Crypto Academy / Season 3 / Week 4 - Homework Post for @yohan2on | Blockchain Video Games - Play and Earn Crypto by @verdad

INTRODUCTION
I am very honoured to participate in this weeks task on Blockchain Cuties Universe. Below is my article to solve the task given by professor @yohan2on, I hope you would enjoy it.

BLOCKCHAIN CUTIES UNIVERSE

The Blockchain Cuties universe is a new cryptocurrency adventure game (collectible ) where you can play with puppies, lizards, and other real and wonderful creatures. Each cutie is unique, and a hundred percent (100%) owned by you (user/player). You can collect them, test their battle skills, and even upgrade them with time with much more experience and strength. Also know in mind that, each game player earns a reward depending on their performance.

The“gambling” economy allows you (users) to trade your cuties using smart contracts from ETHEREUM, EOS, TRON, MATIC, and NEO blockchains. Thus; the cuties (which is an NFT) can be transferred or sold to other players like ordinary cryptocurrency on the blockchain and allows you (users) to explore and create as well.

Cuties universe has a native token (BCUG) which can currently be bought on just a few exchanges (Uniswap(V2), Gate.io, Bilaxy, ZT, etc. It has a day (24-hour) trading volume of $522,947 USD. BCUG has dropped 11.88% in the past 24 hours and is currently ranked #1423 on CoinMarketCap, with a market cap of $1,495,175 USD.

FEATURES OF BLOCKCHAIN CUTIES UNIVERSE
There are numerous features of Cuties Universe and can only be accessed/explored by a user or a player after a successful login. Thus; by proving all the necessary details required for the login process as shown in the screenshots below.

These features create a lot of advantages for Cuties to win a battle and earn rewards, so it is important for every player to know how each feature works.

My Cuties
This feature shows all the available Cuties that represent the user or player in the game. Cuties can be purchased here as well via smart contract and depend solely on the selected blockchain (EOS, ETHEREUM, TRON, MATIC, NEO).

Forge
This feature allows the user or players to modify gears in the game. Thus; it helps Cuties to acquire special skills by repairing, upgrading, enchanting, and manufacturing customized equipments (gears). With this feature, the chances of winning and earning rewards are very high.

Adventure
As the name suggests(adventure), it is where players are allowed to take/send their Cuties to an adventure by taking risks with other Cuties and eventually return as a champion or a loser.

Blockchain cuties universe governance ($BCUG)
BCUG features refer to the tokens in the game, unlike other cryptocurrencies. Other activities such as staking the token in a liquidity pool, purchasing Cuties, and part in the gaming platform.

Tournament
The tournament feature is where all the upcoming and running events are displayed to the user or player as his/her Cutie takes part in the tournaments to gain rewards. Cuties can only participate in the tournament when they meet a certain requirement.

Marketplace
Blockchain Cuties Marketplace is a place where players trade their Cuties (collectibles) in exchange for other Cuties with special/preferred specifications. The number of Cuties available in the Marketplace depends on the chosen blockchain network. Newbies on the platform who wish to partake in the gaming platform need to buy/purchase their own Cuties using this feature.

Special sale
This is where collectibles (Cuties) with special/rare features are advertised for players to buy. They cost more than the regular Cuties. With this great feature, players are guaranteed a higher winning chance.

Leaderboards
This is a feature that reveals player's satistical data (leaders on the gaming platform with allocated points won) on various battles and other categories. For instance, top sellers, top achievers, etc.

Achievements
Achievements of players who participated in the various game categories are presented by this feature and it is accompanied by tokens as rewards to cheer the players up.

REVIEW
Throughout my research on Cuties Universe, I was able to deduce a lot of merits and of course a few demerits which are listed below.

ADVANTAGES

1. Provides a wide availability of many Cuties on the market allows users or players to choose any option from them (even low-budget gamers can get something on the market to battle other
   collectibles(Cuties))

2. The interface of the game is easy to use, which means anyone can play it, new or old because it has some instructions on what to do anytime you click on a feature.

3. The platform is not only a gaming platform but, rather used for investment and staking in liquidity pools by users to earn massive incomes.

4. The game allows its users or players to earn rewards when they participate in the gaming platform by battling other Cuties and coming out as champions.

5. It is Supported by ETH, TRON, NEO, Matic, EOS, giving users more options for playing and receiving.

DISADVANTAGES

1. Creating, maintaining, and breeding collectibles (Cuties) takes a lot of time.

2. Players/user's experience is not required by the platform to fight battles using their collectibles (Cuties) which in turn makes it very boring.

3. The game has extremely low graphics(2D) which arouses the contempt of users who are used to playing other types of games.

4. Users can only get complete access to the game only when he/she has invested some tokens by staking or purchasing collectibles (Cuties).

The game rating on a scale of 5
Actually, I am equipping this game with a rate of 3 out of 5. The reason behind my rating is that, although the game allows its users to earn rewards from participation and also provides them with a user-free platform to access all of its features without the use of any computer science knowledge. It still needs to improve on its development because the graphics are extremely low (appearance) which drives a lot of users with gaming backgrounds away.

CONCLUSION
Blockchain Cuties Universe has a very simple and easy-to-use interface and has completely shaped the gaming industry in a way that allows players to make/earn from their activities instead of just playing for fun as our traditional games. It allows users to invest and stake in liquidity pools to earn more profits. I have really learned a lot from this task.
Thank you very much @yohan2on for such a great and educative lecture.