My BlockChain Gaming Journey

My adventure into crypto gaming began about a year ago. Being a long time gamer, going all the way back to when Dungeons and Dragons consisted of three tan covered booklets in a little white box for $10 (yeah, the very original set, and I still have two of these), played with dice, paper and pencils, along with a plethora of miniatures, gaming has come a long way over the years. So, moving into the crypto space for gaming was a natural progression for me.

The game I started with is Alien Worlds, a mining simulator on distant planets. At the time I started, not only did you mine for Trillium, the in-game currency that cold be traded for WAX on the WAX blockchain, it also dropped NFTs, Non-Fungible Tokens, so as to enhance game play with new, additional tools that you could use, or sell on the WAX blockchain market. This worked out really well until two things happened: they cut a deal for new game play with Bianance, which I greeted with reservations; and a significant increase in botting which rapidly depleted the number of available NFTs, resulting in the mining of NFTs being stopped mid-way through 2021. So far, the return of mining NFTs has not returned. Another problem is that they have yet to deliver the long awaited and promised content expantion – Thunderdome. That may still show up at somepoint, but I for one would much prefer to see the return of NFT mining along with better bot elimination.

There was also a couple of other games on WAX I tried, but did not care for, but still have some NFTs staked to projects related to those games, kind of like cold storage. Exception – Uplift Wrold which was intriguing as it was Minecraft on the block chain. But, I got kind of bored as the community shrank. Upside, I sold my land for a nice profit, which allowed me to explore other opportunities. I am still mining on Alien Worlds, especially as CryptoMonkeys, and NFT project, has returned to dropping their NFTs to miners, and I really dig the CryptoMonkey project.

Around September I read an article about Splinterlands on, of all places, The Motley Fool. The game sounded interesting, and a low cost entry point, so, what the heck, I gave it a whirl. It was shortly after this time my land in The Uplift World, leaving me a large pile of WAX. Since I took a like to Splinterlands, and had a Legendary card drop from the daily (Bronze III) loot chest, RNG was with me that day, I was hooked. I bought a couple of land parcels, and started getting some decent amounts of SPS daily. Well, decent for me, a couple of SPS per day. I am still not that great a player, but slowly learning. Splinterlands has a very active community, and the game does have a steep learning curve. With the current release, and change of the stock cards you receive for your $10 entry, I have gotten the hang of playing Bronze league on a couple of splinters, winning a decent number of matches. But to really learn the game will take a lot of time. Fun game and worth checking out.

Checking through the Hive for other games, I spotted a listing for Rising Star, a music themed game, the developers of which are also musicians and do a lot to promote Indie Artists. Even better, it was free to play, but you won’t get far without putting a bit of money into the game so you can progress, although there is an active community with giveaway opportunities. Rising Star also does a lot to promote active members in the community, which is a darn good thing as well, I really dig Rising Star. I have posted about my exploits in this game, and plan to continue doing so, and also getting more involved with the community, which has a lot of very cool, and helpful, people. If Rising Star isn’t on you list of games on the blockchain to play, check it out. It is not as hard to learn how to play as Splinterlands, and has a lot of options to earn extra Starbits, the main currency, such as staking Starbits to Music NFTs, and getting a small chunk of Starbits whenever an NFT you have Starbits staked to sells. Man, that was convoluted. I’ll have to cover that in a future post, however the game has a great video introducing that part of the game. Also, please check my Rising Star posts on PeakD.

Have there been other games I have tried? Yep. Several others that just didn’t get me thrilled enough to keep playing. In most cases I have sold my NFTs, and in one case will soon be putting the NFTs up for sale. But that’s another story.

I think that’s about where things are at for me on blockchain gaming. It is a learning experience, and there seems to be more and more games appearing everyday. Most won’t be my proverbial cup of tea, but some are. Where my adventures in CryptoLand will take me next is unknown. One thing is for sure, blockchain gaming is here to stay, so much so that even Zynga is plotting an entry into blockchain gaming.

If you would like to try any of the games I mentioned, please consider using my referral links below:

Rising Star referral - it really Rocks!

Splinterlands Referral

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*THIS IS NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE. Please do your own research before making an informed decision. This is sharing my game play experience only.