Hey all! Here is a project I would like to present you all to… I’ve already explained a bit about it in previous posts, but it was always quite hidden between other projects. Now here, enjoy the beauty of HashRush itself :) and I recommend you to try it, in order to confirm the validity of my positive opinion on it!

What is HashRush?

HashRush is a 3D Real-Time Strategy game about creating a colony on a planet that shows both its bright and beautiful fantasy landscapes, as well as heavily hostile environments. It’s created by a combination of a team of Game Developers and a team of Blockchain Experts. This combination allows gamers to experience smooth and stunning gameplay, while competing for cool rewards.

HashRush held its initial ICO about a year ago, raising an amount of money that allowed the team to develop quite a large part of the game and its blockchain elements. Recently, they launched a second ICO, which will end in about one month. This second ICO will fund further developments, like extra additions to gameplay, multi-platform support and more.

In between these ICOs, HashRush gave people multiple possibilities to try the game. The first was the pre-alpha, which was demonstrated at the start of 2018. A couple months ago, the Alpha launched and soon the Beta will do so too, followed up by the real release about a quarter of a year after.

How does the game work?

You start with a tree, much like this one and a planet full of resources. Two ernacks, your colony’s inhabitants, find themselves at the entrance of the tree. You can make more of these blue-glowing dwarves by clicking on the tree and finding the option to train more ernacks. You should see a reasonably clear area of the planet, as well as a cloudy part of the planet. The clear area is where your ernacks should stay. The cloudy area is dominated by The Fog. The Fog is dangerous for ernacks and scares them a lot. If they stay in the fog for too long, they’ll run back to their homes.

Now you should find quite some options at the bottom left of your screen: two rows of symbols that represent certain functions. Arguably the most important one is the… Building Menu! That’s this little symbol over here:

Click on it and you should see a lot of buildings you can place. Some buildings that are of great importance early on already, are the huts and the light poles. Huts increase the amount of Ernacks your colony can host and light poles remove the fog. There are many other buildings though, each with their own function.

These buildings, though, require resources like Wood, Stone & Ore. These resources can be obtained by sending your workers to the appropriate places, like Trees for cutting wood and Ore Veins for mining ore. For some buildings you may have to refine some resources before being able to use them for completing the building.

Click on that lil symbol to look at the challenges. There, you can select the most relevant challenge and take a look at the leaderboards. Your rank on the leaderboards is based on the amount of Crypto Crystals you submitted. The first thing you have to do is build Crystal Mines. This can only be done at a couple places indicated by cracks in the ground, showing some blue glow.

Next, you’ll have to send an ernack to the Crystal Mine to get started on the mining. Adding a silo may be a good option to add, since without any silos, you can only store 10 crystals at a time. Next, you simply submit the crystals at the challenges tab:

The red square highlights the bar, which you can adjust to change the amount of Crypto Crystals you wish to submit. The orange square shows the amount of Crystals you currently got in your storage, which is the maximum amount of Crypto Crystals you can submit. The green square contains information about the amount of Crystals you have already submitted. Crystals you now submit, will be added to this total. Then you simply press the big Submit CC button,

A higher Current Total gives you a higher chance of having more Crystals than your rivals and therefor taking higher tiers. Only obtaining and submitting some more Crystals won’t grant you a win though. You have to play competitively to take the top spots. Not-playing doesn’t mean keeping your spot: people will rise past you and you will actually lose your position!

Ranking at a higher tier will give you better rewards. As you can see in this example, the lower tiers get some cards they can use in-game and the top 1% wins real cryptocurrency. The card tiers also aren’t the same. There are major differences in the quality of the cards you can win.

There are also these lovely creatures. They attempt to devour any ernack they see. You can fight them with ordinary ernacks, though one would be better off training specialized units in the barracks to fight them. These creatures can be found at the entrance of portals to other worlds and will in later stages of the game attack your colony. Other monsters are present in the game as well. Currently, the monsters are pretty much only used as guardians, but they will soon serve as more of a gameplay aspect, since they will actively attack your colony, trying to steal your precious Crypto Crystals. Of course, you will have to find the right balance between resource gathering and combat preparation.

The game is currently just in Alpha mode, meaning a lot of its final features have not been implemented yet and it also means that the game is currently full of bugs. You can currently try Alpha version of the game by registering on HashRush’s Website.

Some features that are to be added in later development stages:

• Other races than the Ernacks, like the Marauders and the Highborn Elves.
• A lot more gameplay features, some that would change it a lot. I suppose most of them will improve the game’s mechanics a lot and make competing more fun. Currently the game is mostly about building Crystal Mines on all possible locations as soon as possible, then building Silos to store the crystals for some time and after a while submitting them to the challenge you wish to enter. Plans are there to put a limited amount of Crypto Crystals in each planet, after which you have to start over on a new planet.
• PvP modes. The game is currently PvE only. I believe a lot of players would like to see a mode in which they can more directly compete with others by actually fighting them.

And much more is coming! You can check it out in HashRush’s Roadmap.

Events

Another great part of HashRush is that it’s actively updated. One part of the play is events. A currently on-going event is the halloween event. You can win special skins if you place high on the leaderboards for the Halloween challenge by obtaining as many Crypto Crystals as you can.

There is a separate challenge too, in which you have to collect as many Pumpkins as you can. These pumpkins randomly spawn around the map. Sometimes they spawn inside of your enlightened colony, but you’ll often find them deep in the roams of The Fog as well. Sometimes, they spawn near monsters, making it some more of a challenge to collect them, like here:

Anyhow, these events offer some great variation to the already stunning gameplay HashRush offers and allows for some extra competitivity among the players. In the Discord community of HashRush, it also gives quite some more activity and communicative potential, which is always a nice thing to observe and participate in.

For anyone interested, the halloween event ran into some slight trouble and so it will soon re-release, after major bugs have been fixed. Join the HashRush Discord Server to be informed quickly, once an update/release/announcement appears.

ICO

As I’ve mentioned earlier, HashRush is currently hosting its second ICO. Investing in it is very easy and, unlike most other ICOs, requires no KYC procedures. All you have to do to invest, is sending an amount of ETH (greater than 0.1) to HashRush’s Contract Address, which can be checked below, in some more raw & detailed ICO data, as well as on the site.

The ICO is selling RUSH, an ETH token. This token will replace the earlier distributed RC tokens. All RC-holders will receive 1.34 RUSH per RC, but the total supply will stay the same as initially stated. The second ICO started a couple weeks ago and will end in just a bit more than one month from posting. Check https://hashrush.com/ico/ for a timer that shows exactly how much time there is left for you to join the ICO! Here’s an overview of (some) extra information about the ICO:

Token Symbol: RUSH
Contract Address: 0xcFCd43D7eE21416a71c2EB9888587D52716Fc77a
ICO price: 0.001 ETH per RUSH (1000 RUSH per ETH)
Bonuses: Available for relatively early/high investments. Overview available here.
Total RUSH supply: 70 million
ICO allocation: 10 million RUSH
ICO end date: December 1st**

**The ICO is currently scheduled to end on december 1st. However, this may be altered.

Conclusion

I have been a long-term supporter of HashRush, so I may be slightly biased, but I certainly do have good reasons to be just that. Its quality is directly proven through openly accessible testing phases and the game is continuously updated, fixing bugs that were spotted by testers.

The community adds a finishing touch to that and I really like how the project goes. I’d recommend investing in them, or if you can’t or don’t want to, at least check them out and try the game!

Official HashRush Website: https://hashrush.com/
Official HashRush Discord Server: https://discord.gg/7W7aN2z
Official HashRush Telegram Server: https://t.me/hashrushofficial
Direct link to ICO page: https://hashrush.com/ico/

If you have any questions, concerns or if you have an unstoppable desire to argue about for example the legitimacy of this project, you are free to do this in the comments.

PS: If you prefer less civilized discussions or would like to say something to me in private, PM me on discord: HashPanda#8278

Credit

The first and seventh pictures were obtained from HashRush’s official website. Links to the specific spots the images were found: One & Seven

The other images are in-game screenshots.
The dividers come from @calumam. His dividers can be found here.