Solana - 5. Gaming on Sol

    Between Star Atlas, Genopets, and Aurory, games are beginning to allow users to experiment with what they have been building over the past year and a half. Create a dashboard showing user activity and growth of these three games. Is there any crossover between these three games in terms of users or does each game seem to have its own fan base? What is the profile of gaming users on Solana? What types of activities are these users doing within the games and within the Solana ecosystem?

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    Observations

    • Star Atlas has experienced the highest number of users among these games with about 57.1K users and after it Genopets has second place with about 30.3K and finally Aurory has about 20.6K users. Moreover, about 125 gamers is active among these three platforms so it seems the highest number of users are unique for each program and they was loyal to platform. In terms of daily active users, the best performance belongs to Genopets since this platform has experienced stable trend with high number of daily active users while the trend of daily active users of Star Atlas has experienced downward trend. In terms of daily new users, the highest number of new users belonged to Star Atlas and it was on 17 Dec 2021 with about 15.2K new users. Totally these platforms have experienced about 20.5K As cumulative Aurory new users, 30.2K as cumulative Genopets new users and about 57.1K as cumulative Star Atlas new users since inception. On average Genopets has about 66 New users, Aurory has about 45 users and Star Atlas has about 125 users.

    Genopets Secondary Market Data

    Observations

    • The highest number of Genopets NFT sales was on 24 Dec and 26 Feb woth about 1.5K but after it the the trend of sales number of this collection became downward also the highest number of buyers was on 26 Feb with about 650, but the highest amount of daily sales volume was on 13 Aug with about 6K Sol but generally the trend of this collection is downward but the statistics of this collection is more better than Aurory collection. Totally, this collection has experienced about 49K as cumulative sales number, 368K Sol as cumulative sales volume and 13.1K as cumulative new buyers. Moreover, these buyers spent about 0.31 Sol as fee volume for buying this collection. While this collection has about 2.5 times bigger number of sales, Total NFT sales volume of Aurory collection is about 4 times bigger than Genopets sales volume.

    Observations

    • The highest number of Aurory collection were sold in Solanart Marketplace with about 13.6K sales number and about 1.2M Sol sales volume also this Marketplace has about 73% ratio of all sales number and about 78.2% sales volume.
    • On the other hand, the highest number of Genopets were sold in Magic Eden V2 with about 40K transactions and about 315K Sol as sales volume also this platform has about 81% sales number and 85.5% sales volume of this collection.

    Observations

    • This User 2CjChDfRmbs55LZYmBggLcHokX4zxSFW8iqC3YkUeArL has the highest number of Buy number of Aurory collection with about 315, but this user FRS19DANexe8o84hA6HivmzGpkZcBJHQtVLYgEEvVpTN has the highest buy volume with about 18K Sol. On the other hand, the most active user on Genopets is this user DXmdg23vhNpTnYp5SeYJGZXWxDqHRUMwrhCW2bpP94xR with about 1.5K buy transactions while this user 8239pKaFcgxsogQZQDAWEgELkHYXXkcFcVRAMZ8wk5Fr has the highest buy amount with about 1.5K Sol. It seem while the number of transactions of Genopets to activists are more than Aurory collection, the amount of Active users of Aurory is much more than Genopets users.

    What Is Genopets?

    • Genopets is the world's first Free-to-Play, Move-to-Earn NFT game on Solana that makes it fun and rewarding to live an active lifestyle. Genopets combines user's step data from their mobile device with blockchain Play-to-Earn economics so players can earn crypto for taking action in real life as they explore the Genoverse evolving and battling their Genopet. Genopets merges the nurture and evolution of Tamagotchi, the training and battling of Pokemon, and the fitness and social incentives of Strava while rewarding players with crypto for staying active in their daily lives. Genopets has coined this, "Move-to-Earn" [https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/genopets/].
    • You can read full story here: https://medium.com/@genopets/introducing-genopets-3e96201c2103
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    What Is Aurory?

    • Aurory is a tactical, turn-based, NFT-creature battler JRPG built on the Solana Blockchain. Players are invited to explore a rich and diverse universe where they will travel across the worlds of Antik and Tokané as they complete quests, discover lost relics, defeat enemies, and compete against other players using creatures called “Nefties”.
    • These magical creatures can be collected, hatched, traded, used to battle, and have been designed as non-fungible tokens NFTs. They will accompany players as they embark on their adventure through a variety of immersive game modes in this compelling JRPG.
    • The single-player "Aurory Adventure" mode, features an epic storyline with parallels to the crypto-universe, told through aesthetically colorful art and delivered with high quality production value. Players are taught all about crypto, blockchain, NFTs, and more through an engaging story about the adventures of our heroes, Max and Helios.
    • In the player-versus-player "Tactics" mode, players will learn how to best use their Nefty creature's abilities, competing against opponents to rise to the top of the leaderboard for rewards and glory. The project bridges the gap between traditional pfp projects and AAA gaming. In October, 2021, Aurory launched it’s own 10k pfp NFT project called “Aurorians”. The team then had 10,000 unique 3D models created and in May 2022, they launched their first playable NFT experience. This allows Aurorian holders to play with their unique NFT avatar as the protagonist in the game’s single-player Aurory Adventure mode [https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/aurory/].
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    What Is Star Atlas (ATLAS)?

    • Star Atlas is a massive multiplayer online game that takes place in a virtual gaming metaverse. It is being built on Unreal Engine 5, allowing the game to feature cinema-quality, real-time environments. Star Atlas takes place in a futuristic science fiction setting in 2620, where three major factions have emerged and are competing for resources and control: MUD - humankind, ONI - a consortium of alien races and Ustur - sentient androids. The game combines different genres. It is part strategy in that you have to develop tactical plans of action on how to interact with other players and factions. Part of it is exploration, as the game features an abundance of stars for exploration and exploitation. Since players can travel to and explore these stars independently through first-person flight, it is in part a flight simulation. Lastly, players can mine resources and derive revenue streams from doing so, making it also a role-playing game.
    • After choosing a faction, players initially start in faction security zones without combat to explore basic gameplay. Later, they can venture out to medium-tier security and open gameplay where combat is possible. Fundamental gameplay pillars are:
    • Deep space exploration;
    • Combat;
    • Building space stations and ships;
    • Choosing in-game professions to mine resources;
    • Forging alliances to scale control of resources.
    • Assets acquired in the game can later be exchanged for real-world currency. Star Atlas was announced in January 2021 and is being built on the Solana blockchain. It is backed by several Solana-based projects, such as Serum, a decentralized exchange, and FTX, a centralized exchange. Although Star Atlas doesn’t have a detailed release schedule, its metaverse tokens are scheduled to begin trading in August 2021 [https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/star-atlas/].

    General Data

    Methodology

    • This dashboard will compare Three well-known Games on Solana, Genopets, Star Atlas and Aurory to illustrate performance of gamers of these platforms. For investigating these platforms I compare Active users, New Users, Secondary market, etc.
    • for investigating I used These Contracts (STkwf3sbMapjy7KV3hgrJtcVvY4SvRxWQ8pj4Enw1i5, EXpwP3pqPzA4arF8i89w7smtvxHzyYETmCpPspLPrR7J, CAsieqooSrgVxhgWRwh21gyjq7Rmuhmo4qTW9XzXtAvW, comp8FLpN5bbNUC2fhnkFtM7T16DWvaHs8N5dcaoZWP, StKLLTf7CQ9n5BgXPSDXENovLTCuNc7N2ehvTb6JZ5x) for Aurory, These Contracts (StaKe9nb7aUjXpjpZ45o6uJBsZxj2BWCDBtjk8LCg2v, HAbiTatJVqoCJd9asyr6RxMEdwtfrQugwp7VAFyKWb1g, srmv4uTCPF81hWDaPyEN2mLZ8XbvzuEM6LsAxR8NpjU, CrAFTUv7zKXBaS5471aCwHx7mq9Jp1eQQB5FQgdiSLyi) for Genopets and These Contracts (gateVwTnKyFrE8nxUUgfzoZTPKgJQZUbLsEidpG4Dp2, traderDnaR5w6Tcoi3NFm53i48FTDNbGjBSZwWXDRrg, FLEET1qqzpexyaDpqb2DGsSzE2sDCizewCg9WjrA6DBW) for Star Atlas.

    Summary

    • It seems all these 3 games has fan base users that have never experienced another games since the number of common users among these games are below than 4K users. Moreover, the trend of new users of these platforms are downward and it illustrates that these platforms can not attract new users to their platforms perhaps they do not have good business plan. Furthermore, the daily sales number of NFT collections are downward but Genopets has better performance rather than Aurory maybe because Genopets Airdropped to their community and due to it this platform has become popular. The most activity of these games on the game belongs to mainggame category but on the Solana ecosystem the highest amount of activity belongs to Magic Eden V2.

    Aurory Secondary Market Data

    Observations

    • The highest number of Aurory NFT sales was on 1 Sep 2021 with about 2.8K but after it the hype of this collection was gone also the highest number of buyers and volume were on this day with about 1.6K and 351K Sol respectively. Totally, this collection has experienced about 18.7K as cumulative sales number, 1.53M Sol as cumulative sales volume and 7.5K as cumulative new buyers. Moreover, these buyers spent about 0.21 Sol as fee volume for buying this collection.

    Observations

    • The most popular Event among these users was create account with about 6.9M numbers also this event has about 28.7% ratio of all top events number.
    • The most popular program on Solana ecosystem among these gamers was Serum Dex V3 with about 217M transactions.
    • The most popular event in Aurory game is MainGame and Stake since maingame has the highest number of transactions with about 1.2M and Stake has the highest number of users with about 18.3K.
    • The top event on Genopets belongs to Maingame with about 3.1M transactions and about 21K users and finally on Star Atlas the most popular event is MainGame with about 21.7M transactions and about 53.8K users.
    • The most popular program among Aurory and Genopets gamers are Magic Eden V2 since this platform has the highest number of transactions from these platforms gamers but in terms of users Magic Eden V2 also the most popular among Aurory gamers but Jupiter aggregator has the most gamers of Genopets.
    • Finally, the most popular program among Star Atlas gamers is Magic Eden V2 since it has the highest number of transaction but Jupiter Aggregator has the highest number of users among these gamers.