Powering Web3 Games, with Coinbase 👾

Accelerating web3 gaming with thirdweb's Gaming Kit, in partnership with Coinbase 👾

Today, we're excited to partner up with Coinbase to launch thirdweb's GamingKit: the all-in-one platform for developers to build web3 games.

Gaming has seen explosive growth over the last decade — and in 2021 alone, gamers spent over $54 billion on in-game items. But in traditional games, players don't have any ownership over those items, and can't capture any value from the time & effort they put into them.

Web3 stands to change that, and we're excited to power the next generation of games with our gaming platform, alongside Coinbase. Here's what GamingKit unlocks for developers today:

• A game engine SDK to integrate web3 into games (starting with our Unity SDK)

• Pre-built & customizable contracts for in-game assets, marketplaces, and more

• Wallet integration & gasless transactions for seamless player onboarding

• Fiat-to-crypto onramp with Coinbase Pay

• ... and more.

We've already powered blockchain gaming launches from the biggest names in the space — including Fractal, Animoca, & Gala Games — and we're excited to bring our tools for all game developers to build on the blockchain.

Get started with GamingKit today (mini-games inside 👀), and learn more about what this means for the future of gaming in our blog.

📹 YouTube Tutorial: How to Build a Web3 Game in Unity, with thirdweb's Unity SDK

In this video, we'll show you how thirdweb's Unity SDK works, and how to get started on building web3 games. We'll take you step-by-step through:

• Creating a Unity project and installing the thirdweb SDK

• Allowing users to connect their wallet to your web3 game

• Reading data from, and writing transactions to smart contracts

📚 Guide: How to Create In-Game NFT Loot Boxes in Unity

In this guide, you'll learn how to use thirdweb's Pack contract to create loot boxes for a web3 game, and for users to be able to open them and receive a bundle of in-game items at random — in the form of NFTs. We'll take you step-by-step through:

• Creating a collection of in-game items as Edition (ERC1155) NFTs

• Bundling in-game items into loot boxes through the Pack contract

• Allowing users to open loot boxes to randomly receive in-game items

🔥 Feature Launch: How to Add a "Connect Wallet" Button to a Unity Game

🗓️ Events & Workshops

Weekly Office Hours | Monday, Dec 12th | 12pm EST / 9am PST / 5pm GMT

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

And if you're ever looking for 30,000+ other builders to learn from & share your web3 journey with, look no further than our Discord community 🤝