Zilliqa (ZIL) platform is thought for its scalability resolution referred to as sharding. Sharding refers to dividing the community into a number of smaller part networks referred to as shards. This enables the platform to course of transactions in parallel, which will increase the variety of transactions it could possibly course of.

Zilliqa’s Head of Gaming and Expertise, Valentin Cabela, talked to CryptoSlate about separating the Gaming perform from the Zilliqa ecosystem to be a stand-alone firm.

Zilliqa introduced its upcoming gaming console on Sept. 22. The beta model will probably be launched on the year-end. The console will probably be prepared for pre-order within the second quarter of 2023.

Gaming on Blockchain

When explaining the imaginative and prescient of Zilliqa Gaming, Cabela stated he didn’t favor to make use of the time period “Web3 Gaming.”

He defined that Web3 video games include a connotation that downplays the story improvement. As a substitute, Web3 video games give attention to “click on to earn” codecs the place they aim crypto fans who’re gaming solely to earn free tokens.

As a substitute, Zilliqa adopts the time period “Gaming on blockchain,” which places the gameplay expertise in focus. Cabela stated that Zilliqa focuses on players slightly than crypto fans. The corporate needs to guarantee that gameplay is fulfilling and that players ought to earn income in return for his or her expertise and invested time.

Issues Zilliqa is seeking to resolve

Along with Web3 video games that fail to supply precise gaming expertise, Cabela recognized different issues with the present gaming business, which revolves round cash.

Cabela stated he had been a gamer for a few years and remembers the video games from the 90s the place customers must pay as soon as to buy it and be capable of take pleasure in it for lengthy hours till they completed it.

Right this moment, Cabela says, “we’re dwelling at nighttime ages.” Within the present setting, video games are both paid for or downloaded at no cost. No matter how they’re acquired, most ask for added funds as the sport proceeds to replace characters, unlock options, or buy skins. All these are paid for in precise cash, and all these purchases are needed if the customers want to attain the precise content material or work together with the opposite gameplayers.

Zilliqa stands for the thought of enjoying to gather funds as a substitute of paying actual cash to entry leisure. Cabela says:

“For those who’re a critical gamer, nice. You’re being incentivized to play since you’re incomes cash. For those who’re an informal gamer, additionally nice. You’ve got the best to take pleasure in your recreation with out having to speculate closely in it. It’s nonetheless okay in case you don’t earn a lot.”

Zilliqa at present has a Web3 warfare recreation and a survival recreation below improvement. Quick demo movies of those video games are accessible by way of Zilliqa’s YouTube account.

Cabela additionally talked about that he and his group have been engaged on eight extra video games, which embody racing, enviornment, and cellular video games. “Something you ask, we’ve it,” stated Cabela, “besides sports activities video games.” He briefly talked about that the corporate isn’t seeking to spend money on sports activities video games for a number of years.

Having all of it

Zilliqa’s gaming department won’t cease at recreation manufacturing. The corporate is seeking to develop a gamer group hub the place customers can join, commerce, and work together with each other. Cabela stated:

“I feel the web3 group in gaming must have every part in a single place”

The corporate is aiming to just do that. Cabela says that the corporate goals to have all of it: instruments to construct video games, video games to play, a hub platform, and the console.

“Like Valve, which launched a few of the hottest video games like Dota 2 and Counter Strike, after which grew to become a recreation writer,” Cabela says, Zilliqa can also be seeking to advance into an analogous path the place it could possibly help different builders to make their very own video games, and help them in tokenomics, expertise, and recreation improvement.

The Console

Relating to the console, Cabela reminds that Zilliqa isn’t competing with the likes of PlayStation or Xbox just because Zilliqa’s gaming console presents an in-built pockets tied to the {hardware} and enhanced mining capabilities.

In-built chilly pockets

The console presents an in-built pockets for all gamers in a seamless, frictionless method. As Cabela describes it, the time period blockchain solely comes up in step one, the place customers register with their emails and passwords solely to tell them that the created pockets will probably be tied to their e mail accounts and warn them about remembering their login info.

To help non-crypto-savvy gamers, the console will embody brief movies explaining how tokens are earned, what wallets are, and what customers can do with their tokens. After that, blockchain runs within the background and doesn’t complicate issues a lot additional for the gamers.

Cabela describes the system by saying:

“Every account has one pockets. They’re strictly linked to the {hardware} you play on, whether or not it’s the console or the pc.”

He additional continues:

” We don’t have your non-public key. We have now the hash quantity generated by the non-public key, however not the important thing itself.”

In different phrases, the in-built pockets mainly acts like chilly storage, the place the property are saved off the web once they’re not being actively used.

Along with providing a safety layer, Cabela says this function additionally goals at discouraging customers from altering accounts. Customers are nonetheless allowed to sign off from their account to log in to a different one utilizing the identical {hardware} so long as they pay a sure price to take action.

Cabela says:

“It’s the identical as PS2 and Xbox. You’ve got one account and one pockets. One consumer account could have a number of wallets sooner or later, we’re at present wanting into that.”

Cabela says these charges needed to be carried out as a result of the act of fixing accounts conflicts with a number of safety layers Zilliqa has carried out, which creates a price for the corporate.

Mining

Zilliqa’s mining course of is already lively. At the moment, solely customers who’ve Home windows and Linux {hardware} are in a position to mine.

Nonetheless, the console is designed to work as a “service supplier for mining.” Customers don’t must know something in regards to the mechanics of mining, pockets varieties, or blockchain. Cabela says:

“You simply must have the console, open your account, and choose the automate mining when not enjoying possibility on.”

Doing this may command the console to mine ZIL tokens when the consumer isn’t enjoying video games, which could be spent to purchase extra video games, skins, and weapons or simply be transformed to different currencies.

The console’s {hardware} consists of an Nvidia GTX 1650 and Core i9 CPU. It additionally doesn’t include native controllers. Gamers can use any PlayStation, Xbox, or different console controllers to play video games with Zilliqa’s console.