Blockchain, Avalanche and Gamestar+: What does it mean for gamers?

Todd Young is co-founder and COO of the Gamestar+ platform. With robust industrial operations across global multimedia platforms and brands that include Sony, Todd drives the development and growth of the Gamestar+ platform with over a decade of venture strategy, finance, product and marketing experience.

Gamestar+, the world’s first game streaming service for family game nights, brings on-demand, interactive social games to your living room with some of the most iconic and well-known family board game and TV game brands in the world – backed by robust blockchain technology.

By partnering with Ava Labs and building on Avalanche, a highly scalable and secure blockchain network that delivers powerful smart contract technology – Gamestar+ combines the best features of the new Web3 play-and-earn gaming ecosystem – with highly social, family-oriented gameplay designed to bring players and friends closer to each other in the midst of the digital revolution.

The core principle driving the development of Gamestar+ is the concept of social gaming. Despite the ubiquity of smartphones, online games, consoles and streaming content platforms, tangible value is still one-way – locked in a specific gaming environment, with no ability to withdraw or transfer value.

Gamestar+ leverages the extensive experience of our development team together with Avalanche’s next-generation blockchain technology to not only connect players, families, friends and gamers, regardless of location, but also to give users ownership of the value they generate during game time.

However, blockchain technology can quickly become confusing. What does Avalanche do and how does Gamestar+ integrate Avalanche technology to enhance the game night experience?

How Avalanche Blockchain Technology Empowers Gamestar+ Players

Avalanche is a next-generation blockchain network designed to provide Web3 applications and platforms with fast, affordable, and environmentally friendly blockchain capabilities. By integrating Avalanche technology into the architecture of the Gamestar+ platform, we are able to provide players with features and powers never before seen on any other interactive streaming platform.

The fundamental promise of blockchain technology is decentralized individual sovereignty over values, assets or data. While blockchain technology originated in the launch of the Bitcoin blockchain in 2009, the rapid development of the cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem has resulted in the creation of complex, robust and dynamic blockchain platforms such as Avalanche.

By using Avalanche, it is possible to create new gaming experiences that give Gamestar+ players the ability to take control of their gaming experiences, participate in the economy of Gamestar+ and create completely unique individualized gaming experiences on the go.

Avalanche adds a new layer of experience to social gaming. At a basic level, Gamestar+ acts as a live, on-demand game streaming platform that can be used to create interactive game night experiences that merge the digital world with the real world.

However, the new frontier of the metaverse opens the doors to unique features and benefits not available on modern gaming or media streaming platforms. Gamestar+ and Avalanche enable players to compete against each other for real-world value, rare NFT collectibles and blockchain tokens that can be traded in the larger crypto market for real money. The one-way nature of cash that goes into games, and cannot be withdrawn – is now a thing of the past.

The Gamestar+ platform is home to a wide range of industry-leading brands, franchises and TV game shows that include Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune, Scene It? and Family Feud, along with IP from Lucasfilm, Disney Pixar and Marvel.

Using Avalanche technology, Gamestar+ allows players and gamers to own, trade, mix, match and fuse characters, collectibles, assets and value from different gaming experiences to create their own vision of a metaverse-driven game night.

Turn Play-to-Earn into Play-and-Earn

Games to earn games is one of the most explosively popular applications of blockchain technology in the entertainment industry. Play-to-earn games allow players to collect blockchain tokens that can be withdrawn from a gaming platform and traded for other cryptocurrencies or fiat currencies on cryptocurrency exchanges.

The technologically complex nature of most play-to-earn gaming platforms establishes a steep learning curve that must be overcome before players can begin to generate real value from playtime. To access most games to earn money, for example, players must understand how to access digital assets that can be exchanged for in-game assets, create browser-based wallets compatible with games, and must have an understanding of basic principles of cryptocurrency transactions.

Another problem present in the play-to-earn ecosystem is the emphasis on value creation over gameplay. Many play-to-earn games are developed by blockchain developers, rather than game developers, resulting in the creation and launch of play-to-earn games that are far from fun to play.

This steep learning curve prevents many players from joining the Web3 revolution due to the difficulty associated with connecting to the rapidly evolving blockchain ecosystem. Gamestar+ simplifies and streamlines blockchain integration to provide players with the same benefits.

Gamestar+ introduces a new paradigm within the blockchain-based gaming ecosystem. Instead of giving players games to earn functionality, offers Gamestar+ games and earn — players are rewarded for playing time and success in competitive social games through a highly accessible, easy-to-understand blockchain-based feature set that emphasizes fun over value creation.

Gamestar+ games are not designed to function as speculative or competitive NFT generation games solely for the consumption of blockchain and crypto experts – Gamestar+ instead democratizes access to play-to-earn technology that makes blockchain gaming fun, leveraging NFTs and ]tokens to enhance your gaming and game night experience instead of complicating it.

Gamestar+ & Avalanche Partnership Follows Live Gamestar+ Platform Launch

In collaboration with Avalanche, we here at Gamestar+ can offer families, friends and players a new type of game night experience. Built around cooperative, social play that not only brings iconic family board games off the coffee table and into the metaverse, but also facilitates access to a new model of blockchain-powered gaming, Gamestar+ redefines play-to-earn as play-and-earn.

The launch of Gamestar+’s new Avalanche-powered features is supported by incubation specialists Faculty Entertainment, who act as investors, incubators and advisors to some of the world’s biggest entertainment brands. Gamestar+ is already live with titles like Family Feud available to stream and play live in combination with physical board game sets available exclusively from Target.

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