4.1. Gaming Creator Market

The mission of the Replica team is to provide tools for creators to create, play, share, and trade without any central control, and build a marketplace, which enables them to earn REPL through the results of their creativity and enjoy lasting value as secure copyright ownership.

The creator game genre with voxel graphics is dominated by major industries such as Minecraft, Roblox, and Sandbox, and Zepeto, which has a different design concept world, has 300 million players. In particular, Minecraft, the leader of the category, has seen a 30% year-on-year increase in the number of players over the past five years, and Roblox ranked sixth among the highest-grossing iPhone mobile game apps in the U.S. as of January 2018. Roblox is expected to earn more than $750,000 a day.

Some creators reportedly earned more than $30 million from 70% of their creations' sales returns in 2017. Sandbox achieved $2.8 million in LAND NFT sales alone in February 2021 by incorporating blockchain into voxel objects and increased its value to $37 million. Except for sandboxes, all of the games are currently available on designated devices such as PCs, mobile devices, consoles, and a few figures show the market's scope.

MineCraft

● Over 100 million MAU in 2019, up 74 million from 2017.

● has sold more than 144 million copies worldwide.

● In 2014, Microsoft acquired the Minecraft franchise for $2.5 billion.

● The purchase price is approximately $17 per copy on average for all units sold.

Roblox

● 100 million MAU in 2020

● Series G raised $150 million on a $5 billion valuations in February 2020.

● In 2017, 1,100,000 game titles were issued around the Roblox world.

● More than 1,500 titles have generated more than 1,000,000 user visits from different players.

● Published by Roblox in February 2016, Miff City surpassed 1 billion player visits for the first time among Roblox games.

Sandbox

● 1.2 million MAU in 2018

● More than 70 million creations created by users in the game.

● Game Maker, Voxel Editor, NFT Marketplace Open Cryptocurrency

● Raised more than USD 1,200,000 by selling assets

● More than 1 million cats were born.

● has approximately 500 daily active users.

●Cat guitar platform with a variety of special themes in partnerships including NBA

● Sketchfab is one of the largest 3D creator markets, with approximately 400-1,000 models uploaded per day.

● Over 700 days, 100,000 3D models have been uploaded.

● TurboSquid has more than 500,000 models and 3,500,000 users worldwide, a source of professional 3D models.