Blockchain Gaming World

Check out Jon's daily Substack at https://gamestx.substack.com/ 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.

Check out Jon's daily Substack at https://gamestx.substack.com/ 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"?

Check out Jon's daily Substack at https://gamestx.substack.com/ In BCGW #150, Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan discuss the key news stories of 2023.

Check out Jon's daily Substack at https://gamestx.substack.com/ In BCGW #149, Jon Jordan talks to Horizon Blockchain Games CEO Peter Kieltyka about his love of open source coding, why Horizon developed TCG Skyweaver in order to build all-in-one web3 stack Sequence, and the difference between non-custodial and self-custodial wallets.

Check out Jon's daily Substack at https://gamestx.substack.com/ Check out Game7's State of Web3 Gaming report at https://research.game7.io/state-of-web3-gaming-2023 In BCGW #148, Jon Jordan talks to Game7's head of research George Isichos about the State of Web3 Gaming report the DAO has released.

Check out Jon's daily Substack at https://gamestx.substack.com/ In BCGW #147, Jon Jordan talks to Find Satoshi Lab's COO Shiti Manghani about what it was like to experience the rapid success of move-to-earn game STEPN in early 2022, why the company has built out an ecosystem including a DEX and NFT marketplace, and what's next including new social mobile game Gas Hero.

Check out Jon's daily Substack at https://gamestx.substack.com/ In BCGW #146, Jon Jordan talks to MetaKing Studios' CEO David Johansson about strategy PC MMOG Blocklords, which is now playable in open beta via Epic Games Store in its early iteration. David talks about the vision for the game, which is a MMO with strategy elements and epic battles, where you start off as a farmer, gathering resources, but in which you can create a family dynasty and work your way up to become a king of your region. MMO game with strategy elements, epic battles but where you start off as a farmer but you can work your way up to be a king

Check out Jon's daily Substack at https://gamestx.substack.com/ In BCGW #145, Jon Jordan talks to Superlayer's Kevin Chou about his career in gaming (Kabam, Gen.G, Rally, Forte) and new launch Trophy, a games ID and discovery platform in which players can earn 98% of their ad revenue by sharing data with advertisers.

Check out Jon's daily Substack at https://gamestx.substack.com/ In BCGW episode #144, Jon Jordan talks to Proof of Play CEO Amitt Mahajan about his career - as a co-creator of FarmVille etc - and why he's so excited about building fully onchain games - such as debut Pirate Nation - which are fully composable and unlock new experiences both for developers, players and their communities.

Check out Jon's daily Substack at https://gamestx.substack.com/ In BCGW #143, Jon Jordan talks to SKALE Networks' Jack O'Holleran about the Ethereum-based scaling solution's recent rise as a blockchain for high performance games.