Successful battle royale game looks to add blockchain with metaverse spin

cointelegraph.com:

Blockchain-based games are still yet to take the world by storm. Big developers are testing the waters, and the smaller teams have yet to master a successful project. With little familiarity, many games still focus on the nonfungible token (NFT) component more than the gameplay itself, with many releases being as simple as pet breeding or other character collectibles. Consequently, if you remove NFTs from new project releases, games will have no leg to stand on due to the lack of intelligible gameplay.

However, it is believed for these games to take off, developers need to start putting interesting gameplay first and NFT features second. Regardless of genre, trends in match-3, battle royale and other tactical strategies have proven to remain at the top of the charts. When applied properly, these findings can be combined to create one metaverse that continues to entertain an audience in the long term.

Rising to meet this challenge is the Axes Metaverse, a project combining all of the aspects mentioned above to make gameplay and improving skills significantly more engaging for users. As one of the project team members shares, “some of the existing play-to-earn projects provide gaming experiences so terrible they have to pay users to play.”

In contrast, the metaverse is based on Axes.io, a game with 35 million installs and 30,000 daily active users (DAU). Only after Axes.io had been met with initial success in their community did the team begin to consider adding blockchain technology.

Doing a deeper dive into the gameplay, the team made the addition of player-versus-player (PvP) and simultaneously reimagined players-versus-environment (PvE) modes.

With the PvP mode, the team plans to increase engagement and add a competitive