Immutable is a pioneering platform dedicated to advancing Web3 gaming. It stands out as the leading and largest ecosystem for building Web3 games, offering a Layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum. From the outset, Immutable aimed to facilitate the creation of Web3 games that achieve mainstream adoption, addressing a key challenge in traditional gaming—true ownership of in-game digital assets.
Immutable has been at the forefront of Web3 gaming, creating notable titles such as Gods Unchained and Guild of Guardians. The highly anticipated Illuvium also leverages Immutable zkEVM for its in-game NFTs and wallet features. With over 300 games launched, Immutable has established itself as the largest gaming ecosystem in Web3.
In a significant partnership with Polygon, Immutable developed a dedicated gaming Layer 2 network using zero-knowledge technology. This collaboration resulted in the creation of Immutable zkEVM, which offers native compatibility with EVM smart contracts, simplifying the migration process for developers from other EVM chains. Major gaming companies, including Ubisoft, AWS, and Unity, have partnered with Immutable to bring this vision to life.
Game developers can now leverage Tenderly’s robust infrastructure throughout the entire game development lifecycle. Tenderly offers the only RPC node with built-in development environments and essential debugging tools, allowing for rapid transition from development to on-chain deployment. This infrastructure ensures that developers can deliver immersive on-chain gaming experiences with enhanced efficiency and reduced friction.
Why build on Immutable zkEVM?
Immutable zkEVM offers several compelling benefits for game developers and studios looking to build their on-chain games. Its ecosystem significantly speeds up game development with ready-made solutions that address infrastructure needs, development experience, revenue generation, and, perhaps most importantly, player experience.
- Gaming-Centric Design: Unlike general-purpose solutions, Immutable zkEVM is specifically designed for gaming. It provides massive scale and low costs while maintaining Ethereum’s security.
- Extensive Ecosystem: Access to the largest and most advanced ecosystem with over 2+ million users and $500 million in investor funding.
- Comprehensive Toolset: The Immutable Platform offers a one-stop shop for building mainstream-ready Web3 games, including various tools and smart contract templates to expedite development.
- Combined network: The Immutable and Polygon partnership brings together the combined force of tools, funding, and a gamer base.
- EVM-compatible L2 zk-rollup on Ethereum: Immutable zkEVM combines EVM and zk-rollup benefits, providing advanced gaming mechanics, in-game economies, and interoperability with the EVM ecosystem through smart contract compatibility.
Immutable Platform is a comprehensive one-stop dashboard for developers and studios looking to create mainstream-ready Web3 games. It provides numerous essential Web3 tools to help you develop games faster and create better onboarding, purchasing, and playing experiences for the gaming masses. Some of those tools include:
- Immutable Passport: streamlined gamer profile for all Web3 games in the Immutable ecosystem that allows players to move between games.
- Immutable Checkout: integrated on-ramp and payment solution for the Immutable ecosystem with embeddable web components and customizable SDK.
- Gas Free for Gamers: gasless transaction for players using Passport, eliminating the sometimes burdensome concept of gas for players.
- Blockchain Data APIs: reliable real-time blockchain data.
- Gaming SDKs: Access to APIs and smart contracts through existing development environments and across a range of common programming languages. This includes access to the leading Unreal and Unity SDKs, which enable cross-integration with Immutable Passport to facilitate user transactions.
- NFT marketplace, minting, and trading: marketplace partners that provide a revenue-generating engine for in-game assets with support for Ethereum wallets.
Immutable aimed to create a chain that would address some of the downsides of previous chains. It abstracts away some of the blockchain complexities for both the developers and players alike. By combining the EVM and ZK benefits with production-ready Immutable tools, Immutable zkEVM enables advanced gaming mechanics, in-game economies, and interoperability with the EVM ecosystem through smart contract compatibility. It is a recommended rollup for complex and mature games utilizing smart contract capabilities.
Tenderly’s role in enhancing the developer experience
Immutable’s product suite is impressive. It enables game developers to focus on creating unique, immersive gaming experiences for the ever-growing Web3 gamers’ user base while abstracting away the blockchain complexities as much as possible. Now, with Tenderly’s full-stack infrastructure support, game developers on the best-in-class gaming chain can leverage the best-in-class infrastructure for the entire development lifecycle and the only RPC node with built-in development environments and debugging tools.
Integrate the most reliable node infrastructure
A stable, reliable, and high-performing node is an essential part of the infrastructure to build immersive and engaging on-chain games. Tenderly’s RPC node provides this reliability, ensuring seamless communication with the blockchain. This means faster load times, reduced latency, and an overall smoother gaming experience. You can trust Tenderly’s nodes to handle the increased demand your games will face with the increasing popularity, allowing you to focus on creating great content rather than worrying about backend performance.
Tenderly Node is the only RPC with embedded development environments and built-in debugging and exploration tools. In addition to the essential node functionalities, it gives you access to advanced tools and development environments that go far beyond the node standard in the Web3 ecosystem:
- Industry-leading RPC performance and stability, supporting high traffic volumes and usage spikes, with soft limits and SLAs. Multiregional support with the automatic routing of traffic to the most appropriate location to ensure fast and reliable service around the globe.
- The only embedded collaborative development and testing environments, exploration and debugging tools for complete observability of network activity and instant issue resolution.
- Alerting, simulation, and development infrastructure, enabling you to monitor your game smart contracts in real time or jump straight to debugging with integrated tooling.
Enhance user experience with the only true testing infrastructure
The importance of beta testing cannot be overstated in gaming. Going live with an unfinished or unpolished video game can be detrimental to the success of your project. Beta testing is usually the last checkpoint ensuring the final product is secure, stable, balanced, and enjoyable. It helps you address potential issues before a full-scale release, leading to a better overall player experience and a more successful game launch.
In Web3 gaming, beta testing perhaps takes on even greater importance, as on-chain games are not just games but also represent economies involving real-world assets that could also lead to financial losses for players. Public testnets do not provide the necessary elements or infrastructure to perform game testing in true fashion.
Tenderly’s Virtual TestNets are a game-changing collaborative development infrastructure specifically designed for Web3. They allow you to simulate various scenarios and stress-test your games in a controlled environment. This helps in identifying smart contract vulnerabilities, improving UI/UX, and ensuring a polished and enjoyable gaming experience from day one. Tenderly Virtual TestNets provide:
- Real-time syncing with the Immutable zkEVM network's latest state to help you build and test on the latest on-chain data.
- Complete control and customization of your own Immutable zkEVM TestNet with state manipulation, unlimited faucet, and account impersonation.
- Cross-team collaborative development workflows for all your CI, dapp staging, and public testing needs across your game components.
- Built-in explorer and debugging tools with an in-depth overview of all on-chain data and immediate issue fixing on your Immutable TestNet.
Explore and debug with the best-in-class web3 developer tools
Tenderly’s leading exploration and debugging tools provide you with deep insights into on-chain activities and allow for real-time monitoring and debugging of smart contracts. With the explorer, developers can track transactions, understand gas consumption, and analyze performance metrics. The debugger provides powerful debugging capabilities with granular pinpoint to the exact bug-causing issue, enabling you to identify and fix issues quickly.
By providing visibility into every aspect of your game’s blockchain interactions, Tenderly empowers you to optimize and refine your smart contracts. This leads to more efficient code, lower gas fees, and a better overall player experience. The ease of use and comprehensive nature of Tenderly’s tools significantly reduce development time and effort, allowing you to bring your games to market faster and with higher quality.
Accelerate the Web3 gaming transition with game-changing infra
The integration between Tenderly and Immutable marks a significant milestone in Web3 gaming. By combining Tenderly’s robust infrastructure, development environments, and debugging tools with Immutable’s advanced zkEVM network, game developers are empowered to create the next generation of immersive, engaging Web3 games.
Focus on crafting fantastic games while Tenderly and Immutable handle the blockchain complexities, paving the way for on-chain games to become a mainstream phenomenon.
