GameFi Corner: NFT Worlds, Tiny Colony, Splinterlands
Welcome to the latest edition of the GameFi Corner Newsletters. In this issue, the key topic will be about crypto gaming and metaverse firms who have recently added important aspects of their gameplay such as new avatars, improved economic / social incentives with decentralized and open-world economies.
In the end of the article there are some further examples of decentralized validation nodes and cross-chain features that will further help gamers in making the most out of blockchain gaming.
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NFT Worlds - Genesis Avatars
NFT Worlds has made on the top 5 of our previous list where users can acquire a piece of land in the metaverse.
In order to make NFT Worlds more liveable, a new NFT avatar drop has been conceived. There will be 15,000 Genesis NFTs set to be minted on the 30th of April. It would be great to catch the whitelist deal at 0,4 ETH before it goes publicly on sale for 1 ETH. Players can equip their avatars through the new NFT world Launcher to change their in-game appearance.
The Genesis Avatars will offer to their owners many perks in a functional economy which NFT Worlds provides such as token payment system with seamless, gas fee transfers between players, buildable player-owned world, a staking system for passive income, APIs for use by world owners and more.
Tiny Colony - Pixelated ecosystem on Solana
Tiny Colony is a Web 3 game making its presence ready to make a strong statement in the play to earn space. It has all positive combining aspects which define how a successful game should be like.
First of all, Tiny Colony is built on the Solana ecosystem, guaranteeing lightning fast transactions as we all already know. After the appropriate choice of the blockchain there is a very experienced team of developers behind the scene who have already built amazing gaming titles with the likes of Angry Birds 2, Simpsons and Tapped Out.
The game has definitely some originality thanks to the pixelated art. Their Discord community is also deemed to be very active, meaning the interest for the game is there. In addition, the gameplay offers a rich narrative with complete features that satisfy the demanding gameFi requirements such as earning rewards through breeding, dynamic battles, NFT staking, DAO and full user governance.
Civitas - A new civilization on the blockchain
The firm has raised an impressive $20 million in an attempt to build a 4X strategy game. The 4X theme consists of building an empire. The emphasis lays on the combination of economic, technological and competitive aspects in order to reach supremacy.
With Civitas, there will not only be one player who controls the whole civilization. It will be community-driven and a collaborative city-building game. Individually or collectively, players will level-up their cities, compete for control, form alliances internally, and battle against or cooperate with other cities.
Although the Beta launch is expected to be just in the Q1 of 2023, it is definitely worth following the progress of this attractive game, with real economics and real social incentives driven by real consequences.
PlayZap - Integration of Efinity parachain
This news can be indeed called a strategic partnership. PlayZap is a combination of multibillion-dollar markets with Casual Games, Free-to-Play, and Play to earn; all merged by blockchain & NFT technology.
With a bunch of new games on the list, the merge with the Efinity parachain is the most suitable choice of PlayZap. The reason why is due to the fact that Efinity displays cross-chain capabilities built specifically for NFTs. On top of that, Enjin is a safe choice in terms of NFT marketplace scalability, secure and seamless NFT experience to their players.
Splinterlands - Decentralizing validator nodes
Great news ahead for a top performer such as Splinterlands. the firm has decided to upgrade the validator nodes by simply decentralizing them. This means that now players can enjoy the full-open source features the software is offering.
Therefore, anyone can download, install and run it without extra-costs or restrictions. However, the node licenses will require SPS payment to obtain them. Moreover, running the SPS validator node will require minimum hardware.
More news
MetaWin - $5 million giveaway in NFT prizes
Blast Royale - Raises $5 million in seed round
Genies - Raises $150 million from series C funding round
Infinite Reality - Rekt Global acquisition for $470 million
Gleam Games - $1 million investment round
Coherence - Raises $8 million led by Griffin Gaming Partners
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