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It might have raised $300 million from VCs, efficiently launched its mainnet this week, and boast a genuinely fascinating method to working a brand new L1 blockchain, however on the subject of the announcement of launch video games, Mysten Labs’ Sui blockchain leaves loads to be desired.
To some extent that comes with the territory. It’s taken years for the likes of Polygon and Immutable to construct out a stable growth ecosystem — one thing Solana remains to be scuffling with — so Sui was by no means going to hit the bottom at a dash.
Equally, having been personally loosely concerned in some discussions round getting video games to decide to a brand new blockchain, I do know the method is extremely tortuous and fragmented.
However that acknowledged, the rundown of the primary video games that may launch on Sui is fairly disappointing.
The overwhelming majority of the titles are unknowns and from builders of unknown pedigree. And the recognized titles are already dwell on different blockchains. For instance TCG Playing cards of Ethernity is at the moment dwell by means of the Epic Video games Retailer and Extremely retailer on ImmutableX, whereas Challenge Eluune and Panzerdogs are current Solana tasks.
As an apart, Solana and Sui (and Aptos) all use the identical Rust-based Transfer programming language for sensible contracts, making code extra transportable between them. None of those Transfer-based blockchains are EVM-compatible, nevertheless, that means it’s a lot tougher for video games within the Ethereum ecosystem, which use the Solidity programming language, to be ported.
The complete Sui launch line-up is:
- Arcade Champion — BlueJay,
- Bushi — Onenet,
- Playing cards of Ethernity — Aether Video games,
- Cosmocadia — Fortunate Kat,
- Degens & Dragons — Orange Comet,
- Last Stardust— Comet Labs,
- Haven Compass — Ghost Ivy,
- Mini Miners — BitPunch/ Seascape,
- Panzerdogs — Fortunate Kat,
- Challenge Eluune— Arrivant,
- Run Legends — Talofa Video games,
- The Strolling Useless (WIP) — Orange Comet, and
- Worlds Past — TBA
I assume one fascinating facet of the reveal — a part of an extended and fairly rambling article from Dean Takahasi — is that each one of those titles can have one thing playable within the coming months. Certainly, the primary video games will go dwell on Sui beginning fifteenth Might.
And in complete, over 30 builders are mentioned to have commited to Sui, with Netmarble’s RPG Grand Cross: Metaworld doubtless the best profile title promised, however it’s not coming inside this accelerated timeframe.
So whereas I don’t have excessive hopes for these explicit video games, there’s nonetheless loads of alternative for Sui to seek out and entice the small variety of genuinely excessive class tasks it requires to scale person numbers over the approaching six months or so.
If nothing else, I can consider some distressed-but-good Solana video games that may very well be acquired and refined for low tens of millions of {dollars}.
As is ever the case — however particularly in blockchain — ‘fewer, better, slower’ will all the time beat out ‘more, weaker, faster’.
