SatoPlay is a BSV-based casual gaming platform. The project was launched in September, 2019, with its first two games coming online in December in the same year. Recently, SatoPlay just welcomed its latest game “Leap Day Birds” that was developed by third-party 
developer Momo Game Studio. This signifies that SatoPlay has officially entered the “open platform” stage, where third-party developers can integrate their games to the platform easily, be it web games based off Cocos/Laya or independent apps based on Unity/Unreal.
The team behind SatoPlay is located in Guangdong, China and consists of four experienced game designers and developers who have worked at large video game companies for many years. The project began with one single developer, Gu Lu, founder of SatoPlay. He had tried developing several games on blockchain prior, but when he saw the potential of infinite scalability of BSV, he decided to pour his energy into developing an open platform for games on the BSV blockchain and to create a new gaming business model.
Currently, SatoPlay aims at the casual mobile gaming market. gamers’ scores can be uploaded to the BSV blockchain and entered into a ranking competition. In addition to the in-game props are available for purchase as gamers progress in the game, rewards are given to gamers based on their daily ranking. The rewards come from the revenue that all the props being used during a day. This creates a intra-platform incentive cycle that makes the game more layered and more challenging for the gamers. The reward system also provides gamers with a measurable sense of achievement.
For the 3 months since the platform was launched, the number of registered users has exceeded 14,000, with a DAU of 500, many of whom are loyal users that log on every day. For users who already hold BSV, they can directly log into the platform and make purchases with their MoneyButton or DotWallet account. For those who are new to BSV, they can do so through SatoPlay’s built-in interface with WeChat Pay and AliPay. This enables a user experience no more different from the existing gaming platforms in the mainstream and helps lower new user’s entry barrier.
“Our goal is not just a few trendy games,” Lu says. “Our goal is to create an open gaming platform for more games to launch and for gamers to have fun. Existing developers can swiftly deploy their products on the BSV network through SatoPlay and improve their game’s fairness as well as giving users micropayment rewards. To further streamline the launch process for third-party developers, SatoPlay has built up the login system and in-game purchase channels and provides onchain processing for all parts of a game.”
So far, SatoPlay has finished testing and will launch on Google Play and the Apple Store in April and May. Afterwards, it will also explore how to contractualize third-party collaboration and services onchain, so that game developers can be a part of the BSV ecosystem more easily.
Contact SatoPlay:
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @satoplay1
