Foresight Ventures Chain Game Collection | Solana
Written by: Peter Li@Foresight Ventures
Written by: Peter Li@Foresight Ventures
The current chain game is still in its early stage. We found that many chain games still can’t get rid of NFT-based card games, but its development speed exceeds our expectations. A large number of high-quality games such as Star Altas, Guild of guardians and Gold fever will be tested in the first and second quarters of next year, and we may usher in the moment when Gamefi explodes.
Foresight Ventures sorts out various public chain development game projects. This article will focus on Solana, aiming to find the next possible explosive point.
Project name: DeFi Land
Official website:https://defiland.app/
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Types of games: business simulation, strategy games
Benchmarking game: Dream Town (traditional mobile game)
Game content:In the game, players can simulate farming for business and production. In version 2.0, a battle mode will be added to enhance the gameplay. The game is divided into infrastructure and NFT facilities. The infrastructure includes banks (loan aggregators), warehouses (providing seeds for cultivated land , conversion to DeFi is to provide liquidity tokens), markets (trading through AMMs and liquidity providers such as serum and raydium), NFT facilities such as granaries, after purchase, will help the land obtain an additional five percent of production; The weather system is set up in the game, and the change of the weather will be determined according to your location and market conditions, which greatly simulates the environment in which crops grow; in addition, some mini-games are also set up, through which you can obtain additional income .
Token economy:Token economy:
Play to earn：Tokens and NFT rewards can be obtained by daily check-in and completing tasks or achievements according to the game guidelines. In addition, events and competitions will be held regularly in the game to obtain additional rewards; after the battle mode appears in the future, players can also capture land and rob resources etc. to earn income.
Team information:There are 7 team members, and the team members have extensive experience in multiple industries such as VR, AI, games, financial technology and ERP, and have also worked with large banks and retail companies in multiple regions.
Investment agency:At present, it has obtained Animoca Brands, Alameda Research, JumpCapital, Rarestone Capital, kyros Ventures, Double Peak, CryptoJ, Illusionist Group, Dialectic, Ankr, Gate.io, Transfero Swiss, Coin98 Ventures, Rok Capital, Youbi Capital, Caballeros Capital, 3Commas, Seed round financing from MXC, Solar eco fund, GBV, Skyvision Capital, NGC Ventures, Solana Foundation.
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DeFi Land is a game that combines DeFi and GameFi ingeniously. In the game, the DeFi protocol is gamified, and different assets represent different currencies, such as SOL for sunflowers, USDC for corn, and COPE for pumpkins. Participate in planting in the game The way of production is to add different protocols, and demonstrate the characteristics of different protocols to players, so that more novice players can learn and understand DeFi knowledge and earn income in the way of games. This is a great attempt that is more educational than gaming.
I was amazed at DeFi Land's wonderful idea, but at the same time I was worried about whether the production difficulty of its games was too high. According to the official roadmap of the project, the game will be launched in Q3 2020 version 1.0 for internal testing, and in Q1 2021 version 2.0 will be launched, of which 1.0 The version can only simulate the functions of the DeFi protocol with fake assets through the educational site (practice mode), but can version 2.0 really perfectly carry all the content of the game?
Project name: Project Seed
Official website:https://projectseed.io/
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Game type: ARPG
Benchmarking games: illuvium, monster hunter
Game content:Game content:
The plot of the game is set as the world is about to be destroyed. Players need to find the guardian to find out the truth of the world and save the sanctuary from destruction. Players will begin their journey in Port Hunter, a small city on the western end of the Sandrocks where players can learn the combat system through a tutorial.
The game's unique characteristic dungeon creator mode, players can create their own dungeons for other players to play, the provider will get income from players entering the dungeon, creators can manually decorate each part of the dungeon, and capture zed and placed in the dungeon. In addition, the game also designed a number of small games such as fishing, logging and mining.
Token economy:Token economy:
Play to earn：Players can obtain dropped equipment and items for sale by killing Zeds, or make weapons or armors from monster materials for sale. Different Zed characteristics will make weapons and armors have different effects; in the game, you can also use Join a guild, participate in guild tournaments and win to earn tokens or item rewards.
Team information:There are five core founders, two of whom have Binance-related backgrounds, and the rest have backgrounds in program development, community operations, and game development. The team members have rich experience.
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Exnetwork Capital, Moon Whale Ventures, and Tokenmilk Inc will launch public offerings in Q3 this year.Comment:
Project name: Star Atlas
Official website:https://staratlas.com/overview
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Game type: Shooting games, ARPG
Benchmark games: Star Citizen (traditional online game), EVE online
Game content:Game content:
There are three galaxy factions in the game, which are the MUD territory ruled by humans, the ONI region of the alien race alliance, and the Ustur star region controlled by robots. Each faction will be divided into three parts, which are safe areas (learn the basic game skills) , such as rescue, combat, and salvage), mid-level areas (players can fight, but assets will be reset if damaged), and borders (players will destroy assets through combat, destruction is a permanent event, but only a part of assets will be destroyed. are permanently destroyed).
According to the size of the ship, it will be divided into seven levels of warships: Primary, Small, Medium, Large, Capital, Commander, and Dreadnought. Each type of warship will have different types or attributes of subdivision directions. And players can personally drive the spaceship into space to experience the immersive feeling.
Token economy:Token economy:
There are two types of tokens in the game, namely: ATLAS (in-game tokens), totaling 36 billion pieces. As in-game tokens, they can be used to purchase spaceships, crew members, land and equipment. When holding ATLAS to purchase spaceships or components, they will Get a 40% discount; POLIS (governance tokens), a total of 360 million pieces, can formulate rules and laws by participating in parliament, and you can get a 40% discount when you hold POLIS to buy land and fleets.
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Play to earn：The game adopts a unique time incentive method, and a part of the reward will be issued according to the time spent by the player. In addition, players can earn income through galaxy exploration and mining, as pirates to steal income from ships, as bounty hunters, as crew members, etc. The rich content of the game brings players a variety of income methods.
Team information:Team information:
Team members have participated in the production of many well-known games and well-known movies, namely: games including "Star Citizen", "Destiny 2", "Dauntless", "Horizon: Zero Dawn", "Call of Duty: Black Action 3/ 4", "Halo Remake", "Dead Island 2", "Special Ops - The Line", "Beyond Earth", "The Sims", "Ultima Online", "Warhammer Online", "Lord of the Rings", etc. Films include Watchmen, Terminator: Dark Fate, Captain Marvel, X-Men: Dark Phoenix, Superman Returns, Spider-Man: Far From Home, and more.
Investment agency:Moonwhale Ventures、Serum、LD Capital、Yield Guild Games
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Galaxy-themed games are full of imagination and creativity, and Star Atlas brings us 3A-level production and movie-like visual experience. The popularity of Gamefi has accelerated the rapid development of chain games, but Star Atlas still surpasses the The era of works of the same period.
The production cycle of 3A games is long, usually takes several years to polish, and is often accompanied by huge expenditures. The production cost usually needs to be priced in hundreds of millions. According to the content presented to us by Star Atlas, it is not a 3A sci-fi game Outerwear makes games with a small cost, hoping to bring players a perfect experience. The game will be launched in the Q2 quarter of 22, and a small game will be released in early September as a warm-up.
Project name: Aorory
Official website:https://aurory.io/
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Game Genre: RPG
Benchmarking game: Pokémon
Game content:Game content:
In a multiplayer game, players and players can challenge each other. Before the battle, both parties pay a certain amount of tokens to start the battle. Choose five items and cards to participate in the game. The selected creatures will start the battle according to their characteristics, and the winner will get back the paid tokens. ; There is also a leaderboard mode in the game, which is updated weekly and monthly, with mythical items and tokens as rewards to motivate people to play the game.
Token economy:Token economy:
Play to earn：Players can obtain NFT and token rewards through task achievements in single-player games. NFT can be used as fighting creatures in multiplayer battles. Players on both sides pay tokens to fight as a way of earning and consuming. In addition, players will be rewarded after successful challenges It will improve the ranking of the leaderboard data, and get extra rewards at the time of settlement.
Team information:There are currently 7 team members. The members have more than 20 years of experience in the game industry and 3A-level game artists. The team has solid basic skills and good content presentation.
Investment agency:Solana、Alameda Research、Animoca Brands、Zee Prime Capital、Ascensive Assets、CMS、Genblock capital
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Project name: Scallop
Official website:https://www.scallop.io/
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Game Type: Simulation Management
Game tags: Q version, collection
Play to earn：Pledge SOL to grow scallops. Every Friday at 20:00 (GMT+8) is the harvest time. One (or several) winners will be randomly selected by the program to receive Staking rewards equivalent to Scallop Token (SCA); Complete tasks such as joining 10 pools within a month to get rewarded with tokens or NFT decorations.
Team information:Kris Lai is a senior security engineer for one of the largest web games in Asia. Donnie has many years of experience in game development. Larry was a core engineer in the blockchain laboratory of a large Canadian bank. The team members are mainly Chinese in Taiwan and Canada.
Investment agency:Financing has not been opened yet.
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To position Scallop in the game, it is better to position it in a liquidity mining project with redistribution. Players pledge SOL and become random users when withdrawing income. Users can obtain tokens twice the value of the pledged amount, which is equivalent to the player’s income. redistribute. Scallop may be favored by some small players, which is equivalent to a form of participation in scratch games without explicit cost, but it may be difficult to win the favor of giant whale players. After all, it is difficult to pay a large amount of pledge investment in terms of interest alone.
Outlook for Solana blockchain games:
All public chains, side chains, and L2 are making layouts for Gamefi. For chain games themselves, chains with high transaction speed and low transaction fees are obviously more suitable. Solana obviously meets the requirements, and it is in the known developing chain games Among them, Solana’s chain games are of high quality and cover the multi-directional development of Star Wars, simulation management, ARPG and liquidity mining, which better meets the preferences of different groups of people.
Among the chain games mentioned above, Star Atlas is undoubtedly the most exquisite and outstanding game. However, the difficulty of entering the game is undoubtedly the highest. It may be difficult for players to bear the need for several days to learn how to control the game, and There are a lot of cutscenes in Star Atlas, and the content of a national-level game is often easy to learn but difficult to master. Therefore, the player circle of Star Atlas may be small, and it is best to conduct player education during the warm-up of small games; Project Seed and Aorory may It is more inclined to face the majority of gamers and users, and needs to be polished on the product; while DeFi Land and Scallop are aimed at novice user education and users with specific needs who pursue high returns. There may be a part of the user base, but whether they can do it Big still needs the test of time.
The rise of Play to earn has brought chain games to the next stage of development, but some games may pay too much attention to earn and ignore play. In a zero-sum or even negative-sum market, the explosion driven by APY alone will not last long. Higher APY often requires more players to enter the market to maintain it. Once a new high-yielding game appears, speculators will It will leave the field quickly. What can really withstand the big waves is often the high-quality game content itself. Just like Aave and Compound in DeFi, DeFi will not get the most TVL simply because of high APY, and the same is true for Gamefi.
We believe that a healthy game ecosystem should have players who are willing to pay for game content, high-level players who are willing to spend money for gameplay and not just for investment, and low-level players who gain economic benefits through time, but not all for making money. Only a virtuous cycle ecology that can be closed can make a chain game truly withstand the baptism of time, and an excessively high APY may greatly shorten the life cycle of the game.
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