After a rocky (to say the least) 2022, digital assets, blockchain, and associated technologies are facing a host of challenges in reacquiring overall market trust, positive investor sentiment, and a large-scale user base. While a traditional understanding of video games would not exactly measure time spent playing them as an investment in a real monetary sense, a proper understanding of today’s blockchain gaming ecosystem would do exactly that. Unfortunately, achieving this epiphany as the mainstream understanding of blockchain gaming, which would lead to mass adoption of crypto gaming not just as a pastime but also as an income deriving enterprise, faces a collection of hurdles as crypto gaming enters its next phase of growth and evolution. To get there, gaming platforms will have to streamline the user experience, educate players on how to properly value and manage digital assets, and succeed not simply as a gold rush style speculative time investment but also as an immersive and frictionless gaming environment that users can’t help but want to be a part of.
A small cadre of crypto gaming companies understands exactly how to embrace this reality and is carving out an emerging niche in the industry that has immense future promise in delivering return for users on the initial ideals of blockchain technology, such as democratization, player ownership, and, most importantly, return on investment. Crypto Chronic, an NFT-based, cannabis themed, video game and surrounding metaverse is just such a company, delivering an immersive and engaging gameplay universe that is first and foremost fun to play but that also serves as an education for its users in blockchain technology, digital assets, and how to manage and accumulate value and return in the emerging world of tokenized technologies.
CryptoChronic is the cannabis themed video game and metaverse that allows players to breed, nurture and level up, and battle their digital NFT collectible pets, “Chronics,” against one another. Unlike other NFT based games, CryptoChronic prioritizes the fun of immersive gameplay over base NFT speculation, offering multiple layers of gameplay, various mini-games and DLCs, and a suite of functionality coupled with in-game deflationary economics that enable player to have fun and ultimately to generate value and return on investment while doing so. Moreover, the game’s internal dynamics transfer relatively boring tasks, like managing a crypto wallet, into elements of gameplay, effectively transforming the process of learning to manage digital assets into part of the game itself. The game is free-to-play and offers a play-to-earn internal economy while focusing on fun as the centerpiece of the gaming experience, allowing earning income and rewards on blockchain to become an enjoyable part but not the sole focus of the player experience. Access to gameplay is completely free and eliminates the pay-to-win dynamics familiar to most who have tried freemium mobile games in the past. In fact, skill takes precedence over expenditure as there is no way to buy your way to victory, as in other games, giving equal opportunity to gamer across the globe to win their way to valuable rewards, prizes, and ultimately real income, while never having to spend anything out of pocket.
The game itself is a four-layer journey for players, beginning on PC, and taking them from acquisition through monetization. The gameplay environment will then be ported to mobile app and eventually will include fully immersive augmented and virtual reality components. All along the way, simply playing the game and engaging with ongoing pop-ups, video tutorials, and ongoing educational daily tasks and mini-games, will empower players with increased knowledge and appreciation for blockchain that, as the technology continues to evolve and take on market cap, will position such players to exploit full advantage, both internal to CryptoChronic and within the larger crypto ecosystem.
