Blockchain Gaming World

Jon Jordan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BlockchainGamer.biz editor⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 8th August 2024, including: The most popular games for July: Pixels, Blocklords Dynasty, Catizen. Blockchain game sector investment trends, 2024 YTD is down 33% compared to 2023. Drake Star's Global Gaming Report Q2 2024 has some fundamental mistakes cf blockchain game funding. July's investment total of $38 million was the second lowest in 3.5 years. Crypto price crash as a result of wider financial fragility cf Yen carry trade, US jobs etc. Why Gamee is building again on Telegram/TON. How sustainable are these highly viral audiences? Ubisoft's blockchain-based Captain Laserhawk game with player governance.

Check out ⁠Jon's daily email at GamesTX⁠ In episode 176, Jon Jordan talks to Gamee chairman Bozena Rezab about why the casual gaming network is returning to Telegram with its WAT Protocol, 8 years on from when it was a launch partner for gaming on the messaging platform. Reasons include viral scaling of audience, its Star monetization network and native crypto support thanks to the integrated TON blockchain.

Jon Jordan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BlockchainGamer.biz editor⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 2nd August 2024, including: Cosmic Bomber has launched, exclusively for Moca ID users at the moment. Manchester United has launched a fantasy soccer game on Tezos. New rewards campaigns from Earn Alliance, HyperPlay, Gamer7 and MetaCene. Magic Eden is now The Sandbox's official NFT marketplace and launchpad. Ronin has hit 2 million DAUWs, but is this actually significant? Do developers care about bots? A game that does care about bots is Pirate Nation. Blocklords Dynasty has done 1 million lifetime wallets on Base. How many bots? What percentage of active wallets are bots? In general, on Telegram etc?

Check out Jon's daily email at GamesTX In episode 175, Jon Jordan talks to Mighty Bear Games' CEO Simon Davis about its competitive reward gaming ecosystem Goat Gaming, which is leveraging channels such as Telegram.

Jon Jordan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BlockchainGamer.biz editor⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 26th July 2024, including: Our Game of the Week is Splinterlands' TD game SoulKeep. Animoca announces a $20 million strategic partnership with TON. Studio 369 announces idle companion game Metalcore Arena and vehicle NFT sale. Boomland announced how the Hunters On-Chain BOOM token airdrop will work. Why this NFT-token approach could drop the BOOM price in the short-term. We've been playing a lot of browser companion game Blocklords Dynasty. Why we stopped playing Blocklords PC game. But is Blocklords a good example of a blockchain game rightly taking it very slow? More games coming to Telegram/TON. Is this a good platform for blockchain games? NFL Rivals has hit $7 million of NFT trading volume. Illuvium has gone live as have Champions Tactics' champions NFTs.

Jon Jordan⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠BlockchainGamer.biz editor⁠⁠⁠⁠ Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 19th July 2024, including: BCGbiz Mavens discussion on how to choose a blockchain -- grants, community, tech? Immutable was the fastest growing blockchain in terms of new titles in Q2 2024. Wemix changes its blockchain strategy to fewer, high quality games. Stardust has launched its Starbase rewards network. Why no-one should use the term "onboarding a billion web3 gamers". Do we need another web3 gaming reward platform? What are blockchain game developers still getting wrong (about tokens). Why Pirate Nation is an example of doing it right (or at least better). The original sin of blockchain game developers is selling tokens and NFTs. Why this means traditional game developers will be more successful than crypto-natives. How can developers build value into their game assets from the ground-up?

Jon Jordan⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠BlockchainGamer.biz editor⁠⁠⁠ Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 12th July 2024, including: Launch of Mocaverse's MOCA token Soccerverse raises $3 million from Square Enix Forgotten Runiverse is moving from Arbitrum to Ronin. Smilegate's MMORPG Nine Lords will be going live on Line's DOSI platform, plus Jon muses on how to combine the financial and psychological value of digital assets

Check out Jon's daily email at ⁠GamesTX.Substack.com⁠ In episode 174, ⁠Jon Jordan⁠ talks to ArenaX's Wei Xei about how the company is looking to apply its AI technology - reinforced machine learning - for blockchain games such as AI Arena, as well as onboarding people to the AI sector more generally.

Jon Jordan⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠BlockchainGamer.biz editor⁠⁠ Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 5th July 2024, including: Immutable has seen a 30% rise in daily active wallets during June up to 300,000 DAUWs. Hunters On-Chain and Guild of Guardians are the most popular games on Immutable zkEVM. Discussing 69% of Pixels' peak DAUWs being bots. Does it matter? Alien Worlds' genAI tool for UGC lore. Yat Siu is bullish on the rise of Telegram as a platform for web3 gaming.

Jon Jordan⁠ and ⁠BlockchainGamer.biz editor⁠ Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 28th June 2024, including: Talking to Sky Mavis' Jeff Zirlin about whether web3 gaming is dead. Pixels' DAUWs are down a lot since Chapter 2 launched. Is Sky Mavis' support for Axie Infinity now flogging a dead horse? How do you reinvent an IP c.f. Rovio and Angry Birds? Lumiterra announced for Ronin, not Solana, (probably)! Talking to Pixels' CMO Heidi about building solid community. Shardbound has launched an open beta via Epic Games Store. Netmarble is bringing its Marblex platform to Immutable zkEVM.