MetaArena is a comprehensive Web3 game development and publishing platform that integrates cutting-edge technology architecture, including Unreal Engine 5.3, a decentralized virtual asset trading market, and distributed computing resource support. The platform not only provides developers with efficient development tools but also greatly simplifies the game development process through cross-chain functionality and AI modules.
The main goal of MetaArena is to create an ecosystem that integrates building, publishing, and monetization for game developers, players, and content creators worldwide. Through this platform, developers can easily create cross-chain games and manage virtual assets and NFTs within the games, while players can freely trade virtual items, achieving true asset self-management.
Currently, the MetaArena engine has launched its first AAA-level MMORPG game, Final Glory. As the industry's first AAA-level on-chain game built with significant investment, it has attracted over 100,000 players in less than two months on the market and has become a new generation of phenomenal blockchain games. Based on leading technological solutions, MetaArena is driving the blockchain gaming sector from Web2.5 to Web3.
As an important infrastructure in the on-chain gaming sector, MetaArena has received investment from the Sei Foundation and has become an important partner in the development of the Sei ecosystem.
Why does the Sei Foundation favor MetaArena?
The crux of the on-chain gaming field
Blockchain games claim to be Web3 while retaining traditional gameplay and introducing token economic elements such as cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and P2E features, which assetize game content and give players ownership of assets. However, the vast majority of blockchain underpinnings do not have the conditions to support the operation of game logic. Suppose a game generates one on-chain transaction per player per second (such as status updates for movements, skill releases, etc.), and there are 10,000 active players participating; then the underlying chain must achieve at least 10,000 TPS to ensure smooth gameplay for players; otherwise, the game will become extremely laggy, and gas fees will be exorbitantly high. Most existing chains cannot meet this requirement.
Therefore, to ensure a high-quality gaming experience, especially for real-time online games, their logic usually runs on off-chain servers (where storage, computation, etc., occur off-chain), resulting in a smooth experience similar to Web2 games. However, the data between on-chain and off-chain needs to be continuously synchronized to ensure consistency of states among players. For example, when a player purchases a sword in the game, the off-chain database needs to synchronize the on-chain transaction data in real-time to increase the weapon count in the player's inventory and make it available when needed. However, this Web2.5 approach brings issues related to centralized servers, including censorship, single points of failure due to hacking attacks, and scalability problems. The ongoing workload of data synchronization is enormous and may lead to data breaches and cheating issues due to data hijacking and malice, especially when economic interests are involved, making it difficult to ensure that executors do not act maliciously.
Given the limited support from existing technology and infrastructure, long development cycles, and uncertain market returns, blockchain games struggle to implement complex game logic and high-quality content. The Web3 gaming sector still faces the dilemma of user attrition and a lack of new users, remaining in a low period. Therefore, to truly break free from Web2.5 and leap to Web3, fundamentally changing the existing game operation logic is crucial, and the game engine framework built by MetaArena may be a viable solution.
MetaArena: Redefining the innovative engine of Web3 games
In fact, the development of on-chain applications has a very high threshold, rooted in the niche nature of the programming languages. In the GitHub 2023 programming language rankings, the popularity of blockchain programming languages such as Solidity, Cairo, and Move does not even make it to the top two pages. Especially since games themselves require compiling some complex game logic and deploying it on-chain, this further exacerbates the difficulty for developers to develop and deploy on-chain games.
The MetaArena engine supports developers in modularly developing and deploying games and game logic by integrating AI modules, visual coding tools, and a series of decentralized smart contract templates, significantly lowering the technical barriers to Web3 game development. Whether Web2 developers or Web3 developers, they can easily engage in game development without needing to deeply master complex blockchain technologies, effectively reducing technical barriers and allowing more developers to easily enter the Web3 space.
- CollabSphere Market
The MetaArena engine also supports different developers working collaboratively by launching the CollabSphere market. For some game projects that are either incomplete or have been completed but still need further refinement, CollabSphere allows multiple developers to simultaneously engage in real-time collaborative development on the same project. By sharing resources, code libraries, and development tools, developers can work efficiently in a virtual workspace, which is especially important for large game development projects. The CollabSphere collaboration system transparently records each developer's contributions through blockchain smart contracts and automatically allocates rewards based on the complexity of different tasks. This system provides developers with a transparent and fair collaborative environment, ensuring that all contributions receive due rewards. Through this decentralized collaboration mechanism, developers can seamlessly collaborate globally, enhancing project development efficiency and significantly improving game quality.
To further enhance the visual effects of games, the MetaArena engine employs an efficient 3D rendering engine, similar to Unreal Engine and Unity, with powerful graphics processing capabilities. Developers can achieve cinematic-level visual effects through this engine while ensuring smooth gameplay and low latency.
Based on the series of development kits from the MetaArena engine, developers can easily create various types of games, including open-world games, first-person shooters (FPS), role-playing games (RPG), virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR) games, and compete with Web2 games in terms of content and graphics quality.
- Resource Layer Arena Protocol
To address the issues of insufficient on-chain computing power and resource scarcity that hinder game operations, traditional Web3 games typically rely on centralized servers and deploy game logic off-chain.
MetaArena further introduces the resource layer Arena Protocol, whose distributed resource-sharing mechanism allows users to contribute their idle computing power and storage resources. Games can connect to this layer and offload the resource load required by the game to the CollabSphere layer through technologies like ZK, ensuring that even AAA-level large games can maintain operational efficiency.
As a distributed resource market, Arena Protocol incentivizes users to participate in resource contributions through token rewards, further enhancing the resilience and fairness of the MetaArena engine, ensuring that games can operate efficiently. Moreover, Arena Protocol also provides cross-chain bridges, helping users and developers seamlessly transfer assets across multiple chains, managing decentralized virtual assets while allowing free movement of virtual assets through cross-chain bridges. This not only enhances the platform's flexibility and applicability but also strengthens the rights and management functions of virtual assets.
- Asset Circulation Hub GameFun Marketplace
Another challenge for Web3 games is the insufficient liquidity of virtual assets (such as NFTs and tokens), low market transparency, and high transaction costs, which pose significant challenges for players and developers. Players often find it difficult to trade virtual assets freely and are easily affected by market fluctuations.
MetaArena addresses this by launching the GameFun Marketplace to provide a secure, self-sovereign, and decentralized trading environment for game developers and players. This marketplace supports multi-chain virtual asset management and trading, significantly enhancing the liquidity of virtual assets and market transparency. Players can freely circulate assets across multiple blockchains, easily managing virtual items and NFTs within games. Players and developers can even create, manage, and trade their assets across multiple blockchain networks, forming a unified virtual economic system. The platform will ensure that all transaction processes are based on blockchain technology, secure, transparent, and without intermediaries, thereby reducing transaction costs.
Overall, MetaArena builds a player and developer-centric Web3 gaming ecosystem through its innovative game engine technology, decentralized architecture, and strong community support. The platform is not limited to game development; it also provides a wide range of application scenarios for virtual reality, education, decentralized applications (dApps), and more. Through continuous innovation and improvement, MetaArena is committed to promoting the application and popularization of blockchain technology in the virtual world, becoming a cornerstone of future Web3 games.
MetaArena becomes an important partner of the Sei ecosystem
By obtaining a new round of investment from the Sei Foundation, MetaArena is rapidly becoming an important partner in the Sei ecosystem. This new collaboration is expected to enhance both parties' influence and market competitiveness in the Web3 gaming field, bringing more possibilities for future development.
The MetaArena engine is deeply integrated with Sei Network, providing support for games and other applications within the ecosystem. Based on its unique game engine solution, MetaArena significantly lowers the threshold for developing various on-chain games and migrating to the Sei ecosystem, providing strong support for the operation of these applications. Thanks to Sei Network's parallelized EVM solution and innovative consensus system, the advantages of the MetaArena engine will be further leveraged, enhancing overall performance and user experience. The powerful market resources of the Sei ecosystem are expected to further promote the MetaArena engine's market orientation and enable this solution to be widely adopted by the market.
As a top-tier Layer 1 system, Sei is leading in sectors like DeFi but is still in the early stages of development in the gaming field. With the deepening cooperation with MetaArena, it is expected to attract a large number of quality developers to deploy games in the Sei ecosystem and lay the foundation for deploying more high-quality large games in the Sei ecosystem.
Through cooperation, both parties hope to jointly create a more prosperous on-chain gaming ecosystem and occupy more discourse power in the Web3 gaming market.
Currently, the first game of the MetaArena ecosystem, Final Glory, is also expanding into the Sei ecosystem. As the first MMORPG in the Sei ecosystem, this game will serve as an early example of the collaboration between MetaArena and the Sei ecosystem, showcasing the potential for integration of both technologies and platforms.
The investment from the Sei Foundation in MetaArena and the in-depth cooperation between the two represent an important step in the comprehensive launch of the MetaArena ecosystem and the beginning of the Sei gaming system's journey towards prosperity.