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August 19, 2021 11:40 pm

Vine's Creator Is Now Working On NFT Blockchain Video Games

Dom Hofmann, one of Vine's founders, has a new project called Supdrive. He calls it an "on-chain fantasy game console" that plays classic-style games with NFTs acting as a sort of virtual cartridge. The Verge reports: In a Discord set up for Supdrive, Hofmann wrote that the games will be NFTs, running on virtual firmware. The fact that games will be released as NFTs means that there will only be so many "editions" or copies available. Hofmann also says that each copy of a given game will be unique, with players getting different color palettes, difficulty levels, and more. Hofmann compares Supdrive to another blockchain project, Art Blocks, while describing it, which may give us an idea of what it'll actually be like. The gist of Art Blocks is that it lets creators make programs to procedurally generate art, which is then stored on the blockchain. The programs will always create the same art for a given seed, but changing the seed changes what the art ends up looking like (Minecraft players may be familiar with this sort of system). Then, people buy NFTs for an Art Block project, which will contain a seed, letting them generate that art. This seems to fit well with what Hofmann is describing, where an on-chain console will play unique games. The details, though, like how exactly it will work, how many copies of each game will be available, and how much they'll cost, are all to be announced. Hofmann's post does say that the plan is to let the community develop games for the Supdrive, if the project ends up working out. He also plans on upgrading the console's abilities, allowing for more advanced games (the initial set of games will be "old-school arcade style"). The first game, made by Hofmann, is called Origin. Supdrive also has a sort of meta game, with its users being split up into Pokemon-esque Red, Green, and Blue teams. Hofmann's announcement post says that which team you're on could have an effect on the game you're playing. For now, though, the different color teams are mostly memeing at each other in the Discord. In the Discord chat, Hofmann said he was aiming for an October launch for the project. He's also said that he'll be doing updates "every week or so" leading up to the launch.

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