What if ALL your favorite @Starknet games shared one leaderboard, one wallet, and one launchpad with potential rewards to earn? That’s exactly what Cartridge just dropped: Arcade. 1. Gaming incentives To incentivize onchain engagement protocols still rely on: • Airdrop farming, where each user is spamming useless transaction only to boost its score and try to extract as much value as possible • Basic “connect and tweet” quests usually followed by swaping 5$ on a dedicated platform • XP grinds All of those are just boosting metrics. Once the airdrop is done: bye bye: engagement drops, activity at all time low. It does not reflect real value, it’s only transactional and there is no positive feedback loops. Do you really think that completing a Zealy or Galxe quest will somehow retain users ? On their side, games have a more natural way to track: • Skill • Progression • Resources • PvP results So basically they are very good to track real engagement. The only issue is that they are siloed: Each game is tracking its own progression, rewards, XP / Leaderboard… Arcade solve this. It is generalizing the deep engagement of any player and make this engagement usable by any project that want to incentivize gaming activity. 2. What is Arcade? Arcade is a kind of game layer built by Cartridge on Starknet. It’s like a crypto version of Steam or Epic Games. It’s a place where: • You can discover new games • Launch games instantly with your Controller wallet • Follow friends and get updated with live feeds • Track your activity, scores (through a leaderboard), and assets For developers, Arcade is also very useful: • Understand player behavior with detailed analytics • Introduce your game directly to players who love similar experiences • Grow your community The Arcade mission is to bring all the Starknet games into a single place. One launcher, one wallet, a bunch of games all at the same place. 3. Arcade overview • Achievements: This section displays all the missions you've completed in Arcade games. E ach completed mission earns you points, helping you climb the leaderboard and showing your progress. • Activity: This section shows every game you or your friends played and what was accomplished • Leaderboards: Two types of leaderboards. The first one is game-specific showing your rank for each specific game on Arcade. The second one is global that rank players based on their global achievements from all games. • Inventory: This section shows every IG asset you own • Coming soon: Marketplace to allow player to trade assets they own IG Guilds to add a social and competitive layer, where players can team up 4. Arcade Games 11 games accessible through Arcade right now: • BLOB Arena • Crimson fate • Dark Shuffle • Dope Wars • Dragark • Eternum • Evolute: Mage Duel • Joker of Neon • Pistols at Dawn • Ponzi Land • zKube Here’s a quick presentation of each of them: • BLOB Arena Blob Arena is a multiplayer arena where players control blobs in a battlefield where your goal is to defeat your enemy in the arena. To start playing Blob Arena, first, you’ll need a blob. Each blob is an NFT with its own skills, such as strength, speed, and unique abilities. Once you have your blob, you can start to battle. If you win matches, you earn rewards which can be used to level up your blob, improve its abilities, or even buy new blobs! • Crimson fate In Crimson fate you pick a character, with unique abilities, and set them up in a dungeon where multiples enemies will spawn. Once defeated, you start a new level with stronger enemies • Dark Shuffle Dark Shuffle is a card game within @LootRealms ecosystem. It is a play-to-die game where you assemble a deck of 8 cards and engage in a duel against your enemies. The objective is to survive as long as possible, until your last health point. There are different card types to build your deck: • Attack cards that deal direct damage to enemies. • Defense cards helping to protect yourself by reducing or blocking incoming damage. • Utility cards that gives you an advantage over your oppenent, like giving you extra Health • Dope Wars In Dope Wars you start with nothing and try to climb your way up. You’re basically a dealer trying to build its empire in New York. You want to buy things low, sell them high, move to other cities to expand your business and climb the ladder. It’s chaotic, and super fun if you like PvP and economic strategy. • Dragark Dragark is a game where you command dragon-like creatures called Dragarks to explore floating Sky Islands and conquer territories. You need to scout new lands, seize control of islands, gather resources, and upgrade your Dragarks to dominate the map. • Eternum Eternum is a MMO strategy game in the Realms World ecosystem. In Eternum, you will build bases called Realms and you will need to explore the map, engage in combat, form alliance, trade with other players, manage your resource production … to develop your realm and dominate your enemies. Eternum is structured around seasons, meaning you can play only when a new season starts. The map is hexagonal grid filled with realms from each player. As you can see you will have A LOT of enemies 😃 You will need to explore this map to find rare resources in order to control Hyperstructuresand earn victory points. Ultimately you will need to fight with your neighbor as they will not let you win so easily • Evolute: Mage Duel Evolute is a wizard duel . A 1v1 spell battles using decks you build. You bring a spellbook, go head-to-head, and try to outplay your opponent by managing your mana and timing your spells. • Joker of Neon Joker of Neon is a strategic card game developed by Caravana Studio. In this game, you build your decks, and compete with others. Your objective is to build the best possible poker hands to earn as much points as possible. You do this by playing cards from your deck, collecting multipliers, and upgrading your level to maximize your score. Each round, you are dealt five hands and have five discards to optimize your plays. The goal is to reach a point target that increases with each round by forming the best poker hands possible. If you fail to meet the target before running out of hands, the game ends. • Pistols at Dawn Pistols at Dawn is a two-stage PvP duel game where players fight using pistols and blades. The game uses a commit/reveal system. In this system each duelists select their actions and reveal them simultaneously. Each player start with 3 HP Combat consists of two rounds: • First round, pistol: Choose your pace, then your character will turn and shoot. More pace means more honor. • Second round with a blade: If both players have at least 1 HP remaining, they proceed to blade combat where you will need to select your combo The survivor wins • Ponzi Land Ponziland is a PvP game where your goal is pretty simple: You build a financial empire, outwit your neighbors and avoid getting nuked ! In ponziland, you buy land tiles, using any ERC-20 token. Then you set a resale price, stake tokens to back it, and start earning taxes from the 8 neighboring tiles. But your land is taxed daily and if it runs out of funds... you lose it, it’s called “Nuking” If your land is listed in a token with low liquidity, it gets nuked. • zKube zKube is a cube-rolling puzzle game but onchain. Each level in zKube is a 3D grid-based puzzle. You control a cube that can roll in four directions. Your goal is to land the cube at the right place (visibly marked) and the right face, knowing that you have only a limited numbers of moves. You win once you beat the puzzle !
