summon creatures that battle with them. By winning battles against opponents, users earn new cards and win the allegiance of creatures and spells. Wallet's Security Each SkyWeaver card is securely registered within the user's personal Ethereum blockchain wallet. Users are the ones with access to this wallet. Horizon Blockchains games cannot access any cards or take them away. The cards themselves are Blockchain assets that exist forever, providing its holders' liberty to either play with and trade them. The Arcadeum arcade and wallet were developed so users can easily manage the digital cards that they win and accumulate by playing SkyWeaver. Gameplay & NFTs Creating an Account Users interested in starting with Skyweaver are to: Open a browser and navigate to their website. Push the start button (which will require an Ethereum wallet. Users can use MetaMask to maximize security) Users will need to provide a username and the early access code that will be given by the developers. After successful login, users can learn how to play from, the game rules, or proceed to click 'start match' to play a sample game with no rewards. Users can select competitive, then to discovery, to start to be matched up with an opponent to begin a real opponent game. Game Story SkyWeaver games take place in an alternate reality called Sky. Users are known as Skyweavers. Skyweavers are game creatures who traveled to this other dimension to explore, play, and battle with other Skyweavers' Characters. As users battle with others, they acquire resources from Sky, which also allows them to learn how to control the units that inhabit it. Over time, as skyweavers play and compete with one another, Sky itself evolves and becomes something greater. Game Features Skyweaver gameplay has the following elements- Heroes SkyWeaver, players control a special character called a Hero. If this character’s health goes to zero, the player loses. The Hero is a fully functional unit. It has attack and defense stats, and it can even attack other creatures or the opposing Hero. Even if a player has no cards on the board, he can still attack other creatures or players using his Hero Attached Spells Creatures in SkyWeaver have the ability to carry attached spells. These spells behave just like spell cards. The player can activate an attached spell by paying its mana cost. Each unit can only have 1 spell attached to it at a time. If a card causes a unit to gain a new attachment, the old attachment goes away. Units on Board Players would be required to onboard units. Each player can have a maximum of six units on his/her side of the board at a time. If a card would cause a new unit to enter the board on his side, the card simply cannot be played. This feature is intended to cut down on board clutter and prevent cards from becoming unreadable on mobile devices. Automatic Discard Skyweavers (Players) can maximally have 9 cards in hand at a time. If an event or action causes the player to have more than 9 cards, the oldest card that he drew gets shuffled back into his deck. Players cannot choose which cards to discard. If the player wants to keep a card that such player drew many turns ago, the player must play cards to keep his hand from going over the limit. Unique Keywords SkyWeaver has many unique Keywords, which are a staple of collectible card games (CCGs). Some combat keywords, used on SkyWeaver cards include- Wither, Lifesteal, Banner, Guard, Stealth, and Armor. Enchantments In SkyWeaver, a player can place enchantments on enemy cards. But these enchantments can be removed if the owner of the affected card pays the mana cost of the enchantment. Thus, negative enchantments can easily be removed. If a player removes an enchantment though, he is slowed down by the mana cost this incurs. Prisms SkyWeaver (NFT) has prisms that cards belong to, which are more like having colors of magic as in Magic. When a player builds a deck or starts a game, the player must choose 1 or 2 prisms to use in his deck. If such a user chooses 1 prism, his deck must be a minimum of 20 cards. If the user chooses 2 prisms, his deck must be a minimum of 30 cards. Mono-prismatic decks will draw the same cards more often, which could provide an advantage. On the other hand, decks with more than one prism will have more strategies to choose from. So players must weigh the benefits and disadvantages of each when deciding how to build their decks. Beginning accounts only have access to Strength Prism decks. Other prisms become available as the account gains levels. Skyweaver's Prisms | Types of Prism | Availabiilty & Levels | Specialties | | -------------- | --------------------- | ----------- | | Strength | available from the beginning) | Strength Focuses on powerful units, damage buffs, and damage spells. Good for “aggro” decks. | | Wisdom | unlocked at level 5 | Focuses on healing, card-drawing abilities, and board clearing mechanics. Great for “control” decks. | | Agility | unlocked at level 10 | Emphasizes “sacrifice” mechanics such as spending life or discarding cards to gain an advantage. | | Heart | unlocked at level 15 | Uses the graveyard to recycle creatures and overwhelm opponents. | When players participate in matches, they win cards based on the prism of the deck they are currently using. Card Economy SkyWeaver (NFT) has three levels of NFT game cards including basic cards, silver cards, and gold cards. Basic Cards Users can unlock the basic cards by completing matches, accumulating XP, and leveling up. At launch, Skyweaver's availed 500 cards for users to unlock. Users can use these basic cards to build a deck that suits their game style. All basic cards can be unlocked completely for free, which means that any user can maximize playing SkyWeaver, building decks, and participating in competitions. These basic cards, are Basic cards are not tradable as Non-Fungible Token (NFT). Silver Cards The silver card is a tradable Non-Fungible Token (NFT) version of the basi