1 - Introduction

iGuess's vision is to deliver a unique blockchain game with a long-lasting, effective economy.

This project is the next step after the Play2Earn games. To achieve this, we pretend to:

- Develop a new type of game (HiperCasual Play2Earn Game) that is fun, easy to play, and profitable for everyone (players, partners, investors, and the teams involved).

- Evolve the community by making them participate in the game and giving them the power to help develop the game itself by allowing them the chance to make profits from the game, not only as players but also as partners of the ecosystem.

- Offer a game economy with a deflationary Token that has real utility for the game and ecosystem.

Mint NFTs that are used in the game itself, not just to make money from it, like many other projects in the past, which minted NFTs that were ultimately useless.

Using this Whitepaper, we would like to present the current crypto gaming trend in the entire gaming market, the recent problems, and possible real solutions that iGuess will deliver.

iGuess aims to combine traditional gaming rivalry and blockchain mechanics to deliver a one-of-its-kind gaming product.

iGuess is a blockchain play2earn CCG/TCG (Collectable/Trading Card Game). Think of a poker game played with very different cards and without the rules of poker, nor the legal/regulation rules that poker has. However, in the end, the players earn tokens as prize money, as if playing a type of poker match, making this game much more interesting than poker but with a much lower learning curve.

The game is so easy to understand, learn, and play that we can classify it as a hybrid-casual game (the new trend with $2.1 billion in total revenue in 2023, a +30% increase from 2022).

In conclusion, iGuess is a new game in the gaming universe that combines several games into one brand new game. If we go back to the main games that inspired us during the creation of iGuess, we would mention Poker and Dixit as the main influences.

When creating a new game, it is difficult to categorize it into a specific category of games. Therefore, we classified it as a HiperCasual play2earn CCG/TCG (Collectable/Trading Card Game).

Hybridcasual Trend

Hybridcasual is an emerging product model that combines Hypercasual Gaming's (valued at USD 15 billion in 2021 and expected to reach USD 24 billion by 2027) core mechanics with the retention and monetization strategies of Casual Games' (size is estimated at USD 20.48 billion in 2024), adding more complex and strategic gameplay to create this Hybrid system. This market segment is on the rise and is expected to generate massive gains in the upcoming years.

Hybrid-casual games combine elements of the hyper-casual genre with more complex gameplay mechanics from the mid-core genre. Anyone can enjoy hybrid-casual games, but they have more depth to the gameplay mechanics, meaning they can engage players for longer. Hybrid-casual games are now one of the most successful examples of hybridization, with over five billion downloads last year. Source: liftoff

SensorTower reported Hybrid Casual Mobile Game Market Insights in 2023 - Revenue will increase 60% and 30% consecutively in 2022 and 2023, and full-year in-app purchase revenue in 2023 is expected to exceed US$2.1 billion. Its current pace, much higher than that of the Hiper Casual and Casual games, shows that this is a real trend to grow in the next 5 to 10 years.

Casino, Sports & Racing Results

Since iGuess picked several ideas from the gameplay mechanics of Poker, it is also essential to understand how this game niche is performing lately.

Casino games have outperformed other titles over the past year as the genre has grown increasingly popular. From 1Q23-3Q23, ST data shows Casino game IAP bookings have increased an average of 11% YoY per quarter, vs. Sports & Racing (+8%), Lifestyle & Puzzle (+4%), and Action & Strategy (-9%) titles Source: Sensortower

The global online poker market was worth around USD 86.2 billion in 2022 and is predicted to grow to around USD 237.5 billion by 2030, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of roughly 13.5% between 2023 and 2030. Source: Zionmarketresearch.