My first interaction with Decentralized gaming was with Crypto Kitties. The game entailed buying, collecting, breeding, and then selling a virtual cat. Each cat had a unique set of characteristics (Cattributes) that pass to offspring. The rarer the attributes the more expensive the cat. Each player was required to breed a kittie with the rarest features. You would then profit from breeding and selling unique cats. Some could get quite expensive, for instance, when I heard dragon I genuinely went crazy. Dragon was a crypto kitty that was sold for about $170,000 in 2018. It was at this moment that I realized that maybe if I exerted myself and changed my gaming strategy I could make a killing from gaming. I made it my business to find out as much as I could about Blockchain in gaming and think of new ways to optimize my gaming experience and returns. The Evolution and its Benefits The intersection of Blockchain and gaming has always been an interesting world. In this new world, a lifelike reality is possible in a virtual world. Thanks to Virtual and Augmented Reality, the gaming world is likely to get even more integrated with our real-world experience. I have witnessed a revolution as Blockchain and gaming have come together to improve both the players' and the developers' experience. Blockchain is continuing to revolutionize most industries that previously lacked accountability. It achieves this by creating a trustless environment that facilitates immutable transactions between two strangers over the internet. The gaming industry is one among many beneficiaries of the technology in the following ways. Players need assets such as cars, guns, and art to complete their mission. Most of these assets can be purchased with real-world money and earned as the player progresses. A few years back I had several bad experiences with untrustworthy game developers who would rig the market. Thanks to Blockchain, that mischievousness has been curbed. The transactions are recorded openly and permanently hence the developers cannot manipulate them. The first benefit is verifiability and transparency. Secondly, I have witnessed improve tremendously. Blockchain allows players to easily access assets issued on the different platforms and establish their exact quantity and scarcity. This has increased the trust in the gaming world as well as the value of the marketplace itself. the security of gaming Blockchain is a highly secure way of storing value since it is designed to be unhackable. Therefore, storing digital gaming assets on a Blockchain enhances the security for a player who has worked hard to collect them. Thirdly, I witnessed Blockchain revolutionizing the use of collectible items. Blockchain stores value in the form of NFTs which can represent the value of game assets that are unique and collectible. NFTs make these items easy to sell, trade, and store on a digital wallet. Lastly, we have obvious benefits such as saving time and cost. Gaming involves players all over the world counterstriking each other. Blockchain allows them to instantly transfer their assets hence countering border restrictions and saving time and transactions at the same time. Thanks to all these benefits that Blockchain brought to gaming, I have not only been able to optimize my gaming experience but I have also been able to earn from a hobby I enjoy so much. Conclusion I believe that the future is only brighter and that gamers should pay close attention to this technology trend. As the intersection between gaming and Blockchain continues to grow, we should expect to see true ownership of tradeable in-game assets. We should also expect a more decentralized gaming economy as more people realize the value that Blockchain is offering to this industry. Thirdly, we should expect player-governed titles where the power dynamic will shift and the games will no longer be fully controlled by developers. This will then result in a fair gaming experience where developers can no longer rig games. Generally, there should be an overall improvement in industry practices. This article is part of The hosted by HackerNoon in partnership with Gaming Metaverse Writing Contest The Sandbox . Submit your #gaming-metaverse story today for your chance to win up to $2000!
