Rune Seeker is a turn-based strategy card game, which has a combination of the tactical depth of traditional card games and blockchain. Run Seeker allows players to join the game and earn rewards without paying any entrance fees.
Gameplay
Rune Seeker’s gameplay mainly revolves around two factors: Units and Terrain. To begin the battle, each player can place up to 3 Units on any tile, then waits for the map to be randomly generated. After the map is established, Units will be boosted or debuffed depending on the terrain around them.
The surrounding terrain has the properties of the elements and these elements can affect a Unit’s passive stats according to the principle of 4 elements: Earth – Water – Fire – Air. Each match on average takes place within 6 minutes and lasts about 3-4 rounds, each round consists of 2 main phases: Command and Action.
Players from both sides will place their Units wherever they want on the map, then the remaining tiles will randomly become terrain tiles. During the Command Phase, players on both sides can use their Runes to command units and control terrain changes. During the Action Phase, terrain and units will follow orders from their commander and perform an action as assigned. This action can be attack, defense, transform, fusion or summon.
The match ends when one side destroys all the enemies. If the Runes (a combination of two cards) is used up before that mark, the commander will lose control and the Units will automatically attack with pre-programmed actions until the match ends. After more than 3 rounds, Astronomical Tower will activate the “Land of Chaos” mode, boosting the power of all Units to force the match to end.
Maps
Rune Seeker generates maps randomly. Players will be put in a different terrain layout for each match. The main tactical component of the combat phase is terrain. Terrain provides good or bad effects to units that are nearby or standing on them. Terrain also provides players with many different ways to activate special effects for Units like using unit cards, unit skills, etc.
Units will gain beneficial effects if the properties of terrain and units are the same and vice versa. Due to the impact of terrain on the match, one of the important goals is to change the terrain in his territory in a way that benefits his units while harming units in the opponent’s territory.
In addition, players can: Upgrade terrain to increase their effects and Activate Grand Terrain. Grand Terrain is a fusion of three terrain tiles of the same element placed side by side. This type of terrain will heavily buff (or debuff) nearby units until the end of the match and cannot be changed or split.
Rune System
There are two concepts that you need to understand first: Rune Shard (are cards) and Rune (a combination of 2 Rune Shards).
All Runes generated in Rune Seeker come from a random combination of two types of Rune Shards: Creation and Absorption, with 100 cards each. In the first version, 100 Creation cards will be combined with 100 Absorption cards to create 10000 Runes with unique attributes. The number of Rune Shards will be increased in accordance with Rune Seeker’s roadmap and development progress. Each player will enter the battle with a certain set of Runes.
Two types of Shard:
- Creation – Spell and Unit Rune: applied to Unit, to command the Unit to activate a special skill, attack or enchantment (dealing damage to the opponent, or healing to allies).
- Absorption – Terrain Rune: applied to a tile or terrain area, to transform the terrain or apply magical effects on it.
Up to four Runes from the player’s rune set will appear in a random order during each round. Players can use all Runes or a few Runes in each round.
Rarity and capacity
Each Rune Shard has different rarity, different stats and unique effects. Players can find Rune Shards of varying rarity for their strategy through rewards from Dungeon quests, Gacha spins, or Marketplace trades. However, besides its rarity or strength, the power of each Shard Rune depends on several factors:
- Combining: since Shards are randomly combined to form Runes, there will be many cases where players can create synergies between two different Shards and increase the overall value of Runes.
- Capacity: Shards will consume more space, so a player will have to sacrifice the number of Runes carried in battle in exchange for quality.
Unit System
In Rune Seeker, Units will participate in base production and operations and combat.
The following properties will be present in every Unit:
- Each Unit will belong to 1 of 4 Elemental Systems (Earth – Water – Fire – Air). This will affect the power of other Units in the match and their interaction with the terrain.
- Unit stats:
ATK & HP: Determines combat power and health
SPD: Determines the unit’s move priority
EQL: Determines how many Runes the Unit can carry
Special Skills and Equipment
Besides standard attacks, Units have special skills and players must use Runes to activate those skills.
Each Unit will have 3 separate skills: Skill of Star, Skills of the Moon, Skill of the Sun. Each skill can be active or passive (Active is the skill that must use Runes to activate and Passive doesn’t need to use Runes).
Each Unit will also have 4 types of equipment – weapon, armor, ring and talisman that are pre-attached and non-replaceable. However, they can be upgraded to increase Unit key stats and unlock additional bonus effects.
Base system
The commander’s base will include:
- Castle (non-removable): Castle will cast an aura on nearby buildings to increase productivity, but this ability will be weakened if buildings are further away from the castle.
- Buildings:
Essential: Buildings serve important functions in the game. They can be moved to another location, but they must be present in the base.
Mining: To create in-game resources for players.
Support: To support base operations.
Decoration: serve the commander’s aesthetic taste.
Heroes and Skins
Hero is a character that represents the player in Rune Seeker. Each player will start with the same default Hero. Rune Seeker has 12 skins, each with 6 components. Skins are randomly generated from the skin production pool.
Marketplace và Official Store
Official Store
Rune Seeker offers an Official Store where players can find Gacha boxes, cards and seasonal champions. The Official Store will prioritize special promotions and discounts to give players a greater chance to buy what they need at a fair price. Players can only use RUNES tokens to trade in the Official Store.
Marketplace
Marketplace is the main hub where all trading takes place. Marketplace will charge 2% per transaction.
Unit Market
Unit Market is designed to meet the needs of players. Commanders can go to the market to search for Units that match their strategy and playstyle.
Game modes
Battle Arena (PvP)
Battle Arena includes two modes: Normal and Ranked. In this game mode, players will compete against each other in real time. In ranked mode, winners will receive rewards, experience points and ranking points, losers will receive less resources and experience and have their ranking points deducted.
Tower (PvP)
Each month, all players on the server will be placed in an Arena Tower to fight each other, but with a twist. The attacker will directly command his team to fight with the strongest squad of other players but arranged and commanded by AI. The top 5 people with the highest score will receive great rewards including resources, experience points and rare items.
Story (PvE)
Dungeon system will be the main area for players to find resources, items, experience points and explore the story.
Campaign (PvE)
Every month, for a short period of time, Rune Seeker will kick off a Special Campaign so that all players on the server can fight the Boss together. If the Boss is defeated, the reward will be divided equally among all participating players, whoever deals more damage will receive more rewards.
Tokennomics
Token allocation
- Seed round 1: 8%
- Seed round 2: 26%
- Private: 0%
- Public round: 6%
- Liquidity: 5%
- Development team: 13%
- Advisor: 4%
- Sustainable Development Fund: 20% – locked for 24 months and gradually unlocked in the next 24 months.
- Balanced Fund: 18% – expected to burn out
Use cases
- Trade almost all resources in Rune Seeker, from essential resources to Cards, Units, Land and Buildings.
- Take part in Rune Seeker events like season passes and gacha games.
- Vote for or against the changes the development team will make in the game.
- Others (buy energy to play more, respawn, double rewards…).
Roadmap
- Q2 2023: Testnet
- Q3 2023: Launch and reach 200k downloads
- Q3-4 2023: Add new game modes and in-game community features
- Q4 2023: Reach 1 million downloads
- Q1 2024: Focus marketing resources and expand the community
- Q2 2024: Reach 2 million downloads