Dark Frontier Playtest
Congratulations
We have taken a snapshot of the leaderboard, and we are excited to announce the top 10 players that will be sharing the ~$7,500 prize pool (and the secret prize)
Top 10 Dark Frontier players (by rank)
1. YANIK
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Dark Forest-inspired fully on-chain game Dark Frontier has ended their two weeks of first playtesting, with a 7.5k price pool for the top 10 players on the leaderboard.
Building on top of Argus Lab's World Engine and being the first on-production game running on World Engine Devnet, there are certainly a lot of eyes on it, not just about how it will takeover the torch from Dark Forest, but also to see how on-chain games can operate and scale under such architecture.
Primodium 0.9.0 & 0.9.1
The Goerli issues slowed down the momentum, but it was also a good way for us to learn & come back stronger w/ more bug fixes and new features in v0.10!
Fully on-chain RTS game Primodium has launched their 0.9 version including new features such as:
- Buy and sell resources with other players
- A new super fast unit
- Spectate other people's bases
- Attack more pirates to raid resources
- Chat with other players
Because of contract redeployments, the game was reset, but this was counted as an official round for [redacted].
Due to issues with Goerli's testnet, this version has been taken down after a week of running and replaced by the version 0.9.1. This version also included some bugs fixed and the ability to attain Main Base level 6.
Gaul Playtest
gaul.app
lets go
Gaul
In the wild lands of ancient Gaul, we found our toil etched upon the earth.
thank you @_alvarius @frolic @ori_pomerantz for last minute Redstone help
and @OwnerOfJK @apixtwts for crushing the road
game will stay up at gaul.app
On 15th December, the playtest of the highly awaited Gaul from @engine_study has happened on the Holesky testnet, giving the public the first real looks into the game.
Gaul is expected to launch on 2024.
Aether Sands Playtest
We have some exciting updates for you! We're finally getting ready for our first playtest!
Here's what to expect:
(1/5)
It has been a week since we launched our playtest, and we have grown to over 170 Settlers since our first announcement. We are moving full steam ahead to our next Public Playtest #2. Here’s what to expect
Aether Sands is a fully on-chain open-world resources management game that draws inspiration from steampunk. The goal of the game is to grow an alien tree, harvest seeds, and excavate ancient monoliths for additional in-game utilities. Each resource is an NFT including 10 different tree types with different traits, rarities and utilities.
On 15th December, the first playtest of Aether Sands has happened. The playtest lasted for 24 hours. The team will look into the player's feedbacks during the playtest in order to make improvements on UI and gameplay.
The next playtest will happen on Redstone Holesky Testnet, with mid January being the expected timeline.
Parallel Colony Trailer
Sci-fi Web3 gaming powerhouse Parallel has released the trailer of its fully on-chain AI-agent based game Colony, which has been developed for over half a year.
Inspired by the infamous generative agents paper Smallville from Stanford and Google research, Colony is a simulation game in which the main character is your AI-powered NFT avatar. The in-house developed LLM allows the AI agents to remember experiences and perform actions based on memories. This dynamics will allow the gameplay to be shaped by both humans and agents.
Dojo Holiday Game Jam #3
StarkNet's provable game engine Dojo is organizing the third edition of their Game Jam which lasts 2 weeks, much longer than the previous two editions. There are a total general prize pools of 16k along with 30k $STRK tokens. There are also a sum of 35.75k of bounties coming from individual tracks such as Realms, Pragma, Cartridge... for submissions that are building/integrating with those projects.
Dojo has recently released their Unity SDK, a tool that will undoubtedly expedite the progress of numerous developers participating in this jam.
Strategems Review
When we first discovered Stratagems and read its Twitter bio, we thought it would be another grand strategy game with the standard format of farming resources, upgrading troops, and conquering the world.
Boy were we wrong.
Let's take a look
Stratagem is a massive multiplayer turn-based board game developed by Etherplay (the studio behind Conquest.eth). Stratagem's gameplay including wagering tokens for placement, with player starting at 1 life after depositing and playing their way up to "Ultimate State Owner" to be able to withdraw the deposit.
The game also features FUZD, Etherplay's in-house developed Encrypted Commit+Reveal System. FUZD allows hidden information mechanics whereby player can "commit" for an action and then being able to only reveal it later.
The guys at Composable Hub has written a detailed review about the gameplay as well as the dynamics involved. You can read it from the tweet above.
Trivia.tech Teaser
Fully on-chain arcade game Trivia from Japanese studio DeNA has realized an earliest tease.
There isn't much information available to public yet but the game is expected to be launched on Q1 2024.
Influence Pre-Release Coming Soon
Pre-Release is on the horizon, don't miss out, register today.
Space-theme strategy MMO on StarkNet Influence which draws inspiration by the infamous Eve Online has been on developed for several years and with the upcoming launch of the StarkNet token, they have also been teasing about their own pre-release version.
The pre-release is going to be on Sephoria testnet, on anticipation of the Goerli testnet deprecation. This will be the first version that allow the players to explore the full game, with all the major features and gameplay of Exploitation (their first playable release). There will also be special events and missions, as well as opporunities to earn the in-game token $SWAY ahead of the full launch.
The game is currently on limited release version with features available including:
Bridging mainnet assets from L1 to L2
Arvad Crew Assignment completion
Long-range asteroid scans
Asteroid naming
Crew formation and naming
Adalian Crewmate recruitment
Paima's ZK Paper
Introducing the Paima ZK layerA year of work has gone into this ZK layer and we're finally sharing the vision and the demo!
・Deployable ZK to any L1 ecosystem
・Use EVM & non-EVM in the same codebase
Powered by Mina, @ZekoLabs and @class_lambda
On-chain gaming engine Paima has released a paper of their Mina-based ZK Layer.
This paper discusses the use of Zero Knowledge (ZK) and Data Availability (DA) layers to scale on-chain gaming experiences. It highlights the limitations of current blockchains or rollups to run games that serve a large userbase, at the same time proposes leveraging technologies like Recursive SNARKS and isomorphic L2s on top of Mina Protocol as a ZK layer, which allows to spin up new "zk instances" as needed for the game, and allows all the player's actions aggregated into a single constant-size proof.
By combining Mina's recursive zk proof with the dynamism and customability of Zeko Labs' Layer 2 solution and utilzing LambdaClass's zkBridge for zk proofs verification on EVM chains, Paima aims to enable large-scale decentralized games while maintaining security and interoperability with other chains.
Rising Renevant live for internal testing
For the next steps, we're counting on YOU.
Stay tuned over the next few weeks for any announcements from @GrugsLair if you want to participate in any of the testing rounds!
Check our bio to join the Discord server!
Tactical fully on-chain game Rising Revenant which is built with Dojo engine and Slot infrastructure on StarkNet is already live internally for testing. The studio behind the game Grug's Lair will release announcements during the next couple of weeks of how to join the testings.
Rising Revenant joins an increasing list of games building on top of Loot Realms IP, including Loot Survivor, Eternum, Underdark etc...
Argus Lab's Episode on The Future of Gaming Podcast
@smsunarto breaks down:
- Overcoming onchain limitations
- MMO inspired sharding
- Tailored runtimes and state machines
- Enabling emergent behaviors
→ youtu.be/26ECB1gYHjE
→ apple.co/48sCwdo
→ spoti.fi/3RzHIFK
Dan and Sam from 0xResearch has sat down with Argus Labs founder Scott Sunarto to talk about his on-chain gaming perspective.
In the podcast, Scott talked about his approach to overcome limitations with fully on-chain games, Argus Lab's sharding architectures, dev tools, and enabling emergent economic behaviors through crypto integrations.
Scott also discusses their effort with the recently launched game, Dark Frontier (which is also covered in our newsletter).
Autonomous World 2.0 Ecosystem Mapping by @AW_Research
Join us in counting down to Christmas with AW Research's special advent calendar, which highlights projects from the Autonomous Worlds Ecosystem 2.0.Let's dive into the second day of the advent calendar. Engine & Infrastructure
AW Research is counting down to Christmas with the Autonomous Worlds Ecosystem 2.0 advent calendar, where each day reveals a new sector from the ecosystem.Let's dive into the third day of the advent calendar.
Venture Capital
AW Research is celebrating the holiday season with the Autonomous Worlds Ecosystem 2.0 advent calendar, unveiling a new sector from the ecosystem every day leading up to Christmas.Let's dive into the fourth day of the advent calendar.
Community/DAO
AW Research is spreading holiday cheer through the Autonomous Worlds Ecosystem 2.0 advent calendar, revealing a different sector from the ecosystem each day until Christmas arrives. Now, let's explore the fifth day on the advent calendar:
Media
AW Research is getting into the festive spirit with the Autonomous Worlds Ecasosystem 2.0 advent calendar, where each day leading up to Christmas reveals a different sector within the ecosystem. Let's dive into the sixth day of the advent calendar.
Grant, NFT & Token
AW Research continues the festive season with the Autonomous Worlds Ecosystem 2.0 advent calendar, revealing a new sector every day until Christmas.Today, we explore the seventh day of the advent calendar:
Game Studios.
Autonomous World research channel @AW_Research has published a 7-day advent calendar highlighting different players and stakeholders within the Autonomous World ecosystem, including blockchains, engines, VC, communities, medias, grants/NFTs/tokens and studios.
For convenience, we have put the links of those 7 tweets above to you access it all at once.
