Interview with Can Picak: Is Digard the Subsequent Massive Factor in Web3 Gaming?

Web3 gaming has grown far previous the area of interest product it as soon as was. Over 73 million players play on Web3-based platforms, with extra to hitch as blockchain and NFT applied sciences proceed to develop.

Digard is a blockchain-powered gaming ecosystem aiming to innovate on the state of Web3, providing builders new methods to launch and preserve their video games.

Right here to inform us extra in regards to the Digard undertaking is Can Picak, co-founder of Digard and its Eldarune recreation manufacturing unit.

1. You’re pitching Digard as a “Web3 Gaming Ecosystem with out borders.” How does Digard stand out from different Web3 gaming initiatives promising related choices?

Our distinctive proposition for recreation builders is the comfort and cost-effectiveness we provide as a one-stop store for all issues Web3. In contrast to a lot of our opponents who depend on third-party providers for core options like NFT buying and selling and platform analytics, we offer these providers in-house, saving builders each money and time. This method underscores our dedication to empowering builders and valuing their sources.

For gamers, Digard is a recreation retailer first, providing a various vary of video games for buy. However we don’t cease there. We additionally present alternatives for gamers to earn rewards whereas enjoying and a wide range of methods to make use of these rewards, together with token and NFT staking, a streamlined funds system, and NFT minting. Our platform’s assist for Ethereum Digital Machine and non-EVM networks ensures that participant property aren’t confined to 1 blockchain, enhancing their gaming expertise and protecting them engaged. So, Digard customers don’t want to show to different platforms – they’ll handle their property, analyze their profile, play video games, and be part of communities by Digard dApp.

2. What community-building options does Digard supply? A recreation’s group is its most essential half, in spite of everything.

Digard’s built-in analytics present builders with useful insights and inform their future design plans. Analytics based mostly on precise participant information assist builders make higher recreation selections, making certain a happier group and a longer-lasting recreation.

Making mates is easy by Digard. Our social and guild options present a number of avenues for players to attach and play collectively. These options are particularly essential, as Eldarune, one in every of Digard’s recreation growth studios, is constructing 4 video games within the Eldarune universe — every of a unique style. The Eldarune universe is a wealthy and various gaming world, providing a wide range of recreation experiences for gamers. Facilitating cross-game communication is crucial to our studio and the participant expertise total.

Digard additionally gives community-building options for recreation builders: they’ll create in-game and social quests to extend their digital presence.

3. How does Digard facilitate recreation growth? Are you working with builders from scratch, or aiding studios with a promising undertaking within the works?

We’ll be doing each. Our platform gives two developer providers: a Blockchain Improvement Package (BDK) for builders to simply combine blockchain into their current video games. The BDK is a complete set of instruments and sources that simplifies the method of integrating blockchain know-how into video games. This fashion, studios received’t must overhaul their whole system to make their recreation suitable with blockchain. The BDK gives all of Digard’s core advantages, together with cross-chain compatibility and good contract integration, making it simpler and cheaper for builders to leverage the advantages of blockchain know-how.

As for builders constructing on Digard from scratch, we’ve a Software program Improvement Package (SDK). Studios constructing on Digard will discover developer sources, API integration, and group assist strategies to begin rising a fanbase as quickly as attainable, like in-game and social quests.

In fact, each varieties of builders can harness Digard’s extra options after launch, similar to our NFT and Token Launchpads or our NFT Market.

4. How does Digard’s $DIGA token come into play in your ecosystem?

The Digard token is a key part of our ecosystem. It serves as a medium of trade inside our platform, permitting players to buy in-game property and NFTs from our Retailer. Moreover, our workshop gives an area for gamers to improve and customise NFTs, which they’ll later promote for $DIGA.

Gamers may also use $DIGA as an middleman forex between Digard’s numerous video games. For instance, Eldarune makes use of the $ELDA cryptocurrency. Gamers can convert $DIGA to $ELDA, or vice versa, and put money into different video games. This flexibility permits gamers to diversify their gaming experiences and take advantage of their in-game progress.

5. As soon as their recreation is reside on Digard, what options and assist can a developer anticipate to maintain their recreation worthwhile?

Digard gives builders a month-to-month subscription plan that covers the price of sustaining their video games throughout the Digard ecosystem. It contains entry to our streamlined NFT undertaking launch assist and numerous discoverability options in our retailer. It’s an economical approach for builders to maintain their video games worthwhile and visual to gamers lengthy after their launch.

Our group administration instruments make it straightforward for studios to work together with their rising communities. These instruments assist builders see what players like and dislike in regards to the recreation’s present state and what options they’re asking for in future updates. 

6. It seems like Digard has so much going for it. Are you able to focus on among the platform’s future plans?

Completely. We’re working in direction of Solana integration to supply gamers and builders with one more blockchain. Alongside establishing extra partnerships, we plan to launch a Digard DAO for elevated governance and to supply our customers with a say in the way forward for Digard.

Our eventual Web3 Gaming Accelerator will function an area for brand new builders to construct their video games with funding from gamers. In return for funding, gamers can vote on upcoming recreation options and play a extra vital position in its total growth.