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What is the Question?🚨
According to Spire, gaming has been picking up on Solana ____
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?
Analyzed Topics:
- Overview of Programs and Their Users Activity
- Users on Programs Crossover
- Users Activity Duration
- Users Activity Type on Their Programs
- Users Activity on Solana Chain in Past Month
Introduction🚩
What is Solana?
Solana is a blockchain platform designed to host decentralized, scalable applications. Founded in 2017, it is an open-source project currently run by Solana Foundation based in Geneva, while the blockchain was built by San Francisco-based Solana Labs.
Solana is much faster in terms of the number of transactions it can process and has significantly lower transaction fees than rival blockchains like Ethereum. The cryptocurrency that runs on the Solana blockchain—also named Solana (SOLUSD) and using the ticker symbol SOL—soared almost 12,000% in 2021 and at one point had a market capitalization of over $66 billion, making it the fifth-largest cryptocurrency by this measure at the time.
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What is Star Atlas?
Star Atlas is a space exploration themed role-playing game (RPG) built on the Solana network. The game takes place in the year 2620, with political factions, territorial pursuit, high-tech weaponry and space craft enriching different aspects of the gameplay.
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What is Genopets?
Genopets is the first Free-To-Play, Move-To-Earn NFT game built on Solana. Genopets aims to reward users with cryptocurrencies while keeping themselves fit. Jorden. Nov 15, 2022 6 min read. Genopets, the first Free-To-Play, Move-To-Earn game.
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What is Aurory?
Aurory is a Japanese fantasy-action play-to-earn (P2E) and RPG built on the Solana blockchain. This free-to-play game takes place in the futuristic worlds of Antik and Tokané and features both PvE and PvP gameplay modes which are available only on desktop.
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Methodâš¡
In this dashboard, i analyzed 3 games that built on Solana chain to see how they performed over time and which one of them is doing better than others.
For this matter i extracted the data from ==Solana.core== database provided by Flipsidecrpyto and mainly used fact_events table to do my analysis. At first i made an overview of these programs, their users growth and their transactions over time, then i went more specific in their users with analyzing their crossover and activity duration, after that i went through their activity in their own programs and at the end i analyzed their users activity on Solana chain in past 30 days.
I used parameters for the charts in this dashboard, you can change the daily/weekly/monthly basis of charts with Date field at the beginning of the dashboard with a dropdown menu, also you can change last part duration where i analyzed users activity on Solana with N_Days field and i set the default timeframe to 30 days. You can enter your favorite timeframe.
Also you should log in to flipside to be able to change the parameters.
I filtered these games and their belongings with their addresses:
- Star Atlas
- =='FLEET1qqzpexyaDpqb2DGsSzE2sDCizewCg9WjrA6DBW'==, Star Atlas FLEET Program
- =='traderDnaR5w6Tcoi3NFm53i48FTDNbGjBSZwWXDRrg'==, Star Atlas Marketplace Program
- =='gateVwTnKyFrE8nxUUgfzoZTPKgJQZUbLsEidpG4Dp2'==, Star Atlas Governance Staking Program
- Genopets
- =='HAbiTatJVqoCJd9asyr6RxMEdwtfrQugwp7VAFyKWb1g'==, Genopets Habitats Program
- =='CrAFTUv7zKXBaS5471aCwHx7mq9Jp1eQQB5FQgdiSLyi'==, Genopets Alchemy Program
- =='StaKe9nb7aUjXpjpZ45o6uJBsZxj2BWCDBtjk8LCg2v'==, Genopets Staking Program
- =='srmv4uTCPF81hWDaPyEN2mLZ8XbvzuEM6LsAxR8NpjU'==, Genopets Marketplace Program
- Aurory
- =='EXpwP3pqPzA4arF8i89w7smtvxHzyYETmCpPspLPrR7J'==, Aurory Expeditions Program
- =='STkwf3sbMapjy7KV3hgrJtcVvY4SvRxWQ8pj4Enw1i5'==, Aurory AURY Staking Program
- =='StKLLTf7CQ9n5BgXPSDXENovLTCuNc7N2ehvTb6JZ5x'==, Aurory AURY Locked Staking Program
- =='comp8FLpN5bbNUC2fhnkFtM7T16DWvaHs8N5dcaoZWP'==, Aurory Marketplace Program
- =='CAsieqooSrgVxhgWRwh21gyjq7Rmuhmo4qTW9XzXtAvW'== Aurory Casier Program
I only considered successful transactions with succeeded=’TRUE’
Findings👀
- In this part, i showed an overview of these 3 popular games on Solana and compared them together to see how they performed on Solana and between Solana Community over time.
- According to line charts, although Aurory has launched earlier than Star Atlas, but Star Atlas is much more popular than Aurory.
- Star Atlas launched around December 16th 2021 with a massive hype among Solana users and recorded a total number of 96K users only 2 weeks after its launch on Jan 4th and completely outperformed Aurory, also Genopets had not been launched back then when these 2 were competing.
- Genopets launched on May 18th but crossed Aurory in terms of stats 2 months after its launch day on August 10th when this game reached to over 48K transactions in 1 day and got pretty close to Star Atlas too.
- Star Atlas users chart were bearish over time and recently Star Atlas and Genopets number of daily users got close to each other while Star Atlas users are generating more transactions than Genopets users.
- Star Atlas users growth was more serious than the other 2 and recently around early November this project reached to over 4M users and over 20M transactions in total.
- In overall,Star Atlas was so much popular than Genopets and Aurory on Solana, This Program accounted over 83% of Transactions share between these 3 and over 75% of users share over time with over 24.8M total transactions which generated by 4.7M users over time since its launch on December 2021.
- Although Genopets has launched so much later than Aurory but it recorded much higher stats than Aurory on Solana, It seems Solana users dont really like Aurory that much.
- In terms of recorded activity, between these 3 programs and games on Solana chain, Star Atlas is in the lead followed by Genopets in second and Aurory in Third.
Findings👀
- As i said earlier, Star Atlas users are the most between these 3 and as we see, users are mostly prefer to play 1 game and be in the fan base of their favorite game. Star Atlas has the biggest fan base followed by Genopets fan base.
- Users that play both Star Atlas and Aurory are the most after these 3 games fan bases.
Findings👀
- In this part, i showed activity duration of each program users, as we observe, most of the users of all programs have more than 100 days activity duration followed by less than 10 days users in the second place.
- Interesting fact that i wanna drop here is that some user start to play one of these games, it would be 2 options, or this user plays this game and likes it so he/she wants to play more and he/she will be a more than 100 days user, or this user wont like this game, so he/she uninstall it and would be a less than 10 days user!
> # Star Atlas
> # Genopets
> # Aurory
Findings👀
- In this section, i showed every programs users activity on their specific programs on a daily basis and in overall.
- At first, i should mention this that most of their activity belongs to Gameplay which is obvious because they are gaming projects, so we will talk about their second activity. From what we from above charts, these programs have completely different users with different tastes. For example, Aurory users mostly like staking after Gameplay while Star Atlas users would love to trade NFTs on their marketplace. Meanwhile, Genopets users would love to do crafting the most after Gameplay.
- Genopets and Aurory activity were mostly staking after a bit of their launch date but when they launched their games, most of users activity went to gameplay and its stuff while Star Atlas launched its game at first then after few months launched its marketplace in mid July 2022.
- Between these 3, Star Atlas had the highest number of gamers and it is obvious that they made more transactions on Star Atlas than other users on other projects. A total of 4.6M gamers made over 21.5M transactions on Star Atlas which belongs to only its core Gameplay.
Findings👀
- Creating account was the most popular action among Star Atlas users in past 30 days and most of this activity happened on Feb 9th when its users generated over 28.7K of creatingAccount transactions.
- AdvanceNonce was the most popular action among Genopets users and Create was the most popular one among Aurory users in past 30 days. Also it is interesting that Transfer was the second popular action for both of them.
Conclusion💡
- In conclusion, Star Atlas project performed better than Genopets and Aurory over time and we can even day this project outperformed other ones on Solana chain.
- Altough Genopets launched so many days later than Aurory, but it got more popular than it and made much bigger stats than Aurory too.
- First most popular action of all of these programs users are core Gameplay, for Star Atlas users it is NFT marketplace after gameplay, Genopets users is crating/alchemy and for Aurory users it is Staking.
- It looks like these 3 games have their own fanbases, I mean in most times if a user plays Star Atlas, he doesn’t play Genopets or Aurory game.
- In late August 2022, Genopets users growth started to grow faster and crossed Aurory users growth with a nice upward trend.
Findings👀
- Star Atlas users most popular programs in past 30 days was their own programs, They used Star Atlas fleet program the most with over 1.1M transactions with their marketplace in the second which they made 388K transactions init.
- This case is true for Genopets users too, they used their program the most with over 503K transactions in past month.
- The most popular program among Aurory users was compute budget program which they made 100.8K transactions in it followed by token program with over 82K.
- Also systeminstruction and compute budget program were so popular among all of these program users in past 30 days.