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The Bull Case for Starknet Gaming 👾 According to guest writer @Web3zy Smart contract blockchains are built toward two fundamental principles: openness and immutability Ethereum has been instrumental in championing this type of architecture, enabling new approaches to apps across many sectors, including finance, gaming, social media, and beyond However, as its popularity has risen, Ethereum has understandably come to face several challenges derived from its base design constraints: 1. 🌬️ Speed — The processing time for transactions can be slow for regular users during times of high network activity 2. 🪙 Cost — Transaction fees can be substantial during network congestion and can complicate smaller or frequent transactions 3. ❓ Clunky — At least for newcomers, managing wallets and interacting with smart contracts can be an unfamiliar and overwhelming experience So how do we make a system that can advance upon this base, create opportunities for new sorts of ideas to come to life, and have it scale for the masses? To Break Through With Gaming, Break Away From Traditional Blockchain UX Against this backdrop, to leap forward here we need three main things: 1. 🌐 The ability to be flexible without compromising on openness and unstoppability 2. 📈 The ability to be able to scale to the point where costs and speed are not the bottlenecks 3. 🎨 To cultivate new spaces of experimentation, creativity, and curiosity As an example, when WordPress was first created, it opened a massive opportunity for those who knew some basic technical skills to build HTML websites However, once we reached the point where streamlining platforms like Squarespace, Wix, and Webflow came out, we saw an incredible boom in people with ideas having the freedom to bring them to life In other words? The cost, speed, and technical challenges were abstracted away to the point that nearly anyone with time could dive in handily The blockchain ecosystem is similarly entering its WordPress moment, as rising solutions like L2s and Account Abstraction (AA) are turning the tide against the lankiness of traditional UX around smart contracts However, to achieve a real breakthrough, we will need breakout applications that can showcase the great new possibilities at hand Toward this end, games are extremely promising, as billions of people around the world play games every day If a game is good, many would be inclined to play it And wherever games are, they accelerate growth, push out beyond traditional boundaries, and bring in discerning users For example, since the early 1980s gaming has continually bloomed from, and fed into, the growth of hardware, software, VR/AR, network connectivity, user interface design, AI, and beyond This is why we see so many blockchain projects experimenting around the gaming sector today; there’s always been this synergistic relationship with new technologies! But to really push forward now, we need the proper tools that enable blockchain game devs to build without core compromises and at scale to ensure speed and costs won’t be detrimental to growing their audiences Enter @Starknet... Why Starknet is Promising While it’s still in development, Starknet is already a great option for projects looking to build blockchain games that cater to the community that exists around the Ethereum ecosystem and also beyond That’s because the network has a clear roadmap to scale, and it natively supports Account Abstraction As for AA, it’s no secret that this is one of the most promising resources to push blockchain to the masses Simply put, AA simplifies transactions on the blockchain by allowing for arbitrary logic to be incorporated directly into user accounts This permits developers to execute complex, multi-stage transactions seamlessly without requiring user approvals at every step This approach contrasts with the traditional transaction process used by most blockchains, including Ethereum, which relies on Externally Owned Accounts (EOAs) and necessitates individual approvals for every part of a transaction This is a 0 to 1 moment, taking us from cumbersome and clunky approvals and always having to have the blockchain front and center, to a more streamlined and seamless experience for apps while not compromising on user security or ownership One example here is how AA supports Session Keys A game would be quite cumbersome to play if each time you took an action you had to pause and confirm it in your account separately Session Keys enable players to flexibly approve an app to submit confirmations in the background while they continue to take in-game actions This dynamic allows players to interact onchain while not taking away from the experience of playing their game By addressing the intrinsic challenges of speed, cost, and UX, and fostering an ecosystem that promotes flexibility and creativity, Starknet is paving the way to new sorts of gaming possibilities Starknet Gaming Projects to Watch 🎮 The Dojo Game Engine Dojo is an onchain game engine written in the Cairo language, making it ideal for handling vast computations It optimizes for interoperability and extensibility and provides a framework for game devs to create onchain games without the technical debt of having to build out core gaming processes from scratch 🚀 Influence With its pre-release coming soon, @influenceth is a space colonization game where players vie for control and dominance in a newly formed colony within the Adalian asteroid belt Combining elements of trading, space exploration, strategic decision-making, and futuristic realism, players take on the role of spacefaring entrepreneurs, and their main objective is to develop and manage an economic empire within Adalian ⚔️ Realms World @LootRealms, is a fantasy multiverse ecosystem that's already host to +10 games and counting A surging force in the Starknet gaming scene, Loot Realms recently entered a partnership with @cartridge_gg to build a Realms World Layer 3 (L3) platform atop Starknet