The most encrypted native game? A quick overview of the latest developments in blockchain gaming.

Author: dt, DODOResearch

Editor: Lisa

Blockchain games have always been highly anticipated by the capital market. Until now, it seems that there is still no breakthrough in the development of Web 2.5 games. Now, a group of people hope to put the entire game logic on the chain to enhance the composability between games, which is called the pioneer of all-chain games. In "The Strongest Crypto Gaming Thesis" written by Gubsheep, the founder of Dark Forest, it describes that native encrypted games are a gaming architecture pattern and spirit that embraces blockchain application development to the maximum extent. The community generally refers to it as all-chain games or autonomous worlds.

**Recently, many games have been launched for testing or updates recently, and this week's CryptoSnap will follow Dr. DODO to see what updates there are in the recent full-chain games. **

Redstone Mainnet Launch

Lattice officially launched the Mainnet in early May for the development of full-chain games using Plasma Mode OpStack Layer 2 Redstone, aiming to improve the data availability of traditional Layer 2 solutions and significantly reduce the data consumption on Layer 1. It aims to address the high gas consumption issue in full-chain games and build a public chain specifically designed for FOCG (Full-Chain Open Games).

And currently, in addition to the official Skystrife, This Cursed Machine, Biomes, and Downstream, along with other games, have also been launched on the Mainnet. At the same time, Lattice has also hosted a hackathon for developers to create 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 Lattice. Unlike most turn-based games, which have a slower pace, the development difficulty of Sky Strife is significantly higher. The goal of the game is to defend your castle and survive until the end, while destroying all other castles before your opponents destroy yours.

In addition to the game itself, Sky Strife also offers a Season Pass. People who purchase the Season Pass can have two additional different units to choose from at the beginning, as well as the most important feature of hosting private matches. In addition to the Season Pass, Sky Strife also has its own token, Orbs (🔮). The sole function of Orbs is to create Sky Strife matches. Starting a match requires consuming 100 Orbs, and ORBS rewards are distributed based on the players' rankings in each match. The total reward ranges from 500 ORBS to 0 Orbs, depending on the number of matches played in the past 7 days.

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Recent Updates of Other Full-Chain 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 fight against others to gain control of the asteroid belt. Primodium aims to be open and permissionless, which means that any third-party developer can freely develop and deploy robots or plugins on it.

Recently, Primodium released the v 0.11.0 update, which added Wormhole Shards-related points, which need to be fed to black holes and captured Shards to earn economic and military points.

Project Awakening Phase III

Project Awakening Phase III is an on-chain version of Eve Online, a shorter sci-fi MMORPG game that has been online for more than 20 years, and Eve Online developer CCP Game previously announced that it was co-developed with Lattice using MUD (an EVM game engine developed by Lattice). Project Awakening can be considered the first complex on-chain application of MUD, and it is currently undergoing pre-launch testing.

Game testing requires signing an NDA. Not much description will be given for the gameplay, as most of it is similar to Eve Online. Interested individuals 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 incorporate the speculation native to the encryption community into competitive on-chain games, with gameplay that is very complex.

Each game involves five players and lasts for about 40 minutes. Each player enters the game with a real bet (currently a minimum of 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 for each player. The winner is not necessarily the one who earns the most.

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

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My Point of View

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