Metaverse and WidiLand
For many years, human imagination has been attracted by the idea of a virtual world, called metaverse, expressed through many literary works such as The Matrix, Ready Player One, … Technologies are gradually being developed over time such as VR glasses, AR, social networks,…to pursue this dream, but only with blockchain technology can we really take a step closer to realizing this fantasy world.
So why is that and how has WidiLand built its own one?
What is a metaverse?
The metaverse refers to a variety of virtual experiences, environments and assets that gained momentum during the course of the pandemic when humans spend the majority of their time online. Together, these new technologies hint at what the internet will become next.
Source: Performance Communication
Video games such as Roblox and Fortnite, in which players can build their own worlds, interact with other players and compete, have metaverse characteristics. Or if you’ve attended a work meeting or a party using a digital avatar, you’re experiencing a glimpse of what metaverse in the future could hold.
Source: Roblox
However, you can not fully live in it just yet due to two things: the lack of uniqueness and a currency.
As for the former, digital items in Roblox or Fortnite, for example, are identical to one another, thus users lose the feeling of possession compared to the real world where a person legally owns a house or a car. This lack of uniqueness leads to boredom and users will soon return to the real world in search of their identity, the “self” that defines who they are.
For the latter, an economy, real or virtual, must have a common currency for people to exchange unique goods and items. Without one, people would have no way of valuing their products and must rely on barter, which is inefficient and a waste of time.
Moreover, citizens would lack incentives to provide value for the community and the game in general, similar to how people contribute to the real economy through working hard and making products to earn a living wage.
So, how is Widi Land building its own metaverse based on the two criteria above?
WidiLand: a new Metaverse in town
The feeling of possession
Widi Land is set in 2030, when Earth is slowly dying from toxic waste and resources are depleted, a group of scientists in the WIDI Project discover TKE-1012, a green-blue Earth-like moon, and call it their new home.
Your mission is to rebuild civilization from scratch using the resources available such as Land, Items,…What is special is that thanks to blockchain technology, each of these items are unique, just like objects in the real world. Moreover, they can be categorized into smaller groups, which adds more diversity to the game:
Land and Rarity
Cropland — Common
Desert — Common
Dryland — Uncommon
Forest land — Rare
Aquatic land — Epic
Volcanic land — Legendary
Moreover, there will be three character classes for players to manage: Farmer, Miner, and Builder. Not only that, what makes WidiLand special is the diverse and in-depth job system. Each class can have more than one job, so that even though it is the same class, each character has its own unique characteristics.
This high level of categorization is what sets Widi Land apart from other GameFi.
Societal Interaction
As a gamer, my own experience is that most GameFi do not allow interaction between gamers other than PvP (Player vs Player), thus making players a lonely citizen in the virtual world, which can hardly make the game a metaverse.
However, with Widi Land, it’s possible for you to interact with other players through:
Make Friends
Private Chat
World Chat
Give Gifts
In the future, the game will gradually become a DAO where token holders vote for the direction of the game and the community.
Real-world economy
Having learnt the lesson of the first-generation gameFi, Widi Land has introduced the use of two tokens, $WIDI and $WSO.
$WIDI is the main currency of the game, which allows players to:
Purchasing lands and items at NFT Marketplace
Staking to earn interest.
On the other hand, for in-game activities, we will have another currency called $WSO with unlimited supply for:
Summon fees.
In-game and inflation token: mint-burn.
In-game activities: Upgrade items, Lotto Games, etc
This ensures the game’s economy is not destroyed by hyperinflation and provides incentives to players, just like in a real-world economy where we must earn our wages by working hard and then spend them on entertainment, clothes, …
The beauty of this mechanism is that it can be self-perpetual, meaning that no third-party needs to be involved in regulating the money supply or distribution, the “invisible hand of the free market” and a bit of code will do all that.
The future of metaverse
With Facebook and Microsoft’s recent announcements, the metaverse is getting hotter than ever. However, we still have a long way to go before it can become a reality. Currently, famous metaverse games such as Sandbox, Manaland,…are still in the development stage. Even infrastructure such as high-speed, low-latency Layer-1 blockchain, user data storage projects, interoperability bridges, etc., have many shortcomings that need to be overcome.
Therefore, we are still very early in the game and this is indeed a great time to be alive and witness the next evolution of the internet.
Likewise, with Widi Land, we will constantly release new features and new gameplay to realize our own metaverse and give players the most enjoyable experience. Welcome to the Widi Land metaverse!