Why are more and more GameFi projects choosing to join the Sui ecosystem?

In the existing mainstream blockchain network, due to the limitation of its own throughput, users have to pay a considerable amount of Gas fees in the case of a surge in usage. At the same time, the high delay brought by the consensus mechanism also greatly affects The responsiveness of the application. These issues lead to a poor user experience with GameFi products - games are slow and prohibitively expensive to play.

Sui is a public chain focused on satisfying the mass adoption of blockchain, positioning itself as "one of the most attractive destinations for Web3 game developers" from the outset. From the bottom-level design, Sui is committed to enabling developers to better build an experience that meets the scale of 1 billion users, and it can better meet the needs of game developers in terms of throughput, storage capacity, response speed, and cost of use.

At present, many well-made games have been or will be released on Sui, such as RPG sandbox game Overworld, Metaverse game Metaworld, action game Bushi similar to Overwatch, fitness battle game Run Legends, etc., as well as the recent popular 3A production Abyss World.

As Anthony Palma, game director of Sui's development team Mysten Labs, said, Sui's goal is not just "blockchain games" or "encrypted games", but also those who want to use Web3 to improve player experience and provide more engagement. game developers. It can be seen that Sui's team values the quality of the game itself more than the various encryption elements superimposed on the game for GameFi.

It is this fit of development philosophy that another card game Legend of Arcadia, which also focuses on game playability, has also recently joined the Sui ecological army.

Legend of Arcadia (LOA) is a casual card strategy game with multi-chain deployment. The game is built on a virtual continent of Arcadia. Players can use their own card heroes (NFT) to fight PVE and PVP to obtain game rewards.

Compared with other GameFi game projects, LOA puts more emphasis on the playability of the game. In terms of in-game assets, LOA only introduces NFT and the game's only token ARCA, which is simpler and more direct in terms of user incentives.

In terms of playability, LOA has designed 8 types of heroes and 6 camps. There are hundreds of game equipment and skills, which can be matched with tens of thousands of skill combinations. In addition to the traditional checkpoint mode, LOA also has PVP arena, hardcore Roguelike maze gameplay and mining gameplay are available for players to explore.

In addition to being deployed on the BNB Smart Chain, Legend of Arcadia is about to start the internal test of the game on Sui. Currently, OG Pass and Genesis NFT have been issued on Sui, of which 20,000 OG Pass have been mint, and the price of 30 SUI is on sale. 200 Genesis NFTs were also sold by Mint within 10 minutes, and the floor price reached a maximum of 60 SUI within 24 hours, an increase of more than 100%

Why choose Sui Network

For Legend of Arcadia, the appeal of Sui comes primarily from two advantages, parallel execution of transactions and dynamic NFTs.

Execute transactions in parallel

Parallel execution is a feature that distinguishes the Sui blockchain from traditional blockchain networks. In a traditional blockchain, transactions are executed sequentially, one transaction at a time before proceeding to the next transaction. However, Sui's object-based parallel execution system allows multiple transactions to be processed at the same time, enabling users to execute a large number of transactions in one operation.

More importantly, the parallel execution system of the Sui blockchain is realized by innovative architecture and underlying technology. This high throughput will not sacrifice the degree of decentralization of the network, so the security and stability are also better than other solutions. The scheme comes higher.

Thanks to this mechanism, LOA can allow users to maintain a higher response speed and lower transaction costs during the game, greatly improving the user's game experience.

Dynamic NFT

Dynamically upgradable NFTs are also a key advantage of Sui.

In other blockchain networks, the NFT that handles changes is generally destroyed by destroying the old NFT, and then rewriting the data to cast a new NFT. It will cause the loss of the historical data of the old NFT.

Sui, on the other hand, allows developers to upgrade NFTs while retaining all metadata, such as the player's role in the game (accumulating experience) or weapons (embedding gems). When upgrading, Sui can synchronize data to these objects In the description data of the game, the real-time update is completed, the player can feel the improvement of the ability in real time, and the game experience is stronger.

Legend of Arcadia applied Sui's dynamic NFT to their hero appearance. As the player's hero evolves and upgrades during the game journey, the hero's appearance can also change accordingly. Each hero will be given A unique imprint belonging to the player, which will meet the more personalized needs of the player.

This also makes LOA the first card game on Sui based on dynamic NFT.

True Game Asset Ownership

Players do not need to transfer Gacha Ball & Hero to the in-game wallet, and do not need to transfer the ownership of assets to the game party like other Web3 games. In LOA, players can directly "use" this NFT in the game under the condition of "really owning this asset", and the ownership of the data belongs to the user. Such a mechanism is very suitable for the resource-oriented language characteristics of MOVE, and can guarantee the security of user assets from the most fundamental level.

Expansion ecology

LOA has designed a way to recycle low-value hero NFTs. Players can burn low-value hero NFTs and convert them into energy. Energy is a very useful game resource. Consuming energy can greatly increase the mining speed of players in the game . This mechanism fits very well with SUI's innovative storage mechanism. SUI encourages users to delete unnecessary data to reduce the data on the chain. At the same time, delete the data previously stored on the chain and return the storage fee, which is healthy. A mechanism that can theoretically achieve unlimited horizontal expansion.

Sui Ecological GameFi Prediction Protocol

Legend of Arcadia also built the first GameFi prediction protocol on Sui.

Legend of Arcadia issued an NFT called LOA Sui Chip on Sui, which can be used by users to predict the winning team during the guild tournament, and the corresponding rewards will be obtained if the guess is successful.

The application prospect of the prediction protocol is very broad. In addition to guild tournament activities, LOA Sui Chip can actually be applied to all scenarios suitable for prediction, such as sports events and community governance activities.

The LOA Sui Chip itself has multiple functions. The most direct one is the player’s voucher when predicting, and it is also an activity voucher (POAP). It can record all the activity information that the player participates in when using it. Later, it can be used as a player to apply for a whitelist, obtain activity priority, Enjoy proof of work in scenarios such as airdrops.

In addition, LOA also innovatively adds extractable homogeneous tokens to Chip NFT, which can control the number of users when extracting by setting different trigger conditions. For example, in this event, if the user has used the Chip NFT to conduct a quiz, then this NFT can receive 33 ARCA tokens. If the user has not used it, he can only receive 1 ARCA token.

Of course, the realization of these functions is due to the unique attributes of the dynamic NFT on Sui, which allows developers to modify and upgrade the metadata of the NFT without destroying and reissuing, so that Chip NFT can expand these innovative gameplays .

The agreement attracted more than 6,000 participants from more than 40 guilds and more than 40 communities, including well-known Southeast Asian guilds Play It Forward and Avocado DAO, in the first guild competition recently held by LOA. As of 0:00 UTC on May 30, 2023, the community has minted a total of 19,240 prediction NFTs on Sui and made 3,483 predictions.

Summarize

As an emerging public chain, Sui has made a lot of innovations in consensus mechanism, smart contract, flexibility and compatibility of programming language, bringing more possibilities of gameplay to the GameFi project built on it , and Sui itself also shifts the development focus to the direction of games, and will inevitably invest more resources and energy in the game track, so the development prospects of the GameFi project are also broader.

And projects like Legend of Arcadia, by using Sui's technical characteristics to continuously create new gameplay, their appearance will also attract more high-quality developers and users to Sui, as more and more such excellent GameFi projects enter Going to the Sui ecology will also help Sui develop a development path with its own characteristics and gain a place in the highly competitive public chain track.