Aavegotchi Judged By Tamagotchi's Managing Director - Decentralise #22
Digital DeFi Ghost Collectables
Ghosts Under The Spotlight
Aavegotchi is featuring at the NFT Awards this month.
The awards are being judged by some of the gaming industry’s giants, including BANDAI’s business development lead Nao Udagawa (the company behind the original Tamagotchi).
Aavegotchi is up for two awards, Adoption Potential and Most Innovative at the event sponsored by Enjin and DEA (not that DEA frens).
Vote today!
What are NFT games?
NFTs are Non-Fungible Tokens. That means that they are provably rare and unique using blockchain technology. Each token has random properties and characteristics, and can be traded on the open markets.
Because NFTs are on the Ethereum network they belong to you alone, and can’t be taken away by even the game creators themselves.
What are Aavegotchis?
Aavegotchi is a decentralised NFT game offering players rare crypto collectables backed by DAO-governed game mechanics.
Just like Tamagotchi you have to take good care of your digital spooky fren!
For visual learners check out this excellent interview with Co-Founder Jesse, it’s nicely timestamped to make thing easy.
How does it work?
Each Aavegotchi is pegged to a DeFi token on the Aave platform. They have rarity, wearables, and seven random traits.
Gotchi’s can gain experience and level up, and are released into the world in batches known as haunts.
You can have some fun building your dream fren here.
Spirit Force
Friendly ghosts are linked with interest bearing aTokens on the Aave platform, combining investing and gaming in a way that I haven’t seen before.
Traits
Aavegotchi’s have seven traits: Energy, Aggressiveness, Spookiness, Brain Size, Eye Shape and Eye Color.
These traits can have varying rarity: common, uncommon, rare, and mythical, and affect the Aavegotchi’s performance in mini games.
Kinship
As well as these traits Aavegotchi’s have a feeling towards their owner known as kinship. This grows the longer you own your digital fren, but only if you interact with it regularly.
There are big bonuses for those who keep their gotchi’s kinship up, including a higher multiplier from governance rewards and rarity farming.
Wearables
You can equip your fren with wearables to modify their stats and show off. Swords raise aggressiveness, but a Bob Marley shirt might decrease energy, hmm.
How to play
To get hold of you Aavegotchi you will need a portal.
Open it up and choose from one of ten digital frens.
To do more you will need GHST, the platform’s utility token used as currency and necessary for land staking.
GHST can be staked in the Uniswap GHST/ETH pool to earn FRENS, which can be redeemed for raffle prize wearables.
Once you’ve got your Aavegotchi it’s time to enter the REALM, a magical land where you can meet your friends, explore, and level up through mini games.
Governance
The Aave community are following a path of progressive decentralisation dubbed AavegotchiDAO, moving through three distinct phases over time.
Governance takes place within the REALM itself.
I’m looking forward to seeing how it evolves over time, with the engaged community taking an active role in the game’s future.
Wrapping up
I’m really liking the direction this game is going. It’s a perfect blend of 90s nostalgia and DeFi AAVant-garde (like what I did there?).
Aavegotchi’s are cute, fun, and highly collectable. I think the team really nailed their product and marketing here, and I can’t wait to see how far it can go.
There’s already been loads of fun activities to engage the community, including a neat Halloween event attended by the great Stani Kulechov himself. Many spook.
There’s everything you could want here from an NFT collectable game, so keep your eye on this one!
Join the community.
Start playing.