Blockchain-based technology, as revealed by cryptocurrencies and other forms of digital assets like non-fungible tokens (NFT), is starting to make its presence felt in many industries. While it looks a little different on the surface from other types of digital money, crypto and NFTs have centered around features that can be used in digital transactions, especially with ownership management.
NFTs, in their own right, have attracted a lot of interest over the past two years because of the way they allow the secure and genuine transfer of physical goods over the blockchain. Stripped, NFT is simply a token that represents a unique asset.
In the case of art and collectibles, this has proven to be a very useful feature that allows people to create NFTs that represent unique and rare works of art and culture. If you own an NFT, you own the creative rights to the artwork – it can be verified by anyone by cross-checking the NFT data on the public ledger.
But NFTs in this form have barely scratched the surface of what is possible, especially when dealing with industries where non-fungibility and fungibility are important factors.
Beyond Static NFT Use in Gaming
Game developer DRepublic, the team behind the upcoming MMORPG Cradles: Origin of Speciesthere are those who believe that blockchain technology can provide solutions that can create innovative innovations in the gaming industry.
While some gaming companies have ventured into crypto and NFTs, so far they have been very successful. High-profile NFT efforts have even resulted in major backlash from the gaming community. Ire pulled by NFT experiments like Ubisoft can be traced back to the simplistic implementation of NFTs in games, either as an alternative currency or as a way to generate more money for companies by producing even more “unique” items like skins. In other words, NFTs in games so far have only been a “loot box” mentality that is blamed by many players as game developers.
The developer of Cradles sought to go beyond the static NFT features that made it popular among speculators, by perfecting a new type of NFT token based on what it called EIP-3664 protocol (technically, it’s just the name of a proposal for a new set of rules in the blockchain), which expands the existing NFT standards, ERC721 and ERC1155.
The new NFT EIP3664 will allow all game elements to contain more information than a regular NFT, giving you many more attributes that lead to a variety of ways games can interact with those elements. In game-speak, this simply means that the entire game world is made up of components that can be combined or separated from one another.
The elements of the game that can be combined and the virtual world that have been around for a long time
The component NFT can be described like this. If characters, items, and even plants and animals are all made of NFT components, it will be possible for players to fully create and participate in the world-building of the virtual universe. For example, you will harvest raw materials from nature and combine them to create tools and weapons that contain all the different attributes of the components. Then, attach tools, weapons, clothes and even skills to the character and the new character has all the different attributes of all the combined components. Additionally, you can break down elements into all of their separate components to create an almost limitless combination of new items and characters.
As a result, the EIP-3664 protocol is set to make this digital asset more customizable for Cradles players to move and change articles in the game in an unlimited way by harvesting raw materials obtained by exploring and adventuring.
Importantly, the NFTs in Cradles will also have attributes that can be hard -coded into each component, so that all elements of the game can simulate the laws of time and physics – something that can’t be done correctly.
DRepublic calls this effect “entropy-enhancing”. Using block time as a stable basis for lasting lapsing time, each element of the game evolves gradually. Rust items, character ages, and buildings slowly deteriorate as block time passes, requiring active player intervention to incentivize cooperation between players.
Players will be able to see NFTs (as characters and even items) evolve over time. Instead of the static standards of today, Cradles will create a world that moves with its own changes, decays, and progress.
A game that emphasizes on new experiences
The essence of Cradles is an open world MMORPG with metaverse elements but with the goal of developing a conventional RPG experience.
Cradles players will experience a virtual reality game compatible with deep immersion hardware that will allow them to play and interact with other players in any species they choose. The game will give players ultimate freedom, exploration capacity, and community building.
Players will be able to explore various areas in the game, the Main City and the Adventure Zone. In the past, players would be able to explore and interact with other players, while in the latter, players would have to defend themselves from possible enemies and collect supplies from their surroundings.
The whole virtual world is also associated with the main plot, where characters are sent away from a predetermined future, looking for answers to avoid the fate of extinction. In this way, exploration, research and discovery are the only ways to develop this world because Cradles hopes to be a game that encourages and motivates new gaming experiences, to try and go beyond the repetitive grinding spirals that are common in online RPGs tend to stop. up with.
Blockchain will talk about the Future Of Gaming
Although it has raised significant funds for its development, the team behind the project wants to lay the foundation for an open and decentralized community that will eventually produce independent games.
A thriving community is considered not only as a gamer but as a game creator. Even now, game developers continue to strive to improve the overall gaming experience by implementing new features, fixing bugs, and testing new functionality – following the guidance and feedback of the online community.
Cradles players can create their current position and benefit from a sector that will continue to grow over time by attracting new users to the ecosystem. Today, according to data from Dapps Radar, the top 10 Blockchain games command more than $ 700 million in assets with nearly 1 million active players.
Clearly, there is interest and potential in other forms of decentralized gaming that rely on community -based efforts to thrive, especially when the relationship between gamers and traditional game developers in recent years has been fraught with disappointment and frustration.
Tomorrow’s game may not be all about being able to earn cryptocurrencies and buy NFTs in the game. But if blockchain technology provides the next true innovation, enabling and unlocking new aspects of gameplay that traditional games lack, it could be the gateway to the future of gaming.
