The 2024 GAM3 Blockchain Game Awards are out, with (Off The Grid) winning GOTY!
International blockchain gaming media (GAM3.GG) announced the 2024 GAM3 Game Awards at the end of last year, evaluated by over 70 professional judges from traditional gaming and blockchain gaming fields, including representatives from giants such as Amazon, Google, Samsung, and Ubisoft.
The selection process uses a mechanism where judges' votes account for 90% and community votes for 10%, with the 'People's Choice' and 'Best Content Creator' awards determined entirely by community votes.
In this selection, (Off The Grid) swept four major awards with its outstanding performance, including the most important Game of the Year award (TGA), with (Parallel) closely following, winning three major awards, while (Pixels) and (Pirate Nation) each won two honors.
Here is the complete list of winners:
Best Fighting Game: Champions Ascension
Best Art Direction: Moonfrost
Best Web Game: Pirate Nation
Best Mobile Game: Fableborne
Best Role-Playing Game: Big Time
Best Strategy Game: Parallel
Best Action Game: Off the Grid
Best Casual Game: Pixels
Best Sports Game: Sparkball
Best Adventure Game: Ravenquest
Best Card Game: Parallel
Best Shooting Game: Off the Grid
Best Content Creator: YellowPanther
Best Full Blockchain Game: Pirate Nation
Best Ecosystem: Ronin
Game Developer's Choice: Wildcard
Best Esports Game: Parallel
Best Multiplayer Game: Off the Grid
Player's Choice: Pixels
Most Anticipated Game: MapleStory N
Game of the Year: Off the Grid
Source: GAM3 Blockchain Game Awards 2024, 21 award winners announced.
Introduction and evaluation of the Best Web3 Game Award winner.
The above-awarded blockchain games have all been introduced and reviewed by (GAM3.GG), summarized as follows:
1. Best Year, Shooting, Action, and Multiplayer Game: (Off the Grid)
Directed by Neill Blomkamp (director of District 9 and Elysium), (Off the Grid) is a chaotic battle royale game. It combines stunning visuals and rich narrative content, perfectly blending tactical shooting, survival, and exploration elements.
(Off the Grid) has launched a pre-experience version, offering a 60-player battle mode where players can team up in groups of three. Features include an innovative 'cybernetic' system, allowing players to customize different leg and arm attachments, each with unique abilities.
Although currently only in early access with some optimization issues, the overall performance and potential of the game have been consistently recognized by the judges.
Further Reading:
Not yet released but already making waves! Can Off the Grid make blockchain games mainstream? These issues still need to be resolved.
(Off the Grid) game preview
2. Most Anticipated Game: (MapleStory N)
Developed by NEXON subsidiary Nexpace, the MapleStory Metaverse game (MapleStory N) inherits the classic 2D art style and game features of (New MapleStory).
The game retains core gameplay elements such as endless monster hunting, a profession system, and guild social interactions while incorporating an NFT system. The story revolves around the search for MapleStory heroes, allowing players to choose different career paths.
(MapleStory N) integrates a gas-free NFT minting system and introduces limited item releases, removing the cash shop (shopping store) economic system, allowing players to fully immerse themselves in the game world for free, with the game expected to launch in the first half of 2025.
(MapleStory N) early review, strategy, and interviews at a glance:
(MapleStory N) blockchain game early review! What are the differences from the new MapleStory? An honest look at 8 pros and cons.
(MapleStory N) Beginner's Guide: Complete graphic tutorial on point tasks and airdrops (continuously updated).
The MapleStory blockchain team is coming to Taiwan! When will it be released? How to make money? We have asked all your questions.
3. Best Strategy Esports, Card Game: (Parallel)
(Parallel), developed by a team with experience in multiple AAA games, is a trading card game (TCG) based on NFTs.
The game is set in a world after humanity caused a disaster through over-exploitation of Earth's resources, where five civilizations return to Earth after ten thousand years to fight for their homeland.
(Parallel) has received acclaim for its exquisite card design and deep strategic elements. Each card features voiceovers and carefully designed animation effects, with a well-balanced combat system that offers players a rich variety of strategic options.
Further Reading:
Available in Chinese and free to play! (Parallel) blockchain game will be launching on Steam, with gameplay preview.
(Parallel) game public beta preview
4. Best Casual Game, Player's Choice: (Pixels)
(Pixels) is a pixel-style farming simulation game with over 900,000 players, adopting a free-to-play model where players can own their own land and farm. The development team includes developers from well-known game companies such as Gamehouse and Ubisoft.
The main gameplay of the game revolves around resource gathering, farming, and crafting items, allowing players to share farming mechanics on other players' lands, where landlords can also receive resource shares. The pixel art style and sound effects of the game are of a certain standard, but the beginner's guide system still has room for improvement.
Further Reading:
Complete analysis of the free blockchain game Pixels! How is the price on Binance Launchpool? Is it worth mining?
(Pixels) game preview
5. Best Web, Full Blockchain Game: (Pirate Nation)
(Pirate Nation) is a pirate-themed web game where players must control an island and recruit pirate crew members. The game is entirely built on blockchain, using an innovative gas-free transaction system that makes game interactions fast and smooth.
The game features pixel art, where players can accept challenges via a quest board to earn rewards, build their own ships, and participate in maritime adventures. It also includes a world event system, such as monster attacks, allowing players to collaborate against common threats.
Further Reading:
Free to play! What is the blockchain version of Minecraft (Pirate Nation)? A look at the gameplay.
(Pirate Nation) game tutorial video
6. Best Fighting Game: (Champions Ascension)
The story of (Champions Ascension) is set in the Massina theme park metaverse, where players' heroes come from different worlds and fight to conquer the eternal arena. The game is currently in the testing phase, offering a variety of mini-games and a PvP arena combat system.
The game includes various fun mini-games, such as crab racing and dice battles. The arena combat system is well-designed, with inter-character restraining relationships among different backgrounds, adding strategic depth to the battles.
7. Best RPG Game: (Big Time)
(Big Time) is a multiplayer cooperative RPG that combines fast-paced action combat, NFT collection elements, and an adventure story spanning history. The game's feature emphasizes teamwork with friends to explore procedurally generated dungeons.
The game offers a rich NFT loot experience, although the distribution mechanism is somewhat random. Players can expand and personalize their bases through a time machine system, while the SPACE NFT system provides rich game functionality and utility.
Although the monster spawning process in the game feels somewhat repetitive, it has created a relatively complete multiplayer cooperative RPG experience for a Web3 game.
Further Reading:
Funding estimated at over $90 million! What makes the AAA blockchain game (Big Time) impressive? A look at how to make money and game mechanics.
8. Best Game Developer's Choice Award: (Wildcard)
(Wildcard) is a 1v1 competitive game where players need to use deck-building skills and in-game abilities to defeat their opponents. The game is currently in the testing phase and offers two selectable heroes: the nature-based Bolgar & Burr, and the tech-focused Locke and his robotic dog Wotchy.
The game's visual effects and mechanics are outstanding, with each hero having unique skills and summoning combinations. The development team revealed that future updates will include a 2v2 mode and innovative features for audience interaction.
Further Reading:
Former developers of (Age of Empires) release a new game! NFT game Wildcard introduction at a glance.
(Wildcard) game preview
9. Best Sports Game: (Sparkball)
(Sparkball) (formerly Edenbrawl) is a MOBA-style sports game that has completely redesigned its UI and artistic style, transforming the originally dark world into a bright and vibrant arena. The game features a top-down perspective with 5-player teams, where the main objective is to steal ball possession and score in the opponent's end zone.
The game offers 8 unique hero characters, each with distinctive skills, and the NFT system does not affect game balance, primarily used for collection and display in the community.
(Sparkball) game preview
10. Best Adventure Game: Ravenquest
(Ravenquest) is a highly flexible MMORPG that features a unique profession system, allowing players to choose combinations from 8 prototypes to create 56 different career combinations.
The game offers 10 professional skills, including forging, woodworking, and weaving, forming a complete player-driven economy system. Through the NFT system, players can own in-game assets such as estates, mounts, and ships.
(Ravenquest) game preview
11. Best Mobile Game: (Fableborne)
(Fableborne) is a mobile game that combines base building and looting gameplay, where players must strategically place defensive towers and monsters to protect their islands while choosing from three heroes for looting battles.
The game's feature lies in randomly generated island terrains that affect defense difficulty, with rich upgrade options in both tower defense and hero systems. While some balance issues arise at higher levels, it generally offers a deep strategic experience for mobile players.
(Fableborne) game preview
12. Best Art Design: (Moonfrost)
(Moonfrost) is a simulation game similar to (Story of Seasons) and (Stardew Valley), where the core gameplay revolves around farming and growing better crops, providing multiple customization features for players to decorate their farms. Of course, players looking to earn can also enjoy the fun of farming for in-game tokens.
(Moonfrost) excels in art design and sound performance. Even with pixel-style graphics, the detailed environment enhances the overall gaming experience.
(Moonfrost) game promotional teaser
GAM3 Blockchain Game Awards ceremony sets a new high for viewership.
This year's GAM3 awards ceremony attracted 48,000 viewers watching simultaneously, with over 450,000 total views in the first 24 hours, setting a new record. The event also showcased many game debut trailers, including new blockchain games like (Golden Tides), (Unfettered), and (Elumia).
This year's GAM3 total prize pool has also increased to $5 million, with grants, product services, and marketing support provided by partners such as AWS, XAI, and Thirdweb; in community voting, over 143,000 players participated, totaling over 1 million votes, generating over 60 million impressions on social media.
(GAM3.GG) states that the GAM3 Game Awards have been held for four consecutive years and have become the most influential annual event in the Web3 gaming field, showcasing the promising development prospects of the blockchain gaming industry. This year, the awards are expected to be held again in November.
'The TGA of the blockchain gaming world! The 2024 Best Web3 Game Award is announced, and this game is the most anticipated by the industry' This article was first published on 'Crypto City.'
