👾 The Pokemon game we all need on Solana?
Nostalgic about your younger years playing Pokemon on your GameBoy Color? Not worries ser... Nokiamon might be the NFT project that satisfy your need on the Solana blockchain! Let's dive in 🔥
Welcome to episode #9 of my Adventures on the Solana Blockchain! 🏝️
In this one, we are traveling back in time to our younger selves when we played Pokemon on our Gameboy colors!
There have been some projects trying to recreate this pokemon vibe on the blockchain.
Nokiamon is one taking one page out of Pokemon’s games book by allowing us degens to catch some beautifully designed monsters! 👾
Here’s what you should know about the project, NFT collection, xNFT, Nokidex, badges, and more. 🚀
❓What is Nokiamon
Twitter - Website - Exchange Art - xNFT
Nokiamon (short for "Noki-a-monsters”) is a monster collection that lives on the Solana blockchain and was created by @flagmonkez.
👷♂️ Riz Flagz, Founder of Nokiamon
A fellow MonkeDAO member, Flag Monkez is the founder behind Nokiamon! He is often one of the top artists on Exchange Art with his Flagmonkez account.
He is also the founder and creator of @HoomanLeague which is a collection of beautiful PFPs on Solana (link) as well as the renowned Flag Monkez collection.
Here are a few questions I asked Riz about Nokiamon 🙋♂️
💡 What sparked the idea for the project?
One of the main inspirations was the bear market in 2022, which opened up new possibilities for creating fun, unique, and valuable digital collectibles that could be traded and collected in a decentralized way, while people were already at the peak level of trading NFTs.
We were motivated by the idea of creating a fun and engaging experience for collectors - something that would not only provide them with a unique and valuable asset but also an enjoyable and rewarding activity.
Nokiamon started when we turned all the concepts we had into pixel art made inside a classic Nokia 3315 phone, which only had 1-bit color. Riz planned to make Nokiamon fully in 1-bit pixel art, but we faced many disadvantages, such as difficulty in moving the file to the PC; there was a way, but it was not a good step.
🔮 What are the vision and goals for Nokiamon?
What is our vision for Nokiamon?
We want to go mainstream and believe that Nokiamon has big potential for mass adoption. Our vision is to bring a fun and unique experience to collecting blockchain monsters.
Talking about our goals, we want to be on every platform, but mobile is our first priority. We also want to create a new economy for artists so that they can contribute to the Nokiamon ecosystem and sell some of their creations inside the Noki Platform.”
🗺 What are the future plans/roadmap?
We don't really believe in roadmaps in web3 because this ecosystem is fast, and we need to adapt to changes. A few things for sure are:
Making Tamer PFP
Space for Nokiamon, it's something like a home for Nokiamon
Collaborating with more Devs, Artists, and Music Composers in the Solana ecosystem
Making some official games for Nokiamon
Real-life Nokiamon event
NokiTrade
NokiMarket
NokiPacks
🤑 Any alpha or tease you can share about Nokiamon?
I can share this image;
It's the first layout of our battling system. As we grow, Nokiamon will have its own mobile game. We are also working on a rarity system for Nokiamon, which I think will make collecting Nokiamon more fun.
Nokiamon Legendary Event will be the first place to introduce NokiPack
👻 NFTs
The total and finished collection will have 108 Nokiamons released. These are minted bi-weekly for 0.43 SOL (Monday and Thursday) on Exchange Art. 30 have been released as of today.
Each of these beautiful creatures comes with attributes, types, and more.
Here’s Sludgy, the second to last Nokiamon released for which all mint proceeds will be donated to Turkey and Syria for earthquake relief.
❓What do we know about Sludgy and other Nokiamons
Each has two types, the ability to evolve, its origins (artist), and the date of mint.
All Nokiamons have a name, classification, generation, weight, height, and gender ratio.
Finally, each Nokiamon has 2 abilities chosen from the complete list shared above and stats about his/her level (health, attack, and defense points).
📱 xNFT 🤝 Backpack 🎒
Don’t know what xNFTs and Backpack are? Check out my episode about the project here.
Nokiamon is one of the projects with the most advanced and fun xNFT app. Many things are possible within the Backpack app.
🛠 Setup
1️⃣ Go download the xNFT app for your Backpack wallet here!
2️⃣ After installation, launch the xNFT and connect your wallet holding your Nokiamons
🚀 You are all set and ready to play. Here’s what is inside?
🐾 Nokidex
Nokidex is a database that stores information about all the Nokiamon creatures in the game. It includes information on the creature's type, abilities, and evolution. Players can use Nokidex to learn more about the creatures in the game and to track their progress in completing their collection.
It helps tamers (what Nokiamon holders are called) to track their “portfolio” of creatures they own, the ones they don’t, and the unreleased ones.
💪 Abilities
As you can expect for any Pokemon-like game, the creatures need to have some cool abilities or “attacks” so they can battle each other (yet to be built 🤷♂️).
Here’s the full list of abilities that were community sourced. Each discord member had a say and could propose abilities for Nokiamons.
🎖️ Badges
All good tamers need to be rewarded for the successful catching of Nokiamons. This is where badges come in handy! 😄
This is one of the most recent features shipped by the team. 🚢
As you collect Nokiamons, you will be eligible to claim badges based on certain requirements, each his own.
For the Dex Collector badge (1st one on the left in the screenshot above), a Noki tamer is required to have collected at least one Nokiamon.
The Licensed Tamer badge (2nd) requires the tamer to collect at least 6 Nokiamons. You can imagine (or go buy some) to learn about the rest of the badges. 😉
🙏 A cool initiative to support Turkey and Syria
For the minting of the latest Nokiamon, it was announced that all proceeds of it would go to support the victims of the tragic earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria.
A great initiative showing yet again how web3 projects and NFTs can be great vehicles for helping others and charitable actions!
Go, team ❤️
🤝 Collaboration
Like many NFT projects, Nokiamon has collaborated with top artists and Solana degens on several monsters. We even got one with @bonk_inu!
🏎️ tl;dr
Nokiamon is an up-and-coming project that has the potential to bring back the nostalgia of playing Pokemon on our Gameboy colors while also incorporating the innovative features of blockchain technology. 🎮
Big fan obviously and you can count on me to enrich my current Nokidex with all the future drops 👀
👾 Latest Mint is here
Go catch Nonata whose mint started a bit more than an hour ago here!
🎁 Backpack codes giveaway
Subscribe to this Substack and I will send you a Backpack access code!
If you don’t know Backpack? You can learn more about the best wallet in the space in my post about it! ⬇️ 🎒