166 | Why Midnight is building the Evergreen multiverse

Check out Jon's daily email at https://gamestx.substack.com/ In episode #168, Jon Jordan talks to game director Chris Clay about the launch of mobile RPG Guild of Guardians through the app stores; specifically how the launch went, the balance between web2 and web3 games, and how the game will evolve as it enters 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.

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: John Locke and meme coins, to how Mocaverse helped the growth of Pixels, what is the Moca Foundation, why web3 is fundamentally better for gamers than web2, why Animoca Brands has invested in 450 web3 companies, why DAOs need to be messy, and why Yat thinks western gamer designers are "quite socialist"