i don't want to be doing too much talking here as i'm certainly not the p.r. genius, just a guy who knows a line of code or two ... that's very early access for the curious with no salespitch or media-hype.
Things are shifting, contests need funding, nothing's set in stone. The arcade games can level the players accounts while some of the others can earn credits either by playing or contest.

It's probably far from steemmonsters BUT
at least people are trying something ;-)

(as i said ... i'm not the p.r.-genius .... )
no idea how promotion will go, the main account for steemplayer is @bigcherry, wether it will be voting, sbi-shares, general contests i dare not say and i dont think i should say too much.
What i do dare say with almost certainty is that it wont involve yet another ICO of yet another coin or token, i think its the consensus that there's plenty of those and steem-derivate, well that's a steem derivative with a fancy name. Nothing's set in stone, including the future of steem and -it ...
and with that, i already fear i spoke too much (i really dont like front-facing and im the worst at marketing ...)
just to give a general idea of a possible direction, credits should be 1 steem for starters BUT i think that will be pegged to a dollar value rather than a steem value (reasons for that should be obvious)

but my word is not law or the will of god either ;:)

i will now hold my silence