South Korean Planetarium builds games on its own Blockchain

In a recent CoinDesk piece, South Korean blockchain game startup Planetarium is planning to launch a test version of a new decentralized game, Nine Chronicles. The role-playing game will store its storyboard and data all on its own blockchain. 

This is the first game developed with Planetarium’s game authoring tool which will be officially released as an open source platform this year. Once Libplanet, the authoring tool, is made public by the end of this year, developers will be able to use it to make games as well as blockchains for the games. 

Planetarium CEO Kijun Seo thinks blockchain game developers are shoehorning games into existing blockchain platforms like ethereum or EOS. Instead, Planetarium suggests that a game should be made and run in an independent and complete ecosystem, which means that if there are ten games, there should be ten different blockchain platforms made for each game. “Decisions about the game are to be determined by the needs of the games, not by the platform. We should define the game first, not the blockchain underneath it,” Seo said.