The WASD Weekly: 8/23/24

Gm for the first time from Paragraph!

It was a memorable week for onchain gaming and WASD.

There were a lot of headlines, but one of the biggest dropped this morning, as Lattice announced that it will spin off Sky Strife.

Lattice

@latticexyz

After 3 Seasons we have some exciting news: @skystrifeHQ has entered autonomous mode. No more season passes, no more breaks -- you can play Sky Strife anytime.

What does this mean in detail? Read on to learn more!

Kooshaba, the real-time strategy game’s co-creator and lead developer, will own the Sky Key, an NFT that controls key gameplay and economic parameters.

He'll also continue developing the game from his own studio.

In the meantime, Sky Strife has entered “autonomous mode.”

Lattice

@latticexyz

2/ Autonomous mode means:
-All features (heroes, maps, private matches, entrance fees) are available to all users
-Anyone can cancel matches that have been sitting around for longer than an hour without starting
-No more free daily matches — instead match creation cost stays the…

As the name suggests, the game world will run persistently onchain, with players able to access all heroes, maps, and match types.

The Orb (🔮) economy will also remain unchanged, with the match creation cost fixed at 100 while maintaining the current emissions curve.

Autonomous mode not only represents a major change to the Sky Strife experience but demonstrates what’s uniquely possible with fully onchain games.

Because the game logic exists entirely onchain, Sky Strife can run without any dev maintaining it or human intervention.

In theory, it could remain in autonomous mode forever (or at least as long as Redstone exists).

Applying this level of decentralization to a game is undeniably cool and exciting. It’s an extremely interesting design space that has barely begun to be explored.

(Yes, we’re unironically early.)

All in all, I’m incredibly excited to see how things play out.

Sky Strife remains one of my favorite onchain games alongside Primodium, and I’m hyped for Kooshaba (an absolute chad) to fully take the reigns.

Mainstream crypto continually sleeps on onchain gaming, but experiments like this are why it remains the most exciting niche in the space.

-FaultProofBen

The TLDR:

The hottest headlines from the last week in onchain gaming and autonomous worlds.

What We’re Playing:

An update on what our guild’s been up to this week.

Dark Forest Ares

Dark Forest Ares is a community-led rendition of the OG Dark Forest.

DF Archon, the team behind Ares, just held the latest round of the game, v0.1 R4, on Redstone from August 11 to 17.

DF Archon 🦑

@DFArchon

On Aug 2, 2020, @darkforest_eth released first beta edition

On Aug 2, 2024, we are announcing Dark Forest Ares v0.1 r4: Union

on @redstonexyz

Start: Aug 11 2pm UTC

End: Aug 17 2pm UTC

mirror.xyz/dfarchon.eth/H…

Forge alliances and seize victory

This round saw the introduction of unions, which are in-game teams similar to alliances in Primodium.

WASD had a union of its own, led by Hope and comprised of six other guild members, including Jota, oVermillion, inoob, cypherbadger, and when_df.

After six days of fierce competition to capture planets and intense negotiations with other unions, we emerged victorious, taking home a first-place finish, an Epic Ares NFT, and a $650 cash prize.