Bits of Signum, Creator Stories

Welcome to Game Souk, where we explore all aspects of the gaming world from tech, finance, culture, and beyond. Airs live every Thursday at 9am Eastern on X @daltonan. Topics covered in this episode: Meta's new $19.99 Meta One Premium subscription and rate limits on its Ray-Ban smart glasses, plus privacy concerns around the always on super sensing feature The content creator use case for smar...

Welcome to Game Souk, where we explore all aspects of the gaming world from tech, finance, culture, and beyond. Airs live every Thursday at 9am Eastern on X @daltonan. Topics covered in this episode: Direct to consumer breaks open: how Tim Sweeney's fight against the Apple and Google 30% toll is reshaping mobile gaming, and why the subscription newsletter model is the real engine behind compou...

This week's Game Souk comes to you live from UnrealFest in Chicago, where the team spent four days with UEFN studios, creators, and technologists building the next era of interactive entertainment. Game Souk airs live every Thursday at 9am Eastern on X @daltonan . Topics covered in this episode: UnrealFest recap: 75% of UEFN in island transaction revenue now comes from genres outside Battle Royale...

Welcome to Game Souk, where we explore all aspects of the gaming world from tech, finance, culture, and beyond. Airs live every Thursday at 9am Eastern on X @daltonan . Topics covered in this episode: Brand and gaming dinners in LA and Brooklyn, and making brands playable for Gen Z and Gen Alpha Roblox's push toward higher quality games and aging up its audience Apple at WWDC: a new Siri power...

Welcome to Game Souk, where we explore all aspects of the gaming world from tech, finance, culture, and beyond. Airs live every Thursday at 9am Eastern on X @daltonan. Topics covered in this episode: Authenticity as the secret sauce, and how Eliza Jäppinen built her Roblox game Dress to Survive Lana giving Dress to Survive its first major influencer coverage, and how kids are shaping game design f...

Welcome to Game Souk, where we explore all aspects of the gaming world from tech, finance, culture, and beyond. Airs live every Thursday at 9am Eastern on X @daltonan . Topics covered in this episode: Fortnite's return to the global Apple App Store delivers an eight-year download high, peaking at 674,000 daily installs, and what it means for Epic's ecosystem without the App Store tax Epic...

Welcome to Game Souk, where we explore all aspects of the gaming world from tech, finance, culture, and beyond. Airs live every Thursday at 9am Eastern on X @daltonan. Topics covered in this episode: The "NIMBY" data center backlash: 70% of Americans now oppose AI data centers in their area (Gallup), and how that anxiety links to the Annapurna "Mixtape" perfect-10 controversy D...

Welcome to Game Souk, where we explore all aspects of the gaming world from tech, finance, culture, and beyond. Airs live every Thursday at 9am Eastern on X @daltonan . Topics covered in this episode: Console price hikes: Xbox Series X now $650, PS5 Pro at $900, and Nintendo's Switch 2 raised to $500 — plus the memory shortages and supply chain forces driving them Cerebras Systems prices its I...

Welcome to Game Souk, where we explore all aspects of the gaming world from tech, finance, culture, and beyond. Airs live every Thursday at 9am Eastern on X @daltonan . Topics covered in this episode: Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro calls Epic Games central to Disney's strategy for reaching younger consumers Star Wars games launch successfully on Fortnite, with team favorites including Bloom Games...

Welcome to Game Souk, where we explore all aspects of the gaming world from tech, finance, culture, and beyond. Airs live every Thursday at 9am Eastern on X @daltonan . Topics covered in this episode: - World Builder Summit recap: Roblox algorithm shift toward longer games, FIFA's move to Roblox, Epic's UEFN priorities for multiplayer and discovery - Platform risk and algorithm dependence for UGC...

Welcome to Game Souk, where we explore all aspects of the gaming world from tech, finance, culture, and beyond. Airs live every Thursday at 9am Eastern on X @daltonan . Topics covered in this episode: World Builder Summit highlights and the state of UGC gaming Identity, age verification, and the case for proof of human (World ID, EU failures, PlayStation UK rollout) Roblox slowdown: seasonal facto...

Welcome to Game Souk, where we explore all aspects of the gaming world from tech, finance, culture, and beyond. Airs live every Thursday at 9am Eastern on X @daltonan. Topics covered in this episode: Market rebound: software retracement, Allbirds' AI pivot, and the SpaceX IPO getting competition from Amazon/Globalstar Cartoon Next recap: 61% of animation fans prefer YouTube-originated series o...

Welcome to Game Souk, where we explore all aspects of the gaming world from tech, finance, culture, and beyond. Airs live every Thursday at 9am Eastern on X @daltonan. Topics covered in this episode:- World Builder Summit with special guest Grace Lind- Philippines threatens Roblox ban over age verification- Age verification, privacy, and zero-knowledge proofs- Netflix open-sources Void AI video ed...

Welcome to Game Souk, where we explore all aspects of the UGC gaming world from tech, finance, culture, and beyond. Airs live every Thursday at 9am Eastern on X @daltonan . Topics covered in this episode: Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro name-drops Epic Games in first shareholder address Star Wars IP assets now live in UEFN Baobab Studios acquires media rights to three Roblox IPs Roblox IP-to-media strateg...

What happens when a retro gaming soul meets cutting-edge Web3 tools? In this episode of Bits of Signum , host Angela Dalton and co-host Eliza Jappinen sit down with Tobi Amann—better known as Deckard—the Co-Founder & CEO of Evrloot . Together they unpack the game’s unlikely origin story, which began not as a game at all, but as an NFT project born from deep community passion. Deckard shares ho...

In this episode, Angela is joined by Co-founder of Look North World, Patrick Moran, to discuss his game studio, the work they’ve done, and the future of the gaming industry. During their conversation Patrick gives background to how Look North World came about, before diving into how game studios can operate successfully in a UGC environment, their launch of The Glitch, how best to integrate IP and...

In this episode, Angela and Eliza are joined by Pocket Worlds Founder & CEO, Anton Bernstein, for a conversation about the evolution of Highrise from an immersive social experience to a full blown UGC gaming platform. They discuss the steps along that evolution, how to assist creators in building communities, how the unique demographics of Highrise users gives it an advantage, new and future c...

In this episode, Angela is joined by Mythical President and COO, Arron Goolsbey, to discuss the vision for the future of gaming that Mythical is bringing to life. They discuss why gaming is the hero use case to take Web3 technologies mainstream, building universal secondary marketplaces, the Mythical x NFL deal, and much more. Arron is a seasoned executive with over 25 years of experience in the d...

How are gaming platforms like Roblox redefining consumer-brand interactions? In this episode of Bits of Signum Creator Stories, Michelle Goad joins hosts Angela and Eliza to delve into the intersection of consumer attention, UGC gaming, social media, and brand commercialization. The conversation covers Michelle’s career journey, insights into current brand engagement strategies, the potential of t...

How can games become spaces for safe exploration of failure, problem solving, and learning? In this episode of Bits of Signum Creator Stories, hosts Angela and Eliza welcome Sylvia Aguiñaga to discuss her journey into the gaming world and the development of Star Stuff. She shares how her childhood impacted the games she wanted to create, emphasizing the significance of creating environments where...

In this episode of Bits of Signum Creator Stories, hosts Angela and Keshav delve into the fascinating realm of Web3 gaming with guest Sam Peurifoy. They discuss the unique investment and development strategies of Hivemind, the innovative pirate MMO game 'Captain & Company,' and the future of Web3 Gaming including the continued integration of NFTs, in-game economies, and the evolving in...

In the ever-evolving landscape of digital innovation, the worlds of gaming and artificial intelligence are not just fields of technological advancement but also arenas for societal reflection. The community structures within gaming provide intriguing blueprints for collaboration and leadership in professional environments, showcasing how virtual spaces can influence real-world workplace dynamics....

The value of beloved Intellectual Property has never been greater, but how to legislate, track, and benefit from its use has never been more complex. As User Generated Content continues to prosper, and platforms like Roblox and UEFN continue to break down barriers to entry for aspiring creators, the need (and opportunity) for modern Intellectual Property infrastructure grows. In this episode of Bi...

Knowing and understanding your audience is a foundational principle to building a great game or great business. But how well do we all actually know and understand the people we are building for? How often are we straying and building games more for ourselves than our audience? And how much are we unknowingly building for the past version of our audience and not their future selves? In this episod...

Where people go, money follows. That is an age-old trend that we are now seeing play out with metaverse platforms, in particular Roblox. As the number of users continues to rise so too does the attention the commercial world places on these new digital landscapes.  In this episode of Bits of Signum, Angela and Eliza are joined by Matthew Warneford, CEO of Dubit, who is one of the original pioneers...