been busy lately again and wanted to have a quick write without revealing too much since things are still quite up in the air. I've been in contact with some agencies and people outside of hive, it's quite nice every now and then, nothing against people here but being in a position I am in you can never really know 100% if people are telling you the truth or just what they think you want to hear when it comes to asking their opinions on things.

Now of course the same can't be said about people I'm close to but it's still great to get some outside perspective on things every now and then. 

While development of holozing has been slower than we'd prefer, it's nice that things are at least moving along and we'll get there eventually. I wouldn't say I have a lot of regret of how things have gone, I'm sure it could've been better but it also could've been a lot worse. I have hope that the way we've gone about launching it will give us a lot of room for catching up and getting to a development pace that's more in line with other projects at some point in the future. 

At the same time our focus on the artwork and idea seems to have paid off now that I've been talking to people outside of the space. Even looking at holozing as a web2 game there's many who seem very positive towards it which has been nice to hear. 

Needless to say I'm quite excited about the project after listening to feedback and opinions of outsiders, it's been a breath of fresh air. 

I'm also excited that we're close to launching our 2nd ever method to fund the project soon through Alpha Vial sales, giving speculators/collectors/future players ways to support the project in more direct terms than HP delegation which has been our primary source of funding for around a year now. All the while rewarding those getting the vials with ingame tokens which will be another way to earn Zing! 

I'm also glad I've been able to spend more time on my social presence lately, mostly on Hive of course but also outside a bit _for_ hive. Having worked "behind the scenes" on zing has been productive but there's only so much you can work on and getting ahead until you get to a point where it doesn't make a lot of sense to push further with development being a few months behind the things you're thinking of at that time. It's like you get to a certain point where you can't really be sure what direction you want to move certain aspects of the project since a lot still depends on if the initial plans are going to work well in practice once it gets created and tested. 

Anyway, just thought I'd write a quick post, don't let my recent motivation/excitement sway you into making investment decisions, though. I'm quite transparent about my own trades on hive as they can all be seen on my hive-engine wallet.

Either way, slow and steady. The hill is still quite steep and the team is still quite in debt, let's see how the upcoming starter sale helps with that, I'm planning on buying quite a few packs myself even though I'm a bit low on liquidity lately. I'm not too optimistic early on since we're launching the sale without letting people open the packs/vials yet, but maybe supporters won't mind it for a short time until we get the opening function as good as we can get it! 

Things to look forward to other than the vial sale will be alpha testing being very close, we hope we can get started with that and balancing the current creatures and healers in our roster soon. At the same time the community I'm sure will get some glimpses of how far the gameplay and graphics have gotten, even though not everything is finished/ready, it'll beat hearing the few "I bet there's not even a game" chats impatient players some times leave in our discord. :D

We've also finished the artwork for a few more achievements we wanna release here soon for our users and there's quite a few more creatures we have yet to reveal! 

It's been a blast following along the amazing #zingtober entries people have been posting lately, the community has been quite busy with that during this month and we're forever grateful to hive for allowing us to reward all kinds of social activities to our community and are looking forward to show the world how valued players in our space are! 

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