Thread by @SuiNetwork

Today, we’re launching #Sui Capys – a fun new prototype that serves as a dev preview (not an airdrop!) and demonstrates key capabilities of Sui.

Capys leverage Sui’s object-oriented nature to allow portable accessories that players can trade and buy.

Let’s dive in🧵 [1/8]

In this dApp, players can buy, trade, breed, & accessorize cartoon Capybaras. As programmable objects on Sui, Capys showcase principles such as:

🔹asset ownership
🔹transferability
🔹dynamic fields

They appear in a user’s explorer along with accessories.

Developing Sui Capys using Sui #Move required defining basic modules, creating types, and building a registry to record and verify them.

A unique feature of this project is the ability to breed two Capys, creating a completely new Capy based on the breeding pair's characteristics.

The breed function takes two parent Capys and computes genes for the “newborn.”

These principles helped determine the architecture + implementation:
🔹Capys should be freely transferable + extendable by anyone
🔹Types should contain a minimum amount of data to maintain performance
🔹Events can be used to emit static data to be fetched by the indexer

This is especially relevant to the devs looking to build games and apps on Sui – begin your own project development by defining core concepts such as those above, which will help guide the development process.

Disclaimers:
🔹The dApp is currently an Alpha and runs on Devnet, which doesn't have the maturity/stability of a Mainnet
🔹There's a Sui Wallet bug on transaction history (fix will be shipping next week)
🔹This is not an airdrop. Please faucet responsibly – don't spam the faucet

8/ We share more detail, including a more intricate overview of the code behind Capys, in our blog post: sui.io/resources-sui/…

And head to Capy.art to have fun with Capys!