1/ Prototypes that can be potentially built as zero knowledge games:
1⃣Battleship/Sea Battle
2⃣Avalon
3⃣Saboteur
4⃣Mafia
5⃣Betrayal at House on the Hill
6⃣Watson & Holmes
7⃣Dead of Winter
......
2/ Genres:
Incomplete information games
Social deduction games
Board games
3/ Crux:
In-game social activity is not encouraged
-> There wont be a built-in marketplace/trading system
-> Transactions outside of the game
-> Region limit
4/
ZK is one of game mechanisms but not the ultimate.
It simulates the real world but goes to extremes, more like an experiment.
As social activity and in-game transaction are primary concern in web3 game, ZK attempts towards the opposite way, worth trying.
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1/ Don't celebrate too early.
It has already been a trend that a project ➡️a platform➡️a chain.
Is there such a possibility that limited retention and gameplay cannot support the game itself, thus it figures out a larger narrative to draw people's attention back ?
2/ The situation reminds me of how traditional corporates compete for users:
the amount of users is fixed but projects boom, and those projects without core gameplay can only rely on platforms and chains to increase their exposure.
3/ The consequence of over-hyping "metaverse" and "interoperability" is that people get so excited about the jointing between games and platforms that they forget how an exellent game can stand on its own as a solid and integrated economy.
1/(1) quality games like mmo and 4x online are still 18-24 months away since it has taken too long to recruit developers. However, things different in Chinese mainland, a few experienced workers in Tencent, Netease, and Mihoyo turns to blockchain due to the repressive policy.
1/(2) Unfortunately, the first group of these developers marketed and operated their games by following southeast Asian teams instead of bring their superiority into full play, and ultimately brought themselves into discredit.
Few tips for game studios that devote to a gamefi project ⬇️
1/ user-oriented: find your target players asap and customize the project. The developers' expectancy and the market's need varies, so you'd better choose your side and set a criterion at the very beginning.
2/ short-term+hot money: (1) web first: consider about the web design when prepare promotion materials and create a clear consumer guidance. Maybe it's too late to imitate cute animals like Axie but you can still attract users with exquisite concept paintings.
2/(2) make the game simple and addictive: There's no need to be creative on tokenomics, just modify it through learning from successful cases (most on bsc). Take advantages of gambling game. Turn-based games are fine but I personally prefer real-time strategy / casual.