‘Korea Blockchain Week 2022’ (KBW 2022) is being held at Parnas Hotel in Samseong-dong, Seoul, where a heavy rain has passed. Participants who visited the two-day event are peeking at things like ‘the future of blockchain games’ and ‘what famous people are saying’. Reporters also keep their seats for the second day and deliver the news. And still, the most popular content genre after the word blockchain is ‘game’.
Many people are talking about blockchain games, but there are not many spaces where you can experience games in the field. There is a habit of saying, “The game needs to be fun to activate the blockchain economy”, but it seems that the blockchain scene needs a little more time to verify the fun. Fun can be seen as a subjective concept, but since you can’t try it, you can’t think of anything.
then There was only one game company that submitted a demo build at KBW 2022, so Ring Games. Those who set up a new company in 2019The people who made King’s Raid> became the main axis, Our motto is “Let’s do it ourselves from development to service”. Currently the company A total of 65 people are working, including the development and business general PD and art director.
Ring Games booth at KBW 2022
# P2E Genshin? What game?
Scheduled to be released in the second half of this year Is It is an NFT collectible action RPG that will be released on PC and mobile together. The player controls four characters in the world to battle, all of which exist as individualized NFTs.
In the fall of 2021, we switched to blockchain games, and the action is all non-targeting. The company’s CEO, Joo-ho Yoon, emphasized, “It is not a stake deal, but rather the action of seeing a flying laser and avoiding it by seeing a moving arm. This is what differentiates our game from other NFT games.” Taking out several characters and defeating enemies can be considered as a key characteristic of
Joo-Ho Yoon, CEO of Ring Games. A pixelized image was used by request.
In fact, in the experience build, I was able to meet NPCs in the semi-open world village and enter the instance dungeon to perform actions. This was recalled. The development team uses Unreal Engine. From accessories to hair It is said that all of them worked hard to produce delicate graphics that move.
Various characters are released as NFTs, but each character will have different stats depending on how they awake (awaken) and what items are crafted. and You can start with F2P, not a game that thinks about return on investment.
It is designed as a game that can ‘play all the time without NFT’. CEO Yoon said, “I want to do ‘Play With Earn’ rather than P2E.”
So can be accessed and played at a certain level without holding NFTs, and it is speculated that it is a model that becomes more powerful by purchasing NFTs when the trajectory of the game rises. Conversely, when you close the game, you can market your character NFTs and get rewards for the games you’ve played.
By analogy, when the game is closed, the idea is to get a certain amount of money back from the game by selling the shoguns that are well picked and raised. Depending on how the character is raised, the functions in the game will be different, so even the same Shogun can have different prices. Ring Games is Ever since then, it’s been called ‘Moe’. He says he is confident again this time because he has repeatedly researched to evoke a ‘collective desire’.
# Will NFT + Collectible RPG succeed?
CEO Yoon Joo-ho argues that collectible RPGs and NFTs are a good match. “The game we make has a strong affinity for the characters and the community is very strong,” he said, thinking, “If we combine the spirit of going with the community we talk about in NFT, there will be great synergy.” is being released as a blockchain game.
then Where is the community?
CEO Yoon saidon Discord and Twitter There is a community, and users give a lot of opinions there.” Since real money is at stake, it is said that those who are generally interested in NFT games have slightly different needs and voices from general game users. Users who joined the community It is said that a large number of people with a high interest in subculture were included.
He said, “If you look at other NFT games, there are a lot of Southeast Asian and Korean users, but we have a country like a piece of pizza. There are not a lot of Japanese players, but this is a very unique thing.” from their community I heard the story ‘Is this a real game?’, and brought the game to this event to prove that it is a ‘real game’.
is a market-proven RPG, None of the creators of it have ever succeeded with a blockchain game. Needless to say, it is still too early to call blockchain gaming a fully proven field in the market. (The impact of macroeconomics cannot be ignored.)
To CEO Yoon Joo-ho How to embed a blockchain in
Joo-Ho Yoon, CEO of Ring Games: BNB(Binance Chain) and Ethereum multi-chain. Blockchain itself is characterized by the fact that the technology can be used by anyone. However, I thought it was dangerous to depend on only one mainnet. We prepared the network that users are currently using in the game.
The BNB chain is used a lot in the game pipeline, and Ethereum is a pipeline that has already been proven in this (blockchain game). Both are open for users to choose from, but I think that in the future, from the standpoint of blockchain games, we have reached the stage where we can choose the chain we want rather than being dependent on one chain.
in accordance with the current law can not serve blockchain on top of it in Korea. CEO Yoon Joo-ho also emphasized the success in the global market. Nevertheless, CEO Yoon “I have a strong desire to communicate with Korean users, but I have prepared for Korean service. As it is a game made by Korean developers, there are parts that only Korean users can know. When the situation improves, we plan to provide Korean services as well.”
