Korean technology company NHN is developing Crypto games and will use the Sui blockchain, NHN's gaming arm announced on Thursday.
NHN has previously developed social casino games such as Hangame Poker and mobile titles such as Crusader's Quest and Guns Up! Mobile warfare strategy. The company said its games have more than 37 million combined users, according to the announcement.
Currently, the company plans to develop digital board games that take advantage of Non-Fungible Token.
While the company is not yet sure how it will add Non-Fungible Token or crypto tokens to upcoming games, Jine Lee, Head of Business Development at NHN, said via email that the company is currently exploring how where gamers can send items to each other as Non-Fungible Token, as well as the ability to receive rewards in crypto Token .
When asked why NHN is developing blockchain games, Lee said crypto-enabled games are a “simulation change.”
“The current gaming industry has gone through several new simulation changes, from the era of copycat sales to PC games, console games and social games, or from feature phone games to mobile games,” Lee said. speak.
“We want to create the best case in blockchain and gaming, by combining the value created by game content and the economics of in-game money with tokenomics,” Lee added.
Lee said that NHN chose Sui for NHN thanks to its upcoming Non-Fungible Token and crypto games because the company wanted to build on a Layer 1 blockchain – and Mysten Labs , the main developer behind Sui, immediately understood the vision. NHN's long-term view on crypto gaming.
“What I'm excited about building with NHN is what we're starting to call 'stickiness' for users,” Mysten Labs CEO and co-founder Evan Cheng said in a statement.
“This is a problem that the entire Web3 code cannot solve, with the number of daily users on popular chain just passing 300k,” Cheng added. “At Mysten Labs, our mission is to bring the benefits of Web3 to the masses, billions of people. Creating products that truly engage our audience is our top priority.”
NHN may partner with several other Korean game companies and use blockchain technology in its games, such as Krafton, Com2us, Wemade, Nexon, Neowiz, NCSoft and OneUniverse.
Compared to Western game studios, Asia as a whole has the potential to account for 80% of all blockchain game players in the future, according to a study by DappRadar and Pacific Meta published this year.
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