Blockchain presents ample opportunities to make video games more fun and more rewarding for gamers and game developers alike. However, it requires careful planning and smart, holistic design to make sure that a blockchain layer truly and seamlessly merges with complex game-play and game-economies.

Hoard is proud to announce its partnership with The Farm 51, the company behind titles like Get Even and World War 3. Both teams will work together on a strategy to integrate blockchain into the studio’s newest title: Chernobylite.

About the Game

Chernobylite is a sci-fi survival-horror adventure that takes place in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone 30 years after the nuclear reactor meltdown. In the non-linear story of the game you wander in abandoned, overgrown areas, battle dangerous creatures, craft and manage supplies. All of that comes with a fair amount of emotional load as your character who lost his loved one in the Chernobyl accident is still haunted by the past events. The game is being developed for PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. PC Early Access version will be released on Steam on October 16, 2019.

Design goals

This is an exploration phase for The Farm 51 and Hoard cooperation to shortlist blockchain based features which would later be built into the game.

The goal is to create a new and innovative product that showcases the strengths of the original concepts, as well as the novelty of blockchain gaming technology.

Here are the mutually agreed prerequisites for success:

Original concept and content of the game has to be preserved. That includes story, setting and general gameplay idea

Focus is on adding, not altering, original game mechanics

The additional gameplay is blockchain based

New blockchain-driven solutions and architecture are as decentralized as possible

We can’t reveal too much (or else risk spoiling the surprise!); but stay tuned for updates on the collaboration efforts of the talented game designers from both teams.

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