Microsoft, major game developer Eidos and gamebook house Fabled Lands are jointly developing a blockchain card game based on a 1980s best-selling gamebook.

According to a press release published on Dec. 1, the new carte du jour game will exist based on the 1980s best-selling volume called "The Way of the Tiger," written past Jamie Thomson and Mark Smith.

The game'due south title will be "Loonshit of Decease" and its players will fight in fantasy-themed card battles with features from the original gamebook series.

Ensuring card ownership

Thomson is as well Fabled Lands' chief executive officer and decided to use blockchain engineering because he believes it suits what he is trying to accomplish amend than a traditional videogame. He said:

"Nosotros were going to relaunch the series into a computer game format but this new engineering (blockchain), just made more than sense. Imagine playing Magic the Gathering but knowing if yous owned a menu, it really does belong to you lot. Or if we say there are just 100 editions of an item or skill, you know at that place really are only 100 editions."

The company plans to use non-fungible tokens (NFT) on the Vechain blockchain — which has been associated with enterprises and supply-chain management — to ensure buying of in-game avails.

Vechain will permit creating cards and in-game items "without having to deal with all the crypto stuff," says Thomson.

In-game blockchain tokens gaining popularity

The tokenization of in-game assets appears to be a growing trend. As Cointelegraph reported in late November, Blockchain game F1 Delta Fourth dimension — licensed by the world-renowned racing series Formula i — held an auction of F1 car-branded NFTs.

Elsewhere, the Ethereum (ETH) based trading carte game Gods Unchained has far outstripped CryptoKitties past volume after a censorship scandal involving game-developer Blizzard, reaching near half of a one thousand thousand NFT transfers per twenty-four hour period.