

Blockchain Gaming World
jon jordan
Everything you need to know about Blockchain Gaming.
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Mar 13, 2024 • 29min
160 | Building mech shooter MetalCore
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In episode 160, Jon Jordan talks to Studio 369's CTO Dan Nikolaides about the development process for F2P PC-based combined arms shooter MetalCore, which is currently in closed beta.

Mar 6, 2024 • 49min
159 | Oh, the stories Yat Siu tells...
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In episode 159, Jon Jordan talks to Animoca Brands' chairman Yat Siu in a wide-ranging talk covering everything from:
John Locke and meme coins,
to how Mocaverse helped the growth of Pixels,
what is the Moca Foundation,
why web3 is fundamentally better for gamers than web2,
why Animoca Brands has invested in 450 web3 companies,
why DAOs need to be messy, and
why Yat thinks western gamer designers are "quite socialist"

Feb 29, 2024 • 35min
158 | Gaming on Moonbeam
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In episode 158, Jon Jordan talk to Moonbeam's head of ecosystem Sicco Naets about the opportunities arising from the Polkadot-based L1 and its cross-chain EVM-compatible design.

Feb 21, 2024 • 34min
157 | Building the first web3 meta economy game
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In episode 157, Jon talks to Voya Games' Oli Loffler about his project Angry Dynomites Lab, which is currently playable on testnet as Craft World; something he describes as “the world’s first meta economy game”.

Feb 14, 2024 • 38min
156 | Telling the tale of Nine Chronicles M
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In episode 156, Jon Jordan talks to JC Kim, the CEO of South Korean web3 developer Planetarium about the story behind its idle RPG Nine Chronicles M, which is now out for PC and mobile, with around 100,000 MAUs.

Feb 7, 2024 • 39min
155 | Why Mythical Games is bullish on web3 gaming via app stores
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In episode 155, Jon Jordan talks to Mythical Games' CEO John Linden about its decision to build on Polkadot, the formation of the Mythos Foundation and why its games are all going to be distributed through Apple and Google's app stores.

Jan 31, 2024 • 34min
154 | The ground-up rise of Pixels
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In Episode 154, Jon Jordan talks to Pixels CEO Luke Barwikoswki on the remarkable rise of the social RPG, which was triggered by its relaunch on Ronin in November 2023

Jan 24, 2024 • 39min
153 | Autonomous worlds and godless games
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In episode 153, Jon Jordan talks to Playmint CEO David Amor about the rise of fully onchain blockchain games, including Downstream, its currently in-development title.

Jan 17, 2024 • 38min
152 | How Kratos is building a global gaming community
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Read the transcription at BlockchainGamer.biz
In BCGW #152, Jon Jordan talks to the founder of Kratos Studios Manish Agarwal about how it's building out a global community of gamers. Starting in India, with the acquisition of IndiGG, but now in Indonesia, Brazil, Nigeria, Turkey etc, Kratos has over 1 million players, organized in 14,000 clans and has distributed >$1 million to players as they complete quests in both web2 and web3 mobile games. As Agarwal says it, Kratos is all about solving the LTV>CAC equation for every type of game.

Jan 10, 2024 • 44min
151 | Blockchain games in 2024
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We kick off 2024 with a discussion between Jon and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny on our predictions for blockchain gaming in 2024. Subjects covered include:
2023 was a bad year for blockchain games
Is the biggest threat external forces or get-rich-quick mentality?
Remembering the Axie Infinity boom in late 2021
Will the hit games of 2024 be the ones we currently know
Shrapnel, Off The Grid, Pixels
Is UGC the future of blockchain gaming?
Is mobile the future of blockchain gaming?
Are fully onchain games the future of blockchain gaming?
Should we even talk about "blockchain games"?


