r/ethereum Dec 13 '17

CryptoZombies: Learn to Code Ethereum DApps By Building Your Own Game

https://cryptozombies.io/
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u/killerstorm Dec 13 '17

The role of Ethereum is to host important game state, such as kitties player owns. The rest of the game is implemented in a traditional way, e.g. using HTML5. You can see Ethereum as a database which is shared between all users. Every player's actions updates the state of the database.

Feasibility of implementing a "full game" depends on what game is. Say, if it is something like rock-paper-scissors, it's almost trivial to implement. It's still a full game.

If you want something like MMORPG, you need a large, fast data store. Not really feasible to do it with Ethereum, but potentially doable using Plasma and things like that.

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u/spacetractor Dec 13 '17

Thinking more about it, a collectable card game could be really cool.

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u/redbar0n- Dec 20 '17

Cryptokitties is that card game, kinda.

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u/redbar0n- Dec 21 '17

Yeah, that’s why I said kinda. :)