Mythical Games Releases New EOS-Based Digital Asset Standard: dGoods

sludgefeed (35)in #eos • 5 years ago

Mythical Games, a startup game studio that recently exited stealth mode, recently unveiled dGoods, a new industry-wide initiative to help formalize the fast-growing global marketplace of digital items between creators, consumers and studios.

#dGoods v0.1 spec has officially been released. This is an early look at the digital goods standard for #EOSio Visit https://t.co/fMdcQfe4sy to download and join the discussion on telegram: https://t.co/SI9HcRfSpT
— dGoods EOS (@dGoods_EOS) February 21, 2019

According to a press release provided to SludgeFeed, the collaboration is led by Mythical Games, EOS Lynx, Scatter, Cypherglass, pixEOS (the maker of pixEOS Paint) and several other blockchain firms, all of which saw a need to develop better digital goods standards for the development community, with a specific focus on the EOS (EOS) blockchain.

dGoods can be seen as a push toward a commercially-endorsed benchmark for creating and distributing digital assets on the blockchain, states the Mythical Games team. Applications of these assets span multiple industries, but can most aptly be seen in the blockchain gaming community where in-game items can be represented by network tokens.

The website describes dGoods as "a logical extension of the standard EOS token with the addition of significant functionality improvements that will allow teams to easily integrate and display virtual items."

With the announcement comes the release of version 0.1, which includes the following:

Metadata Templates for 3D and 2D assets
Certificate of Authenticity
Multiple categorized tokens in one token contract
Fungible and non-fungible in one contract
Open source functionality

"The goal of our first draft was to make sure we captured the fundamentals while creating a solid foundation for the dGoods standard that we can continue to expand and build on top of," added Rudy Koch, Mythical Games' head of blockchain. "We've collaborated with some incredibly talented teams to design a spec that we’re confident sharing with the development community at large. The dGoods standard is a free and open standard aimed at supporting a diverse range of digital assets and requirements. With the release of this draft, we encourage those who are interested to review the spec, pressure test our design, and provide [their] valuable input."

This is another major announcement for Mythical Games, which also recently revealed that it would be teaming up with SXSW Gaming to host this year's opening night party on March 15.