First off…

We will address the situation for OG minters who paid for the mint, we gathered 21 ETH for the treasury initially. We currently have 12ETH left in the treasury.

With this much left we will only be able to reimburse 50% of the mint. Head over here to see where the ETH was spent

https://docs.ryukaitempest.com/who-we-are/tempest-treasury

4.5ETH was spent on airdropping the holders the migrated contract.

We would like to work with the community on which direction we take as the ETH could help us with development and sustaining the project.

Second…

There was oversight on our contract migration process in which we forgot to migrate FZN contract which did not let users trade the new contract since it wasn’t paired with the new FZN contract

Old $FZN Contract

https://etherscan.io/address/0x24E3a16D804436eDA2AF8ece259953006582278b#readContract

We have now migrated to the new FZN contract, this fixes the issue with the trade not being open after we minted out.

New $FZN Contract

https://etherscan.io/address/0x8ef5beb25544e548cba2c95787881dd1d50c97e6

Your tokens haven’t disappeared but we will be using the new contract moving forward.

Finally…

We are still working on creating the Tempest Dashboard which is a NFT Tooling app that helps users track their portfolio and discover new collections.

Read our progress over here:

https://mirror.xyz/ryukaitempest.eth/0D88MfnCoNgRBlt0ctEPxA42gK_yAmvRgoqNfa3I2I8

We hope you can give us some time to plan, thank you for your patience 🙏

As you can see we have added extra info like block numbers, ETH price, Gas Price (gwei) and which network users are connected to.

It seems like this is the standard for dashboards and we feel like these are useful information for users.

We didn’t forget about you dark mode users. We made sure we still utilised colours for the design as it makes it look bland if we use a flat grey theme.

Here you will be able to access your profile and disconnect if needed.

Our plan for the alpha is that it will be accessible for Ryukai Holders / Ryukai Partners first. We will team up with other projects that give them access to the profile section to broaden our reach.

We know how most people browse the web using their phones so we are making sure we design with mobile in mind first.

That’s all for this week, our deadlines are still the same. Our questionnaire is still open so please go and share it to people to help us with some research.

Alpha: June, 2022 Beta: August, 2022

We are aiming to be a better NFT dashboard and we have since done some user research. To further our research please fill in this form to help us deliver a tool you will want to use everyday, who knows you may be eligible for a future airdrop if you fill this in 👀

https://forms.gle/cmw89QqnRWGptkDLA

Revision of the past

We took a look at the current market and pivoted our application design. We want to deliver a dashboard that our users will enjoy using everyday and knew we have to level up our UI/UX

We present our new NFT Dashboard UI — Done by 0xZian

As you can see there is a massive disparity compared to the previous design. We have completed our draft for the home page and are now working on brining it to life with a prototype.

All data and images on this is currently temporary and made just for presentation. Don’t be alarmed there will be a dark mode, we aim to have the complete designs by the end of April and a prototype by early May.

Ryukai Tempest NFT Update

We have also recently lowered our mint to 0.02E, for our early minters we already have a snapshot of all the address that minted at0.05E and we will make sure they get taken care of in the future.

Thank you all for your patience and we hope you have a great day

Tempest Labs

We have begun our prototyping for the dashboard, first we tackled the wireframe designs we created a month ago

Dashboard section

The current UI for all of the screenshots are incomplete, we are still in our prototyping phase. We had some hiccups with getting an OS API key, this is something that will let us access OS data.

My profile section (Prototype)

We most likely will not go with the current styling on the website, our first goal was to get the skeleton of the dashboard ready.

The general vision for the UI/UX is to keep things simple and clean, we will be going into research mode after we are satisfied with the prototype, after that the alpha should soon follow.

Again we apologise that we haven’t been on the discord or posted much on social media as we have been busy building. We will try our best to start posting again.

slightly updated version with a search bar and dark mode, the gallery is still something we are working on.

Thank you all for reading

As you may all know NFT’s and Transactions metrics are down across the board but that has not stopped us from building

Character Development

We are currently creating the base for our sprite sheets

On our last update we drafted the swordsman, this week our artists 0xM3CHANIC has caught covid but he still managed to create some preliminary drafts for the mage class

Fire Mage Class

There is one more class to draft which is the Tank class, after that we will move onto sprite sheets which will let us use the characters in a game engine.

Platform Development

We want to provide more for our minters so while the devs wait for the artists to finish their work, they will be creating a better platform for Ryukai Tempest Holders.

Enter Tempest Terminal (T.T)

We know there is a problem with UI/UX and accessibility for NFT Trading, so we are aiming to provide a solution for that.

The aim of this product is to give a streamlined feedback of your portfolio, while keeping the complexity on the lower end.

First we will tackle the UI/UX, most products in web3 do not focus on this as the builders and majority of users are technical. But to onboard the masses we have to start building products that will make the onramp easier.

But before we start building we are going to start with our layouts, we have begun our preliminary wireframes for the platform

Tempest Terminal Hero section

We do not want to clutter the page with information as it may deter new users away from the platform, a simple call to action and preview of the NFT dashboard should be all the information on the homepage.

Notification for failed wallet connect

Our alpha product will only be accessible for Ryukai Tempest holders. In the future we will make the platform free to use for everyone and give Ryukai Tempest holders a premium experience by providing an option for advance tooling (Data and Charts).

Dashboard Homepage

The current design choice for NFT Tools are table style that display data across the board we feel that for web2 users are not used to this type of product layout and we want to bring a familiar retail experience.

Which is why we chose this grid style layout that displays the NFTs in your wallet with the data beside the NFT itself. This brings some elements of web2 into web3 which isn’t a bad thing by any means, we can’t expect to onboard billions by drastically change the product experience.

NFT Homepage

Once users click on the NFT of their choice they will be loaded into the NFT dashboard where they will be able to see important metrics.

We feel like the NFT space in general can agree that the 3 golden metrics are Holders, Volume and Floor Price.

The list button will only be visible if the wallet owns the NFT vice versa for the buy button.

The aim is to minimise the amount of overbearing data, while still providing enough to start trading NFT’s.

That’s all for this week, thank you for reading and we will be back next week!

Your degen devs,
Tempest Labs

Here is the relaunch collection:
https://opensea.io/collection/ryukai-tempest

Here is the old collection:
https://opensea.io/collection/tempest-reloaded

If you are not seeing the new airdropped NFT’s on OS here’s how to fix it:
1: Go to activities

Keep scrolling till you see Ryukai Tempest Island

2: Click on the NFT and Favourite it

OS buggy and won’t show the dragons smh

3: Check your main wallet and it should take a few minutes to appear on your main wallet.

Wen transfers?

You are now producing $FZN but our transfers are still not open due to us not being minted out.

This limitation is to avoid errors with the token production index. Once we mint out transfers should resume as normal.

(Token function forked from Kaiju)

What’s next?

We are building out Phase 2 currently, we have started building the game assets.

Character Design

Our first assignment was to create a Swordsman class, we wanted to tackle this first since it is a trade mark class in RPG games and it is what most are familiar with.

Preliminary Shape for Swordsman

We wanted to make the character feel agile and light on their feet while maintaining a strong pose. To achieve this we chose a wide stance for the idle pose.

The next step was to add character details in

This was our first draft just to give us a feel of what we could create, the idea with the belt was to signal the character’s attribute but we felt that this was too extravagant and felt like it was an extension of the character rather than a core part of the character.

Second draft

So we removed the the belt and added some armour, but we thought that the medieval knight style doesn’t represent the type of Swordsman that we were aiming for. So we started from the top and looked at Japanese Swordsmen for inspiration.

Third Draft

This is what 0xM3CHANIC whipped up, clean design with visuals to match the character type.

Fourth Draft

We decided to change the hair to further match and express the character we are creating.

There is still much more to be done with the character, this is one of the many drafts we will go through.

Stay tuned for more updates as we develop, we plan on keeping everyone updated whenever we make progress.

We hope you enjoyed reading and we cannot wait to bring Tempest Island to life along with the community!

Your Degen Dev,
Zian

This is because we have shifted the projects goals and utility. We aim to keep pushing art more than anything, as we thought about this one of the new functions we want for $FZN to have is to be able to use it for payments for our future releases.

New Token Contract: https://etherscan.io/address/0x9BaCbC644757417Ca25290B0d9B39b8AB4A96C1f

$FZN changes

Our aim is to become a staple brand and name in web3, to achieve this will take a lot of time and dedication.

With that in mind we wanted to align the team and community incentives by changing $FZN’s main use case.

Anyone can come in and sweep someone else’s Ryukai and automatically become eligible for a free mint on new NFT’s but we don’t think that is a healthy relationship between the team and community.

This way there’s a proof of belief in the team, long time holders will have huge amounts of $FZN along with the Genesis Ryukai’s, new holders will have a big disadvantage but this assures that we can start to attract long term holders.

We plan on being long term, we believe in web3.

Breeding function taken out

We took out the breeding function completely this feature isn’t needed anymore with the new $FZN functionality.

It also compromised decentralisation by having to host API’s on a centralised server to hide the baby forms of the NFT.

IPFS + Pinata isn’t complete decentralisation but it’s a hell of a lot closer than storing them on cloud servers.

There’s also the problem of the breeding process creating congestion in the network and extra cost for the users minting the token then revealing it.

Supply Reduction

We have changed our supply from, 3578 to 3,333
This ties into the lore of Ryukai and the Portal Hunters.
In general the number looks a lot cleaner.

Thank you to all the CRB and Absolute Units for sticking around with us and being patient.

Your Old Ryukai NFT’s will flourish into something beautiful from what we know 🤫

Written with love,
Tempest Labs