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Game developer Sky Mavis, the creator of Axie Infinity, is expanding its Ronin blockchain ecosystem and working with four game studios: Directive Games, Bali Games, Tribes Studio, and Bowled.io. Sky Mavis is curating Ronin’s ecosystem with titles across genres and platforms, leveraging Axie’s Ronin network. The new games will offer different types of gameplay, from competitive shooters to mobile games and hardcore strategy titles.

Bali Games plans to build new puzzle games on Ronin using Axie characters and lore, Tribes is building an open-world MMO on Ronin called Tribesters: Island of Solas, and Directive Games is developing its first Ronin game, The Machines Arena, a 4v4 competitive multiplayer shooter where players fight each other in sci-fi environments. Despite suffering from a massive $622 million hack a year ago, Sky Mavis believes Ronin is a solid foundation for a gaming ecosystem.

Image: Directive Games.

Sky Mavis, the studio behind the first-generation Web3 game Axie Infinity, is expanding beyond its flagship title and building a Web3 gaming empire on its Ronin blockchain. Sky Mavis is working with four game studios to develop new games on the Ronin blockchain. The company is curating Ronin’s ecosystem with titles across genres and platforms, leveraging Axie’s Ronin network.

A still from in-game footage of Machines Arena, showing a top-down view of a 4v4 shooter game where heroes have weapons and shoot beams of magical light and missiles at each other.

Many of Ronin’s new games won’t be connected to Axie at all. The studios they’ve selected are building across a variety of game genres and platforms, from competitive shooters to mobile games and hardcore strategy titles. Bali Games, the studio behind the Anipang mobile game, plans to build new puzzle games on Ronin using Axie characters and lore. Tribes is building an open-world MMO on Ronin called Tribesters: Island of Solas, and Bowled.io offers sports games and is first focusing on cricket.

Directive Games, one of the four studios, is moving fastest and has developed The Machines Arena, a 4v4 competitive multiplayer shooter where players fight each other in sci-fi environments as either tank characters, supports, or damage-dealing heroes. The game has a top-down perspective and will offer both multiplayer and solo-player modes. Directive also has cross-platform plans for Machines Arena, with a mobile launch on iOS and Android on the horizon. While the game is called Machines Arena, it focuses on human and cyborg characters and is building out a transmedia world with comic books and other types of content beyond the game.

A still from in-game footage of Machines Arena, showing a top-down view of a 4v4 shooter game where heroes have weapons and shoot beams of magical light at each other.

Sky Mavis’ goal is to bring player ownership mainstream, and it believes Ronin is a solid foundation for a gaming ecosystem, despite suffering from a massive $622 million hack a year ago. Ronin has been converted to Delegated Proof of Stake, meaning that anyone with at least 250,000 RON tokens can now lock them up to validate transactions on the chain. While other game studios are developing on networks like Polygon, Avalanche, and ImmutableX, to name a few, Ronin is still very much in the game.

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