Sui 8192 is hot: Are mini-games the best entry point for full-chain games?

**A Sui-based chain game "Sui 8192" has seen a surge in average daily transactions, and a recent tweet from on-chain analytics provider Artemis even stated that the game helped Sui Network briefly surpass Solana in terms of daily transaction counts. **

Sui Network's daily transaction count recently topped 20 million, surpassing Solana's 16 million, according to Artemis, though the firm acknowledged that it uses a different methodology for calculating Sui Network's daily transaction volume.

2048 on the chain, popular in the encryption community

It is different from the previous GameFi products with complex mechanisms, complicated rules and calculation of various revenue costs, and it is also different from the next-generation chain game products that are the main block chain 3 A masterpieces. The mechanism design of Sui 8192 is so simple that anyone can get started immediately.

**Sui 8192 is simple and brisk. His gameplay is exactly the same as the once popular 2048. Just use the arrow keys to move the blocks and let the blocks overlap. **When two identical numbers overlap, they can be combined into a larger number. The player's goal is to combine as many numbers as possible and get higher scores.

Despite not being mechanically innovative, Sui 8192 still caught the attention of the crypto community. At the moment when encrypted games are in decline, Sui 8192 is one of the few full-chain games (Full on-chain games) that have appeared recently and deserve attention.

Full chain games are different from GameFi. In the current GameFi paradigm, only assets are often put on the chain, that is, only tokens are on the chain, and the game operation logic is still processed by the centralized server. **The full-chain game puts all the complete game logic into the chain for processing. **Taking Sui 8192 as an example, all the logic of this game is deployed on the Sui blockchain, which mainly includes three parts:

1 Game: Used to record the overall state of the game and player operations.

2 Game Board: The main logic of the game.

3 Leaderboard: Provides the ranking function.

When playing a sentence, the user needs to pay the gas fee to mint an NFT. After that, every move in the game will initiate a transaction on the chain and record the data on the chain.

The actual measurement found that the cost of the first mint is about 0.2 SUI, and the gas consumption of each subsequent operation is about 0.0008 SUI.

Data on the chain shows that players have mint more than 741,000 game NFTs so far. And each NFT has a large number of update records to record every step of the player's operation.

From the perspective of the game process, each operation needs to wait for the confirmation on the chain, and the experience is relatively sluggish. The official also gave another simple option, using the Ethos wallet.

What is Ethos?

"Sui 8192" was developed by the maker of Sui Wallet Ethos Wallet. Co-founded by Nadia Eldeib and Jared Cosulich, Ethos builds user-friendly end products as well as products for developers.

In this game, the pre-authorization function provided by Ethos Wallet allows players to avoid the trouble of clicking confirmation for each operation. By setting a maximum limit, the contract is eligible to consume tokens up to the limit amount.

In addition to Sui 8192, the manufacturer has also developed checkers and chess games, which are the same full-chain games as 8192.

Similar to the previous common middleware vendors, Ethos is not only a wallet, but also provides a developer-oriented wallet infrastructure.

EthosConnect, developed by the team, is a developer-friendly API designed to accelerate the developer workflow for building applications on Sui. Through EthosConnect, developers can directly connect your Sui's Move smart contract with the Ethos wallet, and use it to customize React components and build user-friendly interfaces.

Ethos Explorer is the cryptographic portal integrated into the wallet. This product can easily discover dApps in the Sui ecosystem and manage its own encrypted assets.

Whole chain games, the next trend of chain games?

Since the beginning of the combination of blockchain and games, the encryption world has been constantly exploring the combination of games and encryption technology.

Judging from the current mechanism, the "chain" content of ** games can be roughly divided into three categories: traditional games that do not require blockchain intervention at all, traditional GameFi games that only have assets on the chain, and full-chain games that are completely on the chain. **

The biggest difference between the full chain game and the existing common chain games is that the business logic of the game is also written on the chain. A series of calculations and business processes in the game are completed by smart contracts.

In traditional GameFi, although in-game assets are put on the chain, business logic such as game rules, player interaction process, and in-game reward drops are all centralized by traditional servers. Although players seem to own the "decentralized assets" in the game, because the game company has complete control over the game rules, its "decentralization" vision is more like a beautiful mirage.

But correspondingly, since the core logic of the game needs to be calculated on the chain, its cost and performance requirements are much higher than traditional GameFi. This also makes it almost impossible to produce a modern AAA game of "playable" level under the existing infrastructure conditions.

Full-chain games are an extremely niche field in the encryption ecosystem. At present, the whole chain game is still in the very primitive exploration, and its infrastructure is far from enough to undertake systematic business activities. But this kind of early exploration has also buried a rich imagination space for us.

The attention received by 8192 allows us to see another possibility. Although full-chain games cannot realize modern large-scale games with complex logic, interesting small games with simple and clear rules seem to be a good way. Would it be a good choice to move 4399 to the chain?