What if instead of encouraging players to spend money to advance in a video game, we encouraged them to progress in exchange for title deeds?
Here is the principle of "play to earn" games, in full swing.
One of the most iconic games is Axie Infinity, developed by Vietnamese studio Sky Mavis and rewarding the most dedicated players in the local cryptocurrency.
But it is also possible to be paid in NFT, these non-fungible tokens which are based on the blockchain, to encourage the most present players. The possibility of rewarding creators is also one of the characteristics of Web3, as explained in the column by Sébastien Borget, co-creator of The Sandbox and president of the Blockchain Game Alliance. This promise of decentralization is therefore an opportunity to reward content creators.
If we must warn against the addiction that these games can cause, they testify to the growing enthusiasm of the general public for NFTs and digital art.
These works increasingly invite themselves off screen, as can be seen in the success of artists like Jakub Spacek, a Czech artist based in London who plays with the subtleties of form and movement.
Or with the work, from Paris, of the Montreal programmer Eliza Struthers-Jobin, who relies on artificial intelligence to play with our perception.
Companies like Artpoint or Fosfor are also working to make this digital art accessible around the corner.
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