For those who haven't seen, a new game launched tonight on Hive called Holozing, put together by a small team headed-up by 
You can read the Whitepaper to find out more about the game itself. At this point though, there isn't a whole lot to go on, other than it is similar in some sense to Pokemon with collection and battling, and it is going to be a 3D gaming experience - which will be a welcome change to most of what we have seen on Hive so far.
However, even though the game isn't out yet, it is possible to start the "collection" phase now, as even though there are no cute creatures, there is the possibility to use Hive stake to earn ZING tokens. Using HIVE STAKE as an earning mechanism is a huge advantage and, it is probably better than just dropping on stakeholders directly.
Normally, when tokens are dropped on stake directly, it goes to everyone, regardless of whether they are interested in the game or not. This means "free money" regardless of the value of the token. When stake is delegated to earn it though, it comes at a cost to the stakeholder, which means there is a tradeoff on the immediate earning ability from curation, and the future potential of the token in question - in this case ZING. This means that the people who are willing to trade some of their curation for ZING, are more likely to be those who are interested in the game, or see that the earning potential is higher than the curation return on that stake.
The rewards are paid out on the hour and are currently in three reward components; staking, POSH and delegation. After signing up on the website last night, I chose to delegate some of my stake early, because not only do I want to be part of the game later, but I also want to take advantage of being among the first earners. With a limited distribution each day, it means that it is spread amongst delegators. Currently, there are almost 1.1M HIVE POWER delegated to the project's delegation account, 
When claiming, it looks something like this:
After claiming, it goes straight into ZING staking, where it can be unstaked (after 7 days). At that point, it would be possible to move it to TribalDex and become a Liquidity Provider, or to the marketplace.
Whilst this is what's available to "do" right now, there is a bit of a sneak peak into what is to come by way of creatures to collect on the "inventory" page. The art is great and borrows from Manga and Anime.
Then of course, there is the rarity and how many owned etc, that most will be familiar with if playing these kinds of games like Splinterlands. Each creature will of course have stats, but as this is a training game for casual and competitive gamers, the stats will change depending on how the healer trains them. Not only that, when catching them in the wild, they can also have different starting stats, which puts game into the collection also, where collecting rarer and better foundation stats will affect outcomes.
There has not been that much mentioned yet about the details of gameplay or how it will look to begin with, but as the project team progresses with development, more will be released, including a few teasers also. What I do think though is that since this includes both casual gaming ability as well as competitive gaming including earning, it might appeal to more people, especially at the start, when gamer investors have the chance to get in early.
Crypto projects are difficult to build and develop, but on Hive the barrier is lower in many respects, because there is a community to back the projects that people see value in. And, when it is backed through delegation, there is very little risk. However, more than that, these types of projects help build the community too, not only by bringing in new participants, but also engaging the current community also, and building more network throughout Hive.
I am looking forward to what the current team comes up with and how it evolves over time, as these kinds of projects tend to, as the ecosystem changes. And with something like this, if the timing coincides with a bull market, things can change very rapidly, and develop at a far greater speed too.
Let's see where this one goes with Hive!!
Taraz
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