Overview
NFTwars was the first idle RPG built on the Radix Babylon network. The game let players use their existing Radix NFTs as playable heroes — fighting through PvE campaigns and competing against other players in the arena. It was built to unite multiple Radix NFT communities on a single platform, giving NFT holders a new utility for their assets beyond trading.
NFTwars received backing from the Radix 250M XRD Ecosystem Fund, securing both an MVP Booster and a Launch Booster grant to support development and launch.
Gameplay Modes
Campaign Mode (PvE)
Players progressed through five distinct areas, each containing four dungeons of increasing difficulty. Each dungeon presented themed enemy teams that must be defeated to unlock the next stage. Campaign mode was the primary path for levelling up NFT heroes — as they gained experience, they became stronger and more effective in arena combat.
Arena Mode (PvP)
In arena mode, players assembled a team of three heroes and battled against squads from other players. Wins advanced the player through ranked leagues — Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum — with larger rewards at higher divisions. Arena provided ongoing competition and a leaderboard-driven incentive to keep playing.
Persistent Progress
One of the notable design decisions in NFTwars was that hero experience was stored on the NFT itself. A levelled-up hero retained its stats even when transferred or sold — meaning experienced heroes carried added value in secondary markets, and buyers acquired the hero's battle history along with the asset.
Integrated NFT Collections
NFTwars integrated seven Radix NFT collections as playable heroes:
- Radorables
- Pyros World
- Radical Penguins
- Radical Robos
- Abandoned Scorpions
- Radish Harvests
- Water Bears
Each collection contributed a distinct visual identity and hero class to the roster. Players who held NFTs from any of these collections could connect their Radix wallet and immediately begin playing without any additional purchase.
Radix Integration
NFTwars used the Radix Engine's native asset model to read and modify NFT data directly on-chain. Because Radix NFTs are first-class ledger objects — not EVM-style mappings — the game could attach experience data to each token and query it without relying on centralised indexing. This was a direct application of Radix's asset-oriented programming model to gaming.
Wallet connection was handled through the Radix Wallet, which displayed the player's NFT holdings and surfaced them as selectable heroes in-game.
Ecosystem Impact
As of the time of writing, NFTwars had recorded over 55,000 in-game NFT battles, with more than 200 unique Radix wallets connected and over 500 Radix NFTs actively used as heroes. These metrics represented one of the most active real-usage deployments of NFT utility on the Radix network.
The game's selection as a Launch Booster winner alongside Root Finance and Selfi Social reflected its standing as one of the ecosystem's high-potential projects during the Babylon launch window.