Wednesday is podcast day in the Blockchain Gaming World household, and today’s show — episode 156 — is an interview with Planetarium CEO JC Kim.
One of the OGs of fully onchain games, JC was originally inspired by Bitcoin in 2018 and has since built out his vision for fully onchain games in the shape of idle RPG Nine Chronicles.
Originally launched in 2020 on PC, the game was also recently released through app stores in the form of Nine Chronicles M, with the M standing for multichain, multiplanet and multiplatform.
For, without getting lost in the weeds, the original Nine Chronicles game runs on its own Odin L1 blockchain, with Nine Chronicles M running on the Heimdall L2, which uses Odin for its security and data storage etc.
As you might expect, JC is very focused on decentralization and open source code, which means as well as letting other developers use Planetarium’s tech, he hopes players and guilds will — in future — build their own experiences using Nine Chronicles’ primitives.
However, this approach did throw up some issues when designing the mobile version, as Planetarium sells some in-game assets through IAPs but JC didn’t want players to have to buy IAPs to access these. The result has been to make the assets also available to players who stake the game’s NCG tokens.
Personally, I’ve been playing Nine Chronicles in its various forms since 2020 and have gone down the rabbithole pretty deeply — 23 videos to-date — so this was all very interesting for me.
But even for those who haven’t played the game, I hope there’s plenty of get your teeth into. If nothing else, fully onchain games are going to be a strong sector trend during 2024.
As ever you can also read the transcript on BlockchainGamer.biz and get paid in Bitcoin for listening via the Foundation app.
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Calendar
Worldshards’ early access sale starts — 15th February
Champions Ascension’s $16,000 event goes live — 16th February
Pixels’ PIXEL token goes live — 19th February
Shardbound’s 10-day closed playtest begins — 21st February
Synergy Land launches land sale and mainnet — 22nd February
Delabs’ RPG Metabolt mints first NFTs — 26th February
Worldshards’ begins early access — 26th February
The Machines Arena skins become mintable on Ronin — 29th February
Night Crows Inbound news
Although very successful in terms of token value — currently at a $826 million mcap — and number of games released — heading for 100 — I’ve never been totally convinced about South Korean outfit Wemade’s WEMIX blockchain efforts.
However, I am prepared to be educated as its triple-A Unreal Engine 5 mobile action RPG Night Crows gets closer to release. It now has a grand opening date of 12th March. You can sign up for pre-registration rewards here.
As for its blockchain elements, it looks like I’ll need a further education in them too. As well as WEMIX, Wemade says Night Crows will also support the Avalanche, BNB, Ethereum, Kroma and Polygon blockchains. And as well as character NFTs and the game’s main CROW token, there will be six other resource tokens which will be traded in relation to CROW, which promises a “stabilized price range” greater than $0.75.
Aurory Playtest news
One of Solana’s signature gaming projects, Aurory has released the first open playable version of its Seekers of Tokane, Pokemon-inspired roguelike experience. The PC title is available for anyone to play via Epic Games Store until 26th February. Rewards during the Dracurve’s Awakening event include $100,000 of the AURY token plus various NFTs. Get it now here.
Additional Links
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