Autonomous World and Full On-Chain Games

The combination of open systems and continuous online presence in these games is a great boon for interoperability and fundamentally changes traditional games, which are closed systems controlled by their creators. In autonomous worlds, players can create their own extensions in their own ways, forming a constantly evolving bottom-up ecosystem.

In addition, games made in this fully on-chain manner can themselves become economic systems. They can have their own currencies, markets, and economic rules, creating new forms of economic organization that can coexist with traditional economies. So, these games are not just entertainment, they also represent a path to new economic and social structures in the metaverse.

Autonomous Worlds Game Engine

Source: https://lattice.xyz/blog/making-of-opcraft-LianGuairt-3-what-happened-in-two-weeks-of-OPCraft

The scene of the autonomous world is currently small, but it will grow significantly in the next ten years. Therefore, some of the most important early work currently underway is the development of “on-chain game engines”, which are frameworks for launching one’s own or building around the autonomous world. Here are several on-chain game engines that you should pay attention to:

MUD: Developed by the Lattice team, this “multi-user dungeon” framework makes it easy to create complex on-chain applications on the Ethereum network. In 2022, this framework was used to create the voxel game OPCraft on the Optimism chain.

Keystone: Developed by the Curio team, this framework is actually an Optimism-based L2 chain with a built-in game engine, specifically designed for parallel gaming activities. Curio is currently building their on-chain diplomacy game, Treaty, based on this technology stack.

Dojo: A chain-based game engine and toolchain based on StarkNet, supporting the Rust and Cairo programming languages.

Argus: Argus is a game publisher committed to developing their own on-chain game creator studio stack World Engine, which is an L2 that supports sharding so that games can be built horizontally on the network.

Summary

In the December 2022 issue of Zora Zine, writer and entrepreneur Yancey Strickler predicts that the era of on-chain has already begun, and he predicts that this period will be defined as the period when “many creative cultural outputs, shared history, and information infrastructure will be established, stored, and accessed on-chain.”

I fully agree with Strickler’s view. However, I do believe that the rise of autonomous world types is part of the flourishing development of the on-chain era. When we look back in ten years, these types of games will be obvious, but right now we are at the beginning of this field, and it’s really exciting!

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