A leading Gaming Ecosystem on zkSync focused on unlocking the next era of web3 games.
What is Tevaera?
Tevaera is on a mission to simplify launching and playing multi-genre games using zkStack-based gaming hyperchain, an innovative gaming stack with turnkey SDKs, and a ux-focussed layer of gaming apps. Tevaera's native integration with zkSync Era & other hyperchains will enables free flow of users, liquidity, & builders within the zk Gaming Nation!
The gaming ecosystem can be broken down into 3 components:
- The foundation layer is an L3 gaming chain built using zkStack, the same tech that powers zkSync Era. Teva chain supports native AA features and uses volition mode DA for powering one of the fastest and cheapest gaming chains on Ethereum.
- The next layer, Teva Stack offers an exclusive crypto gaming stack, complete with ready-to-use SDKs and APIs for multiplayer functionalities, statistics, assets, reputation, and social integration. This is all easily managed via a developer dashboard, enabling two-click deployments.
- Combined, these layers power our consumer gaming applications, providing gamers with a one-stop web3 gaming experience. Enjoy fun and fair games, trade in-game NFTs and tokens on one of the swiftest marketplace and gaming dex.
Challenges: web3 Gaming
We firmly believe that the current web3 gaming infrastructure lacks the tools, processes and support systems necessary for indie game developers to thrive. While larger gaming studios try to dominate, there remains a gap for fun & fair games that Tevaera aim’s to solve through its gaming ecosystem. Here’s a summary of the problems, that we discussed in the “challenges in web3 gaming” post.
3 key pain points:
1. Gaming Experience: Lack of fun and engaging games with complicated onboarding & user experience.
Key Question: would you play this game if it was not web3 with rewards speculation?
2. Gaming Economics: Poor economy design & unsustainable incentives are the two biggest problems with web3 game economics.
Key Question: how do we solve the problem of an unsustainable play & earn economy?
3. Gaming Infrastructure: Lack of gaming infrastructure to support on-chain, real-time and multiplayer games is a major challenge for indie game developers.
Key Question: how do we solve the problem of hooking a unity-based game to an on-chain matchmaker?
Tevaera’s Gaming Ecosystem — what’s live?
We are on a ambitious mission to build an end to end gaming ecosystem that will redefine web3 gaming. An ecosystem that is open, permissionless and offers the best tooling to launch fun & fair games on zkSync.
Why zkSync for gaming?
https://twitter.com/tevaera/status/1645985710560907265?s=20
We are just getting started with our journey and here is what you can do with the first iteration of the gaming ecosystem that is currently live on zkSync Era:
- Mint a Soulbound Citizen ID to start collecting reputation score through Teva Run Game and NFT collections for now.
- Mint Guardian NFTs as a bundle using muticall (AA) to save on gas fees. These Guardians have instant utility in the game.
- Buy Karma Tokens and move them to game vault to use them in the game for accessories and pool play games
- Play multiplayer Teva Run Game! (more on this below)
- Trade NFTs and Bridge ONFTs on Teva Market! (more on this below)
First Multiplayer Game is Live!!
We launched our first multiplayer game Teva Run, which has over 64K active games who have played 1.1M multiplayer matches in past 5 months. Try Teva Run now to experience the Guardian characters in a thrilling and addictive game. The game is loaded with crypto-themed power-ups that can be used against your opponents. The game is easy to play with different naturistic maps & exciting modes like quick play, host your friends, pool play, and tournaments.
We are also super excited to bring new cross-NFT characters to Teva Run soon, starting with our pilot integration in Dec, 2023 and launch our 2nd game in Q1, 2024
Teva Market (Live)
A community-led decentralized NFT marketplace on zkSync Era. Discover, trade & bridge ONFTs with low transaction fees & flexibility of paymasters, multi-call and other cool account abstraction features coming soon while being fully secured by the Ethereum consensus. Learn more:
https://x.com/tevaera/status/1700148125342536095?s=20
In summary, our gaming ecosystem will enable our vision of:
Fun & Fair games with integrated trading apps, offering web2 player experience with web3 tech and sovereignty to onboard the next 100 million web3 gamers.
Come join us in this exciting journey!
Onwards and as always, thank you for your continued support and patience.
Article updated on Dec 29, 2023.
To learn more, please visit https://tevaera.com and connect with us on Twitter | Discord | Telegram | Medium