Blockchain Gaming World

Read Jon's daily GamesTX email at Substack. In episode 166, Jon Jordan talks to Steve Wade, the CEO of Midnight about Evergreen, something he describes a gaming multiverse, which will start releasing its first games in Q4 2024 and hopes to build out an interoperable platform for items and trading.

Check out Jon's daily email via Substack. 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.

Check out Jon's daily email at GamesTX. 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.

Check out Jon's daily email via Substack. In episode 163, Jon Jordan talks to Sequence's head of strategy and partnerships Sam Barberie about the shift from thirdparty NFT marketplace such as OpenSea to in-game marketplaces, and why this is vital for developers to make the most of the opportunities provided by player-owned economies.

Check out Jon's GamesTX Substack here. 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.

Check out Jon's daily Substack: GamesTX. 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.

Check out Jon's daily Substack here. 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.

Check out Jon's daily Substack - GamesTX In episode 159, Jon Jordan talks to Animoca Brands' chairman Yat Siu in a wide-ranging talk covering everything from:

Check out Jon's daily Substack - GamesTX 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.

Check out Jon's daily Substack. 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”.

Check out Jon's daily Substack at https://gamestx.substack.com/ 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.

Check out Jon's daily Substack at https://gamestx.substack.com/ In episode 155, Jon Jordan talks to Mythical Games' CEO John Linden about its decision to build on Polkadot, the formation of the Mythos Foundation and why its games are all going to be distributed through Apple and Google's app stores.

Check out Jon's daily Substack at https://gamestx.substack.com/ In Episode 154, Jon Jordan talks to Pixels CEO Luke Barwikoswki on the remarkable rise of the social RPG, which was triggered by its relaunch on Ronin in November 2023

Check out Jon's daily Substack at https://gamestx.substack.com/ In Episode 154, Jon Jordan talks to Pixels CEO Luke Barwikoswki on the remarkable rise of the social RPG, which was triggered by its relaunch on Ronin in November 2023

Check out Jon's daily Substack at https://gamestx.substack.com/ In episode 153, Jon Jordan talks to Playmint CEO David Amor about the rise of fully onchain blockchain games, including Downstream, its currently in-development title.

Check out Jon's daily Substack at https://gamestx.substack.com/ Read the transcription at BlockchainGamer.biz In BCGW #152, Jon Jordan talks to the founder of Kratos Studios Manish Agarwal about how it's building out a global community of gamers. Starting in India, with the acquisition of IndiGG, but now in Indonesia, Brazil, Nigeria, Turkey etc, Kratos has over 1 million players, organized in 14,000 clans and has distributed >$1 million to players as they complete quests in both web2 and web3 mobile games. As Agarwal says it, Kratos is all about solving the LTV>CAC equation for every type of game.

Check out Jon's daily Substack at https://gamestx.substack.com/ We kick off 2024 with a discussion between Jon and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny on our predictions for blockchain gaming in 2024. Subjects covered include: Axie InfinityShrapnel, Off The Grid, Pixels

Check out Jon's daily Substack at https://gamestx.substack.com/ In BCGW #150, Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan discuss the key news stories of 2023.

Check out Jon's daily Substack at https://gamestx.substack.com/ In BCGW #149, Jon Jordan talks to Horizon Blockchain Games CEO Peter Kieltyka about his love of open source coding, why Horizon developed TCG Skyweaver in order to build all-in-one web3 stack Sequence, and the difference between non-custodial and self-custodial wallets.

Check out Jon's daily Substack at https://gamestx.substack.com/ Check out Game7's State of Web3 Gaming report at https://research.game7.io/state-of-web3-gaming-2023 In BCGW #148, Jon Jordan talks to Game7's head of research George Isichos about the State of Web3 Gaming report the DAO has released.