🔬 Category Overview: NFT Gaming on Flow Blockchain
Games can integrate with blockchain technology by using NFTs for in-game items, characters, avatars that players need to play a game or improve their experience.
It can offer several benefits over traditional gaming with the core aspect being that players can fully own their digital items which may have real-world value based on rarity and importance in the game.
Overall statistics on the Gaming landscape on Flow:
- Total gaming projects: 22
- Total sales (Primary & Secondary): $7.6m
Discord User Breakdown:
Overview of top projects:
- Chainmonsters: Cross-platform massively multiplayer RPG where you catch, battle, trade and compete with digital monsters. 60k+ players with the closed Alpha phase with nearly 10k paid members (season pass). Sold out of their Genesis Drop($1M) within minutes
- Joyride Games: Blockchain-powered competitive gaming platform for casual game developers and players on Flow
- Zeedz: A play-for-purpose game where players reduce global carbon emissions by collecting plant-inspired creatures: Zeedles
- Moxy: Powering the Play and Earn Revolution; Steam for web3 games with the $MOX utility token
- Blocklete Games: A first ever investment-style golf management NFT mobile app play to earn game, where your golf game skill determines your outcomes
- Dark Country: Dark Country is an NFT trading collectible card game based in the American Gothic setting, inspired by all-time classics like Hearthstone and Magic: The Gathering
- The Football Club: NFT based fantasy football manager app where players earn coins, collect & trade officially licensed football & lifestyle NFT items for their 3D Avatar and interact with other players
- Enemy Metal: NFT collection that is set across the galaxy, where the first collection is the base on which the Enemy Metal Universe will be built
Stand-out Flow NFT Gaming:
- First on Flow: Chainmonsters (Nov 2020)
- Biggest community: Joyride (48k Discord Users)
- Highest total sales: Chainmonsters ($2.8m)
- Most holders: Chainmonsters (15k)
- Flowverse Sock-Club Favourites: 1. Chainmonsters, 2. Zeedz, 3. Moxy, 4. Blocklete Games, 5. Basic Beasts (Voting completed by 48 Flowverse Sock NFT holders)
- Key upcoming games: Dimension X, Metaverse Football League
Bottom Line:
Flowverse believes we are still looking for the best, sustainable blockchain gaming mechanics. As such, there is tremendous opportunity in this space to discover what works. NFT gaming today is comparable to the early days of free-to-play in mobile gaming and a breakout web3 game has the potential to significantly increase the global crypto daily active users overnight.