Holo everyone!
Although we didn't expect to be creating a proposal, times have unfortunately required it, even though we understand that timing isn't great.
This proposal is spread into 3 parts, backpay for delayed payments due to lack of funding, backpay for HAF NFT app, and overhead for the rest of 2025 and early 2026 for devs and artists.
A brief intro to @holozing.
It was launched fairly on Oct 17th 2024, mainly funded through delegations to @zingtoken and their rewards. A year after, when we were certain the game is going to work out and be released when finished, we launched our starter packs (Alpha Vials) sale and have sold over 3800 vials in a year.
With the price of hive not doing too great and a lot of our crowdfunding depending on it, we've come to a situation where we're behind on payments to our developers and artists. Thus, we would like to ask the DHF for some assistance and some overhead for the rest of 2025 as to not risk losing any developers due to lack of funding.
More info about @holozing.
It's a turn-based 3d battle and healer game with professions and an in-game economy. Assets created from scratch with a unique battle-style where damage and healing is interconnected for strategic outcomes. It touches on collection, owning of assets, cross-play of assets, PvE and PvP, slight tamagotchi-style . It also touches on earning but isn't the focal point of the project as it will also offer a web2 version for players not interested in web3.
We have gotten a lot of work done over 2 years but there is also excessive work implemented that may have not been necessary for an alpha version but good to have to prevent the in-game economy from being cheated early on by multi-accounts/farms that have plagued many other games in the scene. This means that when the beta version of the game launches, it will officially be live without rollbacks/relaunches.
Our focus has also been the artwork which has cost us a lot of resources as we wanted it to be unique, professional and stand the test of time without turning to AI assistance as to leave any options open for integration of our game(s) on different platforms.
Spending
We have spent funding received purely on development of the game and assets as well as maintenance, our plan is to continue doing so while we develop our main game further along with side games, all using the zing token and holozing game assets. The things we've spent our funding on are:
- backend work, hive-engine (from hive)
- frontend work, website (from hive)
- game, unity (found outside of hive)
- artists, 2d, 3d, animations, vfx (from upwork, fiverr and hive)
- sound & music (hive)
- art direction & fine-tuning (hive)
- 1 mini game, development on pause (from hive)
- legal research, outreach, growth and further crowdfunding plans (outside of hive)
- maintenance, servers, subscriptions to tools
- game design, both concrete and advisory (from upwork and hive)
- project lead and organizing (hive)
- contests, events, various initiatives (hive)
We have also attempted to get every worker outside of Hive their own Hive account and to become active in the space, such as @luckyblame (game dev), @craizuss (healer artist) but understandably most preferred payments in other stable currencies (usdc/usdt/fiat). There have also been a few artists replaced over time, some had to focus on other projects while some we had to pause work with us due to lack of funding. We've however been lucky not to need to replace the more crucial components during this time and hope to keep it that way until the game is released.
We worked closely with blocktrades and team to develop a HAF app for NFT. While our original plans used Hive-Engine for NFTs, due to instability with the platform, we have wanted to move away for quite some time and this is the first step towards that. The HAF NFT Tracker app ( https://gitlab.syncad.com/hive/nft_tracker ) implements what we need for a MVP and is currently being tested for use with Holozing. This was designed in a way to benefit anyone on Hive who wants to launch NFTs, not just our project. We plan on migrating and issuing items from packs onto HAF NFTs, as well as any future NFTs that we create.
We have also invited blocktrades to our github as custodian to our code with a written agreement that if our team/project were to do anything that goes against Hive, they have the right to open-source/release the code to interested parties planning on continuing to build a game on Hive. This is a show of good faith for our proposal to continue developing our closed sourced game.
We're asking for - 8500 HBD for HAF NFTs work - 8500 HBD for backpay of our devs and artists - 10,000 HBD for overhead for the rest of 2025 and early 2026 for devs and artists
Total of 27,000 HBD paid over 60 days at 450 HBD daily.
We reserve the right to a full or partial refund of the overhead HBD if funding of our project from other sources (delegations, vial sales, hive price improvements, etc) improves during our expenses. Our priority remains to attempt to pay involved workers with our own funding first and the DHF-funded HBD for overhead second.
To vote for our proposal: using Peakd / Ecency
Hive.blog: https://wallet.hive.blog/proposals (Look for upcoming proposal #361)
New Creature enters our roster
While this may seem highly off-topic to the rest of the post, we wanted to showcase a new creature for the rest of the community as we haven't been posting too often lately!
We are also working on the Zingtober results and winner announcement!
We'll make this part brief!
Meet Panyin! A small but already strong Panda. This creature will have generally quite balanced stats and not too focused on any specific ones, meaning on average it will be quite good at attacking, defending, being fast and critical strikes as well as having a good amount of Health. This is something that's going to be quite rare when you look at all the other creatures in our roster, hence the yin-yang symbol to represent it.
Its evolved form is called Panyang which many of you may have guessed looking at the first one! Similar to other creatures, it receives a boost in stats when it evolves but that doesn't mean that creatures that don't evolve fall behind on stats. Our formula makes sure that unevolved creatures have generally lower stats with the evolution then taking them to be on par with creatures that can't evolve, which we currently don't have in our roster but will eventually! Panyin and Panyang will focus on normal (physical) type moves with punches and kicks being their favorite abilities.
Can you guess what their radiant versions will look like, healers? :)
Thank you for reading and your continued support!
To vote for our proposal: using Peakd / Ecency
Hive.blog: https://wallet.hive.blog/proposals (Look for upcoming proposal #361)
Stay tuned by following us on Hive @holozing
Official Hive community:
Peakd - Hive.blog - Ecency - inLeo
Official pages on web2:
Twitter/X --- Reddit --- Discord
Witnesses involved in @holozing if you'd like to support them with your vote:
- @ocd-witness
- @peakd
- @rishi556
