The bearded man crumpled on the floor, grabbed his stomach, and settled in a medieval mace. His hitman has won, but his weapon (a broad sword made of foam) is still in his possession.
The audience cheered on the winner. The bearded man recovered, stabilized the mace, and resumed the fight. The bubbles hit the bubbles. When the two men circled each other in a square arena taped, their shoulders cramped to avoid fake blades.
I have never seen a non-fungible token (NFT) used in this way.
At the LootLARP event, two fight with a fake sword and mace. Photo by MK Manoirov.
In fact, the fight was a live-action role-play (LARP). Therefore, no actual casualties occurred at this reused warehouse in South Denver, Colorado.
I’m in Denver for the Ethereum-focused conference, ETH Denver. I came here because I wanted to understand the most cutting-edge trends in the world of Ethereum. I didn’t expect any of these to contain loot.
If you don’t remember the loot, it was one of the hottest cryptocurrencies in the weeks of late summer and early fall 2021. Black background. Texts such as “Warhammer,” “Crown,” and “Perfect Necklace” should refer to fantasy game items that haven’t been created yet.
The loot hype seemed to disappear almost as soon as it took off. But Loot still has enthusiastic fans. And some people are busy tying the game’s NFTs to real objects for use in real versions of the game.
Loot LARP weapon with chips. Photo by MK Manoirov.
Live-action loot
What I just witnessed was a standard LARP experience with a web3 twist.
The entire battle arena was set up by Loot LARP, an organization that creates physical elements and designs Loot’s gameplay.
The loot itself was born in August last year by Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann. Publish the link To Ethereum contract What people can use to create a limited number of “bags” of “randomized adventure gear”. The bag was actually just a list of words.
Loot NFT.
Simplicity has influenced LootLARP’s major contributors. ndimwit online, prefer to leave a pseudonym.. “The loot NFT is literally just text. It’s the least faithful thing that can exist,” says ndimwit. “So I wondered if we would actually try to physicalize the universe.”
LootLARP has partnered with a Quebec-based manufacturer to create foam role-playing items such as swords, maces, and magic books. We also “embedded” NFTs in items in collaboration with Kong, a company that primarily manufactures chips for cryptocurrency payment cards.
The LootLARP Broadsword I had the opportunity to grab felt as heavy as a bottle of wine. When I squeezed it, a hard bubble of the blade came out on the palm. At the butt of the sword, the exposed tip looked like a small black navigation compass with a yellow face.
The LootLARP team showed us how the app scans LootLARP NFTs, tracks player data and displays quests. The team is still developing a way to privatize LootLARP’s quest and gaming world, and user data, but will complete it in time for the June NFTNYC meeting. The plan is to allow people to play at meetings using LootLARP technology.
In Times Square, Town Cryer tells players to pick up weapons from the LootLARP truck. The player then scans the item’s chips.Project tip Website Calling “a low-cost, durable and secure element that can be cryptographically linked to Ethereum smart contracts,” sign a transaction that ties an object to the blockchain and confirm that the owner has entered the game world. ..
From there, players can work on various quests created by the LootLARP team. “”According to ndimwit, it presents different use cases and quickly creates a compelling and cohesive experience set up in Lootverse...
To receive admission to the game, the user must create a so-called redemption NFT. It states that ndimwit is essentially a ticket. According to the LootLARP website, to “activate” an item, you also need one of the original Loot NFTs, or the MLoot NFT, a derivative of the original Loot project that stands for “More Loot”.
LootLARP uses the Ethereum scaling platform Polygon, so in-game transaction fees should be kept low. Still, ndimwit said the team is considering covering the price of the NFT.NYC event.
In the true spirit of Loot, the ultimate goal of the project is to get players to build the game. The current LootLARP platform consists only of chip-enabled physical items and player apps, but the team plans to build the ability for users to create their own quests.
“What we are building is essentially like a platform for people to create quests and games with each other so that they can build the world together. You can, “said ndimwit.
“About something [Loot] It really captured the spirit of web3 for me in a way that opens up creative use cases like building the world as a decentralized process, “he says. With LootLARP, “you can do something at the forefront of cryptography.”
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