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Released: Pulsar79. Reveries of Ymatar mintable now! Games use 'single seed' principles tied to individual tokens, fully hosted #onchain #ETH #BTC #arweave

[gridacity @gridacity]

1/ We are happy to announce Reveries Of Ymatar: Ordinal Edition! A small collection of 100 games on #BTC powered by #Ordinals, #ERC721 Metadata and #arweave (@ardriveapp).
Ordinals available through @scarcedotcity https://t.co/I8J2Vk1C4R

[gridacity @gridacity]

If you don't understand the product, you can't understand the audience.

[Sirgulator @sirgulator]

PSA: If you are in the game industry or make games, and you don't play them (gambling is not gaming) or care for games, please leave the industry. This goes for managers, investors, developers, sales, marketing, everyone. You don't understand gamers, stop taking advantage of them

[🐘🔗ArDrive.ar.io @ardriveapp]

Gridacity has been pioneering NFT gaming since 2021

Read the story of how #Pulsar79 landed on Arweave through ArDrive on our website 👇
https://t.co/4GbASOsYTI

[gridacity @gridacity]

If only you could own your games and play them like the game cartridges of 20 years ago... Wait you can! Been pushing this narrative since early 2021! Permanent #onchain #games, courtesy of #arweave, #Ethereum and #Bitcoin buy once, own/play forever. Gamers unite! 💪🕹️🎮

[gridacity @gridacity]

We have been using the best solution for a problem that is plaguing the gaming industry for over a decade already. Gamers want permanence and if this pushes through, the gaming industry will have it before the 'Web3' space does. Only #onchain will remain.

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[Sirgulator @sirgulator]

@Loopifyyy People paying multiple ETHs for a PFP while you can get fully unique 1/1 #onchain games for 0.02ETH 🤪 but what else is new #Gridacity

[Sirgulator @sirgulator]

If any #NFTGame developers are interested in making their games fully #onchain. DMs are open. In 2024 there is no excuse not to.

[gridacity @gridacity]

You only own it when it's fully #onchain. No excuses with #arweave handling the storage. Your move #NFTGames! We already been proving it's possible since early 2021!

[Sirgulator @sirgulator]

Big 'AAA' companies are struggling with huge pushback from gamers giving up on them. A big part is games being pulled, disappearing without any way to recover. The #web3 gaming space has the same problem with almost all games being 'games as a service'. You own nothing.

[gridacity @gridacity]

Our #games are unique 1/1s with none of them being the same. Assuming they run at 60FPS you are getting billions of images for the fraction of the price of 1 NFT art piece, all interactive and fully #onchain! #ETH or #BTC? Take your pick! #arweave #permament #nftgaming

[Sirgulator @sirgulator]

EA cutting almost 700 job's is not new. I think we have hit almost 10k layoffs in 'AAA' gaming over the last 12 months, if not more. Looking at the biggest games of last year being Indie titles, it's clear those companies have lost touch, often being lead by non-gamers.

[gridacity @gridacity]

With #BTC and #Ethereum picking up, #NFTGames become more expensive when buying with FIAT! Maybe a good time to sit back, get yourself an #onchain game for 0.02 #ETH, or maybe you prefer Reveries Of Ymatar from our #OrdinalsNFT collection? All permanent and unique 1/1's!

[Sirgulator @sirgulator]

@iamDCinvestor Years later, using #ethereum for ownership and smart contracts and #arweave for data storage, remain the best solutions for building actual utility on blockchain tech. Ethereum still has a long way to go through

[gridacity @gridacity]

Listen to the actual gaming demographics or be limited to the crypto's space echo chamber and temporary hype. If your game is not #onchain, it's a 'web2' rental. #arweave #permanent #gaming

[Sirgulator @sirgulator]

4) Permanence has been a hot topic for years in the gaming industry. The push back against 'Software as a service' is huge and the demand for physical games has reemerged. This due to many games and services disappearing making games unplayable and lost forever.

[gridacity @gridacity]

"Build good games, care about gamers" ❤️❤️🕹️👾🎮

[Sirgulator @sirgulator]

8) Conclusion. The tools exist, the concept is proven. The #NFTGaming space can grow exponentially when focused on the right things but still had a long way to go. Utility outlives hype, and hype is short and scarce in this fast moving space. Build good games, care about gamers.

[Sirgulator @sirgulator]

6) Many 'web3' games are still hosted centrally, on traditional temporary servers and don't offer any permanence, the same mistake the current 'AAA Gaming' industry is making. This with the NFT games mainly focusing on gambling makes onboarding new users extremely difficult.

[Sirgulator @sirgulator]

5) Blockchain and 'NFT Tech' can support the demand by traditional gamers for permanence and ownership, making the 'Physical Game' concept possible in a digital environment. This can be done with services like #arweave for storage and #Etherum ERC-721 or #BTC for ownership/resell

[Sirgulator @sirgulator]

3) Many 'web3' games are less interesting to gamers because of the dependency on currency (regardless of it being FIAT or Crypto), and would rather just pay once for owning a game (Vintage Game Cartridges, DRM free games on services like GOG). Preferred even for multiplayer games

[Sirgulator @sirgulator]

1) The current state of 'web3 gaming', a thread.
The majority of 'web3 gaming' projects are optimized for gamblers, not for gamers. It's clear these projects don't do proper research. The best sold games by numbers in the last years are single player and co-op enabled games.

[gridacity @gridacity]

Another behind the scenes from the archives of Reveries Of Ymatar development back in 2021! This demonstrates an early stage of the procedural generation algorithm used for generating the dungeons! All the games have an individual seed for the algorithm based on your #NFTGame! 🎮

[gridacity @gridacity]

Real utility survives in the end! Many #blockchain's struggle with growth and peak use, #arweave thrives on it. Here to stay and grow untill infinity! Happy we chose it for permanent #onchain game storage so people have access until forever! (Like a Digital Game Cartridge! 👾)

[🐘🔗 sam.arweave.net @samecwilliams]

Arweave is not quite running at the highest sustained throughput for a public blockchain, but it is getting very close. Even without vote transactions Solana does an impressive ~500 TPS on an average day 🫡.

A few times recently Arweave peaked above 1,000 TPS for a few hours. Just a couple more 2xs to go until that is normal.

The best part -- and the part that many still haven't grasped -- is that Arweave just won't stop scaling. Because it bundles storage payments and service provision, there simply are no applicable limits.

Crypto is the 'industry that cried w̶o̶l̶f̶ scalability' with better marketing than tech, so it makes sense that people ignore it at first. We will see what kind of real-world TPS Arweave has to sustain before the crowd realizes 😄

[gridacity @gridacity]

Still waiting 😇🕹️🎮🕹️ #onchain #permanentgames #Ethereum #BTC #Ordinals #NFTgames #arweave

[gridacity @gridacity]

Name one other game that is Permanently #onchain, is a full Game, exists out of only Unique 1/1's (no 1 game is the same!). Take your time, we'll wait 😏 (Reveries Of Ymatar and Pulsar79 excluded so good luck.)