# Legacy Rubians

We started The Rubian collection as **Zen Fighters: Rubians** back in Summer of 2022. Those NFTs were supposed to be game characters in VR esports game Zen Fighters. We did manage to make [the game](https://sidequestvr.com/app/5962/zen-fighters), but the idea is still a little too futuristic, considering the very niche audience of VR+NFT fans.

We failed to sell out all 720 NFTs due to various reasons, but 180 were minted, which gave us a little bit of a runway to pivot to other things and find where we belong.

<figure><img src="https://934506528-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F2zJur8c85SKGVBOrOeYI%2Fuploads%2FOgS4BlB10OLFRRRhYvjm%2Fzenfighters-zenrepublic.gif?alt=media&#x26;token=f0a085f5-7407-446b-9609-d461e5de69f4" alt=""><figcaption><p>Zen Fighters: Rubians NFT examples</p></figcaption></figure>

We spent a year building various fun things like gamified discord server, WebGL Zen Republic App, a couple of game demos and learning about the whole web3 industry in general. We were especially curious in how we could make web3 games that are not play-to-earn, as this was one of the curses haunting Zen Fighters in development process.

From the failed mint we promised to our holders that Rubians will one day be relaunched into a proper collection of 720 like we envisioned, right when we discover a proper innovative utility. Now  the time has come!

The collection has been renamed to **Zen Fighters (Legacy)** and is still available to trade on secondary market, while only the historic value remains: <https://magiceden.io/marketplace/zen_fighters>