Playlist V4

GM! Welcome to the 4th edition of Playlist 🎮

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 during the weekend 👇


📁 Reports / Research / Essays

  1. Frontier Gaming Watch - Interview with Treeverse CEO, Loopify
  2. Messari - State of Decentral Games Q2 2022 Report
  3. Dean Takahashi - Why Web3 Companies created the Open Metaverse Alliance
  4. Jon Jordan (GamesTX) - Rebooting Crypto Unicorns
  5. Jon Jordan (GamesTX) - Reconsidering the most popular blockchain games
  6. Jon Jordan (GamesTX) - Does it matter if we’re early?
  7. PlayToEarn #135 - Games to Watch in August
  8. IEEE - The Spectacular Collapse of CryptoKitties, the first big blockchain game
  9. BalthazarDAO - Research Report on Phantom Galaxies
  10. Devin Becker (Nami) - NFT Interoperability for reals this time
  11. Marc Canals (Champion Games) - The New Era of Blockchain Gaming
IEEE Spectrum
IEEE Spectrum

🎬 Podcasts / AMAs / Watches

  1. Deconstructor of Fun - Tokenomics #14: How Design Legend Graeme Devine Found Web3 Success with Metropolis Origins
  2. Metacast (Naavik) - Strider DAO: Community-Driven IP Creation
  3. FOGDAO - Weekly Blockchain Gaming Rollup #10
  4. Web3 Breakdowns - Investing in NFTs & the Metaverse
  5. Machinations - Webinar on how to model game loops in Machinations
  6. Real Third Web - Future of Web3 Gaming w/ Jonathan StringField
  7. YGG - Web3 gaming, Acquisition Strategies, YGG Pilipinas Roadshow, etc
  8. NFT Game Chat - Design behind Mithraeum
  9. Wolves DAO - Review of the new NFT Worlds Whitepaper & Tokenomics
  10. Unlockd Finance <> Crypto Guilds - Connecting guilds & scholars with NFT liquidity
  11. Flamingo DAO - How Webaverse is building an immersive, open source metaverse

🧵 Threads on Web 3 Gaming

  1. Decentral Games - What is ICE Poker Tournament Mode: Part 1
  2. Bored Elon Musk - Interoperability in Games
  3. Rich Cabrera (Ready Player DAO) - There are too many metaverses
  4. Shreyansh Singh (Polygon) - Uptime is crucial to Metaverse Gaming
  5. Harry Liu (Animoca Brands) - July Update on Animoca Brands Portfolio Companies

📰 Web 3 Gaming News / Updates / Action Items

A mix of news, updates and action items for notable Web3 games and projects

  1. ApeCoin - Proposal to enable Ape-themed games on the blockchain (AIP 78)
  2. ApeCoin <> Magic Eden - Proposal to build an ApeCoin Marketplace
  3. BlackPool - Q2 Report
  4. Worldwide Webb - Season 1 Alpha on Immutable X will feature gas-free NFT trading
  5. Parallel NFT <> Fractional - Card Binder & Paraset Creator Tool
  6. Ancient8 - Launch of A8 UID
  7. Ready Player Me - Create an Avatar
  8. Arbitrum Nova - Dedicated chain for gaming & social apps, live & open to public
  9. Decentral Games - Sit & Go Tournament Mode & Mobile Platform Rollout Plan
  10. Axie Infinity - Origin Season 0: Phase 3
  11. The Beacon - Gameplay Teaser
  12. Life Beyond - Content Update #1
  13. Smolverse <> StriderDAO - Building smolville, the flagship game of Smolverse
  14. Defenders of Lucian Land - Alpha Patch 6
  15. Skate X - Developer Update #1
  16. Blast Royale - Battle Royale Update

🔍 Newly Spotted Projects

Games, protocols & projects that are new, interesting and under the radar

Thalassa (@ThalassaWorld)

An undersea world inspired Tower Defence game on web3 with a greater vision for a creator platform for a library of games for all
An undersea world inspired Tower Defence game on web3 with a greater vision for a creator platform for a library of games for all

STADIUM (@ProjectStadium)

Permissionless Tournament Protocol creating the infrastructure to assemble teams, find players on-chain and support gaming communities
Permissionless Tournament Protocol creating the infrastructure to assemble teams, find players on-chain and support gaming communities

INK Games™ (@INKGames)

Gaming platform that perpetually pays users for their connectivity & viral impact
Gaming platform that perpetually pays users for their connectivity & viral impact

Intella X (@TeamIntella)

Gaming platform introducing blockchain gaming to Web2 users and rewarding contributors for growing the ecosystem
Gaming platform introducing blockchain gaming to Web2 users and rewarding contributors for growing the ecosystem

SailCraft (@SailCraftGame)

New vision for the classic board game, Battleship.
New vision for the classic board game, Battleship.

SOCCERVERSE (@soccerverse)

Multiplayer, community-driven football management simulator & trading game built on Polygon
Multiplayer, community-driven football management simulator & trading game built on Polygon

DesperadoB218 (@DesperadoB218)

Turn-based Fantasy Battle RPG based on the original IP of Exos Heroes with NFT-Centric Gameplay
Turn-based Fantasy Battle RPG based on the original IP of Exos Heroes with NFT-Centric Gameplay

🗨️ Quotable Quotes

Jiho (Axie Infinity) - What truly revolutionary projects align around

Robert Morrison - Respectful discourse & competition

Jonah Blake (Real Third Web) - Gaming is changing dramatically fast

Brycent (LootBolt) - Don’t build a Web3 game w/o a marketing plan

Loopify (Treeverse) - Free mints & no royalties drive builders away

Brycent (LootBolt) - Importance of embracing & playing web2 games


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