Spells of Genesis Partners With FoldingCoin
The up and coming free-to-play card game, from Swiss-based company EverdreamSoft, embarks on leveraging digital goods ownership.
“Bitcoin and blockchain is reserved today to a small group of people. One of the reasons is that understanding bitcoin is difficult for mainstream users. The SoG economy will open the bitcoin technology to a large user group who are gamers. By getting digital assets in the game, players will step a foot into the bitcoin economy. They will be able to buy and sell their game assets for bitcoin and slowly learn about decentralized trading. A large part of them might become interested in getting bitcoin in order to buy and sell their digital assets. This way, by giving concrete use of bitcoin, we expect to be a part of cryptocurrency mass adoption,”
— – Shaban Shaame, CEO and Founder of EverdreamSoft
EverdreamSoft created the popluar game Moonga, one of the first free-to-play card games to appear on Apples’ Appstore. According to the Swiss company the game was very popular in Japan, during the summer of 2010 it was rated the most popular role playing game in the Japanese AppStore. Moonga has over 250,000 registered users, having entered the emerging free-to-play market 4 years ago.
“Now we want to take on the extraordinary opportunity to be among the pioneers in blockchain technology,”
— – Shaame
EverdreamSoft recently announced a partnership combining the upcoming game Spells of Genesis (SoG) with FoldingCoin. “We really loved the fact that people are using their computer power not to mine coins but to contribute to research for curing Cancer” said Shaame.
FoldingCoin rewards users for contributing to Folding@Home, a Stanford University program. FoldingCoins are earned by sharing spare CPU or GPU processing power, aiding in the simulation of complex protein folding. The results of all this distributed computation is tabulated and analyzed to help find new medicines and cures for some of the worst diseases faced by man.
“Since it’s a noble cause, we decided to offer a part of our BitCrystals to people who are mining to cure diseases. We want to help their cause and we also want the SoG community to be able to earn BitCrystals in this way,” said Shaame. “We are offering a total of 100,000 BitCrystals to the folders. We also created a unique special card distributing only 300 ‘folding’ trading cards, which can only be obtained via Folding,” said Shaame.
BitCrystals are the fuel of SoG, and the premium currency. Aside from their partnership with FoldingCoin, players will need to buy BitCrystals for purchasing in-game bonuses or trading cards. The BitCrystal supply is limited so the more popular the game is, the more valuable BitCrystals will become.
With the success of Moonga the team at EversoftDream witnessed the game and genre evolve in unexpected ways. ”We saw some of our players trading rare cards for more than 1000 USD, even if it was not allowed by the terms of service. A whole economy emerged in the game. This inspired us to conceptualise how we could go beyond that, and leverage digital goods ownership,” said Shaame
In SoG game items, like cards, will all be assigned their own blockchain asset, through Counterparty. “By doing this, the asset ownership is not managed by our own server but decentralized in the blockchain. This way, players will be able to trade those digital assets without any middle man,” explains Shaame.
The focus for SoG is to create a decentralized economy independent of the game. Shaame explains “blockchain technology is great, but there are not so many uses for the mainstream users. We want to create a product that is simple, fun to use and where the technology is transparent and accessible to everyone.”
The team at EverdreamSoft believe Spells of Genesis will encourage bitcoin adoption among gamers. “It will open the pass for the whole game industry to move to a crowdfunded, financed by the market for the market product in the future,” reports Shaame.
In June this year SoG will take part in a token sale with Koinify, “Their token sale for GEMS messenger yielded great results and we hope to achieve the same with ours,” said Shaame. “The funds will directly be used to develop the SoG game itself. Also, part of the development will go on building the decentralized game asset exchange.”
“With our unique token sale system, the player community is also benefitting from the game’s success. This way everyone can be an ambassador of the game. This unique crowdfunding system creates a game that is by the market, for the market or that is, led by the market, for the market,”
— – Shaame
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