‘Eve Frontier’ Jumps Ship from Ethereum to Sui—Here’s Why

Sci-fi survival sport Eve Frontier is transitioning from the Ethereum-based Redstone gaming community to the layer-1 blockchain Sui. Sport developer CCP Video games informed Decrypt the transfer wasn’t motivated by a monetary grant, however as a result of the community is aligned round a “deep philosophical route for the sport” and the “way forward for digital worlds.”

Over the approaching months, a CCP Video games spokesperson stated, Eve Frontier can be ported over to Sui. For the reason that sport is presently operating on testnet, gamers is not going to have to migrate any property. CCP Video games informed Decrypt that the transfer doesn’t change the sport’s roadmap; slightly, it allows the studio’s future imaginative and prescient.

“This partnership unlocks the long-term roadmap for Eve Frontier to turn out to be a ‘ceaselessly sport,’” the CCP Video games spokesperson informed Decrypt. “The transfer to Sui opens up a spread of options, together with: Higher person onboarding and expertise, aligned structure and scalability, [as well as] security-enforced moddability and composability.”

Spun off from the infamously hardcore and long-running sport Eve On-line, the blockchain-powered Eve Frontier is a massively multiplayer on-line area survival sport set in a universe that “actually desires to kill you,” CCP Video games founder and CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson beforehand informed Decrypt.

“Since inception, our mission has been to create digital worlds extra significant than actual life. With Eve Frontier, we’re pushing that ambition additional than ever earlier than: constructing a player-moddable universe, certain by its personal digital physics, that may outlive us all,” Pétursson stated in a launch. “For us, Sui provided the distinctive alignment of structure, safety, and person expertise. Collectively, we’re constructing a world that may really stand the check of time.”

Each CCP Video games and Mysten Labs informed Decrypt that they’re working collectively to “examine” a port for Eve Frontier that’ll deliver the sport to the SuiPlay0X1 handheld console.

The SuiPlay0X1 is a high-end cell PC gaming gadget that’s positioned as a rival to Valve’s Steam Deck. It might play conventional video games like Elden Ring, however is uniquely positioned to natively assist crypto video games through the PlaytronOS. 

“The preliminary focus for the partnership can be utilizing Sui and its primitives, similar to zkLogin, programmable transaction blocks (PTBs), and sponsored transactions,” a spokesperson for Mysten Labs informed Decrypt. “Sooner or later, the partnership will leverage the complete Sui stack, with additional data on how these companies can be built-in forthcoming.”