#256: Rudy Koch, Co-Founder of Fenix Games, on Web3 Gaming, Shipping World-Class Games, and Treating Gamers as Stakeholders

Rudy Koch is the co-founder of Fenix Games, which is based out of UAE. He is also the co-founder of Web 3 unicorn Mythical Games, which has raised $270M and is valued at $1.25B. Rudy has over 15 years of game development experience shipping some of the most prolific games in the industry: 5 Call of Duty games, 2 World of Warcraft expansions, 1 Disney MMO, and a handful of #1 mobile games. He is currently exploring the intersection between blockchain technology and games.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Partnership with Immutable
- Making money playing games
- Shipping famous games like Call of Duty and World of Warcraft
- Shift of gaming: pay-to-play > free-to-play > web3
- Inviting players in as stakeholders
- Game-specific DAOs
- Gaming as a career path
- Web3 allowing gamers to participate in gaming economies
- Biggest advantages/features of web3 gaming compared to web2 gaming
- The biggest roadblocks stifling the mass adoption of web3 gaming

Fenix Games
Website: www.fenixgames.com
Twitter: @playfenixgames
LinkedIn: Fenix Games

Rudy Koch
Twitter: @rudykoch
LinkedIn: Rudy Koch

 
 
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