Introducing Rawrshak
2021 was an incredibly amazing year for Blockchain Gaming! Big metaverse powerhouse projects like Decentraland and The Sandbox took center stage and showed the world what blockchain gaming can do. Infrastructure projects such as ImmutableX and Enjin released Ethereum Layer 2 solutions for NFTs. Play-to-Earn models for video games burst onto the scene with the rise of Axie Infinity.
Despite the promise of true asset ownership being fulfilled by NFTs, all these digital goods are still siloed in their respective games. Gamers cannot use these assets outside the borders of the world that created them. As gamers move from game to game, they still eventually have to leave their assets behind or sell them.
So what’s the solution? Cross-game asset interoperability!
But that’s a crazy idea. It requires creators manually deploying every single asset for every single game they want to support. That requires coordination between hundreds ~ even thousands of game developers!
Well… that is why we built Rawrshak.
Rawrshak is a gaming-focused NFT platform that empowers creators to deploy cross-game interoperable assets. The platform provides a decentralized end-to-end solution for traditional game developers who want to easily plug into a metaverse.
Connected Metaverse Worlds
In the Web 2.0 world of games, most games and content live in the walled gardens of the publishers that own them. Gamers spend money on digital goods which lose value as soon as a new game comes along. We’ve all experienced spending weeks, months, even years trying to acquire a legendary item only to drop the game over time.
The connected gaming universe we want to help build changes this model. Gamers should be able to come and go into worlds they love. Their achievements, badges, and collections should go with them and they should be able to proudly show it off wherever they go. Gamers should be able to build a world of their own to showcase their collections and creations.
Connecting to a global gaming universe enables a shared global playerbase. Discoverability becomes an inherent feature as assets are used across games.
With Rawrshak, we’re building bridges connecting every unique virtual world!
Alternative Economic Model
Not all games can or should implement a Play-to-Earn economic model. Genres like Role-Playing Games, Strategy games, Simulation, and Adventure games don’t necessarily have the in-game mechanisms to have players grind for assets. Current Play-to-Earn games incentivize gamers to trade time for money, making these games no different than job. Gamers don’t necessarily play these games to have fun.
We want to make fun the main part of the equation again. Rawrshak proposes an alternative by introducing blockchain assets simply as rewards, achievements, and collections. They can unlock, acquire, buy and sell assets they like or need. They can craft new, more interesting assets. Blockchain assets should be a supporting feature, not the main feature of a game.
We want to provide an alternative so game developers aren’t pigeonholed into thinking play-to-earn is the only viable blockchain economic model.
Missing Infrastructure
Blockchain gaming currently has a high barrier to entry for traditional game developers. They first have to learn how to write and deploy smart contracts. Next, they need to figure out all the technical details for integrating Web3 into their game engine. Finally, they need to determine how to create an economy within their game.
Rawrshak tries to solve these by providing tools, libraries, and decentralized infrastructure for the game developers. Rawrshak provides the following for game developers:
- Deployable Smart Contracts and an Asset Launchpad
- Web 3.0 Libraries and Tools for Public Game Engines
- Global Gaming Marketplace and Metaverse Economy
Game developers can focus on making their game as fun as they can with a blockchain reward system that’s familiar to gamers!
Permanent Universal Assets and Asset Frameworks
Rawrshak assets are designed to be decentralized and permanent. This means that once an asset has been created and sold, the gamer that owns the asset has full usage of that asset. The asset cannot be rugged or taken away by any central figure.
Rawrshak is revolutionizing gaming assets by introducing universal asset frameworks. The asset framework provides content creators a guide for deploying assets loadable by independent games in the decentralized metaverse. Game developers only need to support and integrate the asset framework into their games.
Rawrshak is revolutionizing the creation and distribution of digital goods.
What’s Next
We are announcing information on our upcoming Alpha launch in the coming weeks.
We are also looking for game developers who would be interested in piloting Rawrshak assets and becoming the first few worlds in the Rawrshak universe.
In 2022, we’re looking to expand the platform and introduce many interesting on-chain gaming mechanics that benefit the Rawrshak ecosystem!
We look forward to helping build a truly decentralized gaming metaverse!
For the latest information on Rawrshak, please join our Discord and follow us on Twitter.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/rawrshak
Discord: https://discord.gg/44FWYW2xzv
Website: https://www.rawrshak.io
Originally published at https://www.rawrshak.io on December 30, 2021.
