In the past year

In the past year, we have witnessed too many narratives collapse in the Web3 gaming space. From ZK technology to full-chain games, from Layer2 scalability to modular infrastructures. The narratives are overwhelming, but where are the users? The data speaks: over 80% of Web3 games have less than 100 DAU after 3 months of launch.

But the market is changing.

When everyone is obsessed with storytelling, the clever Web3 game project has quietly turned. It’s not that storytelling is unimportant, but the overly packaged storytelling has exhausted investors and users. The key now is: how to truly solve user pain points? How to leverage the large market?

In this context, the approach of Alliance Games is particularly noteworthy. While other projects are still competing with each other for the narrative sexiness level, Alliance Games makes “building Web3 game Infra” as simple as idle.

Take a look at Alliance Games Lite Node design:

–Download the Lite NodeNode plugin from the Google Chrome Web Store

–Start Lite NodeNode access Node network

This design accurately hits the biggest pain point of Web3 projects: user entry barriers. Users don’t need to understand complex technical concepts or invest a lot of money, they just need to interact simply to participate in ecosystem building. This design concept proves that Alliance Games truly understands the essence of rise: dropping barriers, improving experience, and incentivizing propagation.

Alliance Games is a new Web3 infra project that integrates concepts of Web3 games, AI, DePin, and Ton ecology for capital incubation of Web3 games such as Animoca. Its goal is to become a productivity toolkit for Web3 games in the AI era, similar to Unity+AWS GameLift in the Web3 game field.

The infrastructure of Alliance Games can be divided into three layers, each with its unique functional positioning and value proposition:

AI intelligent platform layer - AI toolchain for game developers

–NeuralForge: Similar to “Web3 version of PyTorch”, it focuses on accelerating the development of game AI models. It provides high-performance GPU clusters, pre-trained model libraries, and automated tuning tools.

–GameMind: AI Agent Management Platform in the game, helping developers seamlessly integrate trained AI models into the game.

–DataVault: AI data storage solution that ensures the security and accessibility of training data.

Infrastructure Layer of Decentralization - Cloud Service Alternative for Web3 Games

–AssetVault: Similar to CDN in traditional games, specifically used for storing and distributing game assets.

–GameFront: Decentralization’s content distribution network ensures fast loading of game content.

–NetFlow: Shared bandwidth network, providing stable network connection for multiplayer games.

AG Worker Network layer - support the entire ecosystem’s Decentralization computing network. This is the most innovative part of Alliance, which divides Node into three categories:

–Edge Node（$WORK）

Provide core computing and storage capabilities

Need stakeAlliance Pass Non-fungible Token

Mainly used for AI model training and large-scale computing

–Lite Node（$ltWORK）

Run through Chrome extension

Shared user bandwidth resources

Optimize content distribution efficiency

Alliance Lite Node is a lightweight Node that connects via a Chrome extension, providing users with a simple and seamless way to share network bandwidth resources. These Nodes can optimize the network connections of Decentralization infrastructure, improve the overall network performance of Alliance Games, and support game hosting and data distribution. Lite Node is designed to be lightweight and easy to install, and can efficiently run on both individual users and small devices, helping to achieve a more powerful Decentralization network ecosystem.

–Micro Node（$mcWORK）

Running based on Telegram Bot

Optimize data requests through gamified design

drop participation threshold, expand ecological coverage

Lite Node, Edge Node, and Micro Node form a complete ecological network. Edge Node, as a powerful desktop computing Node, is responsible for heavy computing and data storage tasks, while Micro Node is a lightweight AI data interaction Node that promotes the development of AI models through simple user interactions. The addition of Lite Node brings efficient bandwidth resource sharing and more stable connections to the entire network. Users contribute idle network bandwidth through Lite Node, effectively alleviating network bottlenecks and improving the transmission efficiency of the entire network.

Alliance Games seeks to redefine the production of Web3 games by building a Decentralization AI training network + community-driven Edge Computing + Game Development as a Service (GDaaS).

The fundamental pain point of the gaming industry has never changed:

–Centralized server costs are high (AWS expenses for a medium-sized game easily exceed one million dollars/year)

– AI training resources are scarce (the cost of training large models can easily reach millions of dollars)

–Small teams find it difficult to afford infrastructure investment

Alliance Games provides an imaginative solution: allowing game developers to directly use community Computing Power and incentivize with Token instead of traditional payment. This not only significantly reduces costs, but more importantly, creates a positive feedback ecosystem.

Over the past two years, we have seen too many ‘old wine in a new bottle’ projects with selling high-priced Mining Rig as the core business model, too many Web3 game projects that only focus on selling Nodes, too many AI+Crypto projects that had no further development after raising a large amount of funding, and too many TON ecosystem pit projects that quickly attract traffic through tokenization of small games.

While Alliance Games also adopts Token incentives, its core is to build actual value capture links:

–Computing Power matching fees for both supply and demand sides

– AI model training resource fees

–Game distribution infrastructure service fee

This is much more complex than the “coin issuance-exchange listing-runaway” model. Alliance Games is trying to find a balance between Decentralization and commercial sustainability, and this attempt is commendable.

Of course, these attempts by Alliance Games will face many challenges, such as whether the AI toolchain can truly lower the barrier to game development and how to balance the incentive of the Token economic model. But AI+Web3 games are creating new market space, and if Alliance Games bets right, it may become the next pig on the upswing.

To assess whether Alliance Games can succeed, we can observe from three time dimensions: short term, medium term, and long term.

• Short-term: Focus on following the rise data of users in the Micro Node and Lite Node ecosystem, especially the daily active users and retention rate. Community activity is often an important indicator of early project success.

-Medium-term: Observe the actual landing situation of its AI training network. Can it truly attract developers to use it? How is the performance? This will determine whether the project can truly address industry pain points.

• Long-term: Evaluate its progress in on-chain game development tools. Can a complete developer ecosystem be built? This is related to the project’s long-term competitiveness.

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