Play2Educate | The game, the guild, and the journey into the Metaverse
When the pandemic thrust everyone into living through computers and mobile phones, the digital space became the real-world adjacent place where people work, play, and socialize. Suddenly, physical realities began merging with the virtual universe, offering a glimpse of the promising possibilities of the future.
These days, anywhere there’s a screen, there’s an opportunity for something rich and creative. Gamers can now spend their time productivity and earn an alternative income while having fun and playing games.
From free-to-play and pay-to-play models, gaming has advanced to a new frontier. Blockchain gaming has opened up opportunities for meaningful and purposeful experiences — ushering players into the Metaverse while rewarding their participation, irrespective of their crypto knowledge or proficiency.
The GameFi Model
There’s never been a better time to play games than now.
With the increase of the unemployment and underemployment crisis during the pandemic, people are anxious and restless, scrambling to find supplementary and main sources of income to put food on their tables and take care of their daily needs.
At the forefront of new-world gaming is the revolutionary GameFi model. Players are rewarded with in-game prizes that can be converted to real-world money.
Now, there are NFT gaming guilds that not just operate using the model, but also educate players as they provide opportunities towards enriching the crypto gaming ecosystem.
The Axie Revolution
Web3 games have evolved into a hybrid of social network and job platforms. They have become a popular source of income for many people worldwide.
One example of a game that spearheaded the GameFi model is Axie Infinity. With over 1.8m daily active users, this adorable breeding and battle pokemon style game helped introduce the masses to blockchain technology by rewarding players with Smooth Love Potions (SLPs) for winning PVP and PVE battles. These SLPs can be utilized in game to breed more axies or can be traded on any major crypto exchange to provide liquidity for players.
Another great example is REVV Racing a GameFi skill based racing game developed by Animoca Brands. Players drive their NFT race cars on any web browser to participate in monthly tournaments and outskill their competitors in circuits. In return, they are rewarded with Revv Tokens that also can be traded on major exchanges to provide liquidity to the players.
These games are easy to learn, but difficult to master. Still, taking the game seriously pays off as evidenced by competitive crypto enthusiasts.
The Scholarship Program
Scholarship programs are a creative way of overcoming the cost barriers to enter into these web3 games. They help out players, who cannot otherwise afford the upfront costs to acquire the playable NFT assets within the game, to get started.
A scholarship commitment means players get to derive an income from a portion of their earnings while the program shares in their token reward profits for their skills and expertise in the game.
But that’s not all a scholarship is good for.
Consider the Avocado DAO. It emphasizes educating, nurturing, and empowering scholars to thrive in-game and within their online and real-life communities.
With a structured onboarding process, the guild ensures that every new scholar within the Avocadian community is quickly up to speed and equipped with the right tools and information to set them up for long-term participation.
Moreover, the guild does not simply provide scholars with the means to play-to-win-to-earn. Guild members are also assigned dedicated roles to offer scholars guidance of a game’s strategies and mechanics — encouraging and directing them towards training, coaching, and streaming activities designed to prepare and enhance their gameplay.
The Avocado DAO Scholarship presents scholars with support and mentorship to help them succeed on their pathways to better lives. Through the program, scholars are encouraged to join channels of discussion and creative interests. They are further challenged to catch up and keep up with the community and to not limit themselves by simply playing the game just to reach their daily quotas.
There are also guild and leadership programs in place to help design or revise engagement opportunities to support the Avocadian community with actual individual and social impact projects and initiatives.
Within the guild’s Discord server, every scholar is motivated to equally participate in all opportunities the Avocadian community offers, including extending scholarship referrals to their community of friends, neighbors, and immediate and extended family. It prevents multi-accounting and further empowers Avocadians to help their communities.
The Social Impact
Scholarship programs have become a lifeline for many people in developing nations.
Web3 games touch many lives and enable positive change. In the Philippines, where 40.53% of Axie Infinity’s daily active users are from, it has become an alternative — but in most cases — the only way to make money. It has helped put food on the table, buy diapers and milk for babies, pay university fees, and buy electronic devices for distance learning. Others purchased motorcycles, fixed their homes, started small businesses, and even quit as OFWs (Overseas Filipino Workers) and came home to their families.
The On-boarding of Masses into the Metaverse
The Metaverse welcomed more citizens due to the pandemic.
Blockchains for NFT gaming makes it easy to see how the Metaverse can level up the real world. It empowers the gamers to own the things they’re making — to monetize the time they’re spending online.
And since the Metaverse is a much more inclusive and creative space where anyone can win if they have the skills, players gain financial literacy as they become familiar with cryptocurrency.
Through the GameFi model, even the novice, the unaware, and the inexperienced in the world of crypto are now empowered to step into the Metaverse.
It’s a brave new world out there. With the physical limits of lockdowns and restrictions during this pandemic, others have managed to gather their energies and pull themselves together to enter the Metaverse. Now, all that’s left to do is engage and encourage others to do the same.
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