The number of daily transactions exceeded 20 million. Is the chain game Sui 8192 really so fun?

**PANews Editor’s Note: **PANews reported on July 17 that thanks to the chain game Sui 8192, the number of daily transactions on Sui Network exceeded 20 million. This article was first published on July 12, 2023, and will introduce the features and gameplay of the chain game Sui 8192.

Author: Peng SUN, Foresight News! The number of daily transactions has exceeded 20 million, is the chain game Sui 8192 really so fun?

I believe that most people have played 2048, an addictive number puzzle game. It does not have an overly complicated game design, but it consumes your time extremely. Only by numbers can you never admit defeat and fight to the end. Such games are not uncommon. From minesweeper and Tetris to Lianliankan and Xiaoxiaole, various new forms of small puzzle games appear in each generation.

Ethos, the Sui ecological self-hosted wallet, also developed a 2048-class digital puzzle game Sui 8192 based on the Move language and the Sui blockchain. This is a full-chain game. In addition to the front-end user interface, all logic and rules are based on smart contracts. The code runs automatically. Compared with large-scale full-chain games such as Dark Forest, Isaac, and OPCraft, Sui 8192 does not propose so many grand ideas and grand narratives. This is just an ideal small experiment, without complex technologies such as MUD engines, and without focusing on speculation and fidelity. Hype, but relying on extremely low cost and gaming experience is enough to attract a large number of active users.

Sui 8192: A game is an NFT

The Sui 8192 smart contract is written based on the Move language, and its composition is very simple. It includes three parts: the game, the Game Board, and the leaderboard (Leaderboard), covering all aspects of cube movement, game state input, game logic, and real-time score ranking.

To put it simply, every time a Sui 8192 game is opened, an NFT needs to be generated, and each NFT represents a game.

In terms of specific gameplay, the logic of Sui 8192 and 2048 is almost the same. You only need to slide the blocks by operating the up, down, left, and right keys of the keyboard. If two blocks with the same number collide, they will merge into one number A new square that is twice the size of the original. The numbers start at 2, and the ultimate goal is to have a square with the number 8192 (2 to the 13th power). The numbers and corresponding symbols of the blocks are as follows: Air (2), Dew (4), Fog (8), Dew (16), Droplet (32), Brook (64), Stream (128), Pond (256), River ( 512), Lake (1024), 2048, Ocean (4096) and 8192.

However, since all game logic and rules run on the chain, and NFT is an object (Object) stored on the Sui network, every state change in the game (NFT) also means a change in the state on the chain, so the block Every move requires authorization from the user's wallet. Currently, Sui 8192 can use Sui Wallet and Ethos Wallet to log in. Although it claims that users who do not own a Web3 wallet can use the Ethos API to experience Sui 8192, the API page does not provide it.

Therefore, for users who use the Web3 wallet, if they use Sui Wallet, they need to authorize once every time the block is moved, which greatly affects the game experience. Ethos Wallet provides a pre-approve function, players can enter the number of pre-authorized transactions and the total gas fee limit of the transaction in advance, without signing for each move. Of course, although the use of pre-authorization can increase the game experience, there is still a Gas fee for each move.

Leave the imagination to the community

The full-chain game is different from the previous GameFi. Its characteristic is that all the logic of the game runs on the chain, not just the assets on the chain. The full-chain game itself has the characteristics of decentralization, no permission, zero trust, openness and transparency, Collaborative and composable features.

Specifically for Sui 8192, it is not based on the previous GameFi X to Earn model, but returns to the game experience itself based on the blockchain. There's no speculation and hype in this game, but it's still immersive. In addition, using the game itself as an NFT also adds NFT attributes to the game. For example, the game state that reaches a specific number can already be displayed as a PFP, which has a symbolic meaning of demonstrating personal intelligence, ability, financial resources and identity.

Even, we have seen Sui 8192 establish chain collaboration through NFT. For example, if a game of Sui 8192 is not over yet, this NFT can be forwarded to other Sui users, inviting them to complete the game goals together. However, even if the game is lost, the NFT can still be transferred.

According to the author's limited experience, only about 1.87 SUIs are spent on the casting and transaction fees of the three NFTs of numbers 256, 512, and 1024, which is about 1.233 US dollars, equivalent to RMB 8.8. This cost is already extremely low, and in this regard, Sui 8192 is still a good start.

However, there are still some problems with the existing model. For example, the premise of Play is Pay, but now there is only Pay, without any economic model. In other words, the biggest problem is that the game realizes the long-term pursuit of the "ideal" of blockchain games that allows users to immerse themselves in it without speculative profit, but why should users pay for a puzzle game that can be played for free on Web2? Unilateral payment for the game? **What's more, there is still a certain delay in moving blocks on Sui, which is not as smooth as 2048, and the game experience is not optimal.

**Compared with 2048, the blockchain brings complete decentralization, no permission, data sovereignty and ownership to Sui 8192, but the value of ownership is not reflected. **At present, the utility of NFT is only a potential "collaboration", which is even a limited game. It has neither pricing nor liquidity. That is, “What do I want ownership of this game for? What is decentralization to me? What about a trusted source of data? I’m just here to play, to pass the time.”

The full-chain game is a kind of "achievement on the chain". The scarcity of this NFT lies in how close it is to the number 8192, and the workload that you don't want to repeat (for example, if you get an unprecedented high score, but suddenly lose, It is very time-consuming and energy-consuming to think about completing the workload of the past). Therefore, when everyone can start a new round at any time, only those NFTs with high points and closer to 8192 are more valuable for exchange and transfer, and even their other social symbolic meanings such as PFP are more valuable. At the same time, returning to the essence of digital puzzle games—mathematical puzzles and enlightenment education for teenagers—the community can build Web3 educational products on it, so its value is not just scarcity, but the effectiveness of incentives. At this time, community tokens can be issued for the created NFT based on the workload and intelligence proof such as the number of steps moved and the number of squares.

Going back to Mr. Lu Xun's quotations, "In fact, there is no road on the ground; if there are many people walking, it will become a road" (Lu Xun really said this sentence). Sui 8192 is based on the high-performance Sui blockchain, but it is minimalist. Its greatest value is that it is permissionless and combinable. It is full of imagination. What kind of ecology and gameplay can be built in the end? See what the community thinks and chooses about the game.