Original - Odaily

Author - Nan Zhi

introduction

One of the major differences between chain games and traditional games is that game assets and data are owned by users, and based on the permissionless nature of Web3, assets and information can be used across ecosystems and projects. However, most chain games are now ecologically isolated. Although users do own their assets and data, they cannot use them beyond the project itself. The main reason for this phenomenon is that each project has the natural limitation of focusing only on its own project, making it difficult to incorporate cross-ecological architectural design in the early stages.

Public game chains, blockchain game Layer 3, and transformational blockchain game Launchpad, many of the current mainstream development paths include the exploration of a unified ecosystem for blockchain games to varying degrees. DAR Open Network is the leader in this exploration. DAR Open Network is an open infrastructure designed to transform Web3 games and is creating a community-driven ecosystem. In this ecosystem, through democratization of game development and UGC,The DAR Open Network allows developers and players to jointly shape the direction of game development, allowing games in the ecosystem to thrive through shared technologies, assets, and experiences.

DAR Open Network

As early as 2021, the chain game Mines of Dalarnia launched by DAR Open Network was launched on Binance Launchpool and launched on the mainnet the following year. With the development of chain games and the deepening of Web3 practice, it hopes to further leverage the possibilities of the Web3 game ecosystem. Beyond the limitations of a single game, DAR Open Network was born. As a chain game ecosystem, DAR Open Network has a rich set of games and related infrastructure, and applies Web3s unique economic model to achieve user introduction and ecological economic cycle. Furthermore, DAR Open Network has developed through its architecture, internal systems and communities. It is gradually realizing its vision of an interconnected and shared chain gaming ecosystem.

Enrich game experience and ecological development

The first priority of chain games is to ensure the playability of the game and maintain user stickiness through the game itself. DAR Open Network achieves this goal through its strong game development capabilities and innovative game development model.

• Dalarnia Launchpad

Dalarnia Launchpad within the DAR Open Network is a blockchain game innovation platform dedicated to releasing new, highly playable blockchain games, focusing on first-party games in the DAR ecosystem and games developed through collaboration with external partners.

Chain Games Launchpad PlatformIt will provide users with a continuous and high-fresh gaming experience., achieve continuous user introduction and maintain stickiness. Also Dalarnia LaunchpadIt will also enhance the utility of the DAR token, with all first-party games using DAR as the native token, ensuring a unified economic framework for ecology and promoting the flow of ecological resources and the activity of users.

• First Party Games

First-party games are developed and maintained by the DAR ecosystem team, and these games will be at the core of the Dalarnia multiverse. Current first-party games include Mines of Dalarnia, which is already online, and Dalarnia Legends and Dalarnia Nexus, which are in development. In addition, DAR Open Network will also achieve the integration of ecological games through a series of systems, thereby forming a network effect to promote the further development of the overall ecology.

• cooperative games

DAR Open Network will also expand its ecosystem through third-party cooperative games. DAR Open Network will provide a series of development tools to external game developers and studios, allowing external developers to easily and efficiently integrate with the DAR ecosystem, thereby achieving mutual promotion of games. Cooperative games can issue their own game tokens, but will be integrated with the DAR ecosystem in several aspects:

First, after network integration is completed, the assets of cooperative games can be integrated into the Dalarnia Marketplace and traded using the ecological unified currency DAR. Integrated projects can also use DAR ID for account management, and gain access to encryption ecosystem entry, token swap and other functions. Furthermore, it also includes ecological combination rights such as launching Launchpad and participating in the Dalarnia task system.

• Community-driven prototype development model

According to the DAR Open Network roadmap, from the end of 2024 to early 2025, first-party games will change their nature and direction.community-driven transformation. The DAR team will focus on creatingProof of Concept prototypes, and published in the Prototype section of Launchpad.

What is a proof-of-concept prototype? This is an innovative model of community-driven chain game development. Each prototype is open to community players. After multiple prototypes are released and tested for a period of time, the community will decide which games enter the next production stage. Prototypes are evaluated based on user feedback, KPIs, or community proposals, and if a project fails to meet community expectations, the project is taken offline, shifting the teams focus to new projects approved by the community. Through the continuous community play, testing and voting process of concept prototypes, we ensure the richness and freshness of the game experience, thereby ensuring the healthy development of the game ecosystem.

Unbounded ecology and community development

In addition to growing the games themselves, DAR Open Network also hopes to empower economic and asset interoperability between games, and this goal is achieved through Dalarnia Nexus, a gamified social hub platform. Dalarnia Nexus is a window into the ecosystem for every player and community member, and is also the overall framework of the DAR platform game.

First, Dalarnia Nexus brings interoperability to assets, including game items and NFT collections, and games integrated with the DAR Open Network will reap the added value of assets and experiences through this central platform. On the other hand, Dalarnia Nexus will also build a community of games and culture. Each player will have a unique Dalarnia ID and base (Base), allowing users to expand their personal base through game assets, including from Mines of Dalarnia and Dalarnia Legends. Various props. Each independent individual will form a game community, experience the community-driven prototype development model, and create a game world that belongs to the players wishes through UGC. Finally, DAR Open Network will also introduce AI agents into the game. Each AI agent has its own distinctive characteristics, purpose and tasks, allowing players to interact with them in a variety of ways, including basic interaction, asset trading, task development, etc. A series of rich options give full play to the multilateral network effect of games, communities, and users, realize the possibility of exponential growth of the ecosystem, and fundamentally change the users gaming experience.

sustainable economy

In addition to playing, the Web3 economy is also a fundamental element in attracting users and ecological circulation. However, early chain games excessively pursued Earn in P2E and designed a Ponzi economic model centered on tokens. Although there may be short-term wealth effect, but the ecology cannot be sustained in the long term.

In order to maintain the long-term development of the overall ecology, Dalarnia has introduced a variety of long-term economic mechanisms to control asset inflation and depreciation. Including the resource game mechanism and loss mechanism of Mines of Dalarnia, as well as the Base Decay mechanism designed in Dalarnia Nexus, the users personal base (Base) will be affected by the storm and suffer losses, requiring the user to invest in asset maintenance. DAR Open Network aims to achieve a controllable economy through this mechanism and promote players to participate in the game to collect assets and increase player participation and loyalty.

DAR Open Network ecological game

Mines of Dalarnia

Mines of Dalarnia is the first game of DAR Open Network. Players can participate in the game as miners or land owners. The resources players obtain during the game will be necessary to get started and further improve their game abilities. The internal circulation of prepared resources, multi-party roles and resources constitutes the game ecology.

• Miners

As a miner, players need to focus on collecting resources and upgrading equipment and levels to further enhance their mining capabilities. Each mining area has a specific depth. As the depth increases, resource rewards will be more abundant, and the levels of resources are also different. For example, at depth 1, only copper ore is produced, but it takes depth 4 to mine gold. Mine possibility. However, as the depth increases, more difficult monsters and living environments will also appear, which imposes requirements on the players level and equipment. On the one hand, as the game progresses, players will gain experience points to increase their mining level. The increase in level will unlock new abilities for players. On the other hand, players need to use assets to build equipment to improve their ability to mine specific assets.

• Land Owner

The Mines of Dalarnia universe consists of three planets. Each planet includes 1,600 mines, and the ownership, maintenance, and mining leases of these mines are the core pillars of the games economy.

First of all, miners need to enter the mining area to mine in order to obtain resources, and when entering the mining area, users need to pay DAR rent to obtain mining rights. This is both a source of income for the landowners and a test. The landowners need to consider how to attract more players. Go to its mining area to mine.

The difference between each mining area lies in the depth and attributes. Depth affects the level of resources, and the players equipment type adapts to different types of mining area attributes. Landowners primarily need to invest in upgrading their plots to increase their maximum depth. At the same time, as mining activity proceeds, the resources available in the mine area decrease over time. To keep the land attractive to potential miners, landowners must expend props to maintain the land, which in turn replenishes mineral resources.

• Game ecological cycle

Miner equipment is divided into three types, including mining tools for mining resources, weapons for killing monsters, and armor for defense against enemies and the surrounding environment. After miners obtain resources, they can sell them to other users or use them to improve themselves, forming one of the cycles of resource output and consumption, and how to choose is also one of the main games in the economic ecology. Similarly, it is not a one-and-done solution for landlords. How to invest, promote and combine assets has become the key point of the game and the fun of the game.

Modbots

Modbots is a casual placement game affiliated with Mines of Dalarnia. Players need to obtain as many Moon Chips as possible in each season. At the end of the season, users will be allocated DAR token rewards based on the proportion of Moon Chips obtained.

Modbots are divided into three categories: miner robots, defense robots, and repair robots. Users need to use the output resources of Mines of Dalarnia to build these robots, and the robots need to withstand the storm on Odaily while producing Moon Chips. Before the start of each season, the official will announce the total DAR bonus for the season and distribute the bonus based on the proportion at the end of the season.

Modbots is about to start Season 2, and participating users will receive double earnings and reward bonuses.

Dalarnia Legends

Dalarnia Legends is a fast-paced PVP collectible card game (Collectible Card Game). It is the second game officially launched after Mines of Dalarnia. Dalarnia Legends will introduce unique Al creations into the game. Players can use basic cards and prompts to create unique card styles and easily complete card transactions in the Dalarnia market. Likewise, Dalarnia Legends will use the DAR token as the base token and will be seamlessly connected to the DAR Open Network to support a range of features including base asset decoration, market and mission functions.

Ecological token design

DAR Open Network has two tokens, namely DAR and MC (Moon Coins).

DAR is used as a market currency and ecological utility currency. Any assets traded on the Dalarnia market are priced and exchanged in DAR, connecting the ecological economy. To become a DAR citizen, you need to pledge DAR tokens. Users only need to pledge 100 DAR to the citizen pool to obtain this status, and can un pledge at any time.Benefits for DAR citizens include participation in Dalarnia Launchpad game prototypes, exclusive Dalarnia Nexus content, and exclusive marketplacewait. In addition, users can choose to pledge more DAR tokens to the pledge pool to obtain MC discount purchase rights, DAR airdrops, governance rights and other rights.

MC is used more as a consumable token in each game. All internal games require MC to be included in the economic cycle design, and external projects are encouraged to also incorporate this token into their games. For users, MC needs to be purchased through DAR and then used in the game or Dalarnia Nexus. Through this one-way exchange model, resource inflation can be controlled and economic self-balancing can be achieved through player choices.

in conclusion

Through solid game development capabilities, novel community-driven game development models, and rich game ecological infrastructure, DAR Open Network will shape the development direction of games with developers and players, allowing games in the ecosystem to share technology and assets. and experience, building a path to the development of the chain game ecosystem that leads to high interoperability and prosperous growth.