Cryptic Conjure is a multiplayer fantasy action-RPG, utilizing the Ethereum blockchain and Unreal Engine 4, to enable some very interesting mechanics. In Cryptic Conjure, spells are everything…not only your primary forms of offense, defense, and healing, but technically, even your equipment comes in the form of summoning spells. Some spells already exist…we’ll get to those, later…but most spells are crafted by players, using resources bought, sold, and looted in dungeons. It takes quite a few resources, and a fair amount of time, but soon, you’ll be in the possession of a brand-new spell.
But here’s the thing-that-is-interesting…when you craft a spell, you gain twenty “Essence”, which can traded as a special token via the blockchain. The more people have that token, the weaker your spell becomes. If you give one Essence away, the spell will drop from 200% to 190%. And a third person? It drops even further, to 185%, and so on and so forth, all the way down to 100%, that additional power dissipating entirely. What is one of these Essence worth on the open market? Do buyers trust the original crafter to keep that spell between a set number of people? Do they demand some extra Essence themselves, so that they have some leverage in the transaction?
Cryptic Conjure is all about information, trust, and knowledge. If you obtain a rare recipe for a spell, or if you discover a new method of crafting, you won’t necessarily share that information with the world at large, because it holds some significant economic advantage. Today’s gaming world is datamined and leaked on the internet with shocking speed, diminishing the excitement of a game, quashing that feeling of discovery into an unknown world. Through the power of the blockchain, we’re bringing that feeling back.
