veDAO Research Institute: Inventory of popular GmaeFi, what new possibilities are there in the future?
With the recovery of the market, the blockchain game industry has also begun to recover, and has formed a deep integration with the new concepts and hotspots of the current industry, and further endowed the game with more value and greater potential. Therefore, veDAO Research Institute specially sorts out the current development of blockchain games for everyone, and tries to answer a question: what new possibilities will blockchain games have in the future?
But before that, we need to understand the past of games and blockchain games.
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traditional game
Traditional games are all the games we have seen so far that do not involve blockchain elements. This concept game often has a centralized architectural model, that is, "project party VS players". Players are vulnerable groups in this relationship, and the game The purpose of the party is to convert non-paying players into paying customers. The first appeal of players to pay is often to obtain a higher game experience.
But it is worth noting that from chess to 4X strategy, from traditional RPG table games to AAA open world, games have never been pure entertainment, but a platform for players to compete for limited resources.
However, limited resources often have high real value in traditional games. For example, a top-quality belt in "Fantasy Westward Journey" can sell for 2 million yuan.
Then the game will extend from the game to outside the game, and steal the player's assets through hacking, fraud and other means. Therefore, finding a way to confirm the rights of assets has become the best opportunity for traditional games to get in touch with the blockchain.
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Chain games
1. GameFi: GameFi is the concept of "gamified finance" under the fusion of DeFi and NFT. It presents financial products in the form of games and makes the rules of DeFi gamified. GameFi has really entered the field of vision 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 gameplays have emerged in an endless stream.
GameFi is not the 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 substantial revenue in return. The difference in core appeals makes the difference between GameFi and traditional games more obvious, although there are overlaps in development ideas and operational logic.
Although the early GameFi products all gave people a "shoddy" feeling, with pixelated painting style, boring gameplay, and simple interaction. However, after the GameFi boom in 2022, GameFi developers generally began to have higher requirements for game quality. We can also see that many new styles, engines and gameplay have been added to 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, similar to NetEase in 2018, but the degree of game chain reform today is more profound .
The focus of the game chain reform is on the guide: importing billions of potential game users from the traditional game world into Web3, so as to achieve real development. Unlike GameFi, chain-modified games often cannot give users satisfactory P2E returns, because the game party will worry about the premature end of the game's economic life.
In addition, because the chain reform needs to start from a traditional game that already exists in the real world, during the process of chain reform, commercialization problems will also be encountered. For example: when planning to use the game in a certain game When the pets are made into NFTs for on-chain sales, they often encounter strong opposition from traditional game publishers, and this move will be regarded as an infringement of the publisher's interests. And this is also the reason why it is difficult for chain-changing games to be fully uploaded to the chain.
Although there are many difficulties in the game chain reform, it is undeniable that the game projects of the chain reform generally have the game quality that the current GameFi products cannot compete with. Gameplay.
Full chain game
Full chain game
The full-chain game can be regarded as a conceptual upgrade of GameFi, but it is different. In short, under the premise of providing higher game quality as much as possible, all the core logic of the game, including state storage, calculation and execution, etc., are all deployed on the blockchain. Although full-chain games have higher game quality requirements, it is almost impossible for full-chain games to realize complex game content and exquisite art. GameFi is also pursuing the improvement of game quality, and the current full-chain game expression form is almost the same as GameFi. This also makes the current concept of full-chain games and GameFi have an embarrassing situation of semantic ambiguity.
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 by different game types, and the 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 economy model works effectively, then its Fun property and Earn property can be realized through 4 to 5 games together.
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. At present, new players know more about GameFi based on white papers and materials, and they often need to pay to play games. Free to paly mode is becoming a trend.
Metaverse
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 currently a very intuitive window for users to understand the metaverse. It originated in the game 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 development of the metaverse concept is still at a very early stage, and blockchain games, which are the cornerstone of the metaverse, cannot build a multiple economic model that can perfectly reflect the various elements and complex relationships in the metaverse world.
In short, the real landing of Metaverse requires blockchain games to become sufficiently complex. This complexity is not meaningless stacking, but good at using various new concepts and technologies to make themselves more "configurable". ".
If ZK is the endgame of blockchain infrastructure construction, then Metaverse is undoubtedly the endgame of blockchain application layer development.
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Arbitrum
Arbitrum's new chain, Arbitrum Nova, is designed for 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 go live on March 23. Among them, one of the criteria for judging the number of airdrops obtained is whether Arbitrum Nova has been used.
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artificial intelligence
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Past links:https://mirror.xyz
Today, images and videos generated by artificial intelligence are very advanced. For example, generative AI models can assist in the creation of large-scale game assets in the Web3 environment, including avatars, equipment, vehicles, and artifacts. The game 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.
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VR&AR
VR is a project such as games and movies performed by wearing a VR headset and equipment, and 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 the elements that exist in the physical world can appear in the metaverse, such as buildings, objects, social, personal, education and so on. But the presentation of these contents needs to simulate the five senses, and use the existence of "meta" to translate the physical world to the metaverse.
To put it simply, VR is a newer technology, Metaverse is a social relationship that needs to be as realistic as possible in the virtual world, and GameFi is a form of gamification established through smart contracts before the Metaverse Simple social relationships displayed.
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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 dislocation of the user's payment and return in the process of making gold. The reason is that the current "multi-currency economic model" of GameFi games is too Ponzi, and the Utility Token (Utility Token) produced by players has no value support. It will return to zero at any time in the short term, and it will return to zero in the long term. A game of running faster.
VCT, the asset value capture token, together with the game’s governance token and utility token, constitutes a new economic model paradigm, the so-called “three-currency economic model”.
There is a strong correlation between VCT Token and Utility Token: In terms of quantity, regardless of inflation or deflation, the ratio between the two will always remain 1: 1; Right" (exchange a VCT Token from the project party, and then convert it into 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.
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Meta Warrior
Official website:https://metawarriors.world/
Twitter:https://twitter.com/_metawarriors
More information:https://app.vedao.com/project
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 sections:
1. Zombie City: Story Mode and Mission Mode.
2. In the story mode, players can choose the corresponding NFT character to go deep into the zombie city to eliminate zombies. In the process of fighting zombies, players will be rewarded with NFT and WarX tokens.
3. In the game's mission mode, players can find themselves competing against each other in Zombie City and participating in missions or special events to earn special NFT rewards.
4. Survivor Island: The Metaverse. Survivor Island is a virtual representation of a real-world island, such as Bali Indonesia, Mallorca Spain, 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 events, 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.
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Mirror World
Official website:https://mirrorworld.fun/
Twitter:https://twitter.com/joinmirrorworld
Mirror World is a GameFi project that combines AI to create 3+ asset interoperability games.
The three games combine the Roguelike ARPG game "Mirrama", the PVP-based relaxed and casual arena duel game "Brawl of Mirrors", and a game with "SLG" as the main type.
After self-publishing 3 different types of games, Mirror World also has the characteristics of "open compatibility" and "decentralization" in the encrypted world, turning Mirror World into a "virtual game" that belongs to everyone with rich and interesting content and generates real benefits at the same time. World Playground".
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AI Rein
Official website:https://ai-rein.net/
Twitter:https://twitter.com/AIReinNFT
More information:https://app.vedao.com/project/
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 the avatar in the virtual world through the front camera of the 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 the support of hundreds of thousands of fans around the world. So with the support of Japan's largest animation and cosplay community organization, Ai Rein will have unlimited possibilities in the development of derivatives in the animation field. For example, have the opportunity to cooperate with leading Japanese publishers to produce related manga and animation films.
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MetaCity
Official website:https://metacity.fun/
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, anywhere.
MetaCity advocates Play and Earn, not Play to Earn. In the game, the player will play the role of the mayor of the city, responsible for making the city more prosperous through various operational strategies. MetaCity is trying to make this process as less boring as possible,
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Metaline
Official website:https://www.metaline.games/
Twitter:https://twitter.com/Metaline 001
More information:https://app.vedao.com/project/
MetaLine is a massively multiplayer game combining elements of GameFi 2.0, socialFi and the metaverse, featuring navigation management, adventure and strategy gameplay. Players drive the game's mission system through NFT. Through the collaboration of the six systems of NFT, port, production, trade, battle and upgrade, players can create their own metaverse of ocean empires. The unique parallel universe gameplay expands MetaLine's worldview and opens up more possibilities for exploring parallel universes.
MetaLine's mission is not just to create an e-sports game, but a game metaverse that connects thousands of encrypted digital asset owners. MetaLine will create a sustainable ecosystem enabling global recognition of games, digital asset ownership and in-game transactions.
Metaline is divided into two types of assets: NFT and Token:
NFT：
Blind Box NFT (ERC 1155): 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 a high-value NFT. NFTs obtained from blind boxes can improve game efficiency and increase revenue within MetaLine.
Hero NFT (ERC 721): An important carrier for users to participate in the game, divided into creation heroes: obtained through blind boxes, a total of 3,500. Recruit Heroes: Players use ETH/MTT (game tokens) to recruit in the training ground
Pet NFT (ERC 721): Obtained from the blind box, it can help players obtain in-game assets.
Ship NFT (ERC 721): Help players fight & mine.
Port Certificate NFT (ERC 721): Allows players to use functions such as minting and depositing.
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MTT: Game governance currency, with a total of 300 million.
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Trident
Official website:https://trident.game/
Twitter:https://twitter.com/TridentDAO
More information:https://app.vedao.com/project/
Trident is an Arbitrum based 2D MMO game. According to the official document description, 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 (which also drop items on death), poach animals, fight bosses, kill each other, and do various bounty quests. 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. It is currently in the Pre-Alpha version. Players can choose various "spirits" to fight.
Summarize
Summarize
There is no one who does not love games, whether it is simple guessing games or AAA masterpieces in the virtual world, they will never lose the audience's love because of the deterioration of the world's financial environment. The same is true for the blockchain world, although the concept of GameFi was briefly 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.
References
References
Arbitrum Nova Beginner's Guide (with a list of major ecological projects)
Link: https://www.odaily.news/post/5185920
4D Detailed Explanation of Full-Chain Games: Basic Introduction, Ecological Status and Future Prospects_MarsBit
Link: https://news.marsbit.co/20230321174405733435.html
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