NFT Review 61 - First functional game on RMRK
Bit.country goes live, RMRK EVM update, Starbucks announces NFT plans, and more.
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Dear NFT enthusiast,
This week, RMRK, and DotSama by extension, reached a vital milestone. The first NFT-based game built using RMRK’s revolutionary NFT legos was launched–Evrloot—and we took it for a spin. First, what is Evrloot?
Evrloot is an immersive experience, packaged into a low-touch game with composable RMRK NFTs at its core. Rooted in dark fantasy, inspired by classic RPGs like Diablo II or Dark Souls, Evrloot brings a world full of potential treasure, immersive lore, hand drawn artwork but also real consequences to the players. Spiced up with D&D-vibe storytelling, the lore advances with the player progressing, but also through global events altering the world for everyone at the same time.
What we particularly love about it (asides the cool art and low-demand gaming mechanics) is that it is story-driven, inviting the player on what promises to be an exciting and fulfilling journey. We would describe the gaming mechanic but then it is much better for you to experience it yourself. If you don’t already have one, you can claim a soul here and login to the game here. The game is currently in its first phase called ‘Act 1 – City of Trakan’.
This is the first of many games that will be built using RMRK’s advanced NFT legos. It is exciting to see how it develops.
Thank you for reading and have a great week.
— NFT Review
📬 NFT News from Kusama & Polkadot
In preparation for some key upgrades, advanced NFT marketplace Singular has a new twitter account.
Some Singular artists have been invited to Berlin Blockchain Week, specifically the NFT Gallery & Party with Polkadot.
RMRK founder Bruno Škvorc was on the TeachMeDeFi podcast to talk about The Future of NFTs.
RMRK docs have been updated with links to repos, more use case examples, and better linked and explained concepts. This education hub will contain hands-on tutorials soon too. Most notable new addition is Character Progression Systems.
Trading will be disabled on Singular V1 in a few days (18th Sept). Users are encouraged to use the more advanced Singular V2.
The RMRK EVM development team held a Crowdcast last week to go over some details and updates on RMRK’s EVM implementation.
NFT gaming is live on Efinity with MyMetaverse’s suite of games.
NFT artist and marketer IrishNFTGal talks about some of the pitfalls artists can fall into on the latest Enjin Room.
Bit.countryPioneer is live. Now users can create their own metaverse.
🗞 NFT News from Ethereum and Beyond
Magic Eden defends launch of NFT royalty enforcement tool.
Sony Music files trademark application for NFT-authenticated music.
Ford prepares to enter the Metaverse with virtual automobiles and NFTs.
Starbucks announces new NFT experience for coffee members.
Japanese Gov’t issues NFTs to reward local authorities’ work.
Lamborghini to roll out its second round of NFTs.
NFT creator Doodles raises $54M in funding at $704M valuation.
Sky Mavis teams up with Google Cloud to avoid another Ronin hack.
GameStop doubles down on crypto amid a new partnership with FTX US.
Web3 is creating a new genre of NFT-driven music.
Rentable, an NFT renting platform, shut down, citing 'close to zero traction'.
ENS domains were the most traded NFT collection on Ethereum this week:
GOO: Paradigm researchers unveiled Gradual Ownership Optimization, a system designed to incentivize harmony between a community’s fungible token and NFTs.
Syndicate released Collectives, a new way to launch on-chain social networks via NFTs.
MoonCats announced plans for an IP sale.
Sorare partnered with the NBA in an effort to launch the first NFT-based fantasy basketball game.
TreasureDAO launched the Magic Arcade.
Jonathan Mann published “On the Value of Music NFTs.”
Sound released Shelves, which lets collectors customize how they showcase their collected sounds.
The Sandbox Instagram account was compromised.
Voxels open-sourced the Foxus mixed reality headset
sudoswap founder 0xmons published a thread on the sudoAMM’s design.
That’s all for this week, see you in the next edition! Got some links to share with us, artists to feature, NFTs to sell, jobs to promote, or events to popularize? Get in touch with Bruno or gbaci!