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My general view is you can never have too many lists, and so it is that I present the Big Blockchain Game List.
A project around cataloging as many blockchain games as possible, and curating them into quality-filtered sublists such as Best Live Blockchain Games and Most Anticipated Blockchain Games, it’s something I’ve been working on off-and-on for a couple of months.
It’s still very patchy but is now getting regularly updated by someone who isn’t me so I think it’s time to launch the public beta (or whatever term we use these days for something going live that isn’t finished yet).
I’m planning to write some data-driven articles in future in terms of breaking down labels such as developer geos, supported blockchains, supported platforms, game genre etc but for the time being here are some early headlines.
The list currently has 341 entries, of which 58 (or 17%) are live and 279 in various stages of development. Four games have been discontinued.
Axie Infinity has the largest Discord — the max of 800,000 members — with Big Time in second place with 400,000.
In terms of games whose developer lists an office location, the US is #1, being the location of 19% of the listed games.
Anyone with any thoughts (or corrections) can
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Product news
German developer Cipsoft has updated its Litecoin-based RPG LiteBringer for the final time. The game will now be F2P — excluding gas fees — but won’t be updated further.
I played LiteBringer regularly when it first launched in September 2020 but as the data from DappRadar shows, it never broke the 1,000 DAUs barrier in terms of audience so its eventual sunsetting was inevitable.
Takeaways: Don’t built on legacy Bitcoin-based chains; and PC client games are really hard to scale especially for what was effectively an idle game with an gear-based p2p marketplace.
The news follows Animoca Brands’ sunsetting of F1 Delta Time, which suffered from the same sort of reasons although it was a browser game running on Ethereum mainnet. The price of renewing the F1 license was likely what finally killed off the project though.
Incidentally, I’m keeping track of Discontinued games on my list too.
Avalanche is ramping up its gaming community. I recently spoke to triple-A developer Neon which is making competitive extraction PC shooter Shrapnel on the blockchain. But to-date, most people have been accessing the EVM-compatible chain via Metamask.
No longer. Ava Labs has announced Core, which will be a native wallet for Avalanche. The first version will be a browser extension due in late March, to be followed by a native mobile app in early Q2.
Partnership news
PUBG outfit Krafton has signed a long term deal with Solana for the “development and operation of blockchain and NFT-based games and services”.
Krafton has also partnered up with Zepeto social network company Naver Z to build an NFT metaverse platform. In addition, it recently invested into South Korean art marketplace Seoul Auction Blue and its subsidiary XBYBLUE to create and sell NFT avatars for the metaverse.
In general, South Korean game developers are attempting the most aggressive pivot globally from traditional to blockchain games. It will be fascinating to see what sticks.
NFT Drop news
Big Time Studio is selling off more of its land NFTs (called SPACEs) for its Big Time RPG on 24 March from 9am EST. Prices start from S1,035 for a small mythic and rise to $14,680 for a large exalted SPACE.
More generally, you can already purchase from the full range of 15 different size and class variants of SPACE on the game’s marketplace. Here prices range from $299 for a small rare, up to $24,199 for a large exalted SPACE. Arbitrage opportunities everywhere!
Fund to DAO news
Doa5 is a $125 million investment fund that plans to become fully DAO-operated by 2025. The DAO will consists of the fund’s LPs as well as the companies it invests in, as those founders will receive DAO tokens as part of their funding.