Author: KarenZ, Foresight News
Last week, the Solana Official Twitter mentioned a community-centric Solana game funding platform called Indie.fun. The platform quickly caught the attention of the community, with some users even comparing it to the Web3 gaming world's pump.fun.
So, what exactly is Indie.fun? What roles do the Web3 native game engine Moddio and the AI agent tool Fullmetal play behind it?
Indie.fun: A new funding option for game developers
Indie.fun is a game funding platform built by the Moddio team, a Web3 native game engine. Its core goal is to help game developers quickly launch their projects and raise initial funding through community support.
On Indie.fun, developers can choose to use existing Moddio game project tokens or create new tokens to operate their projects, whether they are existing Moddio games or new game ideas.
If they choose to create new tokens, Indie.fun sets a minimum funding target of 25 SOL. Supporters can contribute SOL to receive a corresponding proportion of the game tokens as a reward. Once the funding target is reached, 1/3 (about 33%) of the funding (SOL) and 25% of the tokens will be deployed to Raydium as a liquidity pool, while the remaining 2/3 of the funds will go directly into the game developer's wallet. Indie.fun will charge a fee of 2.5 SOL from this.
Moddio: The game engine behind Indie.fun
The birth of Indie.fun is inseparable from Moddio, an HTML5 game engine focused on multiplayer games. Moddio's goal is to help developers shorten development time and quickly create and publish games by providing a series of pre-built common features.
According to PitchBook, Moddio was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with investors including Alliance DAO and Solana Ventures.
The biggest highlight of Moddio is its ease of use. Game creators don't need programming experience or to build their own servers and network infrastructure. They can use game templates, quickly design games, write scripts, and monitor performance in the editor. Moddio also supports the integration of physics engines like Box2D to achieve complex physical interactions. In addition, the platform provides various game props, built-in AI behaviors (such as idle, provocation, enemy detection) and path planning functions, and even built-in chat functions to enhance the interactive experience between players.
In addition, Moddio supports multi-person online collaborative editing, allowing multiple developers to work on the same game simultaneously, which can greatly improve team collaboration efficiency.
In terms of fees and monetization, Moddio offers multiple levels of service. The free tier allows game enthusiasts to create games with basic features, while for server performance, game equipment sales, advertising display, map progress sharing, monetization, and some customized features, Moddio has set up three different fee tiers.
In terms of monetization, Moddio supports creators earning income through in-game items, skins, and ad views. Modd Coins is the in-platform game currency, which players can use to purchase items and skins, while creators can use Modd Coins to add exclusive experiences to the game and provide incentives for players to earn Modd Coins. Moddio will charge a 10% transaction fee on each transaction.
Powpow.fun: An AI-driven virtual Wild West
The top-ranked project on Indie.fun is Powpow.fun, developed by the Moddio team. Powpow.fun claims to be an AI-driven virtual Wild West.
To realize this vision, the Powpow.fun team has built an AI agent deployment and hosting tool called Fullmetal, providing APIs to access a distributed node network that hosts various models. Fullmetal allows seamless creation, deployment, and management of AI agents using the elizaOS/eliza framework, and integrates directly with the Moddio game environment.
According to the official Fullmetal documentation, Fullmetal consists of three key components: the client, the nodes, and the API server. The client interacts with Fullmetal to send prompts, seek information, insights, or solutions; the public nodes provide shared knowledge, while the private nodes provide access to customized experiences; the API server then arranges the communication, determines the most suitable node for the prompt, and seamlessly relays the response. In this process, both the client and the nodes remain anonymous, without the risk of identity leakage.
It's worth mentioning that the BNTY (Bounty) token is the official payment currency for processing prompts, and agents can earn BNTY tokens by responding to corresponding prompts. The current market cap of BNTY is around $30 million.
Summary
Moddio is building a complete Web3 gaming ecosystem through the funding platform Indie.fun, the Web3 game engine, the AI agent deployment and hosting tool Fullmetal, and even the AI-driven virtual experience Powpow.fun.
Currently, there are more than 30 projects on the Indie.fun platform, about half of which have completed their funding activities. Apart from BNTY (with a market cap of $30 million), the market caps of other completed funding projects mostly range from $1,000 to $400,000. Projects that have not yet completed funding also generally lack popularity and market attention.
Additionally, the games on the Moddio platform still have significant room for improvement in terms of quality and user experience, and the newly launched game tokens on Indie.fun occasionally suffer from price drops. However, given the recommendation from the Solana official and the support of Alliance DAO and Solana Ventures for Moddio, we still need to pay attention to this field. As for whether Moddio and Indie.fun can successfully launch influential products like pump.fun, clanker, and Virtuals Protocol in the future, we will continue to closely monitor their dynamics and development.
