In Brief:
- Kepithor Studios runs ENJ Excavators, an idle mining game on Enjin where players climb a weekly leaderboard to earn ENJ, with 600 paid places each week.
- The studio funds the prize pool with earnings from an Enjin validator node that bring in more than 15,000 ENJ a month, and pays out only 2.5% of the pool each week so the pot keeps growing.
- A Managed Wallet setup lets players start with an email and no seed phrase, then withdraw to self-custody later, which is the studio’s pitch to reach players outside crypto.
Kepithor Studios pays out player rewards in its Enjin game ENJ Excavators mostly from validator node earnings, a funding model the studio says is built to grow the prize pool rather than drain it.
The game is an idle miner. Players tap to collect gems, hire workers and buy upgrades, then rank on a leaderboard by gem balance. The board resets every Tuesday at 12:00 UTC, and prizes go out shortly after to the top 600 places, paid in ENJ.
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How the money flows
The prize pool comes primarily from an Enjin validator node the studio runs. Those rewards have consistently topped 15,000 ENJ a month, according to Kepithor.
Only 2.5% of the pool is distributed each week while validator income keeps arriving, so the pot expands over time. It sat near 80,000 ENJ at the time of writing, and the live total is viewable on Kepithor’s site.
“We’re transparent about what we’re earning and how it’s distributed,” said Nick, of Kepithor Studios, in an interview about the game.
Advertising, NFT sales and marketplace royalties round out the funding. The ENJ Excavators NFT collection carries a 10% creator royalty, so the studio takes a cut whenever items trade on NFT.io or other Enjin marketplaces.
Onboarding without seed phrases
ENJ Excavators leans on Enjin’s Managed Wallet feature to hold player winnings. A new player doesn’t need a seed phrase or a self-custody wallet to start, just an email, and can withdraw the assets to an Enjin wallet once they’re comfortable.
Kepithor integrated the Enjin Blockchain in about two hours and wrote a tutorial in Enjin’s documentation to help other developers do the same.
NFTs and ads as boosts
The game gives utility to all 15 Enjin Multiverse NFTs, a collection held by roughly 21,000 wallets and built up over five years. Multiverse NFTs raise the efficiency of in-game boosters, and each upgrade is named after one of them.
Base Goblin Cart NFTs, the game’s own tradeable assets, change hands for about 25 ENJ on NFT.io. Watching an ad grants a 0.1% mining boost that carries between seasons at half value each time, dropping to 0.05% the next season, then 0.025%, and so on.
Everything else resets weekly. Gems, upgrades and leaderboard standings all zero out, and the strategy sits in deciding how much to spend on upgrades versus how much to keep in the balance that sets your rank.
Kepithor’s Enjin history
Kepithor joined the Enjin Early Adopter Program in November 2018. Its earlier titles include Kingdom Karnage (official site), the free-to-play mobile strategy game Kingdom Karnage: Heroes, the hyper-casual Kingdom Karnage: Clicker, and Royal Rampage. The studio works across both BSC and Enjin.
ENJ Excavators launched March 5, 2024 on Google Play, opening with a $12,500 launch event. Sky, of SkyGaming, flagged the game to followers this week, framing it as a questing platform that pays players real money.
Reception among Enjin regulars has centered on the studio’s longevity. “The team is surely the main reason that made this stick around,” one community member said. “It is a project meant to last, not one short burn meant to pump and dump like most others.”
