Games for a Living (GFAL) is partnering with Openfort to improve player onboarding and in-game transactions. By integrating Openfort's smart wallet infrastructure, GFAL is making it easier for players to interact with their marketplace and gaming universe.
What is GFAL (Games for a Living)?
GFAL is a game development and publishing studio focused on creating sustainable, high-quality Web3 games. Their ecosystem includes a marketplace and core titles like Elemental Raiders. By using Openfort, GFAL enables players to join their games in seconds using social logins, removing the need for seed phrases or complex wallet setups.
| Challenges | Solutions |
|---|---|
| - Lack of customization for the GFAL marketplace and portal. - Players onboarding with different wallets breaks the game experience. - New players can’t transact within the ecosystem without the native token. - Lack of security and recoverability with EOA wallets. | - Headless technology to define the UI/UX of the game. - Being able to abstract transaction approvals for the players. - Supporting GFAL ID with the ecosystem of future games. - Paymasters allow users to start interacting with the game without previously having $GFAL. |
Manel Sort, CEO and founder: “GFAL advocates for a different approach, where income generation is a natural consequence of enjoying the game, deviating from the trend of web3 games focused solely on revenue generation. Openfort will assist us in implementing future web3 features that will bring our vision to life."
Let’s get technical
By utilizing Openfort, GFAL benefits from the following:
- Seamless onboarding Through social and email logins, GFAL's user base can now effortlessly establish a non-custodial, multi-chain smart wallet with account abstraction — all in just two clicks. This is achieved without needing to download any software or be concerned about seed phrases. This is achieved thanks to the easy integration between Openfort and Web3Auth, which takes care of the signer management.
- Smart account implementation New players are assigned a wallet address, which are deterministically generated across chains. This ensures actions in the game and marketplace are traced back to the player’s address, and the experience becomes unified in the GFAL ecosystem.
- Gasless transactions GFAL is able to pay for gas fees with the in-game token $GFAL for each user transaction and cut down costs by batching these transactions thanks to our paymasters.
- Onchain Social Recovery GFAL leverages the social recovery implementation on their smart accounts, allowing for 2FA in the event that the signer tools disappear and end users lose access to their accounts.
- Onramps with Ramp GFAL has smoothly integrated Ramp as the onramp FIAT provider to allow players to smoothly buy their tokens and assets in the marketplace.
Openfort integrates directly into GFAL's development stack, allowing the team to scale without spending months on custom blockchain infrastructure. By using the Openfort Pro plan, GFAL can manage high transaction volumes with lower fees and optimized API performance.
What future features will GFAL support?
GFAL’s vision is ambitious: building an expanding portfolio of competitive web3 games and environments that are all about ‘fun first’, giving everyone a chance to play their games, and creating an original, sustainable project that focuses on making games that players will love, while also having a positive impact on the environment.
Such a vision brings with it specific needs and requirements, which only a comprehensive web3 development stack could fulfill.
- Native game integration. GFAL plans to leverage Openfort’s Unity SDK to leverage native actions in the game without the need to interact with the website or external popups.
About Openfort Openfort is a suite of APIs and infrastructure designed to facilitate blockchain account interactions for game developers. It offers features such as frictionless crypto accounts for players, support for multi-chain accounts, and gas sponsorship.
About GFAL Games for a Living (GFAL) is a game development and publishing company that aims to craft immersive games using innovative technologies to provide lasting value and memorable experiences. The platform features the GFAL Marketplace, which allows users to manage their game progress and make transactions using the GFAL Wallet. The GFAL ecosystem is continuously evolving, with plans for the introduction of significant new features in 2024.
Related reading
- GFAL's use of smart accounts and paymasters is part of a broader trend -- explore the essential tools for Web3 game development that studios like GFAL depend on.
- Understand how the gasless transaction model works behind the scenes in our technical deep dive into gas sponsorship.
- GFAL leverages embedded smart accounts for their players. Learn how these differ from traditional wallets in our post on embedded smart accounts.