Games have the ability to turn almost anything mainstream, consider in-app purchases, which a decade ago were only starting to appear, and today it feels like there is an in-app purchase for everything.
With blockchain games emerging, the most prominent of which today is the ethereum-based CryptoKitties, the popularization of crypto could potentially increase. While ethereum and EOS platforms are the dominant blockchains in the crypto-gaming sphere. Tron’s Justin Sun has announced the launch of Wizard Academy, an idle PvP blockchain game on the TRON network.
⚡️@BitGuildPLAT and Magic Academy: the world’s first idle blockchain game based on #TRON network. #TRX $TRX https://t.co/x1Thmyw0aC
— Justin Sun (@justinsuntron) September 30, 2018
The currency inside the game is called Jade, which the users will be able to generate and later use to buy wizards and upgrades.
The game is being created by the blockchain game developers BitGuild, who claim that having a Tron wallet will be enough to play the game.
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?
- Games are an easy medium to make something mainstream for the younger people. Therefore, blockchain games have the potential to raise crypto awareness.
- The Tron Foundation is constantly expanding the services it has to offer, be it the recent game announcement or the data-sharing technologies it is pursuing together with the acquired BitTorrent.