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This week we sat down with Long Do to discuss his latest project, Anomaly. A blockchain infrastructure provider/gaming ecosystem with a specific focus on scaling casual games on social platforms.

Long shared his thoughts on the importance of building where the users are, how on-chain player ID and community building are at the heart of social gaming ecosystems, and how they plan to leverage NFTs for cross-game composability.
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Ryan Wiancko is the co-founder and CEO of IronBelly Group, a company that has comprehensive experience as a first-party game studio, a studio-for-hire, and currently as a backend services provider with >50 proprietary gameplay systems that power some of the industry’s top action games.

We sat down with Ryan to discuss the topic of “build vs. buy” and how services like theirs are democratizing game development and simplifying workflows so teams can get back to focusing on finding the fun.

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Andy Lee has extensive experience in Chinese FinTech firms as well as at Lightspeed, a Tencent game studio that did a lot of work on PUBG and Team Fight Tactics. Andy is now co-founder and CEO at Mugen Interactive, a mini-game studio leveraging blockchain systems.

We sat down with Andy to discuss similarities between WeChat and Telegram mini-games, how Telegram’s leading blockchain, TON, will fast-track ecosystem growth, and what the early-stage playbook will look like for teams looking to leverage the platform’s recent explosive growth.

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Zero Edge is building a fully on-chain casino that asks the question, “What would happen if we gave 100% of the house edge back to players?” We sat down with Richard Kim, founder, and CEO of Zero Edge, to better under why he is building the anti-casino, what a zero EV environment means for key stakeholders and the difference between crypto companies and crypto countries.

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Arena X Labs is on a mission to make machine learning fun again by gamifying AI inference. We sat down with co-founders Brandon and Wei to discuss what they learned building an AI 2D fighting game and how it encouraged them to create two AI-focused platforms called ARC and SAI.

Key themes throughout the conversation include commoditizing player skill, nuances between different learning models and the AI agents they produce, and how abstracting complex machine learning models with competitive games will onboard the next generation of AI engineers.

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We sat down with Toby Saunders, co-founder of Cathedral Games, to chat about their soon-to-launch action horror FPS game The Bornless.

Toby highlights how they reverse-engineered the “perfect game” for Steam users, getting on Steam’s front page with nothing but elbow grease and gorilla marketing, and how they are managing both a hardcore PC gamer community and NFTs.

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Giulio is the co-founder of LiquidX, a crypto native venture studio turned operator who moved into Web3 gaming via an acquisition of the infamous Pixelmon IP in 2022.

Giulio is now the CEO of Pixelmon and the MON Protocol, and in this episode, we discuss the key learnings from the Pixelmon acquisition, weaponizing a community for UA growth hacking, and the sad state of current game token launches.

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Parallel Studios is a Web3-native games developer that launched in 2021. The team is currently building two games, a sci-fi TCG called Parallel and an AI-powered mining sim called Parallel Colony.

We sat down with co-founder and lead game designer Kohji to talk about how blockchain integrations impact game design, why fun is the true Trojan horse, and the novel emergent behaviors AI agents can facilitate.

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Cambria is a fully on-chain game that takes heavy inspiration from Old School Runescape. We sat down with the founder, Ben, to talk about designing game systems rooted in nostalgia, leveraging high-stakes mechanics to attract crypto whales, and discovering key motivations for degen player types.

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Tiltyard is a Web3 native game studio that has been building blockchain games since 2021. The team has taken what they learned from their previous two titles and is now building Midnight Heist, a fully on-chain high-stakes card battler.

We had a chat with co-founder and CEO Kix to discuss why the benefits of bridging real-money gaming to the blockchain outweigh the downsides brought on by the constraints of building fully on-chain.

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