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30 August 2024 | Weekly news roundup Aug 30, 2024

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Jon Jordan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BlockchainGamer.biz editor⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 30th August 2024.

23 August 2024 | Weekly news roundup Aug 23, 2024

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Jon Jordan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BlockchainGamer.biz editor⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 23rd August 2024.

177 | Promoting long-term play in Blocklords Aug 21, 2024

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In episode 177, Jon Jordan talks to MetaKing Studios' CEO David Johansson about the launch of fully onchain companion game Blocklords Dynasty, as well as the long term plans for PC strategy game Blocklords, including the launch of the battle mode, NFT permadeath and family lineage.

The thinking behind fully onchain game Blocklords Dynasty. "Onchain transactions are how people measure traction in this space." Dynasty came from adding utility to our hero NFTs while being fully onchain. With Base Paymaster, the user didn't have to pay gas for their first five transactions. Balancing the ability to scale the game to 130,000 DAUWs while limiting bot activity. The referral system really drove viral growth, plus partnerships with Mocaverse etc. Bots are a problem but the industry values user numbers. The PC game's daily activity has been around 30,000 since March 2024. It's hard to give away tokens as rewards when you know people are going to sell them. Launch of the LRDS token ... "We're quite happy, especially being on Coinbase". Why Blocklords is building its own Lordchain, not using an off-the-shelf solution. In-game utility of a token won't impact price until you have 5, 10, 15 million players. Why does Blocklords have permadeath for its NFT heroes? The counter balance to permadeath is building out your family's lineage. The importance of resource trading in the game. The game's difficulty level is currently extremely hard but we will ease it over time. The next key element to be released later this year will be an alpha of the battle mode.

16 August 2024 | Weekly news roundup Aug 16, 2024

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Jon Jordan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BlockchainGamer.biz editor⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 16th August 2024, including:

Three months post-launch, is Guild of Guardians a success or failure? Scaling web3 games through the app stores is really hard. Autoverse Studios has raised $8 million for its drag racing game on Immutable. What's the percentage of bots in blockchain gaming? Fully onchain game Blocklords Dynasty lost 80% of its audience post-P2A token event. All web3 game devs deal with the tension of scaling audience while rewarding skilled players. Pixelcraft announces its Geist L3, including anti-bot measures. MOJO token goes live on Base on 19th August.

8 August 2024 | Weekly news roundup Aug 08, 2024

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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.

176 | Why Gamee is back building on Telegram Aug 07, 2024

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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.

2 August 2024 | Weekly news roundup Aug 03, 2024

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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?

175 | Goat Gaming's vision for Telegram Jul 31, 2024

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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.

26 July 2024 | Weekly news roundup Jul 26, 2024

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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.

19 July 2024 | Weekly news roundup Jul 19, 2024

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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?

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