On this video, CM Video games’ Paul Flanagan shares his insightful perspective on web3 and its progress to this point in gaming. The speak was given on the monitor Web3 Wonders at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki earlier in 2023.
Flanagan kicks off by sharing CM Video games’ journey inside web3, its strategy to blockchain adoption and the way the collaboration with Legendary Video games happened, and extra.
Whereas beforehand engaged on the extremely common Drag Racing franchise, which later advanced into Nitro Nation, the following chapter began when one of many workforce members created textual content based mostly RPG EtheR Quest on Ethereum again in 2018.
Later that yr CM Video games created cell and browser-based autofighting sport Glitch Goons. As Flanagan explains nevertheless, “The issue was we spent a lot time constructing the backend, however we didn’t actually have time to type out the sport. We had all the nice tech, however the sport didn’t actually work.”
Then the crypto winter hit, and identical to for a lot of different sport initiatives, CM Video games’ buyers pulled out.
A few years later Legendary Video games approached the workforce with a request to make a racing sport. Realising that they largely aligned in concepts, the businesses began collaborating. With Legendary as writer and CM Video games because the developer, the third instalment of the Drag Racing sequence – mobile-based Nitro Nation World Tour – took type.
And much like Legendary’s different cell sport NFL Rivals, the sport merely operates as a free-to-play. Gamers personal their automobiles, however crypto wallets and blockchain interplay is elective, all of the whereas many of the complexity of onboarding is hidden. Whereas blockchain provides worth by way of facilitating possession, it’s “not important to do what we’re doing, however most likely a prerequisite from the angle of belief,” explains Flanagan.
This video is very informative for anybody seeking to achieve extra in-depth data of the considering behind blockchain adoption and its advantages in gaming.
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