Ghost Festival
Real ownership gaming on Base
The problem Ghost Festival solves
Ghost Festival is a casual mobile game bringing true asset ownership to a market of 2 billion players. Our mission is to unlock financial markets for gamers—if you truly own an asset, you can manage it, lend it, stake it, qualify for rewards by holding it, and much more.
Here's how our journey has been so far:
Step 1: Built the core gameplay loop in Unity.
Step 2: Integrated real ownership assets through NFTs via Thirdweb on the Base network.
Step 3 (current): Focused on UX for both asset owners and casual players—this is our latest milestone and in progress work on the current hackathon. The feature developed in this milestone is better described in the Challenges section.
Step 4: Bringing the game sufficiently onchain, with a focus on our lending protocol and exploring how much of the core gameplay can live onchain.
Challenges I ran into
Casual gamers aren’t interested in researching Web3 complexities—that much was clear from the start. The real challenge was figuring out the best onchain experience that rewards Web2 players without requiring them to understand Web3 upfront. Our solution is the new in-game Asset Management section, which removes friction by introducing a lending mechanism that lets users play and earn without owning NFTs, rewarding the NFT owners at the same time.
We’re rolling out this feature in two phases:
1- In-game asset lending for wallets without NFTs. This ensures users without NFTs can play the game borrowing one from an owner who has connected and used the lending feature. Rewards are split between player (borrower) an owner (lender).
2- Automatic wallet creation for new users (coming soon). When this is implemented, new players will feel like it's a web2 game, only to progressively discover the in-game rewards are real and onchain.
These two steps of the lending feature will be rolled out on Android first at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mtrkd.ghostfest, then on iOS at https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ghost-festival/id6736979005 in the days following the end of this hackathon
We’re ready for the next step of help onboarding the next wave of players onchain!
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