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Browsing through @ leofinance today, I saw this post@ ga38jem and was immediately impressed by a game that they highlighted in their post called Illuvium.
This game appears to be a Pokemon style game for the NFT and Play2Earn world. The information that I have on it is a combination from some research on their site/whitepaper and the work that @ ga38jem did on their deep dive post for the game (excellent stuff, thanks for making that).
I absolutely loved Pokemon as a kid and would play it over and over again. I pretty much played all of them from the originals on the Gameboy all the way up to the Diamond/Pearl/Platinum series (I played after that, I just don't have such strong memories of them). The concept of collecting a team and then leveling them up to battle against other trainers... for money... is now the exact structure of many Play2Earn games.
It seems like Illuvium basically said "we love Pokemon, so let's do something like it, but for money". The game design looks awesome though and it looks like it is going all out to be the next iteration of a popular game structure.
they discuss their scaling solution as they are built on Ethereum. They decided to use a protocol known as Immutable X, which from what I can understand is an Ethereum sidechain that allows you to keep assets stored on the Ethereum mainnet (something Polygon does not do as you have to bridge your assets). If successful, this would create a market economy that is comparable to SPLINTERLANDS (though of course I am partial to Splinterlands still as it is on Hive).
Another aspect of the game is that it will allow players to bet ETH against one another in battles or wager on battles that other people are fighting, though this hasn't been fully clarified yet as far as I can tell. They will also have aspects of staking and DeFi for passive income and access to in-game rewards.
I am excited about this game and have applied to test it's beta, though it seems to be a very selective process; who knows what will happen there.
I think that the concept of the game is one that has proven to be very strong and gives this game a ton of potential. I am upset that it is on the ETH network, but if this scaling solution is successful, it would bring a lot of positives to the game, let's see if they can do it.
I'll be battling on Illuvium at some point, I hope to see some of you over there. It's honestly one of the coolest games I've ever seen in Play2Earn.
Check out their trailer it is pretty sick:
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