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The New Gold Rush (Ep. 8)
Gamecraft
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In the mid-1980s, LucasArts released their own graphical mud called Habitat. The game designers tried to limit themselves to building just tools and infrastructure. In 2018, a Vietnamese-based game developer began operating a game called Axie Infinity. It's a cute casual game in which players collect virtual pets or axes. But this wasn't a normal casual game; it was a cartoonish facade on a sophisticated virtual economy built on the blockchain.
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