In this episode, Raph Koster – legendary game designer, author of Theory of Fun for Game Design, and CEO of Playable Worlds – joins Naavik co-founder Aaron Bush to discuss how to evolve and grow as a game designer. The duo also discusses the mission of Playable Worlds and what it means to build a metaverse platform. Raph also shares his advice on metaverse standards, player-owned economies and more.
Anton Bernstein, CEO and co-founder of Pocket Worlds, joins the Crypto Corner for a conversation about the future of social connectivity and play. Serving a playerbase of over 15 million players, Anton discusses his entrepreneurial journey, learnings from creating highly successful Metaverse Economies, and what role Web3 technology will play in the virtual worlds of the future.
The Metaverse Standards Forum is a proactive attempt at creating open rules and standards for the ‘quasi-successor’ of the internet. There’s a lot to unpack on the implications / what companies join & didn’t. We also round-up this week’s news.
Trailmix Games is the second studio developing merge games in Supercell’s growing investment portfolio. We analyze why Supercell decided to double down and understand the numbers behind the studio’s debut title.
This piece was written by Lars Doucet and Dan Cook, and originally distributed on GameDeveloper.com – it has been republished here with approval from the authors. Land Speculation and Why It Sucks If you are designing a multiplayer game with a “digital land economy,” especially one that involves significant investment of time or money by players,…
Last week LEGO & Epic Games announced a partnership to build the metaverse. A few days later, the company behind LEGO announced it had invested $1B in Epic itself. Why did both companies enter to this partnership? What will come from it? In today’s issue, we’ll dive deeper into the partnership and look to better understand what might come of this new agreement
Michael Wagner is the Co-Founder & CEO of Star Atlas, a space-themed video game metaverse of grand strategy, open-world exploration, territorial conquest, and political domination. In this conversation, we discuss Star Atlas’ vision, roadmap, history, and technology, and dig deeper into the potential of Blockchain-enabled gaming and what it will mean for the future of the Metaverse.
Plus we analyze the recent mainstream focus on The Metaverse and highlight some content worth reading
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