Impact Arcade: Changing The World One Playthrough At A Time

Play well, do right. The hummingbird fingers of our modern generation flutter ceaselessly over web and mobile games. Fun, addictive, and every bit as engaging as mainstream games, the sector keeps growing. 

Much of that time, though, is frittered away playing games that are designed to waste your time and empty your wallet. Web3 promises something different. A way for players to earn real-world value while playing their favorite games and, in the case of Impact Arcade, a way for them to change the real world.

The pioneering protocol makes it so the more you play, the more real-world impact you make. Whether it’s removing plastic from the oceans, carbon from the atmosphere, or landmines from a warzone - Impact Arcade facilitates these efforts through gameplay. It opens the possibility for guilt-free gaming, where players can sit on their couch enjoying their free time and still be having a real-world impact.

Talk of using the blockchain to facilitate impact investing has already been discussed at the highest level in renown think-tanks. The latent efficiencies of the blockchain for the frictionless transfer of value can radically rethink paradigms of giving. Impact Arcade just makes it a lot more fun and - far more importantly - a lot more accessible to everyone. 

The Scale of the Challenge

It starts with learning. Impact Arcade’s suite of games will all educate its users about a specific global challenge faced by civilization today. To start, games will focus on the scourge of plastic in our oceans, where entire islands of the waste have agglomerated, their shores littered with the dead and dying, fish choking on microplastic in the waters, their death-knell serenaded by the screams of gulls who watch overhead. 

The debut game, Impactman, will help players tackle this menace. Players will gobble up ocean plastic and collect Impact Tickets that can be used to redeem prizes. Future games will involve stopping plastic reaching the rivers, gobbling it up from the seabed, and caring and nurturing their own real animal in a manner similar to Tamagotchi of old. 

The defense of the oceans is just the first ‘launch’ cause, many more will follow, including protecting endangered species and tackling poverty. These games will span many genres. From tower defense to puzzle mazes and pet simulators. Piggybacking on popular genres, the games will remain as fun and engaging as their mainstream counterparts, while educating users on the problems faced and the scale of the challenge to overcome. Their gameplay will not only educate and inspire them, but it will reward them. 

How Impact Arcade Lets Players Do Good Through Play

As players clock up new high scores, they win Impact Tickets that they can use to enter protocol-wide on-chain raffles or redeem for prizes. The structure mimics that of an old school arcade, where you take your tickets to the prize booth and a fairground. Except here, the prizes are big, both virtual and physical - from blue chip NFTs to sustainable products. 

And that’s the tip of the hopefully-not melted-in-10-years iceberg. Prizes will be distributed far down the long-tail of players, but those who play the most will be in with the best chance to win. Even the losers will know that their entry as a result of playing the games has done real-world social good.

Users can track their progress from their profile. The profile shows their level, how many $IMPACT tokens they have, how many Impact Tickets they have to redeem prizes. It also, crucially, shows everything a user has done to do good. A live feed updates every game to show a player’s contribution to cleaning up ocean plastic, how many trees they’ve helped to plant, how much carbon they’ve removed from the atmosphere, and so on. Here they can also see collectibles they can pick up and win along the way as they play their way through the Impact Arcade.

65% of all revenue Impact Arcade makes goes directly towards supporting the causes the games are about. The other 35% will go towards fueling the ecosystem that makes this possible, developing new games, and onboarding new players to help them make an impact too. Come for the games, stay for the cause - and the community - that builds up around them. 

A World Class Team at the Forefront of Web3

The team behind Impact Arcade have world-class credentials in the space. The CEO, Seth Blaustein, is the founder and CEO of Dollar Donation Club, the popular web2 platform that lets individuals easily donate just a dollar a month to clean up tonnes of ocean plastic, while the CFO John Zdanowski was the CFO of Second Life, the famous proto-metaverse that sprung up in the early days of the internet. 

Add to that a stellar list of individuals, all who have seen mainstream individual success, and it leads to a team that’s ready to bring about the change they have promised to do. 

Brace for Impact with Impact Arcade

Gaming is, and will continue to be, the largest entertainment industry in the world. People just love playing games. Impact Arcade gives them a way for that desire to turn into something good, not just for the world, but for themselves too. The digital ownership and easy-bureaucracy of the blockchain lets platforms like Impact Arcade reward their users well, and lets users give to and learn about causes they care about with total transparency. It’s time to make an impact by playing the games you love, and head on down the Impact Arcade.

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