From AI Meme to AI Agent and AI technology framework, the narrative of AI in the Crypto world has been rapidly evolving. Now, people are starting to focus on the next evolution point of the AI narrative, paying more attention to specific application narratives, such as DeFAI or AI + gaming. So, what AI gaming projects are worth our attention?

Parallel Colony

Parallel is a TCG (Collectible Card Game) based on the Base chain, belonging to the Echelon Prime Foundation. In 2021, Parallel completed a $50 million financing led by Paradigm, with other investors including YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley, Focus Labs, OSS Capital, and Yunt Capital.

Parallel is already available for players to play. In addition to Parallel, the Echelon Prime Foundation is also developing a survival game called Parallel Colony that integrates ERC-6551 technology and allows players to collaborate with AI. Players can assign tasks to AI Agents, and the AI Agents will complete the tasks on their own, communicate with other AI Agents, and also communicate with players to give their own game ideas. The AI Agents will also conduct transactions independently in Parallel Colony.

This game will be open for testing in the first quarter of this year. In addition to Parallel Colony, Parallel has also developed an AI-driven, fully automated trading tool @AIWayfinder, which has a strong All In AI approach.

Smol Worlds

Smol Worlds, the core PFP project of the Smol Worlds Treasure DAO ecosystem, is developing an AI game, and the person in charge is Shaw, who is now a well-known figure in the AI Crypto track and was an early developer in the Treasure DAO ecosystem.

In Smol World, each Smol Brains will be able to act as an AI Agent to play on-chain games, stealing each other's assets for PvP, and the game will be integrated with the Eliza framework.

Eternum

This is an on-chain sandbox strategy game in the Loot(Realms) ecosystem, on the StarkNet network.

Its founder @lordOfAFew proposed a system called Daydream, which allows AI Agents to play games on-chain. The special thing about Daydream is that it does not pre-code the AI to work like a robot, but rather gives the AI self-awareness.

In simple terms, first, the AI is not told by humans in the form of code "the game is like this, you should do this and that", but rather it understands the game mechanics on its own and takes corresponding actions, and even writes corresponding code. Secondly, if the game mechanics are updated, the AI Agent does not need to be restarted, but can propose a PR to the human to complete the enhancement of its own capabilities.

In the future Season 1 game, Eternum will inject hundreds of AI Agents into the game through Daydream, as PVE or NPC characters in the game, coexisting with players in a competitive game environment.

AI Arena

This is an AI game project that we introduced in 2022 (related reading: AI Arena, an NFT AI arena invested by Paradigm)

In AI Arena, NFT game characters will engage in a "Super Smash Bros." style platform fighting game, where the first to knock the other off the map wins. The biggest difference from "Super Smash Bros." is that during the battle, players cannot control their NFT game characters, and all actions are driven by AI.

This game project has now been shaped into a larger brand called ARC Agents, aiming to enhance AI's reasoning and adaptability to the real world through the study of game AI Agents. ARC Agents announced a strategic partnership with Eliza Labs on January 7.

Super Champs

The above are projects that directly introduce AI technology into games, but there are also some Chain Games that have not directly introduced AI into the game, but rather than saying they are "riding the trend", I would prefer to say they are taking a positive action to actively approach the market hotspot, because the quality of the game itself is still quite good.

Super Champs is such a Chain Game, backed by Joyride Games, which announced a $14 million financing from investors including Coinbase Ventures, Animoca Brands, and Dapper Labs more than two years ago.

They have created an AI that can self-broadcast game commentary and interact with bullet screens, but so far it can only comment on their own games. In the future, they will train the AI to comment on other games, and those who want to hire their AI commentary IP will have to use their tokens, which is a self-consistent narrative...

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