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Using blockchain as permanent, uncensorable storage so games can never be lost to shutdowns, bankruptcies, or licensing disputes.
Thousands of games have been lost to time. Servers shut down, companies go bankrupt, licensing deals expire, and entire libraries of interactive art disappear forever. Onchain game preservation uses blockchain's permanence to solve this. When a game's code and assets live on an immutable ledger, they exist for as long as the network exists. No company decision, no licensing dispute, no server maintenance cost can erase them. It is the digital equivalent of carving something in stone, except the stone is a decentralized network maintained by thousands of nodes worldwide.
Example
The classic example is the countless Flash games lost when Adobe killed Flash Player in 2020. Entire genres of creativity, wiped out overnight. Games stored onchain through platforms like Baes.app cannot suffer this fate. Even if the marketplace front-end goes offline, the game data persists on Base chain and can be accessed by anyone who builds an interface to read it.
Why it matters
Games are culture. Losing them is like burning books. The gaming industry has a terrible preservation track record, and onchain storage offers the first credible solution to permanent game preservation. Future generations should be able to play the games that defined eras, and blockchain makes that possible.
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