For Gitcoin Grants contributors and fully decentralized on-chain gamers, there're two projects around Dark Forest developed by members of @marrowdao that are worth adding to your cart and contributing:
1/ A chain layer alliance system including select guilds, discover tasks, utilize gaming tools, group chat, and bulletin board.
The alliance can boost funny based on players' performance and engagement.
The grant will go into the Treasury directly. gitcoin.co/grants/4287/zk…
2/ An NFT marketplace for Dark Forest allows players to trade artifacts within or outside of the game.
The dev will use the grant to reduce the trading fees and coordinate with other @darkforest_eth lobbies. The cost has been reduced from 10% to 5% now. gitcoin.co/grants/4280/da…
3/ A list of projects related to Dark Forest compiled by @TheVelorum :
A perfect piece to read on Saturday afternoon by @xlSalvatore.
It makes me realize once again that @SkyweaverGame has far more experience and better understanding of game design and crypto maybe than any other team in the space today.
1/ To design for total engagement.
User engagement is the only method to generate value. Today, we can incentivize players to adopt and participate through sharing the economy, which is the best and unprecedented way to increase engagement.
2/ A web3 virtual economy empowers players. Collaborate with players, instead of extracting from them. Teams should be transparent and optimize UX continuously. The confidence among players is built by a safe and trusted system with good trading & playing experience.
I'm more than excited to find that the fictional worldview of game orchestrates Defi Legos in the space like @DefiKingdoms and @Treasure_DAO. Narrative cannot be ignored
Some thoughts on @CthulhuCA22 and why on-chain LARPG is worthy attention🧵
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1/ Live action role-playing/Murder mystery game is generally a party game, with multiple players playing different roles.
It may start with a murder, requiring everyone to work together to find the killer and avoid danger.
2/ Dynamic & Multifactorial
Unlike @wolfdotgame and @wndgame emphasizing the game between 2 parties, it's more like an interactive film/novel that has 10 ppl participating, and all of them have their own interests & purposes, infecting the course of events.
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.