Top 3 Play-2-Earn (P2E) Blockchain Gaming Projects on Cardano –
There are over three billion players who spend valuable resources interacting with their favorite gaming platforms, including ecosystems that include play-to-earn (P2E). P2E systems incentivize engagement by distributing valuable fungible or non-fungible tokens or both. These tokens are often player controlled and have tools. Through internal or external marketplaces, in-game NFTs, some of which are scarce, and the game’s native token can be converted into other liquid crypto-assets or cash.
Despite crypto markets being dormant and leading digital assets cooling off from recent peaks, game developers are tirelessly building great games with P2E models to cater to the growing blockchain gaming audience.
According to statistics, the number of P2E games doubled in 2021 to nearly 400. At the same time, unique crypto addresses that interact with well-known blockchain games’ smart contracts rose to 1.3 million in 2021, increasing over 40 times from 2020. During this time, crypto venture capitalists zoomed in on blockchain gaming, realizing the potential in the development space. They have strategically invested over $4 billion to accelerate game development and infrastructure building.
Top 3 P2E Gaming Projects on Cardano
More game developers around the world, especially in the US and UK, are rapidly adopting P2E models in dynamic blockchains like Cardano to provide true ownership of in-game items to billions of players. Cardano is peer-reviewed and adds smart contracting to the proven architecture that anchors the Bitcoin network. Consequently, the platform offers several advantages such as predictability of transaction fees, absent in competing blockchains such as Ethereum or the BNB chain.
If you are interested in exploring Cardano-based P2E models, these are the three best platforms to check out:
- Drunk dragon
Drunken Dragon is a 2D simulator massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) with inns and taverns for grandmasters and adventurers to visit. Inns and taverns are player-owned and exist as Cardano NFTs, represented as high-quality isometric pixel art built using the Unreal Engine inspired by the Octopath Traveler Game. The game is built by Drunken Dragon Entertainment, and their primary goal is to release “the most epic fantasy universe” that brings people together and allows them to enjoy meaningful experiences absent from centralized gaming platforms.
Autonomous Fantasy Franchise and decentralized intellectual property are central to Drunken Dragon. The Autonomous Fantasy Franchise is an iteration of the popular Decentralized Automated Organization (DAO) structure. It is designed to ensure that franchise development is effectively decentralized with attractive incentives for creators and development studios to create high-quality products based on the Drunken Dragon IP. Meanwhile, the decentralized intellectual property is working on the autonomous fantasy franchise. It ensures that all assets in the Drunken Dragon universe are identified, authenticated and available to creators and game development studios as free-to-use content licensed under Creative Commons. All tagged items belong to the DAO and are archived in their Digital Assets Vault. Dragon Gold ($DG) is the platform’s governance and utility token that allows holders to stake for rewards or vote on developments. Creators and development studios will also receive incentives in $DG.
Drunken Dragon is a unique game to earn (P2E) game and has released the first version of Idle adventure, a dApp and a gamified adventurer effort that will be a testing ground for features set to add to Drunken Dragon’s Inns and Quests. Their reward system will use a different approach and players will receive Dragon Silver tokens that already have value in the secondary market. To achieve their goals, they have partnered with 01X, a consulting firm that reviewed tokenomics and advised Drunken Dragon’s NFT coin of Adventurers of Thiolden collection NFTs, to be listed on JPGStore.
- Cornucopias
Cornucopias is an MMORPG game that mixes several “earn” features, ranging from playing, learning and building on the Cardano blockchain. The decision to accommodate players, learners and builders is by design. The Metaverse developer expects everyone to be critical participants who contribute to the platform’s success. The platform is a well-designed metaverse built using the graphically enhanced Unreal 5 engine. It also combines exciting gaming and real-world trading elements, where participants can deposit assets into NFTs and sell them to other players. As with other platforms, upon connecting to the vast metaverse and completing tasks, players are rewarded with valuable cryptocurrencies and real-world NFTs. Cornucopia’s metaverse is zoned into different themes. Players can explore the ‘Wild West’, choose ‘Farm Life’ or even join the ‘Age of The Samurai’ zone depending on their needs. In these zones outside the pre-built city, they can participate in mini-games where they stand to win cryptocurrencies and other in-game assets. A distinctive addition to Cornucopia’s gameplay is the ability to purchase custom items (incentivized under the build-to-earn (B2E) model) conceived and imprinted in the “Island Blueprint”. These items can be purchased by players, collected and incorporated into gameplay as unique NFTs.
- Outlaws Brawl
The game is a first-person shooter (FPS) NFT project where factions of outlaw bikers, Hyenas versus Coyotes, compete for dominance. It will be similar to the PC games Counter-Strike or Battlefield 2, but with a larger map size, offering more immersive experiences and up to 60 players for any given map and with scaling up to 10,000 players simultaneously at a later stage of development.
The Outlaw Brawls mostly consists of the Hell’ Hyenas Motorcycle Club (HHMC) and the Outlaws Brawl Game. There will also be a marketplace and the HHMC token ($HYN) for governance. HHMC is a 3D game built with Unreal Engine 4 and 5 and was the first project launched by the team as an Alpha test game in April 2022. Essentially, it is a collection of NFTs integrated into an FPS game. Meanwhile, Outlaws Brawl is a multiplayer game with NFTs that give holders access to the platform’s wider ecosystem. NFT holders play a special role in the game and receive rewards to be able to unlock new weapons and skins as players rank up in the game.
Outlaws Brawl will be a P2E game with economy, reward system and smart contract integration. At a later stage, players can also participate in live tournaments to win various prizes in the spirit of E-Sports gaming. In-game token $TBC and governance token $HYN will be listed on several exchanges, including Genius DEX.
Final thoughts
Blockchain, smart contracts and crypto opened up new opportunities for players and game developers to have fun and make money through exciting models like P2E. As player psychology changes and players demand more roles in development, more game creators are incorporating P2E into gameplay to attract and retain users. This will greatly help to accelerate the use of blockchain and crypto solutions in top platforms such as Ethereum and Cardano.
It’s not easy to gain traction in a competitive environment, which is why projects like Drunken Dragon and Outlaws Brawl are accelerated by the Genius X program, which promotes innovation on the Cardano network and empowers Web3 startups to build impactful and scalable blockchain-based companies . Genius X accelerates and scales incredible projects on Cardano and Web3 through their consulting, mentorship and growth experience.
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