Dev Diary #1 — State of Blockchain Gaming

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2 min readJun 15, 2018

Mitchell and Luke discuss the current state of the blockchain game space. See the original here.

June 14th, 2018 | Washington D.C.

Mitchell Opatowsky, CryptoPets Head of Product, and Luke Bateman, Head of Communications discuss the blockchain gaming industry, and their predictions for the next few years.

Traditionally, centralized production houses produced the games and were in control of the player’s experience. Now, it’s possible that we’re witnessing the decentralization of video game production, content creation, crowdfunding, and player asset ownership. This redistribution of assets could potentially open new markets, generating new opportunities for players and producers.

Over the past five months, people have just been thinking of the businesses that already exist — from shipping to porn — and have been throwing the word “blockchain” in front of it. While that might be crazy to imagine for some use cases, blockchain fits naturally into the gaming space.

What it’s like to compare how blockchains have been deployed.

If there’s one thing blockchains do, they secure ownership. Ultimately, blockchain in gaming changes the Gamer Ownership Paradigm, basically the idea that we need to rethink who can participate in designing games, producing their 3D models and animations, textures, and sound assets, who funds their development, who can govern the implementation of the game, and who can own and monetize their time and skills in-game.

CryptoPets is a frontrunner for this new class of blockchain-based games. With the potential to expand the value of a digital asset with multiple collectibles and tokenized resources, rather than simply structuring assets around the franchise, it’s possible to begin imagining how one would translate the complex building blocks for modern games. Bringing us closer to contemporary game mechanics, it’ll be the economic models and user experience which set apart successful from unsuccessful projects.

With an overly-aggressive high-five that makes you feel really pumped up, but kind of concerned,