Crypto-backed game assets - how would that work exactly?

[neginfinity]

Based on two recent threads:

GameCredits partnership?

Can anyone from the Unity team confirm that partnership announcement? https://gamecredits.com/gamecredits-partners-with-unity-technologies-to-bring-blockchain-benefits-to-3-billion-gamers/

ENJIN Coin UNITY3d Plugin

ICO : OCTOBER 3RD, 2017 What do you guys think about the new ICO coin that is a ERC-20 token supported by a powerful framework of open source smart contracts and software development kits. (SDK’s) It is a decentralized platform to trade items and transfer virtual ownership between players. I just had a conversation with the CTO Witek Radomski about the Unity3d 2017 plug ins for easy integration into games. I think this will be fantastic for game developers and anyone who is offering virtual …

I have a question.

Let’s say somebody tries to clone steam cards on a cryptocurrency platform.
As far as I’m aware, in case of original steam cards, number of cards is determined by number of players. Meaning it is (numberOfCardsInSet / 2) * numberOfGameOwners. So, more people, means more cards.

However… how would that work exactly in case of a cryptocurrency platform? In other words… what is a card?

In this case I’ve arrived at two possible solutions:

1. A card is a number of crypto coins. Meaning to emit more cards you (the developer) will need to buy coins from the platform you’re running on.
2. A card is backed by a smart contract script somewhere. In this case interacting with the script will cost money (gas in case of etherium), and is not very different normal database.

Am I missing anything?

For example, enjicoin seems to be following strategy number 1. Meaning to create a card you’ll need to pay.

Web, Mobile App and API-based user interfaces to the Mint smart contract will be developed to make asset creation and management a simple process. The following parameters define a new custom asset:
● Name
● Icon
● Maximum Supply
● Decimal Places
● Exchange Rate
● Access List
● Data

Once created, a Mint smart contract will be cloned and registered in the singleton Registry smart contract, which will allow custom assets to be recognized by all Smart Wallets. The custom asset may now be minted by anyone in the Access List by sending Enjin Coins to the new Mint smart contract. The Name, Icon and Access List properties may be updated at any time by the Mint contract owner.

Thoughts?

[EternalAmbiguity]

I apologize for this tangential post. But where’d you get your formula for Steam card drops? Don’t want to derail the potential discussion, just curious where it came from.

[neginfinity]

@EternalAmbiguity

I apologize for this tangential post. But where’d you get your formula for Steam card drops? Don’t want to derail the potential discussion, just curious where it came from.

I have steam games. Steam games drop cards. The number of available drops is always half of the total number of cards in the deck, I believe rounded up.

So the number I specified is total number of cards that can drop from all players combined. If everybody can only get half of the deck, then total number of cards will be (number of players) * ceil(deckSize / 2). However, I have not taken into account gem crafting and booster packs. With those in picture, number of cards is potentially unlimited.

[EternalAmbiguity]

@neginfinity

I have steam games. Steam games drop cards. The number of available drops is always half of the total number of cards in the deck, I believe rounded up.

So the number I specified is total number of cards that can drop from all players combined. If everybody can only get half of the deck, then total number of cards will be (number of players) * ceil(deckSize / 2). However, I have not taken into account gem crafting and booster packs. With those in picture, number of cards is potentially unlimited.

Gotcha. I was confused about your * number of people who own the game. I was thinking you were referring to how many cards an individual user can obtain, so that confused me. All cleared up, thanks…