Tengoku is created by a well-known Japanese anime and game expert and exclusively founded and operated by Aaru Labs. An immersive virtual world that combines NFT, GameFi, and MetaFi. The story background is built upon a space city and 3D virtual characters. After the mint, a multiplayer game will be provided to holder, and they can directly use the NFT to participate. The NFT is Japanese anime and mecha style. The players are attracted by the highly simulated 3D virtual avatar.

Basic Information

Project Name：    Tengoku

Total Circulation：  5,555 NFTs

Mint Formation：  Not Free Mint

Initial Price：      white list：0.068E  Public sale：0.1E

Mint time：       Oct. 22, 2022 11 a.m. UTC

Sale Platform：    Opensea, element, Looksrare

How to get NFT white list

There are currently three ways to participate：

1. Participate in the lottery through www.premint.xyz/tengoku/. There are 3,000 lottery places, 2,000 of which are for ordinary users and 1,000 for permint pass holders.

2. Follow Tengoku Twitter for various occasional whitelisting events.

3. Participate in activities in discord to receive points. The process of obtaining points requires  to finish the task. Accumulated 1000 points can be exchanged for a whitelist.

The probability to win the prize with the permit pass is 50%, so if users who already held the permit pass should pay more attention to it.

NFT usage scenarios and gameplay

Tengoku has a total of 6 major characters, each character has different game skills in the game according to the characteristics, and these skills restrain each other.

The 6 characters are:

Aviator：The special skill is to speed up the incubation process and give priority to capturing the top 2,000 Genesis 3D avatars

Guard of Tengoku：Good at heat weapons and can resist the attacks of the other two characters Kunoichi and Bounty Ranger.

Treatment Squad： Increases the amount of nutrients and provides efficient healing support.

Confessor：The spiritual leader of the mysterious religion can get more tokens.

Kunoichi：Initially divided into / medium / high / master level, with 4 skills to sneak into other hatches to snatch nutrients.

Bounty Ranger: Make good use of the power of nature, the power of Fengshui, and you can snatch tokens according to the daily incubation leaderboard.

The main gameplay of the entire game is to incubate 3D virtual humans. 2D NFT holders who participate in the game can get corresponding token airdrops which are just enough for daily incubation consumption.

Players competition: The first 2,000 hatched 3D virtual humans are Genesis virtual humans. Compared with ordinary virtual humans, Genesis-level NFTs will have more empowerment in the future Tengoku ecosystem. Therefore, players can choose to accelerate the incubation to obtain the creation level, or they can lay flat to incubate the normal level.

After Tengoku ID NFT enters the hatching chamber on the official website, it needs nutrients to provide energy continuously to complete the incubation. Four bottles of nutrients can be installed in the hatching chamber each time (each bottle of nutrients can last for 6 hours). If the nutrients are consumed, It will enter the process of hatching progress backwards. During the incubation period, there will be token airdrops every day, and the nutrients required for normal incubation speed can be purchased: Accelerator cards can speed up the hatching process, but the consumption of nutrients will also speed up. After the nutrients are consumed, the rollback process will also speed up.

Game props include:

Nutrient: The necessary for the hatching process. If the nutrient is gone, the hatching process will go backwards. There are tokens airdropping every day which can be used to buy the nutrient, but the doses are only enough for the normal usage.

Accelerator Card: Used to speed up the incubation process.

Nutrient slot: To increase the hatching chamber.

When the incubation is done, each Tengoku ID will get an initial 3D virtual NFT corresponding to a character, and then the original 2D PFP NFT will be destroyed.

Partial Summary: The gameplay is relatively novel, especially the unique incubation process which gives users a strong incentive to incubate their NFTs into 3D. Because the 3D effect of Tengoku is quite realistic and having strong contrast with the 2D version, it prompts players to have full of expectations to own a NFT and see the transformation. Clearly, the cost of manufacturing NFT is much higher than that of most NFT projects which displays the strength behind the entire team.

The Mint fee for this project is relatively costly, and the Public Sale is also as high as 0.1ETH. Therefore, successfully issuing 5555 Tengoku NFT is a little bit challenging. In this bear market, the majority incoming NFT projects are issuing with free mint. Tengoku truly has guts to issue with such mint fee. Compared with the successful launch of Yu-Gi-Yn which the project is also 3D design, I guess Tengoku will also be snapped up with the current popularity.

Social Platform Traffic And Popularity

Twitter: 100.7K followers, average 100-400 likes RT/Tweet

Discord:72k members, 6k members average online

Fans have grown rapidly. Tweets with pictures obtained high traffic. Since the mint date is on 22nd, the interaction among fans is pretty frequent.

Team Structure

Tengoku is operated by Aaru Labs which registered in Seychelles The team members are from multiple countries and have more than 14 years of full-process production experience in the well-known Japanese games and comics, and they have also participated in the development of many world-renowned AAA video and games, including Dark Souls 23, Bloodborne, Death standing, Sekiro Shadow Die Twice, and Elden Ring .

Among them, Sekiro Shadows Die Twice was named Game of the Year 2019 by TheGameAwards, while Elden Ring was named the most anticipated game in 2020 and 2021 by TheGameAwards for two consecutive years.

PS: TheGameAwards is the Oscars in the gaming industry.

Partial Summary: since the team members are from multiple countries, so the project is not geographically restricted by a single country which could be one of the advantages. The combination of different races and cultures is more likely to collide with new ideas and thoughts. At the same time, with the team's years of development experience in the game industry, they have more advantages and professionalism than other teams in the development process of 3D virtual characters and metaverse. This is the key factor that allows the 3D effect of the project to be launched in time after NFT is minted.

Road map

2022.10 Launch Tengoku ID (2D PFP NFT) Mint

After 2022.10 Mint ends, the blind box of NFT can be opened instantly, and you can participate in the incubation game, After entering the incubation game, you can get a lot of airdrops of game tokens and exchange for game items every day. At the same time, you can participate in related activities on Discord and twitter, and have the opportunity to get a lot of high-value props airdrops.

2022.11 Tengoku IDs participating in the incubation game can get a 3D virtual human NFT immediately after the incubation game ends.

2022.11 Download the source file of the 3D virtual human with the certification of the 3D virtual human NFT holding wallet, and can start unlimited commercial authorization applications. The Tengoku Creation Foundation was established to provide financial and technical support for commercial applications.

2022.12 The allocation of land and resources in the Tengoku Metaverse, the first to complete 2,000 hatched 3D virtual human beings, is the creation 3D virtual human, and can obtain the distribution rights of core land and resources.

2022.12 After the game ends, pledge Tengoku 3D virtual human NFT to get token rewards. The tokens can be used to exchange various items in the metaverse to help gain more advantages in the metaverse.

2023.2 Metaverse opens up user experience, and Tengoku Game Foundation is established. Third-party screening and financial support for Tengoku Verse development games. Then the shuttle application is open to experience.3D virtual human NFT holders can provide themselves with Youtube, Tiktok, Douyin, Kuaishou, and Bilibili virtual people through Shuttle to replace real people as the protagonist of videos and live broadcasts.

2023.5 2023.5 Shuttle SAAS platform features open user experience, and open 3D virtual human NFT reproduction function. Allow 3D virtual human NFT holders to provide non-holders with Youtube, Tiktok, Douyin, Kuaishou, Bilibili virtual people to replace real people as the protagonist of video and live broadcast services through Shuttle.

Summury

I will personally get at least one Tengoku NFT because I enjoy the amazing effects that Tengoku presents, and I believe Tengoku is considered to be the ceiling of the 3D virtual world. As I mentioned earlier, the team background of this project is very powerful; so, technically there is no need to worry about the 3D production to present a sense of inconsistency like some other projects. For example, although Halo's avatars are realistic, the overall feeling is dull and rigid, while Tengoku's 3D effects are smooth.

In addition, the project has a "30-day refund" policy. Although the policy is no longer innovative, it reflects the project's determination to give good products. The most eye-catching feature of Tengoku is the unlimited commercial agreement which can effectively help the holders to explore the value of virtual characters in the web2 world. Moreover, the roadmap is specific for the development of NFT and the refinement of business cooperation. Based on these factors, the Mint Fee of 0.068ETH seems cost-effective.

I’ll recommend to own Tengoku NFT. If you haven't participated in the Twitter sweepstakes, then try to participate on Discord to earn points. If you are lucky enough to get Tengoku NFT, it is recommended to trade on Element, because Element can save 80% of the handling fee compared to Opensea.