Game canisters

The game canisters are where the game instances (the matches) are executed. All matches run entirely on-chain, even if they involve dozens of players and may take several minutes to complete. This is made possible by using deterministic time slicing, a feature that exists only on the Internet Computer, ensuring they won't exceed the instruction limits of each block.

They also tell the platform where to find the assets needed to display the matches and specifies the skills that an NFT player needs to possess in order to participate.

Currently, each game can feature up to 10 different maps. Each map can be freely designed by each game dev team. In the future, we plan to introduce support that enables users and game fans to create their own maps and share them on the platform, with the opportunity to earn a portion of the profits generated.

A game canister operates independently of NFTs. A match can involve NFTs from different collections. If they possess the required skills (meaning they were trained to perform a specific task and have the corresponding parameters of that neural network stored) and the required animations, they can part in that game.

A game canister can only be published on the platform if the proposal is approved by the Neural Arena DAO. Every time a match if finished, the game canister receives a portion of the fees (set to 75% at the moment).