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GTA owner joins Web3, Bitcoin casino, Sunflower Land review: Web3 Gamer

Grand Theft Auto’s parent company launches new blockchain game. Plus: Bitcoin casino, FarmVille-like Sunflower Land game reviewed, and more.

Grand Theft Auto owner enters Web3 via mobile gaming arm

Fun fact: mobile gaming giant Zynga is owned by Take-Two Interactive, the same company that also owns Rockstar Games, which is behind ultra-popular video game series like Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption and NBA 2K.

Now Zynga is making its Web3 debut with a new franchise.

Best known for its FarmVille series, Zynga has created an offshoot studio called Zynga Web3 (or ZW3) and announced Sugartown. Its a cross-media world that will be more like a Web3 gaming platform than a single title. The cute cartoonish animals featured in the teaser video give clues that there might be more than video games in the works.

It looks like a scene from a new Netflix series, so I wont be surprised to see a cartoon featuring the Sugartown characters.

We're just getting started.

Be here tomorrow pic.twitter.com/CkNMWNooE4
— Sugartown (@visitsugartown) August 16, 2023

For now, though, the only thing thats confirmed is that Sugartown will launch an NFT collection called Oras, and they will be required to participate in upcoming games within the universe. ZW3 said the franchise is working with different communities to allocate allowlists for the NFTs.

If this platform becomes successful, perhaps it could give the green light for some of those big titles from the same company to jump into Web3?

More play needed in Play-to-Earn Istanbul Blockchain Week

Why arent Web3 games adopted as much as traditional games? That was one of the subjects talked about during a Web3 gaming panel at Istanbul Blockchain Week 2023. The panel mainly focused on Web3 gaming adoption, the problems of Web3 gaming and the developer side of things.

#GameFi on Day 2 of #IBW2023: Gamers = Web3 pioneers! Games educate, onboard, and unite people. WAGMI @IstanbulBlockWk @icphubturkey @dfinity #ICPhubs @goartmetaverse @curatorstudios @fightleagueio @EAK_Digital pic.twitter.com/5ZX1QugpkE
— Web3Daria (@DariaChernozub) August 23, 2023

Curator Studios co-founder Ulu Yucas answer stood out in particular as I sincerely believe it expressed the thoughts of many traditional gamers including myself toward the big problem with Web3 gaming.

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He started his speech by asking the audience how many Web3 gamers there were. There were a few hands raised. And this is a blockchain event! he commented, then asked how many traditional gamers there were. There was a significant increase in the number of hands raised. He pointed out there are 3 billion traditional gamers in the world and only 15 million Web3 gamers.

15 million was not the (number of) active users in Roblox back in 2015. So what we have right now is just a little private party. That means we did something wrong.

Heres what we did wrong, according to Yuca: The Web3 community is always talking about features like third-party trading, ownership, making money and interoperability. But these features have existed since games were around, including in-game items in World of Warcraft, rare items in Dota, auctions in Diablo and those occasions RuneScapes in-game currency was used as the local market currency when Venezuelas money was depreciating.

The in-game player economy was present in Diablo III, launched in 2012. (Diablo Wiki)

So, we focused on features that already exist in various forms and combined them with games that arent fun:

We talk about all these value propositions and monetization models. Play-to-Earn, Play-and-Earn, Play-and-Own, Play-and-Have-Coffee, Play-and-Get-Married. It doesn’t really matter because there is no play. There is no product.

He stressed that he has yet to see a game like Minecraft, or one that does What Angry Birds did to mobile gaming back in the day.

Despite the potential brought by Web3 elements, the real question was, Do we have a game like Roblox (in Web3)? Unfortunately, we do not.

Bitcoin casino works exactly like what youd expect

Not many people know this but Satoshi Nakamoto may have been a poker player, with the original 0.1.0 Bitcoin code in 2008 containing scraps of code for an online poker game.

Hot Take: Sunflower Land

Sunflower Land is an online farming game built on Polygon and played via a browser. Gamers are welcomed with some strict rules: one account per player, no bots or automation. It also makes clear that Sunflower Land is a game, not a financial product although only time will tell which one will be prioritized by players

The core gameplay sees users plant seeds, wait for them to grow, harvest the plants, buy more seeds and so on similar to old Facebook games such as FarmVille and CityVille. All in-game resources, such as seeds, cooked food and equipment, are NFTs that can be transferred and traded on OpenSea.

Seeds and plants have different in-game values corresponding with the time it takes for them to grow. For example, sunflower seeds grow in 30 seconds and can be sold for 125 coins (equal to 7,500 for 30 minutes), while pumpkin seeds grow in 30 minutes and can be sold for 25,000 coins.

Gameplay from Sunflower Land (Sunflower Land)

Sunflower Land features a skill tree that allows the player to work faster and get more yields from each produce as they level up. As the player levels up, the waiting time gets longer (up to 36 hours for a single seed), but they also get more space to plant their seeds. The game currently offers two minigames if youd like to do something in-game while you wait. They are called Greedy Goblin, a minigame where you catch falling gold coins while avoiding the skulls as a goblin, and Chicken Fight, a two-player fighting game where you control chickens.

Crops section of the skill tree from Sunflower Land. (Sunflower Land)

Sunflower Land launched its new season called Witches Eve on Aug. 1, which introduced a massive multiplayer online (MMO) world for players to socialize called Pumpkin Plaza. The game also welcomed the addition of Community Islands where players are provided with tools to build their own games inside Sunflower Land with the ambition of becoming the Roblox of Web3 gaming.

The flood gates opened at the Pumpkin Plaza today.

Over 700 players jumped in once the clock ticked midnight!

Welcome players and enjoy the Witches' Eve Season pic.twitter.com/PhrsnmTh6o
— Sunflower Land (@0xSunflowerLand) August 1, 2023

The game works smoothly without any problems a rare quality for Web3 games these days. The graphics look pretty, though the background music sounded really cheap. I dont know if it’s going to become the Roblox of Web3, but Sunflower Land definitely has potential with its addictive gameplay loop. Ill surely be coming back to check my island every once in a while.