On September 15, American video game development company Epic Games announced the official release of Blankos Block Party on its game store, becoming the first NFT game to be listed on the platform’s Marketplace.
Blankos Block Party beta was released in 2020 by Mythical Games and has already gained over a million players, according to its developers. The most attractive thing about this shooter is the NFT characters and accessories, which can be traded in the in-game store.
The first NFT game on the Epic Games Store is based on EOSIO
The game can now be downloaded for free in the “early access” version until September 28, when the first season of the full game will be released with new visual and navigational improvements.
It is worth noting that, unlike most NFT games, you do not need to connect an external wallet to play, sell or buy NFT in Blankos Block Party, as the game allows users to do this internally, although it also supports accounts Uphold.
According to Epic Games, Blankos Block Party runs on a private blockchain based on EOSIO (now Antelope), so no mining is required to create or integrate NFTs into the Marketplace.
“Blankos Block Party is based on a private and permissioned blockchain based on the EOSIO infrastructure that uses a Proof of Authority consensus model that is more environmentally friendly and sustainable than the Proof of Work model. Coining NFT and integrating the Marketplace through our platform does not require any mining.”
Metaverse and NFT games are heavily supported
Epic Games has been one of the few video game companies to take an optimistic stance on the metaverse and NFT gaming. They announced a $2 billion fund to build a metaverse since last April.
At the time, Epic Games, which incidentally is behind Fortnite and the graphics engine Unreal Engine, said that thanks to the revenue from Sony and KIRKBI, it could create new experiences based on its most popular games, becoming a new competitor to Decentraland and The Sandbox.
Epic Games is standing by its co-founder and CEO, Tim Sweeney, who said on his Twitter account that they would welcome all games that use blockchain as long as they comply with the company’s relevant laws and regulations.
The Epic Games Store will welcome games that make use of blockchain technology as long as they comply with relevant laws, disclose their terms, and are age-rated by an appropriate group. While Epic does not use cryptography in our games, we welcome innovation in the areas of technology and finance. https://t.co/6W7hb8zJBw
— Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) October 15, 2021
Even in late July 2022, Sweeney responded negatively to some users’ requests to remove all NFT games from the Play Store after Minecraft released a statement announcing that they were not committed to this technology.
Developers should be free to decide how to create their games, and you are free to decide whether to play them. I believe that stores and OS manufacturers should not interfere by forcing their opinions on others. We definitely won’t.
— Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) July 21, 2022
Also, as CryptoPotato reports, Blankos Block Party is most likely not the only NFT game published on the Epic Games Store. The studio has a partnership with Web3 gaming company Gala Games, which is working hard to release a shooter with NFT very soon.
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