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- BCGW #41: Talking Battle Racers with Altitude’s Luna Javier
This week, Jon Jordan talks to Altitude Games’ creative director Luna Javier about the mobile game developer’s move into blockchain games. Its debut title Battle Racers will launch as one of the first partnerships with Decentraland in the coming months.
Topics covered included:
- Why Altitude Games got interested in blockchain
- The happenstance that resulted in Battle Racers joining Decentraland
- How the game has been designed to be accessible for everyone
- And how it integrates the Ethereum blockchain for more committed players, notably via the metagame provided by its vehicle NFTs, which can be levelled up as well as deconstructed back to their constituent parts
Links
- Battle Racers’ website
- Battle Racers’ Medium
- Altitude Games’ website
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27 min - BCGW#40: Talking F1, brands and NFT value with Animoca Brand's Robby Yung
This week, Jon Jordan talks to Animoca Brands’ CEO Robby Yung about the Hong Kong-based developer and publisher’s 2018 pivot from mobile games into blockchain products, notably blockchain gaming.
Note: This interview happened prior to Animoca’s announcement it was acquiring German developer Stryking for $1 million, plus its investment raise of $3 million.
Topics covered included:
- Why Animoca moved from mobile to blockchain
- The value of the true ownership of digital items
- How big brands such as F1 think about blockchain, especially how it changes in their level of control
- How the F1 Delta Time game will link into the real F1 season
- User generated content and The Sandbox game
- Animoca Brand’s acquisition strategy
- Why Robby is bullish about blockchain gaming in 2019
Links
- Animoca Brands website
- F1 Delta Time website
- The Sandbox website
- Robby Yung on Twitter
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25 min - BCGW#39: Why MLB Crypto Baseball became MLB Champions
This week, Jon Jordan (@blockchaingmg) and James McQuillan (@BCGbiz) talk about how three blockchain games are positioning themselves for mass market success, in terms of their use of licenses, marketing and community outreach.
Topics covered included:
Why MLB Crypto Baseball 2018 become MLB Champions and has removed blockchain from its onboarding.
Neon District's Founders Sale.
The announcement of the F1 Delta Time blockchain game from Animoca Brands.
Links
MLB Champions website
Neon District website
F1 Delta Time website
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25 min - BCGW#38: Talking Axie Infinity with COO Alexsander Larsen
In this episode, I talk to Alexsander Larsen, the COO of Axie Infinity about the background to and future of the breeding-and-battling blockchain game, which is a great example of technological expertise and community focus.
Topics covered include:
- How Alexsander got into blockchain games and connected with Axie Infinity’s founders (Trung and Jeff)
- How the game was influenced by CryptoKitties, notably in terms of creating item value
- Axie Infinity’s recent Land sale and the vision for the Lunacia open world in future years
- Funding and dealing with the CryptoWinter
- The road to mainstream adoption of blockchain games
- Axie Infinity’s goal to move from an Ethereum and Metamask-gated game to a more open meta-chain experience
- And how the blockchain gaming sector is likely to fare in 2019
Episode links:
- Axie Infinity website
- Alexsander’s Twitter
- Jon’s Twitter
- BCG on YouTube
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25 min - BCGW#37: Is Ripple the next gaming blockchain?
In this week's podcast, Jon Jordan and James (@BCGbiz) discuss the announcement a $100 million game development fund to be managed by Ripple's Xpring outfit and new blockchain gaming startup Forte. We also delve into the expanding universe of new blockchains, which could be used for gaming including IOST, Cosmos etc, and think about why success in this space will be more than just technical excellence .
You can check out the video version of the podcast here.
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20 min - BCGW#36: Talking blockchain games with Gabby Dizon
Following the end of DGC Dubai 2019 (where we were both speaking), I caught up with Gabby Dizon, chairman of Alto.io, to talk about what's going on in the world of blockchain games, in particularly Gabby's love of Axie Infinity, and how that game has built a strong player community and economy.
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14 min - BCGW#35: Springtime for blockchain games
Following the Crypto Winter, it could be spring for blockchain games. Jon Jordan and James (@BCGbiz) discuss the surprising pop of Enjin Coin's USD value (up +150%) thanks to its Samsung S10 tie-in, also talking more generally about the BUIDLing not HODLing attitude from blockchain games companies ranging from Decentraland to Loom Network, as well as the difference between "blockchain games" and games with some blockchain features.
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17 min - BCGW#34: Talking MLB Crypto Baseball with Lucid Sight
In this interview, I talk to Randy Saaf (CEO) and Fazri Zubair (CTO) of US developer Lucid Sight about its blockchain games MLB Crypto Baseball and CSC (Crypto Space Commander), including how it's finding balance between the decentralization needed for secure NFT ownership and the frictionless onboarding that a mass market license such as MLB requires, including fiat payments.
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31 min - BCGW#33: NFTs - challenges and opportunities
Non-Fungible Tokens are one of the key trends in blockchain games, so Jon Jordan and James (@BCGbiz) discuss what an NFT is, why they're becoming so important, and what some of the issues are, especially as NFTs are increasingly being spoken about as speculative investments.
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24 min - BCGW#32: Talking OpenSea with Devin Finzer
In this interview, I talk to the CTO of blockchain game marketplace OpenSea Devin Finzer about the importance of such thirdparty marketplaces in the open blockchain game ecosystem, especially in terms of offering pre-launch item sales for funding, game discoverability, and overall market liquidity.
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