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Apr 17, 2024 • 40min
165 | Building The Sandbox
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In episode 165, Jon Jordan talks to Sebastien Borget and Nicola Sebastiani from The Sandbox to discuss what's going on with the UGC metaverse platform, which is due to transition from alpha to beta in 2024.

Apr 10, 2024 • 44min
164 | How Shrapnel becomes a crafting UGC shooter
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In episode 164, Jon Jordan talks to Shrapnel's head of studio Don Norbury about feedback from the extraction shooter's early access, the future introduction of item crafting and UGC, whether web2 gamers are playing Shrapnel, game dev sentiment around blockchain, how Shrapnel can become a console game, and why the game's underlying Mercury tech platform is opening up to thirdparties.

Apr 4, 2024 • 44min
163 | The rise of in-game NFT marketplaces
Sam Barberie, Sequence's head of strategy and partnerships, discusses the shift to in-game NFT marketplaces, the integration of Web3 and crypto in gaming, challenges faced by developers, dynamics of in-game NFT marketplaces like Skyweaver and Magic Eden, and the potential revenue for developers in the rise of in-game marketplaces.

Mar 27, 2024 • 37min
162 | How Minecraft ban built Hytopia
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In episode 162, Jon Jordan talks to ArkDev about the history of what was originally called NFTWorlds and is now called Hytopia and its Hychain blockchain.

Mar 20, 2024 • 41min
161 | HyperPlay and native Web3 game distribution
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In Episode 161, Jon Jordan talks to Jacobc.eth about HyperPlay, a game distribution store for web3 games, as well as an aggregator of other game stores, about competing with Steam, Apple and Google and how the disruptive power of web3 in this sector has been underestimated.

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.