Since the recovery of this bull market, games have become more popular in the entire primary and secondary markets. In October alone, the financing amount of the game sector exceeded 100 million U.S. dollars. In the past year, games were also the field with the largest financing amount in the entire Web3, reaching 650 million U.S. dollars. , 3A productions represented by Illuvium and Bigtime have maintained a leading position in the secondary market, and "new 3A" games that integrate AI, AR, AW technology and narrative are also booming.
Historical experience tells us that games have always been the most disruptive track from Web1 to Web2, and in Web3, almost only games can smoothly integrate multiple Crypto elements such as NFT, Token and economic model at the same time. After the last round of "shoddy" mini-games, sophisticated production with more playability and lasting vitality, and full-chain games that are more open and have strong narrative power have become the two major directions for the industry to explore next.
S2 CreatorCamp focuses on supporting creators represented by games, including large game companies such as Tencent and NetEase, as well as explorers of the autonomous world of full-chain games. This article will take stock of some of these projects, and the next hit may be Among them:
1. metay.ai
• Game type: AI generated game platform
• Project name: metay.ai
• Project features and advantages: AI-generated games/American Silicon Valley team/Blizzard producers/investments from first-tier institutions such as DRAPER family, HUOBI, OKX, etc./18.35 million U.S. dollars in financing
• Official website: https://www.metay.ai
• Social media: https://discord.com/invite/cUeNS8UzGW
• Stage: Internal beta in February 24
game introduction:
metay.ai is an AI-generated game platform that self-trains vertical models and text prompts to generate games and videos. One person can use AI to create a movie-level interactive story game. It is currently divided into 2 versions: Discord and web version, supporting ETH/BSC/Scroll multi-chain. The game also provides players with the opportunity to Create to Earn, where players must create new worlds in the game to earn money. Developed by Blockfish, a Silicon Valley Web3 game team, metay.ai can create different styles of games based on user and planning needs and prompt words, from ordinary 2D pixel games to 3A-level game scenes with a full sense of real-life shooting. The graphics, text and video scenes can be easily debugged according to the needs of the creator. Diverse storyboards can be easily debugged to present players with satisfactory light and shadow effects, exquisite details and rich plots, allowing individuals to easily create professional studio-level games.
In the past, game development required the close cooperation of a professional team of programmers, artists, and planners, resulting in high development costs and low development efficiency. Metay.ai generated games can greatly reduce the production costs of games and CG videos, improve development efficiency, and increase one person's production capacity. It is equivalent to the production capacity of a studio, providing a model case for AI-generated games. With the popularity of interactive plot games "Invisible Guardian" and "It's Over, I'm Surrounded by Beauties" plot games in 2023, the reelshort short drama has become popular overseas in North America. The market is booming. In the future, live-action shooting of plot games will be replaced by AI generation. With the emergence of AI multi-modal generation tools such as ChatGPT, Midjourney, Runway, PIKA, and Eleven Labs, metay.ai’s one-stop text generation interactive plot game has become a possible.
The team comes from Silicon Valley, USA. It was founded by Robin in San Francisco in February 2018. The core members come from Blizzard, Tencent, Riot Games, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Roblox, and Machine Zone. The team has 12 years of experience in game development and publishing, and 4 years of Web3 game contract development. experience, metay.ai has received US$18.35 million in investment so far.
2. AssetClub
• Game type: Investment simulation game
• Project features and advantages: Gamified digital asset investment/GameFi+RWA/Traffic entrance to the Web3 world
• Official website: https://www.assetclub.io/
• Game stage: Launched on Google Play and App Store on November 27th, server opening test will be conducted from November 27th to December 24th; it will be launched on the mainnet at the end of December, and Ordinals and BRC20 protocols will be combined to explore the role of the BTC ecosystem in the game application.
game introduction:
AssetClub is a mobile application based on Web3. It includes three major sections: gamification investment simulation, decentralized investor community, and digital asset investment platform. It aims to allow everyone to understand Web3 through gamification. Ultimately, Realize our vision: Accelerate the early arrival of the era of digital assets for all mankind.
Currently, a core pain point faced by the Web3 industry is that the user base is still small and there is a lack of fresh blood, and AssetClub's gamification investment can solve this problem. AssetClub adds various types of Web3 assets such as digital currencies, Defi, and Web3 projects into the game, allowing players to understand and master Crypto's values and logic through gamification, combined with in-game asset issuance and process guidance, and ultimately Enter the Web3 world.
AssetClub not only provides gamified investment simulation, but also strives to build a decentralized global investor community and digital asset investment platform. Through the decentralized investor community, geographical restrictions are broken, allowing global investors to learn, communicate, practice, and jointly explore the infinite possibilities of digital assets; the digital asset investment platform allows users to conveniently purchase within the AssetClub App Digital assets such as Crypto, Defi, RWA, ETF, etc., combined with gamified investment simulation, allow all investors around the world to understand digital assets, experience digital assets and finally allocate digital assets through AssetClub to realize our vision: accelerating the digitalization of all mankind The asset era is coming ahead of schedule.
3. Lumiterra
• Game type: MMORPG, farming, killing monsters, collecting
• Project features and advantages: high-quality games, powerful Defi support module, Tg customer acquisition robot
• Official website: https://lumiterra.net
• Game stage: Mainnet internal testing on December 20, 2023
game introduction:
Lumiterra is a multiplayer online open-world survival game that combines decentralized finance (DeFi), game finance (GameFi) and players in a coexistence system to provide diverse game options and experiences.
What are its characteristics?
1. High-quality and fun gaming experience.
2. Innovative interconnected flywheel mechanism with an open economic system.
3. Use ERC-4337, zero-knowledge proof (ZK), and multi-party computation (MPC) technology to provide a seamless gaming experience.
4. Financialized user acquisition process.
4.League of Thrones
• Game type: full-chain strategy game
• Project features and advantages: Modular full-chain solution/Using DAO as an organization for games/Multi-chain interoperability
• Official website: https://www.leagueofthrones.com
• Game phase: Open beta
game introduction:
League of Thrones creates a season-based war experience for fans of strategy games, where players compete for game rewards and mining in the form of a DAO. The assets, materials, data and logic modules in the game are transparent and verifiable guaranteed by different blockchains, thus creating a decentralized game environment. The DAO governed by LOT can combine these modules in any way and allow anyone to create seasons.
League of Thrones provides the greatest composability, allowing holders of blue-chip NFTs on mainstream Layer1/Layer2 to participate in the game through heroes redrawn according to the game style through our trained AI. Holders of map NFTs and metaverse plots can edit their own maps through our map generator to create a unique season experience, and even define their own rewards and make profits through IAP.
League of Thrones has teamed up with Ancient8 to host several test seasons of the BNB mainnet, and will launch a Christmas promotion launched by Dappradar on December 12.
5. BetaMars
• Game type: crypto native strategy game
• Project features and advantages: A traditional game team with many years of experience combined with a crypto native team to create an original Web3 strategy game. A game between humans and AI, an experiment in social development, an exploration of the future of humans and AI, and whether humans can defend their dominance over AI in a decentralized world.
• Official website: https://BetaMars.io
• Game stage: Internal testing in February 2024, mainnet in March
game introduction:
BetaMars is the first game in Beta Studio's series of confrontations between humans and AI. It explores the future game between humans and AI by simulating capital operations and the development process of real human society. The game economic model reveals games, cooperation, prisoner's dilemma, and dark forests everywhere.
BetaMars is also the first Web3 Game to extend AI learning to the player community. AI learning from players not only exists in the game, but also exists in the communication between players in the community. AI will peek at the humanity of human players all the time, seize every opportunity to overthrow human rule, and temporarily reside in the territory of human players.
BetaMars will soon complete its second round of financing and launch the game in March 2024.
6. Townstory Galaxy
• Game type: Business simulation
• Project features and advantages: Background of a major company, Zynga background/Multi-million dollar financing/One year of R&D/Full-chain games
• Official website: https://townstory.io/
• Game stage: In internal testing, connected to Arbitrum Nova. It is expected to be publicly tested in February 2024 and officially launched in May.
game introduction:
TownStoryGalaxy is an innovative Web3 social business game created by the Bay Area exZynga game studio. Users can build their own towns in the game and harvest NFTs and Tokens. The game will be built into a Web3 version of "Animal Crossing", a full-chain game platform with socialization as the core, integrating transactions, DEFI, entertainment and other infrastructure, and using game governance tokens to encourage the entry of other games, bringing new benefits to the Web3 industry. Massive new Web2 users.
Alpha testing is currently underway on the Arbitrum Nova chain and is expected to be officially launched next year.
7. Degen Game
• Game type: Card real-time battle game
• Project features and advantages: It is a new chain game co-created by BSPN that takes the e-sports ecology as the core, creates a game metaverse with a complete world view, and realizes the sustainable development of e-sports + Gamefi
• Official website: https://degengame.io/
• Game stage: public beta stage, the ladder system is expected to be launched in January 24, and will be launched on the mainnet in June
game introduction:
Degen Game is a European and American style real-time card battle game that novice players can get started in one minute; it perfectly integrates Moba, strategy, dungeon, social and guild gameplay;
The uniqueness of Degen Game is that it emphasizes the importance of the e-sports ecosystem to the continued development of Gamefi. Players form teams to participate in competitions and receive excessive rewards; developers, e-sports clubs, professional players, anchors, commentators, game experts, ordinary players, gold players, sponsors, advertisers, content creators, investors, etc. in the entire ecosystem Closely connected to create a sustainable gaming world.
8. OUTER
OUTERVERSE is a combination ecosystem of a series of games under Crystal FUN with the open-world Star Wars themed MMO game "OUTER" as its core.
It contains a total of 4 games of different categories, namely the main game "OUTER", the spin-off game "OUTER: StarFall 2312", the spin-off games "OUTER: Endless War" and "OUTER: Survivor".
The background settings of these four games will take place in the same world view system. We hope to attract game players with different preferences through different categories of games.
In addition, the digital assets (tokens, NFT) in Crystal FUN's games will be connected with each other, forming an unprecedented economic ecosystem.
• Game type: MMORPG
• Official website: https://outer.gg/
• Game stage: Estimated February 24, Round B test
• Platform: PC, IOS, Android (three-terminal interoperability)
game introduction:
OUTER is an open-world Star Wars-themed MMO blockchain game developed by Crystal labs. It will lead players into a stunning cosmic world and experience an unprecedented adventure. In OUTER, players can create their own path to glory in a huge space sandbox environment.
Players explore unknown galaxies by driving spaceships, communicate with other players to create conflicts or cooperation, and then participate in interstellar wars to shape the lasting universe in the game. Players will have the opportunity to experience epic challenges and tasks in the game, and can achieve success through their own efforts and wisdom.
9.Gameland
• Type: Game data analysis AI marketing platform
• Project features: NVIDIA support/META member/Polygon Startup/Profitable
• Official website: https://dapp.gameland.network/
• Platform stage: Mainnet supports BNB, Polygon, ETH, Arbitrum and Solana
game introduction:
Gameland is a game data analysis AI marketing platform that provides real-time intelligent insights and data analysis services to game developers. The platform builds an AI open trading market, solves the problem of lack of algorithm models, and provides a decentralized trading platform for data scientists, model developers and game studios.
Through this platform, game developers can trade various game data analysis algorithm models and obtain more advanced tools to optimize game performance, personalized recommendations and predict user behavior. At the same time, Gameland is committed to building an AI ecosystem, encouraging developers to cooperate with AI model providers, sharing innovative data analysis algorithms, promoting the cutting-edge application of AI technology in game development, and bringing more innovation and intelligence to the game experience. Elements such as Gamechat.AI.
Currently, Gameland has reached in-depth cooperative relationships with 14 game studios, and its ecological partners come from Polygon Startup Program, NVIDIA, Seedify, IndiGG, Game7….
10. MATCHI
• Game type: dance fitness somatosensory game
• Project features and advantages: Completed angel financing/ reached content cooperation with provincial TV stations
• Official website: https://matchi.games
• Game stage: Internal testing is expected in December 2023, and will be launched on the mainnet in April
game introduction:
MATCHI is an online dance and fitness somatosensory game that uses mobile phone cameras for motion capture, breaking the game's official content production format. Dance music content can be created by users and artistically stylized through AI. The main features are:
Compared with other games, it is easier to get out of the circle, and people of all ages who like to exercise and dance can participate.
Compared with traditional somatosensory games, the threshold is lower and only requires a mobile phone camera.
Compared with JUSTDANCE, the content is richer and all users can participate in creation.
The game applies a variety of AI technologies. The AI-trained action analysis model is used for dance movement extraction, player motion capture and matching, AI painting is used to create dance partners for virtual social interaction, and AI dance partners are made into NFTs.
The core team leaders have about 10 years of experience in the fields of blockchain, games, and AI. They have currently completed angel round financing and will be listed on the exchange after a round of PreIEO.
11.Mississippi
• Game type: Rogue-like PVP
• Project features and advantages: Big factory background/Loot ecological core project
• Official website: https://0xmssp.xyz/
• Game stage: The V1 version is open for internal testing and you can register on discord. The V2 version is expected to be launched in Q1 of 24
game introduction:
Mississippi is a completely on-chain meat pigeon mining + real-person battle game. Players will enter a huge cave map, search for randomly generated treasures, and take the treasures out of the cave. In this process, players can plunder each other and compete for limited resources through turn-based battles.
In future versions, players can also collect treasures to synthesize upgraded equipment to obtain stronger attributes; build and maintain their own mines on the map, strategically mobilize resources; form alliances, and achieve more complex vertical and horizontal alliances The goal.
Mississippi and Loot ecology are deeply integrated, and the equipment synthesis system will be completely based on the NFT design of Loot and Realms. By expanding the assets, rules and worldview of the Loot ecosystem, Mississippi will become a pioneer in the exploration of an autonomous world. Mississippi has received the Realms Phase 2 Grant and ranked second among all projects. It has also received funding from LXDAO and Mask Network.
12. DanceFit
• Game Type: GameFi Games
• Project features and advantages: Founded by two Chinese Americans, with development and marketing teams in Silicon Valley and China respectively, completed pre-seed financing, and received entrepreneurial funding support from Hong Kong Cyberport
• Official website: https://dancefit.app
• Game stage: It is expected to be in internal testing in March 2024 and launch on the mainnet in June.
game introduction:
DanceFit is a comprehensive short video + dance + social software. Users can earn points by watching videos, liking, commenting, etc. At the same time, it solves the shortcomings of Douyin's inability to follow the dance immediately and score the accuracy of movements. The strong social nature of the app itself has certain advantages.
DanceFit user groups are mainly divided into two markets: viewing users and dancing users. Specifically, they have very high traffic advertising value and natural fan economic attributes. The profit points of market sales forecasting lie in three points: First, the advertising monetization of the change in the number of online people watching the video. Second, the consumption of upgrade props by viewers and dancers, and the platform commission on the gifts that viewers give to dancers. Third, offline peripheral dance and sports-related products.
13.GalaxyBlitz
• Game type: MMOSLG
• Project features and advantages: conflux led the investment, with US$8 million in financing currently online, with 1,000 daily active users, sponsored by Tencent Cloud and Nvidia, and distributed by Xterio in the global market (except Japan and South Korea). At the same time, we received US$50,000 Oasys Grants from the Japanese public chain, and the Japanese and Korean markets are distributed by Oasys Games.
• Official website: https://www.galaxyblitz.world/
• Game stage: Already online, download address https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gb.GalaxyBlitzWar
• app store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/galaxyblitzwar/id6449058049
game introduction:
GalaxyBlitz is an overseas SLG mobile game that adopts the fusion of COC like + Sattu-like gameplay. The art adopts the hard science fiction theme of Star Wars overseas SLG mobile game. It is currently the only COC like and Satou-like operating game in Web3, and adopts the economic model The newly designed three-token model and the guild competition mode increase player consumption, achieving a very balanced token output and consumption.
14. Mirror Realms
• Game type: Act competitive gaming
• Project features and advantages: Big factory background/Aptos Foundation support/Vientiane Hackathon award/All Things Island Incubator
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/MirrorRealmsOFL
• Game stage: R&D stage, looking for pre-seed financing
game introduction:
Mirror Realms is positioned as a competitive gaming game with a beautiful girl theme. Players can develop their own characters and weapons NFT in the game, and invite friends to play 3v3 games or participate in chicken-fighting gameplay. All character prototypes are generated based on AIGC, and game assets are built on the blockchain.
The uniqueness of the game lies in the concept of survive to earn. Players need to compete with an unknown number of enemies in an unknown scene and survive in the end before they can realize the assets obtained in the game. If they die in the game, the assets may also be lost. loss. Assets that fall into the bureau and are not acquired by others will be recovered by the project party.
15.Ars.Earth
• Game type: Augmented World/ enhanced world
• Project features and advantages: What kind of surprises will be created when the native augmented reality (AR) open world and the native autonomous world (AW) are integrated? The project was designed by the founder of Happy Farm, an entrepreneurial veteran, and was incubated by many Web3 industry experts including Wanwudao.
• Game stage: About to create the world
game introduction:
ARS is the abbreviation of AR Space, and it is also the original way of writing ART. It represents Skill, Craft and other rich meanings. This is what Ars.Earth pursues, giving players strong enough self-creation capabilities, like an AR version of Lego. At the same time, we write the "meta-rules" of the Ars world on the chain, allowing it to run, grow, and govern itself, becoming a natural extension of the real world.
