Developer Ecosystem
End User Experience & Adoption
Small Brain Games
Building & launching a new fully onchain, open source, game every 6 weeks.
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Contribution
We launch onchain games on OP chains.
Small Brain Games quickly iterates on onchain games. These games:
1. Are focused on simplicity and accessibility
2. Are open source
3. Leverage onchain affordances other than ownership enabling speculation
In the past year, we:
1. Launched Words3, an onchain crossword game, on OP Mainnet–the first mainnet deploy of MUD smart contracts
2. Open sourced 2 fully onchain games: Ape's Gambit (battle royale chess) and Network States (an RTS)
3. Launched an improved Words3 on Base–the first mainnet deploy of MUD v2 smart contracts
4. Open sourced a starterkit for mobile onchain games, being used by two known projects
5. Worked with other projects (Gaul, Dark Seas, Underverse) building onchain games to playtest within the Small Brain Games community
Contribution links
An open starter kit for onchain mobile games. MUD + Privy + PWA in one click.
Deployed smart contracts for an onchain crossword game (Words3) on Base.
Smart contracts for an onchain crossword game. Words3 had >100 players & >$20k.
Smart contracts for the initial version of Words3.
Smart contracts & client for an onchain battle royale chess game.
Smart contracts & client for an onchain empire building game with auto lore gen.
Words3 Launch Thread
Network States Launch Thread
Coverage of Onchain PWA Starter
Onchain PWA Start Launch Thread
Impact
1. Bringing new users to OP Chains
Words3 deployments on OP Mainnet and Base both brought hundreds of users to OP Chains. From user interviews, >80% of these users bridged to & made their first transaction on OP chains because of Words3.
2. Giving users net new experiences on OP Chains
We give these new users a net-new experience–that of a fully onchain game! There are community clients, players wrote scripts, and player-made dashboards to track what is happening.
3. Making the OP ecosystem the place for onchain games
OP chains are becoming the place for new onchain experiences. We contribute to that not only by deploying games to OP chains, but by (1) open sourcing all our code, which leads to others building on OP chains, and (2) building a community of games that'll launch on them.
Funding sources
Revenue
We have not taken any revenue from games before 10/22 (application time).
0.00 USD
RetroPGF 2
(Not claimed yet), for contributions to the onchain gaming ecosystem
282,670.00 OP