In mid-May, Unreal released a demonstration video of Unreal Engine 5. The details of the video are comparable to movie CG, and even the vision tends to the real world. If game developers use Unreal Engine to develop games, they can save a lot of trouble, and even guarantee the quality of the developed games to a certain extent.
This is like the fact that more and more blockchain games on the market are developed based on Cocos and Unity engines. These blockchain games have higher game quality than those developed based on H5.
The dedicated game public chain will have complete game development tools and API interfaces with various game engines. The ideal game public chain will have an ecology similar to a complex such as AppStore+Alipay+5173. Blockchain games and blockchain players provide value-added experience.
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Ethereum
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Although Ethereum has never advertised itself as a blockchain game public chain, it is an indisputable fact that most well-known blockchain games are based on or have Ethereum versions.
In 2017, the influence brought by a CryptoKitties game directly out of the circle has not been surpassed so far. Among the data randomly captured before May 1st in the block mahjong game, the transaction volume of the top ten chain games on Ethereum is also significantly greater than that of other public chains.
Ryan Sean Adams' article "Deep 丨Can You Really Make Money?" Looking back on three classic blockchain games" (Ling Jie, compiled by Crypto Valley Live), there are statistics on the income of three popular Ethereum games Gods Unchained, My Crypto Heros, and Axie Infinity, and the following data are obtained:
Gods Unchained: Highest net income: $4,580; median net income: $5; average net income: $45.
My Crypto Heros: Highest net income: $57,189; Median net income: $2; Average net income: $950.
Axie Infinity: Highest net income: $698,887; median net income: $53; average net income: $1,307.
As the public chain with the best comprehensive ecology, Ethereum 2.0 in its current layout will also solve one of the most limiting factors, performance. However, the current problem with the development of blockchain games on Ethereum is the increasing gas costs with the development of DeFi. According to the statistics of DappRader, the daily activity of games on Ethereum has declined with the increase of gas fees.
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EOS
On June 2, EOS passed the 2nd anniversary node. On his birthday, Block.one CEO Brendan Blumer expressed his wishes for the 2nd anniversary of the birth of EOS on Twitter, but the response was far worse than before.
This public chain, which is now full of gambling (lottery) DApps, was vigorously promoted by the Chinese community at the beginning of its birth. For a while, its "million TPS" and "blockchain 3.0" titles also attracted many block chains. Chain games are developed on it, and there are also good chain games such as "EOS Three Kingdoms".
However, the reason for the decline of EOS was buried in September 2017 when Block.one withdrew from the Chinese market and gave up the largest blood transfusion site. With the withdrawal of hot money, the development process of EOS was not smooth, and the fundamentals continued to deteriorate. How lively EOS is, how deserted EOS is today.
In February of this year, Weiss Ratings, a Wall Street cryptocurrency rating agency in the United States, downgraded EOS from B to C-. wait.
At that time, Li Xiaolai, the largest evangelist of EOS in China, also responded to whether there is hope for EOS in a live broadcast, and replied, "No hope, 5 billion air."
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TRON
Justin Sun recently released an open letter, saying that TRON will usher in the fourth upgrade on July 7, 2020 (Singapore time) - TRON 4.0 era.
According to the name of TRON, TRON will enter the "age of great navigation" from the "Odyssey period".
Like Ethereum, EOS accounted for 99.1% of the TRON market transaction volume in the first quarter of 2020. The DApp ecosystem is similar to EOS, with the majority being gaming (lottery), accounting for 92.1% of the transaction volume.
The difference between TRON and EOS is that TRON has a more sticky leader, and this leader is happy every day, is a good player in exposure, and is also willing to buy and invest.
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Cocos-BCX
Cocos-BCX is positioned as a next-generation game digital economy platform. The founder, Chen Haozhi, has a solid background in the game industry.
In an AMA at the end of 2019, Chen Haozhi revealed that the Cocos-BCX team has nearly 100 members, and about 70% of them are technicians. It is one of the blockchain projects led by real technology.
According to the timeline of the Cocos-BCX official website, the Cocos-BCX project was established in the second half of 2017. In September 2018, it received $40 million in financing from Binance Labs, NEO Global Capital, and 500 Startups. On December 12, 2018 The internal beta starts today.
Cocos-BCX internal testing simultaneously realized its COCOS-1808 (BCX-NHAS-1808) standard vision, so that players' game assets can be circulated between CocosShooting and "Game Development Country", and the COCOS-1808 standard has been approved by companies such as TRON, Joint promotion of Ontology, Zilliqa, NEO, etc.
And in May 2020, Cocos-BCX officially announced that after Binance, the second exchange, Matcha, was launched. This month, Cocos-BCX also announced the launch of the main network node election, and the official repurchase from the market was also stolen. Take 1 billion COCOS.
Subsequently, the Cocos-BCX main network successively launched the idle idle game "Dragon Must Die" developed by its ecological partner Lianwantang, the strategic battle RPG game "Monster World" developed by its ecological partner XPET, and the "Panda Games" developed by GPE Studio, counting "Crypto Knights", CocosShooting, Snake, Cocos-BCX mainnet launched 6 games, and the testnet also has 2 games, namely "Tekon Odaily" and "Crypto Knights".
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Egretia
Speaking of Egretia at this point in time is a bit of a slap in the face. After being confused with giant businessmen, Egretia was swept up in negatives, the price of EGT plummeted, and the team was called to defend their rights and other information became the last information left by Egretia.
On the weekend before the stormy week, Egretia had just held a press conference in Beijing, at which it released its blockchain game product "Football King". Still better.
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LayaOne
What LayaOne wants to provide is also a blockchain game ecosystem based on the accumulation of game development tools. According to media reports, LayaOne has received investment from more than 20 well-known institutions such as NGC, Distributed, OK Capital, PreAngel, and Timestamp Capital.
According to the planning introduction of LayaOne's official public account, if it develops according to the rhythm, it will launch the official version of the LayaOne public chain in December 2019, but the last message of its public account was sent on May 21, 2019. The content is the founder of LayaOne And CEO Wang Yue shared content at the round table of the 2019 Global Blockchain (Hangzhou) Summit Forum hosted by Babbitt.
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NEO, ONT, Nebulas
This part discusses NEO, ONT and Nebulas together.
In 2013, as a co-founder, Da Hongfei co-founded "Bit Entrepreneurship Camp" with 6 people including Xu Yiji, Dianfu Datou, Chu Xiahu, Lan Ling, Wang Guan, and Lonely Cancer.
Among them, Xu Yiji, Da Hongfei, and Wang Guan were the initial executors of NEO. When Xiaoyi Company was formally established, Da Hongfei was the CEO, Zhang Zhengwen was the CTO, and Wang Guan was in charge of design and promotion.
In the same year as NEO was established, OnChain (distributed technology) was also established in 2014. According to the National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System, "Da Hongfei (Da Hongfei's real name)" is the chairman of OnChain, director Zhang Zhengwen is also the CTO of NEO, supervisor Li Jun, and the project leader of the ONT project Li Jun.
Zhang Zhengwen, also known as Erik Zhang, previously worked for Huobi and developed an enterprise-level client for Huobi based on the Bitcoin underlying protocol. After that, Xu Yiji and Wang Guan founded the Nebulas chain.
Both NEO and Nebulas held blockchain game developer competitions during the bull market. It can be said that these competitions helped many blockchain game developers get money to survive. Some blockchain game developers expressed , still very grateful to them.
However, in these early blockchain game competitions, because many of the entries were skin-changing products, this chain has been squeezed out to the next one, and there are not many chain games actually accumulated.
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IOST
This paper should also have IOST.
IOST attracted a lot of attention when it came out. IOST, which invested in traditional investment institutions such as Sequoia, Matrix Partners, and Zhenge, is regarded as one of the signals that traditional investment institutions pay attention to the blockchain. The IOST mainnet went live smoothly and became one of the few that survived.
According to the external interview content of the early IOST co-founder Jimmy, what IOST wanted to do in the early days was a basic chain. If "Ethereum emphasizes decentralization and EOS emphasizes high scalability, then IOST is in between."
Now the IOST mainnet Olympus version 3.34 has been launched, and IOST Staking 4.0 has been announced. It has reached a cooperation with the Japanese medical institution Pracs and will develop an on-chain case system for it. In addition, IOST has also launched the mascot "Lafeng".
In terms of blockchain games, IOST launched the chain game version of "Legend of Sword and Fairy V" in August 2019. Although the data is not very amazing, when I heard this IP, I was still shocked. According to DappReview data, in the first quarter of 2020, IOST has a total of 34 active DApps, of which games and lottery are the most important categories.
In addition to the public chain already mentioned above, ENJIN is also a pioneer on the road of blockchain games. However, what ENJIN is doing is not a chain, but a complete set of development tools suitable for Ethereum, helping traditional game developers to mint assets directly on Ethereum in a more convenient way and interact with games. The block mahjong game also It will be mentioned in more detail in the next article.
