Gaming on Sol

    Introduction

    • In this Analysis, You will Read About three popular Games on Solana.

    • There has been an increase in gaming in Solana, according to Spire:

      ____. Aurory, Genopets, and Star Atlas are games that are allowing players to experiment with what they have been building for over a year

    • So, I went through Genopets, Star Atlas, and Aurory and analyzed these parameters:

    • Users

    • Transactions/Activities

    • New/Old Users

    • Gamers activities on Solana and more …

    Analyzed by Hess - Reading Time Almost 8 Min.

    Aurory

    • With Aurory, you can play a free Japanese RPG that uses blockchain technology on Solana. Users compete against other players using creatures called 'Nefties,' which are non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
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    New Vs. Old Users


    Who is New User here? My analysis of new users was based on the Solana chain. New users are those who have made their first transaction on the Solana chain. It's not just for games.

    • Star Atlas and Aurory had over 300 new users, while Genopets had the fewest.
    • New users had similar activities for each game based on their daily transactions. Based on old users, Star Atlas users with a huge difference were higher than Aurory and Genopets users.
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    Gamers On-Chain Activities

    Before digging into each game, I examined gamers' on-chain activities. However, I will examine the user activities of each game.

    As you can see, the most popular activity is transferring and then swapping. NFTs, Staking, and Voting were less prevalent among these users.

    Transfers accounted for 91% of total transactions, while swaps accounted for 6.61 %. The rest are equal to or below 1%.

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    Activities per Game users


    :1st_place_medal: Transfers: Users had similar activity across all three games. The most popular activity was transfer transactions.

    :2nd_place_medal: Swaps: The swap was the second most popular activity after Transfer. These two activities were most popular among Star Atlas users.

    :3rd_place_medal:NFTs: Minting and buying NFTs were more popular among Genopets users than Aurory and Star Atlas users.

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    Top Platforms and addresses


    • GENOPETs had the most transactions based on the number of transactions. It is interesting to note that users of Aurory and Star Atlas also used Genopets ( NFTs ). There were 73K transactions related to Genopets by Genopets users. Among Aurory, Genopets, and Star Atlas users, Orca was the most popular platform after Genopet. Binance appears in the top 5 of each platform.
    • Genopets Treasury had the highest number of transactions based on the total number of transactions for a specific address. Among all gamers, the Sol-USDC pool was the second most popular address.

    Top Swapped Tokens


    • From: Users of Star Atlas were most likely to use USDC. However, Sol was most popular among Aurory and Genopets users. According to their native tokens, Star Atlas users sold more tokens than users of the other two games. Their users are higher than those of the other two games. As a result, they had more swaps as well.
    • To: Among all three games, USDC was the most popular token among users. The second most popular token was Sol. The Aurory native token was the only one among these games that were bought more than sold by users.
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    Fan Or Farmer?

    The term "fan" refers to users who only play one game simultaneously. Meanwhile, Farmer refers to users who play all three games. Let's see which game had the most fans.

    • Genopets gave me the opportunity to become a tester over the last year. I've seen their community. They are really unique and valuable to the project. Genopets is also royal to its users. For their active users, they had multiple Aidrop stages. Over time, they distributed eggs, NFTs, and habitats. Some eggs were worth over 10K US dollars based on the Sol price at the time.
    • In comparison to other games, Genoepts has the highest number of fans. I am not familiar with Genopets at this time, but it seems that those users who are playing one game are also playing another right now. Star Atlas had the fewest fans and the most farmers among these games.
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    Conclusion

    • Compared to Genopets and Aurory, Star Atlas had the most users.
    • Star Atlas users made a total of 82.2% of transactions.
    • Aurory users were active on Wednesdays, Genopets users on Mondays, and Star Atlas users were active all week long.
    • Over the past four months, Star Atlas attracted the newest users, while Genopets attracted the least.
    • FANS who only play Genopets make up the largest group of FANS. Conversely, Star Atlas had the lowest number of fans. Farmers are mostly found in Star Atlas.
    • For gamers, swapping and transferring are popular activities.
    • The most traded tokens by gamers are USDC and SOL.
    • Two of the most popular addresses are Genopets Tresuray and Platform. All gamers use Sol-USDC after that.
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    Star Atlas

    • Exploration of space, territorial conquest, political dominance, and more in this grand strategy game. Using blockchain mechanics with traditional game mechanics, Star Atlas is creating a unique gaming experience.

    Genopets

    • Genopets is a free-to-play, move-to-earn mobile game that rewards active lifestyles with fun and rewards. Genopets are digital pets whose growth and evolution are inextricably linked to your own.

    Method

    Games: On-chain data is not available for some activities in these games. My first step was to look for any activities they had with the Game contract address. In their documents, I found their contract addresses.

    • Genopets: StaKe9nb7aUjXpjpZ45o6uJBsZxj2BWCDBtjk8LCg2v
    • Aurory: STkwf3sbMapjy7KV3hgrJtcVvY4SvRxWQ8pj4Enw1i5
    • Star Atlas: ATLocKpzDbTokxgvnLew3d7drZkEzLzDpzwgrgWKDbmc
      • In the next step, I filtered these contracts using the Program_id column of the Fact Solana event table.

    Activities

    • Solana has multiple activities, just like any other chain. Transfer, Swap, NFTs, Staking, and Voting are the most popular activities. Each activity has its own table. After extracting all activities, I merged them with gamers. I now have activities for each gamer.

    Tokens and Platforms: I extracted Tokens and platform names by using DIM Label and DIM tokens.

    IMPORTANT NOTE: I USED SCATTER CHARTS TO SHOW THE ACTIVITIES HEATMAP. THOSE CHARTS ADD 2-3 SECONDS TO LOADING ALL CHARTS.

    Users and Transactions

    Let's examine the users and transactions for each game. I should point out that all tables are from the past four months.

    • In comparison with Start Atlas, Genopets, and Aurory, Start Atlas had the most users, while Aurory had the least. From October and November, Genopets had the highest number of their daily users, but after that, it dropped to below 100. The number of users of Aurory was lower during that time but started to increase afterward. Between November and December, Almost All Games drew the most users.
    • Start Atlas was the only game their users returned to after a short period.
    • Over the past four months, Star Atlas had 4.7K unique users, Genopets 3.9K, and Aurory 2.2K.
    • Start Atlas had the highest number of transactions and daily shares, like the number of users. Star Stlas' daily market share decreased to 50% during November 2022, while Genopets' share increased to 31 and Aurory's to 18. However, Quickly Star Atlas shares have returned to normal. Star Atlas held an average share of 66-88% in daily transactions.
    • Based on my findings, I divided them into two categories. Before and after the New Year. Before the new year, Star Atlas averaged 1K transactions per day, while afterward, it averaged 1.3K. Genopets users had lower numbers of transactions after the new year. Before the new year, they averaged 146 transactions per day, while after the new year, they averaged 151 transactions per day. In comparison to other games, Aurora had the lowest number of transactions before and after the new year.
    • There were 82.4% of total transactions on Star Atlas, 11.1% on Genopets, and 6.54% on Aurory.

    Full Analysis

    Activities per Hours and Days


    • In the Users' activities Heatmap based on days and hours, you can see that users had different activities on different games. Among Genopets users, Monday and Thursday had the highest activities,, while Wednesday was the highest activity among Aurory users.

      Almost all Star Atlas users were active throughout all days. Mostly on Sundays.

    THANK YOU FOR READING!

    ALL CODES AND CONTENTS WERE WRITTEN BY HESS

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    :calendar: Publish Date: 2023/FEB/10

    Sources:

    I Used these sources to write about each game. I didn’t Copy from them.