Cradles is a large MMORPG AAA blockchain game developed by DRepublic Labs based on Unity. Through exploration, discovery, and strategic application in the game world, it will provide players with a highly immersive gaming experience with multiple functions. In Cradles, players can encounter extinct creatures that once existed on Earth, explore the prehistoric world's environment, and gain profits through hunting monsters, collecting resources in the wilderness, completing NPC quests, maintaining the ecological chain, PVP, and participating in castle defense, etc. They can also explore major cities and adventure areas, dig treasures and minerals to strengthen equipment and level up, and experience different puzzle games in taverns and casinos.

Cradles emphasizes gameplay and players' proactive maintenance of the game's ecosystem, allowing any organization or individual to provide novel game modes to the game development team, enabling players to fully unleash their creativity and enrich the Cradles ecosystem. DRepublic Labs has adopted an innovative NFT solution in the development of the Cradles game, which gives players high composability. For example, assets in Cradles have general mutable attributes, transferable attributes, upgradeable attributes, and evolvable attributes, allowing players to have more layered gaming experiences in exploration and earning.

In addition, Cradles adopts professional rendering technologies, including immersive lighting magic such as HDRP, self-developed PBR shaders, HyperShader, and the application of Unity tools and self-developed AI kits, further ensuring the high quality of the game's graphics, rendering, and more. Based on this, Cradles offers a realistic gaming experience that is unmatched by other AAA games.

In July this year, Cradles officially launched the Pioneer version to the market, allowing players to experience it firsthand. After a series of testing and adjustments following the release of the Pioneer version, Cradles plans to launch its first public beta version on September 10th, presenting a complete outline to the market and attracting attention.

As the first AAA game in the chain gaming field with complete delivery capabilities, Cradles contributes to the development process of AAA chain games in this field.

GameFi Continues to Slump, Cradles May Break the Deadlock

Since the outbreak of GameFi in 2021, this track has become a hot spot for players to mine at that time, and the GameFi track, after a brief growth, has gradually declined and is no longer the best choice for players to mine. Since 2023, the GameFi track has been performing lukewarmly, especially in the second half of the year when the market entered a deep bearish trend. The monthly financing amount and number of financing transactions in the GameFi track have continuously hit new lows, and player game activity has also been sluggish. In addition, the frequencies of hot terms such as GameFi, chain games, and P2E appearing in various communities have been declining, and the "empty market" of GameFi is in stark contrast to two years ago.

The market environment is an important external factor contributing to the continued slump in GameFi. In addition to the GameFi sector, other tracks such as NFT and DAO have also seen a slowdown in development. From the perspective of GameFi itself, we believe that the lack of narrative direction is an important internal factor causing the market slump in the GameFi sector and the lack of confidence from investors and players in the industry's development.

Narrative direction is an important factor in promoting the long-term and sustainable development of the sector. For example, driven by new narrative directions such as LSD and RWA (Real World Asset Tokenization), the DeFi market remains hot, and DeFi users and investors continue to remain active and have confidence in the long-term development of the industry, especially with RWA's potential to help the DeFi world establish connections with the $800 trillion traditional financial world. This is an extremely grand and promising narrative direction.

Relatively speaking, so far the overall narrative direction of the GameFi track has not seen substantial innovation. Axie Infinity pioneered the GameFi 1.0 era, making the P2E game mode deeply ingrained. After the P2E wave, projects like StepN, represented by X2E, further continued the GameFi frenzy. Although X2E further integrates GameFi with more real-world scenarios, it still overly relies on economic incentive models and lacks sustainable development capabilities.

In this context, we believe that AAA games will be an important direction to drive GameFi to the next stage and can be one of the narrative directions that promote its long-term development. From the perspective of traditional gaming, AAA games can form cohesive gaming culture and community culture. High-quality AAA games usually have strong vitality and long-term business logic, such as the "Call of Duty" and "Assassin's Creed" series, which have been in the market for over 15 years and are still popular.

AAA games with top-quality graphics and game logic can bring users excellent gaming experiences and balance the speculative nature of P2E. They are not only expected to reshape the form of blockchain gaming, but also serve as an important channel to connect GameFi with hundreds of millions of traditional gamers. They also have a very grand narrative direction.

Cradles, as a Steam-level AAA blockchain game with complete transaction capabilities and the first to target the market, has significant significance for driving the early development of this field. At the same time, GameFi is currently declining, and in such a situation, Cradles chooses to launch its open beta version to reach a wide range of players with a complete appearance, and it has the potential to help GameFi break through.

Reward activities after Cradles' open beta

Cradles will soon start open beta on September 10th, along with a series of reward activities, including:

● Daily missions

After the open beta, Cradles will set up a series of daily missions, and players who complete these missions will be rewarded. The daily mission activity aims to encourage players to actively participate in the game and build the community.

● Cradles PvP Championship

After the open beta, players will be able to engage in PvP battles with other players online in Cradles. At the same time, we will be launching a championship based on PvP gameplay, aiming to let players compete for honor. Outstanding players and guilds will receive generous incentives.

The Cradles PvP Championship is open to all players and operates on a point system. Individual players will earn points for winning PvP battles, and if a player joins a guild, their guild will also accumulate points. Cradles will reward players and guilds based on their point rankings:

- Player rankings: Sorted based on individual points, the top ten players will receive special rewards.

- Guild rankings: Sorted based on accumulated points of guild members, the top three guilds will receive special honors.

Reward rules:

No.1 guild: Special badge. 500 U equivalent to $CRDS.

No.2 guild: Special badge. 300 U equivalent to $CRDS.

No.3 guild: Special badge. 200 U equivalent to $CRDS.

Top ten players in point rankings: Share 1000 U equivalent to $CRDS.

● Sharing rewards

After the open beta, Cradles will launch challenges on platforms such as Twitter and Youtube, encouraging players to share their best moments or achievements in Cradles. Each day, the official Cradles Twitter account will randomly select 1-5 lucky players to receive a reward of 10 U equivalent to $CRDS. For exceptionally outstanding shares, Cradles will provide additional rewards.

● Feedback rewards

Cradles encourages players to provide feedback on bugs that exist in the game, and also encourages players to offer valuable suggestions or opinions about the game and rewards valuable feedback.