Cross-Game Renderer (XGR)

What is it?

A standard for rendering NFTs, allowing them to be displayed (and animated!) in any game.

Why do we need it?

A superpower of NFTs is that they can be used across different games. One challenge is that each game has different technical specifications such as use of game engines, data formats, etc. This makes it challenging to integrate NFTs across different game genres.

The Cross-Game Renderer (XGR) addresses this by engaging us to define and share how a specific NFT collection is rendered.

XGR-arcadians is given as an example implementation. It uses the Open Raster Format (.ora) for image layers and GL Transmission File (.gltf) for animation.

We encourage builders to fork XGR-arcadians and define how other collections are rendered.

As more and more projects build on XGR, the vision of permissionless cross-game interoperability will be realized.

Adding Collections

Adding more and more collections that are XGR-enabled on the XGR Homepage are highly encouraged!

To do so, simply create a pull request updating the registry on public/registry/index.json

renderer_url

The renderer_url is the starting point for XGR-enabling a collection. It has to be in JSON format and retrievable via a URL.

The XGR-Arcadians example hosts its renderer_url on https://xgr-arcadians.opgames.org/renderer.json, and is shown below:

{
    name: "Arcadians Renderer",
    description: "Part collections stored in .ora and animation data stored in .gltf",
    project_url: "https://github.com/alto-io/xgr-arcadians",
    image: "https://xgr-arcadians.opgames.org/image/",
    animation_url: "https://xgr-arcadians.opgames.org/animation/",
    playground_url: "https://playground.arcadians.io",
    ora_url: "https://xgr-arcadians.opgames.org/assets/arcadians.ora",
    gltf_url: "https://xgr-arcadians.opgames.org/assets/arcadians.gltf"
}

The name, description, project_url, image, and animation_url fields are required. The image and animation_url works similarly to how they are used in marketplaces such as Opensea, and will be appended with a tokenid.

The playground_url, ora_url and gltf_url are specific to the XGR-Arcadians implementation. Other implementations can add whichever fields developers will need to support their collection assets.

Further Work