The CryptoKitties Analogues and Competitors: CryptoDogs and HashPuppies

After the popularity of the blockchain game CryptoKitties, it was obvious that similar games would be created in an attempt to replicate its success. Recently, China’s largest search engine, Baidu, launched its own crypto game, which looks almost identical to the sensational CryptoKitties.

CryptoDogs: a game about dogs

The main feature of CryptoDogs is that dogs are the heroes and trading items in this game. Another significant difference is the use of the alternative blockchain Achain instead of Ethereum, although Achain’s website states that their platform is similar to Ethereum. They are similar in that they use public blockchains to issue smart contracts and create decentralized apps.

The principle of CryptoDogs game is similar to the original and involves buying, breeding, and selling digital dogs. The unique characteristics of the pets are recorded in the blockchain. They consist of 8 appearance attributes, each of which has two types of properties: common and rare. The combination of these characteristics determines the overall uniqueness of a cryptodog. The new game already has more than 20 pages with different dogs, ranging in price from one dollar to several thousand dollars. Prices in the game are listed in ACT, the cryptocurrency of the Achain project, and are directly proportional to the rarity of the dogs.

On the Laici Gou platform website, where the crypto game is running, we can see a warning that users may encounter some errors during gameplay; although, it is necessary to say that authors try to correct them in time. Because of this, the project is still at the testing stage. Holders of the Baidu account can get a starting dog and a thousand free points that they can spend in the playground. This crypto game was developed by the Baidu internal blockchain team, part of the Hyperledger consortium, founded by the Linux Foundation.

HashPuppies: a game about puppies

Search giant Baidu was not the first to decide to use dogs to compete with CryptoKitties. In early January, the NEO team announced that Splyse contractors are developing the HashPuppies game. This game about puppies is based on the Chinese cryptocurrency NEO, which is similar to Ethereum and Achain. Through their game, the developers want to demonstrate better transaction capacity compared to their competitors, thereby increasing interest in the NEO platform. They also offer interest-free transactions that allow micropayments to be made within the game.

Beta testing of HashPuppies took place in March 2018. In April, the developers launched the game along with the public release of their website.