👋 Web3 Gaming Recap — Sept 13 🗓

🔔 Gaming Actionables
• Mystery Society — Launched their P2A campaign. Play via themysterysociety.xyz

• GOAT Gaming — Launched new game beta, To The Moon. Try via t.me/goatgamingbot

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🔄 Gaming Updates
• METALCORE — Season 1 Launch (September 13, 6PM ET)

• DUPER — Hosting Private meetup to play unreleased version during Token2049 (September 19)

• Last Memories — $GEEK listing on Exchanges (September 26) and airdrop (September 27)

• Pirate Nation — Signups are back (via form now)

🔖 Gaming Reads
• D20 Labs (Sugartown) — Announced Royal Nutz Poker Club, a social casino poker game built on Base

• Oscar (Wolves DAO) — How important is AL/WL Distribution for NFT Mints

• 1mpal — Uncomfortable truth behind Korea's Web3 Gaming

• STEPN GO — September Townhall Recap

▶️ Gaming Watch/Listens
• GAM3S.GG — Women in Web3

• a16z Games — The Secret Behind Blizzard's Success | Allen Adham, Co-Founder of Blizzard

• Naavik — How to bring brands to Roblox

💸 Gaming Fundraising
• Black Block — Announced their $1.4m fundraising round led by Delphi Ventures to continue developing The Sprawl, a systematic sandbox MMO

• Balance Games — Raised a total of $30m across 2 funding rounds led by a16z & Galaxy Interactive to launch Balance.fun, an AI-powered blockchain experience platform

• Orange Cap Games — Announced their $2m pre-seed angel round to develop a trading card game featuring Pudgy Penguins IP

✅ Gaming Projects
• Balance Games
• Coke
• Slingshot Gamers
• Somnis
• Royal Nutz Poker Club

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✅ Gaming News
✅ Web3 Gaming Coverage

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👋 Token2049/Breakpoint Gaming Recap 🗓

🔄 Gaming Updates
• Ronin — Announced 7 new games that will be building on Ronin (Cambria, Pixel Heroes, Kuroro Wilds, Party Icons, Xtremeverse, Last Odyssey, Infomon)
• Tatsumeeko — Announced their move to Ronin
• Axie Infinity — Released early access form for Axie Pals, powered by Metapals
• TON — Tonkeeper launches dApps Browser in Telegram
• Parallel — Announced that Colony will release its alpha in Q1 2025
• Play Solana — Announced PSG1, the first handheld Web3 gaming device built on Solana
• Pixelmon — Rebranded to MON CO
• Bored Ape Yacht Club — Released Dookey Dash: Unclogged
• Cambria — Released their Genesis Founders NFT collection
• Double Jump — Announced their new game that will use SEGA's Battle of Three Kingdoms IP
• E4C: Final Salvation — Released their Telegram game, E4C: Demon Hunters
• Edison Metaverse — Announced Steam early access wishlist (Release in Q4 2024)
• Illuvium — Beyond Wave 3 Release Date (November 21)
• Blankos Block Party — Migrating to new chain
• Nifty Island — Play 2 Airdrop Wave 3 ends November 1
• Otherside — Project Dragon Episode 3 (September 27)

🔖 Gaming Reads
• BITKRAFT Ventures — Where can small studios win big in today's evolving gaming industry
• Arto (Tribo Games) — The Minimum Viable Session
• 1mpal — Why Korean Gamers resist Blockchain
• Spellborne — August 2024 Dev Update
• Vibes (Pudgy TCG) — How to play Vibes, the Pudgy Penguins Trading Card Game

▶️ Gaming Watch/Listens
• GameSpot — How Founders can go Viral w/ Elisa De Toro Arias (4,4 Labs Co-Founder)

💸 Gaming Fundraising
• Ambrus Studio (E4c: Final Salvation) — Announced multi-million dollar funding round led by Spartan Group

✅ Gaming Projects
• Balance Games
• Happy Town
• Funki
• Blurred Line Labs

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✅ Gaming News
✅ Web3 Gaming Coverage

👋 Web3 Gaming Recap — Sept 23 to 27 🗓

🔄 Gaming Updates
• Treasure DAO — Announced migration to zkSync. (Treasure L2 will launch on Zk Stack. Mainnet in ~1.5 to 2 months)
• Tatsumeeko — Announced Season 2: Lumina Hunt
• Sparkball — Announced that they are officially building on Monad
• Rift Storm — Will launch on XAI as their flagship title
• Mahjong Meta — Renaming token from $MJM to $MAJ
• Star Symphony — Announced the launch of their mobile alpha version
• Forgotten Playland — Releasing on Epic Games on November
• Hexacore — Hosting $HXC presale (October 3)
• Dayton Mills — Branch for Discord is live

🔖 Gaming Reads
• TON Ventures — How Telegram projects are implementing smart tokenomic strategies for long-term engagement
• David Tso — List of on-chain games w/ focus on fun built on Base
• Ronin — Unlocking Web3 Publishing on Ronin
• caillef — Diamond Pit, first fully on-chain game built w/ cubzh using Dojo
• Illuvium — August 2024 Dev Blog
• Calc.eth — Frontinus House Round 4 Applicants joining the Loot Realms Ecosystem (Lutte Arcade, AWRPG, Octoguns, Mancala, Fallen Order)
• Underware — What we've been up to at Dojo residency, our games and the evolution of Pistols at 10 Blocks

▶️ Gaming Watch/Listens
• The Rollup — Why Treasure Left Arbitrum to build their new chain on ZkSync
• The Scoop — How Ton's Telegram distribution strategy is bringing millions of new users onchain
• GAM3S.GG — Are web3 conferences pointless?
• GameSpot — CEO of Curio, Yijia Chen explains the secret to attracting casual & crypto gamers
• FOCGERS — From captaining Disney game studio to steering Pirate Nation
• Raoul Paul — Avalanche: Gaming & the next crypto revolution ft. John Wu
• Into The Metaverse — Episode 100: Matthew Ball & The Future of the Metaverse (Part 2)
• a16z Games — The Truth about Growing on Twitch

💸 Gaming Fundraising
• Dark Bright Games — Announced their oversubscribed $6m Seed Round led by BITKRAFT to develop Smolbound, a cozy life sim RPG game

✅ Gaming Projects
• RuneLabs
• Sundial Mirage
• Chain of Trust

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✅ Gaming News
✅ Web3 Gaming Coverage

👋 Web3 Gaming Recap — Sept 30 to Oct 1 🗓

🔄 Gaming Updates
• Ragnarok: Monster World — Announced their official launch
• Onchain Heroes — Announced that they will be building on Abstract Chain
• Catizen — Added Ball Master, to their Game Center
• Age of Dino — Launched Telegram Game, Dino Museum
• Pixelmon — Announced launch of Monster Tycoon, a F2P dungeon crawler from Play Ember using Pixelmon IP
• Variance — Released new trailer for F2P action roguelite

🔖 Gaming Reads
• MORBID-19 — WEMIX Controversy Heads to Court
• Meta Alchemist — Seedify will be launching super low caps via batch incubation programs (10 projects launched below 1M FDV)
• Shades of Green — Insights from Farm Frens stats to optimize levels & upgrades
• Virtuals Protocol — Project Westworld: The First Playable Autonomous World on Roblox
• TON Ventures — How TON has shaped the future of crypto in the last 365 days: From 46K to 4.6M WAU

▶️ Gaming Watch/Listens
• Naavik — Telegram: The Next Great Gaming Platform?
• Topology — Topology is like IPFS but for real-time multiplayer programs, not static files

✅ Gaming Projects
• Miracle Play

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👋 Web3 Gaming Recap — Oct 2 🗓

🔄 Gaming Updates
• Small Brain — Early predictions for TMR.NEWS (First natural language prediction market) gets bonuses
• Crypto Kitties — Player progression on TG mini app will unlock airdrops on Flow Network
• Spellborne — Stellar Pass October Edition now available
• Parallel — Patch 0.55.1 now live and will feature Open Beta Season 8: Fearless Stronghold
• Mithraeum — Airdropped tokens to Pirate Nation holders
• Footium — Season 1 Launch (October 8)
• Farcana — Closed Playtest (October 4 - 6)

🔖 Gaming Reads
• Messari — $RON It Back: The Revival of Ronin's Web3 Gaming Empire
• GaspodeWD — From Poker to Web3: The Journey of Sinjin Jung, Founder of Peking Duck Studios
• Delysium — October Event Calendar
• Star Atlas — Q3 2024 Economic Report
• Crypto Unicorns — XAI Grant Update (Will end grant early on Oct. 15) & Future of Crypto Unicorns

▶️ Gaming Watch/Listens
• FOCGERS — Dark Lord Grug's journey to building an FOCG Game Studio

✅ Gaming Projects
• Battle For Blockchain
• CookTon

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Look at Gaming #404 | 10.02.2024

Gm gm! Apologies for my hiatus. I recently started my new role at Offchain Labs on the Gaming Partnership team, leading the APAC region. Took some time to get situated but we are back baby!

Let's dive in.

Unity dropped this banging report on mobile growth and monetization trends. Highly reommend taking a skim through. Some key takeaways for me were:
• More users are watching ads
• Strategy games are 80% IAP and Casinos are 90% with Puzzle 40% Ads and 40% IAP.
• Strategy 7 Installs per 1000 impressions, Sims 15 Installs, and Action 11 installs.
• Those who purchaes IAPs are more likely to buy again in first 30 days. So you have 30 days to build that spend behavior.
• In the early stage, 7% conversion rates for Ad Removal IAPs, 4% for Subscription/VIP status
• The higher the IAP rev of your game, the more likely your players will watch rewarded Ads (up to 13 ads per month)
• Best rewards for Reward Ads are Additional Life/Moves, Daily Rewards, Gacha
• Users acquired through Offerwalls have 3x more lTV than Interstitial Ads/Playable Ads
• Offerwall-acquired users are 2-7x higher retention

You gotta go to the report to get the meat of it.

In other news, Discord opened up its Activities platform for all developers. With the hype around TON/tg games, I think there's also merit to look into Discord games. Perhaps less as an aquisition funnel but as a retention/reengagement tool.

Last spotlight is a16z Games' dive into web-based games. Since most web3 games are browser-based, y'all should read this deep dive.

That's it for this week! Hope everyone has been well! Catch you next week.


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⚡ Spotlight 🤩
2024 Mobile Growth & Monetization Report | Unity

The Most Viewed Streams & Most Popular Streamers | StreamHatchet

Media Buying in Mobile Games in H1'24 in the US | Mintegral

Discord Activities opens up to all developers to make games on the platform | PGBiz

Why Web Gaming Died, And How It’s Coming Back | a16z Games


🌊 MARKET 📞
Tokyo Game Show 2024 draws in the crowds — and the key people | GamesBeat

Playtika’s $2 billion bet | SuperJoostPlaylist

The Secret Developer: the sorry state of mobile game publishing | MobileGamer.biz


💎 Deep Dives 🔎
Media Buying in Mobile Games in H1'24 in the US | Mintegral

2024 Mobile Growth & Monetization Report | Unity

Stumble Guys Adds LTV via Progression: Emotes Abilities | GameMakers

Meta: 1 million advertisers using GenAI for creative | MobileDevMemo

Why Web Gaming Died, And How It’s Coming Back | a16zGames


🌈 Platforms 🏠
Epic suing Samsung and Google for allegedly blocking third-party app distribution | GameDeveloper

The Most Viewed Streams & Most Popular Streamers | StreamHatchet

Discord Activities opens up to all developers to make games on the platform | PGBiz

Nintendo's patents were designed to take on Palworld | GamesIndustry.biz

Scopely adds Marvel superheroes to Monopoly Go | GamesBeat


✨ Web 3⃣ + Meta 🌐
Line Next Partners with Sega to Launch Blockchain Game | Gam3s.gg

Oasys, Arbitrum Foundation, and Uprising Announce Collaboration | Gam3s.gg


🧠 Knowledge Hub 📘
Unlocking the success of alternative app stores | PGbiz

2024 UA Playbook: Diversifying beyond Traditional Channels | BrutallyHonest

Killer Ad Formats: Your Guide to Winning Creatives | SocialPeta


💲 Fundraising 🤑
Darkbright Studios Secures $6M for Smolbound | Gam3s.gg

22 year old raises $3.7 million for Roblox tool platform Gamebeast | PGBiz

Vivid Games secures $1.36 million strategic investor deal to grow Real Boxing brand | PGbiz

Icelandic dev Porcelain Fortress raises $3 million in seed funding | GameDeveloper


👾 Game & Stats Releases 📊
Genshin Impact hits $6.3 billion in time for fourth anniversary, but is it running on fumes? | PGBiz

👋 Web3 Gaming Recap — Oct 3 🗓

🔄 Gaming Updates
• Pocket Waifu — Released TG Waifu clicker game
• 77-Bit — Introduced their 77-Bit Browser MMORPG (Ref Link)
• Shardbound — Open Beta on Epic Games / Steam (Oct 9)
• Blast Royale — $NOOB Loot-To-Airdrop coming to Blast Royale (Oct 7)
• Rumble Arcade — Now live on Beam Testnet
• Juicy Adventure — Juicy Pass minting on Magic Eden (Base)

🔖 Gaming Reads
• WildPaul (WILDCARD) — Announced Thousands TV, a web3-native community platform that integrates streaming, content creation & audience engagement tools designed to make games as engaging to watch as they are to play

▶️ Gaming Watch/Listens
• FOCGERS — The latest batch of fully onchain game grantees from Loot Realms

✅ Gaming Projects
• BRKT
• Pocket Waifu
• ThousandsTV

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✅ Web3 Gaming Coverage

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