A Review on Blockchain-based Gaming: Existing Insights, Deficits, and Emerging Avenues

Abstract

Gaming is the notion of playing electronic games that involves users in the form of avatars or characters engaging with an interactive digital experience to achieve a specific gaming objective. Blockchains can enhance the overall gaming platform by helping to provide auditing, transparency, incentivization, security, and verification features in gaming. We analyze distinct blockchain-stemmed gaming structures, understand 11 tasks of blockchain-stemmed gaming reflection, and investigate them extensively regarding gaming- and blockchain-linked qualities. We packed an inaugural sample of 94 paper origins by extracting the papers for filtering standards chased down from E-collections, imposing a systematic and longish quality assessment scheme. Derived from the study, in blockchain-stemmed gaming, blockchain can support game auditing (C1), game incentivization (C2), gamification (C3), cooperative game play (C4), game fraud prevention and fair play (C5), game DApps with extendibility (C6), game asset ownership protection and asset transactions (C7), game user-produced elements security (C8), game credential verification (C9), game rule transparency (C10), and crypto gaming (C11). Extensive investigation discovers that in blockchain-stemmed gaming, 21.7% exploit gamification (C3), 75.6% exploit linear blockchain, and 10.8% exploit PoS consensus. As deficits, consensus approaches like proof of authority and stake, and unconventional blockchain are rarely used, while blockchain-based gaming concepts such as C1, C8, and C10 are deficient. Ultimately, we expose the advantages and asperities of the reflection of blockchain-stemmed gaming and then extend offers to shrink them.