But we’ve also added two new course tracks:

One on building Custom Game Modes for Zombie Battleground, and another on Plasma Cash (first lesson coming very soon).

The Custom Game Modes track has launched with 2 lessons to start with — and we will be releasing new lessons for both tracks gradually over the coming weeks.

Major Surprise Announcement: Introducing Custom Game Modes for Zombie Battleground

Update:

Zombie Battleground is now known as Relentless. Read the official announcement on our Kickstarter page.

If you haven’t heard about Zombie Battleground, our fully blockchain-based mobile card game, then this helpful video from devilishly handsome community member Oneandahalfpint should catch you up to speed:

An intro to Zombie Battleground, for those who aren’t familiar with it yet. Gameplay footage starts at 2:00.

Of course, Zombie Battleground being on the blockchain means you can have the benefit of true ownership of provably scarce collectible cards — where you’re free to trade, buy, and sell them with other players on our massive PvP marketplace.

But that’s only the tip of the “benefits of blockchain games” iceberg.

Today we’re proud to announce that we’ve refactored the Zombie Battleground code in order to make it fully moddable to the core.

What does that mean, exactly?

We’ve gutted the core game logic and put it into a Solidity file — which means the set of rules that govern the gameplay during matches and tournaments has become a swappable, modular component.

Not only that, but we’re also opening it up to allow any user to deploy their own version of the game engine logic to the blockchain, which will then become available as a Custom Game Mode to all players on the mobile client.

This means players of Zombie Battleground are not limited only to playing the default game mode. They will be able to use the cards they own to play hundreds, potentially thousands of different game variations that have been created by other users.

Any player can code their own custom gameplay rules and deploy them to Zombie Battleground’s GameChain as a custom game mode — where thousands of players can then INSTANTLY access it and start playing it in PvP matches.

This is HUGE news — because this is something that can ONLY be done on the blockchain.

We truly believe this will be one of the first “killer use cases” of blockchain applications — and it has never been possible until now.

All the tech we’ve been building at Loom Network over the past year has led up to making this possible. So we’re super excited to unleash it on the world.