Blockchain Gaming World

⁠Jon Jordan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BlockchainGamer.biz editor⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 4th October 2024 including: Fat/Thin Protocol thesis as relating to Ethereum/ETH, Ronin/RON and TON. Shardbound is going live via Steam and Epic Games Store on 9th October. Sky Mavis is stopping free gas for Ronin transactions. Gunzilla's Off The Grid ba...

Check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Jon's daily email at GamesTX⁠⁠⁠⁠ In episode 181, Jon Jordan talks to Proof of Play CEO Amitt Mahajan about its fully onchain game Pirate Nation , which has seen its audience grow 100-fold over the past 12 months as it's rolled out new content on a weekly basis, as well as launching its PIRATE token.

⁠Jon Jordan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BlockchainGamer.biz editor⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 27th September 2024 including: Line is getting blockchain integration. Ragnarok: Monster World goes live on 1st October. Why developers should build live. How to fix The Sandbox. Axie Pals will get genAI. TreasureDAO ditches Arbitrum for ZKsync.

⁠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. "On...

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 blockc...

Jon Jordan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BlockchainGamer.biz editor⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 8th August 2024, including: The most popular games for July: Pixels, Blocklords Dynasty, Catizen. Blockchain game sector investment trends, 2024 YTD is down 33% compared to 2023. Drake Star's Global Gaming Report Q2 2024 has some fundamental mistakes cf blockchain game funding....

Check out ⁠Jon's daily email at GamesTX⁠ In episode 176, Jon Jordan talks to Gamee chairman Bozena Rezab about why the casual gaming network is returning to Telegram with its WAT Protocol , 8 years on from when it was a launch partner for gaming on the messaging platform. Reasons include viral scaling of audience, its Star monetization network and native crypto support thanks to the integrated...

Jon Jordan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BlockchainGamer.biz editor⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 2nd August 2024, including: Cosmic Bomber has launched, exclusively for Moca ID users at the moment. Manchester United has launched a fantasy soccer game on Tezos. New rewards campaigns from Earn Alliance, HyperPlay, Gamer7 and MetaCene. Magic Eden is now The Sandbox's official NF...

Check out Jon's daily email at GamesTX In episode 175, Jon Jordan talks to Mighty Bear Games' CEO Simon Davis about its competitive reward gaming ecosystem Goat Gaming , which is leveraging channels such as Telegram.

Jon Jordan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BlockchainGamer.biz editor⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 26th July 2024, including: Our Game of the Week is Splinterlands' TD game SoulKeep. Animoca announces a $20 million strategic partnership with TON. Studio 369 announces idle companion game Metalcore Arena and vehicle NFT sale. Boomland announced how the Hunters On-Chain BOOM token ai...

Jon Jordan⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠BlockchainGamer.biz editor⁠⁠⁠⁠ Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 19th July 2024, including: BCGbiz Mavens discussion on how to choose a blockchain -- grants, community, tech? Immutable was the fastest growing blockchain in terms of new titles in Q2 2024. Wemix changes its blockchain strategy to fewer, high quality games. Stardust has launched its Starbas...

Jon Jordan⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠BlockchainGamer.biz editor⁠⁠⁠ Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 12th July 2024, including: Launch of Mocaverse's MOCA token Soccerverse raises $3 million from Square Enix Forgotten Runiverse is moving from Arbitrum to Ronin. Smilegate's MMORPG Nine Lords will be going live on Line's DOSI platform, plus Jon muses on how to combine the financial...

Check out Jon's daily email at ⁠GamesTX.Substack.com⁠ In episode 174, ⁠Jon Jordan⁠ talks to ArenaX's Wei Xei about how the company is looking to apply its AI technology - reinforced machine learning - for blockchain games such as AI Arena , as well as onboarding people to the AI sector more generally.

Jon Jordan⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠BlockchainGamer.biz editor⁠⁠ Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 5th July 2024, including: Immutable has seen a 30% rise in daily active wallets during June up to 300,000 DAUWs. Hunters On-Chain and Guild of Guardians are the most popular games on Immutable zkEVM. Discussing 69% of Pixels' peak DAUWs being bots. Does it matter? Alien Worlds' genAI tool...

Jon Jordan⁠ and ⁠BlockchainGamer.biz editor⁠ Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 28th June 2024, including: Talking to Sky Mavis' Jeff Zirlin about whether web3 gaming is dead. Pixels' DAUWs are down a lot since Chapter 2 launched. Is Sky Mavis' support for Axie Infinity now flogging a dead horse? How do you reinvent an IP c.f. Rovio and Angry Birds? Lumiterra announ...

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 21st June 2024, including: Rise of games on TON Are there now too many blockchains? L2s? L3s? What's happening with Heroes of Mavia? Boomland's 250 million BOOM token play-to-airdrop Immutable zkEVM data -- MAUWs vs DAUWs

Check out Jon's daily email at GamesTX.Substack.com In episode 173, Jon Jordan talks to Saga CEO Rebecca Liao about the blockchain's vision to be the "L1 for launching L1s", in particular its focus on games.