Zed Run provides a new experience as a stable owner (with the horses, of course). This blockchain game has four main bloodlines, namely Nakamoto, Szabo, Finney, and Buterin.
The Nakamoto is the rarest bloodline horse breed, followed by Szabo and Finney. Meanwhile, Buterin is the type of horse with the most common bloodline or less rare when compared to the first three.
Similar to other similar games like Axie Infinity and Cryptokitties, the horses in Zed Run can be bred. The mating model of horses in Zed Run is similar to that of Cryptokitties. Two parents will pass on their traits and character to their children.
In Zed Run, of course, the horse owner hopes to get good-quality puppies that will win the race.
Horse NFT Games
Like other blockchain-based games, the horses in Zed Run are NFT, which, of course, can be traded. The horse market in Zed Run currently relies on Opensea as the distribution of horses from the developer has been completed.
The horses sold at Zed Run are quite expensive. The cheapest horses range from US$100-200 per horse. Meanwhile, the most expensive horse ever sold at Opensea is worth 77 ETH or around Rp. 3.6 billion for a virtual horse with Nakamoto's bloodline.
The horse breeding process in Zed Run appears to be still in development. Currently, stable owners cannot breed their horses but must use the services of a paid Stud Farm.
Each horse has a gender: male and female. The term horse gender is also adopted from the horse industry in the real world. There are colts and stallions for males and fillys and mares for females. The terms colt and filly are used for horses that have never produced offspring, while stallion and mare are used for horses that have had at least one tiller.
Horse race
Zed Run has a pretty interesting visualization, where we can watch a horse race in two or three dimensions. As a three-dimensional viewer, you can pan the camera zoom-in (detail) or zoom-out wherever you want.
Interestingly, the horse race can be seen by anyone, both by the participants (the owners of the competing horses) or by visitors who do not have horses.
(There is no horse betting feature here yet, as is the case with the original horse races in general. But it may be added at a later date.)
The developers of Zed Run seem to be trying to make horse racing as realistic as possible. There are many horse racing events that horse owners can participate in, where each event will consist of 12 horses competing. These horses will start competing 15 minutes after the complete 12 horses have been registered.
There are two types of horse racing, namely paid and free. Paid racing means that all participants are required to contribute a certain amount of money, where the money will be distributed to the winners of the competition, namely the first, second, and third place winners.
Polygon Blockchain-Based
Zed Run runs on the Polygon blockchain (formerly called Matic). The Polygon blockchain is considered the second layer of Ethereum that applies Plasma technology. This trend follows various other types of games that do not use Ethereum because of the unmitigatedly high transaction fees.
Unfortunately, Zed Run's smart contract code is not published at all, so we can't know much about the game's interior. Besides that, I'm also still wondering about the mechanism for determining the winner in each race, including how the randomness component is introduced in the race, which will more or less give variation to the winner (of course the legendary horse won't always win because then the game will be unpredictable). interesting).
This game is also still in beta. This means that there will be many features embedded in the full version. It's worth watching whether Zed Run will be as successful as Axie Infinity for the blockchain-based game category.