In the past year, we have witnessed too many narrative collapses in the Web3 gaming track. From ZK technology to full-chain games, from Layer2 scaling to modular infra. The narrative is overwhelming, but where are the users? The data speaks: over 80% of Web3 games have less than 100 daily active users three months after launch.
But the market is changing.
While everyone is immersed in storytelling, smart Web3 game projects have quietly shifted direction. It’s not that narratives aren't important, but over-packaged narratives have exhausted investors and users. The key now is: how to truly address user pain points? How to leverage the large market?
In this context, Alliance Games' approach is particularly noteworthy. While other projects are still competing on narrative appeal, Alliance Games has made 'building Web3 game infra' as simple as idle gaming with one design.
Take a look at the design of Alliance Games Lite Node:
--Download Lite Node plugin from the Google Chrome browser store
--Launch Lite Node to access the node network
This design accurately hits the biggest pain point of Web3 projects: the entry barrier for users. Users do not need to understand complex technical concepts, do not need to invest large amounts of money, and can participate in ecosystem construction with simple interactions. This design philosophy proves that Alliance Games truly understands the essence of growth: lowering barriers, enhancing experience, and incentivizing dissemination.
Alliance Games is a new Web3 infra project that integrates concepts of Web3 games, AI, DePin, Ton ecology, etc., incubated by Web3 game capital such as Animoca, aiming to become the productivity toolset of Unity + AWS GameLift in the era of AI for the Web3 gaming field.
The infrastructure of Alliance Games can be divided into three layers, each with its unique functional positioning and value proposition:
AI intelligent platform layer - AI toolchain for game developers
--NeuralForge: Similar to 'Web3 version of PyTorch', focused on accelerating the development of game AI models. It offers high-performance GPU clusters, a library of pre-trained models, and automated tuning tools.
--GameMind: Management platform for in-game AI agents, helping developers seamlessly integrate trained AI models into games.
--DataVault: A secure storage solution for AI data, ensuring the safety and accessibility of training data.
Decentralized infrastructure layer - A cloud service alternative for Web3 games
--AssetVault: Similar to traditional CDN in games, specifically for storing and distributing game assets.
--GameFront: A decentralized content distribution network that ensures fast loading of game content.
--NetFlow: Shared bandwidth network, providing stable network connections for multiplayer games.
AG Worker Network layer - A decentralized computing network supporting the entire ecosystem. This is the most innovative part of Alliance, which divides nodes into three categories:
--Edge Node ($WORK)
Providing core computing and storage capabilities
Alliance Pass NFT must be staked
Mainly used for AI model training and large-scale computing
--Lite Node ($ltWORK)
Operated through Chrome extension
Shared user bandwidth resources
Optimize content distribution efficiency
Alliance Lite Node is a lightweight node that connects via Chrome extension, providing users with a simple and seamless way to share network bandwidth resources. These nodes can optimize the network connection of decentralized infrastructure, enhance the overall network performance of Alliance Games, and support game hosting and data distribution. The Lite Node design is lightweight and easy to install, allowing efficient operation for both individual users and small devices, helping to achieve a more powerful decentralized network ecosystem.
--Micro Node ($mcWORK)
Operated based on Telegram Bot
Optimize data requests through gamified design
Lowering participation barriers, expanding ecological coverage
Lite Node, Edge Node, and Micro Node form a complete ecological network. Edge Node serves as a powerful desktop computing node, responsible for heavy computing and data storage tasks, Micro Node is a lightweight AI data interaction node that promotes the development of AI models through simple user interactions. The addition of Lite Node brings efficient bandwidth resource sharing and more stable connections to the entire network. Users contribute idle network bandwidth through Lite Node, effectively alleviating network bottlenecks and improving the overall network transmission efficiency.
Alliance Games attempts to redefine the production methods of Web3 games by building a decentralized AI training network + community-driven edge computing + Game Development as a Service (GDaaS).
The fundamental pain point of the gaming industry has never changed:
--High costs of centralized server (an average game’s AWS expenses easily exceed one million dollars/year)
--AI training resources are scarce (training large models can cost millions of dollars)
--Small teams find it difficult to afford infrastructure investments
Alliance Games provides an imaginative solution: allowing game developers to directly use community computing power, replacing traditional payments with token incentives. This not only significantly reduces costs but also creates a positive feedback loop in the ecosystem.
In the past two years, we have seen too many DePin projects that sell high-priced mining machines as their core business model, too many Web3 game projects that sell nodes in a wave, too many AI+Crypto projects that have received high financing but have no further progress, and too many TON ecosystem projects that utilize small games for rapid traffic tokenization.
Although Alliance Games also uses token incentives, its core lies in building actual value capture links:
--Matching fees for both supply and demand of computing power
--AI model training resource fees
--Infrastructure service fees for game distribution
This is far more complex than the 'issue token - go public - run away' model. Alliance Games attempts to find a balance between decentralization and commercial sustainability, which is commendable.
Of course, these attempts by Alliance Games will face many challenges, such as whether the AI toolchain can truly lower the barriers to game development and how to balance multi-party incentives within the token economic model. However, AI + Web3 games are creating new market space, and if Alliance Games bets correctly, it could become the next big opportunity.
To determine whether Alliance Games can succeed, we can observe from three time dimensions: short-term, medium-term, and long-term.
–Short-term: Focus on the user growth data of its Micro Node and Lite Node ecosystem, especially daily active users and retention rates. Community activity is often an important indicator of early project success.
–Medium-term: Observe the actual implementation of its AI training network. Can it really attract developers to use it? What is the performance like? This will determine whether the project can genuinely address industry pain points.
–Long-term: Evaluate its progress in the game development toolchain. Can a complete developer ecosystem be built? This relates to the project’s long-term competitiveness.
That's all.
