A glance at 5 high-quality game projects of ETHGlobal Hackathon

Original author: Surf, encryption researcher

Original compilation: Leo, BlockBeats

Hackathon has always been a high-quality way for the encryption industry to discover good projects. Recently, the Autonomous Worlds Hackathon held by ETHGlobal came to an end. Encryption researcher Surf wrote an article and analyzed the top 5 high-quality game projects of this hackathon. BlockBeats compiled it as follows:

Let me first mention the background of the hackathon: it is mainly the GameFi project on ETH; participants use MUD, which is a programming language for developing games on the chain on Ethereum, a new framework designed for games on the chain; a total of $50,000 prize; develop multiverse by building on-chain games, worlds, and art projects.

A total of 132 projects participated in this hackathon, and there are 4 main award categories, namely:

-Optimism - Running a MUD application on the OP stack (3 winners)

-0x;PARC - Advanced Cryptography Applied to MUDs (3 winners)

-Lattice - Most Creative Use of MUD (3 Winners)

• NFT Storage - Best App to Use Storage Assistant (10 Winners)

Here are the top 5 projects I analyzed:

Pledger - NFT storage (winning category)

Pledger is a social game with a core idea around making positive commitments in public places, the game allows users to make commitments to themselves, prove to the community that you fulfilled your commitments, and earn reputation from your high achievements. The goal of the game is to gain reputation, an in-game metric used to evaluate achievements. Reputation is earned through proof completions and ratings of your commitments by other users.

The project uses NFT storage to upload images to IPFS, and stores content hashes as part of the promised "submission artifacts", which is convenient for users and maximizes decentralization.

Autonomous Game of Life - Autonomous Worlds Finalist

Autonomous Game of Lif is a decentralized, multiplayer version of Conway's on-chain life game. The game is built using MUD v2 on OP Goerli, which optimizes storage space and supports autonomous and multiplayer games. Conway is the English mathematician John Horton Conway, creator of the famous "Conway's Game of Life".

Trade Wars - Autonomous Worlds Finalist

Trade Wars is an on-chain interactive 2D game using MUD V2 and React front-end, allowing maritime trading, combat, and resource arbitrage in an autonomous, location-bound AMM economic model where players can fight by attacking the system on-chain .

OPCraft;2 - Autonomous Worlds Finalist

OPCraft;2 is similar to the sandbox video game Minecraft, designed to extend OPCraft with new user-created blocks, the first block is Redstone, users can specify how blocks transform into other blocks, and place them in in the world. The game also borrows the motivating qualities of Minecraft, enhancing its gameplay and motivation, allowing players to build complex circuits like in Minecraft.

Mudtendo - Optimism

Muttendo is a MUD app where users can play older Nintendo games (and anything else the NES console can run), featuring games played in short bursts, with each game being sent to The chain is validated and a "checkpoint" of its state is created.

Interestingly, any player can start the game from any checkpoint created by another player. For example, you can restart Super Mario at the last checkpoint before you died, or you can start at someone else's checkpoint. The game interface is simple, requiring only a monitor for the game and a graph coordinates linking each checkpoint to the previous game.