When "Bingdundun" hits NFT, the Winter Olympics chain game starts a new movement for the whole people
Author | Qin Xiaofeng
Editor | Hao Fangzhou
Produced | Odaily
Author | Qin Xiaofeng
Editor | Hao Fangzhou
Produced | Odaily
"A "Bingdun" is hard to find", this is the common aspiration of those who love "Bingdundun" in the past week.
As one of the mascots of the 24th Beijing Winter Olympics, "Bingdundun", who has successfully made his way out of the circle with his soft and cute appearance, is undoubtedly the top class at the moment. Today, "Bingdundun" is also catching up with fashion, applying blockchain technology across borders, and becoming an NFT digital artwork.
According to official news, the Bingdundun digital blind box officially authorized by the International Olympic Committee will be launched on the Flow chain trading market nWayPlay at 01:00 on February 12, Beijing time, for users to purchase.
In addition to buying NFT souvenirs, sports fans can also experience the atmosphere of the Winter Olympics through mobile games.
On February 8, the officially authorized blockchain mobile game "Olympic Games Jam: Beijing 2022" for the Beijing Winter Olympics was officially launched. The game is built on the Flow chain. Players can win NFT digital badges by participating in the game. The NFT is officially authorized by the International Olympic Committee and supports resale for cash.
The Winter Olympics, which was born nearly a century ago, encountered the new technology of blockchain and collided with bright sparks. Technology empowers the Olympics and promotes the spread of the Olympic spirit more widely.
1. Winter Olympics on the chain, all people participateOn the evening of February 4th, the opening ceremony of the 24th Winter Olympic Games was successfully held in Beijing's Bird's Nest. Hundreds of millions of spectators at home and abroad witnessed the grand occasion, which also opened the prelude to the frenzy of ice and snow sports. Especially on February 8, Chinese player Gu Ailing won the gold medal with a 1620-degree difficult turn in the women's big diving platform, which once again ignited the enthusiasm of the Chinese people for the Winter Olympics.
Only limited by various factors, not everyone can personally experience the charm of ice and snow sports. Therefore, the International Olympic Committee has begun to release video games in recent years to encourage all people to participate and experience the Olympic spirit together.During the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the International Olympic Committee released the game giant Ubisoft to launch "Road to the Olympics".This year's Beijing Winter Olympics, the International Olympic Committee continues this tradition, and combines blockchain technology with the times to launch the blockchain game "Olympic Games Jam: Beijing 2022".
"Beijing 2022 isn't just for elite athletes. Now, fans can experience the thrills (ice and snow games) as well through the official mobile game."
International Olympic Committee
Officially so.https://olympicgamesjam.nwayplay.com/#main"Olympic Games Jam: Beijing 2022" is a blockchain mobile game based on the Flow chain (a public chain under Dapper Labs). It is authorized by the International Olympic Committee and developed by nWay, a subsidiary of top investment institution Animoca Brands. Players compete in the game to win NFT digital badges officially authorized by the International Olympic Committee, and support resale for cash.https://nwayplay.com/As the first batch of early adopters, we also experienced this game first-hand, and summarized relevant experience for the reference of readers.
Players first need to download the game on the official website (
), the game currently supports Android, and will soon support IOS applications. In addition, it is recommended that players go to the nWayPlay official website to register an account (
), and log in to the game with the registered account (nWayPlay ID). The purpose of logging in with nWayPlay ID is to open an account, which is convenient for later resale and purchase of NFT badges. Players can also choose Google ID to log in.
After entering the game, the player can customize and create the character image of the game. The features that can be changed include: skin color, hair, body shape (male, female), and the snow equipment on the body can also be replaced. Relevant ski sets need to be unlocked in the game, currently only the default set is supported.
After the appearance is transformed, players can officially enter the game. There are four game modes to choose from: free version, amateur, professional, and championship. Different modes have different entry thresholds. Among them, the free version does not require any qualifications, and the amateur version needs to pay 100 Tickets, 300 for the Professional Edition and 1,000 for the Championship. Of course, different competition modes have different rewards. The winners of the latter three competitions can get different amounts of "gems" (GEMS). The role of gems will be introduced later.
There are two ways to get tickets: one is to participate in the free version of the game, the winner can get tickets, the maximum one game can get 12 tickets; the other is to equip the player with PINS (medals), which can be purchased from the nWayPlay official website, and the price ranges from a few The total amount of tickets generated by different types of PINS and the rate of generation are different, ranging from US dollars to hundreds of US dollars, mainly determined by their scarcity.
As a "stingy" novice, I directly choose the first way to get tickets. To enter the "Free Edition" mode, players need to pass four ice and snow game levels, namely: Snowboard-Slalom (slalom), Snowboard-Slopestyle (slalom skiing), Freestyle Skiing--Cross (freestyle cross skiing) and Skeleton (downhill skiing). sled).
The four games appear randomly, so it is also called "MAYHEM EN MASSE" (MAYHEM EN MASSE). The specific gameplay is very simple, similar to "Running Kart" and "QQ Speed". Players need to manipulate athletes to move left and right to surpass their opponents to get a higher ranking. In the game, if the player hits an obstacle, the speed will be affected and reduced. Therefore, two "accelerators" are set in the game to help the player increase the sliding speed, as shown below:
In addition, players need to be reminded that at the beginning of each round, you can click on the "Gain" that appears on the screen to store energy. Also pay attention to slow down when going through various curves.There are four rounds of the game. In the first round, a total of 15 players will participate, and the top ten will enter the second round; in the second round, ten will enter eight; in the third round, eight will enter five; The number of tickets a player gets depends on your ranking in each level. If you can maintain the first place in each level, you will get the highest number of rewards (12 tickets). According to my personal test, basically a round of the game can get 5-6 tickets on average, and it takes a total of 20 rounds to enter the "amateur" mode.
In the "amateur" mode and the following two modes, players pay tickets to participate in the game, and they can get "gem" rewards for winning the game. Gems have two functions: one is to convert them into pass-through tokens later, which can be exchanged and traded with other cryptocurrencies in DEX; the other is to open the treasure chest dropped in the game, which contains NFT medals (PINS), and supports Resell it in the nWayPlay market and convert it into legal currency income. Of course, you can also continue to hold NFT to generate new tickets and participate in subsequent competitions.
These NFTs were launched by nWay in cooperation with the International Olympic Committee in June last year, including mascots, logos, pictograms, etc. of the past Olympic Games.
There are four grades: common, rare, epic, and legendary, with different prices, as follows:
Olympic gymnastics medalist and game enthusiast Nile Wilson will introduce the game in detail to overseas users in a Twitch live broadcast on February 16. Interested users can pay attention at that time.
2. Out-of-the-circle games with frequent highlightsAs the first Olympic-themed blockchain game, "Olympic Games Jam: Beijing 2022" has attracted much attention in domestic and overseas markets. Just two days after its launch, the download volume of the Google App Store exceeded the 10,000 mark; with the advancement of the Winter Olympics project, its download volume is bound to continue to rise.
Regarding this chain game, we believe that it has the following innovations and highlights that deserve our attention.
One is to use the blockchain without feeling, which is more friendly to users outside the circle.Previously, some blockchain games usually required users to import wallets or require new users to register blockchain addresses and record mnemonic words/private keys, which caused a lot of trouble for users outside the circle. Although "Olympic Games Jam: Beijing 2022" is based on the Flow blockchain, it does not pose any barriers to users. Users can log in directly through their Google accounts without connecting to an external wallet. If you want to sell NFT, you need to link nWayPlay ID. It should be noted that if you want to buy NFT medals in the game, the nWayPlay platform not only supports Coinbase for payment, but also supports credit card fiat currency payment, opening up a deposit channel.Axie InfinityThis way of handling reminds more people of the "NBA Top Shot" launched by Dapper Labs, which was popular in early 2020. It also supports fiat currency payment and is popular all over the world. It is still the number one transaction volume in the NFT market.
The second is to creatively use the "Play to earn" model and introduce NFT and tokens as incentives.
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》With this model, it has gained tens of millions of users in Southeast Asia, driving local employment and increasing the income of the poor. Today's "Olympic Games Jam: Beijing 2022" takes the Winter Olympics as an opportunity and is expected to drive income growth in poor areas through sports.
The third is that the team has rich operating experience, which is conducive to promoting the long-term stable operation of the project and becoming a new hot item.
The game publisher nWay has made remarkable achievements in AAA-level games. The main achievements include "Power Rangers: Battle of Power", "Warrior: Legacy Wars" and "ChronoBlade"; Capital", behind the top blockchain games is active.
In addition, the underlying public chain of the game is Flow, which is the ace public chain of Dapper Labs. It aims at the traditional mainstream users, trying to bring growth to the encryption market, and has harvested 3.7 million in just over a year. users above. As the first application of the Flow public chain, "NBA Top Shot" became a hot item in 2020, successfully went out of the circle, and initially realized the concept of Dapper Labs. Since then, Flow has continued to exert its strength, and the number of various applications and users has grown exponentially.
Under the combination of strong players, "Olympic Games Jam: Beijing 2022" is far superior to general chain game projects in terms of playability, ease of use, and underlying technical performance. Moreover, now that the world-class large-scale IP "Olympic Games" is bound, it is conceivable that it is bound to become a hot item in the chain game market this year.
3. IP top stream, enlarge imagination
Due to the short launch time, "Olympic Games Jam: Beijing 2022" also has some minor issues that have yet to be resolved.
For example, due to the current small number of players, the waiting time for the game is long, and nearly half of them are robots. From another perspective, this can also be regarded as a "benefit" for early players-less difficulty and more generous prizes.
According to the official plan, the game will launch two sports in the second quarter of this year - bobsled, short track speed skating, NFT equipment, and more novelty clothing, etc.; in the third quarter, new ways to play such as alpine skiing, ski jumping, and figure skating will be launched ; In the fourth quarter, the online team system supports players to form teams to compete.
