16 August 2024 | Weekly news roundup

⁠Jon Jordan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BlockchainGamer.biz editor⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 20th September 2024 including: The return of Flappy Bird New games for Ronin Are there too many blockchain games? Ex-Zynga team announce blockchain poker game

Check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Jon's daily email at GamesTX⁠⁠⁠⁠ In episode 180, ⁠⁠Jon Jordan⁠⁠ talks to Foonie Magus CEO Frank Cheng about Apeiron, its hybrid roguelite dungeon crawler with deck elements - out now on PC and coming to mobile in late 2024 - plus a god metagame due in 2025.

⁠Jon Jordan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BlockchainGamer.biz editor⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 13th September 2024 including: CCP's announcement of blockchain-enabled EVE Frontier Dookey Dash: Unclogged is live 1 million downloads for Guild of Guardians Axie Infinity: Origins is 2 Gameloft is making a Claynosaurz mobile game. Grapes has been bought out

Check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠Jon's daily email at GamesTX⁠⁠⁠ In episode 179, ⁠Jon Jordan⁠ talks to Cartridge CEO Tarrence van As about the advantages of building fully onchain games using its Starknet-based development tools.

Jon Jordan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BlockchainGamer.biz editor⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 6th September 2024.

Check out ⁠⁠⁠Jon's daily email at GamesTX⁠⁠ In episode 178, Jon Jordan talks to Stone Blade Entertainment CEO Justin Gary about his career making deck builders and TCGs and why he's adding blockchain into recent PC release SolForge Fusion.

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

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

Check out ⁠⁠Jon's daily email at GamesTX⁠ 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.

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.