From the latest news on the crypto gaming front, the recent collaboration between the Elympics protocol and TON Foundation stands out to support the development of web3 games.
Thanks to the support of the Telegram home grants, the interesting campaign “GameCamp Arena 2024” has been launched, in which 40 cryptographic games will participate.
A prize pool of 15,000 dollars is up for grabs.
Let’s see all the details below.
Gaming and crypto: Elympics and TON launch the Web3 campaign “GameCamp Arena”
The crypto protocol web3 Elympics has announced the debut of the campaign “GameCamp Arena 2024” in cooperation with TON, focused on the gaming sector.
This is a six-week online competition where participants will compete in creating web3 games integrated with Telegram and TON blockchain.
From July 29 to September 8, 2024, users will be able to take advantage of the Elympics SDK to develop new and interesting gaming solutions.
The “GameCamp” is open to game developers experienced in Unity, game designers, and graphic artists. Participants can join individually or as part of a team of up to six people.
The various teams will be provided with informational material and technical libraries, offering guidelines and support to sustain the competition.
Elympics GameCamp Arena is going live in 9 days!
Quick recap: build competitive games on TON (using Elympics SDK). The winners will share a $15k grant pool!
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— Elympics (@elympics_ai) July 20, 2024
In total, the participants will have to create up to 40 different web3 games, and they will compete to share a prize pool of 15,000 dollars (plus category prizes).
It is important to emphasize that this campaign has been funded by the TON Foundation, which in addition to money will be committed to onboarding new users.
GameCamp Arena represents a great opportunity that allows developers to showcase themselves and create competitive games quickly and economically.
This initiative highlights TON’s commitment to supporting the gaming industry and underscores the great growth potential found in the world of web3 entertainment.
Regarding the upcoming launch of the campaign, Tom Kopera, COO of Elympics, stated the following:
“The social distribution power of the TON community is unmatched and tapping into this audience through our Elympics SDK, which allows default Telegram integration, offers powerful opportunities for game developers.
We want to make the creation of Web3 games as simple and accessible as possible, and therefore our GameCamp is designed to support developers in creating fantastic games using our range of tools, templates, and expert guidance to help ensure the mass adoption of Web3 through gaming.
What is the crypto web3 Elympics protocol
For those who are not familiar with this partner of the TON Foundation, we would like to point out that Elympics represents a decentralized web3 gaming protocol.
Thanks to its infrastructure, it offers a decentralized social gaming experience globally that puts the player first.
The web3 protocol was one of the first to introduce the narrative of “compete-to-earn”, fostering a culture of development over that of economic incentive.
Opens the doors to an open economy where talent and meritocracy prevail, allowing transparent earnings through zero-sum economies in games.
Elympics thanks to its efficient infrastructure and integration with TON, eliminates the barriers to entry typical of the crypto and blockchain world.
Through innovative solutions such as wallet-less onboarding, gas-free transactions, and a player profile, it manages to offer a flexible and scalable experience.
Unlike the traditional gaming sector, however, it integrates web3 technology to ensure the fairness of reward distribution for players and on-chain security.
On the developers’ front, however, they can effortlessly create a wide range of web3 games, adding “token competition” features for a more interactive gaming future.
According to what was stated by the Elympics team, the protocol will support the next wave of dapps focused on gaming, adding value and enhancing the participatory possibilities of the stakeholders.
Source: https://www.elympics.ai/
The current trends in the gaming sector and the evolution in the last 10 years
The latest initiative “GameCamp Arena 2024” advanced by TON and the crypto protocol web3 Elympics reflects the latest stage of the evolution of gaming on blockchain.
As described in a blog post of the cryptographic project, the gaming industry is highly dynamic and has observed the succession of various trends in the last 10 years.
In 2011 there was the rise of indie solutions like Minecraft and Terraria that opened the doors to substantial marketing campaigns. These games, often distributed through platforms like Steam, highlighted the role of independent developers.
More or less around the same period, the era of popularity for online multiplayer games such as League of Legends (2009) and Dota 2 (2013) began, promoting a culture of competitive spirit. From here on, the gaming sector started to attract millions of online viewers and to provide prize pools that exceed the million-dollar threshold.
The next trend was the explosion of the battle royale genre: after the initial success of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) in 2017 there was an explosion of attention for Fortnite in the same year. By 2020, Fortnite had over 350 million registered users, reaching 500 million in 2023.
Finally, we had the phase of life simulation games with solutions like The Sims 4 (2014), New Horizons (2020), and Stardew Valley (2016) which still enjoy a fair amount of success today.
Today the meta has shifted towards play-to-earn dynamics connected with web3 infrastructures, where the player is promised an economic incentive. The power of the blockchain combined with the popularity of Telegram is supporting a rapid development of the gaming industry, attracting hundreds of millions of users to TON.
