After writing for YGG Play series for the 10th day, I finally have to talk about that game which everyone calls 'the rustic baseball game', GIGACHADBAT. On the surface, it's just a casual baseball mini-game that you can play right away, easy to pick up in three seconds, with an exaggerated art style and a name that sounds quite meme-like; but once you actually play a few rounds, you'll quickly find that it's not just a mini-game for show, but rather an event wrapped in a very 'DeFi' manner by YGG Play—every swing helps you earn points and accumulate returns. As you play, you transition from 'just playing a couple of rounds' to 'seriously participating in a task campaign with a yield curve'.
Let's lay out the basics. GIGACHADBAT is a casual Web3 baseball game created by Delabs Games, with YGG Play as the publisher, launching it on the Abstract chain. The official positioning states it clearly: a bite-sized, easy-to-pick-up casual baseball game, with very short rounds where players just need to focus on the pitch, time their swings, and score; these scores can be exchanged for $YGG tokens and Abstract XP. This means that every swing you make in front of the screen can ultimately translate into measurable gains on the chain. YGG itself directly described it in a press release as 'pure Casual Degen energy'—it's a little snack specifically prepared for those who love to play, love memes, and love to calculate.
The so-called 'rustic' comes half from the theme and half from the temperament. Traditional sports games tend to lean towards realism and professional leagues, while GIGACHADBAT goes against the grain. It does not attempt to recreate an entire nine-inning baseball game but instead breaks baseball down into a series of continuous 'key at-bats': when the pitch comes, you tap your finger, hitting it gives you satisfaction, missing it makes you grit your teeth and try again. The media directly classifies it as a tap-to-earn / clicker baseball game, with almost no learning curve; even if you don't understand the rules of baseball at all, it doesn't affect your enjoyment of the satisfying moment when 'hitting produces sound, feedback, and numbers jump up.' Adding to that is the name 'Giga Chad + Bat,' which clearly plays on memes, locking the entire game in a meme context: it doesn’t seek elite players to critique the operational framework but just wants degens to chuckle and casually tap in to relieve some stress.
The question is, how can such a seemingly 'rustic' baseball game be sewn into the more DeFi-oriented system of YGG Play Launchpad? The key lies in the two layers of binding YGG and Delabs have designed: **the first layer directly links game scores with real YGG and Abstract XP; the second layer connects your in-game behavior with YGG Play Points and the Launchpad task system.** The former solves 'is there any real return for playing,' while the latter addresses 'what is the relationship between playing this and future allocations.'
First, let’s look at the first layer, which is the most straightforward 'score conversion into earnings.' According to YGG Play and several media reports, in the Abstract chain version of GIGACHADBAT, the scores accumulated by players in each round can be exchanged for $YGG tokens and Abstract XP, making the scores in the game not just vanity on the leaderboard but directly possessing asset attributes. You can think of it as a very simplified DeFi curve: traditional DeFi is you pouring funds into a pool, waiting for returns; GIGACHADBAT is you pouring time and attention into the screen, accumulating brief moments of focus through swings, combos, and high scores into a stream of tokens that can be withdrawn and reused. For degens, this psychological satisfaction of 'I'm not wasting my hand speed' is very real.
More interesting is the second layer, which is the coupling between it and the YGG Play Launchpad task system. YGG clearly stated in the official article 'Launchpad Goes Live': tasks on the Launchpad will connect with YGG Play's selected games, the first batch being LOL Land, Gigaverse, GIGACHADBAT, and Proof of Play Arcade. Players can earn YGG Play Points by completing tasks within these games; this point cannot be directly cashed out but will determine your priority in all future token launch activities. In other words, when you swing and score in GIGACHADBAT and complete tasks marked by YGG Play, you are actually accumulating two lines of earnings simultaneously: one is the short-term visible YGG / Abstract XP, and the other is the longer-term YGG Play Points, used to help you 'squeeze a bit forward in the lineup' for subsequent $LOL or other game token Launchpad activities.
From this perspective, GIGACHADBAT is packaged not just as a 'little baseball game that can earn some tokens,' but as a complete DeFi-style activity: you have a clearly defined input (time, hand speed, focus), a quantifiable intermediate variable (score, task progress, Points), plus two different time dimension outputs (short-term token rewards + medium-term allocation weight). It doesn't stack these elements in an obscure DeFi panel but hides them in an extremely simple game loop—new players only face swinging and scoring; for veteran degens, there's a familiar curve in their minds: isn't this just 'play-to-mine' or 'baseball points farming'?
YGG Play has also very deliberately pushed GIGACHADBAT into its 'Casual Degen' puzzle at the narrative level. LOL Land proved that board game-style casual gameplay can generate millions of dollars in revenue, driving the $YGG buyback program; Gigaverse, as an external RPG publishing collaboration, validated the path of 'third-party projects integrating into YGG Play's publishing OS'; GIGACHADBAT is the piece in the entire combination that is closest to the 'rustic degen activity'—it inherits the experiences accumulated by Delabs during the Telegram tap-to-earn era, replicating that model of 'using low-threshold games to carry points activities, allowing players to earn a whole season of points with a few taps, and then exchange those points for tokens' into the new environment of Abstract + YGG Play.
For Degen users, this packaging approach has several very realistic attractions. First, it lowers the psychological barrier to 'participating in a profit-generating activity.' In the past, when you talked to me about new launches, mining, or tasks, most people think, 'I need to open a wallet, look at tutorials, study contract risks,' a barrier so high that it makes people sigh before they speak; now you just need to open GIGACHADBAT, first treat it as a purely entertaining, rustic baseball mini-game, and before you know it, you've completed the first few layers of tasks. When you see YGG, Abstract XP, or YGG Play Points appearing in your wallet, you can then decide whether to plan your participation strategy more seriously. This process is very friendly for new players.
Second, it provides old degens with a way to 'easily get high.' Many people now play DeFi and new launches, and no longer want to stare at complex interfaces; a day's attention has long been drained by various chat groups, information streams, and charts. GIGACHADBAT offers another state: you can set it aside, treating it as a little toy to pull out during work breaks, but as long as you are willing to extend the time line, you will find that these fragmented participations are actually building a relatively stable points curve, which will later be linked to various activities on the YGG Play Launchpad. For many people, this aligns better with the rhythm of 'old degen retirement' than watching the market and snagging white lists.
Third, **it makes 'cross-game, cross-activity yield integration' feel natural rather than forced.** Your investment in LOL Land is more closely linked to $LOL related P2A and allocation weights; your gear grinding in Gigaverse feels more like building a long-term worldview; GIGACHADBAT is a segment dedicated to 'raising the peaks of the points curve'—short and explosive, very suitable for pairing with staged Launchpad activities or points ranking battles. YGG Play combines these pieces under a Launchpad task system and a unified points account, creating a new lifestyle for Casual Degens: today you throw the dice a bit more, tomorrow you fight monsters a bit more seriously, the day after you hit a few more baseballs, all counted in the same 'platform ledger.'
From the perspective of rule changes, GIGACHADBAT actually pushes the main point we've been reiterating over the past few days a step further—**YGG Play is not just 'looking at participation rather than wallet size,' but is 'gamifying participation itself.'** When you play LOL Land, you are participating in P2A + Launchpad; when you grind in Gigaverse, you are participating in narrative and revenue sharing; when you play GIGACHADBAT, you are disguising traditional DeFi activities like 'earning YGG,' 'accumulating points,' and 'snagging future game allocations' as a lightweight game loop that takes a few seconds per round. For serious participants, this is a very direct reclamation of rights—you no longer need to prove you are a 'user' in the dozens of lines of parameters on the farming interface; just by swinging in the game, you can write your rights into the platform ledger.
From Azu's side, if I were to give you a set of practical participation suggestions while you are reading this Day 12, I would imagine the entire 'DeFi-style baseball activity' as three concentric circles. The outer circle is to treat GIGACHADBAT purely as a stress-relief toy: you can completely ignore points and tokens, spend a few days feeling the rhythm—does the rhythm suit you? Will it be annoying after a long time? Can it fit naturally into your fragmented time? The middle circle is when you start caring about scores and wallet balances, slightly planning your participation: you can choose a time when you feel good to focus on playing, like every night for a fixed half hour, treating that half hour as your points sprint window, while keeping an eye on whether there are special activities, extra Points boosts, or linked tasks related to GIGACHADBAT on the YGG Play task page. The innermost circle is when you decide to stay long-term in the YGG Play ecosystem; you treat GIGACHADBAT along with LOL Land and Gigaverse as part of your overall Launchpad strategy: you can set a 'total gaming time quota per week' for yourself, distributing it among several games, allowing your time and attention to earn short-term YGG / XP while gradually improving your position on the points leaderboard and future allocation queues.
The reason GIGACHADBAT deserves a full write-up is not because of how 'high-end' it is; on the contrary, it uses a very down-to-earth, even somewhat rustic way to show Casual Degens something: DeFi-style activities do not have to grow in complex panels; they can also be hidden in one mini-game after another; rules can lean towards players without having to be written in thick white papers, and can also take root in your mind through intuitive logic like 'the more you play, the more points you earn; the more points you have, the more future allocation rights you hold.' You will see more such attempts in the YGG Play ecosystem, and all you need to do is ask yourself one question: behind these seemingly rustic mini-games, which curve are you willing to accompany with your time and position in the long run?
