Review on Infinity Star by Benaiah A. Akinlade
Infinity Star: A new game using a new protocol of the Ethereum Blockchain
Blockchain games have come a long way and developers are devising more genius methods to entice gamers to have fun and earn at the same time.
Infinity Star is a game developed by South Korean developer Nodebrick under the leadership of Huey Shin who happens to be the CEO and founder. The game is a crypto fighting action RPG game which was released in September 2020. It is the first multi language cryptocurrency game
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The company is in collaboration with MakerDAO so as to use its stablecoin (Dai) as the payment system as well as currency for giving rewards to gamers.
This stablecoin was adopted to avoid the volatility associated with cryptocurrencies.
Items in the game such as armors and weapons are distributed as a NFT (Non Fungible Token or Deeds) ERC721, a subset of the Ethereum Blockchain tokens which is a standard interface for Non Fungible tokens. This NFT nature of the game allows game players outrightly own items and freely transact the items on the Ethereum blockchain.
The game is currently web browser based which can be accessed by using any modern web browser but efforts are ongoing for mobile apps.
Pros
- NFT allow developers to tokenize ownership of any data
- Adoption of stablecoin “Dai” eliminates the volatility of crypto currencies
- It is based on a trustworthy Ethereum Network
- It is a multi language crypto game
Cons
- There is currently no protocol like the ERC721 and this may cause an exchange problem for the tokens.
- The game is only web based as there are no mobile apps
- The game based on HTML5, so it is only compatible with modern web browsers
