Arbitrum Announces Arcade Game

Ethereum Layer 2 solution Arbitrum is has announced its on-chain gameathon event, Arbitrum Arcade. The event promises eight weeks of gaming excitement and creative engagement.

Details of The Event

It is scheduled to kick off on March 11th through the Arbitrum Portal. The Arcade will feature a lineup of 24 games native to Arbitrum's ecosystem. These games, deployed on Arbitrum One, Nova, or an Arbitrum Orbit chain, offer participants a diverse gaming experience.

Game developers have until March 15th to deploy their games on-chain, ensuring their inclusion in the event. Content creators are particularly encouraged to join, with the opportunity to showcase their creativity. Winners will get a share of the $200,000 prize pool and one of three custom gaming PCs.

To join as a content creator, individuals must sign up before March 4th, 12pm EST. They must also commit to producing engaging content around the featured games during designated weeks. Additionally, creators have the chance to be featured on the official Arbitrum X account. They must mint NFTs on OpenSea as a token of their participation.

List of Games

Several titles have been lines up for the first seven weeks of the gameathon. This includes Ai Arena, Army of Tactics, BattleFly, BattlePlan!, Bitmates and Cosmik Battle. 

Others are Dininho, Forgotten Runiverse, Kaiju Cards, Knights of the Ether, Kuroro Beasts and Lost Donkeys. There are also Mighty Action Heroes, Minters World, and Monkey Empire, and Pirate Nation. Others are Realm, SankoGameCorp, Tales of Elleria, The Beacon, Treasure, Xai, Zeeverse, and ZTX. 

Users can expect to explore three or more games every week during the event. They can use Ethereum infrastructure solution Clique to bring in-game achievements on-chain. Gaming teams are also invited to deploy their games on Arbitrum's platforms by April 15th. Doing this gives them a chance to participate in the final week of Arbitrum Arcade.

Rewards For Winners

Another aspect of Arbitrum Arcade involves uplifting emerging content creators and rewarding engagement. There is a $200,000 grants to be evenly distributed among participating creators, along with the chance to win fully loaded gaming PCs.

The PC giveaway includes rewards for creators with the highest number of referrals, video content produced. It also includes impressions generated through their content. To be eligible, creators must have produced at least 10 forms of web3 gaming video content within the last 60 days. They must also commit to producing weekly content related to participating games.

Winners will be determined through manual review of content produced during the campaign. Then, the Arbitrum Foundation adding to the excitement through weekly live streams simulcasted on X and Youtube.