[PhilNote: Blockchain-enhanced interoperability]
These games don’t have tons of players yet, and maybe they aren’t going to set the world on fire, but the developers are trying to pioneer technologies that take advantage of the transparency and security of blockchain, which is the foundation for cryptocurrencies. It’s not so different from a plan advanced by High Fidelity.
Age of Rust, 9Lives Arena, CryptoFights, War of Crypto, Bitcoin Hodler, and Forest Knight are using Enjin Coin’s blockchain development platform to integrate gaming assets stored on the Ethereum blockchain and have committed to creating the first ever gaming multiverse. That means their worlds, characters, and items will be connected.
The key difference is that while Ready Player One’s Oasis is owned by a single person, the multiverse growing on the blockchain is completely decentralized and is developing organically through collaboration and innovation. Though all of the games in the multiverse are using Enjin Coin’s platform to create and integrate their blockchain assets, the multiverse is not governed or controlled by a single entity.
See the full story here: https://venturebeat.com/2018/08/26/6-games-band-together-on-ready-player-one-style-gaming-multiverse/