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GM! Welcome to the 10th edition of Playlist 🎮

A weekly newsletter containing a curated list of the week’s most notable Web 3 gaming reports, podcasts, events, quotes and threads for you to catch up on 👇

📁 Reports / Research / Essays

Ancient 8: Polygon is a game changer for Web3 Gaming & NFTs

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Ancient 8 is Vietnam's largest blockchain gaming guild enabling everyone to build & play in the Metaverse through scholarship, education, community, institutional-grade research, and blockchain software products

Messari: Analyzing the Market Potential of Fully On-chain Games

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Messari is a distributed crypto data library helping researchers, investors and regulators in their decision-making processes by providing funding & data disclosure services

Frostlam (Qiming VC): Unleasing the Secrets to GameFi's Success
A 20-year journey of Open Economic Gaming Mastery

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Qiming VC is a chinese-based VC firm with $9.4billion in capital investing across T&C and healthcare industries

DeFrag DAO: Knights of the Ether Research Report

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DeFrag DAO is an NFT lending protocol on Arbitrum enabling instant NFT loans for Treasure DAO assets

David Amor (Playmint): Digital Physics in On-Chain Games

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Playmint is a game studio building category defining games for the Web3 era starting with on-chain games

Mint Ventures: Limit Break and its DigiDaigaku NFTs are a true Paradigm Shift in Web3 Gaming

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Mint Ventures is a research-driven venture firm that specializes in cryptocurrency and early-stage blockchain projects.

Balthazar DAO - NFT marketplace update (Feb 2023)

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Balthazar DAO is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization that funds and supports projects in the web3 gaming space through its Research Portal, Guild Infrastructure, Launchpad & SDK tools for developers

🎬 Podcasts / AMAs / Watches+

FOGcast #33 — NFT Marketplace Drama, Creator Royalties & The Future of Game Monetization

Listen In

FOGDAO is a dedicated team of investors, operators, and content creators with a passion for Web3 games creating a place for users to express their ideas, participate in constructive debates & contribute to the ongoing discussion of where the gaming industry is heading towards.

FOGcast #34 — Bitcoin NFTs, CSGOs Success & Gaming NFTs v2.0

Listen In

FOGDAO is a dedicated team of investors, operators, and content creators with a passion for Web3 games creating a place for users to express their ideas, participate in constructive debates & contribute to the ongoing discussion of where the gaming industry is heading towards.

Navik — Manish Agarwal (IndiGG): Bringing Web3 Gaming to India

Listen In

Naavik is a research, consulting, and advisory firm that enables professionals to master the business of gaming.

📝 Notes / Summaries

Rich Cabrera (Ready Player DAO) — CS:GO GDC 2014 Talk Summary

🧵Threads

Ben (Crypto.com) — Reflections on the Web3 Gaming Thesis and how has it evolved from 2021 to now

A ZEUS — Quick thread on Avalon raising $13m to build an interoperable digital universe

Degen Wars — Basic Gameplay Thread

Reboot GG — All about Reboot.gg

Andrew Chen (a16z) — Why its going to be hard for AI startups to break into the gaming industry

ggQuest — Thread about ggQuest & its Progression System

Kalos (Parallel) — ETH Denver Gaming Takeaways

Sachi Kamiya (Polygon) — Why am I bullish on Web3 Gaming

Simon (Mighty Bear Games) — What's next for projects that didn't get to raise enough

Makai Witch (Otaku Guild) — Web3 Gaming WL Tier List

Kartoha (Metaguild) — 5 Decks to play around with in Parallel

Recloner — 🧵 on Mithraeum's 1st Autonomous-Algorithmic Wipe

lordOfAFew (Loot Realms) — On chain gaming teams are realizing the limits of bare EVM / solidity

Vulcan Forged — New Chapter for Vulcan as Vulcan Studios Rebrands

ZTX Financial District — An introduction to the metaverse that Zepeto & Jump are creating

Mystis Game — Intro to Mystis, an on-chain fighting game on StarkNet

Mystic Games — Intro to Mystic Games & their Web3 Roguelite ARPG

Wale.Swoosh (Azuki) — Amazon is building an NFT Marketplace

📰 News / Updates / Action Items

Web3 Gaming News, Launches, Demos, Airdrops & Mints

🔍 Newly Spotted Projects

  • Block Born Studio — No info yet — more

  • Spectarium — A Nordic, fantasy world RPG — more

  • Bor3d Games — Game Publisher & Studio by Kyler Frisbee (w/ Robin Chan, Matt Sorg & Justin Kan as Advisors) — more

  • Galaxy Throne — Fully on-chain Sci-Fi Strategy Building Game (Won 1st in TRON Hackathon: GameFi Track) — more

  • Dragon Crossing — Web3 RPG launching in May 2023 — more

  • Trudan Studios — Game studio developing KuroroBeast on Arbitrum — more

  • Avalon — Game Studio building an interoperable digital MMORPG (Recently raised $13m) — more

  • Starfall Gates — Project related to the Web3 MOBA, Starfall Arena — more

  • ZTX Official — Metaverse being built by Zepeto & Jump — more

  • Momometaverse — NFT Metaverse Project — more

  • Magic Block — Web3 studio building on-chain mobile games — more

  • Garbles Fun — Mobile game that cleans up the planet (Developed by Magic Block) — more

  • DCL Studios — Studio for Decentraland — more

  • Reboot GG — Reboot GG is a decentralized, scalable framework for skill-based games that rewards players & developers — more

  • Waifu Force — Waifu Force is a AAAAA multiplayer shooter powered by Worlds Org & Unreal Engine 5 — more

  • Spac3 GG — Space 3 is a Web 3 gaming loyalty platform being developed by Ancient 8 — more

  • Dark Bright Games — Dark Bright Games is a game studio launched by Treasure DAO that is developing Smolville — more

  • Starknet Gaming — Gaming on Starknet (Not much info yet) — more

  • Webe Studio — Web3 Metaverse gaming studio — more

  • Chess Olympiads — On chain Chess — more

  • Shadow War Games — Hero-based web3 hybrid-action title being developed by Patriots Division — more

  • Patriots PMC — Studio developing Shadow War Game — more

  • Bisonic Games — Game Studio behind Runiverse — more

  • Runes TCG — Runiverse-themed Trading Card Game (TCG) — more

  • Warped Canto — Fully onchain PvP MMO RTS on Canto — more

  • Kamigotchi World — Web3 Pet Idle game by Asphodel Labs on Canto — more

  • Fun Dream Games — Istanbul based game studio developing web3 mobile games — more

  • Blink Moon Games — Indie game studio building for cloud gaming — more

  • Echoplus Studio — Game studio building Code Sekai — more

  • Code Sekai — Anime Universe being developed by Echo Plus Studio — more

  • Aradena Warrior — Trading Card Game (TCG) being developed by Litoja Labs — more

  • L1523Kick Games — Russian indie gaming studio building Worldshards (Sandbox RPG) — more

🗨️ Quotable Quotes

Mitch Lasky (Benchmark) — The laziest VC move in games is "pedigree chasing"

Jon (Play Ember) — Web3 UA is a billion $ opportunity for whomever cracks it

Tommy Ngo (Zynga) — Higher user demand than product supply makes Web3 gaming promising. Esp since there's no playbook yet.

Derek Lau (Guild of Guardian) — We are now seeing Web2 gamers onboarded to NFTs, NOT because of good gameplay, but because of the idea of playing for profit

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🔥Highlights

Crypto Raiders — Building Cyber Stadium

  • Crypto Raiders announced that it is building a new 100% on-chain game titled, Cyber Stadium with more details to be announced in February

  • There will be a special event dungeon in Crypto Raiders where players can win tickets to get on the allowlist mint for Cyber Stadium

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Uldor — Dread Arena Playable on Elixir Game Launcher

  • Uldor, a PvP Web3 MMORPG announced that their Dread Arena alpha is now playable on the Elixir Game Launcher

  • Users can get on the waitlist for an alpha code by visiting their website

Tetration Lab — Beta Registration for Museum Heist

  • Tetration Lab announced that users can now register to beta of Museum Heist, an on-chain social deduction game

  • More information can be obtained by visiting their gitbook

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Fractal — Expands to Polygon

  • Fractal, a web3 gaming platform that provides game developers with tools to solve their blockchain & infrastructure needs announced today that it is expanding to the Polygon Ecosystem with 30 launch partners

  • The company also announced that its product suite, F Studio will be available on Polygon as well in the coming months complete with an NFT launchpad, dedicated gaming asset marketplace, tournaments, developer SDKs, game launcher & a built-in sign-in with Fractal service

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Shrapnel — Sigma Containment Unit (SCU) NFT Mint

Shrapnel shows off gameplay for UE5-based multiplayer FPS | VentureBeat

Starfall Arena — Q1 2023

  • Starfall Arena, a web3 MOBA built by the creators of Heroes Evolved released a trailer of its game that is expected to launch in Q1 2023

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👁️ Others

AI Arena — Introduced Playground

  • AI Arena introduced Playground, the demo version of their game where players can fight the CPU w/ no AI training

  • Users who beat the Best Mode will qualify for the Beta Competitor Pool

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Pixels Online — InfiniPortal Update

  • Pixels Online announced several updates to their game. As detailed in their release notes:

    • Major infiniportal update

    • New small craftable storage entity

    • Timestamps next to chat messages

    • Crafting in bulk available for more resources now

    • Can now load more than 200 integrated NFTs

Decentral Games — Fractal ICE Poker Wearable Free Mint

  • Decentral Games announced that in celebration of Fractal's expansion to Polygon, users can claim a custom Fractal ICE Poker wearable for free on Jan 26

  • Users that mint one, will also get 9 shine airdropped to them so they can enter ICE Poker tournaments for free

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Big Time — Airdrop Point System

  • Big Time announced a summary of their airdrop point system accessible via their wiki

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Forgotten Runiverse — Land Mint

  • Forgotten Runiverse is trudging along its roadmap as they get closer to their public land mint

  • Users can signup for their allowlist via the following premint link

Image Menu of Selecting a Plot of Land to Mint

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🔥Highlights

Castaways — Gen 2 Treasure Chest Airdrop

  • For every Gen 1 Treasure Chest that you open, burn or own

  • You will be airdropped a Gen 2 Treasure Chest

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PARALLEL — Free Card Faucet Claim

  • Jan 23, 10AM EST is the last day for users to claim a free card from the Parallel Faucet

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FORA — Beta Tester Whitelist

  • FORA announced that beta testers will be given a WL spot

  • To apply as a beta tester, join their discord & open a ticket detailing why you deserve to be a beta tester

Guild Saga — World Mode v2

  • Guild Saga announced the launch of World Mode v2 that would include questing & crafting

  • Their medium post also outlined how quest rewards would function such as its primary & secondary on-chain currencies $GGLD & $GGEM as well as NFT Staking

Decentral Games — Metaverse SNG Tournament Game Mode Playtest

  • Decentral Games' Weekly Newsletter detailed a list of site updates including:

    • New sign-in options

    • Playtest launch of their new SNG tournament game mode

    • As well as updated challenge mode rewards

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Blankos Block Party — 21 New Parties part of the Brawl Map Rotation

  • Blankos Block Party announced that 21 new parties are now included in the Brawl Map rotation

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👁️ Others

TREASURE DAO — TIP-23, New BridgeWorld Harvesters & Airdrop

  • Treasure DAO released an in-depth thread detailing TIP-23

    • Deprecate Atlas Mine to shift to a gaming-first sustainable growth model

    • Remove vesting & unlock all $MAGIC in the Atlas Mine (Jan 25, 8:28PM)

    • Sunset Atlas Mine emissions

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  • Included in the thread are the details for the new Harvesters

    • 2 Harvesters that will require soulbound Atlas Mine Harvester Parts

    • First-come, first-served

  • As well as an airdrop of soulbound Atlas Mine Harvester Parts to stakers depending on how much they staked previously:

    • Phase 1: Had staked >= 1000 $MAGIC (Receive 1 AM-HP)

    • Phase 2: Had staked >= 10,000 $MAGIC (Receive 1 AM-HP / every 10k $MAGIC staked)

Playtest for Leela vs The World

  • Leela vs The World, an on-chain AI game being built by Modulus Labs will be having their playtest near the end of January

  • They are selecting the first 500 users who sign up via their form to take part in the playtest

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  • They recently were also supported by the Ethereum Foundation with a grant for their research paper titled "The Cost of Intelligence: Proving Machine Learning Inference with Zero-Knowledge"

Preview header to "The Cost of Intelligence," an upcoming survey paper from Modulus Labs and supported via EF grant

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🔥Highlights

Voodoo — Launches Blockchain Ecosystem Platform Voodoo Infinity

  • Hypercasual game publisher Voodoo announced its blockchain ecosystem platform, Voodoo Infinity. The full-stack platform aims to bring blockchain games to mobile users by supporting game studios with product coaching, tokenomics expertise, an end-to-end blockchain tech stack with growth capabilities and liveops support

  • As of 2022, Voodoo was one of the top 5 companies with the most downloads in the Apple Store

Createra — Raised $10m from a16z

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  • Createra, a UGC metaverse engine, raised $10m from a16z to develop web3 multiplayer metaverse games that anyone can play with just one click

  • Their free mint genesis land NFT collection traded over 1.5 ETH & surged past 1,500 ETH in trading volume

Thetan Rivals — Soft Launch

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  • Wolffun Game soft launched its fourth title, Thetan Rivals, a multiplayer knockout arena game & the successor to the hit MOBA NFT PvP Game, Thetan Arena

  • The game soft launched in Canada, Malaysia, Indonesia & Thailand and is playable on both PC & Mobile (Android + IOS)

Nifty Island — Townhall

Nifty Island: Bring Your Assets To The Gameverse - EGamers.io - P2E NFT Games Portal

  • Nifty Island is organizing a townhall session to discuss its road to an open beta launch

Smashverse — Titanhall Playtest

  • Smashverse is organizing a live playtest for Titanhall NFT holders on Jan 19 (Thursday) as they demo the game live with their founder

Hash Rush 2023 Update

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  • Hash Rush released a detailed 2023 update that discussed the game's current state and their plans going forward. Some notable highlights were:

    • Game is still not where they want it to be

    • Downsized the team to conserve resources & reduce costs

    • Postponed Early Access launch date

    • Post-Beta revealed many issues of the current state of the game

👁️ Others

Influence — Testnet Phase 3 (Jan 25, 11am EST)

Helix Metaverse — Game Modes Soon

EstforKingdom — New Blockchain Game on Fantom

  • EstforKingdom is a new P2E MMORPG being developed by the PaintSwap team on the Fantom blockchain

MatchboxDAO — Battle of Titans World Cup for 0xMonaco

  • MatchboxDAO announced that it is organizing the 0xMonaco World Cup, a racing coding CTF designed by Paradigm that will be held from Jan 22 - 29

Skyweaver — Hexbound Invasion is now Live

AI Arena — Mint Passes live on OpenSea

Bladerite — Last chance to signup for Alpha Test (Jan 19, 12:00AM EST)

Paradise Tycoon — Update for Alpha v3

Pixelmon — E2 Sneak Peak

HighTides — NFT Mint

  • HighTides, a F2P Sandbox Pirate Game on Polygon will have a free mint for its NFTs in Q2

Decentral Games — Player Hub v1

  • Decentral Games announced that Player Hub v1 is now live on ICE Poker Flex allowing players to purchase $ICE using $ETH & any other token on any EVM chain

Smash Stars — Smashverse Story

  • The team released the story behind smashverse diving into the lore of the origins of the Smash Stars characters and how they will operate as NFT

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🔥Highlights

Loot Realms: Bibliotheca DAO 2023 Update

  • Loot Realms announced some big updates as they focus on developing Realms Eternum

    • Currently in Closed Alpha, will go to Open Alpha soon

    • 2 Products (Realms Eternum - On Chain Strategy Game & Realms Adventurers - On Chain Game Building Kit for Developers)

    • $LORDS token sale in late January to top up DAO treasury

The Beacon

  • The Beacon announced that the Cobalt Moon Hatching event will take place from Jan 20 - 22. Players that will have an extra 24 hours after Jan 22 to manually hatch their eggs before they hatch automatically

  • During this time period, there will also be 2 new dungeons & items on the loot tables

Skyweaver

  • Skyweaver announced that the Hexbound Invasion will begin on Jan 16 and players can start availing of the Hexbound Skypass, that will give both free & premium rewards for the campaign

Pixelmon

  • Pixelmon revealed new lore for their game adding the 5th chapter, Kindred of the Sea

Kasumi Dungeons

  • Kasumi Dungeons, a F2P, fast-paced arcade adventure game that on Arbitrum as part of the Treasure DAO ecosystem is launching its game trailer and NFT mint soon

Pirate Nation: Release #6

  • Pirate Nation announced release #6 laying down the foundations for new gameplay by introducing voxelixed pirates, quests with cooldowns, profiles, animations & more

👁️ Others

Poglin is a new game studio

Gunzilla Games

  • Gunzilla Games, a game studio that is developing the cyberpunk Battle Royale, Off The Grid (OTG), gave a showcase for their in-game weapon, Markastro's trademark nail gun

Decentraland

  • Decentraland introduced some new features for users to connect better with each other such as avatar highlighting, user profiles, profile links, friend request flows & differentiated nametags

MixMob

  • MixMob announced that the ghosting period ends tomorrow Jan 13 9AM PT

  • Everyone who held masks from November 14 were rewarded 10,000 SUD$ tokens which they will receive at the end of Alpha V3

  • Users that still have their mask come Alpha V3 will receive an additional 500 SUD$ tokens

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🔥Highlights

LimitBreak: OPT-IN ROYALTIES

  • Limit Break introduced opt-in, backwards-compatible programmable royalties powered by staking.

  • The introduction of these tools help align incentives baking in secondary market transactions & royalties at the smart contract level. In turn, this gives creators & developers more granular tools to shape their own ecosystems with clear rules of engagement that users can opt-in to

  • More information can be obtained by reading their medium post

Mighty Action Heroes: Early Access Weekend

  • Mighty Action Heroes announced that users will be able to play this weekend as it opens up Early Access again with prizes for the winners

Axie Infinity Origins: Season 2

Gran Saga Unlimited: Free Galxe OAT Claim

Influence: Early Access Open Alpha

Unioverse: Protens Check

  • Unioverse users can now check how many Protens they have to get a Reyu Genesis Hero

  • To check your Proten count visit the Protens Unioverse website, login & click earn

  • Users with enough Protens will be eligible to get a Reyu Genesis Hero. There will be more rewards to claim other heroes like Krishah

👁️ Others

My Pet Hooligan: Zuckbox Activation on Jan 13

  • My Pet Hooligan is coming back with a ZuckBox Burning and gave a short recap on their story so far

    The Sprawl Game: City Pass NFT Remint

    • The Sprawl Game announced that they conducted a reminting of the City Pass NFTs (Contract was exploited during minting period and a user was able to mint multiple passes on multiple accounts)

    • Users do NOT have to do anything & were airdropped new City Pass NFTs in their wallet

E4C: Final Salvation — Steam Game & $DGC Token Launch

  • Ambrus Studio's web3 game, Fallen Arena is now out and playable on Steam

  • Their recent tweet also showed that they would be releasing an in-game token in Q2

Conquest: 2023 Plans

  • Conquest, a persistent & permissionless diplomacy game announced their 2023 update detailing what they have been working on and their plans for 2023

  • They also shared their whitepaper that users can view on their gitbook

Pixelmon: Early Game Preview

  • After raising $70m from the community despite having an inexperienced team and an NFT art reveal that made the project go viral in 2022, Pixelmon seems to be making a rebound

  • They recently revealed an early preview of an in-game character, "Borg" showcasing its moves in the Arena

  • Big difference from where it was at a year ago after undergoing a structural shift in its management & switching game development studios

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🔥Highlights

Bladerite Closed Alpha

  • Bladerite announced that they will be having a closed alpha for their MOBA Battle Royale game which will run until Jan 18

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  • Interested alpha testers have until Jan 4 to fill out the closed alpha form and create an account on their website

  • The top 50 players will be rewarded with Advanced NFT Whitelists

Gran Saga: Unlimited

  • NPIXEL announced that it is releasing Gran Saga: Unlimited, a Web3 MMORPG based on the original Gran Saga IP

    Npixel's Gran Saga: Unlimited will be 1st game on the Aptos blockchain | VentureBeat

  • The title will also be the first web3 game on the Aptos blockchain

Parallel: Pack Drop VI

  • Parallel, a sci-fi world TCG is releasing its 6th pack drop on Jan 14, 5 PM EST

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Pegaxy Transitioning to Mobile Gaming

  • Pegaxy announced that they are sunsetting their web-based gameplay and transitioning to mobile starting Jan 5

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  • The team mentioned that they will be focusing their resources towards shipping the next stage of Pegaxy which is estimated to be completed by Q1 of 2023

Pixels Online: Holiday Quest

  • Pixels Online, an animoca-backed open-ended farming & exploration game announced that today is the last day for players to claim the Holiday Quest

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  • Users should probably also pay close attention to Pixels as they just launched Chapter 1 and the team has been teasing the release of its utility token after several months of hosting a $BERRY airdrop program

Star Atlas: Q4 2022 Economic Report

  • Star Atlas released a Q4 2022 economic report highlighting key events in the ecosystem

  • The key points that stood out to me were:

    • 54.8% decline in private Star Atlas wealth ($48m)

    • The POLIS locking facility was effective at providing token support but the impact of the rapid depreciation of Solana was felt

    • Continued decline in Star Atlas residents but total population continues to grow

    • Ship discount programs were still effective with over $530k in ship purchases

👁️ Others

Rainmaker Games raised $4.7m

  • The company previously raised a $6.5m seed round for their gaming platform in Dec 2021

Rainmaker Games raises $6.5M for play-to-earn gaming platform | VentureBeat

The Metacast by Naavik — Web3 Investing with Animoca Brands

  • Great listen on Animoca's origin story and a glimpse into their investment strategy

Axie Infinity: Origins will debut on Google Play Store

  • Big step for Sky Mavis as their F2P title will launch on the Google Play Store in Malaysia first

Axie Infinity: Origin is now available on Android devices in Early Access | PlayToEarn

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🔥Highlights

Treeverse Update #13

  • Treeverse gave a glimpse of its development including pre-alpha launch clips, concept art & game engineering updates and their path going forward in 2023

  • One thing I found interesting in particular was a quote from their Lead Game Designer, Angelo wherein he stated that they are about to release the very first public release version of Treeverse which will include dungeon levels, feature character progression through a Knowledge Tree & also include weapon enhancement through the Recasting System

  • The Treeverse team also highlighted their priority for 2023 of creating a great PvP experience (outside the core game loop) in order to expand the universe of Treeverse

Illuvium: Zero Alpha Launch

  • Illuvium announced that its cross-platform F2P industrial building & resource collecting game, Illuvium: Zero will alpha launch on Jan 6

  • Illuvium land holders will be able to playtest for 6 - 8 weeks when season 0 launches (Jan 6) before all data is wiped

  • Season 1 is then slated to launch on Feb 21 in which Alpha Blueprints minted will continue to persist as NFTs before undergoing another data wipe before the beta launch

  • Despite being F2P, only Illuvium land holders will be able to extract tokens or NFTs from the game

Oath of Peak Launch

  • By Yeeha Games, Oath of Peak is a fantasy MMORPG that is slated for early access launch on Jan 5 & global launch on Jan 12

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  • Interested users can register via their website

  • A glance at their gitbook reveals that:

    • They plan to launch a dual-token model for their in-game economy on Polygon with a DEX listing in Q1 2023

    • They will release Free Mint NFTs from Q4 2022 - Q1 2023

Forgotten Lands (FORA) Game Launch

  • Forgotten Lands announced that their F2P action-packed TPS game built on top of Unreal Engine 5 will launch on Jan 25 featuring competitive multiplayer game modes such as Battle Royale

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Undead Blocks Launches Multiplayer Beta

  • Undead Blocks launched its multiplayer beta with their latest beta build supporting duo mode, which reminds me a lot of Back 4 Blood 🩸

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Axie Accessorization

  • Users that released their axies (aka burned them) will receive accessories that they can equip starting next week to customize their Axie's appearance

  • Its interesting to see these developments from Axie Infinity to curb the heavy inflation that they experienced from overbreeding. As of writing:

    • 1.82% of total Axies have since been "burned" 🔥

    • 2.65% of addresses participated in the burning of these Axies

  • Ronin Axie NFT Address

👁️ Others

Stella Fantasy Global Launch (2023)

  • Stella Fantasy gave an overview of updates that will come to their platform and also coincide with their global launch this 2023

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Helix Metaverse Catalysts

  • Early 2023 will have a host of catalysts for both Founder Pass Holders & Landowners as they will gain access to their new luxury residences & be able to play select game modes

State of Aurory Address

  • Aurory gave a 2022 year in review of their project milestones and gave a glimpse of what's to come in 2023

Aurory Tactics Launches in Open Alpha with Rank-Based Matchmaking and Rewards | PlayToEarn

  • Users can try playing Aurory Tactics that the team shipped in their public v0.2.8 release in December

Play AFAR Game Release in 2023

  • Play AFAR gave a small recap of its year after raising $10m and is on path to releasing its game in 2023

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MechaFightClub Roosting

  • Irreverant Labs launched roosting, a mechanism to will enable Genesis Mechabot holders to be eligible to earn both $MFC & exclusive mechabot rewards

Star Atlas Early Access Wishlist on Epic Games

  • Star Atlas is a high-fidelity, immersive space adventure & grand strategy MMO built in Unreal Engine 5 that is sustained by a real galactic economy

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MetaPortal DAO - Game Monetization Part 2: Lessons to learn for New Beginnings

MetaPortal DAO is a research and consulting DAO, with the goal of becoming the go-to experts in crypto-native game governance, monetization and distribution

Ancient8 on Twitter: "Being a fan is the best thing in sports. But what if you could be even MORE? @FIFAWorldCup is coming . With Fan tokens, fans can be a greater

Ancient 8 - Tokenizing Fandom & Onboarding Millions of Sports Fans to Web3

Ancient 8 is Vietnam's largest blockchain gaming guild that enables everyone to build & play in the Metaverse through scholarship, education, community, institutional-grade research, and blockchain software products

October Gaming Insights - Delphi Digital

Delphi Digital - October Gaming Insights

Delphi Digital is a research firm providing institutional-grade analysis on the digital asset market.

DappRadar - Metaverse Report #2: Demand for Metaverse Remains amidst Crypto Turmoil

DappRadar is a global app store for decentralized applications enabling users to track, analyze, and discover decentralized applications across multiple blockchains

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CMC x Naavik: Blockchain Gaming Q3 2022 Report

Naavik is a research, consulting, and advisory firm focused on enabling games industry professionals to better master the business of gaming.

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Counting on a Powerful Group of Investors for a Web3 Gaming Startup

Despite the challenging conditions in the digital asset markets, major investment entities remain bullish on the blockchain gaming industry. The role & importance of investors in Web3 projects is crucial as companies

FTX Collapse & Impact on Web3 Gaming

Sometimes, the worst thing that can happen to a firm is success. The FTX Gaming portfolio suggests a clear lack of investment thesis beyond sheer involvement. Lack of cohesion combined w/ massive growth can be challenging

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Web3 Games, It's still all about Content

In the F2P world, great integrations of exciting player owned content have produced more than a few megahits. To truly create utility around digital collectibles, Web3 games will need smart designs to support those assets & deliver on the big promises. What's clear is that its still all about content.

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How are NFTs impacting the global games industry

The implementation of NFTs in gaming is certainly a growing trend, one that is representative of the early days of free-to-play and mobile. As we continue to experiment, we'll eventually discover more innovative solutions that will shape the future of the industry resulting in increasingly more successful Web3 games.

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Real Agency - Wizards, Nike Digital Shoes, FTX-backed games and more

Real Agency's newsletter covered Wizards of the Tower of Shade (Deck Building PvP & Adventure Game), Prometheans (Social NFT Game w/ mechanism similar to Nouns DAO), Nike announcing .Swoosh, and the damage of the FTX fallout on Web3 Games (particularly Star Atlas that had significant holdings on FTX) & Jonah's thoughts on how a "Loot Drop Mechanic Royalty System" would work

How money fundamentally impacts player motivations in Web3 Games

The introduction of monetary value into in-game items completely changes player dynamics. Web 3 games will have to explore various incentive mechanisms and game designs in order to create experiences that provide both social & emotional value while also de-emphasizing financial value as the main objective.

🎬 Podcasts / Interviews / AMAs

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DoF - How do Gaming Venture Capitalists really work?

Spotlight on Mysten Labs

DoF - Tokenomics #20: Why Mysten Labs raised $300m to build a better Layer 1 for Web3 Gaming

100 Thieves branding by Jared Mirabile on Dribbble

DoF - Why Esports Superstar 100 Thieves is starting a Game Studio

The Deconstructor of Fun podcast dives deep into the economic side of the games industry in search of what makes them not only fun but also commercially successful.

FOGDAO Deep Dive - AI Arena - YouTube

FOGDAO - Deep Dive: AI Arena

Philip Collins on LinkedIn: #blockchain #gaming #crypto #nft

FOGcast #21 - What the collapse of FTX means for Crypto & Gaming

FOGDAO is a decentralized community where people can express their ideas, participate in constructive debates and contribute to ongoing discussions around the future of the gaming industry

Into The Metaverse | Yonatan Raz-Fridman "Yon" | Substack

Into The Metaverse - MiniToon: Building Metaverse-Native Game Franchises

Into The Metaverse | Yonatan Raz-Fridman "Yon" | Substack

Into The Metaverse - Supersocial: Why the Metaverse should matter to Brands

Into The Metaverse - Unanimous AI: Building a Non-Exploitative Metaverse

Into The Metaverse - Gaming's Role in the Emerging Metaverse

Into The Metaverse - Chipotle: Marketing in the Metaverse

Into The Metaverse is a multi-segment podcast focused on deep coverage of the metaverse through interviews with brilliant minds who build, create for, and invest in the metaverse

Battlebound: Ex-Riot Dev Dives into Web3 — Naavik

Metacast - Battlebound: Ex-Riot Dev dives into Web3

Investing in Web3 Gaming with Magic Eden - The Metacast by Naavik - YouTube

Metacast - Investing in Web3 Gaming w/ Magic Eden

How to Choose a Blockchain + FTX!? - The Metacast By Naavik - YouTube


Metacast - How to choose a Blockchain for your Game

Safary 🦁 (@Safaryclub) / Twitter


Metacast - Building the Web3 Marketing Stack

The Metacast by Naavik is a business-focused exploration of the companies, trends, strategies and leaders that are defining the future of games

🧵Threads

j0eferrara (Ava Labs) - UX Alpha for Games

lordOfAFew (Loot Realms) - Michelin Guide to On-Chain Games

McKenna (ROK Capital) - Thoughts on current Web3 Gaming deals in Primary Markets

Eetherway (Influence) - Games built on Web3 rails lead to more vibrant Community Tools

Andrew Chen (a16z) - Why building the Metaverse is hard

Kevin Lambert (Koin Games) - Why P2E is dead, what will take its place in Web3 Gaming & how this sparks the next Bull Market in Crypto & NFTs

Jonah Blake (Real Third Web) - Why On Chain Video Game Achievements will become massive financial tools

Anil Das-Gupta (Blast Royale) - Weekly take on Gaming: Slush Edition

Sparkc (Wolves DAO) - How to find the next BIG & FREE Gaming Mint

reNFT - Types of Gaming NFTs & how NFT rentals are set to take over the gaming market

📰 News / Updates / Action Items

🔍 Newly Spotted Projects

  1. [GAME] Summoners War: Chronicles. Action RPG based in the Summoners War Universe

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  2. [GAME] Kasumi Dungeons. Indie Arcade Dungeon-Crawler being built on Treasure DAO

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  3. [INFRA] Visions DAO. Decentralized Module Stack for on-chain business simulation games

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  4. [GAME] Mystis. Game on StarkNet

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  1. [GAME] Lazarus. Open World MMO being built by Dais Labs

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  2. [GAME STUDIO] Dais Labs. Studio building out Lazarus with their first title being Animal Kart, a multiplayer racing game incorporating a play-to-mint structure to reward players for competing & racing against one another

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  3. [GAME STUDIO] Bloom Game Collective. In Stealth

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  1. [MARKETPLACE] OwnableX. Marketplace for gamers & collectors

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  1. [INFRA] Nefta. End to End Web3 Game Platform for launching & operating Web3 Games

  1. [GAME] Project Apidom. MOBA game in the Breach.gg miniverse

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  1. [SOCIAL] Breach. Social platform for gamers

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  1. [GAME] Age of Metalands. Mystical world combining playability & ownership (By Brain Labs)

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  1. [GAME] Crypto Towns. On Chain Medieval Town Builder game by Emerson Hsieh & tax cuts

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  1. [GAME] Stratagems. Persistent & permissionless board game where 4 colors compete for control of the board

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  2. [GAME] Prometheans. Social NFT game by Giancarlo

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