Blockchain-based technologies, as represented by cryptocurrencies and other types of digital assets such as non-fungible tokens (NFTs), are beginning to make their presence felt in many different industries. While slightly different on the surface from other types of digital money, Zeal Crypto and NFT have been designed to center around their enabling features in digital transactions, especially with proprietary management.
The NFT, in itself, has attracted a lot of interest over the past two years due to its ability to allow secure and authenticated transfer of physical goods via blockchain. Removed, NFTs are simply tokens that represent unique assets.
In the case of art and collectibles, this proved to be a highly useful feature that allowed people to create NFTs representing unique and rare pieces of art and culture. If you own an NFT, you have the creative rights to a piece of art – can be verified by anyone cross-checking the NFT data on a public ledger
Yet NFTs in this form have barely scratched the surface of what is possible, especially when dealing with industries where non-fungibility and fungibility factors are important aspects.
Beyond Static NFT Use in Gaming
Game developers DREPublic, the team behind the upcoming MMORPG Cradles: Origin of Species, are among those who believe that blockchain technology can provide solutions that can drive unprecedented innovation in the gaming industry.
While some gaming companies have already dabbled in crypto and NFTs, they have had limited success so far. The high-profile NFT efforts have resulted in a huge backlash from the gaming community as well. The outrage drawn by NFT experiments, like those of Ubisoft, can be traced to the simplified implementation of NFTs in games, either as an alternative currency or for the company by producing even more “unique” items such as skins. As a way to generate more money. In other words, NFTs in gaming have so far only served to further the “lootbox” mentality perceived by many gamers as game developers.
Cradle’s developers want to move beyond the stable features of NFTs, which have made them so popular among speculators, by fine-tuning a new type of NFT token based on the EIP-3664 protocol (technically, it’s just a nomenclature). Proposals for a new set of rules on blockchain), which expand on the existing NFT standards, ERC721 and ERC1155.
The new EIP3664 NFTs will allow all game elements to hold far more information than regular NFTs, giving them many more features, resulting in the game interacting with these elements in a variety of ways. In game-speak, this simply means that the entire game world is made up of components that can be combined with or taken apart from each other.
Combinable game elements and a time-lapse virtual world
The component NFT can be described like this. If characters, objects and even plants and animals are all components made of NFTs, it would be possible for a player to fully build and participate in the world-building of a virtual universe. For example, you will harvest raw materials from nature and combine them to make tools and weapons with all the different properties of their individual components. Then, add these tools, weapons, clothing and even skills to a character and that new character embodies all the different attributes of all of their combined components. Likewise, you can break down an element into all of its different components to recreate a nearly limitless combination of possible new items and characters.
In fact, the EIP-3664 protocol is set to make these digital assets more customizable for Cradles players, so that they can change their in-game articles in an unlimited number of ways and harvest the raw materials obtained by searching and going on adventures. Can you
Importantly, each component in the NFT at Cradles will also have developable properties hard-coded into each component, enabling all game elements to emulate the laws of time and physics – something that any virtual world can properly implement. is not able to.
DRepublic calls this effect “entropy-increasing”. Each game element develops gradually, using the block time as a stable base for permanent time lapses. Items rust, characters age, and buildings gradually break down as blocks pass over time, requiring the active intervention of players to encourage cooperation between players.
Players will be able to watch their NFTs (in the form of characters and even items) evolve over time. Instead of today’s stagnant standards, Cradles would build a world in motion with its own changes, declines, and progress.
A game that emphasizes new experiences
At the core of Cradles is an open-world MMORPG with elements of the Metaverse, but with the aim of expanding on the traditional RPG experience.
Cradles players will experience a virtual reality game that is compatible with Deep Immersion hardware that will enable them to play and interact with other players in any species of their choice. The game will provide players with ultimate freedom, the ability to explore, and build community.
Players will be able to explore different areas of the game, a main city and an adventure zone. In the former, players will be able to locate and interact with other players, while in the latter, players will need to defend themselves from potential hostilities and gather supplies from their surroundings.
Entire virtual worlds also tie into the backbone of the plot, where characters are sent to a time far away from a doomed future, looking for an answer to escape the destinies of extinction. As such, exploration, research and discovery are the only ways to advance world-building as Cradles hopes to become a game that encourages and inspires new gaming experiences, moving beyond the repetitive grinding spiral and To move on, that’s where most online RPGs end up with.
The future of gaming will be dominated by blockchain
Despite already raising significant funds for its development, the team behind the project is keen to lay the foundation for an open, decentralized community that will eventually result in a self-sustaining game.
Its growing community is regarded not only as gamers but as game creators. Even now, game developers continue to work on improving the overall gaming experience by implementing new features, fixing bugs, and testing new functionalities – following the direction and feedback of their community online.
Cradles players can position themselves today and benefit from territory destined to expand over time by attracting new users to their ecosystem. Today, according to data from Dapps Radar, the top 10 blockchain games have assets worth over $700 million with nearly 1 million active players.
Clearly, there is interest and potential in more decentralized forms of games that rely on community-based efforts to develop, especially as the relationship between gamers and traditional game developers in recent years has been filled with frustration and frustration.
Tomorrow’s games may not necessarily enable everyone to earn cryptocurrencies and buy NFTs in-game. But whether blockchain technology provides the next true innovation, enabling and unlocking new gameplay aspects that have always been lacking in traditional games, it could very well be the gateway to the future of gaming.