Insights from FOCGERS UNITE Podcast building Forever Games

FOCGERS UNITE Podcast

We recently sat down with the FOCGERS UNITE community to discuss Vendetta, fully on-chain gaming, and our journey on Sui blockchain. The conversation revealed why we’re committed to this space and what it means to build games that can truly last forever.

One of the Few Fully On-Chain Games on Sui

When we launched Vendetta on Sui, we became one of the only fully on-chain games actively running on the network. We specifically chose Sui for its object-centric design, focus on gaming, and technical features like zkLogin social authentication and sponsored transactions that make blockchain invisible to players.

As we mentioned in the podcast: “We are one of the first fully on-chain games on Sui, and we’re working very closely with the foundation, giving feedbacks on building some of the infrastructure to support fully on-chain games like frameworks.”

Why Fully On-Chain Matters

Our journey to fully on-chain gaming started with a problem we couldn’t ignore. In the podcast, we explained: “In 2021, we launched NFTs on the blockchain, but when we built games around those NFTs, the game simulation was on our backend. It really bothered me. Everything could disappear if we shut down.”

We built Web 2.5 games for years, games where NFTs lived on-chain but the actual gameplay ran on our servers. Players owned their characters, but the game itself? That was ours to control, maintain, or shut down. We partnered with major companies like Animoca Brands, launched on multiple chains, and built games that thousands of people played. But something felt incomplete.

The realization hit us hardest when we looked at our own gaming history. As we shared in the podcast: “Me as a gamer in the past, I used to play a lot of Age of Empires and Dota, Counter Strike, FIFA. But now I don’t have any memory of that. I feel like it’s a feature we are providing them saying hey, this game is going to be forever.”

All those hours in games we loved, all that progress, all those achievements? Gone. Not because we stopped caring, but because those games existed at the mercy of their creators. Servers shut down. Companies close. Games disappear. Even successful games with millions of players can vanish overnight if the business model changes or the company pivots.

Fully on-chain gaming solves this permanently. The promise is simple but powerful: even if our company ceases to exist tomorrow, the game continues running. Everything from game mechanics to state to assets lives permanently on-chain. Your DVD NFT stores your entire game state. Your turfs, your resources, your empire? All verifiable and owned by you forever. No company can take that away because no company controls it.

This goes beyond just asset ownership. Anyone can fork the game, build on top of it, or create new experiences using the same infrastructure. The community can take over development if we disappear. The game becomes bigger than its creators, which is exactly how it should be.

Contributing to the Sui Gaming Ecosystem

Being early means facing challenges, but it also means shaping the future. We’re actively contributing to Sui’s gaming infrastructure in several ways:

Technical Feedback: Working closely with Sui Foundation and Mysten Labs to provide feedback on what fully on-chain games need from the blockchain layer.

Partnership Integration: As an official partner with Walrus Foundation and launch partner for Seal, we’re demonstrating advanced use cases like encrypted gameplay mechanics using Seal’s on-chain encryption.

Community Building: With 6,500 players and 350 daily active users generating over 300,000 on-chain transactions in just 35 days, we’re proving demand exists for complex fully on-chain games.

The Early Stage of Fully On-Chain Gaming

As we discussed in the podcast: “Fully on-chain games, we’re still in the early innings of what is possible. Even the technology is limited. So I think it’s best for us to unite, share notes, work together and really push this whole industry forward.”

Not every game can be fully on-chain yet. We attempted simulation-based fighting games before Vendetta, but the blockchain couldn’t handle the computational requirements at reasonable costs. That’s why we chose an idle, text-based RPG model that aligns with what’s technically possible today while delivering compelling gameplay.

Building for the Long Term

Our approach differs from typical crypto games. We’re not optimizing for short-term hype cycles. As we explained: “Torn has been our huge inspiration, and it’s been there for 20 years. We are just on month one, a little more than month one. We’re trying to create something that has not been done, especially in terms of creating this on-chain IP, a fully on-chain game, trying to make sure the blockchain part is behind the scenes.”

The V token shows this philosophy. With 10 million total supply and only 1 million currently in circulation, we’ve already burned 55,000 tokens in one month through pure utility. 100% of tokens used for feeding troops are burned. 70% of marketplace purchases are burned. The economy is deflationary by design, not speculation.

Making Blockchain Invisible

One insight we shared: “When you try to go technical, ’this is blockchain-based, web3, you don’t need this token,’ people kind of disconnect. They zone out.”

Vendetta uses zkLogin for Gmail authentication, sponsors the first 20 transactions, and hides wallet addresses except in settings. Players don’t think about Sui. They think about capturing turfs, raiding opponents, and climbing leaderboards. The blockchain enables permanence and true ownership, but it’s not the selling point.

The Opportunity Ahead

We concluded the podcast with this perspective: “Fully on-chain gaming is going to really push the limits of what blockchain can do and what is possible in the future. We are very early, and hats off to everyone who has been grinding and working hard on making this dream possible for all of us.”

Vendetta represents our commitment to this vision. We’re building infrastructure, proving use cases, gathering player feedback, and contributing to Sui’s gaming ecosystem. As blockchain technology advances and computational capabilities improve, more complex games will become possible. But the foundation being laid now, with games like Vendetta demonstrating what fully on-chain means in practice, will define what comes next.

The future of gaming isn’t just on blockchain. It’s fully on-chain. And we’re building it on Sui.

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