@playonshaga
Dec 19, 2024
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Uncompromisable High-Quality Gaming
Shaga represents a revolutionary approach to managing and utilizing physical infrastructure to leverage cloud gaming in order to enhance quality of experience for gamers. QoE was a domain added to the cloud gaming infrastructure to measure user satisfaction, enjoyment, and the needs of users during game play.
Decentralized physical infrastructure addresses the factors that contribute to better and enhanced QoE, by facilitating decentralized cloud computing that is crucial for high-performance gaming. Decentralized cloud resources enable the distribution of graphics rendering and computational tasks across multiple Nodes, allowing for the creation of visually complex and resource-intensive games without requiring high-end local hardware. Gamers can enjoy top-tier graphics and performance on a wide range of devices, making high-quality gaming more accessible. Moreover, Shaga utilizes cutting-edge Generative AI to enhance the gaming experience further. By using billions of gaming footage to train their AI model to learn to predict and fill in the "gaps" between game-streaming video frames, Shaga can reduce the number of frames per second that need to be transmitted. This also means a reduction in latency to zero and provides an extremely smooth gaming experience for users. This innovation decreases the required bandwidth without compromising visual quality, ensuring smooth and high-quality streaming even with lower data transmission rates. As study shows, these quality of service (QoS) factors e.g. data rate, frame rate, packet loss, and delay are contributors to QoE impact and success.15
Enhanced Security and Privacy
Security and privacy are critical concerns in online gaming. DePIN addresses these issues by leveraging the decentralized nature of blockchain technology. Data is distributed and encrypted across numerous Nodes within the Shaga network, significantly reducing the risk of data breaches and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. This decentralized approach ensures that gamers' data and experiences remain secure, fostering a trustworthy and safe gaming environment.
Shaga builds on the reliability and consistency of gaming networks. Where centralized servers are prone to downtimes and performance bottlenecks due to maintenance or unexpected failures, in contrast, Shaga distributes the infrastructure across many Nodes in its own network, ensuring that if one node fails, others can seamlessly take over. This redundancy minimizes disruptions and maintains a consistent, high-quality gaming experience.
Incentivized Participation and Income Opportunities
Shaga is essential to traditional gamers as it introduces innovative features that allow gamers to really earn passive income. Gamers can contribute their personal gaming PCs as nodes to Shaga’s network, earning cryptocurrencies or stablecoins in return. This creates an additional revenue stream for gamers, incentivizing participation and support for the network. Furthermore, Shaga offers users the opportunity to curate and monetize their game libraries, allowing other users to subscribe and play these curated selections. This feature provides another layer of income generation, making the gaming experience not only enjoyable but also financially rewarding.
In turn, this supports the creation of fair and transparent in-game economies. In-game assets and transactions can be securely managed on the blockchain, eliminating the need for intermediaries and reducing the potential for fraud. Smart contracts automate and enforce transaction terms, providing transparency and trustworthiness in economic interactions within games. For example, unlike traditional gaming platforms where players merely license digital assets, Shaga empowers users with true ownership through the use of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). These blockchain-based tokens not only grant players exclusive rights to their in-game assets but also open up new avenues for monetization, trading, and customization. Whether it’s rare in-game items, virtual real estate, or even entire game worlds, DePINs' NFT-based ecosystem offers unparalleled opportunities for creativity and innovation.
By decentralizing the control and operation of networked systems, Shaga offers substantial improvements in performance, security, and user empowerment; such attributes are particularly well-suited for enhancing the quality of gaming experiences which Shaga aims to leverage for an uncontestable and innovative game-improvement protocol.
15 Laghari, A.A., He, H., Memon, K.A., Laghari, R.A., Halepoto, I.A. and Khan, A. (2019). Quality of experience (QoE) in cloud gaming models: A review. Multiagent and Grid Systems, 15(3), pp.289–304. doi:
