Recently, crypto games tend to be more complex and open. We are transitioning from simple experiences to vast virtual world projects.
You can now see all of this around us, as several new games here are attempting to push the boundaries through immersive economies, player-driven governance, and gameplay that rewards collaboration and strategic depth.
1. Eternum on Starknet
Release Date: Expected to launch in Q4 2024 on Starknet.
Game Elements: A fusion of 4X (exploration, expansion, exploitation, and extermination) and real-time strategy (RTS) elements, featuring a player-driven economy.
Development Team: Developed by Bibliotheca DAO, a centralized game studio focused on building blockchain games using cutting-edge technology.
Game Ecosystem: Eternum is part of the larger vision of Realms World, which is an interconnected ecosystem of on-chain games on Starknet. This ecosystem is designed to operate across two layers: a flexible public layer for game creation and modification, and a stable core layer that acts as a 'digital physical' layer with governance control standards.
Market Positioning: As a fully on-chain game, Eternum aims to attract players interested in blockchain games and decentralized economies.
Community Building: Through community participation and governance, Eternum is committed to creating an active, interactive gaming community.
Remember, the launch of Eternum is just one aspect of the larger vision of Realms World, which is an interconnected ecosystem of on-chain games on Starknet.
Realms World is designed to operate across two layers: a flexible public layer for game creation and modification, and a stable core layer that serves as a 'digital physical' layer with governance control standards. This layered design will allow multiple games (like Eternum) to coexist, share states, and interact in unique ways, so keep an eye on the experiments happening here.
2. EVE Frontier on Redstone
Developer: CCP Games (the company behind the popular EVE Online MMO)
Building Platform: Redstone (Ethereum second-layer network)
Space Open World:
The game is designed as an open environment, encouraging players to collaboratively drive the development of the game world with the community.
Player actions will directly impact the game world, and players will be able to make server-wide edits to the game world in real time. (The game has been a pioneer in the field of game economics for twenty years.)
Technical Foundation
Redstone is an Ethereum second-layer network based on Optimism technology, preparing for on-chain autonomous game worlds.
It provides a high-speed, low-cost trading environment for (EVE Frontier), supporting the complex economic systems and real-time interactions of the game.
The Carbon Engine and MUD: (EVE Frontier) is supported by CCP's custom Carbon Engine and MUD (an on-chain game framework built by Lattice).
Players and developers can program game features using the Ethereum language Solidity through links in smart contracts and decentralized applications (dapps).
CCP Games will create a toolkit that gives community members the opportunity to develop new experiences and features within the game.
Allowing players to even create their own cryptocurrency tokens for in-game transactions or value exchange with other players.
Like Eternum, the economy of EVE Frontier will be entirely player-driven, designed with open ownership and real-world value in mind. This economy is built on ERC-20 and ERC-721 token standards, will be open to trading, and players will be able to create custom assets and currency in the game, reflecting the deep economic functionalities pioneered by EVE Online.
Developer: Parallel Studios, the studio previously developed the popular Ethereum NFT game Parallel.
Building Platform: Solana, a blockchain platform known for its high speed and low fees.
Colony is powered by generative AI, with players controlling semi-autonomous AI agent Avatars.
Highly Customizable: These Avatars are capable of learning, gaining wisdom from every experience and lesson, and can communicate information with one another.
Players set the basic personalities of Avatars by answering some questions, but these personalities will evolve over time.
Avatars will have their own ideas, and players can offer suggestions to the agents, but they may not always comply.
Technical Foundation
One of the core infrastructures of Colony, enabling user-owned autonomous AI agents to navigate securely and effectively within and between blockchain ecosystems and applications.
Wayfinder also enables AI agents to autonomously trade assets they control through dedicated Web3 wallets.
The success of Colony may provide valuable insights and lessons for other blockchain game developers.
It may drive more blockchain games to adopt artificial intelligence technologies to enhance interactivity and fun.
While Colony will offer a free-to-play mode, it is different from traditional free-to-play games. Free avatars will be able to explore and interact but will not be able to earn $PRIME or mint in-game assets as NFTs. Free players will still need to fund in-game transactions for their avatars. In other words, all rewards and ownership will be reserved for players who directly participate in the Echelon Prime ecosystem.
