In the past half a year, DApp101 has seen many new blockchain games and game platforms, but compared with the expectations of the public for blockchain games in 2018, it can only be said that most of the so-called blockchain games at this stage The performance of the game is not satisfactory, and some project parties have even delayed the launch date and finally started to recycle the pre-sold props. Domestic blockchain game players are still in the state of spending time playing games in order to hype props, but there are not many games that are really playable, especially domestic blockchain games such as BRC and EGT. After the model currency, blockchain game has become synonymous with MLM.
However, in July, some good news came from blockchain games. The ERC-1155 proposed by Enjin was also officially certified by Ethereum, which also represents the ERC-1155 standard proposed on June 17, 2018. After more than a year of polishing and modification, the final finishing touches were completed and the final form was determined.
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9 Lives Arena
9 Lives Arena is an online PvP RPG game that opened PC testing on June 24. It focuses on some MMORPG players who love PvP battles. According to the official statement, the game will also be available on PS4 and Xbox platforms in the future. , will become a cross-platform blockchain game.
Open the current 9Lives Arena game, the content of the game is very simple, and there are only two things that players can do: the first is to use the in-game assistant Ooogy to collect resources and make equipment; the second is the core gameplay of the game, which is the PvP part . When entering the game to create a character, you can choose the skills to carry, and these skills are used in PvP battles.
The game operation is a very traditional keyboard and mouse operation, which should be familiar to players who have played some MMORPGs.
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Video from SpiderStore
We have seen that the developers still want to make the fighting in the game more complicated, with richer skills, good art style and modeling quality, and relatively high fluency of combat actions. However, whether it is in the video or in the actual operation experience of the black crucian carp, it actually shows that the operation of 9Lives Arena in the present stage will still have some lag, the network delay is a bit high, and the screen performance and sound effects during the battle will bring people The stimulation is not high enough. For example, many people can think of the King of Fighters playing in the arcade when they were young, and even the people watching around can feel the excitement of fighting.
The above is some actual experience of 9Lives Arena, but because it is still in the closed alpha testing period at this stage, we can also talk about some ideas of this game. First of all, one of the points that the game developers are proud of is that, unlike other games, in this game, the player only has 9 lives in total, and the character will die when he runs out. Such a real death will give Players bring higher excitement.
The other is the assistant Ooogy. According to the official statement, Ooogy is an NFT using ERC-1155, each with a unique shape and genetic code. And in the future, an app will be developed to control Ooogy, so that players can make Ooogy work even if they are not in the game, and prefer electronic pets like Tamagotchi to achieve cross-platform game operations.
In the game, in addition to the Ooogy on-chain, game developers also use the ERC-1155 standard to create more homogeneous asset (FT) blueprints (Blueprints). This blueprint is what we call skins in more popular terms. It does not bring any bonus to the character, it just makes the character look better.
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Forgotten Artifacts
Compared to 9 Lives Arena, the game studios work, Forgotten Artifacts may be a bit sketchy. This is an ARPG dungeon game developed by individual developer Cliff Cawley. Before playing the game, you need to register an account on the official website first, and then scan the code with the Enjin wallet on your mobile phone to complete the binding of the account and the blockchain wallet, and your game assets can be seen in the game.
When entering the game, there are four types of characters to choose from: knight, archer, warrior, and wizard. There is no difference in attributes between these four types of characters during the current testing period.
After selecting the character, the selection of weapons will appear on the right side. The official comes with three common weapons. Because I have already bound my Enjin account, I can also see a rare sword I received by scanning the QR code during the event.
There are three modes in the game:
Exploration Mode: You can enter for free without any conditions, but in the Exploration Mode, all props except Adventure Gems are temporary and can only be used in the dungeon.
Adventure mode: You need adventure gems to enter. Adventure gems can be obtained in adventure mode or purchased on the official website. In adventure mode, players can find some blockchain equipment, which can be taken out of the dungeon Owned by the player.
Expert mode: You can only enter when you explore the ninth floor of the adventure mode, it will start with stronger enemies, and the loot will be very rich from the first floor.
In the game, the player can move with the mouse, left-click for the main attack, right-click for the secondary attack, the secondary attack will use energy, and the energy will be replenished automatically over time, the blue bar at the bottom right is the energy , the green bar in the lower left corner is the blood volume.
What the player has to do is to find the exit in the dungeon and open the boxes encountered. Inside the box is the equipment we mentioned above. The white exit will take you out of the dungeon. In adventure mode and expert mode, once you leave, You can take away all the blockchain projects you find at this stage. The red entrance will allow you to enter the next floor, and the rarity and probability of loot drops on the next floor will increase. Of course, if you die during the process, you will not be able to take away the loot you got during the exploration.
This games attempt on the blockchain is actually a bit like My Encrypted Hero. For players who have not bound a blockchain account, you can ignore the blockchain to experience the adventure of the game purely, and bind it. Players with blockchain accounts can obtain blockchain props with their own skills in the game.
The game is not difficult to get started, but if you want to avoid the enemys attack as much as possible, you need more skill-testing positioning. At this stage, the values of enemies and weapons in the game have not been adjusted for balance, but this is a game with some difficult operations. Its not bad as a game to pass away when you are bored to get some sense of accomplishment.
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Dissolution
Dissolution is an FPS game in the Pre-Alpha testing stage. It is now available for download and update on Steam. There are three modes in the game: Zombies, zombie mode; Assault, drone mode; Raid, real team confrontation mode .
After a brief trial, it can be seen that Dissolution is still biased towards the CS series in terms of FPS. People who have played CS games will be familiar with the operation of this game, and the operation is basically the same. its the same. CS games have higher requirements for marksmanship and reaction in operation. Judging from the screen and map, this game is indeed relatively high in completion, and the operation feels very comfortable. For the specific game experience, it is recommended that you try it yourself. Anyway, compared with the existing blockchain games, this is already the closest to traditional games in terms of experience.
Game developers hope that the final form of Dissolution is to create a free MMO experience. MMORPG elements are expected to be launched next year. The developers want players to truly immerse themselves in the game while creating elements of realism that cannot be matched by other games on the market. Inspired by the virtual economy in the game EVE Online, seeing that the prices of in-game items and resources fluctuate like the real stock market, the developers added blockchain elements to the game to make players more immersive.
The video source comes from the official Twitter @DissolutionGame
The blockchain props at the current stage of the game are only the pre-sale DFT (Dissolution Founders Token), which can provide bonuses to the game and get more rewards during settlement. More blockchain assets can only be seen after the MMORPG elements are launched.
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Enjin ecology
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exist《Enjin：Romantic Blockchain Game PioneerIn , we mentioned Enjins ERC-1155 standard, Enjin wallet, Enjin browser, and game multiverse, and Enjin has previously provided developers with the blockchain SDK of the Unity game engine. This year, Enjin provided a blockchain SDK for Java developers and proposed the Enjin Spark plan.
The Enjin Spark program is a program initiated by Enjin to provide more friendly development tools for blockchain game developers. Enjin hopes that through this program, game developers can focus on games without spending more energy on blockchain technology. development. Enjin also provides multiverse props to members of the Enjin Spark program.
The friendly development environment provided by Enjin covers more and more traditional game developers. For traditional game developers, using Enjins services, even a beginner in blockchain technology can complete the development of smart contracts. It can be seen that there are already dozens of game platforms using the ERC-1155 development standard proposed by Enjin, and nearly 3,000 kinds of game props have been cast, with a total of more than 60 million game props, and more than 10 million of these props have been locked an ENJ.
Enjin also launched the worlds first blockchain-driven server, EnjinCraft, for MineCraft, the worlds most popular open-ended sandbox game, enabling peer-to-peer blockchain asset transactions in a game like MineCraft.
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Regarding the blockchain elements in these three games, some people may think that the use of the blockchain does not seem to be that great, and it is more like a pendant gimmick. In fact, what should a real blockchain game look like? No one can say for sure right now, everyone is still only in the imagination stage, and Enjins game multiverse idea seems to sound cool and seems plausible.
Compared with the current situation where everyone spends time playing a game that they are not interested in in order to hype props, in fact, what Molu is looking forward to is a really fun game that will drive the price of blockchain props in it. Just like the masterpiece The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, which directly drove the sales of Nintendo Switch back then, some players even joked that it was a good deal to spend less than 3,000 yuan to buy Zelda and send the console. Although it was a joke, it also confirmed The impact of the real game quality on the entire ecology, the fun of Zelda has driven the sales of the console NS, and the sales of NS have fed back to other excellent but relatively less exposed games on the platform, forming a virtuous circle. In blockchain games, the virtuous circle we expect should be the same. When the quality of the blockchain game is excellent one day, the game assets at this time will have the meaning of value circulation, otherwise what is the difference from the junk projects on the market?
At this stage, with more and more games adopting ERC-1155, Enjin’s multiverse of games will also become bigger and bigger. There are also blockchain game asset trading platforms like SpiderDex that have begun to support ERC-1155 Standard, and now it seems that the game quality of the Enjin series is still in the upper reaches of blockchain games. The increasingly perfect Enjin ecology also makes us rethink, how big will the imagination space of this game multiverse be in the end?
