Cricinshots

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Problem Statement

We believe that Cricket will drive mainstream adoption of Web3 gaming in India, and will soon be a mass phenomenon with millions of users playing cricket games with play and earn mechanics. This will also lead to millions of users getting their first crypto wallet, their first crypto etc. But:Limitations of traditional cricket games:The games have low to no strategy involved, due to which they fail at long term engagementNo ROI for users on time and money spentIssues with current Web3 cricket games:NFTs are the core product, and the gameplay secondaryThe gameplay sucksThe game economies are not sustainableLimitations of Digital cricket collectibles:No usability or decent gameplay for the NFTs boughtLimitations of traditional fantasy cricket:Lack of year round engagement + necessity of live matchesLack of continuity (teams reset every match) and real ownershipWhat makes Cricinshots different: Cricinshots is a sustainable + free to play + play & earn cricket strategy game, with a fun and never before seen gameplay.We are adding strategy & longevity to cricket games, increasing the shelf life significantlyWe are building a full fledged service economy inside the game, where users can play roles like investor, trader, player, builder etc opening new experiences and ways to engage for the usersThrough our game users can generate sustainable ROI.Currently people are churning through hypercasual cricket games and are looking for a more meaningful experiences

Solution

Most wallet infra for mobile is extremely under developed. We found zero solutions for connecting a metamask wallet to a native flutter app. We had to experiment, debug and solve this on our own. For that, we studied how metamask handles dapp connections for web, and then wrote a custom plugin which emulates that behaviour and sends data to our endpoint. The endpoint after collection of appropriate information redirects to a deeplink of our app, which brings the user back from metamask. Finally, when that deeplink is called, we update token balances for the user in the gameWe want to build a sustainable game economy for Cricinshots, hence writing the tokenomics rules and logic was a big challenge. We tried various different methods + wrote a proprietary network difficulty algorithm, and ran multiple scenarios to finalise tokenomic rules, and then we could write our smart contracts. Creating sustainable economies is harder because i) There haven't been exemplary successful economies in games yet ii) It is very difficult to get hands on data from other web3 games. Very little data is available for DAUs and other engagement metrics, which we wish to plot against transaction data to check how engagement metrics affected the economyWe had to write a lot of error handling to handle all edge cases for wallet connections and token visualization inside the game