Gamescom 2018. Worldopo at the world’s biggest gaming event!

Artem Gordadze
4 min readAug 30, 2018

Gamescom 2018 was a massive event with an expected half a million people braving the crowds in Cologne’s massive Koelnmesse convention center. Gamescom is a bit of a continuation from E3, giving European fans a chance to get a glimpse of the future of gaming, although many new games and products were unveiled at the show, too.

Striving to be on the same wavelength with all gamers we have started a new stage of the Worldopo Road Show. It was the first time we were introducing Worldopo at such great international event in gaming world.

Held annually in Cologne, Germany, Gamescom is Europe’s most important gaming show and, if measured by attendees and space, the world’s biggest gaming event. We were really excited about this fantastic atmosphere and opportunity to meet a great gaming audience from all over the world.

During these five very intensive days Worldopo booth located on Indie Game Arena were visited by hundreds of players. Introducing the Worldopo mobile game to the Gamescom conference members and collecting feedback was only a small part of the value what we have got during this event. We went hands-on with dozens of games and new game accessories at the show and thought we’d round up a great amount of improvement options for the Worldopo.

Hanging out together, exchanging ideas, listening thoughts of both experienced and novice players let us find out what really matters for gamers and understand what mostly attracts interest of Worldopo audience.

So, which main Worldopo ideas stirred up the most interest from Gamescom visitors?

Earn cryptocurrency while playing

Even non-crypto players were impressed of the plain idea of Worldopo to build a Real Estate empire, manage Mining farms to get an additional crypto-income and strive to create your own levers of influence to the in-game market economy.

As all we remember, Worldopo’s core goal is to allow players to learn how cryptocurrencies work in a secure environment, with the option to invest and earn real money while playing the game.

PvP interactions

Also, a great part of experienced players consider PvP activities as vital for any game to become really popular worldwide. We see how encouraged they become once they find out more key details about hexagon’s preferred type of buildings and the possibilities of initiating clashes between players or even clans.

“More hexes will be needed with every Level upgrade”

The success of this idea even exceeded our expectations as initially we have developed this game mechanics just to create various in-game possibilities for players to apply their strategy and creativity. Being a forward looking player is a key point to become successful in playing strategy games. Experienced players have quickly catched the main idea of buying hexagons for future, especially for counterparts, locations.

Worldopo clans

Single playing or become a part of a team? Just make your choice or try out both options. Everyone knows that together, accumulating strengths and knowledge, you can achieve more complicated goals. Multiplayer mode always make games more interactive and live. Making a parallel with real life businesses we want our players learn how to initiate and close the best deals, cooperate with like-minded players, implement their own strategy and know how to manage risks. Worldopo will bring even more valuable knowledge and practises to each player who wants to jump deeper into its gaming world and become a Real Estate magnate.

Join the existing clans or create your own. More: https://www.worldopo.io/clans

Catch the opportunity! Advertising using Worldopo AR module

Another Wordopo main idea — advertising using Worldopo AR module have attracted strong interest from potential advertisers. Together with Honor we have even created a mutual promo action promoting new phone from Honor. Gamescom visitors were offered to use Worldopo AirMiner in order to find and catch a new Honor phone hidden somewhere at Gamescom location and at once receive it at Honor stand.

Watch short video about this event on Gamescom on Wordopo youtube channel.

Trading Worldopo in-game assets on external marketplaces

Being gamers ourselves, we exactly know which significant part of his/her life player spends while playing the game. The idea of making player’s in-game assets real and transferring in-game experience into a real value have excited us a few years ago.

Tokenization services founded by Qubit allow Worldopo players to interact not only with internal but also with external marketplaces, such as OPskins.

Many thanks for supporting us!

Participating in such gaming events side by side with both gaming giants and indie games allowed us to see and feel our audience from various angles.

This alternative and definitely very exciting way to communicate with Worldopo players in really huge quantity at once in one place, enabling us to be more flexible and find inspirations for new ideas and solutions.

Finally, as a big thank you for your support we want to surprise each of you and we are going to prepare a lot of interesting events and valuable bonuses in the nearest time.

So, keep tuned and follow us!

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Artem Gordadze

Business Development | Strategy | Marketing Solutions | Driving Blockchain Adoption @Chainadoption.io