Hot Project Inventory, What are the New Possibilities for Future Blockchain Games?
blockchain games in the future? | veDAO Research Institute
As the market picks up, the blockchain game industry has also begun to pick up again, and has deeply integrated with the new concepts and hot spots in the current industry, further giving games more value and greater potential. Therefore, veDAO Research Institute has specially sorted out the current development of blockchain games for everyone, and tried to answer a question: What are the new possibilities for blockchain games in the future?
But before that, we need to understand the past of games and blockchain games.
Blockchain game development history
traditional games
Traditional games are all the games we see currently that do not involve blockchain elements. This conceptual game often has a centralized architecture model, that is, 'project side VS players'. Players are a vulnerable group in this relationship, and the game The goal is to convert non-paying players into paying customers. The first reason why players pay is often to obtain a higher gaming experience.
But it is worth noting that from chess to 4X strategy, from traditional RPG board games to AAA open worlds, games have never been pure entertainment, but a platform for players to compete for limited resources.
Limited resources, in traditional games, often have high real-world value. For example, a top-quality belt in 'Fantasy Westward Journey' can be sold for 2 million yuan.
Then the game will extend from the game to outside the game, and players' assets will be stolen through account theft, fraud and other means. Therefore, finding a solution to confirm asset rights has become the best opportunity for traditional games to get in touch with the blockchain.
As early as 2018, NetEase introduced the concept of blockchain in the game 'Ni Shui Han' to put player assets on the chain, and launched the 'Fuxi Tongbao' element in an attempt to open up the asset paths of different games.
On-chain games
1.GameFi: GameFi is the concept of 'gamified finance' based on the integration of DeFi and NFT. It presents financial products in the form of games and gamifies the rules of DeFi. GameFi has truly entered the horizons of crypto market participants thanks to Andre Cronje (AC), the founder of Yearn.Finance. AC once emphasized on the Twitter platform that 'Next, we will enter GameFi (going forward we go into gamefi).' Since then, the concept of GameFi has been widely discussed in the community, and new projects and new gameplay methods have emerged one after another.
GameFi is not a blockchainization of traditional games, and its essence is completely different from games. Traditional games regard game experience as the first priority of game development, as well as the profitability of the development team. GameFi’s top priority is to encourage Play to Earn behavior and allow users to earn significant benefits in return. The difference in core appeal makes the difference between GameFi and traditional games more obvious, although there is overlap in development ideas and operation logic.
Although early GameFi products all gave people a 'shoddy' feeling, with pixelated painting style, boring gameplay, and simple interactions. But after the GameFi boom in 2022, GameFi developers generally began to have higher requirements for game quality. We can also see that many new painting styles, engines and gameplay have been added to the GameFi products currently on the market. More developed products.
2.Chain reform: The concept developed in parallel with the GameFi concept is 'game chain reform', which refers to the implantation of blockchain elements on the basis of traditional games. It is similar to NetEase in 2018, but the degree of today's game chain reform is even greater. profound.
The focus of the game chain reform is on introduction: importing billions of potential game users from the traditional game world into Web3 to achieve real development. Unlike GameFi, blockchain-modified games often do not provide users with satisfactory P2E returns because game developers worry about the premature end of the game’s economic life.
In addition, since the chain reform needs to start from a traditional game that already exists in the real world, there will also be commercialization problems encountered during the chain reform process. For example: when you plan to use the game in a certain game, When pets are made into NFTs and sold on the chain, they often encounter strong opposition from traditional game publishers, and this will be regarded as an infringement of the interests of the publisher. And this is also the reason why it is difficult for chain-modified games to be fully uploaded to the chain.
Although there are many difficulties in game chain modification, it is undeniable that chain-modified game projects generally have game quality that is difficult to compete with current GameFi products. At the same time, due to incomplete on-chain, chain-modified games have a smoother gaming experience and complex Gameplay.
It can be said that if the problems of on-chain and commercialization of complex elements can be solved in the future, chain reform games based on the entire chain will be worth looking forward to.
Full chain game
Full-chain games can be regarded as a conceptual upgrade of GameFi, but they are different. In short, all the core logic of the game, including state storage, calculation and execution, etc., are deployed on the blockchain while providing higher game quality as much as possible. Although full-chain games have higher game quality requirements, it is almost impossible for complete on-chain games to achieve complex game content, exquisite art, etc. GameFi is also pursuing the improvement of game quality, and the current full-chain game performance is almost the same as GameFi. This also puts the current concept of full-chain games and GameFi in an embarrassing situation with ambiguous semantics.
In fact, we can change our thinking. For full-chain games, the most important issue is the sustainability of its economic cycle, rather than strengthening one of its Fun or Earn attributes. The different attributes of GameFi can be reflected through different game types, and playability can be gradually improved by releasing different games, but the underlying economic model of the same token is still universal. As long as a GameFi token economic model can operate effectively, its Fun attribute and Earn attribute can be realized through 4 to 5 games.
How to ensure the sustainability of the economic model? On the one hand, finding ways to attract more new players means that GameFi needs to further lower the barriers to entry and pursue quality. Currently, new players know more about GameFi based on white papers and information, and they often need to pay to play games. Free to pay mode is becoming a trend.
On the other hand, embrace the metaverse. As a subset of the Metaverse ecology, games are also an important way to generate and transfer ownership of Metaverse assets, and will also bear important responsibilities for the operation of the underlying Metaverse ecology.
metaverse
The Metaverse is not a castle in the air, but a virtual space based on the real Internet world in the future, and its scope will also expand from pan-entertainment to every corner of the Internet. GameFi is a very intuitive window for current users to understand the Metaverse. It originated in the gaming industry, but in the future it will further affect all aspects of human social life such as social networking and finance.
However, it is undeniable that the current development of the Metaverse concept is still in a very early stage, and blockchain games, which are the cornerstone of the Metaverse, are unable to build multiple economic models that can perfectly reflect the numerous elements and complex relationships in the Metaverse world.
In short, the real implementation of the Metaverse requires blockchain games to become complex enough. This complexity is not meaningless stacking, but good at using various new concepts and technologies to make itself more 'configurable'. ”.
If ZK is the endgame of blockchain infrastructure construction, then the Metaverse is undoubtedly the endgame of blockchain application layer development. Before this end comes, any concept that can promote blockchain games to the metaverse is worthy of our attention, and it will also contain immeasurable wealth effects.
Several major directions for the development of blockchain games
Arbitrum
Arbitrum’s new chain, Arbitrum Nova, is designed to be used in social applications and games to expand the GameFi ecosystem and accelerate the development of Web3 social applications. Previously, Arbitrum announced the airdrop plan for the token ARB, which is scheduled to be launched on March 23. Among them, one of the criteria for judging the amount of airdrops is whether Arbitrum Nova has been used.
It is understood that Arbitrum Nova will be launched in June 2022 and is a new L2 rollup based on AnyTrust technology. The technology works through Data Availability Syndication (DAC). This DAC approach makes Arbitrum Nova ideal for projects with high transaction volume expectations, such as games that frequently produce new items or social platforms with multiple on-chain interactions. And the security of assets has been optimized. Currently, Arbitrrum Nova provides services exclusively for promoting gaming and social applications.
AI
Regarding the discussion of AI, veDAO Research Institute has previously published an article to elaborate on it, so I will not go into details in this article.
Today, images and videos generated by artificial intelligence have become very advanced. For example, generative AI models can help create large-scale game assets in a Web3 environment, including avatars, equipment, vehicles, and cultural relics. The gaming industry can apply text-to-image generative AI models, which can generate creative assets and content from text descriptions, and can even be used to create special effects in blockchain games and Metaverse virtual products.
Take Alethea AI, for example, which launched the CharacterGPT project as another example of generative AI. The project uses a multi-modal AI system called CharacterGPT to generate interactive AI characters from text descriptions and achieves text-to-character creation. These interactive characters can have unique looks, voices, personalities and identities based on different natural language descriptions.
VR\u0026AR
VR is a project such as games and movies performed by wearing VR headsets and equipment. VR can only be perceived visually and auditorily. The metaverse is the close integration and interaction of the real world and the virtual world, simulating the five senses. The universe is the physical world we live in. All elements that exist in the physical world can appear in the metaverse, such as buildings, items, social interactions, individuals, education, etc. However, the presentation of these contents requires simulating the five senses and using the existence of 'element' to translate the physical world into the metaverse.
To put it simply, VR is a newer technology, and the Metaverse is a social relationship that needs to be as realistic as possible in the virtual world. GameFi was established before the Metaverse through smart contracts and in the form of gamification. Simple social relationships displayed.
At present, the correlation between VR\u0026AR and GameFi is still low, but some project parties are committed to exploring the correct path to combine the two. With the help of VR, AR and other technologies, a rich storyline, frequent interactions with players, realistic images, coordinated sound effects, etc. form a cognitively demanding environment to create a 'sense of immersion' for players. In this way, VR\u0026AR technology can truly be associated with GameFi, which carries social relationships, and ultimately form a metaverse.
complex economic model
For a long time, neither the earlier single NFT model nor the current mainstream 'dual currency + NFT' model has been able to solve an 'original sin': the mismatch between users' efforts and rewards during the gold mining process. The reason is that the current 'multi-currency economic model' of GameFi games is too Ponzi. The utility token (Utility Token) generated by players' gold mining has no value support. It will return to zero at any time in the short term and will definitely return to zero in the long term. In the end, it will be just a game. A game of who can run faster.
VCT, the asset value capture token, together with the game's governance token and utility token constitute a new economic model paradigm, which is the so-called 'three-currency economic model'.
VCT Token has a strong correlation with Utility TokenUtility Token: in terms of quantity, regardless of inflation or deflation, the ratio between the two will always remain 1:1; in terms of price, since each Utility Token can 'operate' at any time Right' (exchange a VCT Token from the project party, and then exchange it for a stable currency equivalent to the current VCT Token price). Therefore, the price of Utility Token is always greater than or equal to the price of VCTToken.
Note: The above three-currency model is not the optimal solution for the evolution of GameFi, and it cannot even be regarded as the correct solution to a certain extent. But it is conceivable that with the development of GameFi in the future, when the need to include more information elements appears, it is not ruled out that GameFi’s economic model will gradually become more complicated.
Project inventory:
Meta Warrior
Official website:
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/_metawarriors
More information:
https://app.vedao.com/project/2bfd7ad6dc0a5aaa8d513702bc2f2ed1b55690b0b18e20709680c20e6b8bc2ff
Meta Warriors is a revolutionary online multiplayer fully decentralized post-apocalyptic zombie game set two years after the spread of a deadly virus that wiped out millions of people in a matter of days.
Meta Warriors is divided into four parts:
1.Zombie City: Story Mode and Mission Mode.
2. In the story mode, players can go deep into the zombie city by selecting the corresponding NFT character to eliminate zombies. In the process of fighting zombies, players will be rewarded with NFT and WarX tokens.
3.In the game mission mode, players can find themselves competing with each other in Zombie City and participating in missions or special events to receive special NFT rewards.
4.Survivor Island: Metaverse. Survivor Island is a virtual representation of a real-world island such as Bali, Indonesia, Mallorca, Spain, and Dalmatia, Croatia, where you can simulate real-world activities in a virtual world.
Survivor Island is a non-violent area where players can buy and sell land, organize activities, and build land. Players can also visit the island scenery through VR equipment.
Token model:
MWS: Governance token, used to govern/upgrade/purchase your own character NFT.
WarX: Utility token, used to upgrade your character's abilities and purchase in-game assets.
Mirror World
Official website:
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/joinmirrorworld
Mirror World is a GameFi project that combines AI to simultaneously create 3+ asset exchange games.
The three games include the ARPG game 'Mirrama' that combines Roguelike gameplay, the casual and PVP-oriented arena duel game 'Brawl of Mirrors', and a game with 'SLG' as its main type.
After independently publishing 3 different types of games, Mirror World also has the characteristics of 'open compatibility' and 'decentralization' of the crypto world, turning Mirror World into a 'virtual one' that belongs to everyone, with rich and interesting content and at the same time generating real benefits. 'World Playground'.
After creating a character, game users can shuttle between various games on the platform, and can also freely use equipment, props, etc. obtained in different games. As a GameFi platform, Mirror World’s games have virtual lives called “Mirrors”, and these game characters are driven by AI. Mirror World’s AI partner is Rct AI, an AI start-up incubated by Y Combinator. In addition, in November 2021, Mirror World launched the first AI dialogue chip NFT-Soul based on this. The concept of 'smart NFT' makes Mirror World unique in the GameFi field, which is also an important reason why it has gained the trust of a large number of capital institutions.
AI Rein
Official website:
Twitter:
More information:
https://app.vedao.com/project/1e5934ca90af2076a3c8ddfcc2c9d0172fde2199df2f3896980a64d1ed14610a
AI Rein is a Japanese global NFT project with the theme of the AI future world. It uses unique AI Motion technology to allow NFT holders to control avatars in the virtual world through the front camera of their computer. Among them, AI Rein Awakening is the second NFT collection in the AI Rein metaverse. The artist is a famous artist from Japan with support from hundreds of thousands of fans worldwide. Therefore, with the support of Japan's largest animation and cosplay community organization, Ai Rein will have unlimited possibilities for the development of derivatives in the animation field. For example, you have the opportunity to cooperate with Japan's leading publishers to produce related comics and animated films.
The AI Rein series is interoperable with AI Rein's GameFi game. Holders can obtain heroes, items and tokens of different professions in the game as rewards for work in the virtual world. Not only that, NFT holders will also own the core asset rights of GameFi and become GameFi community members in the form of DAO.
MetaCity
Official website:
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/MetaCityArb
MetaCity is a Metaverse IDLE NFT game built on Arbitrum, with the goal of becoming a globally recognized social network game. As long as the user's device is connected to the Internet, the game can be played anytime and anywhere.
MetaCity advocates Play and Earn, not Play to Earn. In the game, players will play the role of the mayor of the city, responsible for making the city more prosperous through various operational strategies. MetaCity is doing its best to make this process as boring as possible.
Powered by blockchain technology, MetaCity is a place where players can earn cryptocurrency or other rewards by playing games. So now, playing not only has entertainment value, but also real economic value. Players can obtain governance currency MCT or Diro (an in-game currency) through game actions.
Metaline
Official website:
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/Metaline001
More information:
https://app.vedao.com/project/4953ed7734a9db6263eb67401993953ceb8654c4cb7a8abf570af69dde7b9284
MetaLine is a massively multiplayer game that combines GameFi 2.0, socialFi and metaverse elements, with navigation management, adventure and strategy gameplay. Players drive the game’s mission system through NFT. Through the cooperation of the six major systems of NFT, port, production, trade, combat and upgrade, players can create their own metaverse of ocean empire. The unique parallel universe gameplay expands MetaLine's world view and opens up more possibilities for exploring parallel universes.
MetaLine’s mission is not just to create an e-sports game, but a gaming metaverse that connects thousands of crypto-digital asset owners. MetaLine will create a sustainable ecosystem that enables global recognition of gaming, digital asset ownership, and in-game transactions.
Metaline is divided into two assets: NFT and Token:
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NFT:
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Blind Box NFT (ERC1155): MetaLine’s blind box contains limited edition heroes and pets. Different types of blind boxes have different prices and probabilities. The higher the unit price of the blind box, the higher the probability of obtaining high-value NFT. NFTs obtained from blind boxes can improve game efficiency and increase revenue within MetaLine.
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Hero NFT (ERC721): an important carrier for users to participate in the game, divided into creation heroes: obtained through blind boxes, a total of 3,500. Recruiting heroes: Players use ETH/MTT (game tokens) to recruit at the training ground
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Pet NFT (ERC721): obtained from blind boxes, which can help players obtain in-game assets.
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Ship NFT (ERC721): Help players fight\u0026mining.
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Port certificate NFT (ERC721): allows players to use functions such as casting and storage.
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Token:
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MTT: Game governance currency, with a total amount of 300 million.
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GOLD: In-game utility currency.
Trident
Official website:
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/TridentDAO
More information:
https://app.vedao.com/project/f8cf76e6bda5fa6379eaf14588439082a7b5f8f774cb32c9c99796a83f7cb411
Trident is a 2D MMO game based on Arbitrum. According to official documents, Trident will develop three main products in total, namely two games, Trident MMO and Trident Sprite Duels, and a decentralized exchange, OasisSwap.
Trident MMO is a procedurally generated infinite universe where players can explore the world, collect resources (it will also drop items when they die), poach animals, fight bosses, kill each other, and do various bounty missions. Trident MMO is currently not open to users, and it is reported that its Pre-Alpha version is expected to be tested in March.
Trident Sprite Duels is a turn-based game that allows players to fight against each other. The Pre-Alpha version is currently available. Players can choose various 'sprites' to fight against.
Compared with the Play to Earn advocated by the current mainstream GameFi, Trident proposes a new concept: Risk to Earn. In short, the relationship between players is no longer seen as a mutual profit partner, but as a source of mutual benefit: the winner earns the benefit from the loser. After each battle, the Trident treasury will draw a portion of the 'bounty' from it, and this part of the funds will be reinvested by the treasury into the development and operation of the project.
Summarize
There is no one who does not love games. Whether it is a simple guessing game or a 3A masterpiece in the virtual world, it will never lose the audience's love due to the deterioration of the world's financial environment. The same is true in the blockchain world. Although the GameFi concept was temporarily ignored by the industry due to the shift in industry narrative. But the concept of Game has never been abandoned, but the 'Fi' attribute of GameFi has been affected by the industry.
Now, with the overall recovery of the market, GameFi has regained its popularity. More and more related development teams have also emerged. Although we are happy to see such prosperity, a certain degree of 'both mud and sand' has also made it more difficult for us to make the right choice. How to choose a good blockchain game Alpha target? This is a question that we need to think about together. Perhaps the ideas elaborated in this article will be helpful to you.
References
Arbitrum Nova Beginner's Guide (with list of main ecological projects)
https://www.odaily.news/post/5185920
Ten thousand words detailed explanation of the whole chain game: basic introduction, ecological status and future prospects_MarsBit
https://news.marsbit.co/20230321174405733435.html
Artificial Intelligence Applications in Web3: Challenges, Risks and Prospects
https://foresightnews.pro/article/detail/27993
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