The Current State of Fully On-Chain Games with William Robinson

There are games that try to put their state (and the logic that executes changes to that state) on chain. The most famous example is Dark Forest (2021), which remains quite esoteric, since the UX was meant for only the bravest of users. The hope is that in making games fully permissionless, trustless, open-source and composable, we will see the emergence of new design patterns. In the same way that Uniswap was able to put swaps fully on chain and integrate with other protocols in novel ways (such as with Flash Loans), fully on-chain gaming threatens to produce a sea-change. In this talk, I trace the progress that developers have made in bringing games from web2.5 to the web3. Not only have their been scaling and tooling problems, but there have also been design problems. In the same way that AMM had to reimagine swapping away from order books, on-chain games are similarly exploring niche genres of gaming that are appropriate for the asynchronicity of the blockchain. William Robinson NFTs + Metaverse, + Gaming Stage