Skill Tree #6 - February 12

Feb 12, 2023

🔥 Highlight

Mino Games raises $15m for collectible character web3 game Dimensionals. In total, Mino games has raised $25m to date.

Founded in 2011, Mino Games is a F2P game studio with hits such as Cat Game, Dog Game, and Mino Monsters 1& 2.

For CEO Sasha MacKinnon, web3 is the natural path forward after margins in web2 keep decreasing:

“Over the last decade, your margins have been squeezed through the platform fees, but then also user acquisition costs. The user acquisition has also been monopolized by Google and Apple Search Ads. So it’s not uncommon for average midsize gaming studio to give 80% of their revenue back to the platforms and ad networks. And so this distribution is almost like a stranglehold over developers.” - Source: Venturebeat

Sash (FREE,OWN) @SashaMackinnon

🚀🚀 ANNOUNCING OUR $15M SERIES B We’re building the next HUGE gaming franchise. Honoured to be supported by the TITANS of Gaming and Web 3: @standardcrypto, Bing Gordon, Don Mattrick, @AdamDraper and more. TY @deantak @VentureBeat for sharing our story venturebeat.com/latest-games-r…

venturebeat.comMino Games raises $15M to create Dimensionals Web3 gameMino Games has raised $15 million to create its Dimensionals collectible character game with Web3 features..

🔥 Highlight 2 (big week)

Game Day = Gabe Day

Millions of people will see Digidaigaku’s Superbowl TV ad today and have the chance of receiving a FREE NFT.

Other cryptocurrency commercials have been banned from the Superbowl.

📰 News

— TridentDAO raises $3m from the community for MMO

Trident Ψ @TridentDAO

The 3,000,000 cap has been filled. Thank you, we look forward to bringing you the best web+ MMO that crypto has to offer, and welcome you to join us along for the ride. 👾🎉🪙🦑👾🎉🪙👾🎉🪙👾

— Tower Pop raises $2.1M for Web3 battle royale/tower defense game Omega Royale. Alpha launch in app stores in March. The game adds battle royale multiplayer to tower defense gameplay, with the goal of creating a tower defense esports title. An early version of the game is available on their website right now.

— Magic Eden invests into Stella Fantasy

Stella Fantasy @rStellaFantasy

The #StellaFantasy team celebrates its investment from @MagicEden, the leading cross-chain #NFT platform. The investment will help Ring Games and StellaFantasy develop more high-quality #web3 #games, which could be accessible through Magic Eden in the near future🚀🚀🚀 #RPG

— Nitro Nation Workshop NFT mint on Feb 15

Nitro Nation World Tour | Minting 2/15 @NitroNationTour

The Mythical Workshop has our hearts racing 🏎️💨 Purchase 1 Workshop at all 4 Tiers at our Founders Edition Workshop presale on 2/15 & you'll receive 1 Mythical Workshop. An exclusive reward for our most ride or die fans that will never be available after this first presale!

— Aurory introduces Blitz Battles

Aurory (Open Alpha) @AuroryProject

Introducing Blitz Battles ⚡️ A fast-paced game mode coming to Aurory where players can wager and battle their Nefties 🪙 Aurorians and $AURY holders will soon gain early access to the v0 for a limited time!

— Sequence Wallet partners with Magic Eden

Sequence @0xsequence

1/ We’re thrilled to announce that Sequence has partnered with @MEonPolygon to bring the smartest and most user-friendly web3 wallet to the leading cross-chain NFT platform, built on @0xPolygon! 🎉 Dive in to find out more 👇 medium.com/0xsequence/par…

medium.comIntroducing our new partner: Magic EdenWe’re excited to announce that Sequence has partnered with Magic Eden to bring the smartest web3 wallet to a leading NFT platform

— InfiniGods announces speedrunning event with prizes

InfiniGods @InfiniGods

Mini Game #1: "Race Against The Clock" is LIVE. 🎯 Be the fastest player to hit 8,000 points & finish the level. 🏆 1x Gold Elder God, 2x Bronze Elder Gods, & bonus Followers are up for grabs. 📅 Runs until Friday, 2/17 @ 12PM EST Play @InfiniMerge Now: infinimerge.xyz

InfiniGods @InfiniGods

This week marks the beginning of a new dawn for @InfiniMerge. ⚡️⚔️ Introducing Merge Mini Games. A series of ongoing special events that will challenge your Merge skills in new ways & provide new objectives to conquer. Merge Mini Game #1 starts tomorrow at 12PM EST. https://t.co/RIDJhOP4hq

— Ogmi, Social trivia gaming app, comes out of stealth.

We covered the project in Skill Tree #4

Ogmi @Ogmi_io

GM! ... Hello World! After LOTS of stealth building, we wanted to introduce ourselves 😊 We are OGMI.io - an open, community-driven platform where YOU can be the creator or the player, you’ll get to collaborate on creating quiz games around any topic. #Web3gaming

📚 Education

— Account Abstraction (AA) for Web3 Gaming (Part 1)

MetaPortal

Account Abstraction for Web3 Gaming

The process of onboarding players to traditional games is generally straightforward. Web2 onboarding makes it convenient for players to utilize their existing social accounts, such as Apple ID or Google logins. These social accounts make single sign-on (SSO) simple to integrate and enable shared progress across multiple devices. For example, when player…

4 months ago · 3 likes · jxck

AA will be a huge step forward for UX

— A P2E thesis: Using rewards to incentivize gamified crowdsourcing projects which are a value-add to society

Luden's Locker

Play to Earn is right, they did it wrong.

"Ackchyually it’s play and/to earn/own…" Don’t care, won’t care. We are talking about this concept: here’s a game, players are eligible to get something with monetary value from playing the game, and it’s legit - not grey market trades. Some would narrow down the term to describe games with on-chain rewards only, but putting rewards on-chain is only a ve…

4 months ago · 2 likes · Alison Cheung | 0xluden

Personal note: More broadly, crowdsourcing literature focuses on how to coordinate loosely connected groups of people. It can provide key insights for crypto which is exactly about this topic - social coordination. For example, DAO governance should be inspired by crowdsourcing, together with organizational research such as ambidextrous organisations.

— How Generative AI Can Charge Web3 Game Development