A game developer has finally come up with a blockchain application your mom will approve of. Netmarble, a South Korean video games giant, has created a blockchain-powered application that will enable parents to monitor and control their children’s gaming time.
According to news media outlet Inven, the blockchain-powered app is the brainchild of Netmarble, which has lodged a patent application for the innovation with the Korean Intellectual Property Office.
Netmarble is one of South Korea’s major gaming firms and has developed titles such as Everybody’s Marble and Marvel: Future Fight. It is part-owned by the Chinese gaming giant Tencent and fellow gaming giant NCSoft also owns a minority stake.
The new application, which makes use of what the company says is a tamper-proof smart contract ecosystem, lets parents send rewards to children who stay within gaming cap guidelines they have agreed to as a family. However, If children disregard gaming limit times, they can be punished with “fines.”
Nevertheless, rather than hitting cash-strapped teens in the pocket, it seems that the Netmarble platform instead sends consequences using time limit-busting youths with future reprimands.
To give you a better idea, if children agree to limit their playing time on a game to 10 hours a month, they will be awarded an extra hour next month if they only spend nine hours on the title in four weeks. On the contrary, if they go beyond that same limit by an hour this month, next month they will only be allowed nine hours of gaming time.
The firm stated that it has developed the tool in response to World Health Organization (WHO) guidance that advises children are becoming increasingly susceptible to video game addiction. The WHO listed video game addiction as a new mental health condition in the 11th edition of its International Classification of Diseases database published back in 2018.
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