I just don’t understand Korvas. Rumble Arena might eventually have a couple of hundred players at the absolute most, but it’s still a very limited audience - and even then, you’re banking on them wanting to get into Ion as a result of playing the game, which likely only a small proportion of them will. The release of the game that is out now doesn’t appear to use Ion or Ionomy services at all, so all of the players who are using it are currently using it without any exposure at all to Ionomy. In addition - they might have 1000+ downloads, but when I checked a minute ago, there was only a handful online and no multiplayer lobbies open. So again, I wonder how many actual, active players it’ll end up with.
This is not to shit on the effort the devs have put into that game, by the way - it’s an ok game when you see it for what it is, which is the result of a pair of devs who have only just gone full time into game production. It’s highly unlikely to be a viral hit, but I’m sure the guys at Rekall Games are ok with that.
Your need to look at the bigger picture.... So far what I know about the gaming element of ionomy is
A Racing game - OffRoad Heat - Ionomy Studios
A Platform game - Gravity - Ionomy Studios
A Endless Runner - The moon or bust - Ionomy Studios
A Beat em Up - Rumble Arena - Rekall Games
These games like other mobile titles don't just launch, they launch then evolve. When it comes to mobile games the launch is the start not the finish, development continues. From what has been launched and the tools they've developed specifically for game devs this is the start of something special that started as just an idea 3 years ago. How many ICO's started out as a good idea then fizzled out or a company with cash & resource stole the open source idea or copied and been better plus avoiding the mistakes of being first.... probably 95%
NO OTHER COMPANY that positioned themselves as offering a crypto gaming solution 3 years ago has come close to what ionomy have already achieved. :)I'm now expected to see copycat companies copying all or elements of the Ionomy vision
Rumble Arena has the potential to become a brilliant competitive multi player Beat em Up alla Super Smash Bros. Ion tournaments have yet to be implemented along with a whole host of other features. I suggest you get 3 friends together and have a 4 v 4 fight it's a blast... The current version is a solid foundation to build on the playability is top notch. A projection of 1,000+ downloads is very low when you consider the game is to be localised into Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish.
Next on the launch list is Gravity
Ionomy studio's are at advanced alpha with Gravity -
3 Worlds
2 new guns
2 new armor suits
2 sets of boots
New enemies
New platform types
New game engine
Everything has been rebuilt from the ground up. no recycled code here. The first version of Gravity was a proof of concept. The business model works hence the total rewrite & game expansion
If anyone reading this interested in Ion/Ionomy they should at the very least maintain a watching brief and play some games making sure to watch a few ADs so helping to fund the ion prize pools
.... what a sweet business model.