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// ABOUT
We design and build amazing blockchain games while focusing on visuals and best possible user experience
Our mission is to systematically raise the standard of gaming experience using blockchain technology and world-class graphics. To help people play, enjoy, experiment and maximize their success by earning sustainably. Our goal is to embark millions of people into the blockchain gaming ecosystem by creating games with the highest player retention and engagement level in the industry. We will reinvent blockchain gaming by making it fun and entertaining.
Players enrolled by 2026
NFT in-game items and characters
// WHAT WE DO?
Our love for Web 3.0 and NFT materializes in Blockchain games.
NFT Art
We're VERY passionate about the art. We can't even stress it enough. We believe that blockchain gaming projects have neglected for too long the visual component of the ”fun”. Lots of projects in the space launched without a clear visual/graphic vision, therefore providing a ”not so nice” experience for the players. Gaming IS about how things look. At Zugzwang LABS we take our time to deliver best possible art and visuals on our projects.
Seamless integration
Blockchain is ”old enough” already for those past decade solutions. Web3 games should not be any more complicated to interact with than any other ”normal” game. Playing a blockchain game should be just as easy as any other game on the Google Play market or Apple Store. We strive to bring the best integration solutions, for an amazing user experience.
Cross-Chain Fun
We would not dare to say we're any kind of maximalists. We believe in the crypto space growth as a whole, and don't take any part in ”killing” one or another blockchain. Polygon, Solana, Flow, Elrond, Celestia - they are all here to stay, and we think the best thing to do is to build on all of them.
The future is mobile
While not neglecting the desktop geeks, we believe the future of gaming is mobile, therefore our focus is to embark thousands and millions of players into crypto space through mobile blockchain games. Here at Zugzwang we are constantly in pursuit of new ideas and solutions for a staggering experience for mobile gamers.
// ZZW TOKEN
The ZZW token stands at the core of our gaming ecosystem.
With ZZW we can guarantee a working economy of the Zugzwang space as a whole!
Building a sustainable in-game economy is not an easy task. And the more games you build inside a single ecosystem the harder it gets. We found the perfect solution for this. We strongly believe we can make it work with a single governance token and cross-chain availability in all the games we bring to life. The ZZW token will stand ad the core of our gaming ecosystem making it valuable enough for trading as well as governance. And given the fact that ZugzwangDAO is around the corner, it's only fair that we should build it around a unique token with strong fundamentals and a working tokenomics.
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// OUR PROJECTS
Young doesn't mean inexperienced. Here are our main titles we're currently working on.
Puzzles Crusade
Match 3 RPG
At the dawn of creation, the Sun, the Earth and all the planets were aligned on a perfect line. Thousands of years passed until this symmetry repeated itself. And when it did, the universe energy has taken different forms. The great portals, long forgotten, have opened. The present, the past and the future unfold simultaneously. It is that when Legions of hideous creatures and monsters like Arpahons and Triguts and Gungs, have invaded the solar system to bring darkness onto them. Dracula, longly exiled to planed Pandora from the Oxytron Galaxy, came down on Earth to avenge his destiny.
Now, Lord Dracula wants to conquer the ”Heart of the Mountain”, hidden in Transilvania. He wants to use it to melt the sun and spread the eternal darkness in the galaxy.
Only the brave heroes of Valachia stand now between life as we know it and the infinite darkness and cold.
And so, the fight begins…
As a player you advance on the map in PvE mode, advancing stage by stage, trying to save a fantasy world from total oblivion, or you can challenge your friends in PvP mode, earning rewards with your skills.
Your team is positioned below the grid, the enemies are above it. You fight by matching 3+ stones of an element (color). Matched stones turn into troops of the same color which attack the enemies above.
Making a match, also, fills your corresponding hero mana bar. When full, you get to use the character’s special skill. Skills can be anything ranging from offensive to supportive. When all enemies are beaten, the battle is won. You lose when your entire team is killed.
Zugzwang
Strategy Board Game
There was a time when all the people of the world lived in peace and harmony. Those were the times when great technology discoveries were made, and the humanity thrived. In their curiosity and ambition, humans started building the Tower of the Moon. This tower was meant to be a ladder of sorts, which would take humans straight to the Gods Lands. But, as it is well known good times never last. The Tower of Moon was torn to pieces by a thunder, and along with it, by the will of gods, humanity split in ”nations”.
As if the big split wasn’t enough, the gods spread all the resources of the world in an evil manner, making nations to fight for them, in their race of building each their own tower.
This status quo lasted for hundreads years, until one day two nations found the common ground and united. It was at that time when people realized the only way to build the desired Tower is to work together.
And so, the diplomacy era began.
In Zugzwang, the players will manage kingdoms and empires build of different nations. Each nation holds a single, predetermined place on the map. Each sector of the map produces only one of the 5 specific basic resource (water, food, gold, stone, wood). Each nation needs a basic set of resources to make it’s way onto the map. Once settled on the map, a nation generates a combination of the 5 attributes of power (Military Force, Economy, Technology, Culture, Diplomacy). A empire’s force is given by the combinations of each of the nations inside the empire.
In solo gameplay mode, an empire is built throughout a number of epochs. Each epoch comes with specific tasks and needed resources.
În the PvP mode, there are 3 battle modes:
- Blitzkrieg – short rounds (20-40 minuts);
- Special Ops – medium length rounds (90 -150 minuts);
- Campaigns (a couple days)
Miners: Prologue
MMORPG
Year 4201. For more than 2 millenniums now, the machines rule the world. Humans are forced to hide deep under the ground to avoid total annihilation. Hundreds of generations were not able to see the sun even for a second in their lives, as getting to the surface equals to death. Hundreds of years humans searched for a way to fight back, and it seems that the new 420 century gave them a chance. A great earthquake has shattered the mountains, like some grains of sand, revealing the gold reserves that were never reachable nor to humans or machines.
The only chance at survival for humans is to drain the gold resources of the earth, by this taking away the one element that is needed for machines ”brains”.
A legion of miners was built. They are to go on the surface and collect as much gold as possible while fighting to survive. The humankind’s fate depends on them.
An so, the gold rush began…
Classic MMORPG game. As a player you get an initial miner character. You wonder on an open map digging for gold. But be careful, not every stone in the world hides a piece of that scarce element inside. Sometimes you might finds some robots underneath the stones. A wise player would run from a fight with those ”creatures”, but a wise player will never make it to the top of the leaderboard, so draw your conclusions.
Breathtaking figths, lots of farming, a chance for some really rare NFTs, and generally speaking, a lot of fun.
// WHO WE ARE?
We're young, we're passionate, we're determined. This is who we are. Feel free to connect with us on Twitter and/or LinkedIn.
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GENG YU
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
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Petru Plămădeală
Chief Operating Officer (COO)