Cointelegraph published an article about the use of blockchain in the gaming industry in July 2020. An excerpt of the article follows.[1]
Blockchain technology has the potential to create a new era of gaming and drive true adoption in the industry.
The first true blockchain gaming application was Cryptokitties. While the platform itself is a technology demonstrator for collectible items, it quickly rose to prominence as the application representing the majority of transactions made on the Ethereum platform. Since its inception, the number of apps leveraging blockchain technology in gaming has exploded, with categories ranging from adventure games and card games to action games, role‐playing games, and casinos.
Blockchain use cases in gaming are mainly constrained by the transaction capacity of blockchain platforms in the case of Ethereum. Current blockchain applications in gaming, therefore, are experimental tickets, with collectible platforms and mobile games leading the pack.
Card games are among the first games to use blockchain technology in gameplay. The unique feature presented by collectible cards is that the cards themselves, as non‐fungible tokens (NFTs), become tradeable items. Most of the time, the NFTs are traded on OpenSea. One of the most popular collectible card games using blockchain technology is Gods Unchained.
Real‐time strategy, or RTS, and massively multiplayer online, or MMO, games are ideal genres for ...
