Original author: Jason, Playcraft Cofounder
introduction
MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) is a popular game genre with hundreds of millions of players and a huge market. However, traditional MOBA games face many limitations and challenges. In order to break these barriers, a team with 20 years of game development experience founded Playcraft. A GameFi platform dedicated to upgrading MOBA games to Web3. Mobaverse is a self-developed MOBA full-chain game based on zkWasm developed by Playcraft, and has completed US$2 million in financing led by Animoca and Shima Capital. It allows anyone to create, play and share their own On-ChainMOBA games through the UGC engine. At present, Mobaverse has attracted the attention and support of many investors, partners and players, and has opened a new chapter in full-chain gaming. This article will introduce the background, experience and beginning of Mobaverse, and how it uses zkWasm, a cutting-edge technology, to realize the MOBA On-Chain Game vision.
Mobaverse Partial game scene
background
Recently, I read two articles. One by PutinExploring the future of Ethereum’s expansion, zkEVM and zkWasm begin to build on the past and forge ahead.”, an article by Blade ResearchA new chapter in full-chain games: using ZKWASM to develop provable games”, both research articles profoundly highlighted the concerns of upgrading traditional games to Web3 On-ChainGame, which is why we finally chose zkWasm to build our MOBA On-Chain Games World.
experience
The Playcraft team was born in the Web2 game development studio. From 2006 to the present, it has nearly 20 years of experience in game development and editor development. It released the worlds first mobile MOBA and the first mobile MOBA to create more than one million DAU (3 million+), with a total of more than 100 million downloads. Currently, the MOBA teams that can host millions of DAUs online at the same time are our Playcraft team, Tencent (Honor of Kings) and Toutiao (MLBB).
In 2020, we began to pay attention to Web3 games. The team believes that GameFi must be the future of gaming. Although in a certain sense, traditional F2P games have proven that rare props and equipment can make money, but its economic system and its own technology do not support the development in this area. The emergence of GameFi has brought the freedom of this concept to a new level. We think this is a very meaningful thing. Therefore, the team has devoted itself wholeheartedly to the Web3 industry and rejected offers from Tencent and Byte. , using the accumulated gaming experience to create a new generation of On-Chain MOBA World.
At the end of 2022, the prototype and idea of Playcraft were basically formed. We excitedly shared these results with investment partners such as Animoca Brands and Shima Capital, and quickly gained their recognition. In less than a month, the team completed the seed round of financing.
Since then, we have started our Mobaverse journey!
Set off
Mobaverse Tokencomics
Mobaverse,It is a MOBA On-Chain world. Like Minecraft and Roblox, you can create, play and share. The core of the game is based on the UGC engine, combined with the latest AI technology, making AI NPC intelligence and AI intelligent map construction extremely difficult. Low, this also allows anyone to create MOBA games based on UGC and make their own On-Chain Games.
Mobaverse Partial game scene
On this basis, we have also developed our Genesis game (Genesis 5 V 5) and invited YGG to experience the game. Mobaverse only plans to open a set of servers and invite 3,000 people for testing. However, what is unexpected is that the number of downloads of our game on Google Play has reached more than 10,000, which can be said to be highly recognized.
Subsequently, the project opened invitations for cooperation from a large number of blue-chip NFTs. Similarly, everyone wants to use their blue-chip NFT as the game’s creation hero character, skin effects, etc. Such a move also has a positive meaning. First, the community can prepare for the release of its own MOBA Games in the future. Second, this may also be a way to prepare the NFT-Fi journey for various types of NFT communities in advance!
Bored Ape game heroes
In order to take into account the combination of game playability and On-Chain, we reached a technical solution for zkWasm rollup with Zkcross and Delphinus, perfectly creating the first MOBA On-Chain Game based on xkWasm, and enabling the project to have the following characteristics:
1. Portability,zkWasm’s games can be used both as a browser and on mobile phones;
2. Support multiplayer games. zkc’s state service allows the game to support multiplayer games;
3. Modular design, configurable settlement, and DA facilitate games and reduce user costs;
4. The use of Wasm, following the development model of Web2, greatly reduces our development and migration costs;
The project is expected to open the public beta of the Genesis game in the Q1 quarter and issue Royalty NFT with permanent rights to Mobaverse. Welcome everyone to enter the Era of Onchain MOBA Games World!
