Hello Bitshares developer! I think this is great news, and since you mentioned CryptoKitties might I be so blunt to point out to you that there is currently a game under development for Steemit called STEEMPUNKNET ( @steempunknet). It is a RPG style game where players gain xp, find loot and battle other players on Steemit.
I think this game could benefit greatly from the addition of unique items, similar to how CryptoKitties has unique kitties. Perhaps you guys and the Steempunknet people should get together, and combine forces to enable BTS UIA's to function as unique tokens for the Steempunknet game.
If successful, it could very well be the perfect showcase for both Steem(it) as well as BTS, in addition to creating a super awesome game that we can all enjoy. Please have a look at the latest dev update they recently posted here, and perhaps consider reaching out?
That looks amazing! our lead dev & cto @murda-ra will no doubt take a look and comment soon. What I understand (and I'm not a developer), is that in STEEMIT, is you can do similar but they are not called UIAs, but SMTs (Smart Media Tokens) which should be close in concept given both BitShares and Steem are based on the same Graphene blockchain tech by bytemaster @dan.
Basically, you would use BitShares UIA for tokens or white-label solution in the outside business world, and SMT, being they are designed for digital content, if you want to build things like games and dApps with their own tradeable tokens on the Steemit social network.
I'm not sure though but I think I read that CryptoKitties (unique, non-fungible tokens) was only possible because of ERC223 and that it's a new feature of it. When I read about SMT's I realized they were more like ERC20 than ERC223 tokens. So creating types of items is possible through that, but creating a single, unique item it's not really usuable for it.
Since you mentioned CryptoKitties in the above post I thought perhaps BTS was ahead of Steem with UIA/SMTs, so maybe unique tokens are possible throug UIA's?
Anyway, I'm not well versed enough in this stuff to really know what i am talking about. But if you guys get together and figure it out, all the better!