3 months ago, a game developer announced on Reddit that he is making a game about blockchain and crypto. Crypto Against All Odds (CAAO)is a humorous take on blockchain technology and crypto culture. His goal for this game is for crypto enthusiasts to enjoy the various crypto cultures and for new people that want to learn about blockchain and the different type of cryptocurrencies.

Game Mechanics

Each cryptocurrency featured in this game is called a defender and has their own unique abilities when you battle on the field. For example, you can use Bitcoin’s Lightning Network attack, employ Ethereum’s Plasma power or take advantage of Litecoin’s Reduced Blocktime buff to win the game.

In addition to each defender’s abilities, there is another layer that helps you build your strategy and that layer is the price of the coin. The game provides real-time price tracking for each crypto and these price fluctuations will also impact each crypto’s power and consequently your strategy. Essentially, Real-time crypto prices can influence the power of your crypto defenders.

Moreover, CAAO also features skill-tree building for customization, base-building mechanics, mini arcade games, and of course, memes.

Unveiling ‘Tezos Defender’

When this game was initially announced, Tezos Commons collaborated with the founder/developer of the game, Chris Le, and have worked with him to implement ‘Tezos Defender’ for the launch of the game.

We are finally excited to unveil his Tezos creation for CAAO:

Tezos teleports in and starts to bake

Tezos’ ability in the game is to ‘self-bake’, once fully baked, Tezos will emit a powerful charge on its enemy.

Fully baked, Tezos emits a powerful blast

Q/A with Chris Le

This game is slated to launch in 2020, We sat down with Chris Le and asked him a few questions on his game, Tezos, and future plans.

What made you want to get into game development and what was your prior experience?

I used to work as a senior consultant for a big multinational consulting firm before quitting the job in late 2017 to run my own ecommerce business. At the time I already had a strong interest in the blockchain space so I started taking an online course in writing smart contract to teach myself programming. However, the course proved to be very challenging for someone who never had education or experience in coding like myself. Thus, I changed the plan and decided to teach myself some foundation in C# programming first by studying how to make video games, my other passion. I picked up game development surprisingly quick and truly enjoy this craft. Eventually I began to brainstorm an idea for my first video game project that I plan to develop and publish, and thus “Crypto Against All Odds” was born.

What was your vision behind the game?

Currently, there are some exciting blockchain game projects out there that aim to push the use of decentralized ownership in gaming and bring to the forefront the benefits of blockchain integration. However, I have yet to see a game building on the blockchain theme and celebrating the crypto nerds’ culture so I want to fill that void with “Crypto Against All Odds”. I personally found the technology fascinating so I really want to fuse various concepts in cryptocurrencies (mining blocks, hashing, orphan rate, etc.) into a fun and engaging gameplay that everyone can enjoy. My vision for the game is not only something that us old crypto enthusiasts would appreciate, but also an educational experience for people unfamiliar with cryptocurrencies but willing to learn. Hopefully it will intrigue more gamers to explore this exciting space for the long term.

I know you are a Tezos fan, what interests you about Tezos in general?

I initially did not hear about the Tezos ICO launch but what led me to first learn about the project was actually the Swiss foundation drama reported in the news. Despite the challenge and uncertainty the community faced at the time, I saw great opportunity once I started studying Tezos and realized the team is bringing very interesting ideas to the space, particularly with its on-chain governance model and formal verification capability. I think following the successful launch of the chain and the listing on Coinbase, Tezos has emerged as a very promising project with a strong community support. I look forward to seeing more original projects being built upon Tezos’ Liquid Proof of Stake model. I had a lot of fun designing Tezos in the game utilizing the “baking” concept. In the game Tezos will also be a strong defender against bugs thanks to its being written in a robust language like Michelson.

Do you have any future planned features for the game?