The creator of the popular Facebook game FarmVille, Eric Schiermeye, has transitioned to the blockchain gaming industry.

Blockchain Game Partners, for which Schiermeyer is the founder and CEO, has announced that it is developing a blockchain-based gaming platform dubbed the Gala Network.

The platform seeks to cater to the innovation of developers, and will beget players total ownership over blockchain-based in-game items represented equally non-fungible tokens. The items will be usable across multiple games congenital on the Gala Network.

Fifteen developers are currently working to build Gala.

Blockchain to revolutionize gaming experiences

Speaking to Venturebeat, Schiermeyer predicts that blockchain-based gaming will offering "a revolutionary experience for people" through allowing players to accept full buying over in-game items:

"Just similar networked games and social games, I believe that blockchain games are the next evolution in gaming. Pretty soon, nobody will play a game that is a black pigsty of time and coin, if they have good alternatives that allow the player to retain ownership of their time and money."

Schiermeyer said that the industry-wide disruption driven by blockchain will spark a wealth transfer where real people can capture some of the value that would otherwise have been absorbed past large amusement corporations:

"Dissimilar any other experience I've always seen, when you spend money here, you lot actually get something, something that yous tin keep, and peradventure even give away or give some to somebody else. You can't exercise that in traditional free-to-play games correct now. And people just have that [...] We believe that by giving the players real value that the entire ecosystem volition abound immensely. This is a tectonic shift that's virtually to happen."

Townstar will be the first game to launch on Gala

Blockchain Game Partners is collaborating with Sandbox Games to develop Townstar —  the first to launch on the Gala Network

Mike McCarthy, the former creative manager for FarmVille 2, one of the about successful releases from Schiermeyer'southward game visitor Zynga, is among 10 developers working on Townstar.

Townstar volition characteristic an in-game tokenized currency with a fixed price. The game also includes a pseudo-mining feature. Players tin purchase "loot boxes," which incorporate the parts needed to build a "farm bot," which tin can be used to mine the in-game currency. Farm bots tin also be purchased pre-assembled within the game for a much college cost.

The tokens volition also exist supported in future games launching on the Gala Network.