With multiple games settling in, will Ronin return to the center of the chain game infrastructure narrative?
Original - Odaily
Author - 0xAyA
On November 2, blockchain game Axie Infinity developer Sky Mavis reached a cooperation with Korean game developer ACT Games, planning to introduce all ACT games to the Ronin Network. Sky Mavis will help ACT migrate its Android and PC trading card game (TCG) Zoids Wild Arena to the Ronin Network. Zoids Wild Arena originally launched on Polygon and is scheduled to migrate on November 8th. “We are committed to maintaining the high standards of game design and user experience that gamers and fans of our IP have come to expect,” said Viggo Chung, head of gaming business development at ACT.
Although Sky Mavis has previously$600 million asset theft caseIt has been controversial and performed poorly in last years financing. It raised only US$11 million out of a US$150 million financing target, and its valuation shrunk by 1/3. However, as the creator and main developer of the Ronin blockchain, Sky Mavis is still working tirelessly for its own Web3 game ecosystem, and continues to reach agreements with various game studios to attract them to join the Ronin ecosystem and become a real player in it. part of it.
Continue to build the game ecosystem
Previously, Sky Mavis worked with four game studios: Directive Games, Bali Games, Tribes Studio and Bowled.io, each of which is now using Ronin to develop their own games. This announcement marks a new shift, Sky Mavis co-founder Jeffrey Jiho Zirlin said in an interview at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.Axie is just the beginning of Ronins gaming ecosystem and believes Axie can surpass its first game and eventually become something like Nintendos Mario or Sanrios Hello An IP portfolio with a broad audience like Kitty.
Among them, Directive Games is at the forefront. Its first Ronin game The Machines Arena is a 4 v 4 competitive multiplayer shooting game. Players play as tank characters, auxiliary or Heroes who deal damage fight each other. The game features a third-person perspective and will offer multiplayer and single-player modes.
Machines Arena is currently in beta on PC and is scheduled to be released on the Epic Games Store. Directive has also developed cross-platform plans for Machines Arena, with a mobile version on iOS and Android coming soon.
In July this year, Sky Mavis announced a cooperation with the NFT series CyberKongz, which includes providing digital asset rewards to some Web3 game players. CyberKongz will launch new NFT series Genkai on July 27th,The total supply is 20,000, of which 4,000 will be available on Ronin via Mavis Market, Sky Mavis’ internal NFT marketplace.Sky Mavis said each Mystic Axie holder will be rewarded with Genkai NFTs. Additionally, CyberKongz will work with Ronin to develop a game featuring Genkai. Kathleen Osgood, head of business development at Sky Mavis, said the new games will be interoperable by integrating with the existing Axie Infinity experience.
Just last month, Pixels, a P2E MMO game focusing on the Metaverse, migrated to Ronin Network after Pixels completed a $2.4 million seed round of financing led by Animoca Brands and PKO Investments.
What kind of chain is suitable for games?
Although the asset theft incident once caused Ronin to be abandoned and even depressed, they still did not give up their goal - to provide a customizable dedicated chain for Web3 games while keeping costs low. This is also the key basis for why various chain games can finally win:Fast enough feedback and almost negligible interaction cost, enabling users outside the blockchain world to participate without any awareness.
With the successful case of Axie in the past, most project parties still chose to believe in the capabilities of the Sky Mavis team, and finally decided to join Ronin to develop their own games. Can Ronin, with its growing ecosystem, compete with game-specific chains such as Oasys? Win the competition and become the ultimate first-choice chain for chain gamers? Lets stay tuned.
