Blockchain Gaming World

Jon Jordan talks to Upland co-founder Idan Zuckerman about how he got into blockchain, the vision for Upland - a mobile-first game running on the EOS blockchain - and how the team plan to build on their initial success - currently Upland is the #2 blockchain game by daily activity - by launching the ability to run businesses within the game.  You can use this link to get a sign-up bonus of 6,...

Jon Jordan talks to Kronoverse CEO Adam Kling about CryptoFights , its PVP esports game that was originally built on Ethereum but which has switched to the Bitcoin SV blockchain. 

Jon Jordan talks to Skale Labs' co-founder and Jack O'Holleran about its Ethereum-based 'elastic sidechain' scaling solution (which is about to launch its mainnet) and why it's important for blockchain gaming. Find out more about Skale Labs and its Innovator Program . 

Auto card battler Splinterlands has a good claim to being the most popular and successful blockchain game, but doesn't get the same attention of other titles as it runs on the Steem blockchain. In this episode, Jon Jordan talk to project lead Jesse ' Aggroed ' Reich about the game's genesis, its future vision, how it deals with bots, and how the Steem community has been impacted by the Hive hard f...

It's two years since Blockchain Cuties launched, so a great opportunity to talk to CEO Vlad Tomko about how he got into blockchain games, the inspiration for Blockchain Cuties , the opportunities and challenges of multi-chain deployment, and the longterm vision for the game now better known as Blockchain Cuties Universe .  And, as ever, you can contact me - jon jordan - via Twitter at blockch...

In this episode, Jon Jordan talks to Venrock partner David Pakman about investing in blockchain startups (he's notably invested in Dapper Labs), as well as the Seven Things That Need To Happen Before Blockchain Goes Mainstream.

Jon Jordan talks to Sebastian Borget about the vision behind 'Roblox meets the Blockchain' user-generated content platform The Sandbox .

Should game developers consider using Bitcoin's Lightning network to enable Bitcoin micropayments in their games, tournaments and community building? Jon Jordan talks to Simon Cowell and Chris ' Mandelduck ' Moss from UK startup Zebedee , which has just launched its SDK. 

German blockchain gaming platform Skryking has released its white paper, explaining how its first fantasy soccer game will work. Read more here

Musings following a couple of days spent in Manhattan following NFT.NYC 2020

What's the vision for Theta.tv? Jon Jordan talks to Theta Labs' CEO Mitch Liu about how he got into blockchain and the goal for its decentralized CDN, starting off with esports game streaming. Find out more at Theta Labs and Theta.tv

CryptoKitties developer Dapper Labs is working on a blockchain collectible and gaming experience with UFC. Read more here

Jon Jordan discusses active wallet data on the first 2 months of BRAVE FRONTIER HEROES to check if it's taking audience away from MY CRYPTO HEROES. You can check out the video version here: https://youtu.be/qxFcUEMJSSc

French startup Darewise is using blockchain marketplace Dmarket in its forthcoming MMOG Life Beyond to enable item trading. Interestingly, the word 'blockchain' does not appear once in the announcement! https://dmarket.com/blog/darewise-partners-dmarket/

There's a blockchain game running on Litecoin! CipSoft's RPG Litebringer is now freely available in Alpha version running on the Litecoin testnet. https://www.litebringer.com/

In this episode of Blockchain Gaming World Daily, Jon Jordan discusses the highly successful launch of Brave Frontier Hereos, which sold NFTs worth 2,850 ETH (+$500,000). https://medium.com/@missbitcoin_mai/brave-frontier-heroes-achieved-in-its-first-week-2-850eth-in-sales-414986f9af0a

In this episode, Jon Jordan discusses the 2nd of 5 planned LAND pre-sales from blockchain UGC universe The Sandbox.

And we're back... In this episode of Blockchain Gaming World Daily, I discuss F1 Delta Time's forthcoming crate sale. https://medium.com/@f1deltatime/announcing-the-f1-delta-time-crate-sale-2ff3f807ff5c

In this episode, I talk to Chris Clay, the new game director of much anticipated blockchain TCG Gods Unchained . Chris’ appointment was big news thanks to his previous work on Magic: The Gathering Arena at Wizards of the Coast. And, in this podcast, we drill down into the three reasons he was excited to join developer Immutable: team, community, and the game itself. Topics covered include: Chris’...

We’re into the second year of the Blockchain Gaming World podcast, and kicking off with US developer Lucid Sight. We talk to CEO Randy Saaf and CTO Fazri Zubair about their forthcoming space MMO Crypto Space Commander ( CSC ), which they describe as like ‘ EVE Online on the blockchain’. The game will be in Steam early access in late August, alongside a pre-sale of game items including the first sh...

In this episode, Jon discusses the ongoing development of blockchain strategy game CryptoWars with Experimental (aka e11.io) CEO Matias Nisenson. Development on CryptoWars started in mid-2018 and since the start of 2019, Experimental has been regularly testing various aspects of the game - from the blockchain infrastructure including Loom Network’s Layer 2 solution through to gameplay features.&nb...

In this episode, Jon discusses blockchain game sector trends with James McQuillan ( @BCGbiz ). Some blockchain game projects are now going live but few people seems to care. Similarly, it’s not clear when other high profile projects are going to go live. Certainly the sector seems much stronger when it comes to sizzle than it comes to actuality.  How big is this problem? How can we solve it?...

In this episode, Jon talks to 8 Circuit Studios’ president James Mayo about the US indie’s approach to combining games and the blockchain. Notably, in the case of its in-development PC space combat and FPS title Project Genesis - using Unreal Engine, Ethereum, and scheduled for release in 2020 - this means a heavy focus on building a strong community through an open development process and regular...

In this episode, Jon and co-founder Alex Casassovici ( @alexksso ) discuss the rise of the Azarus blockchain-based rewards platform for game streaming.  What’s significant about Azurus (which uses an EOS sidechain) is it doesn’t mention blockchain, onboards users through ther Twitch accounts, and can be retrofitted to any existing game. Also, its rewards urrency - AZA Credits - is locked to t...

In this episode, Jon and James ( @BCGbiz ) discuss the week’s blockchain games news, which could be viewed as the many small steps developers are taking to bring about the success of the entire sector.  Topics covered include: Gods Unchained and its open beta Blockchain Gamer Connects Hong Kong MakerDAO’s hook up with Axie Infinity Zilliqa launches smart contracts The ‘rise’ of TRON Bitizens...