Recently, the concept of NFT + DeFi has attracted more attention, and the value of NFT should come from the value of the game itself. It relies on the design of the game and economic incentives rather than pure hype. There is no real leading project in the entire market. The Seascape team is a very rare team that already has products and is profitable. It is also a regular army in the game industry. It is preparing to open an open game platform based on Polkadot and Ethereum, which is expected to be launched in January next year. On the evening of November 28th, Seascape COO & Co-founder Nicky Li was a guest at SnapFingers AMA, let us learn about the gaming paradise that Seascape created for players and game developers!
Q1: Can you introduce the team background of Seascape and why you focus on the blockchain game track?
Nicky Li | Seascape COO & Co-founder：
We are a global team. The team currently consists of more than a dozen members, located in Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo and Sweden. We are also cooperating with several game development teams around the world to ensure that the content of our platform is diverse and high-level.
The core members of our team are from top traditional game development companies at home and abroad, including Paradox, Youzu, Shengqu, Forgame, etc. We have worked together and completed successful mobile games such as "League of Gods" and "Liberators", and successfully commercialized Facebook games of the year. We have also participated in global phenomenal PC masterpieces such as "Kingdom". At a time when Free to Play and mobile game channels are king, everyone gathers together again, hoping that Play to Earn can redefine the rules of online games. This is our original intention to make "BLOCKLORDS" and create the Seascape game platform.
In fact, our team has launched a blockchain game BLOCKLORDS (play.blocklords.io) before developing the Seascape game platform. We have continued to develop this game for 2 years. Based on the NEO and TRON networks launched in 19, we upgraded this year and launched version 2.0 on the Ethereum and Matic sidechains. This was also the world's first blockchain strategy game at the time. Since then, we have received the attention of many leading blockchain companies and won many awards and bonuses. Now, we are ready to take the next step and release Seascape Network, which is a game platform based on the Polkadot ecology and designed around DeFi and NFT economy!
Q2: There are many game platforms on the market now. Could you please share what makes Seascape unique and where are its technical advantages?
Nicky Li | Seascape COO & Co-founder：
I think the biggest difference between us and other platforms is that our core team members are from top traditional game development companies at home and abroad. We attach great importance to the quality of games and pursue the continuous launch of new game products. As we release more self-developed games and gain market success, we will use our heritage in the game industry to attract more formal game developers and studios to join our platform, and use our SDK to release more diverse Blockchain game.
In other words, I have to continue Crowns (later will use the abbreviation CWS, our Token) and Seascape NFTs bring a variety of game scenarios and game applications to games platform DeFi, so players and developers Reap the benefits of the digital economy with us.
Q3: After reading the official website of Seascape, can you explain how to combine NFT and DeFi?
Nicky Li | Seascape COO & Co-founder：
When the Crowns (CWS) and Seascape game platforms are launched, we will immediately release 3 DeFi mini-games to motivate users to participate and get CWS and Seascape NFTs rewards! These mini games are an attempt to gamify the popular DeFi gameplay. I agree with what Li Xavier said that economic models are very important. But we believe that if there is a better product experience, then why not do it. We hope to create a better participation window so that more blockchain users can realize the power of DeFi gamification and participate in the token economy of CWS.
Q4: How do users participate in the Seascape ecosystem, and how do they participate in the token economy?
Nicky Li | Seascape COO & Co-founder：
In the short term, you can look forward to the Yield Farming mini-game, NFT acquisition and staking mini-games, the use of NFT in BLOCKLORDS, and the $CWS that can be used for in-platform game recharge and other product and feature highlights that we will launch on the platform after the Token goes online. We will discuss and publish more in-depth articles on these products and gameplay in the coming weeks.
Simply put, just like other popular Yield Farming, users can participate in our DeFi game 1 by depositing Uniswap CWS-ETH LP Token , and continue to receive CWS rewards . All participating users can also get an additional Seascape NFT reward. .
In DeFi Game 2, players can spend CWS to cast random quality Seascape NFT . In the leaderboard, players can compete for more CWS rewards. This is an attempt to combine common game card drawing and treasure box gameplay with NFT and blockchain technology.
In DeFi Game 3, all Seascape NFTs can be used to staking to mine CWS, and different NFT staking strategies will also receive additional APY bonuses. However, Game 3 provides more generous rewards at a price: when the player receives the CWS reward, the Staking NFT will be destroyed. In this way, we will also allow Seascape NFTs to maintain a higher rarity.
In the long run, in other games, we will also use CWS as a part of the recharge method and rewards in the game, making it the core of the economic gameplay in the game. And we will launch more and more more playable, more easy-to-use, even hidden experience in the blockchain function, so that we can promote the game platform and products and attract more and more mainstream Player groups.
Q5: How does Seascape motivate players and developers? I heard that you have an interesting mechanism called "Rebasing". Can you tell us in detail?
Nicky Li | Seascape COO & Co-founder：
In fact, the team really attaches great importance to the design of the Token economic model. The Rebasing mechanism we made in the CWS Token contract is to encourage users to hold $CWS . To put it simply: In the self-developed game on the Seascape platform, the total amount of CWS "consumed" will be automatically returned to Token holders every week in accordance with the holding ratio. In other words, the more CWS you have, the more Rebasing CWS you can get from other people's consumption CWS each week. Games developed by other developers will also have this feature, but there will be a fixed percentage of CWS rewards to the developers themselves as incentives for players to "spend" in their games.
For developers, we strongly encourage game designers and developers to join our platform. In the short term, we can help developers implement a payment method that supports $CWS in their games, and develop users and income with us. Next year, we will provide DeFi gameplay SDK, developers can easily add DeFi gameplay to their games.
SnapFingers ：
Then, will this cause others to keep buying coins instead of spending?
Nicky Li | Seascape COO & Co-founder：
This is the importance of game quality. I believe that players are willing to pay for a good game, not to mention that the game assets that can generate more value like Seascape NFTs are more attractive than the centralized data of general games.
Q6: We all know that the NFT standard has always been one of the bottlenecks in the development of blockchain games. I heard that you are planning to establish a new NFT standard on Polkadot. You can talk to me about the difference between this new standard and the current NFT standard Where?
Nicky Li | Seascape COO & Co-founder：
Based on the experience of NFT on Ethereum, we think there is a lot of room for optimization. For example, ERC-721 does not allow multiple tokens to be created at the same time, NFT cannot be cross-chain transactions, and the production of NFT faces high gas costs.
Based on Polkadot's parachain and developing new NFT standards, we are committed to solving these problems, so that this NFT standard can natively support the creation of multi-tokens, cross-chain transactions, pledge, higher data scalability, and more Good access control and ease of use.
Our team is currently exploring this direction. While Ethereum has released our first-generation NFT and expanded its value and application channels, it is actively preparing for the development of the NFT standard on Polkadot. We also maintain an open attitude and are happy to initiate and complete this NFT standard with other project teams to help the future prosperity and development of the Polkadot NFT ecosystem.
Q7: Does Seascape plan to cooperate with other DeFi projects in the future? What kind of cooperation will it take?
Nicky Li | Seascape COO & Co-founder：
We will actively cooperate with other DeFi projects. In fact, cooperation has already begun.
We had already held a cooperation event with MakerDAO in BLOCKLORDS two months ago, and it got a good response at that time. Then after our Token and platform are online, we will also actively explore cooperation with Ethereum and especially the DeFi projects in the Polkadot ecosystem. Applications such as adding our Token to the lending economy of other DeFi projects, as well as the cross-project pledge mining of Seascape NFTs, are all areas of cooperation that we are interested in.
Once there is similar cooperation, we will synchronize the good news to the friends in the community as soon as possible, and everyone will participate together to make the digital economy and DeFi ecology better and better.
Q8: Before Seascape, your team has created a chain game "BLOCKLORDS" with more than 10,000 users. Can you introduce this game and what role it will play in the ecology?
Nicky Li | Seascape COO & Co-founder：
"BLOCKLORDS" is the first blockchain game developed by the Seascape team and the world's first war strategy chain game . This product has been developed since the summer of 2018 and has won awards from many heavyweight blockchain partners including NEO, TRON, Binance, Loom, and Matic. Version 1.0 was launched on NEO and TRON in 19, and version 2.0 was launched on Ethereum and Matic this year. In the future, "BLOCKLORDS" will also be added to the Polkadot ecosystem to help expand the Polkadot game ecosystem.
"BLOCKLORDS" is equivalent to our self-developed flagship game in the Seascape game platform. We will develop and iterate this game product for a long time, and explore more content and gameplay combining NFT and DeFi with the game.
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Q9: Will Seascape be launched soon? Are there other game teams planning to develop on the Seascape platform?
Nicky Li | Seascape COO & Co-founder：
Yes, we strive to let the Seascape platform meet with you as soon as possible. Our current goal is to be fully online no later than January next year. (Of course, BLOCKLORDS is always online, you can try it at any time)
There will be other game teams participating, and our DeFi mini games will have other game teams participating in joint development with us.
Q10: Can you share with us how to participate in the ecology in the future to become an early dividend user?
Nicky Li | Seascape COO & Co-founder：
One is to experience BLOCKLORDS. After CWS goes online, we will follow Uniswap and airdrop some CWS rewards to the active players who have bound their wallets in "BLOCKLORDS". So, everyone is welcome to experience "BLOCKLORDS" (detailed rules will be announced in the next few weeks).
Currently it is the web version. Those who want to play on mobile can wait for our mobile game version next year. The other is that domestic players may have a hard time visiting. If you bring your own ladder, you can solve the problem to a large extent. At this point, we will continue to try to optimize domestic server connection problems.
The second is to pay attention to our community, we will announce our latest developments in the community.
Community Q&A
Q1: Do I need to recharge to play this game?
Nicky Li | Seascape COO & Co-founder：
Currently "BLOCKLORDS" is a free game, in a beta version similar to the forerunner, and there is no gold point. We hope that games can be better integrated with the digital economy.
Q2: Can you tell me why you choose Substrate? Will game development be smoother?
Nicky Li | Seascape COO & Co-founder：
What Substrate attracts us most is the trend of parachain and more open and cross-chain. We want users to freely control their game assets. For example, the NFT obtained by the user on our platform, if you want to transfer it to Ethereum for trading or Tron for trading, we hope that both can be supported.
Of course, at the current stage, we are the first to launch NFT and some game products on Ethereum, and do some basic construction on Substrate. After setting up the standards and some tools, we can focus more on subsequent product enrichment.
Q3: At present, most NFT projects and DeFi projects do not perform well in terms of sustainability. As a decentralized gaming platform, what aspects will Seascape start to solve these problems? Because being a game platform is not like the previous DEX, simply providing Token Swap and an annual interest rate can solve the problems of user stickiness and project continuity.
Nicky Li | Seascape COO & Co-founder：
Sustainability is an issue. This aspect requires the persistence of the team itself, the continuous production of high-quality products, and the good market performance of Token.
Our team is dedicated, pursuing continuous product launches and updates, and we are also willing to listen to feedback from the community and other co-developers. We believe that the healthy and sustainable development of the Seascape platform can be continued.
Welcome to pay attention to our follow-up products:) I believe it can make your eyes shine.
Q4: What are the recent optimizations? What kind of company do you want to build into? Or what to do so that when everyone thinks of chain games, they will think of you?
Nicky Li | Seascape COO & Co-founder：
Currently we are preparing a major version update internally. Will follow the Token launch to supplement the optimization and gameplay content (including novice guidance). We hope to launch a good enough game product, and let users who participate in it can enjoy the benefits and happiness, Play to Earn.
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