“What crypto winter?” the Illuvium team is asking after raising $72m in a smooth, well-structured land sale which raised a giant war chest of funds for the developer without crashing any networks along the way. We spoke in depth about the sale with Economy Designer Khaled Alroumi.
Recently, I had the pleasure of speaking with game industry veteran Michael Rubinelli, current Chief Gaming Officer at WAX, a blockchain purpose built for the high transaction frequency and volume of blockchain games. Michael is already seeing massive success with the launch of Blockchain Brawlers on WAX. In this episode, we discussed the importance of using language that gamers understand in the crypto space, mutual lessons from our time in free-to-play, legendary MtG’s creator Richard Garfield’s involvement in Blockchain Brawlers, and why Michael believes that play-to-earn & Web3 will become dominant in the world of gaming…
Writing a Whitepaper is a brand new “primitive” for Web3 game development. Part game design document, part marketing pitch, the Whitepaper has become an essential part of your go to market campaign. In this interview, we talk to Void Runners’ spacedog about writing the whitepaper for her upcoming Web3 game.
As a basement dwelling nerd, I cannot tell you how many hours my best friends and I clocked delighting at the cries of “Special Delivery” “Traitor!” and “You’ll Regret That!” while taking our turn at the keyboard playing Worms 2. Although not a franchise I keep up with to this day, it is one near and dear to my heart. But even as a vocal advocate for crypto-gaming, when I saw the headlines announcing Team17’s […]
Over on Twitter, the white hot, Solana powered crypto game Aurory released a 1 minute video of gameplay footage from the upcoming RPG game. If you are a game developer new to crypto gaming and don’t know about Aurory, your head might simply explode on learning that this game is already a 9 figure USD business success…
projects feel more like community co-development projects than what we traditionally think of as game development process. Its kickstarter/early access on steroids. A small but passionate and well-heeled community can bootstrap a project that experienced game devs might look at and go “this is pure vapor…
Announced just 3 weeks ago, Fractal has exploded onto the scene, garnering over 110k Discord followers in short order. With Twitch co-founder Justin Kan at the helm, this Solana powered NFT platform already has 9 marquee Solana games on the platform including many we plan on following over the coming months…
Animoca Brands. Crazy Defense Heroes was first released in 2018 and Crazy Kings in 2014. Sporting a similar art style, they are both classic styled tower defense games similar to familiar hero-based TD games like Kingdom Rush. In 2021, Animoca Brands launched $TOWER and is using it as a shared play-to-earn token across both games…
Splinterlands, the Hive chain powered collectible card game, revealed its 2022 roadmap for the $SPS governance token. Released in July of 2021, the $SPS token has a market cap of nearly $75m at time of writing. According to the $SPS Whitepaper, the utility of $SPS will be “participating in governance. Splinterlands plans to introduce a governance voting system into the game platform that will allow players holding staked SPS tokens to vote for or against […]
Star Atlas, the Solana powered 4x space strategy game, continues its streak of impressive visuals with the release of a new video featuring 48 seconds of footage captured in the Unreal 5 Engine. But is this latest video proof that Star Atlas is real, or just vapor meant to power the sale of high-priced NFTs? The video, featuring a ship landing in a hanger, is no doubt beautiful. Clocking in under 50 seconds, you could […]