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Nine Chronicles is an open source decentralized RPG game.

In this episode of @zima_red, @AndrewSteinwold speaks with @kijunseo, the Co-Founder of @planetariumhq, the company behind @NineChronicles

Learn more about their company and game here 👇

@zima_red @AndrewSteinwold @kijunseo @planetariumhq @NineChronicles Background

🎮 Co-Founder of @planetariumhq
🎮 Studied computer science at Caltech. Started off as an engineer
🎮 Went back to Korea to serve in the military 🪖
🎮 Instead of going to the military, he spent his next 2 years working for several internet companies

@zima_red @AndrewSteinwold @kijunseo @planetariumhq @NineChronicles 🎮 Moved on to work at Dropbox as an engineer
🎮 Left to work on indie games
🎮 Collaborated with artists then realized that they could embark on decentralized gaming 🎨
🎮 Started Planetarium in 2018

@zima_red @AndrewSteinwold @kijunseo @planetariumhq @NineChronicles Interest in gaming

🎮 Growing up in Korea made him witness Starcraft, Diablo, Dota, and PC cafes
🎮 Reconnected with his passion in gaming when he looked at programming in a creative way

"So gaming, and even like, modern gaming is very familiar to us from very early age."

@zima_red @AndrewSteinwold @kijunseo @planetariumhq @NineChronicles Before Starting Planetarium

🎮 Trying to become a contemporary artist. Was really deep into art 🎨
🎮 After going through a lot of prototypes, they became less like games
🎮 Started collaborating with performance artists in Korea, providing media creations that they need

@zima_red @AndrewSteinwold @kijunseo @planetariumhq @NineChronicles Learning about crypto/NFTs

🎮 Had friends working at Ethereum Foundation
🎮 After starting his company, JC, his co-founder, suggested that they build open source online games
🎮 Started studying the Ethereum whitepaper and the ethos behind decentralization

@zima_red @AndrewSteinwold @kijunseo @planetariumhq @NineChronicles Meeting His Co-Founder JC

🎮 Met him around 2009/2010
🎮 Lived together and previously worked on a company together
🎮 After work each day, they would get together and work on their side hustles
🎮 Reconnected with JC when he came back from the US

@zima_red @AndrewSteinwold @kijunseo @planetariumhq @NineChronicles Planetarium

🎮 Their strength is in engineering
🎮 Built the base technology called Libplanet. Like a Cosmos SDK, but for games so that each game can have its own protocol
🎮 Wanted to show what experiences people could built using Libplanet. Hence, they started Nine Chronicles

@zima_red @AndrewSteinwold @kijunseo @planetariumhq @NineChronicles Libplanet

🎮 Blockchain core library that can be used to build your own blockchain
🎮 Used C#, which is the language of choice for @unitygames developers. Unity has over 60% market share in game development
🎮 No barriers to entry using Libplanet. It is open source and free

@zima_red @AndrewSteinwold @kijunseo @planetariumhq @NineChronicles @unitygames Why build a closed source game?

🎮 Closed source games ensure that the companies are rewarded for creating the content
🎮 For them, they want to innovate. Realized that MMORPGs are walled gardens, the relationship between the game and the player is just one-directional

@zima_red @AndrewSteinwold @kijunseo @planetariumhq @NineChronicles @unitygames Nine Chronicles

🎮 Open source decentralized RPG
🎮 Game is currently an idle RPG where players farm for ingredients
🎮 Those ingredients can be used in complex crafting decisions to forge NFTs
🎮 Game was launched on Mainnet on October 2020

@zima_red @AndrewSteinwold @kijunseo @planetariumhq @NineChronicles @unitygames Gameplay

🎮 Combat is inspired by autobattlers
🎮 Players equip their characters before battles
🎮 Forging an item takes time and resources ranging from minutes to days
🎮 Players have limited energy on a given day, so they have to weigh the decisions that they want to do

@zima_red @AndrewSteinwold @kijunseo @planetariumhq @NineChronicles @unitygames Play to earn elements

🎮 Implemented, but they are still working on it
🎮 A top-tier player is constantly able to create really good gear if they put in the time and resources 🥇
🎮 Currently have a strong gameplay loop, but is also observing what other games are doing 👀

@zima_red @AndrewSteinwold @kijunseo @planetariumhq @NineChronicles @unitygames Who is hosting the game?

🎮 Players' computers are mining & earning NCG
🎮 Download the application and the app itself can act as a full node
🎮 On an average day, there is 2000-2500 nodes running. Their team only run 4-5 nodes. The project is decentralized

@zima_red @AndrewSteinwold @kijunseo @planetariumhq @NineChronicles @unitygames Scaling the system

🎮 Currently bounded by what can be calculated on a single machine
🎮 Moving towards a Proof of Stake model which has higher transaction throughput
🎮 To scale into something very large, they would want to have different types of nodes in the network

@zima_red @AndrewSteinwold @kijunseo @planetariumhq @NineChronicles @unitygames Does The Open Source, Decentralized Nature Of The Game Impact Gameplay?

🎮 Their approach to bots is different 🤖
🎮 Made their game in such a way that the impact of bots on gameplay is minimal
🎮 Everyone gets limited energy per day. Bots can't issue new tx if energy is used up

@zima_red @AndrewSteinwold @kijunseo @planetariumhq @NineChronicles @unitygames Future developments

🎮 Focus on PvP, DAO, guilds, and collaborative missions and events
🎮 Open to ideas and implementations from the community

@zima_red @AndrewSteinwold @kijunseo @planetariumhq @NineChronicles @unitygames $NCG

🎮 Base token of Nine Chronicles
🎮 Used for governance, staking, and payments between players
🎮 Supply is capped at 1 billion
🎮 Players can earn it by mining, inviting friends, and leveling up together

@zima_red @AndrewSteinwold @kijunseo @planetariumhq @NineChronicles @unitygames Thoughts on Play-to-earn

🎮 Thinks that play-to-earn is awesome
🎮 Aligns incentives and make players actually care about the expansion of the game
🎮 Games should not solely rely on play-to-earn mechanisms because when the earning potential fluctuates, players leave the game

@zima_red @AndrewSteinwold @kijunseo @planetariumhq @NineChronicles @unitygames Thoughts on the Metaverse

🎮 Consists of 2 things:
1️⃣ Self-organization into pocket economies
2️⃣ Interaction between the economies
🎮 More ways to interact with people in the virtual realm than compared to the real world

@zima_red @AndrewSteinwold @kijunseo @planetariumhq @NineChronicles @unitygames Grand 5-10 year vision

🎮 For his personal vision, he wants to enable developers and modders to unleash their creativity in a way that they get paid
🎮 For Planetarium, he wants to drive the culture of open source and decentralization into gaming

@zima_red @AndrewSteinwold @kijunseo @planetariumhq @NineChronicles @unitygames Favourite video game

🎮 Galatea by @emshort. It is a text-based game where you have a conversation with a statue and try to figure out their emotions and understand them
🎮 Love Dota. Not the Dota 2 by Valve, but the evolution of Dota from Warcraft 3

@zima_red @AndrewSteinwold @kijunseo @planetariumhq @NineChronicles @unitygames @emshort If he could improve one thing

🎮 The discovery model for NFTs
🎮 Even established artists have to hype their works
🎮 Wish that the community would accommodate people who are more intrinsically shy or people who want to just focus on building and not having to advertise as much

@zima_red @AndrewSteinwold @kijunseo @planetariumhq @NineChronicles @unitygames @emshort NFT Ecosystem in 3 years

🎮 By 2025, there might be a blockchain game with a $50 billion market cap
🎮 People recognizing the value of virtual communities
🎮 Crossover, education, and understanding between contemporary artists and NFT artists 🎨

@zima_red @AndrewSteinwold @kijunseo @planetariumhq @NineChronicles @unitygames @emshort Links:

Substack post: thereadingape.substack.com/p/zima-red-ep-…

@zima_red @AndrewSteinwold @kijunseo @planetariumhq @NineChronicles @unitygames @emshort Links:

Podcast: anchor.fm/andrew-steinwo…

Thanks to @AndrewSteinwold for this episode!

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