Interesting Aspects of Crypko and What Might Happen Next

I started playing a game called Crypko.ai. I found it very interesting, so I'm making a note of what's interesting about it and what might happen in the future.

By the way, these are the cards I bought at first. They're all cheap faces that were put up for sale for less than 1 ETH.

Face1

Face2

Face4

Face5

When I tried fusing the first two, this child was born. You can see that characteristics are inherited, such as facing the center because it's left-facing + right-facing, and the hair color being inherited. The hat and clothes are diverging, but Kawaii

Face3

Overview

https://crypko.ai

What kind of game is it?

It's a game where you collect cards with girls drawn on them. It uses Ethereum. If you know CryptoKitties, you could say it's the girl version of that.

https://www.cryptokitties.co/

You can do whatever you want with the cards you own - buy, sell, fuse, rent, etc. Fusion is particularly important, where you use two cards to produce one card. Cards used for fusion have a cooldown time and can't be used for fusion for a while.

The main way to play is to produce faces you like or to make money through buying and selling. In the official version, the copyright belongs to the owner, so you can use it for things like Twitter icons.

Currently, it's in Beta using the test network, so you can play for free (you get ETH).

How do I start?

Please refer to the blogs of those who came before. The method is summarized in the blog below. Thanks.

http://squeuei.hatenablog.com/entry/2018/05/24/190000

(2018-06-02 addition: As pointed out by @eai04191, the following was incorrect. You can use multiple devices by using Import Existing DEN or Restore from seed phrase)
Note that Metamask cannot log into the same account on multiple devices, so your smartphone and PC will be independent. Think about which one you want to use as your main and set up there.
To play on my Android smartphone, I did the following:

• Install Firefox for Android
• Install Metamask on Firefox
• Open Metamask from the menu, register, and connect to Rinkeby Test Net
• Open the Crypko site, turn it to landscape so you can tap Sign Up/Sign In
• Press Sign Up/Sign In, open Metamask from the menu and Sign
• For processes that require authentication like Buy and Fuse, open Metamask from the menu (it doesn't open automatically)

I didn't realize I had to explicitly open Metamask from the menu, so I was thinking "It's not responding" and tapped about 15 times.

What is a good face?

I think it's important that it "becomes a natural human face". The left and right pupils are particularly important, and if these are distorted, the evaluation is likely to drop significantly.

While the trained model prevents major distortions, it's also interesting when a Saya is born occasionally.

What about rights?

Crypko Beta images can be used freely for non-profit purposes. However, the copyright is held by Crypko. It seems that in the official release, it will belong to individuals.

You can use Crypko beta images freely for non-commercial usages, but their copyrights belong to Crypko team. #crypko— Crypko Official (@Crypko) May 24, 2018

https://crypko.ai/#/faqs

Interesting aspects of Crypko

High precision of face generation

As you can see from the images above, quite good faces are being born. Also, while elements other than the face (clothes and hats) are currently chaotic, the precision is expected to gradually improve.

You can roughly predict what face will be born from fusion, so there's the fun of aiming for specific results.

You can feel real-world inheritance

When two faces are fused, a new face is born with characteristics of both. In the end, only the "good faces" that survive will remain. Just like the biological world.

Also, faces that haven't existed before are sometimes thrown in from the official side. This ensures diversity and the possibility of better faces being created.

The game system is a social game

It's a card game premised on RMT, and there are no identical cards. The only part that depends on probability is the fusion of cards.

On the other hand, in typical social games, RMT is prohibited, the same cards are basically unlimited in output, and gacha is used to acquire new cards.

While this sounds quite different from typical social games, when you play it, it's exactly like a social game. In a sense, it could be said to be a game that extracts and reconstructs the essence of social games, which is communication among many people.

It sounds illegal when put into words

It's a game that commits the taboos of human alchemy and human trafficking, "producing cute girls and selling them in the market". While it's no different from existing games if you say so, it might make you think about ethics.

Can you create your favorite drawings even if you're not an illustrator?

Creating a face you like by combining preferred attributes could be called creative activity. In theory, with Crypko, even if you can't draw yourself, you can produce your favorite face if you have a sense for fusion.

...While it's not that simple, it's a game that gives you such expectations.

You can understand individual preferences

Because it's a game where you create faces you like, you can somewhat understand a person's preferences. (In the official version, the copyright belongs to the creator) You can use it as an icon and make it part of your self-introduction.

It becomes a large and accurate dataset

If we assume that faces that are soaring in price = faces that were well-generated, it becomes a service that accumulates a large amount of high-precision, evaluated data. Of course, it can be used to improve Crypko's own face generation precision, and it will become a dataset useful for many studies.

Rather, this game itself might be called a grand experiment...

You can add character personality

You can give each face a name and bio. If a famous writer came up with the bio, it could be marketed as a character.

I feel yuri vibes

It wouldn't be strange if a trivia question was posted saying, "Combining a woman with a woman to produce a woman with characteristics of both. Doesn't this sound like a yuri SS?" For this, the individual character personalities would be important. I'd like to hear opinions from people who know more about this.

Things that could happen with Crypko

The birth of god breeders instead of god illustrators

Players who consistently generate daughters that sell for high prices will emerge, and people who live solely on that income will appear. Eventually, people will be hired by companies, and professional breeders will be born. Particularly excellent people will be called god breeders and will be in high demand. The way they buy seemingly mediocre faces and produce wonderful children from them is like magic. They will be respected alongside high school baseball scouts, horse racing trainers, and art dealers.

God illustrators participate in primary distribution

In distributions from the official side, faces by god illustrators will be distributed at high prices. Those who purchase them can use them as is, or explore the possibilities by passing on the genes. Like "Tokugawa Ieyasu's grandchild", it will add prestige like "third generation of XX's drawing".

Super rare faces

Faces that mysteriously gain premium status will be born, such as "0x1ee3d92... is completely Makise Kurisu" resembling existing characters, or "0x339d... was recognized by GACKT", "0x14e3... bought by President Trump for 1,000 ETH". Such cards are extremely valuable and will be bought and sold at high prices. Things like in Yu-Gi-Oh! will occur, with hacking happening over cards or real-world street fights breaking out.

Conclusion

I had never played similar games like CryptoKitties, so this was my first experience with this kind of service. I think it's quite different from games up until now. I'd like to keep an eye on whether this becomes the trend going forward, or if it's just a momentary topic that ends quickly.

While there are many interesting points, I think it might be a good game to play with the motivation of "I want to create the strongest waifu!" (You could just do it in a local environment).