Cointelegraph interviewed Shaban Shaame, CEO of EverdreamSoft, whose company produced what is considered to be the first blockchain-based mobile game called Spells of Genesis, or SoG, in 2015. This trading card game launched at a time when few investors and gamers saw the value in blockchain gaming or even Bitcoin, and it faced heavy competition from AAA game producers who shifted to a free-to-play model.
Originally, players who reached a certain level could mint in-game cards as tokenized digital assets on the Bitcoin blockchain using the Counterparty protocol. After years of stagnating sales, however, SoG became compatible with the Ethereum blockchain in 2020. It wasn't until mid-2021 that NFT collectors put the game's rare NFT cards back on the map and sales began trending upwards.