Microsoft to Turn 1980s Gamebook Series Into Blockchain Card Game

Microsoft, significant game designer Eidos and gamebook firm Fabled Lands are together building up a blockchain game dependent on a 1980s top rated gamebook.

As per an official statement distributed on Dec. 1, the new game will be founded on the 1980s top of the line book called "The Way of the Tiger," composed by Jamie Thomson and Mark Smith.

The game's title will be "Field of Death" and its players will battle in dream themed card fights with highlights from the first gamebook arrangement.

Guaranteeing card possession

Thomson is likewise Fabled Lands' CEO and chose to utilize blockchain innovation since he trusts it suits what he is attempting to accomplish superior to a conventional videogame. He stated:

"We were going to relaunch the arrangement into a PC game configuration yet this new innovation (blockchain), simply seemed well and good. Envision playing Magic the Gathering however knowing whether you possessed a card, it truly belongs to you. Or on the other hand on the off chance that we state there are just 100 versions of a thing or aptitude, you know there truly are just 100 releases."

The organization intends to utilize non-fungible tokens (NFT) on the Vechain blockchain — which has been related with undertakings and inventory network the executives — to guarantee responsibility for game resources.

Vechain will permit making cards and in-game things "without managing all the crypto stuff," says Thomson.

In-game blockchain tokens picking up ubiquity

The tokenization of in-game resources seems, by all accounts, to be a developing pattern. As Cointelegraph detailed in late November, Blockchain game F1 Delta Time — authorized by the incredibly famous dashing arrangement Formula 1 — held a sale of F1 vehicle marked NFTs.

Somewhere else, the Ethereum (ETH) based exchanging game Gods Unchained has far exceeded CryptoKitties by volume after a restriction outrage including game-designer Blizzard, arriving at practically 50% of a million NFT moves for every day.