The game industry has grown to an astounding $USD 108.9 billion in revenues in 2017, establishing itself as the primary entertainment force in the world. With continued year-over-year growth, this increasing trend is forecasted to strongly continue. However, most of these increases in revenue are received by only the top companies. In fact, the top 10 companies own 54% of the global gaming market, with number one, Ten-cent, owning 10%.
How Yumerium works
Yumerium (YUM) is a gaming token that can be earned by playing, sharing and reviewing games and can be spent in any game that supports it. YUM integrates marketing tools such as referral bonuses or bounty campaigns to attract and engage users.
Distribution Partner:VR Plus
VR Plus is the first and biggest VR arcade franchise in Korea with over 30 locations. VR Plus opened its doors in August 2016 in Gangnam, Korea with the intention of bringing VR arcades to the Asian market. They have been highly successful and continue to be successful after it was purchased by Subdream Studios. Now, development, publishing, and distribution of games could be under company.
Blockchain Exchange Partner:Exa Labs
Formerly known as Bitrucks, Exa Labs is a subsidiary of Exa Global, a Korean investment company. They are a cryptocurrency and blockchain company working on the development of the Hurbit cryptocurrency exchange. In February 2018, Subdream Studios traded partial ownership with Exa Labs to form a partnership and develop the blockchain side of Yumerium.
Blockchain Business Partner:ICO Watchdog
ICO Watchdog is the most popular chatbot assistant for cryptocurrency investors now available for free on Telegram, Facebook Messenger, and Slack. The company is our blockchain partner for marketing and business intelligence. In June 2018, Subdream Studios acquired a portion of the company to develop a partnership in marketing.
Player Acquisition using Scarcity
Most player acquisition occurs in the first month of a game’s release, this is even more so in single player games. To make matters worse, these games can be incredibly hurt by piracy as well. Yumerium fixes this problem by allowing developers to run a timed campaign, giving players an incentive to buy the game early and get a shot at the prize. This helps the piracy issue by encouraging players to buy the game rather than trying to discourage piracy. This leads to the next logical solution for hackers, instead of hacking the DRM, hack the prize distribution system. On the Yumerium, this is extremely difficult, given that the prize is hosted on the blockchain network, not a proprietary database. Even more so, hackers are disincentive; by the time they can crack the security someone has already claimed the prize.
Developer Benefits
1. Driver for Acquisition & Engagement
Yumerium is a gaming community where gamers play, speculate (eSports), and share their experiences with other gamers which provides community driven marketing. Gamers will be properly compensated with YUM for spreading the word.Game developers can set up rewards for gamers with Yumerium however they want. For example, giving out YUM for winning a tournament, watching promotional videos, sharing links to social networks, leaving reviews for their game, etc. Through this cryptocurrency reward system, gamers will be more incentivized to participate in the community proactively.Initially, this incentive will be funded from the “Marketing Fund” pool but over time game we expect game developers spend their marketing dollars for this type of reward which would be much more efficient marketing tool than traditional tools. We will provide a system in which game developers can use for their marketing budget as rewards within Yumerium.
2. Minimal Development Cost
Any project that wishes to create a prize campaign faces a development cost. No matter how little they wish for the marketing to affect the game, it will always be affected, sometimes to the point of changing design paradigms. Yumerium, however, attaches to any achievement or tournaments the game already natively had using its open SDK. With the Yumerium SDK, along with support from the Yumerium team, developers can easily attach Yumerium to an existing project. What’s more, Yumerium is dedicated to creating the SDK for all major game engines, also minor ones upon request.
Roadmap
The Yumerium project is divided into the following three phases.
Phase I: Research and Development
Launch the Yumerium and attach Mega Overload and VR Plus to the system to the network. Mega Overload will support CryptoPrize and the limited-edition features. The Yumerium website will test the referral system. VR Plus will prove that the system can work in physical arcades. All these cases will be done and finished by end of the second quarter 2018, before the Yumerium SDK is made available for partners and native games.
Phase II: Yumerium Open-Source SDK Development
The Yumerium SDK will be developed and documented using our experience from the previous test cases and developer feedback. To test the Yumerium SDK, three Subdream Studios games will be updated and connect to the Yumerium network. We will be updating the SDK as new features are added, which will be open for use as it will be open source and available on GitHub. This will be an ongoing process, but the beta should be out by third quarter of 2018.
Phase III: Native Games & Development Partners
In the fourth quarter of 2018, we will start looking for partner developers to join the Yumerium network, as well as release our own game that natively uses Yumerium, CryptoMine.CryptoMine is a web-based strategy game that natively integrates Yumerium. The launch will be the final market test before opening the platform from selected partners to open adoption.
Details of ICO Yumerium
Website: https://www.yumerium.com
Whitepaper : https://www.yumerium.com/resources/files/whitepaper_en.pdf
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Yumerium/
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