BLOCKCHAIN IS SOOO EASY
Explained Easily: Categories of Blockchain Games
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TABLE OF CONTENT
- PLAY TO EARN: SPLINTERLANDS
- PLAYER VERSE PLAYER: LIGHT NITE
- PLAY TO BUILD: DECENTRALAND
- PLAY TO WIN (CRYPTO GAMBLING SITES): CRYPTO.GAMES
All blockchain games are generally known as Play to Earn games. Whereby players get non-fungible tokens (NFTs), digital currencies, etc. The rewards got are exchanged for real-world money. Players have fun on one hand while they make money on the other.
They are over 1000 blockchain games in the market today. All blockchain games belong to four branches according to their game modes. These branches are:
- Play to Earn
- Player versus Player
- Play to Build
- Play to Win
Below are examples of some blockchain games and the game modes they use.
PLAY TO EARN: SPLINTERLANDS
Players in play-to-earn games are rewarded digital currencies (tokens) or non-fungible tokens (NFTs) by completing missions or quests during gameplay.
Do not forget that all blockchain games fall under this category.
SPLINTERLANDS
What is Splinterlands?
Splinterlands is an online collectible card game built on the Ethereum blockchain. The cards collected are NFTs used to battle other players in the game. The cards can be exchanged and sold on diverse NFT marketplaces.
Players in the game use strategies to combine cards and battle with other players. Each card possesses special features. These features give players an edge over other players during tournaments.
Game Characteristics
- Game feature: Card-based game.
- Target: Card lovers, NFTs fans, etc.
- Gameplay: Players can acquire cards by defeating fellow players or buying cards from marketplaces.
- Game token: Splintershards (SPS).
- Sign up: A new player requires a summoner’s spell book that costs $10, paid with SPS, the game’s native token.
- Date launched: 26th of May 2018.
Marketplace to sell Splinterlands NFTs: Opensea.
PLAYER VERSE PLAYER: LIGHT NITE
This game mode involves players waging war on other players for the sole purpose of winning in other to earn digital currencies or NFTs.
LIGHT NITE
What is Light Nite?
Light Nite is an online multiplayer third-person shooter game built on the lightning network. Players have to shoot one another to earn bitcoins. One can earn NFTs by participating in community events. The Bitcoins are sent to exchanges and exchanged for fiat.
It has the bitcoin-integrated mode and the non-bitcoin-integrated mode. In the bitcoin-integrated mode, the player has an in-game balance of bitcoin that increases when he successfully shoots players, picks up valuable items in the game, and decreases when he gets hit by other players.
Game Characteristics
- Game feature: Third-person shooting game.
- Target: NFTs lovers, shooter game lovers.
- Gameplay: Players earn bitcoin by shooting fellow players, and players lose their bitcoins when they get shot at by other players.
- Game token: Bitcoin.
- Sign up (Bitcoin-integrated-mode): Players join the game after making micro-transactions (no pay-to-play: these transactions update the balances of players).
- Date launched: 1st of November 2021.
Bitcoin earned can be sent to exchanges and exchanged for fiat. Marketplace to sell game NFTs: Elixir marketplace.
PLAY TO BUILD: DECENTRALAND
This mode of blockchain games allows players to own a part of the game they play. Players can use digital currencies and NFTs to purchase houses or lands present in these games. Players who do not own properties create and build items for digital currencies or NFTs.
DECENTRALAND
What is Decentraland?
Decentraland is a virtual world exploring game built on the Ethereum blockchain. Here players can buy land, create valuable objects (such as structures), and exchange them for NFTs or the game’s digital currency (MANA).
In decentraland, players who own lands can create objects, place objects on their lands, and sell them to other players for MANA and NFTs. Players without lands can still build special items and exchange them for MANA.
Game Characteristics
- Game feature: Virtual building interactive game.
- Target: Building game lovers.
- Gameplay: Players earn MANA by creating unique objects and exchanging these objects for Mana or NFTs. Lands can be bought and sold using the game token: MANA.
- Game token: MANA.
- Sign up: Players join the game by clicking the “start exploring” on the game’s official website. There is an option to play as a guest or registered use. Registered users have to connect to a preowned crypto wallet.
- Date launched: Opened to the public 20th of February 2020.
Exchanges to sell MANA: Binance exchange. NFTs gotten can be sold at Opensea.
PLAY TO WIN (CRYPTO GAMBLING SITES): CRYPTO.GAMES
Players stake digital coins or traditional currencies expecting to win a bet or game. If the bet/game is in their favor, they get a prize (a certain percentage of the money staked). But if they lose, a percent of the money is lost.
CRYPTO.GAMES
What is Crypto.Games?
Crypto.Games is a crypto gambling website that offers a variety of games and multiple digital currency options for players to pick.
The website guides players on how to play each game and shows the edge percentage for each gameplay. They are about ten games to choose from, ranging from Dice to Lottery. The level of anonymity is high.
Game Characteristics
- Game feature: Varieties of famous casino games.
- Target: Gamblers.
- Gameplay: Players earn by winning games they choose to play.
- Game token: Multiple digital currencies.
- Sign up: Players join the game by clicking the available games on the game’s official website. They select the token they want to play with and register.
- Date launched: The date is vague and not shown on the official website.
Digital currencies can be sent out to exchanges and exchanged for fiat.
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