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Jam City is betting big on its first blockchain game, Champions Ascension, and today it disclosed details for the game for fans in a white paper.
The white paper is an attempt to get the fan community to buy into the Champions Ascension game, which is a major project for mobile game publisher Jam City as it moves into the world of blockchain games. The white paper, in keeping with the traditions of the crypto gaming community, is an attempt to disclose everything relevant so that players can invest their time and money into the game. I’ve detailed what is in the white paper here because this is one of the rare blockchain games so far that is being built by an established game company that is deadly serious about making the transition into non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
Jam City already has a strong track record with 1.3 billion in lifetime mobile game installs and $2.5 billion in lifetime bookings. It operates more than 20 games, including a dozen associated with big brands. But CEO Chris DeWolfe believes that NFTs are as big an opportunity as free-to-play games were at the dawn of iPhone and Android games a decade ago.
The white paper said Jam City is building a true “play-and-earn experience,” where players can have fun playing a game but can choose to sell the items they buy in the game when they want to do so. Jam City is setting up the community as a collaboration between players and developers, and the players can gain ownership and decision rights that allow them to collaborate with the company on the game’s future.
The white paper says Jam City’s mission is to create a living, breathing world: a theme-park metaverse
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