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The game's player controls is similar to a First person (FPS) or Third person shooter(TPS), with the movement keys being, WASD, space to jump and left mouse click to aim and fire.

If you are already familiar with those types of TPS or FPS games, then it should take you about 3 games to get competent at the game.

If you do not normally play those types of shooter games, it should take you about 8 -10 games to get competent at the game.

Each game is about 6-10 minutes long on the 3 player round.

Since the game is turn-based, each player will only be able to act in a 20 second timeframe, and the weapons' behaviors are similar to playing 'golf online'.

What we mean by 'social competitive' is that, unlike most shooters that are in real time play, ours being turn-based allows a wider skill range of players to play and still enjoy the game because cooperation is allowed in the game. Players can gang up on other players, but the caveat here is that only 1 player can win, so there is more of a social game theory aspect to the play than just reflexes.

So, as the game does not solely rely on player mechanics to win, it also allows for both serious and casual players to still enjoy their game time.

Simply download the launcher from this website, MAYG.io and install the game.

All you need is a valid email to start to play, but we do have a discord you can join discord.gg/maygnft and official play times, to coordinate with other players.

As we are still in our pre-beta phase we are just ramping up to our main beta release by the end of this year.

We are not on a launcher as we have pushed all blockchain connections to our own launcher which directly launches our Game. So for most blockchain launchers, our set-up does not work for them as they would like to be the sole launcher in the process to verify the code themselves.

In terms of safety to download, the game's code signing is from Digicert, who have verified our identity, business address and phone numbers as a gaming studio. Generally speaking, what the code signing does is "the process of digitally signing executables and scripts to confirm the software author and guarantee that the code has not been altered or corrupted since it was signed. The process employs the use of a cryptographic hash to validate authenticity and integrity." The verified developer will be unable to inject malicious codes, as evidence would point them as the malicious actor.

The founder, head of studio and producer are all doxxed in the video game space.

In terms of why we are not on Steam or Epic. Steam does not allow any NFT or token enabled games on their platform, and while that is fine with other 'web3 games' to hide or disable their tokens, it's the entire premise for the basis of our game - i.e. open economy.

Epic does allow NFT games with charges of 17% or so for transactions, and unfortunately, that also doesn't work with our game economy model or approach, as we are launching an open economy with the benefits of the open economy.

As an indie game however, we will be uploading our game to https://itch.io/ and while they aren't happy about Web3 NFT games, they don't put any restrictions on these games other than thinking all web3 games are terrible (and for the most part, we completely agree, but we are hoping to start to change that perception.

Peeking Duck Studios was founded in September 2021 and is registered in Nassau, The Bahamas.

It is led by Lukasz Drozdek as the studio head and art director, Danny Pisano, as the senior Producer and Sinjin David Jung as the game designer. We are old school game developers from the early console, pc, esports and social casino casual game days.

MAYG is an original PC game and at this point in the industry, nearly all games are inspired or based on existing works, MAYG is no exception.

The core game loop is that of the turn based game 'Worms', where players take turns to blow each other with various area-of-effect weapons.

We chose to base our game loop on the Worms game as it is one of the few games that was competitive and has mass appeal

Our game is original in our level design, how damage is dealt and the general gameplay approach. While Worms did have two 3D versions, our approach still maintains the turn-based nature, but includes a horizontal movement limit. Also, the environment destroys in a completely random way, with damage being dealt with weapon, environment collision, particle collision, player knock back and fall damage. This was to make the game less predictable in both damage and positioning.

Our game also has a type of fog of war where the opposing players are blocked in line of sight and also through general positioning within the nightclub arena.

Our biggest innovation is the match format. While the game is still a winner-take-all death match, we have an integrated game economy that allows players to progress through a competitive path.

Believe it or not, the gamer persona we styled the game for, are competitive female gamers . We wanted to engage women who could see the sophistication and nuance of our game, while being able to ease into the game.

From a marketing product standpoint, if we could appeal to rich mommies, as a core player base, then expanding the game from that niche would be ideal.

The interesting thing with new games, is exploring the gamer type by finding out which groups find it the most fun. 

As we are built on Unity, we do have Mac build that is yet to be optimized. Unfortunately, the integrated video card of the Mac does not adapt well with the vast amount of physics calculations in our game, it will take some time to optimize the Mac version, but our Mac build does have all the current game functionality.

The mobile version is something we are looking at as more of an online distribution player acquisition funnel for our main game. So it would be more of a MAYG lite version - that being said, a majority of our future ecosystem games will be on mobile.

Absolutely yes. We already have a linux converted test build that works on the Steam deck, so it is on our road map. We also recognize that for gamers with disabilities, the controller is the preferred gaming input.

We expect to have controller support a couple months after we launch our beta v1 by the year's end..