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Cradles: Origin of Species is a new virtual reality game powered by blockchain that you can equip with your VR device to immerse yourself, pretend to be any species you like, and explore the virtual world from your soul. In case you’re new to Cradles, start with this introductory post, to learn more about the game.
Blockchain as the “next generation computing platform” has given us some revolutionary changes which are bound to change the future course of action of various business niches including gaming.
Blockchain gaming vs traditional gaming
Gamers generally spend an enormous amount of time playing different games. If you’re trying to acquire a legendary sword or a shield in a MMORPG, that can take long hours of playing. These in-game rewards have real value, and losing them is a big deal, so a lot of video game players can relate to this. You work hard for those in-game rewards, only to discover that at any time, those items can be taken away from you, or their value could be destroyed by some centralized power who controls all of the items.
In traditional gaming today, gamers are forced to operate large values of digital assets without a flexible and safeguarded infrastructure. Traditional gaming companies and developers who restrict trading and sales of in-game assets on secondary markets make it difficult for players to get real benefits out of their valuable gaming time. That means gaming communities resort to ‘grey markets’ to sell their items, which makes them vulnerable to fraudulent behaviour and could result in a lot of banned accounts if they are caught by game developers.
Truly decentralized games are permissionless. Players cannot be banned.
The problem can be partially solved by using blockchain technology to store assets on the blockchain that represent in-game assets. In blockchain gaming, we have the ability to trade digital assets like NFTs between games, and also between gamers directly. These two functionalities offer completely new open marketplaces and ecosystems for gamers and game developers as well. Also, it allows for trustless secondary market trading, with benefits like liquidity, transparency, ownership, provable scarcity and interoperability.
As much as players think their traditional in-game items being “theirs”, these items actually belong to the game publishers.
Think about it. If a game runs on a centralized server, then the server can be shut down anytime for various reasons and the game wouldn’t exist any longer, potentially losing all assets but certainly making them less valuable. Maybe you could try to save those items somehow and use them in other games, but how will you determine the value and define the power of those items in another game?
Now imagine a gaming universe that allows a lot more opportunity for gamers to participate in the creation of the gaming world itself. The play-to-earn concept is set to take over the gaming industry as more and more gamers figure out that they can earn, own, and trade in-game assets without restrictions.
Cradles: Origin of Species
What can you do in our game?
A fully decentralized MMORPG like Cradles provides a virtual open world, which is composed of the Main City and an Adventure Zone. In the Main City, you won’t be attacked by any wild creatures, while in the Adventure Zone, you will be able to explore in the wild, discover different treasures, hunt monsters, fight players and obtain supplies by exchanging with NPCs.
Cradles is the first entropy-increasing blockchain game that lets you use your VR device for an immersive experience, pretend to be any species you like, and explore the virtual world from your soul.
Technological progress is the most important factor driving the momentum of gameplay and perception. In recent years, game engines have been continuously updated and iterated. Excellent engines such as UE5 create lifelike game scenes equal to movie effects. Advancements in rendering technology offer lifelike characters. Advancements in reinforcement learning provide game characters with intelligence and decision-making ability that can surpass human players, while also controlling large-scale units. This exciting technology can not only make AI more antagonistic to players, it also provides unpredictable gameplay, increasing the fun of the game.
The combination of gamers and blockchain naturally leads to the question:
Can we create an entirely decentralized game?
YES! Our data will be stored on a decentralized network. At the moment we are not a giant game company but our target is to create what we think the metaverse should be. Our gamers will not only be entertained in the Cradles world, they will also survive and protect it. No game has attempted a real irreversible time system but Cradles introduces this concept in blockchain gaming, giving players a 1:1 restoration of the real world experience. We are fully community driven where you can experience a new prehistoric metaverse, which we haven’t seen before and a game design that goes beyond science fiction.
There will be various in-game styles, faster content updates, more game patterns, rich social content platform and sharing place, integration of various styles of IPs to make money while having fun in the game. There will be an NFT exchange in the game, where you can trade any items you get! Players who acquire or build epic NFTs for the first time can get NFT resin kits in the real world.
But let’s not forget gaming, first and foremost, is about fun experiences and awesome gameplay, now with a new economics introduced via blockchain. Not one of the blockchain games that exist today are built like Cradles.
There is an important shift in the gaming industry today, from a centrally-controlled game and economy by a company to a free market economy on blockchain. While this can be technically more complex, the management of that complexity can be made more intuitive, and will prove to be a better system for games than full central control. Ultimately, it will give back the power to the real users of the platform and the ecosystem, the community.
It’s really early in the blockchain gaming evolution. In fact, blockchain games that exist today were not built by game developers, as evidenced by the quality of existing games.
The change in developer mental models
When it comes to game development philosophy, the existing mental model emphasizes centralization, from infrastructure to actual game development. Prior to millions of game developers joining the space, this mental model has to be adjusted.
The new model favors gamers in that there is provable ownership of digital assets.
Change in the economics of game market
The important shift will be the transition from a centrally-controlled economy to a free market economy. A centrally-controlled economy has to worry about managing all of the variables of the economy, whereas a free market one leaves the complexity to open markets. While a free market might technically be more “complex”, the management of that complexity can be handled by free actors in the system and is guided by the invisible hand. This may prove to be a better system for games than full central control.
As a blockchain game developer, you’re thinking of items not only available in your game, but also of the value of your item once it starts trading outside of your game.
Gamers need pre-existing knowledge of “what blockchain is” and “what cryptocurrency is”. People who love to game always seek out new ways to make their gaming experience even more realistic.
Of course, gamers are the lifeblood of any gaming platform.
No matter how many benefits there are for developers, there’s little incentive for them to use a platform if it doesn’t have a thriving user base. As a result, the benefits don’t just apply to developers — there are many benefits for users, too.
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