{"id":24540,"date":"2018-06-08T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/319658"},"modified":"2018-06-08T19:10:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T19:10:00","slug":"trendy-entertainment-eyeing-blockchain-based-rewards-for-dungeon-defenders-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/06\/08\/trendy-entertainment-eyeing-blockchain-based-rewards-for-dungeon-defenders-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Trendy Entertainment eyeing blockchain-based rewards for Dungeon Defenders II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trendy Entertainment is partnering with Loot to bring the blockchain-based Loot protocol to its free to play game <em>Dungeon Defenders II<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>As blockchain-based tools continue to gain traction in tech fields, the system being adopted by Trendy aims to offer developers a way to monetize their games through the blockchain while also acting as a reward system for players based on their own progress and activity in a game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the case of <em>Dungeon Defenders II<\/em>, adopting Loot will allow\u00a0Trendy to generate cryptocurrency rewards that double as a sort of in-game experience system. The protocol works by generating cryptocurrency using an algorithm that leverages a player\u2019s \u201crelative skill, performance, and engagement in a game\u201d rather than the more traditional route of using a computer\u2019s hardware to mine the currency.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trendy Entertainment plans to introduce the protocol to <em>Dungeon Defenders II<\/em> in early 2019 and, if everything happens according to schedule, will be the first developer to do so.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trendy Entertainment is partnering with Loot to bring the blockchain-based Loot protocol to its free to play game Dungeon Defenders II. As blockchain-based tools continue to gain traction in tech fields, the system being adopted by Trendy aims to offer developers a way to monetize their games through the blockchain while also acting as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}