The last quarter of 2021 saw blockchain games emerge as the most used dapp category, overtaking DeFi as the most widely-used application of blockchain technology. Blockchain games now dominate the industry, accounting for over 52 percent of all activity across all blockchains.

Despite rising interest in blockchain gaming and over half a billion dollars worth of NFT land sales in games and metaverse platforms within the blockchain industry, the blockchain gaming ecosystem is highly fragmented.

Launching a new blockchain game in the contemporary blockchain ecosystem can be a difficult and complex process — developers must identify and connect with gamers and players interested in backing promising new projects, raise capital, and bring games to market in addition to fostering an active, engaged community.

Blockchain game launchpads have emerged as the most successful and effective method of capturing market attention and launch funding, but not all blockchain gaming launchpads are built the same.

Gamestarter addresses and overcomes the obstacles currently faced by the gaming, NFT, and decentralized fundraising through an NFT marketplace, launchpad, and accelerator that delivers streamlined funding, gamified marketing, community development, and stable access to market demand.

More Than Just a Launchpad

Building a successful game isn’t an easy process. Within both the traditional gaming market and the blockchain gaming market, developers often face insurmountable obstacles when seeking funding and exposure to their target market, forcing many dev teams to turn to venture capital funding and part with equity in their platform to access the capital needed to launch.

Gamestarter operates very differently than other blockchain game launchpads. Built by game developers for game developers, Gamestarter aims to disrupt and revolutionize the way gaming projects based on blockchain and NFT technology capture startup capital and bring games to market.

The Gamestarter platform functions as far more than a marketplace through which devs can launch IGOs and build dedicated gaming communities — by providing content creators and game devs with a broad spectrum of tools and financial support options, Gamestarter allows devs to fund their vision through the pre-sale of in-game NFTs through an extant, highly active, and engaged community of blockchain game enthusiasts and investors.

Gamestarter boasts extensive battle-tested experience in assisting with the launch of games, providing indie devs and creators with the option to leverage a robust tenure in the indie gaming industry and proven strategies on how to successfully develop and market a project.

Launching on Gamestarter operates through two vetting mechanisms — open, and prime. Open allows anybody to submit a project to the Gamestarter platform, while prime opens the doors to the Gamestarter ecosystem to projects with prototypes, developed lore or gameplay, or existing communities.

Launching on Gamestarter provides developers and content creators with:

• Access to a robust funding ecosystem that allows devs to offer NFTs to players prior to launch
• Access to the Gamestarter marketplace, which hosts the trading of all in-game assets brought to market by game creators
• A massive online community of blockchain game enthusiasts interested in their project
• Simple, streamlined crowdfunding, passive income, and stable access to strong market demand

Nurturing New Blockchain Games Through Marketing Gamification
Marketing an indie game can be difficult. Statistical analysis of indie games launched via Steam, one of the most popular traditional gaming marketplaces, reveal that over 50 percent of all indie games launched via the platform never exceed $4,000 earnings, while less than one in ten generate over $200,000 in gross revenue.

The blockchain gaming ecosystem, however, is vastly different. The potential of play-to-earn games has generated massive interest from the cryptocurrency marketplace — the number of active blockchain games doubled in the last year. While the market is certainly interested in blockchain-based games, however, capturing the attention of the blockchain market gestalt can be complicated.

Gamestarter provides games and developers with easy access to gamified marketing that targets a massive community of backers and $GAME holders. The marketing features offered by Gamestarter gamify the marketing process, offering creators the opportunity to offer secret NFT drops, discounts, IGO whitelisting, mini-games, and leaderboards.

Rather than force creators to build and develop a standalone community through costly traditional marketing strategies, Gamestarter launches games directly into a thriving ecosystem of players, blockchain game investors, and other indie devs.

Gamestarter Games Join a Long List of Successful Projects

To date, the Gamestarter platform has seen the launch of over 25 successful IGOs, with multiple projects establishing thriving gaming communities. Dark Frontiers, a complex space exploration and survival game launched via Gamestarter, executed a series of NFT drops and land sales via the platform with over 2,000 individual in-game land fragments sold in a single day. The Dark Frontiers spacesuit sale, which saw in-game asset NFTs distributed exclusively by Binance NFT, sold out in less than 20 minutes.

Other highly successful projects launched via Gamestarter include Bithotel, Demole, The Dynasty, Project Seed, Moo Monster, Crypto Fight Club, and KingdomX. The team behind Gamestarter operates from a background of game development, leveraging a network of other indie game devs and providing access to pre-existing relations with indie game funding promoters and a lengthy tenure within the indie gaming industry.

The First Blockchain Game Launchpad With a Fully-Realized Metaverse

The Metaverse is positioned to redefine the way content creators interact with audiences, reshaping the way individuals play, interact, and engage online. The current state of the Metaverse as a whole, however, is poorly defined — there are currently multiple Metaverse platforms, each of which promises audiences the possibility of participating in virtual worlds and economies.

The Gamestarter Metaverse, however, is clearly defined — and is already here, with a launch date set for 2022. Gamestarter is the only blockchain game launchpad that offers instant and immediate Metaverse integration, offering players and creators the ability to interact in a visually and spatially connected world.

Gamestarter’s Metaverse exists as a gamified, interconnected universe of islands, each of which represented an individual project. Games and projects that launch via Gamestarter benefit from a presence within an immersive, expandable Metaverse ecosystem that fuses launchpad functionality with a built-in NFT marketplace, player hub, and appreciating NFT land offers.

Play to Immerse, Gamestarter’s core philosophy of blockchain gaming and game development, functions as the core of the Gamestarter Metaverse. By offering vivid worldbuilding, engaging gameplay and engagement, and rewards for community members, the Gamestarter Metaverse streamlines player acquisition and retention.

Why Launch on Gamestarter?

Gamestarter is dedicated to reshaping the landscape of independent game funding by providing creators and devs with the opportunity to pre-sell in-game assets as NFTs, not equity in their platform.

Unlike other launchpads, however, Gamestarter isn’t only a launchpad — the Gamestarter ecosystem integrates a marketplace that allows players to trade digital assets between all games launched via the platform, providing immediate access to a thriving gaming community.

Most importantly, listing a game on Gamestarter is free. The Gamestarter platform takes a small percentage of raised funds, and up to two percent from each individual transaction that takes place on the marketplace.

While Gamestarter minimizes the costs associated with launching and crowdfunding a blockchain game, the network effects of the ecosystem are one of the most unique elements of the platform. Many other blockchain game platforms simply provide creators with a means of generating launch capital. Gamestarter, however, promotes newly listed games within the Gamestarter community, delivers ongoing gamified marketing tools, and ready-to-use plugins for both UE and Unity platforms.

As the first blockchain game launchpad platform to offer a fully-realized metaverse, inter-game marketplace, and comprehensive game listing analysis and verification, Gamestarter is the only launchpad, accelerator, and marketplace built by devs and players, for devs and players.

Gamestarter is currently operating with a dense 2022 roadmap — the upcoming launch of Gamestarter Originals will see a new series of projects developed in-house added to the emerging Gamestarter Metaverse ecosystem. Slated to launch in the second quarter of 2022, the Gamestarter Metaverse is positioned to break new ground in the future of immersive virtual words, establishing the Gamestarter platform as the foundation upon which Web3 and blockchain-based gaming will operate.

Further expansion to infrastructure projects build for game developers and an expansion of the robust tools already available to devs through Gamestarter will attract non-blockchain game developers to the play-to-earn and play-to-immerse ecosystem, catalyzing disruption and improvement in the blockchain gaming industry to drive Gamestarer forward as the vanguard of the blockchain gaming frontier.