Gaming Interview with Arker Labs Juanjo Chust is CEO of Arker Labs, a company founded in 2018 which has been developing all kinds of applications. Arker is an online multiplayer game that allows you to create a custom character, equip it with NFTs, and fight against others to fight for control of the city of Ohm. : Vested Interest Disclosure The author is an independent contributor publishing via our . Be it through direct compensation, media partnerships, or networking; the author has a vested interest in the company/ies mentioned in this story.  HackerNoon has reviewed the story for quality, but the claims hereon belong to the author. #DYOR brand-as-author program Hi Juanjo, welcome to our series “Behind the Startup.” Please tell us about yourself and the story behind ? Ishan Pandey: Arker Labs Hello! Nice to be here. I’m Juanjo Chust, CEO of Arker Labs, a company founded in 2018 which has been developing all kinds of applications. However, for a couple of years, we have been dedicated only to providing consulting and Blockchain developments to all types for companies worldwide. We love technology and develop new ideas about it, giving more and more value to decentralized applications. Juanjo Chust: DeFi is gradually establishing itself as the critical source of funding, with multi-billion dollars already committed. What are your views on GameFi, and how is it connected with DeFi? Ishan Pandey: From our point of view, we believe this is the way forward to offer the user one of the best virtues of the blockchain, the ownership of the asset. Juanjo Chust: We believe in offering the user a way to monetize their time, and apart from that, offering a platform where they can continue to earn more rewards with systems such as breeding, scholarship or similar; bringing a very interesting vision for the player. How should play-2-earn games be modeled for developers? Ishan Pandey: As developers, we believe that the most important thing is to create good tokenomics, so that everything is well organized, avoiding click2earn without any sense. Juanjo Chust: And the second most important point is to give a clear and concise use to the token, a use that allows quick and transparent usage for the user, making the token circulate and creating a healthy and lasting economy in the game. Despite recent market declines and regulatory crackdowns in some countries, cryptocurrencies are gradually but steadily gaining acceptance across all businesses, particularly the gaming industry, which is eager to get into the fast-growing market of digital currency users. Do you believe blockchain technology will be widely adopted in the next five years? Ishan Pandey: Clearly, blockchain technology is going to be key in the future, and companies are already beginning to contemplate the possibilities of integrating it into their games. So, if you can bring more features to your players and bring them more security. Why not implement it? If, as a player, I see two exact same games, but one of them offers me the possibility of becoming the real owner of the things I earn and doing whatever I want with those items. I will always choose the second one. Juanjo Chust: Please tell us about Arker Labs and the F2P and P2E model? Ishan Pandey: One of our own products within the company is our game Arker, which we have been able to launch after many years of development. Arker is an online multiplayer game that allows you to create a custom character, equip it with NFTs, and fight against others to fight for control of the city of Ohm. Juanjo Chust: To enable P2E within the game, you only need 2 pets (NFTs with unique stats), this way, you can already have an ROI within the game. Otherwise, you can always play for free without making an initial investment. Can you please tell our readers what distinguishes the metaverse play-to-earn model from the play-to-earn model existing within the mobile gaming space? Ishan Pandey: From my point of view, the metaverse is focused on the interaction between users, something much more personal, where within it, you can work, have your salary, buy things for your avatar, and be able to perform all kinds of activities within the virtual world. So that the currency is used for the same things that we use our local currencies in our lives. Juanjo Chust: Instead, at the phone game level, I think it’s more focused on monetizing your time to make profits or even reinvest them in the platform. What are your views on DeFi and the susceptibility of decentralized applications to hacks? Ishan Pandey: Unfortunately, hacks are happening all the time on these types of platforms. But it is something that we will always have to live with since it is something that happens in any type of software. Juanjo Chust: The only thing we can do is if we have the ability to analyze the project, do it ourselves, and if not, verify that the project has always passed several audits of recognized companies to be as safe as possible. What does the roadmap ahead look like for Arker Labs and the blockchain gaming industry as a whole? Ishan Pandey: We are currently creating much visual content, as we are one of the few projects where all the assets are made in-house. Juanjo Chust: We are making a revamped version of the current 2D game that is already available in the stores. We are also making a 3D metaverse with AAA graphics, which looks spectacular. It will be much more extensive, and users will be able to see themselves while walking through the big city we are creating. We will also create terrains for users to acquire ownership of these and perform activities with their friends, which makes the possibilities grow. We also want to go out on console platforms to reach more users and allow them to make scholarships to help new users who want to unlock their full potential but don’t want to invest money at the start. All this is just a small part of what we are preparing, as we have many things in mind, and we will not stop until we reach our goal: A triple AAA game where users play for fun and on top of that, they have extra features that the blockchain brings to the game, like ownership of items, monetizing your time and much more. Don’t forget to forget and like the story!

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