Launching April 13 in Maebashi metropolis, Japan, the #GamifiedWork mannequin uniquely merges parts of Web3 gaming with the “Decentralized Bodily Infrastructure Networks” (DePIN) mannequin, making it doable for bodily infrastructure firms to gamify and outsource components of their enterprise operations to a decentralized neighborhood of players.
SINGAPORE, March 21, 2024 — Digital Leisure Asset (DEA), a Singapore-based world Web3 leisure firm and proprietor of the favored PlayMining GameFi platform, has introduced the official launch date of their new sport “PicTrée -Grid Seize: Seize the Present-” on Saturday April 13, 2024. PicTrée is developed in partnership with TEPCO Energy Grid, Japan’s largest and the world’s fourth-largest electrical energy firm, along with Greenway Grid International, an influence utility enterprise growth enterprise.
PicTrée is an Examine-to-Earn group battle sport wherein groups of gamers bodily exit into their real-world communities to take footage of TEPCO’s electrical energy belongings, akin to utility poles, metal towers, manholes and handholes. By importing pictures of the getting older public infrastructure, individuals are capable of assist TEPCO mitigate a labor scarcity of utility pole inspectors and contribute to the maintenance of their very own communities. On the similar time, they’ll obtain rewards for his or her efforts within the type of Amazon present certificates and PlayMining’s proprietary DEAPcoin ($DEP) token.
“Since our founding in 2018, that is the most important step now we have taken towards realizing our dream of really bettering society by way of Web3 video games that reward gamers as vital stakeholders within the leisure ecosystem,” mentioned Kozo Yamada, Founder & Co-CEO of DEA. “We name this new enterprise mannequin ‘Gamified Work’, and are actively engaged on making use of it to all kinds of industries by way of a number of thrilling partnerships in growth.”
The #GamifiedWork mannequin uniquely merges parts of Web3 gaming with the “Decentralized Bodily Infrastructure Networks” (DePIN) mannequin, making it doable for bodily infrastructure firms to gamify and outsource components of their enterprise operations to a decentralized neighborhood of players.
Seize the Present within the PicTrée Utility Pole Battle Recreation
PicTrée is a free-to-play cell sport that encourages gamers to get exterior and discover their communities by foot — on this respect, it’s considerably just like the still-popular Nintendo sport Pokemon Go.
PicTrée gamers can be a part of one in every of three groups named Ampere, Volt or Watt. Groups should battle to earn factors by photographing TEPCO’s energy belongings and connecting probably the most energy poles on a grid map to hyperlink the longest electrical energy wires. The groups are ranked and rewarded in response to what number of factors they earn.
Gamers can chase factors by snapping images as shortly as they’ll, however the gameplay additionally extremely rewards teamwork to implement a well-thought-out technique by transferring by way of the neighborhood in probably the most environment friendly method and taking note of minimize off different groups’ progress.
PlayMining will launch an preliminary demonstration take a look at of the brand new PicTrée social contribution sport in Maebashi, a metropolis in central Japan. From April 13 to June 29, 2024, PicTrée might be playable in 5 successive Maebashi neighborhoods for round two weeks every. The testing interval will confirm how efficient the acquired images are at assembly TEPCO’s inspection wants, and can carry to gentle areas wherein the service may be improved.
There may be additionally a particular occasion on Might 4th and fifth organized with 5 universities primarily based in Maebashi metropolis. College college students might be divided into groups and battle for his or her group’s satisfaction throughout all the metropolis.
“Via this sport, we intention to create new worth for the facility belongings we personal,” mentioned Aki Mizuguchi, TEPCO Energy Grid Normal Department Supervisor for Gunma, the prefecture that Maebashi metropolis is in. “We hope that a variety of native residents will take part and turn out to be extra aware of electrical energy and energy belongings than ever earlier than.”
DEA co-CEO Kozo Yamada has a fair greater imaginative and prescient for the challenge, urging folks from throughout Japan to take part on this ground-breaking occasion to earn rewards and show how video games can change the world.
“After about half a yr and numerous every day deliberations and heated discussions with TEPCO Energy Grid and Greenway Grid International, I’m deeply moved to lastly have the ability to launch this sport,” Yamada mentioned. “With the sturdy backing of official cooperation with Maebashi metropolis, the demonstration will lastly start.”
Kazuhiko Shiba, President and Consultant Director of Greenway Grid International added that they “will tackle the Web3.0 sector as our subsequent problem and remedy numerous issues for all infrastructure operators, together with TEPCO Energy Grid. We wish to use this expertise to carry a few sport change in sustainable city growth and regional revitalization. Utilizing a very new methodology of Web3.0 x gamification, we intention to unravel issues sustainably along with native residents.”
#GamifiedWork: a DePIN-integrated Answer for the International Labor Scarcity Disaster
With a wholesome dose of innovation and ingenuity, PlayMining’s new Gamified Work enterprise mannequin can plausibly be utilized to firms from nearly any trade, serving to them to outsource distant work duties to a decentralized neighborhood of sport gamers. It is a huge deal, as a result of in response to a 2023 ManpowerGroup report, as much as four-fifths of firms worldwide could also be affected by an absence of expertise. Heavy industries, akin to TEPCO’s electrical utility subsidiary, particularly really feel the crunch of the labor scarcity disaster.
PlayMining is already exhausting at work growing their subsequent DePIN-integrated Gamified Work sport title in partnership with robotics digital transformation firm Rita Expertise. This time, PlayMining is gamifying job duties for the waste administration trade, an area that faces vital problem sourcing employees resulting from stigmas of the job being troublesome, harmful and unclean. The brand new sport, which individuals can play from wherever on this planet, may have gamers remotely controlling bodily robots in actual waste processing vegetation in Japan — performed by way of a enjoyable and interesting sport that rewards gameplay with DEAPcoin tokens.
Different Gamified Work initiatives are within the works for a variety of industries, together with CO2 discount, catastrophe prevention, aged quality-of-life, inheritance, native revitalization, animal welfare and employment for folks with disabilities. Many of those are new partnerships made doable by way of DEA’s funding from KDDI, Japan’s second-largest telecom operator.
The announcement of PlayMining’s Gamified Work enterprise mannequin on October 25 sparked a big rebound of their DEP token, which joined the GameFi rally and outperformed many different top-ranked blockchain gaming tokens. The worth of DEP has elevated 250% for the reason that announcement, with an impressive market cap enhance of 1,012%. As compared, Oasys ($OAS) and Guild of Guardians ($GOG), two different main GameFi tokens, grew by 144% and 196% in value and 377% and 273% in market cap respectively in the identical length.
The DEP token may be traded on many fashionable cryptocurrency exchanges for crypto or fiat, together with HTX, Gate.io, OKX, MEXC, Indodax, Bitmart, Tokenize Xchange, Zaif, Uniswap and others. It can be spent on the PlayMining NFT market to buy GameFi NFTs that may be utilized to varied PlayMining video games.
About Digital Leisure Asset
Digital Leisure Asset Pte. Ltd. (DEA) is a Singapore-based world Web3 leisure firm based in August 2018. DEA is a developer of Play-to-Earn (P2E) video games—additionally known as Play-and-Earn (P&E) video games. DEA additionally operates the PlayMining gamefi platform, NFT market and ‘Verse’ metaverse challenge in addition to DEAPcoin ($DEP)—the primary P&E token accepted by the Monetary Service Company (FSA) of Japan. The group is headed by two co-CEOs—Naohito Yoshida and Kozo Yamada—who collectively carry a long time of expertise in founding profitable startups (with 3 IPOs), creating hit video video games, producing Internet TV applications and displaying a deep understanding of NFT gaming.
About PlayMining
PlayMining is a GameFi and metaverse platform that empowers creators and gamers alike of their mission to create social good by way of Web3 gaming. The platform encompasses a new Gamified Work enterprise mannequin that innovates on GameFi’s Play-and-Earn mechanics—powered by the PlayMining DEAPcoin ($DEP) token—to assist firms from different industries meet labor scarcity calls for. To empower artists, the PlayMining platform additionally features a Web3 mental property (IP) mannequin for content material creation that options an NFT Market. That is paired with an NFT gaming and Metaverse platform with 2.7 million customers and a catalog of P&E sport titles together with JobTribes, Menya Dragon Ramen, Cookin’ Burger, Fortunate Farmer, Graffiti Racer, SOUL Fusers, Rogue Roll Ruler’s and PicTrée, in addition to the metaverse challenge Fujiwara Kamui Verse and the StoneStars AI digital idol challenge.
Official Channels
PlayMining Web site: https://playmining.com
PlayMining Discord: https://discord.com/invite/xWeHGdt
PlayMining X (previously Twitter): https://twitter.com/PlayMining_SG
PlayMining Fb: https://www.fb.com/PlayMining/
PlayMining Medium: https://medium.com/playmining-game
PlayMining Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGWmK0RLV4SB_PSXpj2j6dw
PicTrée Web site: https://pictree.greenwaygrid.world/en/
DEA Web site: https://dea.sg
About TEPCO Energy Grid
TEPCO Energy Grid Inc. is Japan’s largest — and the world’s fourth-largest — electrical energy firm. As a serious subsidiary of Tokyo Electrical Energy Firm Holdings, Inc. (TEPCO), it’s liable for electrical energy transmission and distribution throughout Tokyo and eight surrounding prefectures in Japan. TEPCO Energy Grid owns and operates an unlimited community of energy traces, substations, and different gear to transmit electrical energy generated from numerous sources, (together with nuclear hydroelectric and renewables) to finish customers.
About Greenway Grid International
Greenway Grid International Pte. Ltd. is a three way partnership established in Singapore by Tokyo Electrical Energy Grid Co., Ltd., Chubu Electrical Energy Co., Inc., and ICMG Companions Pte Ltd. The corporate goals to make the world a happier place by combining funding in next-generation infrastructure and new expertise, the event of latest companies, and management growth applications.