This article takes stock of the latest progress of full-chain games

Original author: dt

"Original compilation: Lisa"

Blockchain games have always been highly anticipated in the capital market. Up to now, there seems to be no breakthrough in the development of Web 2.5 games. Now, a group of people hope to put the entire game logic on-chain to enhance the composability between games, which is known as the pioneer of the full-chain game, Dark Forest. In "The Strongest Crypto Gaming Thesis" written by the founder Gubsheep, it describes that native crypto games are a game architecture pattern and spirit that embraces blockchain application development to the fullest. The community generally refers to it as a full-chain game or a self-owned world.

Many games have recently launched tests or updates, let's take a look at the recent updates of blockchain games with Dr.DODO in this week's CryptoSnap.

Redstone Mainnet Launch

Lattice officially launched its mainnet in early May for the development of full-chain games using Plasma Mode OpStack Layer 2 Redstone. It aims to improve the data availability of traditional Layer 2 and significantly reduce data usage on L1 in an attempt to overcome the high gas consumption issue in full-chain games. Lattice aims to build a public chain specifically designed for FOCG full-chain games.

And currently, in addition to the official Skystrife, This Cursed Machine, Biomes, and Downstream, as well as other games, have also been launched on the mainnet. At the same time, Lattice has also held a hackathon for developers to develop game plugins.

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Sky Strife

Sky Strife is the most representative game of Lattice currently. It is an RTS strategy game developed by the official team of Lattice. Unlike most turn-based blockchain games that have a slower pace, the development difficulty of Sky Strife is significantly higher. The objective of the game is to defend your castle and survive until the end, while destroying all other players' castles before your own castle is destroyed.

In addition to the game itself, Sky Strife also offers a Season Pass. Players who purchase the Season Pass can start with two additional different units to choose from, as well as the most important feature of hosting private matches. Besides the Season Pass, Sky Strife also has its own token, Orbs (🔮). The sole purpose of Orbs is to create Sky Strife matches. Starting a match requires consuming 100 Orbs, and each match rewards players with ORBS based on their ranking. The total rewards range from 500 ORBS to 0 Orbs, depending on the number of matches played in the past 7 days.

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Recent updates on other blockchain games

Primodium

Primodium is a space empire construction MMO game, which can be said to be the most complete game in the field of blockchain games. In the game, you can mine resources, establish military bases, and engage in battles with others to gain control over the asteroid belt. Primodium aims to be open and permissionless, which means that any third-party developers can freely develop and deploy robots or plugins on its Primodium.

Recently, Primodium released the v 0.11.0 update, which added points related to Wormhole and Shards. Economic and military points can be obtained by feeding the black hole and capturing Shards.

Project Awakening Phase III

Project Awakening Phase III is the on-chain version of the space sci-fi MMORPG game Eve Online, which has been online for over 20 years. CCP Games, the developer of Eve Online, previously announced a collaboration with Lattice to develop Project Awakening using MUD (the EVM game engine developed by Lattice). Project Awakening can be considered as the first on-chain complex application of MUD and is currently undergoing testing before its launch.

Game testing requires signing an NDA. Gameplay will not be described in detail, but it is mostly similar to Eve Online. Those who are interested can sign up on their own.

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Duper

Curio game studio announced the launch of the game Duper Alpha version. Duper is an on-chain betting social war game set in a distant desert planet. The goal is to bring speculative activities native to the crypto community into competitive on-chain gaming, with gameplay being quite complex.

Each game involves five players and lasts about 40 minutes. Each player enters the game with a real bet (currently the minimum is 0.005 ETH) in exchange for gems representing "equity". Duper is not a winner-takes-all game: when the game ends, only one player wins, but the pot is distributed based on how much "equity" the winner holds. The winner does not necessarily earn the most.

The most interesting element in "Duper" is social interaction - in "Duper", secret alliances involving resource exchange, conspiracies, and betrayals are not only allowed but also encouraged.

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My Opinion

I believe that the full-chain game is one of the few interesting native applications in this cycle of blockchain, and it is also one of the few applications that individual players can directly experience. Real depth games require the integration of art, music, and software development. The grand vision of the full-chain game has attracted many talented developers and some capital. Although most game development is still in its early stages and gameplay is not very intuitive, I still encourage everyone to give it a try and experience native blockchain games, looking forward to the future development of full-chain games.

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