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1Hi all,
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3We suspect that most of you are already sick and tired of all the Crypto[INSERT RANDOM ASSET] "games" proliferating the space. It has become obvious that most of them are created and used primarily with profit and speculation in mind while not bringing anything innovative to the table. These "games" simply do not improve the blockchain game ecosystem in any significant way. In light of all this, we would like to share with you the things we've been working on the past several months. We think we were able to create something new and original - something the Ethereum community would find interesting.
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5The core of our idea is to redefine how blockchain-based games work, primarily how the profit from minting and trading digital assets gets distributed. Starting with the release of CryptoKitties and followed by many copycats (no pun intended), we've discovered a powerful and distruptive idea - let players own and fully control digital assets in games. Almost all existing games (blockchain games included) are still closed and centralized with the owner (ie. developer of publisher) of the game retaining all profits from minted assets. What we aspire to do is to redesign this process from the bottom up, coming up with a way to to redistribute profits to all those who collaborated in the creation of an asset. Besides game owners, this list usually includes artists, graphic designers, game designers and many other creators. We would like to do for blockchain-based games the same that project likes UjoMusic and SingularDTV are trying to do to the entertainment industry.
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7We've noticed another issue: each game exists as a walled garden on it's own, closed off from all the other games, with no existing protocols or guidelines that can make these games interoterable. There is no way for users to, for example, reuse assets they own in one game across different games. What we came up as a potential solution is Selenean: a decentralized platform and framework with a goal to connect game developers and artists along with gamers and digital asset collectors/traders into a single ecosystem that benefits all its participants.
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9Selenean is still in the early stage of development, but we've built Cryptage Origins, a fully decentralized game based around digital asset collection to demonstrate all the ideas we came up with and wish to integrate into the Selenean framework. This is intended to be the first in the series of games in the Cryptage world, a futuristic cyberpunk-like (or Cryptopunk, as we like to call it) era where blockchain technology has become deeply integrated into human society. Cryptage Origins is a single-player strategic collectible game where the goal is to create your own blockchain venture by collecting various types of assets and using them to progress through the levels. For the sake of not making this post unreasonably long, I'll let you read more details on the game's website: https://cryptage.co
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11Keep in mind that this is a beta release, so errors are still very possible and we might have to restart everything at some point if a critical bug occurs. For now, the game has been deployed on the Kovan test network and you will therefore need some Kovan ETH in order to play it (our faucet is available at https://faucet.selenean.com). Of course, everything we created so far has been fully open-sourced:
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13https://github.com/DecenterApps/Selenean
14https://github.com/DecenterApps/Cryptage
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16If you want to get involved in any way, the best way to reach us would be via our Discord channel (the link is available at the bottom of Cryptage website).
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18Please play around and let us know what do you think, as we are eager to hear feedback from the greater community :) I don't have the exact number, but I'd say that at least 20 people have been involved in this project, most of them artists and other creative types who weren't even aware of the blockchain world until we introduced them to it. That's why we are hoping that the game will gain some traction, so that upon mainnet release everyone involved can earn additional commision for their work and realize how truly paradigm-shifting this technology can be :)
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20As for the development team, we will continue working both on Selenean framework and the Cryptage world. One of the major next goals is to implement a fully decentralized multiplayer trading card game based on digital assets that have already been created for Cryptage Origins. We will keep you updated with the progress :)