Web3 Ecosystem for Gamers
Rite NRG developed a marketplace, wallet and protocol ecosystem – the first of its kind – for the gamified metaverse
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About Client
Augmented Life Studio is a web3, metaverse and AR/VR software house headquartered in Delaware, U.S. The business creates products to:
- Mint and trade NFT assets
- Connect to the metaverse
- Build games and metaverses on one protocol with Unity support
Rite NRG partnered with Augmented Life Studio to build Metapro, a platform to create, exchange, and move NFT game assets (weapons, avatars, and items) designed for developers, creators, and players.
Project background
- Gaming is the heart of the Metaverse. Our client could see major market opportunities: they planned to capitalise on their extensive web3 expertise by creating a blockchain ecosystem for game developers.
- But building from the ground up requires significant resources. They didn’t have the capacity in-house. Rite NRG had already delivered several successful projects for Augmented Life Studio, so we were ideally placed to source a team of developers who fit their culture from day 1.
Solutions and technologies
The client provided the ideas, inspiration and design concept for the ecosystem. Our role was to resource and build it. Rite NRG’s Senior Business Analyst began by, together with the client CTO, performing an in-depth conceptual assessment to confirm the technical requirements and define the main features of the product.
The next stage was to choose the most efficient technology. In consultation with the client, we opted for Node, React, .NET, and the Unity game-building engine.
Technologies applied:
- Delivery: 6 months
- Team members: 20
- .Technologies: Node, React, .NET, Unity
- Methodology: Scrum
For this project we used the Scrum methodology. Our team participated in daily, planning, and retro meetings and worked in two-weeks sprints.
In total, the team consisted of 20 specialists, including a project coordinator, developers, designers, and testers, among others. The team was split into two divisions – one focused on the storage and marketplace, the other on development of the wallet application for Android and iOS.
We split the work between 2 teams responsible for the development of specific elements of the system: decentralised storage, marketplace, and wallet.
The teams leading on system architecture and decentralised storage faced a second challenge: this was the very first product of its kind. There was no proven solution on the market to serve as a benchmark.
So we innovated, creating a new mechanism to collect the assets and migrate them to Unity. We also built a centralised database to store information about the wallet assets and blockchain operations.
Like all the most innovative projects, there were technical limitations to overcome: creating storage pods, splitting assets into chunks, and spreading across the pods in a decentralised way.
The Metapro ecosystem components
We created a consistent gaming environment utilising NFT, Web3, and blockchain technologies for gamers to sell and trade their tokens (game assets).
This solution comprised 3 major components:
- marketplace - an NFT platform giving developers, artists, and players a one-click solution to exchange their gaming assets. The frontend of the marketplace was built in React, and the backend in Node.js.
- wallet - a virtual application to store assets. Functionality includes user authorization, DeFi, NFT, and Metaverse assets management with two native apps for iOS and Android.
- protocol - a tool combining the platform with the wallet and making them applicable in gaming. The Metapro ecosystem is built on metaprotocol.one, the first protocol to allow integration of all 3D game assets (avatars, weapons, textures, and others) connected to NFTs in one single database.
As an additional deliverable, we then built the SDK for the Unity game engine to accelerate the integration of Metapro and game development companies. We created documentation and easy onboarding for developers, and reached out to partners to test the solution.
The client was actively involved in delivery throughout the course of the 6 months, joining the project team to regularly review the business and technical requirements together with Rite NRG’s in-house blockchain experts.
Results
After just 6 months, the first version of the ecosystem was ready for launch. Assets could be downloaded and used in the games, and stored in wallets.
Together with the client, we presented Metapro at Poznań Games Arena 2022 – Poland’s biggest game fair. Delegates showed a keen interest in the ecosystem, with more than 600 downloads of the Metapro mobile app.
And our work doesn’t end here. Next, we’re planning further development of the ecosystem and the addition of new functionalities for the wallet, marketplace and protocol.
Sound like the right fit for you, too?
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Michał Nikołajuk
Chief Executive Officer
