Hey Hackers! April has come to an end, letting us announce the winners of the #future-of-gaming contest held with MegaFans! HackerNoon readers, one and all, bear witness!

Each month, winners get cash prizes from a US$15,900 prize pool with some of the best getting MegaFans NFTs! We’ve still got two more rounds so if you’ll like to take part with your own article about the future of gaming, just make an account here and submit an article with the #future-of-gaming tag!

Future of Gaming Writing Contest April 2022 Nominations 🔥

The winners are the writers of one of the 10 relevant stories that generated the most traffic. They are then voted on by HackerNoon’s staff and the five stories with the most votes are announced as winners.

So, let’s cut to the chase and see who got nominated this month!

1. How to Build an Arduino Starship Game Controlled by Joystick and Computer by @chingiz
2. 10 Best Steam Games of All Time Ranked by Sales by @totoron
3. 5 Elden Ring PvP Builds that Dominate the Battlefield by @adrianmorales
4. P2E and The Future of Remote Work: A Fun Way to Supplement Your Income by @kellanjansen
5. The Metaverse as Web3’s Killer App: Exclusive Interview with Gamium Co-Founder Alejandro Rosas by @danstein
6. 18 Misconceptions Gamers have about NFTs by @sillytuna
7. The concept of the Metaverse - vision for the future of the internet and communication by @serkhitrov
8. How NFTs Turned a Little-Known Mobile Game Developer into a Multibillion-Dollar Corporation by @strateh76
9. A Brief Intro to the Metaverse in 2022 by @williammeller
10. Play2Earn Games Explained + 4 P2E Gaming Companies to Follow in 2022 by @otakugamer

And the Winners Are 👀

To make sure that we are free of hackers (bot alert! 🤖), editors voted for the winning stories.

Here are the winners:

Top of the leaderboard goes to How to Build an Arduino Starship Game Controlled by Joystick and Computer by @chingiz!

In this article, we will develop an Arduino Starship game which will be displayed on an LCD display 16x2. The game will be controlled by a joystick and by a computer through the Serial Monitor. In the game, the player controls the flying starship and a high score is stored in EEPROM. We will deal with each element separately and how it will all work together. The project is interesting and opens up opportunities to learn new: how to make and display a custom character on the LCD display. How to read and write data to EEPRom (non-volatile memory)

Congratulations, @chingiz! This article will be bookmarked for the next parts shortage! You’ve won $1,750 and a MegaFans NFT!

In second place, emboldened by the flame of ambition, is 5 Elden Ring PvP Builds that Dominate the Battlefield by @adrianmorales!

As players continue to explore and discover Elden Ring’s vast open world, the prospect of PvP might be an enticing venture. Bosses are fun, but how much more fun would it be to see how you stack up against real players? For all the duelists and Bloody Fingers lurking around Volcano Manor, here are 5 PvP builds for Elden Ring that dominate the battlefield.

This writer congratulates @adrianmorales and hopes that they will never be invaded by them! Please take your prize of $1,250 and a MegaFans NFT instead of my runes!

In third place is something that’s really for the future, P2E and The Future of Remote Work: A Fun Way to Supplement Your Income by @kellanjansen

The growth of P2E economies comes at a time when more people than ever are getting out of the office and looking to become their own bosses by freelancing. They have the potential to evolve and become a reliable secondary income stream to support people who want to make this change.

A fascinating article @kellanjansen! You’ve won $1000!

Fourth on the list is How NFTs Turned a Little-Known Mobile Game Developer into a Multibillion-Dollar Corporation by @strateh76

In 2017, Hong Kong-based mobile game developer Animoca Brands was valued at less than $6. The emergence of NFT and the belief in the prospects of this technology led to the fact that today the company is worth about $8 billion. Yat Siu's childhood was in the 1980s in Austria, where he felt disadvantaged because of his Chinese background. After dropping out of college, he founded more than a dozen companies before his first success came. In 2012, all games produced by Animoca were suddenly removed from the AppStore. Animoca had to declare bankruptcy in 2017.

An inspiring story, @strateh76! Congratulations on winning $800!

Finally, in fifth place, is 18 Misconceptions Gamers have about NFTs by @sillytuna

Western gamers and developers have come out strongly against NFTs - but there is an information gap that’s inflaming the situation. As an experienced game developer, I’ve collated many of the statements from both sides to attempt to find some middle ground. The pushback that we get in Western games is not happening elsewhere and in many other sectors. Some people are trying to take advantage of the situation for personal gain. Large companies are scared of the NFT crowd. However, those large companies can purchase or invest in successful companies in NFT space.

This article answers some questions that plenty of people have had. Well done, @sillytuna and please enjoy your prize of $500!

With that ends our quick announcement! Thanks to everyone who has sent in an article already and another round of congratulations for our winners! Keep an eye on contests.hackernoon.com for more details. We will contact the winners shortly.