Ethernomicon: Chaosium Blockchain Trading Card Game to be announced at PAX Australia

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The ETHERNOMICON Panel today at #PAXAus this afternoon. We delved into the arcane secrets of crypto-asset gaming with a surprisingly large audience that was both curious and enthusiastic. I was joined by the brilliant team of MU students* and their mentors.

*fortunately, that's Monash University, not Miskatonic University...

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Last year at PAX Aus, we were proud to introduce a team of recent Software Engineering grads from MU*, working on a new mythos-themed crypto-asset trading card game. Called Ethernomicon, the game is to be ultimately played on the Etherium Blockchain, a whole new gaming ecosystem that these young students are at the forefront of.

The opportunities for existing game companies and their IP is something Chaosium finds intriguing, and we are supporting the MU grads and their new indie game company in their exploration of "on-chain" gaming. In a blockchain first, players will be able to build decks with their trading cards and battle other players on the blockchain to experience the Cosmic Horror of the Cthulhu Mythos like never before. But in order to get there, the next step in the development of the blockchain game is to produce a physical version of the game: details at the link...

Update: https://www.chaosium.com/blogethernomicon-creeps-towards-the-light

*Monash University

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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cbetts/ethernomicon

Emerging from the chaos and madness of the Cthulhu Mythos comes the Ethernomicon collectable card game, where you play a faction seeking control of the Earth and all upon it...

Players fuel their unholy conquest with location cards, which provide the resources to summon monsters as well as inspire deluded investigators to interfere with the plans of your opponent.

The game has grown out of an MU student project* that was looking at building an online game where the cards would be tracked on the blockchain** - this project is the physical version of that game!

The online version is on hold for now: writing games for the block chain is, as H.P. Lovecraft so memorably said, like the piecing together of dissociated knowledge that will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.

But if this Kickstarter is successful the MU grads will risk their sanity to run another, to fund development of an online version (and naturally backers of this kickstarter will be first in line for goodies!)

*MU is Monash University, one of Australia’s leading universities, ranking among the world’s top 100.

**The blockchain is a digital ledger in which transactions made in cryptocurrencies are recorded chronologically and publicly. Blockchain gaming applications are a very recent development. These young MU students are at the forefront of this whole new gaming ecosystem.

Ethernomicon is a partnership between Ethernomicon Pty Ltd, a Melbourne based block chain startup working on distributed ledger based trading card games, and Chaosium Inc, publishers of the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game. Ethernomicon is produced under license from Chaosium.

Edited November 25, 2019 by MOB