I asked myself a question that I never thought a game would make me ask. Does any game actually give you fun. Is that feeling of fun planned out long before you ever open the app? When I came across $PIXEL and started going through what they were building that question stopped being something I just thought about. It became real.
Most crypto gaming projects I have followed over the years are much the same. They start with a lot of energy promise players a kind of ownership and then they just collapse under the weight of their own token economics. I have seen this happen many times that I do not get excited about new projects anymore. I just. Watch. So when I first heard about PIXEL I thought I would just wait and see what happens.
But something about how they started their project made me pay attention to PIXEL. They did not start talking about tokenomics away. They did not talk about how money you can make or what the rewards are. The first thing they said was that the game needs to be fun. That sounds like something everyone should say. It is not. In a space where most teams just use gameplay to make money saying that fun is the important thing is actually a big deal. The question is, do they really mean it or are they just saying it to sound good?
When I looked into PIXEL more I started to think that they might be serious. PIXEL is building a system that uses data to figure out what players do that matters and then they give rewards for those things. This is where I realized that the fun in PIXEL is not something that happens. It is something that they are studying and trying to make all the time. They are using machine learning to see what players do that really helps the game. Then they give rewards for those things.
That is not necessarily a thing. In fact it might be the honest way to make a game that people can play and earn money from. Most games that try to do this fail because they just give rewards for doing anything without caring if it really matters. PIXEL is trying to fix this problem by making the reward system smart. Whether they can actually do it is a question and we will just have to wait and see.
What I think is really interesting, about #pixel is the way they are making games and getting players. Better games mean more players and more players mean data. More data means they can give rewards and better rewards mean more players. On paper this sounds like an idea.. I am worried that if the first games are not good the whole system will not work. If the games are not good the data will not be good. The system will start to give rewards for the wrong things.
I keep thinking about one thing. The fact that @Pixels said that the way games are made now is broken and then they tried to fix it tells me something. Most projects just try to make it sound like everything is fine. Pixel at least tries to fix the problems. I am not saying that PIXEL will definitely be successful. I am saying that they are asking the questions and that is why I think they are worth watching.
