War Field is a brand new multiplayer video game, and its creators claim it’s the very first of its kind to offer real cryptocurrency as a prize. Fuelled by Golder (GLDR), an ERC20 token, users can win, trade and withdraw currency, thereby realising every gamer’s dream – getting paid to play. Unveiled at the end of June, War Field’s alpha version is available to play online now.
Whilst still in its early stages of development, War Field looks like an impressive proposition, and certainly seems to have the team to back it up. Over the coming months the game will be developed and expanded to incorporate different terrains and scenarios. Players who like what they see can support War Field by buying Golder tokens during the current crowdsale, which runs up to November 15th. CEO Andrius Mironovskis says his team plan to build more games using the Golder token, enabling users to play and build their balance across different platforms, but that they’d decided to start with a shooter because of the enduring popularity of the genre.
Crypto-driven video games are still very much in their infancy. An early example was Huntercoin, a 2013 strategy game which enabled users to mine HUC, a currency based on a fork of Namecoin. Then things went quiet for a few years. It wasn’t until 2017 that perhaps the best-known crypto game emerged in the form of CryptoKitties, which used the Ethereum blockchain to build a simple “virtual pet” game online. Understandably derided in the crypto community, the game gained notoriety after one CryptoKitty sold for no less than $100,000 in December 2017. Decentraland, a virtual reality platform, is perhaps a rather more serious proposition. Using own native cryptocurrency MANA, the platform enables users to create and explore a 3D interactive world.
But as far as a good, old- fashioned first person shoot-em-up, War Field is very much out on its own at this moment. Only time will tell whether the platform becomes the first to truly unite crypto and gaming.
