Carnage Carnival builds on Myria. Here’s why.
When a group of avid gamers gets together to create a new gaming experience, it gives them an edge that helps set them apart from the competition. When they choose the right Layer 2 platform to build upon, that edge only gets sharper. Carnage Carnival is a competitive, blockchain-ready MOBA NFT game that has chosen Myria for its scalability, speed and security.
Built for gamers by gamers
The team behind Carnage Carnival met while working for the leading Esports brand, Team Hydro. At night, when not at work, they played games together and accelerated to the top of a number of major gaming leaderboards. Then their conversations pivoted toward the idea of creating a game of their own.
Carnage Carnival is the culmination of those conversations — a fast, fun, and frantic mobile game where scores are settled in the Carnival Arena. Overseen by the game’s most feared and influential faction, ‘The Firm’, arena battles are the only way to prevent uncontrolled, piecemeal fighting wreaking further havoc and destroying the wider city of Festivo.
Killer creative. Tradable cosmetics. Sensible tokenomics.
Full of sharp cartoon graphics, eye-popping colors, and tradable cosmetics, Carnage Carnival puts the fun of gaming first while also giving participants the chance to earn tokens and an array of NFTs that can be traded or used in-game.
Importantly, only builders within the game can realize the full potential of NFTs. This is specifically to encourage and maximize community involvement and prevent the sort of token farming and market dumping that can undermine a game’s success.
Liquidity within the Carnage Carnival ecosystem is provided by $CAC while $TIX exists as an in-game currency that can be used to unlock certain cosmetic items and other assets within the game. Among other things, $CAC can be staked for yield, used to upgrade buildings and to cover marketplace fees.
From Web2 to Web3
‘We didn’t just want a Web2 game, says project lead and overall game designer,’ Raja Iskandar. ‘We’re strong believers that gaming, in general, will transition to Web3 where players can have full ownership of their in-game assets and trade them openly in a marketplace powered by the blockchain.
He adds, ‘When we spoke to the development team at Myria and heard about their fast and free Layer 2 solution, we knew that’s what we needed to facilitate a fully functioning, smoothly running marketplace, capable of handling a high number of simultaneous transactions.’
Building on Myria’s L2: the Tech Lead’s perspective
Originally built on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC), Carnage Carnival’s new NFT assets can now be minted as ERC-721 standard tokens on Myria.
Carnage Carnival’s tech Lead, Huzas Harany, who has been coding for more than 20 years, says, ‘We always knew we wanted to build the game as a multi-chain project. At first, I thought about deploying the project on Solana for its speed and scale but rejected the idea because Solana uses Rust, C, and C++ coding languages.’
Used to working on BSC, which uses Solidity, the same language as Ethereum, Huzas also wanted the high level of security Ethereum provides. When he and Raja entered into dialogue with Myria’s engineering and development team, they quickly discovered that Myria was perfectly positioned to meet all of their technological challenges.
‘The guys at Myria were friendly, knowledgable, and helpful. We quickly learned that deploying elements of Carnage Carnival on its L2 platform would give us everything we needed — scale, speed, watertight security, and zero gas fees. This means that, as Carnage Carnival scales and gains wider adoption, and as more transactions happen on our marketplace, the system will be able to cope.’
From ZK-rollups to an SDK developers can count on
Myria achieves this desirable outcome using StarkWare’s industry-leading technology, StarkEx. Using zero-knowledge proofs, or ZK-rollups, Myria attains a high level of computational throughput, giving developers the backdrop they need to deliver an outstanding user experience.
Myria’s software development kit (SDK) also makes the developer build and deployment process easy. All of the pieces of code are there for fast programming and the rapid creation of fully-fledged NFT collections.
‘I’m very used to using Hard Hat, and Myria’s SDK is similar in its functionality,’ Huzas says. ‘So when I looked at it and played around with it, I thought, okay, this is going to work well for us at Carnage Carnival — it’s very straightforward.’
For anyone not familiar, Hard Hat is Ethereum’s development kit that allows developers to streamline frequent and repetitive coding tasks. Similarly, Myria’s SDK facilitates the management and execution of smart contract creation tasks, making programming on its L2 solution a breeze for developers with intermediate coding experience.
‘Being able to use the SDK to run tests and debug in a safe environment is vital to delivering a smooth user experience,’ says Huzas. ‘Myria’s SDK means you don’t have to spend a lot of time coding in Solidity as all of the tools to complete tasks are provided. This has been invaluable in helping us transition elements of Carnage Carnival to Myria’s L2.’
If, like Carnage Carnival, you’re keen to build your next blockchain gaming project and NFT collection on a flexible L2 platform that delivers speed, scalability, and security, get in touch with Myria’s dev team today.
