Back to collectionA complete head-to-head battle meets a strained gas budget
Background: As February began, the studio shifted its goal from scattered prototypes to a complete head-to-head battle. Today: At the start of February, BTC held around USD 33,000, while ETH neared USD 1,500 and stood on the verge of a new high. Impact and next: The monthly goal now had a clear playtest measure, and cost had become a design constraint rather than an abstract note at the edge of a spreadsheet.
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Background: As February began, the studio shifted its goal from scattered prototypes to a complete head-to-head battle. Final Form was still in development. With BTC and ETH drawing market attention, the team had to plan the battle flow while keeping an eye on a tight gas budget.
Today: At the start of February, BTC held around USD 33,000, while ETH neared USD 1,500 and stood on the verge of a new high. The studio wrote its monthly goal on the whiteboard: get the Final Form battle prototype through its first complete player-versus-player match. A-Zhen listed the gas budget beside it, and the numbers looked grim. She proposed reducing the on-chain steps first; the designer insisted that a playtest preserve the full battle rhythm.
Impact and next: The monthly goal now had a clear playtest measure, and cost had become a design constraint rather than an abstract note at the edge of a spreadsheet. The team planned to compare which steps had to happen on-chain and which could wait. Whether they could find a workable balance between budget and a complete match remained to be tested.