Market value repeatedly broke new highs on Solana, which boutique chain tour?

Original title: "What are the boutique chain games on Solana whose market value has repeatedly broken new highs recently?"

Peter Li @Foresight Ventures   

At present, chain games are still in the early stage. We find that many chain games are still unable to get rid of NFT as the main card game, but its development speed is beyond our expectation. With a slew of boutique titles like Star Altas, Guild of Guardians, and Gold Fever due for public beta in THE second or second quarter of next year, we could be in for Gamefi's breakout moment.

Foresight Ventures sorted out various public chain Developing game projects, and this paper focused on Solana, aiming to find the next possible explosion point.

This article has a certain subjective color, and the game project is not online yet, there may be a certain degree of deviation, please treat it rationally.

Project name: DeFi Land

Official website:https://defiland.app/

Game type: simulation management, strategy games

Game tags: Land for Sale, Q version

Benchmarking Game: Dream Town (traditional mobile game)

Game content: In the game, players can simulate farming for operation and production. In version 2.0, combat mode will be added to enhance the gameplay. The game is divided into infrastructure and NFT facilities. Markets (traded through AMM and liquidity providers such as SERUM and Raydium), NFT facilities such as granaries, which, when purchased, will help land obtain an additional five percent of its output; The weather system is set up in the game. The change of the weather will be decided according to your location and market conditions, simulating the environment of crop growth to a great extent. There are also some mini-games that you can play for extra revenue.

Token economy: the original token of the game is DFL. In addition to governance, users can use it to upgrade land, purchase skin, and purchase NFT from the market. In addition, the game can participate in betting and competition in battles after the launch of version 2.0. The public offering will begin in September, and the specific distribution model will be announced then.

Play to Earn: You can earn tokens and NFT rewards by checking in daily and completing tasks or achievements according to the game instructions, plus regular events and contests for additional rewards; In the future, players will be able to earn money by capturing land and resources.

Team information: The team consists of 7 members with rich experience in VR, AI, gaming, fintech, ERP and other industries, as well as working with major banks and retail companies in multiple regions.

Investment Institution: Currently acquired Animoca Brands, Alameda Research, JumpCapital, Rarestone Capital, Kyros Ventures, Double Peak, CryptoJ, Illusionist Group, Dialectic, Ankr, Gate. IO, Transfero Swiss, Coin98 Ventures, Rok Capital, Youbi Capital, Caballeros Capital , 3Commas, MXC, Solar Eco Fund, GBV, Skyvision Capital, NGC Ventures, Solana Foundation seed round.

Road map:

Profile: DeFi Land is a clever combination of DeFi and GameFi. The game gamifies the DeFi protocol, with different assets representing different currencies, such as SOL for sunflower, USDC for corn and COPE for pumpkin. In the game, different protocols are added in the way of planting and production, and the characteristics of different protocols are demonstrated to the players, so that more white players can learn and understand DeFi knowledge in the way of the game and earn profits. This is a great attempt with more educational significance than game significance.

I was surprised by the fantastic idea of DeFi Land, but worried about whether the difficulty of making the game was too high. According to the official roadmap of the project, the game will be released in the internal test of version 1.0 in Q3 of 20, and version 2.0 in Q1 of 21. Version 1.0 can only simulate DeFi protocol functions with fake assets through educational land (practice mode), but can version 2.0 really carry the entire game perfectly?

DeFi Land is more like a DeFi introduction education system, may be a small white group DeFi learning first stop, with corresponding ground scene and special status, but the future how to precipitate the user is a problem worth thinking about, I will still be on the project with good wishes, hope to promote the large-scale development in the area of block chain.

Project name: Project Seed

Official website:https://projectseed.io/

Game type: ARPG

Game tags: Dark Wind, Nurturant class

Benchmarking games: Illuvium, Monster Hunter

What it's about: The world is about to be destroyed, and players need to find a guardian to discover the truth of the world and save the sanctuary from destruction. Players begin their journey in Hunter Harbor, a small city at the western end of Sandrocks, where they can learn the combat system through a tutorial.

There are three main professional players can choose, mercenaries physically (players) respectively, and the god archer (ranged attackers), the alchemist (the biggest output) in the team, besides the player can choose 6 seeds, respectively, the blacksmith, tailor, cooks, carpenters, the alchemist and breeder, every seed career need players find learning formula and upgraded, At the same time, each subclass can open a corresponding shop.

The game features a unique dungeon builder mode, where players can build their own dungeons for other players to play, the provider receives revenue from players who enter the dungeon, and the creator can manually decorate each part of the dungeon while capturing zed and placing it in the dungeon. In addition to the game design of a number of mini-games such as fishing, logging and mining.

Token economy: SHILL, the in-game native token, will launch IDO in Q3 21.

Play to earn: Players can kill Zed to get dropped equipment and items and sell them. They can also sell weapons or armor made from monster materials. Different monster characteristics make weapons and armor have different effects. You can also earn coins or items by joining a guild and winning a guild tournament.

Team information: There are five core founders, two of whom have binance related background, and the rest have program development, community operation and game development background respectively. The team members are experienced.

Investment institutions: Exnetwork Capital, Moon Whale Ventures, Tokenmilk Inc., will go public in Q3 of this year.

Profile: Game will begin in the fourth quarter of this year in private, if this is an ARPG game, it could have strong playability, and the particular mode of dungeons created and game guild content, players will enjoy the pleasure of team gold, this will be a very good game experience, yet from the open channel to see the content of the game, The development of the game can be uncertain.

Project name: Star Atlas

Official website:https://staratlas.com/overview

Game type: shooting games, ARPG

Game tags: 3A, Virtual Engine, Star Wars

Benchmarking games: Star Citizen (traditional online game), EVE Onpne

Game content: There are three factions in the game: the MUD territory ruled by humans, the ONI region of the Alien Race Federation, and the Ustur region controlled by robots. Each faction will be divided into three parts: the Safe zone (learning the basics of the game, such as rescue, combat, and salvage), the middle zone (players can fight, Assets will be reset if damaged), and boundaries (players will destroy all assets through combat, destruction is a permanent event, but only a portion of assets will be permanently destroyed).

Players can choose according to be fond of free four different types of professional direction respectively killer (by attacking mining structure in space and on the ground, killing or plunder other players to earn profits), achievers (through a rules of the game world get a reward, such as collecting a certain vessels and gathering enough mineral resources), explorer (stars, to explore the universe can be recorded by scanning resource position, Sell coordinates in the secondary market for profit), socializers (build connections between players by organizing and sharing resources); Players will be encouraged to create teams and space cities, pooling resources for competitive advantage, and POpS tokens will play an important role in governance.

There will be seven classes of ships based on ship size: junior, Small, medium, Large, capital, Commander, and Dreadnaught, each of which will have a different classification or attribute. And players can personally drive spacecraft into space, experience the immersive feeling.

Token economy: there are two kinds of tokens in the game, namely: ATLAS (in-game tokens), with a total of 36 billion tokens. As in-game tokens, they can be used to buy ships, crew, land and equipment. ATLAS holders will get 60% discount when buying ships or components. POpS (Governance tokens), 360 million in total, can make rules and laws by participating in parliament, and holders of POpS can get a 60% discount on land and fleet purchases.

ATLAS distribution:

POpS distribution:

Play to Earn: The game uses a unique time incentive that rewards players based on how much time they spend. In addition, players can earn income through galaxy exploration mining, piracy to steal the income of ships, bounty hunters, crew and so on. The rich content of the game has brought a variety of income ways for players.

Team information: According to the public disclosure, there are 35 members in the team, including 4 decision makers (Michael Wagner, who has been engaged in blockchain venture capital since 2013 and has years of experience in the game field; Jacob Floyd has been involved in game and blockchain development for many times, with 33 successful projects; Pablo Quiroga has been in venture capital for many years; Danny Floyd has many years of experience in game development), 9 in technical, 23 in art & Design.

Our team members have worked on several well-known games and films, including Star Citizen, Destiny 2, Intrepid, Horizon zero Dawn, Call of Duty: Black Ops 3/4, Halo Reprint, Dead Island 2, SPEC Ops: The Line, Beyond Earth, The SIMS, Ultima Online, Warhammer Onpne, Lord of the Rings, etc. Movies include Watchmen, Terminator: Dark Fate, Captain Marvel, X-Men: Dark Phoenix, Superman Returns, Spider-Man: Far From Home, and more.

Investors: Moonwhale Ventures, Serum, LD Capital, Yield Guild Games

Brief comments: Galaxy-themed games are full of imagination and creativity, while Star Atlas brings us aaa production and movie visual experience. The popularity of Gamefi accelerates the rapid development of chain games, but Star Atlas still crosses over the era of works of the same period.

The production cycle of AAA games is long, usually requiring several years of polishing and often accompanied by huge expense burning. The production cost is usually in the hundreds of millions. According to the content presented to us by Star Atlas, it is not a small-cost game under the cover of AAA science fiction, hoping to bring players a perfect experience. The game will launch in Q2, and a mini-game will be released in early September as a warm-up.

The world's top game production team and film production team, to create the world's top chain game, like the players will be very like, but limited by the difficulty of getting started players may be very dislike; He may not be the hottest, but he's definitely the coolest.

Project name: Aorory

Official website:https://aurory.io/

Game type: RPG

Game tags: horizontal, turn-based

Benchmarking game: Pokemon go

Content of the game: the game can be divided into single mode and multiplayer mode, in a single game players can follow NPC propel the development of the plot, beat every creature to obtain a corresponding NFT, these NFT card can help players in multiplayer games get extra items, in addition to complete each task will get some tokens, rewards.

Multiplayer game players and players can be challenged, before the battle, both sides pay a certain token to start fighting, choose five items and cards to participate in the competition, the selected creatures will start fighting according to their characteristics, the winner will recover the paid token; There is also a leaderboard mode, updated weekly and monthly, with mythical items and tokens as rewards to motivate people to play.

Token economy: The in-game token is Aury, which can be used to buy, sell and trade items on the Aurory Marketplace. The exact distribution scheme is not yet disclosed.

Play to Earn: Players can earn NFT and tokens through mission achievements in single player games. NFT can be used as a combat creature in multiplayer battles. Players on both sides pay for token battles as a way to earn and spend.

Team information: There are currently 7 team members with more than 20 years of working experience in the game industry and AAA level game artists. The team has solid basic skills and good content presentation.

Investors: Solana, Alameda Research, Animoca Brands, Zee Prime Capital, Ascensive Assets, CMS, Genblock Capital

Profile: From the point of view of the current show video game, the game screen, cute characters and lovely, the game's biological image with elves also have similarities, and play the difficulty is low, easy to promote, the acceptance will be higher, also likely to attract a group of love fairy treasure can dream of players, plus Solana is one of the main game, Currently, the game has received a lot of attention and will be in private beta in Q4.

Project name: Scallop

Official website:https://www.scallop.io/

Game type: simulation management

Game tags: Q version, Acquisition class

Token economy: 240 million of the game's native tokens, SCA, are distributed as follows.

At 20:00 GMT+8, each Friday, a winner (or winners), chosen at random, will be rewarded with the equivalent of a Scallop Token (SCA) next week. You can also earn tokens or NFT decorations by completing tasks such as joining 10 pools in a month.

Team information: Kris Lai is a senior security engineer of one of the largest web games in Asia, Donnie has many years of experience in game development, Larry used to be the core engineer of block chain laboratory of a large Canadian bank, and the team members are mainly Chinese from Taiwan and Canada.

Investment institution: financing has not been opened temporarily.

Road map:

Note: Scallop is better positioned as a game than as a liquidity mining project with redistribution. Players pledge SOL, and when the revenue is withdrawn, the user can receive tokens with twice the value of the pledged amount, which is equivalent to a redistribution of player revenue. Scallop may gain traction with smaller players, a form of scratch-off with no explicit cost, but it may be hard to gain traction with Orca players, since it's hard to pay for large amounts of collateral in terms of interest alone.

Content outlook of Solana Chain Tour:

All the public chains, side chains and L2 are laying out GameFi. For the chain tour itself, the chain with high transaction speed and low transaction cost is obviously more suitable. Solana clearly meets the requirements, and in known Developing chain tour, Solana's chain game has high quality and covers the development of Star Wars, simulated operation, ARPG and liquidity mining, which better meets the preferences of different groups.

In the swim of the above mentioned, the Star Atlas is undoubtedly the most refined, the best of the game, however, the entry level of difficulty is the highest, the players might find it hard to bear needs a few days to learn how to control the game, and the presence of large amounts of cinematic sequences in the game, and a national level of the game content is accessible and difficult to master, Therefore, the player circle of Star Atlas may be small, and it is better to conduct player education in the warm-up of small games. Project Seed and Aorory may be more geared towards a broad audience and need to polish their products; DeFi Land and Scallop are targeted at the education of small white users and users with specific needs in pursuit of high income. They may have a part of user base, but it will take time to test whether they can be expanded.

The rise of Play to Earn has taken chain games to the next level of development, but some games may be focusing too much on earn and not enough on Play. In a zero-sum or even negative-sum market, the explosion driven by APY alone will not last long. Higher APY usually requires more players to enter the market to maintain, and once a new high-revenue game appears, speculators will quickly leave the market. The only thing that can withstand the storm is the good game content itself. Just like Aave and Compound in DeFi, DeFi doesn't get the most TVL simply because of the high APY, and neither does GameFi.

We think a healthy ecosystem should be game players willing to pay cost for game content, high level players for gameplay is willing to spend money rather than for investment, low-level players get economic benefits by time but not all for the sake of money, can only form a closed loop of virtuous cycle of ecological would let a chain truly withstand the baptism of time, A high APY can shorten the life cycle of a game.

We've been asking who will ultimately benefit from GameFi Summer.

In my opinion, the ultimate beneficiary may not be the chain game project itself, which can obtain huge economic benefits, but the game will always have a life cycle. Maybe in the future, it can be treasured by people in the form of NFT, but the game content will no longer exist. Just as in traditional games, League of Legends can accompany us for ten years. But we're not sure it'll be replaced by something new after the next decade. The one thing that can really survive and stay alive for a long time is an integrated platform for linked games, which has the dual mission of lowering entry barriers and educating players, integrating ports and traffic to accommodate more new players who want to play GameFi. Can you see the content of GameFi infrastructure? Who can become the new entrance of chain tour flow.

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