The GameFi sector is currently at a development bottleneck. Can MosaicFantasy become the future trend?

According to Mymetadata data, there were only 36 financing events in the GameFi sector in August, involving an amount of $360 million (a significant decline compared to June and July). Most of the investments were directed towards game developers, with only 9 financing rounds targeting games, amounting to just $54 million. Additionally, the guild sector did not receive any new financing in August, marking a stark contrast to the bustling financing market seen last year and earlier this year. Besides the financing data, many once-popular GameFi applications set new lows in daily active users, in-game revenue, and income in August. For instance, the leading application in the GameFi sector, Axie Infinity, has lost its former glory, with almost all metrics hitting new lows.

As the leader in the M2E sector, StepN has seen the floor price of its running shoes drop by over 90%, with severe loss of funds and users. Axie Infinity and StepN represent the current development status of the GameFi market, where many once-popular GameFi games are facing developmental bottlenecks.

Development Trends of GameFi

On the surface, the overall market downturn has had a serious impact on the blockchain gaming market, but in reality, the lack of highlights and innovation in existing GameFi games is the fundamental reason for the gradual market decline; the poor market conditions are merely one of the inducements. We see that early GameFi games typically focused on "Fi" rather than "Game" in their design, leading to a lack of playability where players participated primarily to earn rather than to enjoy the gaming experience. This means that the early GameFi audience was mainly crypto investors rather than pure gamers, whose loyalty and engagement usually depend on in-game earnings, while traditional gamers are not "attracted" to GameFi because they prioritize gaming experiences.

From the gaming market perspective, traditional Web2 gamers constitute a massive group, typically possessing mature gaming perspectives and considerable spending power. Therefore, GameFi should target traditional gamers as the primary audience and cater to their preferences to gain more robust value support.

From another angle, GameFi is a branch of traditional gaming; essentially, it should be a form of gaming rather than a financial form disguised as a game. Thus, in the design philosophy of games, earning should primarily assist players in gaining gaming experiences rather than being the ultimate result and goal.

From the perspective of traditional gaming, in an era of fragmentation, people's time, information, and attention are all fragmented. Under the effects of "loss of patience" and "fixed self-cognition," non-professional gamers are no longer willing to understand or engage with grand and complex large-scale games (characteristics that Axie Infinity and StepN lack). In an era where everyone is a potential gamer, lightweight and casual games are gaining considerable development space, which is one of the trends being validated in traditional gaming, and GameFi will also develop in this direction.

Currently, the strategy card game MosaicFantasy, which has just completed its game demo packaging, is one of the few in the GameFi sector that integrates elements of AAA, cards, and strategy. It has set up numerous playable mechanics suitable for the vast majority of players and aligns with the gaming habits of Web2 players. The game supports cross-chain and is a high-quality lightweight casual game compatible with zk-snarks. It is expected to become a representative game ecosystem in the GameFi sector embodying the aforementioned new trends.

Why Does MosaicFantasy Have Trend Potential?

1. Rich Gameplay, Meeting the Preferences of Most Players

MosaicFantasy itself uses cards (NFT assets) as the main gaming tool; each NFT card represents a game character. Players holding these cards can engage in battles and earn "P2E" rewards. The Mosaic cards, as the main NFTs in the game, have five attribute categories: Ocean, Flame, Gale, Dawn, and Abyss, with different attributes countering each other. This means that when players battle different types of opponents (in a turn-based combat style), they need to strategically arrange their formations to achieve optimal combat results. Players must hold cards before starting the game.

While participating in the game, players can upgrade and enhance their NFT cards and synthesize them to further improve their combat effectiveness and boost their team's combat power. Additionally, players can further enhance their card characters' combat power by equipping gear (which can be upgraded) and runes (which can be synthesized and enhanced) to achieve higher combat power to defeat opponents and earn rewards.

Based on this, MosaicFantasy has established several gameplay modes, including PVP, PVE, card synthesis, idle gameplay (AFK), staking, and guild modes.

• PVP and PVE

PVP and PVE will be one of the main gameplay modes for MosaicFantasy players. In PVP gameplay, the system will match players with similar combat power for battles, where players rely solely on strategy for combat, such as arranging card characters, equipment, and runes to effectively counter opponents. This is one of the main joys of the game. Meanwhile, players can also spectate PVP battles and predict the winning team, satisfying both fun-seeking and value-seeking players.

Players can also farm wild bosses and monsters in PVE to gain resources and rewards for upgrades, continuously enhancing themselves.

• Card Synthesis Gameplay

Card synthesis gameplay resembles a nurturing mode, where players cultivate their cards to gain a sense of achievement and replay desire, fostering player loyalty and engagement.

• Idle Gameplay

In idle gameplay, players only need to click on treasure chests at fixed times each day to receive experience, hero fragments, and a small amount of BLP token rewards. This means that the game itself can have a "light binding" relationship with players, allowing them to earn certain combat and income effects without needing to be deeply involved in the game at all times, further enhancing the efficiency of resource acquisition during non-idle times.

• Staking Gameplay

In MosaicFantasy, players can also earn passive income through a staking system, allowing holders of Mosaic NFT cards to stake them in the Mosaic NFT pool for continuous and stable earnings. This means that Mosaic NFTs not only possess gaming attributes but also financial attributes, further enhancing the utilization of funds.

• Guilds

The guild system is a key feature promoted by MosaicFantasy, where any player can use items to create a guild. Each player can only create one guild, and the guild leader will receive additional rewards from the staking output of guild members. The higher the guild level, the greater the rewards. Additionally, guilds serve as hubs for players to establish social connections, fostering deeper links and interactions among players and forming autonomous organizations to enhance the cohesion of the gaming ecosystem.

MosaicFantasy offers a rich variety of gameplay, allowing different players to find their corresponding rhythm and positioning in the game. The gameplay is simple yet easy to understand, accessible but challenging, enabling players to earn corresponding rewards while enjoying the gaming experience.

2. Experienced Development Team, More Understanding of Web2 Users

In addition to gameplay, the underlying technology of MosaicFantasy supports cross-chain and is compatible with zk-snarks (currently, there are not many games compatible with zk-snarks). This means that MosaicFantasy can also meet the usage preferences of users from different blockchain ecosystems and reduce the barriers posed by different blockchain systems. Moreover, zk-snarks, as a relatively mature zero-knowledge proof technology in the blockchain field, is expected to further enhance the interaction speed of the game, improve the gaming experience, and ensure the security of users' in-game assets.

It is worth mentioning that the MosaicFantasy development team consists of 18 members, formed by senior developers from studios like Blizzard, Bungie, Riot, and Valve. The team has participated in games such as "Angel Era" and "God's Path Battle Record," possessing complete game planning, development capabilities, and rich game publishing experience. Therefore, the MosaicFantasy team understands the gaming habits and preferences of Web2 users better, such as designing the game in a mobile format and focusing on high-quality AAA graphics. Thus, MosaicFantasy is expected to be developed into a blockchain game that breaks into the Web2 domain.

Additionally, to attract more Web2 users, MosaicFantasy is actively listing on Google Play and the App Store, and through advertising on Facebook/Google/YouTube ad networks, it aims to acquire a large number of Web2 gaming users, continuously revitalizing user engagement through iterative game features and new content.

3. Dual Token Model, Healthy In-Game Cycle

MosaicFantasy has established a dual-token economic model, using LKK as the governance token (total supply of 1 billion) and BLP as the incentive token (with no supply limit but strict destruction and control measures to form inflation).

In terms of earning sources, BLP rewards are primarily obtained through completing game dungeons, idle mode, arena rankings, hero disassembly, and PVE battles, while participating in PVP arenas and winning, engaging in NFT staking, and participating in governance yield LKK rewards.

Both LKK and BLP have application scenarios. LKK can be used for DAO governance, as a ticket for user predictions, and as an important consumption material for card upgrades. MosaicFantasy will also periodically establish mechanisms to promote deflation (such as consumption for lotteries), where 40% of consumed LKK will be burned, 40% will enter the BLP liquidity pool, and 20% will go into the arena as rewards. Additionally, the profits from the game will be used to repurchase LKK. BLP can be used for upgrading and enhancing cards, participating in arena challenges, engaging in the Tower of Heaven, and synthesizing runes.

It is evident that both LKK and BLP are essential assets for players in the game. Besides player demand, the system's continuous establishment of deflationary mechanisms will further stabilize the in-game economic system. The advantage of the dual-token design lies in the ease of adjusting tokens during game operation, with clear divisions of labor between tokens, weighing different roles and purposes of users, and establishing a reasonable relationship between consumption and output to match the development status of the ecosystem, thereby increasing the stability of the game economic ecosystem.

MosaicFantasy Blockchain Game Mobile Community Blind Box Preheat

NFT card characters are the primary assets in the game, and players must first hold these assets to participate. Currently, the MosaicFantasy blockchain game mobile community is launching a blind box preheat event.

It is reported that this community blind box preheat event is expected to have 4-5 rounds, with the first round priced at 120 U per blind box (ending on September 30). After that, the price of each subsequent round of blind boxes will increase until the official blind box launch, when the price will return to 300 U. The earlier participants obtain blind boxes, the lower the price they will pay.

The first phase of MosaicFantasy blind boxes will total 2000 units, with each blind box containing a 6-star character card + random token rewards.

Among the random token portion, each of the 500 blind boxes will contain 50 LKK, each of the 300 blind boxes will contain 100 LKK, and each of the 50 blind boxes will contain 2300 LKK. There will also be a grand prize blind box containing 10,000 LKK. Players purchasing blind boxes are guaranteed to receive NFT game cards, with nearly a 50% chance of receiving LKK rewards. The highest prize for the blind box is 10,000 LKK, and the overall value of the blind box is conservatively estimated to be around 10,000 U.

Currently, the cards obtained from the blind boxes can be used for gold farming, NFT synthesis, and participating in PVP and PVE battles for rewards once the game is launched. Players can also stake NFTs on the website to mine governance tokens LKK, with early staking expected to yield an annualized return of around 100%, gradually decreasing as more players join later. Therefore, obtaining NFT cards early will yield the best rewards.

Conclusion

Although GameFi represents a revolution in the ideological framework of traditional gaming, we see that the GameFi sector is facing developmental bottlenecks. After experiencing a brief period of glory, the GameFi sector also needs to undergo further changes in form to meet the current industry development requirements. MosaicFantasy is becoming a representative ecosystem of new trends, with game design placing greater emphasis on playability and aligning with the gaming habits of the vast majority of players (especially Web2 users), further helping GameFi expand its traditional player base while promoting GameFi towards lightweight and casual development, allowing the audience of games to continuously expand outward and laying the foundation for GameFi to reach the next level of development.