Web3 games… on PlayStation? 🎮

GamingKit: Build Web3 Games on Mobile, Console, & VR 🎮️ 

In December, we partnered with Coinbase to launch GamingKit: the all-in-one web3 framework for developers to build games on-chain, faster.

Today, we’re excited to announce our biggest upgrade to GamingKit yet, making it the most advanced web3 gaming SDK and enabling you to build web3 games on any EVM chain — on any platform, including:

• 🌐 Web

• 📱 Mobile (iOS, Android)

• 🖥️ Desktop (Mac, Windows)

• 🎮️ Console

• 🕶️ VR

We’re shipping some of the biggest updates to GamingKit ever — designed for developers to build best-in-class web3 games, and available for free:

• 🕹️ Unity Native SDK: Our Unity SDK now supports development for web, mobile (iOS & Android), desktop (Mac & Windows), console, and VR games. Get started on any platform with our quick-start guide.

• ✨ Invisible Wallet Experience: Onboard users onto your game with thirdweb’s new device wallet. Automatically create wallets for players & provide a gasless, signless user experience that feels like magic.

• 🏗️ Drag & Drop Prefabs: Easily implement web3 features into your game — such as Connect Wallet buttons, NFT renderers, and more.

• 📱 Mobile Wallet Creation: Allow users to create a wallet by simply scanning a QR code on their phones. Further easy onboarding for non-web3 users through native WalletConnect integration.

• 📦️ Storage Support: Easily upload & download files to IPFS and manage all of your storage needs within your thirdweb dashboard.

• ⛓️ Support for Any EVM Chain: Our tools can be used on all EVM chains — including Base, Polygon zkEVM, & Consensys zkEVM.

GamingKit is already powering games with hundreds of thousands of players, across hundreds of chains. Read the docs & start building now, for free:

️📹 YouTube Tutorial: Get Started with thirdweb’s Unity SDK

In this video, we’ll show you how to start building a web3 game on Unity, using thirdweb’s new GamingKit. We’ll take you step-by-step through:

• Creating a Unity project and installing thirdweb’s Unity SDK

• Allowing users to connect their wallet to your web3 game

• Reading data from, and writing transactions to smart contracts

📚 Guide: Build a Web3 Game on Any Platform (iOS, Android, Mac, Windows)

In this guide, we’ll show you how to build a web3 game for any native platform (such as iOS & Android) with thirdweb’s new Unity SDK!

We’ll take you step-by-step through creating your first web3 game and incorporating web3 features — such as connecting user wallets & minting NFTs, into your gameplay.

🔮 Case Study: Powering ‘Subscribe to Mint’ NFTs on Mirror

One of the internet’s greatest paradigm shifts is that anyone can share their work with the rest of the world — but in the growing sea of content online, how do new creators get discovered?

Enter Mirror: a robust web3 writing platform that enables creators to share their content permissionlessly, store it on-chain permanently, and build engaged audiences with a suite of web3 tools designed to supercharge subscriber growth.

In the latest addition to their web3 writing toolkit, Mirror worked with thirdweb to build & launch Subscribe to Mint: a powerful new feature that enables creators to embed subscriber-only NFT drops into their content, and for readers to mint those exclusive NFTs.

Learn more about how Mirror built the Subscribe to Mint feature, and mint our Genesis NFT on Mirror at the end of the blog post:

🚨 BOUNTY ALERT: Build a Web3 Commerce App, Win $9k

4 days left to submit your application for Replit’s biggest bounty ever: Build a web3 commerce app to win $9,000 — and get featured as a Replit template to 150k+ followers across Shopify, Replit, & thirdweb channels!

This month, we introduced CommerceKit to the world — an all-in-one platform for developers to build web3 commerce apps, for use cases like:

• Distributing membership passes and creating on-chain loyalty programs — rewarding loyal customers with exclusive free drops, token-gated products, and discounts

• Selling digital collectibles directly through Shopify storefronts, and collecting royalties from secondary sales

• Leveraging on-chain data and merging it with existing web2 data to build a more complete customer profile

With features like gasless relayers, easy NFT checkout, and seamless wallet sign-in, use Shopify and thirdweb’s robust APIs and blockchain components to develop token-powered commerce experiences. Need inspo on what to build? See our CommerceKit docs, blog, & solutions page!

If you’re ready to apply, get the full bounty details & see our acceptance criteria here — submissions are due March 28th:

🔥 ICYMI: thirdweb x Coinbase x Google Cloud

Have a great rest of your week shippin’! 🚢 🛠️

And if you’re ever looking for 33,000+ other builders to learn from & share your web3 journey with, look no further than our Discord community 🤝