What is blockchain gaming?

After I entered this industry, I posted a second tweet to my twitter (@gelert) after a gap of 10 years from my first one, saying Game.com would tell the world what a blockchain game is. What I meant is that currently no one can define what a blockchain game is. The current implementations on the market do not fully realize blockchain technology’s potential in games. Only through actively working, setting the industry standards, and becoming the dominant player in the industry, can it make sense for one to define what blockchain gaming really is.

Everyone mistakenly thought CryptoKitties was the definition of blockchain gaming, but the game inspired me nonetheless. What are PC games? Client games on the PC. What are web games? Games you can play inside a browser. What are mobile games? Before 2011 a lot of web games thought that simply moving their games to mobile would work. Whenever there is a new concept, the game itself does not change. A game is still a game. It means a new opportunity has come into existence. If the mobile gaming market didn’t exist, games like Temple Run, Flappy Birds, Angry Birds, and similar types of games would not exist. Therefore, blockchain technology has blessed us with great new opportunities in the gaming market.

Blockchain gaming, is not simply a change in gaming infrastructure and equipment, but usage of the new ideologies of blockchain to design changes in the game. It is an ideology, not just what assets a game has put onto a blockchain contract, or what it’s ICO or coin generation is. Blockchain gaming is a new ideological paradigm for designing games. Early games like CryptoKitties have problems with its gaming logic, but it’s nonetheless a very good exploration of a new ideology.

How I have recently felt can be summed up by the saying : a day in blockchain is equal to a year in the normal human world. This is exactly how I felt this January, as if 30 years of work was compressed into one month; an truly exhausting experience. But I’m sure everyone has encountered the same problem as I have, that business is still always commercial in nature, and it is still very difficult to create hot products that go viral. For a venture to achieve success takes hard work, it’s like what blockchain investor Charles Xue told me, that even having children takes 10 months and cannot be done instantaneously, and that even the mightiest people can be anxious and uncertain. I think no matter whether we are in the blockchain industry or not, business will always require your full effort, dedication, as well as time to achieve success in. And even then, many companies still fail, and to create successful hot products still happens rarely. In conclusion, blockchain gaming, is when you use the new business logic and ideologies from the blockchain world to redesign games and try to achieve viral success by creating hot products.

Thank you very much.

Happy Xu

Founder and CEO of Game.com