THE DEVELOPER DILEMMA
For developers these days, technology seems to be evolving at a blistering pace. Any lax moment could mean loss of market share to the competition. Ideas ideas ideas. When you get the idea, the issue of costs throws a spanner in the works. Coding, testing, servers, debugging, upgrades. What started out as a penny idea has become a very expensive nightmare. Not everyone is lucky to meet an angel investor or get their ideas accepted by the big corporations. Does that mean your vision should not see the light of day?
THE GAMER
Who doesn't love a good game? I play everything from Card games, word games to soccer, basketball, tennis, and so on.
For many introverts like myself video games grant us a Narnia closet to whole new worlds. Worlds where you could be a 6foot 309-item carrying assassin with the speed of Usain Bolt and the strength of Mark Henry all fitted into Ryan Reynolds slender athletic frame. All the action and glory, none of the risk. You could spend over 12 hours in a battle front and escape with not a bullet wound. Who wouldn't wanna be able to do that?
Two things make us love games, winning and reward.
The joy of winning needs no explanation, and for most of us, the "reward" is the feeling of superiority.
I beat you, bow before my greatness!
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For those who make a wager, that extra money really brings out the thrifty side of you. Hehe
What if I told you that now you don't have to stay awake for hours farming that low level AI just to upgrade your character or get imaginary gold? What if you could make cool money sniping opponents from over 450m with your Nanotech Sniper Rifle?
Preposterous? Eh.. not so much.
Enter Chimaera...
Chimaera is a blockchain platform built to support game development and game currency/asset management.
What this means is that online games can be developed, published, connected to and played directly on the custom Chimaera blockchain.
WHAT CHIMAERA OFFERS
A new innovation to gaming, using the block chain to provide a secure, Decentralized, autonomous and flexible platform upon which diverse games can be created.
The highlights are
- Truly decentralised massively multiplayer Decentralised Autonomous Universes (DAU)
- True and fair virtual item ownership with simple and safe trading and sharing
- Rapid and cost effective game concept to market for a wide range of new massively multiplayer games and games in general.
In layman's terms, inside this decentralised autonomous universe that is unstoppable and secure, users can interact on the blockchain itself and communicate securely over encrypted text or voice. Virtual life is possible. You can even "own your own virtual piece of land or real estate, lease it, or even sell it for real world value! Your virtual apartment keys will represent encryption keys giving you total ownership.
Chimaera comes as a sequel to the successful Huntercoin experiment and Namecoin which showed that games could be built entirely on the blockchain and human mining was a feasible objective.
Chimaera would use game channels to enable players the ability to connect to not only one another, but the games world directly on the Chimaera blockchain.
The platform will allow millions of gamers around the globe to interact in customizable virtual worlds that are decentralized, server-less, and impervious to hacking.
COMPARISON TO OTHER GAMING SYSTEMS
Chimaera boldly brings developers and gamers to a common platform. Unlike conventional gaming systems
There is no server downtime as everything is run on the unstoppable block chain.
Chimaera allows developers to delve into new genres while minimizing costs.
The Chimaera blockchain hosts various coexisting game worlds which gamers can interchange.
Gamers are in full control of their game items can do what they please with them.
Chimaera rewards developers and gamers as they perform activities on the blockchain.
BENEFITS OF CHIMAERA
By simply participating in the network, everyone is empowered.
For the developers
- Chimaera provides developers with a plethora of tools and infrastructure for game them to construct and bring their imagined game worlds tailored to their vision and project.
- They can even issue their own game currency that can be traded for ‘CHI’ or other Chimaera game coins or assets.
- Developers gain access to new markets and game genres to explore.
- The block chain removes the need for servers, maintenance and account management costs.
- In-app purchase fraud is eliminated by the transparent blockchain.
- Customer loyalty can be built with economic incentives.
- Chimaera is compatible with any type of gaming.
- Crowdfunding and support for new and existing startup.
For the Gamers
Gamers are rewarded as they play to earn tokens on the platform. This helps them afford in-game purchases as well as generate income from their gameplay.
Trading is secured on the blockchain with atomic transactions.
Gamers have complete and verifiable control of all virtual assets and achievements.
Gamers get access to diverse massive gameworlds with thriving economies.
The transparent blockchain ensures provably fair gameplay.
The blockchain ensures smooth gaming experience without downtime
In the Multiplayer Arena, gamers can compete in skill-based tournaments for real money.
All users can play, compete, socialize and trade without fear of fraud.
Since all gaming takes place on the blockchain, players are protected from cheaters, so no human moderation is required.
CHI
The Chimaera platform is powered by CHI tokens. CHI fuels all activities on the blockchain as well as transactions between the blockchain and game channels. These include Account creation, account transactions, in-game purchases, crowdsales and coin transactions.
TOKEN SALE
Chimaera launched their token sale on March 23rd, 2018 and it will end on May 18th, 2018. This is a very pioneering project with great potential. The gaming world is highly lucrative so an investment here wouldn't be a bad idea. As we've seen with bitcoin, being an early bird in the right place can lead to a very happy early retirement. Please invest wisely.
THE TEAM
The Chimaera project team is very much experienced in relevant fields. Their initial foray Huntercoin in 2013 was a resounding success in gaming crypto currency.
They also have within their ranks, Dr. Daniel Kraft, who not only invented the underlying game channels technology, but also contributed heavily to the Bitcoin Core codebase, and is also a lead developer of Namecoin.
Other members of the team boast decades of experience including working with high profile studios like EA and Square Enix.
For more Information please refer to their social channels.
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Chimaera Website
Visit them and read their white paper here
Chimaera WhitePaper
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