Gif.Games Update
After more than a year or so the Gif Games website has finally gotten a much needed facelift! A lot of new information and new levels of transparency are presented, we’re proud to unveil the three pillars of our vision and the roadmaps for each of those initiatives.
Bringing together the vision in a more robust and strategic way for everybody will allow investors to make much more informed decisions when purchasing NFTs or investing time in our games.
Three of the major takeaways from the new gif.games website are: The Stargate, GameFi SDK, and GifDAO structure. We’ll focus on those in this blog.
The Stargate
For early adopters, land holders, and for the decentralization aspects of SignaVerse, we felt the right thing to do was give players the ability to populate the SignaVerse map with their blocks of land, giving them immediate ownership of land in SignaVerse the moment the game launches.
How it will work is that players will take their Tezotops and push them through a Stargate, burning the Tezotop—we’re going to launch in phases (i.e. earlier blocks get to go through the gate first)—once the blocks go through the Stargate, that player will have 9 parcels of land in SignaVerse (1 Tezotop = 9 SignaVerse plots of land) and the players can decorate, incorporate digital billboards, or sell the plots and they will forever receive royalties on any subsequent sales of it. Costs associated with pushing a Tezotop through the Stargate are up for discussion, gamifying the experience and having players contribute resources toward the construction of the Stargate is another idea being floated; either way, once we’re closer to the Stargate being a reality, a lot more of these finer details will be ironed out.
GameFi SDK
We really want to make it very simple for indie game developers to create a game on the Tezos blockchain, and more importantly we want to be able to ensure that the game created can help support the ecosystem we’re hellbent on nurturing.
The introduction of a no-code GameFi SDK where anybody with Web3 ambitions and game development experience can plug into the API and have smart contracts, a marketplace, and an admin dashboard is what we’re working towards. Providing these tools to gamemakers will not only grow our own ecosystem but make it 100x friendlier for game developers looking to dip their toes into Web3 and crypto gaming.
We want to absolutely encourage them to use our existing tokens, but will also offer an option to launch their own FA2 tokens they deem necessary to help make their game functional.
Because of the free/open source aspects of Godot Game Engine and our experience with it, that will be the first game engine we work with to integrate into the SDK, but we do have ambitions to pursue Unity amongst other game engines.
GifDAO Structure
We really haven’t found a DAO platform that actually make sense for us, so we’re going to create our own model. You can find it in the Tokenomics page of the new gif.games website (zoom in to see details).
This isn’t the final form of the structure, just something we’re throwing out there to get the wheels turning and discussion rolling in the community, but we do see it as a good first step to creating something that works for us. We want ideas/proposals to go through phases and really go through the chopping block of debate and rebuttal before they make it out the other side and get put on the path to implementation.
We encourage everybody to study this proposal, apply some feedback and help us strengthen the vulnerable points within it to really have something robust for the future of our DAO.
SignaVerse.com Launch
SignaVerse.com is live! The marketplace, drops, and collections sections are still being tweaked, but they’ll be functioning in a few weeks time, then go live at a later date.
We wanted to get the SignaVerse roadmap and details out in the open before the launch, and show you all what we’re working towards. We hope SignaVerse becomes a hub for Tezos projects and we have the ambition to convert your favorite PFP projects on Tezos into 3D renders that players can use as avatars.
SignaVerse is still in a very early stage of development, and as we get some 3D rendering created we’ll be posting about it on our Twitter account (give us a follow).
In the meantime, head over to the SignaVerse About page and learn more about what’s in store for our metaverse project.
A lot of exciting things to come, looking forward for GameFi SDK .
"If you're building a metaverse, build it with your soul"
Anton