Author: Cookie, BlockBeats

From AI Meme to AI Agent, and then to AI technology framework, the narrative of AI in the Crypto world has been developing rapidly. 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 + games. So, what AI game 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 created an AI-driven, fully automated trading tool called @AIWayfinder, which has a strong All In AI approach.

Smol Worlds

Smol Worlds, a core PFP project of the Smol Worlds Treasure DAO ecosystem, is developing an AI game, led by Shaw, who is now a well-known figure in the AI Crypto track and was originally a 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 uniqueness of Daydream is that it does not pre-code the AI to work like a robot, but rather gives the AI autonomous consciousness.

In simple terms, first, the AI does not have the game mechanism "told" to them in the form of code by humans, but rather they understand the game mechanism on their own and take corresponding actions, even writing corresponding code. Secondly, if the game mechanism is updated, the AI Agents do not need to be restarted, but can complete the enhancement of their own capabilities by proposing merge PRs to humans.

In the future Season 1 game, Eternum will inject hundreds of AI Agents into the game through Daydream, as PVE or NPC characters, 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, Paradigm-led NFT AI arena).

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 research on 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. 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 prefer to say they are taking a positive action to actively approach the market hotspot, because the quality of the games themselves is still quite good.

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

They created an AI that can live stream and interact with bullet screens for their own games. In the future, they will train the AI to commentate on other games, and those who want to hire their AI commentator IP will have to use their tokens, which is a self-consistent narrative...