169 | How Helika is moving beyond web3 analytics

Join Jon and Jenny from BlockchainGamer.biz as they round up the news from the week ending 14th June 2024, including: Is web3 gaming dead? Or just degen crypto gaming that's dead? Sustainable blockchain-based game economies Launch of PIRATE token Gamee's Telegram-based Wat Protocol

Check out Jon's daily email at https://gamestx.substack.com/ In episode 172, Jon Jordan talks to Pixels' CEO Luke Barwikowski about the game's growth in 2024, and how the launch of its chapter 2 sets the scene for the game to continue its trajectory into 2025.

Check out Jon's daily email on Substack In episode 171, Jon Jordan talks to Stardust CEO Canaan Linder about how he got into the industry 6 years ago, how Stardust is helping game developers build on the blockchain and scale (eventually) to one billion players. He says it's a question of when, not if.

Get Jon's daily GamesTX email via Substack. In episode 170, Jon Jordan talks to Mike O'Connor about Today The Game, which is mixing generative AI NPC creation with sim-style gameplay, resource trading and user generated content.

Check out Jon's daily email at Substack. In episode 169, Jon Jordan talks to Helika CEO Anton Umnov about how the company is moving from web3 analytics into 'doing everything except making web3 games'.

Check out Jon's daily email on Substack. In episode 168, Jon Jordan talks to Guild of Guardians' game director Chris Clay about the global launch of the mobile RPG through app stores, also discussing future plans as it moves into liveops.

Check out Jon's daily GamesTX email via Substack. In episode 167, Jon Jordan talks to YGG co-founder Gabby Dizon and LongHash VC Shi Khai Wei about the future of guilds in blockchain gaming.

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.