Since 1977 Entrepreneur, a business magazine, brought into the spotlight innovative exciting ventures that in the future evolved into successful projects and companies. And now it is our turn. One of the most popular business-related magazines has spoken with our founder Gadji Makhtiev.
RAWG is a blockchain-based platform for gamers that was born last year in the heads of Gadji and our CPO Alexey when they found out that their gaming website Kanobu attracted users for their gaming database. “Half of the visitors came looking specifically for our catalogue of game information” says Gadji while pondering that all the data that gamers need to check before deciding on what to play next is scattered throughout several services like Reddit, YouTube, Twitch, etc. The main problem for a gamer right now is “a lack of time, and gamers’ needs to make better purchasing decisions to fit their time constraints while still having fun”. Thus the idea of RAWG was conceived where gamers can get all they need in one neat package.
“Games are an art form” which is why RAWG is building the most comprehensive database that includes everyone who works on the games with the help of gamers themselves, their data and future contribution when the UGC-tools will be implemented.
The blockchain solution in the words of our founder is “to provide even greater incentives to join and participate in the RAWG community. Gamers on RAWG will be able to receive our tokens as rewards for in-game achievements, and they’ll be able to exchange them for rewards in our ecosystem, or even into fiat”. Achievement hunting in the past was to show off the skill and now they can be a way to earn some pocket money. Blockchain itself is the “technological edge” that the gaming market needs to propel itself even further and RAWG is eager to ride that wave among the first.
Check out the full article to see RAWG’s vision in the interview with our founder Gadji Makhtiev.
edit: Have to add: Just took a look at Kanobu. And even while I'm not speaking russian, I like the style. The experience is perfect for the RAWG project.