How popular is NFT recently? There has been a point of view that "everywhere is a bubble."
A pair of socks on Uniswap sold for $160,000, the founder of Twitter sold $2.5 million for five words, and encrypted artist Beeple won a bid of $9.75 million for Christie's NFT auction... The development of NFT has far exceeded the original +game, + The limits of artwork. Perhaps, now the form is greater than the content, and NFT itself is a trend.
NFT entered the public eye, and it was the beginning of a stress test that paralyzed Ethereum. At that time, people’s attention was on how to combine NFT with games. Now, NFT has swept everything, and we have just touched the road to the mountain. It is still too early to talk about high positions.
But in the process, we will find that the combination of NFT and other fields is very popular. How many NFT trading platforms have doubled their valuations, but none of them really belong to the new era of blockchain games. Now, the trading volume of older generation chain games such as CryptoKitties and Decentraland has stagnated. Where is the new blockbuster blockchain game?
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01 NFT+ everything is being hyped, and the chain game field is in urgent need of dark horse players
Recently, the global financial market has been one after another, and the currency market has also risen and fallen. The only constant may be the strong momentum of NFT.
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On the other hand, on March 6, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey announced that he would make his first tweet into an NFT for sale, once again bringing this niche concept to the public eye. The ever-increasing bids of encryption practitioners such as Sun Yuchen and Sina Estavi are even more eye-catching. It even attracted the traditional business media to express their shock with the title "Five words are worth 2.5 million US dollars, NFT in the blockchain world is making crazy wealth".
At the same time, many "artists in the real world" are also associated with NFT. Injective Protocol purchased Banksy's work "Morons" (Morons) by the well-known street artist for $95,000, burned it during the live broadcast, and then digitized it into an NFT, and then sold it on OpenSea for 228.69 ETH (approx. $380,000) to bidder "GALAXY". Another example is the recent collaboration between the rock band Kings of Leon and the encryption startup Yellowheart to launch the "NFT Yourself" series to celebrate the release of their new album "When You See Yourself".
It can be seen that the innovation attempt of NFT+ everything may have just begun.
As Odaily said in "Don’t miss these new NFT projects if you miss Flow with 100 times returnAs mentioned in ", NFT, a seemingly simple technology, actually has a huge room for imagination, and it is likely to be the second largest application scenario of the blockchain outside of finance.
"In the real world, only money and some other commodities are homogeneous, and most other assets are non-homogeneous, whether it is art, real estate or in-game assets...they are important to their owners. It is said to be unique, independent, and private." Therefore, its value and trading market cannot be represented by simple tokens, and non-homogeneous tokens will be able to play a big role in it.
The NFT + collectibles and + artwork mentioned above are all mature fields that are quite out of the circle, but in the earliest NFT testing ground of NFT + chain games, there are few masterpieces out of the circle.
We can't help but think, what is missing from the chain game's journey from 0 to 1?
A gaming experience close to a centralized platform? Testing the waters of a top game studio? Or do we have to wait for the emergence of games + NFT/DeFi that are more suitable for gameplay?
Recently, we found a product among many blockchain games that meets the above conditions — My Neighbor Alice.
I believe you can see from its game concept map that this is a game with casual painting style, social interaction, and building gameplay, which is a bit similar to the "Animal Crossing" that was popular last year.
The difference is that My Neighbor Alice incorporates a variety of blockchain elements, such as:
Issuing the original token ALICE in the game not only realizes multiple functions in the game, but also can be traded in the secondary market, which has certain investment attributes, which most traditional games cannot provide to players;
Secondly, My Neighbor Alice NFT the game props to ensure the circulation, rarity and unique value of the props;
Furthermore, My Neighbor Alice has joined the community autonomous governance (DAO) gameplay, which allows players to vote on proposals for the game's routes, functions, and even profit distribution. in the game".
Later, My Neighbor Alice will also add DeFi lock-up, pledge mining and other playing methods to provide more content for the game and attract different types of players.
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02 Now, let's enter Alice's healing island
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Map of Lummelunda Islands
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player building a fence
For a more detailed game experience, we can only wait for it to be tested after it is actually launched.
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first,My Neighbor Alice is the first to issue based on the BSC Binance Smart Chain, compared with the traditional "chain game base" Ethereum, users are expected to get a smooth and no lagging game experience comparable to centralized games. Of course, My Neighbor Alice also has many high-performance public chains to choose from. But its choice of BSC must be inseparable from the users and asset base of BSC and the strong ecological support of Binance.
On March 10, the Binance main site announced the launch of ALICE as the 18th new currency mining project, allowing users to invest BNB, BUSD, and CHR in the ALICE mining pool to earn ALICE rewards for 30 days. On March 15th, Binance Innovation Zone will also list ALICE trading pair. It can be expected that there will be many follow-up "interactions" between the two.
Secondly, let’s take a look at the details of the game platform currency ALICE settings.
According to the white paper, the total amount of ALICE is constant at 100 million pieces, and its functions include:
As a unified payment tool within the platform;
Pledge mining;
Used to reward players for completing quests and winning races.
The distribution of ALICE includes multiple aspects:
Private placement: 21%;
Foundation: 20%;
Team and consultants: 15%;
Marketing: 15%;
Ecosystem: 17.2%;
Play to earn (playing games means mining): 8%;
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Launchpool：3%；
Public Sale：0.8%；
ALICE distribution plan
It is worth noting that the tokens in the pre-sale are likely to belong to previous investors.
On January 6 this year, the studio announced that it had raised $2.1 million for the game. The participating parties included many capitals and investors in the industry: institutions include Neo Global Capital (NGC), Bitscale Capital, Genesis Block, Kyros Ventures, Coin99 Ventures , Augment Ventures, Btx Capital, X21 Digital, and Asymm Ventures, etc. Individual investors include ARPA and Bella Protocol co-founder Felix Xu, Ankr Network co-founder Ryan Fang and other well-known people in the circle.
Third, talk about the NFT part.
Similar to most chain games, the NFT in My Neighbor Alice is mainly used to represent limited edition items. As mentioned above, the props in My Neighbor Alice include a fixed amount of land, limited edition houses, animals, vegetables, decorations or character accessories, etc.
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Cute Cow NFT
For a market to grow, it must have good liquidity. A trading market is set up in My Neighbor Alice for users to trade items. In addition, thanks to the good compatibility of BSC, My Neighbor Alice will also list these items on other blockchains, including Chromia, Ethereum, etc.
In addition to direct transactions, My Neighbor Alice also set up NFT and created repurchase and leasing methods to enrich the playability of the game.
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at last,My Neighbor Alice also gives currency holders great governance rights.According to the official introduction, the matters that token holders can vote on include: island sales, in-game asset sales, and the use of income from traditional game distribution channels, as well as project development schedules and token repurchase plans, etc.
Although these designs may not be unfamiliar to many crypto users, think about it as a game for traditional users at the same time; moreover, compared with similar games, such as Decentraland, not only because of the performance problems of the underlying chain, serious lag, The cost is high, and it has not achieved a high level of user popularity in the circle in the past 3 years since its launch. Once again, it proves that it is not easy to get such a complex product on the chain. However, other games, such as card and development games, are too simple, making it difficult for players to experience immersive happiness and get out of the circle.
In contrast, My Neighbor Alice not only greatly improves the game experience, but also the DeFi gameplay is cleverly set up, not too complicated, and has a certain degree of playability.
This is inseparable from My Neighbor Alice's ability to build a professional game studio.
According to public information, the developer of My Neighbor Alice is Antler Interactive, an immersive game company based in Sweden. It has rich experience in game development and has released a number of classic adventure games. Among them, the sales of the KRYSTOPIA: NOVA´S JOURNEY series have exceeded 500,000 copies.
Speaking of the origin of the blockchain, My Neighbor Alice is Antler Interactive's second work in the blockchain world.
It is understood that My Neighbor Alice has developed the blockchain AR racing game Krystal Kart, and has reached a cooperation with CryptoKitties, so that every player who owns an encrypted cat can customize his own racing car according to the pattern and characteristics of the cat.
Just like its name, Antler Interactive is a company that likes to interact and try innovative technologies to improve the game experience. It fits well with the concept of blockchain subverting the traditional centralized world.
The company is relatively good at applications in the field of augmented reality (AR). According to reports, their latest mobile game is often selected in the Google Play Store editor's "Best AR Picks" and recommended by Apple as "Game of the Day".
Currently, Antler Interactive has about 1 million gamers.
In terms of team background, according to the official introduction, Anna, the CEO of the studio, received a bachelor's degree in business and economics from the KTH Stockholm School of Economics and Computer Science. She has been in charge of the team for 5 years and has added 7 members.
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03 When the reshuffle of NFT games is in progress, who will be the next hit?
Fun and ease of use can be the advantages of individual projects, but the ultimate success or failure still depends on timing.
If it is said that CryptoKitties, which paralyzed Ethereum once it went online, brought us the enlightenment of GameFi, then, by 2021, NFT+ will have a second spring, from exclusive NFT public chains to large and small trading markets and creation platforms , and the joint works of various well-known IPs, the NFT industry has been initially perfected.
In this generation, with the help of technology iteration, DeFi was born from scratch, and the encrypted financial gameplay, users and assets are moving to a higher level. The pursuit of upgraded gameplay and better experience is already a rigid demand for new chain games . Especially for games, the poor experience brought about by the limitations of the underlying platform is likely to keep a large number of players out of the door. Just like after we tried 5G, no one should choose to go backwards and use 3G.
Looking back in August last year, when NFT was emerging as a potential outlet, only CryptoKitties ($37 million) and Decentraland ($24 million) were the only games with a total turnover of NFT reaching tens of millions of dollars, both of which were games of the previous generation. After half a year, the NFT transaction list has been changing with each passing day. In addition to CryptoKitties, Decentraland and the sandbox game The Sandbox have been left far behind.
And like My Neighbor Alice, through the creation of a professional game production team + the selection of a new underlying public chain, providing an experience comparable to centralized games, products that are loved by both inside and outside the encryption circle may stand out.
It can be seen from the roadmap that after the official release of My Neighbor Alice in the middle of the year, it will immediately access the DeFi plug-in, and then open community committee governance, NFT auction, adding game characters and other functions and gameplay.
My Neighbor Alice also mentioned on the official blog that before the official launch, the game functions of the platform are still under accelerated development. In order to encourage participants to hold or participate in such an early stage, My Neighbor Alice will give generous award.
Therefore, friends who like airdrops and low-cost acquisition of potential project assets may give it a try.
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References:
《NFT auction closed: All 255 animals have found a new home》，My Neighbor Alice
《My Neighbor Alice: The blockchain version of Animal Crossing is coming》，Chainslation
