The World of Ether decentralized application has been in development for longer than almost all other blockchain gaming “dApps,” and finally the team has revealed what they have been working on.
A version of the Pokémon games has been built on the Ethereum blockchain. The game uses Ethereum’s smart contracts to store the ownership of Pokémon in the game. This update proves that what World of Ether is working on changing cryptocurrencies as a whole and even disrupt conventional video games.
The game has included different features like random encounters as a way for the players to capture Pokémon. The Pokémon will be captured with Pokeballs. The Pokeballs have to be bought in the in-game store with Ethereum, with a starting price of 0.005 ETH for the basic ball, going all the way up to 0.15 ETH for a ball that is guaranteed to capture the Pokemon.
The game has been coming strong in support for Ethereum marketplace as the players are able to earn real ETH in the game by buying and selling different Pokémon for Ethereum. Every Pokémon captured in the game is unique from each other. These Pokémon are hence a form of a crypto-collectable, a non-fungible digital asset characterized by digital scarcity.
The game will reward the player by filling his Pokedex if he captures all the 151 different type of Pokémon present in the game. The first person to capture 150 Pokémon will be awarded an opportunity to capture the rare Pokemon Mew, of which there is only one copy. Once this is done, the players can then fight against each other in a “Battle Island”.
The developers talked about some threats to the game that why they wouldn’t be making the contents of the smart contract public.
“We understand that a public contract is important to build trust among players but we fear that publishing the contract could damage some parts of the gameplay.”
However, once the games catches popularity, they will make it public, saying that they would work with some other blockchain game developers to build their own game on top of the existing game.
Some users, however, were worried about copyright infringements. User DNiceM said to these:
“Guess the Pokemon Company will now have to run a 51% attack on the network :/”
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