JunGo Heroes Assemble — AMA Follow up, Eric Nelson
- Please introduce yourself and JunGo.
Hi, I’m Eric Nelson, one of the co-founders of JunGo. I’m from USA and have also been based off an on in Asia since 2007. In 2017, I was first introduced to blockchain and crypto and later became an NFT collector and trader. I have been an advisor on multiple NFT projects and am working for Opera Browser as an NFT and Crypto consultant. I’ve been analyzing what works well in the current NFT market especially in GameFi, and also have seen what is missing in terms of gameplay. I’m so excited about what we have developed, and after almost 3 years to finally bring you JunGo, a game that is super fun to play that brings great rewards to it’s players.
JunGo described in short is like a merger between Angry Birds and Axie Infinity. It’s a physics style strategy shooter game with a team of hanging animals each with their own abilities that are throwing objects as weapons to knock down the other team’s animals from their hanger. These animals are all NFTs that can be evolved to higher levels, and are earning tokens with our play-to-earn model.
I also want to tell you the story behind JunGo and why the animals are hanging and fighting each other.
It was once a secluded jungle, beautiful, vibrant and peaceful… The jungle animals had been living in harmony for hundreds of years and called it their home. In the heart of the jungle, lay an everflowing spring with magical healing power. The few trees surrounding the spring bore golden bananas that would allegedly heal all diseases and wounds. Jungle animals lived happily and peacefully knowing that there was something guarding them in the deep of the woods.
One day, a meteor came crashing down into the jungle. This would change the lives of all the animals in the jungle forever. The meteor carried a mysterious virus that swept through the jungle. The virus infected most of the fruits and plants in the jungle. Next, the animals started getting sick. The infected animals lost their sanity and started attacking everyone around them.
The impact of the meteor ripped a hole in the ground and the virus infected everything on the ground. Staying on the ground meant certain death. Uninfected animals made ropes by using sticks and vines, and took refuge in the trees. Infection from the meteor kept spreading all over the jungle. Food became more scarce as infection killed all the plants around. The only source of food were the golden banana trees that grew near the healing spring.
Getting to the banana trees was another challenge for animals of the jungle. Animals had to fight to reach the healing spring that lay far inside the jungle. However, golden bananas were limited, there were only enough bananas to feed animals closest to the trees. That forced friendly animals of the jungle to form groups and fight each other to occupy territory closest to the banana trees.
Battles took place on the peaks of trees, these battles were far from just simple animal conflicts. Animals hung from trees using ropes and threw their weapons at their enemies to defeat them. These fights became part of the new life in the jungle and only the strongest groups survived.
2. Introduce JunGo’s team background and strength.
We have an international team of game veterans, DeFi experts, and senior blockchain engineers from Europe, America, and Asia. Our team members have worked with top companies. The other co-founder, Robert, is a former Tencent Engineer, and FunPlus BD. Daniel, our game producer formerly worked as a producer for Square&Enix and Konami. Our technical director, Lee, is a former Activision Blizzard Senior Engineer. And Lucy, our art director was an artist working at TiMi Studios and NetEase. With these core members we bring years of experience for project execution and lead the rest of our growing team for the longevity of JunGo. Oh, and we also just brought onboard a really great marketing team with community managers and moderators to make sure everyone hears all the good news about JunGo!
3.When can we start to enjoy the game？
We’re really excited that our Alpha version of the game will be ready for play in about 3 weeks for testing and enjoying. The P2E version will be available later after we release our NFTs and $JUNGO token. Don’t worry we will keep you posted.
1).Any new updates we can learn from your side?
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The newest update is that will be launching our new website soon, in about a week and are building our own marketplace to be included later.
2).Can you also give a sneak peek of what else coming next?
We are continuing to add more traits to our NFTs and will be posting sneak peeks soon in our discord. So make sure to stay active in the discord for more announcements and giveaways.
3).Could you summarize the incentives for readers to participate in the ICO？
The $JUNGO and $BLG are currency we use to encourage users to participate in the ecosystem activities.
It’s to reward players for interacting with JunGo while incentivizing them to utilize tokens for transaction, so as to create an internal circulating economy.
Also to decentralize the ownership and governance of JunGo.
4. Please talk more about the innovation and development of GameFi.
Well, as most of you may know this year the GameFi market is blasting off. I’m sure that many of you here have bought NFTs for gaming and are maybe familiar with a few models that are in place that most GameFi projects are using. Some of the simpler games use the card game model with each NFT card having strengths to play against others. A second model you can see is some game rules written in the smart contracts, with people staking NFTs for tokens and the tokens then have other use cases, these kinds of games are more passive in that you choose when to stake and unstake, claiming tokens, how to spend them, and take the risks set in the game with percentages of others stealing from you or taking taxes on your tokens, etc. A third model in GameFi is that the NFTs have some kind of interaction in the smart contract that modifies them to either produce something new or to change the original, such as with mating, merging, and evolving. Last there are also NFTs that don’t change at all and just are used for some kind of play-to-earn based on their properties.
With JunGo we have combined many ideas from the base models while pushing to be creative and innovative for the next level of GameFi, and hope to set a new model that others can later follow. We want to offer you all the great parts we’ve seen being developed in GameFi, but to also not forget our roots of loving games first and foremost. We want players to earn back from doing what they love. This is what GameFi should be. Love to play, play to earn, with exciting developments always coming more and more.
I know that you would like to bring your project globally, so can you share about your marketing strategy to spread worldwide?
JunGo is born for players all over the world. We will launch JunGo globally.
JunGo’s marketing strategy is a combination of Focus and Brand.
Focus is about putting the most resources together to focus on the quality of the game and the economic model.
We value the voice and opinions of our players and are committed to making JunGo the perfect combination of Playability, Value and Community.
Brand is to expand JunGo’s influence through effective channels and highlight JunGo’s culture and world view. We will be dedicated to spreading JunGo’s game concept and brand ecology to create strong brand value for us all.
