GameFi on the rise? Quickly understand the four major chain game projects of Starknet ecology

Original author: 0x Facai, BlockBeats

The highly anticipated Starknet "Quantum Leap" mainnet upgrade is finally here.

According to the official disclosure, the Starknet network integration time after the 12.0 upgrade is expected to be less than 15 seconds under normal circumstances, and the TPS of the Starknet network will reach triple digits.

As the Starknet mainnet upgrade date approaches, the Loot ecological game Loot Realms will also open the first playable version of LootSurvivor to players on the Starknet mainnet at the end of July this year. As the first chain game launched on the Starknet mainnet, what changes Starknet's Quantum Leap will bring to players in terms of experience will also be verified on this game.

Starknet is not the first choice of Realms. In fact, Realms chose to develop games on Arbitrum at the beginning. However, after a period of time, the team found that although Arbitrum can reduce game transaction costs, it is not low enough to meet the high-frequency trading scenarios of in-game assets. needs. The advantage of Starknet is that not only can the transaction cost be reduced to a lower level, there is no up to 7-day withdrawal process, but it can also meet the complex game needs of "more calculations and a large number of transaction scenarios", so the Realms team chose Migrate the game to Starknet.

Today, "the most suitable infrastructure for developing full-chain games" has become Starknet's main narrative. As the launch date of the "Quantum Leap" mainnet version is approaching, whether Starknet is really the most suitable infrastructure for developing full-chain games will soon be determined. verify.

The mainnet upgrade is coming soon, it's time to learn about the four kings of the full-chain game on the Starknet ecosystem.

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Loot Realms

There were countless derivative projects in the Loot ecology back then, and Realms is the only game derivative project that has survived from Loot.

The team behind Realms started as a hacker. At the beginning, it only presented a dashboard related to data graphs for the Loot ecosystem (Loot and its derivative assets). Later, the team from Bibliotheca joined, and its vision became "helping to continuously expand on the second-tier chain based on interactive The hyperverse on the chain of the meta game".

After more than a year of development, the game on the Realms chain has taken shape. It is built and deployed using the open source game engine Dojo. It has not only accumulated a group of loyal test players and developers, but also has a well-designed The infrastructure for the development of the Starknet two-layer solution. As the highly anticipated Starknet "Quantum Leap" mainnet upgrade date approaches, Loot Realms will also open the first playable version of Loot Survivor to players on the Starknet mainnet at the end of July this year. Currently, LootRealms native token Lords has been bridged to Starknet, and users can purchase the token on JediSwap, a decentralized trading platform on Starknet.

For any game to operate continuously and stably, it must have a well-designed economic system. By analyzing the four important links of production, accumulation, transaction and consumption in the game system, it can be judged whether there is a demand for game item transactions in the game, whether the asset supply speed and asset consumption requirements have reached a dynamic balance, and whether the entire system can be expanded to a higher level. Larger, attracting more participants or players to enter.

There are a variety of different assets in Realms, including:

1. The initial issued assets are 8,000 Realm NFT plots, which are a series of kingdom city-states, and each Realm NFT has its own unique geographical location: they are either cities or regions, or adjacent to river waters or ports; A Realm is rich in different mineral resources. There are a total of 22 different combinations of Resources (resources). Realms will be taxed on other Realms), such as the Chaos Pantheon, Azure Reliquary and Providence Altar;

2. The original Token LORDS, in addition to the governance function, mainly serves as a trading medium for various assets, props and equipment in the game;

3. Resources (resources) is the general term for various resource tokens with different functions/usages in the game. There are a total of 22 different resources in the initial release of the game. These Resources (resources) participate in different gameplays based on different usage scenarios In the game, players need to deploy existing resources to maximize productivity output through resource exchange and trading in the market.

Games on the chain have high-frequency transaction user scenarios, which require a settlement layer with extremely low transaction fees. Starknet is obviously the best choice.

In fact, Realms initially adopted the Arbitrum layer-2 expansion solution (Alpha was deployed on Arbitrum). However, after a period of development, the team found that although Arbitrum can reduce game transaction costs, it is not yet suitable for high-frequency trading scenarios of in-game assets. The best solution, and Starknet can reduce the transaction cost to a lower level, there is no up to 7-day withdrawal process, and it can also meet the complex game needs of "more calculations and a large number of transaction scenarios", so the Realms team Choose to migrate the game to Starknet.

Financing

Realms is a pure community project that started from a hackathon. It does not have the endorsement of big-name investment institutions. The team initially only obtained initial funds by selling 8,000 Realms NFT plots. In February 2022, it received a 5 ETH grant sent by the Starknet team, and this year A total of US$3,970,473.75 in community fundraising was completed in February. It is worth mentioning that the original target of this round of fundraising was US$625,000, which was only open to community members, which means a 6.35-fold increase.

current progress

Realms currently only supports the trial play of the text RPG game LootSurvivor. It is estimated that with the blessing of Starknet, it will bring a better player experience.

Realms will use the Play 2D ie model to appeal to game developers. This is an incentive model evaluated by the market. The quality and popularity of the game will determine the developer's remuneration.

As the highly anticipated Starknet "Quantum Leap" mainnet upgrade date approaches, Loot Realms will also open the first playable version of Loot Survivor to players on the Starknet mainnet at the end of July this year. Currently, LootRealms native token Lords has been bridged to Starknet, and users can purchase the token on JediSwap, a decentralized trading platform on Starknet.

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Dope Wars

Dope Wars is a hip-hop pixel strategy game based on Starknet, inspired by Drugs Wars, an OG drug-trafficking themed game set in New York, the biggest and funniest ever gangster game.

Dope Wars was launched in the heyday of Loot, and completely copied the distribution model of Loot. A total of 8,000 NFTs were issued for free. Like Loot bags, each NFT is randomly equipped with different items, such as AK, Rolls-Royce, gold Chains, diamond rings, Gucci belts, black hoodies, Air Jordan 1s, and of course a whole bunch of drugs. Dope Wars then airdropped 125,000 $PAPER tokens, similar to Adventure Gold (AGLD) tokens, to each Dope Wars NFT holder.

In addition to NFT and Paper, the Dope Wars ecology has issued Hustlers. Hustlers are characters in the ecosystem. Mint is free, and the default is nude. Unlocking the items in the Dope Wars NFT can add weapons, clothes, cars, and necklaces to your characters and other equipment (DOPE Gear).

Different from Loot's geek style, Dope Wars focuses on the GTA-style street route. Whether it is from the equipment or the cultural tone of Drug War, it fits the style of the encrypted financial circle very well. Therefore, the community atmosphere was very active at the beginning and attracted a large number of early OG.

The initiator of Dope Wars is perama, and tarrence.eth and others, the founding team of Starknet game infrastructure Cartridge, joined later as core contributors to the project.

current progress

First playable mode RYO released: RYO is the first playable mode launched by Dope Wars, short for Roll Your Own. RYO is remade based on the Dojo engine, which is the Dope Wars game engine based on Starknet L2.

The core is to extend the drug arbitrage mechanism to a multiplayer environment, creating a highly competitive and ever-evolving game environment. In this environment, each player's actions affect the in-game economy.

Players will enter Dope Wars locations, arbitrage drug prices in different regions, accumulate wealth and rule the streets. Players' decisions will directly affect the changes in market prices. For example, if a player buys a lot of drugs in a certain region, the market price may rise; while if a player sells a lot, the market price may fall. This adds a new layer of strategy to the game, with players needing to make decisions based on market trends and the actions of other players.

Additionally, random events can occur between rounds, affecting prices. This means that market prices are not only affected by player actions, but also by random events within the game, making the game more varied and challenging.

For players, they need to adjust their strategies according to market conditions (deterministic) and random events (uncertain) in order to succeed in the game.

Dope Wars developed its own visual Marketplace, and at the same time launched the game trial version Dope Frenzy on the Starknet network. However, as the market turned cold, the development of the game came to a standstill, and it is currently available for experience.

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Influence

Influence is a large-scale space strategy sandbox MMO game based on Starknet. It combines elements of 4x, management and open world RPG. Players can freely explore, collect, build, fight, etc. in the galaxy named Adalia activities and build your own interstellar empire. All assets and core game logic of the game are deployed on the chain.

Influence has been listed on Starknet in August 2022, and in March 2023, it conducted the last asset sale event "Prepare for Launch Sale" before the release of the Exploitation Release, and announced the latest Token economic model.

In terms of community, there are 14 third-party developer applications that are only officially included, including other active projects in the Starknet ecosystem such as Guildly, Cartridge, etc., and 6 projects that are officially funded by Grant are on the list. At the same time, the story settings written by community members are also quite rich, accumulating tens of thousands of words of text content, and the quality is quite good.

With the launch of Dojo, the official team is currently trying to use Dojo to remake the game. It is expected that the upcoming Exploitation Release will have a good performance.

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Topology

Topology is the Starknet ecological native game development team. Its vision is to create a full-chain game that is truly in-depth, powerful and inclusive, open-ended and based on physical knowledge.

Topology was founded by @guiltygyoza and @iamkunhokim. Unlike most current teams that focus on full-chain games, engines or other developer tools, Topology focuses on the implementation of the underlying "rule layer" in the autonomous world, establishing a "On-chain reality".

Topology believes that to create Autonomous Worlds, it is only necessary to provide a platform and formulate initial "physical parameters", and it is up to the players to decide the process of affecting the entire game world. The games it creates also tend to use blockchain and games as new media, integrating the two with physical knowledge.

So far, the Topology team has developed 3 games:

Isaac: This is a cooperative construction game combining "Three-Body Problem" and "Alien Factory". It will be launched on June 24, 2022. Players team up to enter a planet in the Three-Body Galaxy. Resources on the planet build thrusters to escape the environment to win. In ISAAC, the team built a set of physical models that simulate the positions of the planet and the three suns in real time, and introduced the player's operations as parameters to increase the chaos and complexity of the system, providing players with a very deep game experience.

"Nuo Nuo" (Mu-Mu): "Nuo Nuo" was launched as an experimental product on November 7, 2022. This is an algebraic digital physics simulator, the core of which is to establish a new concept of creation for players . Players need to design a machine in "No No", which is completely designed by the player and used by the player. Of course, it can also be given new concepts by other players to complete different tasks or goals.

The latest project "Shoshin": This game was announced on STARKTokyo in April 2023. This is a strategy combat game. Both parties need to set Mind (combat thinking) for their Agents (roles), and the Agents of both sides The duel will be launched based on the rules of thinking, and the decision-making and battle results of each frame will be verified and settled on the chain. Shoshin Playtest is currently available for trial by application.

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