A weekly newsletter containing a curated list of the week’s most notable Web 3 gaming reports, podcasts, events, quotes and threads for you to catch up on 👇
📁 Reports / Research / Essays
Ancient 8: Polygon is a game changer for Web3 Gaming & NFTs
Messari: Analyzing the Market Potential of Fully On-chain Games
Frostlam (Qiming VC): Unleasing the Secrets to GameFi's Success
A 20-year journey of Open Economic Gaming Mastery
DeFrag DAO: Knights of the Ether Research Report
David Amor (Playmint): Digital Physics in On-Chain Games
Mint Ventures: Limit Break and its DigiDaigaku NFTs are a true Paradigm Shift in Web3 Gaming
Balthazar DAO - NFT marketplace update (Feb 2023)
🎬 Podcasts / AMAs / Watches+
FOGcast #33 — NFT Marketplace Drama, Creator Royalties & The Future of Game Monetization
FOGcast #34 — Bitcoin NFTs, CSGOs Success & Gaming NFTs v2.0
Navik — Manish Agarwal (IndiGG): Bringing Web3 Gaming to India
📝 Notes / Summaries
Rich Cabrera (Ready Player DAO) — CS:GO GDC 2014 Talk Summary
🧵Threads
Ben (Crypto.com) — Reflections on the Web3 Gaming Thesis and how has it evolved from 2021 to now
A ZEUS — Quick thread on Avalon raising $13m to build an interoperable digital universe
Degen Wars — Basic Gameplay Thread
Reboot GG — All about Reboot.gg
Andrew Chen (a16z) — Why its going to be hard for AI startups to break into the gaming industry
ggQuest — Thread about ggQuest & its Progression System
Kalos (Parallel) — ETH Denver Gaming Takeaways
Sachi Kamiya (Polygon) — Why am I bullish on Web3 Gaming
Simon (Mighty Bear Games) — What's next for projects that didn't get to raise enough
Makai Witch (Otaku Guild) — Web3 Gaming WL Tier List
Kartoha (Metaguild) — 5 Decks to play around with in Parallel
Recloner — 🧵 on Mithraeum's 1st Autonomous-Algorithmic Wipe
lordOfAFew (Loot Realms) — On chain gaming teams are realizing the limits of bare EVM / solidity
Vulcan Forged — New Chapter for Vulcan as Vulcan Studios Rebrands
ZTX Financial District — An introduction to the metaverse that Zepeto & Jump are creating
Mystis Game — Intro to Mystis, an on-chain fighting game on StarkNet
Mystic Games — Intro to Mystic Games & their Web3 Roguelite ARPG
Wale.Swoosh (Azuki) — Amazon is building an NFT Marketplace
📰 News / Updates / Action Items
🔍 Newly Spotted Projects
Block Born Studio — No info yet — more
Spectarium — A Nordic, fantasy world RPG — more
Bor3d Games — Game Publisher & Studio by Kyler Frisbee (w/ Robin Chan, Matt Sorg & Justin Kan as Advisors) — more
Galaxy Throne — Fully on-chain Sci-Fi Strategy Building Game (Won 1st in TRON Hackathon: GameFi Track) — more
Dragon Crossing — Web3 RPG launching in May 2023 — more
Trudan Studios — Game studio developing KuroroBeast on Arbitrum — more
Avalon — Game Studio building an interoperable digital MMORPG (Recently raised $13m) — more
Starfall Gates — Project related to the Web3 MOBA, Starfall Arena — more
ZTX Official — Metaverse being built by Zepeto & Jump — more
Momometaverse — NFT Metaverse Project — more
Magic Block — Web3 studio building on-chain mobile games — more
Garbles Fun — Mobile game that cleans up the planet (Developed by Magic Block) — more
DCL Studios — Studio for Decentraland — more
Reboot GG — Reboot GG is a decentralized, scalable framework for skill-based games that rewards players & developers — more
Waifu Force — Waifu Force is a AAAAA multiplayer shooter powered by Worlds Org & Unreal Engine 5 — more
Spac3 GG — Space 3 is a Web 3 gaming loyalty platform being developed by Ancient 8 — more
Dark Bright Games — Dark Bright Games is a game studio launched by Treasure DAO that is developing Smolville — more
Starknet Gaming — Gaming on Starknet (Not much info yet) — more
Webe Studio — Web3 Metaverse gaming studio — more
Chess Olympiads — On chain Chess — more
Shadow War Games — Hero-based web3 hybrid-action title being developed by Patriots Division — more
Patriots PMC — Studio developing Shadow War Game — more
Bisonic Games — Game Studio behind Runiverse — more
Runes TCG — Runiverse-themed Trading Card Game (TCG) — more
Warped Canto — Fully onchain PvP MMO RTS on Canto — more
Kamigotchi World — Web3 Pet Idle game by Asphodel Labs on Canto — more
Fun Dream Games — Istanbul based game studio developing web3 mobile games — more
Blink Moon Games — Indie game studio building for cloud gaming — more
Echoplus Studio — Game studio building Code Sekai — more
Code Sekai — Anime Universe being developed by Echo Plus Studio — more
Aradena Warrior — Trading Card Game (TCG) being developed by Litoja Labs — more
L1523Kick Games — Russian indie gaming studio building Worldshards (Sandbox RPG) — more
🗨️ Quotable Quotes
Mitch Lasky (Benchmark) — The laziest VC move in games is "pedigree chasing"
Jon (Play Ember) — Web3 UA is a billion $ opportunity for whomever cracks it
Tommy Ngo (Zynga) — Higher user demand than product supply makes Web3 gaming promising. Esp since there's no playbook yet.
Derek Lau (Guild of Guardian) — We are now seeing Web2 gamers onboarded to NFTs, NOT because of good gameplay, but because of the idea of playing for profit
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