# The Solana Onchain Game Engine

*Author: Bankless*
*Published: Jul 2, 2024*
*Source: https://www.bankless.com/de/solana-onchain-game-engine*

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   The Solana Onchain Game Engine
  

  
  Published on July 2, 2024

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    ANALYSIS

  
  
    
   
What Is MagicBlock?
  
  
   
     
     Bankless Author: 
     
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       William M. Peaster](https://x.com/WPeaster)
     
    
 

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e4/b7/e4b77544-5a37-4f0b-8824-8440aa348476/content/images/2024/07/image---2024-07-02T141505.411.png)](https://www.bankless.com/what-is-magicblock-solana)**Onchain game engines make it easier to build games with no external dependencies beyond their underlying blockchain. **

To me, this is one of the most exciting areas of development in crypto today, and that’s why my curiosity was piqued when I recently came across MagicBlock Engine. 

MagicBlock is a game engine that’s innovated an Ephemeral Rollups architecture, which is designed for powering flexible and performant onchain games atop Solana. 

*I think MagicBlock is an interesting taste of what’s to come in the Solana gaming scene, so let’s catch you up on all the basics here!* 👇

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