Dear @rentmoney

I've never played that game, however I've heard about it several times on different occasions.

Would you mind sharing with me some of your knowledge? I would like to know if Splinterlands is using STEEM in any form? Does this dapp (is it dapp?) bring demand to purchase steem?

Im just wondering how games like Splinterlands could benefit steem blockchain and if they may have any impact on market price?

Splinterlands has seen some massive success on the Steem Blockchain. It ran not one but two very successful Kickstarters in which raised hundreds of thousands of dollars.

That's very interesting. How did they raised those funds? SMTs are not yet ready, Steem-engine tokens are probably not solution. So did this project launch their own token, which can be traded on exchanges? And if yes - then again: what is actual "connection" of their token economy to steem blockchain economy?.

Upvote on the way :)
Yours, Piotr

Hi @crypto.piotr,

Thanks for taking an interest in the topic. Splinterlands is the game Steemmonsters but with a new name to better attract a wider audience. As for its Steem usage and how the game benefits the Steem blockchain in general some keys points are:

RC

The game itself is built and played on the Steem blockchain and because of that each transaction in the game (playing a battle, purchasing a card ect.) uses up some RC. This means if players want to play the game for any significant amount of time its likely they will eventually run out of RC and need to either (A) stop playing until it regenerates or (B) purchase or lease some Steem to continue playing. Its important to note that the Splinterlands founders delegate XX amount of Steem to new players to make sure they have a reasonable amount of RC to play the game (I have no clue when/if they plan on stopping that).

It brings the Steem Blockchain New members

As you likely know most Dapps on the Steem blockchain take their users from the already existing pool of people already on the Steem Blockchain. While its true Splinterlands also does it would also be fair to say they have brought new users to the blockchain as well. For example some months back they introduced the Tron community to the game and now a portion of the Splinterland players are from the Tron blockchain. So you see because of Splinterlands these Tron players are now apart of the STEEM blockchain due to joining Splinterlands. In short, the more players Splinterlands get to join their game the more members the Steem blockchain accumulates as well.

Other

They have many other partnerships and deals that are ongoing as well. For example they have a 90 second slot coming up in January that will showcase Splinterlands on on national broadcast TV. AMC (American Movie Channel). Other partnerships like the WAX partner ship and a mobile app that will soon be released. What will come of this T.V. time slot is anyone's guess but one thing is certain and that its a big step in the right direction for onboarding non crypto people to the Splinterlands game and by extension the Steem blockchain.

The Kickstarters / Other Campaigns

As noted both kickstarters were a massive success. Combined they generated around $300,000 USD. If we take in account Fundation (A crypto version of Kickstarter) and private investments the number is much higher than that. Sadly I don't have the exact number on hand but it would add a significant amount to the already impressive $300,000* mentioned.

Below are a couple posts I created just before and just after the 2nd kickstarter ended. You may find the information in them interesting.

Before the kickstarter ended...
https://steemit.com/spt/@rentmoney/reminder-just-one-week-left-to-participate-in-the-splinterlands-kickstarter

After it ended....
https://steemit.com/spt/@rentmoney/the-splinterlands-kickstarter-was-a-massive-success