Akasha’s Web3 gaming ecosystem is designed to empower people and businesses worldwide by providing access to archetypal principles.
Akasha is built to meet the needs of two core customer groups:
Akasha Creators – Digital artists who create phygital tarot card assets
Akasha Creators are empowered to develop their artistic voice, reflecting on personal mythologies, cultural symbols, and astrological insights. These artists are tasked with modernizing and re-envisioning a tradition that dates back to the mid-1400s.
Akasha Collectors – Gamers who collect phygital assets
Akasha Collectors are gamers who are interested in bridging their virtual activities with their everyday, real-world experiences. Akasha Collectors catalyze growth on the platform by generating new games and using the platforms social features to build their network and assets.
Value Proposition for Digital Artists
Challenges for Emerging and Established Digital Artists
Copyright Infringement: Digital works are often copied, reposted, or used without credit. Proving originality or enforcing rights is often impossible.
Inconsistent Income: Income is unpredictable and dependent on sporadic commissions. Project-based digital artists must negotiate pricing case by case, leading to financial instability.
Unfair Profit Capture and Lack of Royalties: Card publishers capture the majority of profits, leaving artists with little compensation. Artists rarely benefit from future resales once their work is sold.
Undervalued Tarot Artists: Tarot artists have historically been overlooked and underpaid, with greater focus given to esoteric scholars than to the visual creators themselves.
Limited Audience Reach: Many digital artists rely on social media algorithms or small niche communities to gain visibility. Their work often remains siloed in platforms that don’t prioritize discoverability.
Creative Restrictions & Lack of Structure: Commission work can limit creative freedom and a lack of structure can lead to inconsistent output.
Akasha’s Solution
Blockchain Technology for Proof of Authenticity: Blockchain technology provides verifiable proof of authenticity by securely recording authorship and ownership.
Seasonal Prompts: Akasha’s Time of the Year feature provides opportunities for consistent creation through a storyboard and seasonal prompts. This allows artists to create on a regular schedule while setting their own pricing—offering greater autonomy and consistency.
Self-Publishing & Perpetual Royalties: Akasha’s gaming infrastructure will enable artists to self-publish their digital cards as NFTs, earning royalties on all secondary sales in perpetuity.
Providing Access to Archetypal Principles: Akasha stands in for what is traditionally the esoteric creative partner, providing artists worldwide with access to archetypal principles so that they may build their brand identity and design experiences for collectors.
Expanded Global Reach through Social Gaming: Akasha’s ecosystem connects artists to worldwide audiences interested in archetypes and gaming, with built-in social and reflection tools for deeper collector engagement.
Archetypal Storyboards: Akasha’s archetypal storyboards allow creators to develop diverse mythic narratives and discover their signature style through character and story development.
Value Proposition for Gamers
Challenges for Gamers
Lack of True Ownership in Traditional Gaming: The rise in popularity of gaming may be attributed to the movement towards personalization. Gamers seeking to customize in-game characters and environments can buy, sell, and trade items in virtual marketplaces using fiat currency; however, true ownership is absent. Players cannot freely transfer assets beyond the game.
Interoperability Challenges: For true interoperability of digital assets, a key obstacle that must be overcome is the fact that games have their own distinct visual styles, and therefore there needs to be a technical solution that allows items to render correctly across different gaming applications. If you cannot transfer or use your in-game assets across multiple games, it more akin to renting the asset rather than truly owning it.
Shallow Gameplay Mechanics and Subpar Designs: Many blockchain games suffer from shallow gameplay mechanics and subpar designs. There is a lack of quality that gamers are accustomed to in the traditional gaming space. While some of these games possess innovative concepts, they tend to fail to offer experiences that provide compelling reasons for players to dedicate significant time to engaging with the game.
Fragmented Worlds with No Meaningful Gameplay: The current blockchain gaming landscape emphasizes speculative NFT ownership over meaningful gameplay, reinforcing financialization by primarily treating games primarily as investment vehicles. Most titles rely on static mechanics that replicate traditional models like card battlers or click-to-earn formats with minimal innovation. These environments often create fragmented worlds with limited narrative depth and only surface-level engagement, offering minimal personalization as most players experience nearly identical gameplay.
Akasha’s Solution
Verifiable Ownership of Assets across the Boundary of a Single Game: With blockchain games, gamers are granted digital ownership rights to in-game item purchases, thereby expanding their utility as democratized, tradeable, and interoperable assets. If a player acquires a rare game asset in an NFT marketplace or within a particular game, since the ownership of the game item is secured and verified on the blockchain, that unique digital asset could theoretically be transferred across applications to other titles.
A Tarot deck as a Composable System: In composable games, the individual components are designed to be modular and interchangeable, allowing players to recombine the elements of a game according to their preferences or creative ideas. A standard deck of 78 Tarot cards is highly composable because each card represents a distinct archetype, and these cards can be combined in countless ways to create different spreads, readings, or even gameplay mechanics. Each card with its own symbolic meaning and artistic representation, allows for a rich constellation of interpretations and combinations.
Gaming as a Practical Tool for Personal Development: The 78 archetypes of tarot will add richness to gameplay through new symbolism. Akasha Creators are tasked with developing symbols aligned with the comprehensive set of meanings Akasha has established for each archetype. Each card, which is imbued with cultural, astrological, and artistic significance, will deepen in complexity over time as collectors engage with the symbolism, uncovering meaningful coincidences in their daily lives.
A Cohesive Gaming Ecosystem with Meaningful Gameplay: Digital assets should not just be an attractive investment opportunity, they should create use cases that lead to captivating gaming experiences for players. Akasha is a gaming ecosystem that is unified by the archetypes of the tarot, each of which acts as a unique game generator. There is dynamic storytelling as games are generated daily from a card of the day feature known as Archai, creating immersive, emotionally resonant scenarios for each gamer. Akasha’s gaming ecosystem promotes experiential learning, where players internalize archetypal qualities through interactive gameplay and lived experiences, ultimately transforming blockchain gaming into a participatory universe of living myths.
Archai
In contemporary society, there is often a tendency to overlook the significance of myths and archetypes, resulting in a failure to connect daily experiences with the universal themes that permeate mythology and religion. Developing a mythological perspective begins with cultivating an awareness of these archetypes in everyday existence, recognizing the distinct archetypal forces that shape one’s personal life and the course of world history. By embracing the mythic and archetypal dimensions of existence, individuals can establish a conscious relationship with the deeper forces of the cosmos, thereby enriching their experience of a more meaningful universe.
Archai, the Card of the Day feature in Akasha’s gaming ecosystem, will be designed to generate personalized games for each collector, allowing them to internalize the keywords and meanings of the cards. Game generation that is prompted by the Archai feature will operate like an intuitive storyteller, spontaneously building out gameplay experiences beginning with a single archetype and inviting discovery and surprise rather than requiring explicit user direction.
Akasha will use engagement signals — like a collector’s interaction with the Card of the Day — as the trigger, then will dynamically compose:
- Narrative arcs that express the metaphysical, psychological, and mythic levels of the archetype
- Game mechanics aligned with the card’s symbols
- Visual themes and emotional tones evoking the mood and tone of the card
- Genre (Card Games, RPGs, Player vs. Player Arenas)
Dynamic Gaming
Each card becomes a specialized game generator that creates experiences aligned with its card meaning. Collectors aren’t just collecting cards; they’re collecting entire experiential frameworks. This gaming ecosystem becomes less about “what game do I want to play?” and more about “what aspect of human experience do I want to explore and master?” This is a powerful shift: from games as static products designed and launched, to games as living, dynamically generated experiences.
Example: The 3 of Wands traditionally represents forward planning, expansion, and long-term vision – perfect for strategic exploration games.
- Personalized Game Mode: Generates exploration scenarios aligned with the gamer’s insights, skill progression, or journal entries.
- Legacy Game Mode: Generates curated scenarios from previous owners with embedded strategic insights.
- Co-Generation and Competition Mode: Allows the collector to collaborate with other gamers to create shared exploration challenges or compete in real-time.
Advantages of Meaning-Centered Gaming
Instead of reading keywords on flashcards, players live the card’s qualities in the context of the game — feeling the ability of shaping one’s reality through acts of conscious attention with The Manifestor or the momentum and swift action of the 8 of Fire through gameplay challenges. This emotional and experiential encoding makes the meanings memorable on a deeper level.
When players actively make decisions or overcome scenarios rooted in the card’s archetype, they are practicing those qualities in context. This kind of learning by doing is far more durable than rote memorization.
Because the games are generated based on the player’s Card of the Day — tailored to their current energy, mood, or growth path — the experience feels personally relevant. This personal connection helps players see these archetypal qualities as alive in themselves and in their real-world experiences.
The stories and emotional arcs triggered by the game make the keywords stick. When a player later encounters a situation in life, the emotional memory of that gameplay can cue recognition of the corresponding card quality naturally.
Each day’s game is different — new mechanics, genres, or themes — but always aligned to the card’s essence. This variety keeps the learning fresh and fun, while repeatedly reinforcing the archetype’s core keywords.
Some generated games might include social or reflective components, encouraging players to share insights or journal experiences related to the card’s themes, further deepening understanding.