Cardano: New Game Uses NFTs to Conquer the Billion-$ Market
- According to the project’s website, each NFT makes a playable piece useful during a war.
- Many of these NFT game project developers believe Cardano’s core values, vision and mission make it the ideal blockchain to launch NFT game projects.
Crypto investor and blockchain game developer Jason Appleton has announced the launch of wargrum.io. According to Appleton, the game’s creator, wargrum is a Cardano-based tabletop digital war game. The blockchain game developer shared an example of one of the characters – Commande and Guardian.
He further explained that each piece would have its spells, abilities, weapons and skills, which they could use in a tactical war.
My #Cardano based digital #tabletop #wargames. Here is an example of one of # sign. Each piece has its own spells and abilities that can be used in a tactical war. #coming soon pic.twitter.com/R3KRTAJ1Tf
— Jason Appleton (Crypto Crow) (@jasonappleton) 4 January 2023
Playable pieces useful for tactical warfare
According to the project’s website, each NFT makes a playable piece valuable during a war. Also, each NFT is one piece. Therefore, a 10-man unit cannot be played with a copy of the unit’s NFT. It will require at least ten copies. The game system has a scoring system based on each user’s available NFTs, which they can use to unlock tiles and create a match list.
Users can earn tokens when they win matches against other players. They can use their earned tokens to buy more unique pieces or 3D model versions to replace their 2D pieces. Ultimately, users can collect hundreds of NFTs with various special abilities.
Thus, they can have a strong squad with playable pieces for various matches. Meanwhile, Appleton did not reveal the exact launch date of the new blockchain game. He just teased his followers and said that the project would start soon. However, the project website says the team will release unlocked playable pieces by 2024.
Appleton believes that blockchain-based gaming should be an adventure and not feel like a job. The Wargrum.io website further reveals that Appleton and his team plan to host a ladder tournament annually. It also plans to launch a reward tournament game that includes a ranking system for all players. This ranking system will be automatically updated in real time.
The project’s schedule for this year includes an initial pre-order NFT list, which will make up the beta users. These beta users will play low-score games to find possible bugs in the game.
Cardano and NFT gaming projects
There has been a lot of development activity on the Cardano blockchain lately, including several NFT gaming projects. A December 29 Sentiment data lists Cardano as the leading blockchain for 2022 in terms of development activities. Ethereum occupies the fourth position on this list, with Polygon and Cosmos ahead.
Ethereum’s position is surprising, given its recent switch to becoming a proof-of-stake (pos) network. However, Cardano ranks 6th in terms of return on investment (ROI), as it recorded an average performance for most of last year. Internet Computer (ICP) led other blockchain projects in terms of ROI, with Flow (FLOW) and Polkadot (DOT) coming in second and third, respectively, according to the Santiment data.
Many of these NFT game project developers believe Cardano’s core values, vision and mission make it the ideal blockchain to launch their NFT game projects. Meanwhile, Cardano’s native token, ADA, is up 1.5 percent and trading at $0.2755, according to current Coingecko data. It remains to be seen if NFT gaming projects can be the main catalyst for ADA’s price to trade at $2.
