Abyss World introduces a new AI model, bringing positive feedback to blockchain games
Original | Odaily
Author | 0xAyA
In recent years, we have witnessed several major innovations in existing GameFi projects. These technological and gameplay innovations have brought many new possibilities and enhancements to the blockchain gaming track. For example, AI can be used for intelligent NPCs in games to provide more realistic game experiences and rich interactions with players. It can also be used to automatically generate game content, including maps, quests, and storylines. Many projects also choose to start from the logic of game operation.
How does Abyss World, which Odaily has recently been paying attention to, enrich the playability of the game from a design perspective?
Abyss World Basic Introduction
Abyss World is a fantasy-style space adventure ARPG chain game based on Unreal Engine 5, supported by AMD, Epic Games, and IGN. In Abyss World, players can play as lords and explore the PVE world alone or with others, searching for treasures, defeating monsters to obtain equipment and in-game currency. Players can send these collected resources to the game's center, the "Currency Factory," to forge more powerful weapons and equipment, assemble powerful hero teams, and explore new PVE worlds.
In addition, players can dispatch their hero teams to participate in PVP arenas and engage in intense battles with other players' hero teams.
In Abyss World, players can be roughly divided into two categories: casual players and professional players. Casual players can participate in the game for free, while professional players can enhance their strength by continuously upgrading equipment and learning new strategies, and have the opportunity to earn honors, rewards, and abundant equipment.
The development team behind Abyss World is Metagame Industries, a technology-driven game studio focused on building the next generation of metaverse games using blockchain, artificial intelligence, and cloud gaming technologies.
Abyss AI Beast Arena
Abyss World recently launched a new mode - Abyss AI Arena.Each season will feature new AI heroes participating in intense battles.To help players better understand the game rules and hero matchups, the game is introducing the Abyss AI Arena T0 Season Voting and Prize-Winning Event. The T0 season will take place in early August, lasting for 6 days with 3 battle days.
Players can participate in all voting activities by purchasing the Abyss AI Arena "T0 Season Pass" and support their favorite heroes. The competition adopts an elimination format, with a total of 8 heroes participating. The T0 season lasts for 3 days and includes 7 matches. Players holding the Abyss AI Arena T0 ticket can participate in the voting activities for all 7 exciting matches, with voting opening within 23 hours before each match starts.
The total prize pool is composed of ticket purchases by all players and contributions from other project teams. The distribution ratio of the prize pool is that 85% of the prize money will be awarded to players as rewards, and the remaining 15% will be deposited into the Abyss DAO fund, which will be used for burning, inviter rewards, and operating expenses, etc.
Based on the proportion of correctly guessing match results and the number of tickets purchased, players will receive corresponding rewards. The number of purchased tickets will determine the final reward settlement after participating in the voting activities. 85% of the total prize pool will be allocated as follows:
Correctly guess the results of all 7 matches: Allocate 82% of the total prize pool in proportion to the number of tickets held by players that correctly guess in all 7 matches.
Correctly guess the results of 6 matches: Allocate 18% of the total prize pool in proportion to the number of tickets held by players that correctly guess in 6 matches.
For example, if the total prize pool is 1,000,000 AWT and 10 people correctly guessed all 7 matches, with a total of 800 tickets. If one of the winners holds 80 tickets, their total reward will be 82% * 85% * 1,000,000 * (80/800) = 69,700 AWT.
At the end of August, the Abyss AI Colosseum T1 season will be launched. After testing in the T0 and T1 seasons, the future iterations of the Abyss AI Colosseum will introduce the native token BVB. In future versions, players can use both AWT and BVB to vote. BVB holders will participate in the governance of the Abyss AI Colosseum DAO and make decisions about its future earnings and direction.
The launch of BVB will be initiated by the community, with Abyssworld asset holders and early participants in the Abyss AI Colosseum testing being eligible for the BVB airdrop based on snapshots. In addition, Abyss World has partnered with the decentralized data repository Spaceandtime based on Chainlink. The cooperation between the two will ensure the on-chain verification of AI calculations and guarantee the transparency and integrity of the results.
How can users know that the data results are not determined/manipulated by game developers? SQL proof can achieve this. To prove the neutrality of the results for each round of data, the game can write the data from the in-game event log and the results related to each event into Spaceandtime. Users can use SQL proof to query Spaceandtime and ensure that the in-game logs and the data related to results are not manipulated through encryption. This essentially creates an anti-tampering audit trail, allowing the community to audit the results of the game and allowing the project to prove that they have not manipulated the results of the game itself.
Abyss World has bigger ambitions for this new model.
The team will launch version 1.0 compatible with mobile devices in August, and open up more heroes, more complete events (a week-long tournament format), single-match voting, and more forms of participation. In the future, the AI Colosseum will introduce API interfaces, allowing KOLs to launch the Colosseum anytime, anywhere, and enjoy performances through live streaming with their fans.
In order to allow players to have a sense of participation in the intense AI battles, the Abyss AI Colosseum will open a voting entrance for single-match BVB events in the upcoming version. Players can support their desired gladiators based on specific matches. In addition, players can invite friends to participate in the Abyss AI Colosseum and receive official incentives, enjoying the joy of watching, discussing, and sharing with friends.
With the increasingly mature VR/AR technology, the AI Colosseum can also combine with peripherals such as Apple Vision to create a deeper sense of immersion in AI battles, reproducing the voting experience of the "ancient Roman Colosseum" in cloud computing.
"Positive Feedback" in Game Design
It is not difficult to see that the design concept of the Abyss AI Colosseum refers to the pattern of The Rug Game, that is, every 30-60 days as a cycle, users holding the same token in the cycle become a group (to unite and compete with other forces), which may mobilize the community to participate in trading together. A token force can improve its competitiveness by staking or bribing with tokens, and ultimately gain profits from it. In the Abyss AI Colosseum, different heroes represent different forces, and profits are distributed among the winning heroes through supporting hero NFTs/staking.
At the same time, as a relatively independent section, the Abyss AI Colosseum will eventually be combined with Abyss World itself to create the final closed-loop mode. Players can introduce character NFTs into the Abyss AI Colosseum, earn performance fees through battles, and record career records on the NFTs. Players can obtain resources to enhance character NFTs from PVE and continue this process. Users supporting different NFTs can vote and support them with tokens, giving corresponding characters certain ability bonuses. Ultimately, they can gain profits from the winners and repeat this process.
Unlike the popular hamster race that was on fire recently, the victory in the hamster race itself only affects profitability and does not have any positive or negative feedback on the hamster itself. The ability value of each hamster can be considered fixed, and the player's sense of achievement is limited to "I come, I buy, I make money", losing the experience of nurturing. On the other hand, Abyss AI Battle Arena enables the concept of "becoming stronger from weakness" through the investment→strengthening through victories→reinvestment process, adding more drama to the game.
