We believe that by giving the players real value that the entire ecosystem will grow immensely. “Right now the short-sighted greed of the platforms and corporate entities is restraining the opportunities in the industry. “We strongly believe that we will help transfer immense wealth - that would otherwise end up on the bank accounts of Apple, Google and Facebook - to real people,” he said. He hopes to use the game as a springboard to having the largest wallet for cryptocurrency, the largest marketplace for game goods, and the most-used blockchain. Schiermeyer went with a web-based (using WebGL) platform and simple farming game in a bid to make a mass-market game. “Pretty soon, nobody will play a game that is a black hole of time and money, if they have good alternatives that allow the player to retain ownership of their time and money.” “Just like networked games and social games I believe that blockchain games are the next evolution in gaming,” Schiermeyer said. And lower-level players will be able to build consumables that they can sell to higher-level players. And the developers will be adding upgradable hero characters that will be on the blockchain, available for purchase. Each week, there’s a contest among players over who makes the most progress, with the winner getting rare in-game items. You can use the currency in the game to buy buildings.
You can be the most productive player if you build more buildings. Eventually, you’ll be running a prosperous town.
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You raise crops, harvest them, mix them with other ingredients, sell them, and use the profits to upgrade your farm and buildings. It’s basically gameplay that is similar to FarmVille, which has been criticized for not having enough gameplay by hardcore gamers. Players can sell the items for real money. And the items in the game have their own scarcity, based on their identifiable uniqueness (based on non-fungible tokens).
Players can transact with each other directly via a marketplace without concern about fraud, a huge concern in the existing secondary markets. With Townstar, players can own the items they buy or create. Image Credit: Blockchain Game Partners/Sandbox Games “We want to be first with a real mass-market game that is a game first and blockchain a distant second.” Gameplay focus “That’s why we’re working with a creative visionary like Mike McCarthy,” Schiermeyer said. Schiermeyer thinks that Immutable’s Gods Unchained is a high-quality game that also uses blockchain, while many others are simply ways to dress up blockchain tech and wind up being to technically demanding for users.
“We really beefed up our game development.” “It reminds me of the early days of Facebook, where most of the ‘games’ on the network, were actually just social sharing applications,” he said. They’re more like vehicles for cryptocurrency sales or gambling, rather than fun forms of entertainment. Most blockchain games have been criticized for failing to capture the imagination of gamers.
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In the game, you farm a plot of land and try to grow your farm into a full town. I got to see the game in action, and it illustrates how blockchain games can work. McCarthy’s first game at Sandbox Games is Townstar, which is in private beta. Schiermeyer teamed up with Mike McCarthy, who was previously the creative director on FarmVille 2, one of Zynga’s popular games. I think that once people realize that you don’t have to accept that situation, and you can actually own your own items, then people aren’t going to play those other games anymore.” You can’t do that in traditional free-to-play games right now. “Unlike any other experience I’ve ever seen, when you spend money here, you actually get something, something that you can keep, and maybe even give away or give some to somebody else. “It’s going to be a revolutionary experience for people,” Schiermeyer said. The team has been working on this for about 18 months. Like other blockchain game startups, Schiermeyer believes blockchain can be used to enable digital ownership of assets in games, so players can own the things they buy or create, even if the game eventually shuts down.
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