Nine Chronicles is a 100% decentralized free-to-play RPG that is also the first title to be developed with Libplanet. A major characteristic of Libplanet is that it enables the game to run on a P2P network of players without requiring any central server to host. The entire game, from crafting an item to complex battles, takes place fully on-chain. This means that the game can continue to run smoothly even without depending on the game company. Except for occasionally pushing patch data on-chain so that updates can be broadcast between the clients, everything in the game can be said to be completely owned by the users.
The reason why we are creating an entire game on the blockchain is to achieve true serverless RPG experience. In a typical online game, even if all in-game items are stored permanently in the blockchain, if the game company shuts down its servers, the items become useless. This means that the value of the items are not guaranteed simply by being on the blockchain. On the other hand, if the game was fully developed on on-chain distributed network, the game could live on by the users even without the game company.
Since Nine Chronicles is open-source, anyone can add features and modify the environment as they desire. For instance, multiple users can come up with their own version of the game and launch a new network, just like how Minecraft is being modified by its players as they see fit. Just like how League of Legends was born out of Warcraft 3’s custom user map, player-driven innovation has always played a huge part in the history of game development. And we wish Nine Chronicles to be the foundation that paves the road to decentralized and community-driven online games.
