Shades of Syn

here it is - our grand vision for #ShadesofSyn, a mobile game like you've never seen before👀 it's strategy. it's team fighting. it's slaying monsters and outwitting your opponents. it's endlessly expandable, yet easy for anyone to pick up and play. link.medium.com/5mv06yyK7Eb and it's not even Phase 1 yet...😈

📢update📢 gm Shades - wanted to give you all an update from us since it's been quiet lately. the good news: we're almost completely finished with the artwork including the Grid, projectiles, objectives, characters, animations, and UI. the bad news: our original game dev has left. he promised to at least complete an MVP of the game but instead ghosted us for the last weeks of his contract, so we're working to onboard a replacement for him and pick up where he left off. this replacement is a very capable dev, but does not have any game dev experience, so he's working to learn Godot right now and it's taking a bit longer than expected. ongoing: we are still looking for an experienced developer who wants to oversee the grand vision of Shades of Syn (the game) and Show'em (the community-building platform for web3 gaming) and become a cofounder with us. so if you're out there, please reach out! we've also pursued funding opportunities from 50+ sources but most of them want to see a playable alpha version, so we're stuck waiting till our new guy can finalize that before trying to get more funding. final words: we appreciate all of your patience and hope that you haven't forgotten about us. we are still working to realize our dream of Shades of Syn as we imagined it to be. we think that Show'em can completely revolutionize the way gaming communities are built and we will not stop looking for the person who can help us make this happen.💪 our DMs are always open.

@bguite from what hellscape did you summon this guy?

each sector of our hexagon grid has a unique vibe, objective, and terrain - just look at the difference between sectors 1 & 2! we could've made our lives a lot easier and done a square shaped top-down map. we could've just used a tileset. sheesh, we could've just made it so that you control 1 character like every other game instead of having explosive team fights. #shadesofsyn is special, and we're gearing up for Phase 1 soon. lots of moving parts right now, but we'll keep everyone posted when we have news😈

@decimated_game @TheCryptoLark this looks dope! 👏

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hey friends🍻 great show this morning - excited to expand to 4x a week starting monday🥵 and a huge thank you to @GamingStartUp_ for hosting us and @shadesofsyn today for Demo Day!

@GamingStartUp_ beautiful, thanks guys! excited to share more and learn from our fellow presenters!

oh yeah talk dirty to me😈 GREAT write up - we're excited to share more on Tuesday at the @GamingStartUp_ Demo Day!

@GamingStartUp_ @0xsequence @G7_DAO @KnightsOfTheEth @KalmansForge @Web3GamingGroup @SaltySharksAM @LLCgame_ @HelloGameland @puzzledplatform @Cosmic_Exodus @ConquestDiscord @ShadowOfFerenor @WorldWarDAO @HeyChefOfficial oh frickin heck yeah

our artist @kaiomedau is a wizard🧙‍♂️. check out the updated Grid!! this week our arena map and game UI are both getting major overhauls. getting closer and closer to bringing this game to you all. stay tuned as we bring our vision to life!👁️

happy #screenshotsaturday! may construction is fully underway, and each sector in the Grid is gonna have its own theme. once we finish the map elements (walls, grass, etc), then we customize the background art. also, it turns out that isometric POV + hexagon arena = super annoying to illustrate with the proper angles. (because it's not a direct top-down view, the shape is technically not a perfect hexagon.) despite the challenges, our devs and artist are still kicking ass and we're looking to start Phase 1 in February. we will make it a big deal, so keep your 👀 out, Shades.

competitive games are only as good as the community. if you aren't able to playfully talk trash to your opponents or discuss your matches in a public forum, then it just feels like you're playing against an NPC. our original game, The Syndicate Games, was built on a Discord bot and was basically just a few buttons, but people love it because it's a community of people winning and losing to each other & discussing it😅 so that's why we're building Show'em - a #web3gaming community platform - to launch alongside Shades of Syn. it's in stealth mode right now, but our alpha testers will be able to get first access to not only our mobile game but Show'em as well. February will be big for us🤩

huh, well would ya look at that.

@GaspodeWD hellll yeah sign me up!

This is what interoperability looks like...

our game has to exist. we will brute force it into existence if need be. someone, somewhere will see our vision and help us make it happen.

come & build with us!

@shadesofsyn @kaiomedau We're shades 🔥

@CorePulsePost @kaiomedau Jesus! this goes hard!!

good news is that @kaiomedau whipped up a killer first draft for our final objective - the unstable core. (we've been using a placeholder) bad news is now we want him to replace all the objectives on the map😅 this whole "balling on a budget" thing is not the vibe.

@ForgotPlayland go for volume first, then focus on what people respond to. as the saying goes, "you can't polish a turd." no way to know if you have a turd (polished or not) until you let the audience have a whiff.

The balancing act ☯️ We're always trying to keep the balance between improving a minigame we are working on right now vs. creating a new minigame. What would you choose?🤔 🎲 Limited but polished minigames 🎯 As many minigames as possible

@kaiomedau as a reminder, there are 6 objectives on the map and this one^ is one of the trickiest and most powerful. capturing it takes out 50% of your team's health, but when you use it in battle it will dole out that amount in damage pts against your opponents👀