Marvel Avengers Academy (Game)

Marvel Avengers Academy

GAME » on February 3, 2016

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Marvel Avengers Academy reimagines the popular comic universe as schoolchums.

Marvel Avengers Academy is a idle base building game from Tiny Co. Similar in some respects to Tiny Co's Family Guy: Quest for Stuff and EA's The Simpsons Tapped Out, Avengers Academy allows the user to take control of a school campus that hosts a variety of Marvel heroes and villains.

Gameplay

Basics

The objective of Avengers Academy is a simple progression of constructing new buildings and facilities on the player's campus. Players can gain access to new buildings once they have obtained enough experience points and credits. Both of these resources can be acquired in chests, which are earned after completing missions with the player's available heroes.

New heroes are also gated behind the cumulative experience of the player. After reaching a certain level in game, the player will be given a new set of missions within the story to "recruit" another super hero. Once the new hero sets foot on the players campus, the player is then instructed to collect four or 5 different resources to make the student join the player's academy.

As an example let's use Steve Rogers a.k.a Captain America. Players not invite him until they reach level 6. After he is on campus, the player needs to collect: 35 Keepsakes, 40 Avengers Textbooks, Retrieve Cap's Shield, and 1,545 Credits. Keep in mind, that getting Cap's Shield requires using an in game item called Pym Particles that are rewarded through successful missions.

Currency

Like most free-to-play mobile games, Marvel Avengers Academy supports in app purchases with the introduction of their specialized premium currency called "Shards". This resource allow players to bypass the time limits and restrictions created within the game to restrict. Certain items, costumes and, characters are only available through this currency.

The shards in game are obtained through leveling up or by using real money. The bundles are listed in game as such:

$1.99	100 Shards
$4.99	260 Shards
$9.99	550 Shards
$19.99	1,200 Shards
$49.99	3,200 Shards
$99.99	7,000 Shards

Customization Options

Marvel Avenger's Academy also features the ability to dress the players heroes and villains in various costumes and design the layout of user's campus.

Mission Structure

The mission board consists of 3-9 missions depending on the users in game level. Each individual mission can require at least 1 hero, or maximum of 3 separate tasks to complete. Each task will require a set amount time to complete. A task can be for a 1 minute duration, or in the longest cases up to 8 hours.

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The early stages of the Mission Board.

Typically the game will request one of four different missions. A story quest (which does not occupy a mission board slot), a heroic (whichever takes multiple hours to complete with a higher reward), a boosted mission (requires a premium character to complete a task) , and an regular mission (tasks that take only a few minutes to complete).

Events

For limited duration, Avengers Academy will be effected by the arrival of certain characters or actions. These events tend to last anywhere from a week to an entire month. During the events new resources, characters, decorations, or costumes will be released. Below is a list of past events and their duration.

Sun, Surf, Mischief	February 19th, 2016-February 25th, 2016
Gamma Attack	March 5th, 2016- March, 18th 2016
Women of Power	March 20th, 2016- March 28th, 2016
Guardians of the Galaxy	April 1st- April 29th, 2016
Civil War	May 4th, 2016- June 7th, 2016
British Invasion	June 9th, 2016- June 22nd, 2016
Spider-Man Event	June 22nd, 2016- August 8th, 2016
A.I.M Attacks	August 12th, 2016- August 23rd, 2016
Daredevil Event	August 25th, 2016- September 22nd, 2016

Unlockable Characters

Players can unlock new buildings and characters with each increase in level. Below is a list of the known available characters for unlock.

Level 1	Iron Man, Wasp
Level 2	Loki, Black Widow
Level 4	Falcon, Enchantress
Level 6	Captain America
Level 10	Ms. Marvel
Level 20	Task Master, Ant-man
Level 23	Maria Hill
Level 30	Tigra
Level 35	Hulk*
Level 38	Crimson Dynamo^
Level 43	Mandarin^
Level 48	Hawkeye^
Level 57	Thor*

Hulk and Thor are available for "early access" purchase through in game currency called shards, which can only be obtained through leveling up and purchase by a user.

^Currently unreleased.

Premium Characters

Marvel Avengers Academy also offers a handful of characters that are only obtainable through a secondary currency called "Shards".

Spider-Woman	250 Shards
War Machine	495 Shards
Quake	500 Shards
Phil Coulson	695 Shards
Peggy Carter	700 Shards
Vision	995 Shards
Baron Zemo*	995 Shards

This character was only released for a limited time twice.

Event Characters

During special events, certain characters will become available for players to unlock. Typically their will be a handful of obtainable characters, and one or two premium characters only available through the shard currency. Below is a list of characters released in events per event.

Gamma Attack

A-Bomb	Required event items for unlock
Red Hulk	Required event items for unlock

Women Of Power

Pepper Potts	Reward for completion of the event

Guardians of the Galaxy

Star-Lord	Required event items to unlock
Gamora	Required event items to unlock
Drax	Required event items to unlock
Rocket Raccoon	Required event items to unlock
Groot	Required event items to unlock
Nebula	Premium only. 395 Shards
Yondu	Premium only. 475 Shards

Civil War

Black Panther	Required event items to unlock
Agent 13	Required event items to unlock
Crossbones	Required event items to unlock
Madame Hydra	Required event items to unlock
Wonder Man	Premium only. 495 Shards
Sif	Premium only. 495 Shards
Spider-Man	Premium Early Access for 995 Shards.
Winter Soldier	Early Access only.

British Invasion

Union Jack	Required event items to unlock
Black Knight	Required event items to unlock
Captain Britain	Premium only. 495 Shards

Spider-Man Event

Spider-Man	Available from Civil War event, or through item unlock.
Black Cat	Required event items to unlock
Mary Jane	Required event items to unlock
Doctor Octopus	Required event items to unlock
Green Goblin	Required event items to unlock
Spider-Gwen	Required event items to unlock
Electro	Required event items to unlock
Mysterio	Required event items to unlock
Venom	Required event items to unlock
Spider-Ham	Premium only. 495 Shards
The Lizard	Premium only. 595 Shards
Spider-Man 2099	Premium only. 695 Shards
Mile Morales	Premium only. 495 Shards

A.I.M Attacks Event

Squirrel Girl	Required event items to unlock
M.O.D.O.K.	Required event items to unlock

Daredevil Event

Daredevil (Character)	Required event items to unlock
Hellcat (Character)	Required event items to unlock
Iron Fist (Character)	Required event items to unlock
Luke Cage (Character)	Required event items to unlock
Punisher (Character)	Required event items to unlock
Jessica Jones	415 Shards
Elektra (Character)	Inside of a chest that costs 75 Shards for each attempt

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