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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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✅ Gaming News
✅ Web3 Gaming Coverage

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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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✅ Gaming News
✅ Web3 Gaming Coverage

✅ Bybit — Telegram Gaming w/ Mantle, Hamster Kombat, Catizen, etc

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Look at Gaming #405 | 10.15.2024

GM! Welcome back! The biggest news in web3 is obviously Off The Grid.

This is a moment for web3 games. Gunzilla did the industry a huge favor by subsidizing a lot of the awareness cost (and maybe even user acquisition cost). Now there's an example, a real case study.

The biggest streamers in web2 were fully engaged in the game. We had TimTheTatMan to the crowd favorite Ninja. Initially the streamers were paid to stream but I heard that after a certain point their contracts expired and are now streaming on their own.

There was a comment from Shroud that called out blockchain tech and how game studios don't have to spend millions to build a whole asset marketplace and should just use a blockchain.

But this is literally just the beginning. I remember back in 2020 when Ubisoft released their battle royale game called Hyperscape then two years later they closed it down. There was also Apex Legends Mobile that went down within the same year of launch. Obviously these games failed because of their own reasons but the trend is that Battle Royale is a hard genre to have staying power.

In other news, we had the Hidenburg moment for Roblox. As a research firm under the same nomenclature released a scathing report that Roblox had inflated their numbers by almost 2x in its public filings. Roblox came out disputing these claims. Unsure if Hidenburg Research's short position is still open but $RBLX started the month at $43.53 then dropped as low as $40.51 (7% drop).

Speaking of publicly traded companies, InvestGame & GDEV released a report on the history of Gaming IPOs. 87 companies were analyzed with the first one being Nintendo back in 1962. Asia is the dominant region for IPO listings with 46% then Europe at 35% and US at 18%. As expected PC&Console were the dominant platforms up until 2011-2015 when the split became 50/50. The total capitalization of these companies grew from around $50B in 2000 to peak of $535B in 2020. Now we're at $365B, a 30% drawdown from the peak. There are 8 $1B+ companies in the west and 25 $1B+ companies in Asia.

Two blog posts that I liked are a16z Games' 5 GTM strategies and Deconstructor Of Fun's reporting on how Scopely went from $1B to $10B in 5 years.

That's it for this week! Chat y'all on the flipside.

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⚡ Spotlight 🤩
InvestGame & GDEV: The History of Gaming IPOs | GameDevReports

5 Innovative Go-to-Market Strategies From Indie Game Devs | a16z Games

Roblox’s Hindenburg moment | SuperJoostPlaylist

From $1B to $10B in 5 Years – Scopely’s Journey to Mobile Game Success | DeconstructorOfFun


💎 Deep Dives 🔎
A Comprehensive Guide to Every Live-Streaming Platform | StreamHatchet

Roblox’s Hindenburg moment | SuperJoostPlaylist

InvestGame & GDEV: The History of Gaming IPOs | GameDevReports

From $1B to $10B in 5 Years – Scopely’s Journey to Mobile Game Success | DeconstructorOfFun

Ubisoft's Future | KonvoyVentures


✨ Web 3⃣ + Meta 🌐
Aethir Catalyst Launches $100M Investment Fund | Gam3s.gg

Ubisoft Reveals Release Date for ‘Champions Tactics’ NFT Game | Decrypt.gg


🧠 Knowledge Hub 📘
Everything you need to know about Google AdMob | BrutallyHonest

5 Innovative Go-to-Market Strategies From Indie Game Devs | a16zGames

How your original indie IP can engage audiences beyond the game | GamesIndustry.biz


💲 Fundraising 🤑
Windwalk launches social software Harbor, raises $4.5M in funding | GamesBeat

Third Dimension raises $6.9m towards generative AI 3D world builder | PGBiz

Clout Kitchen raises $4.45m towards League of Legends AI "buddies" | PGbiz

UMX Studio secures $4.5 million investment from Jetapult to expand portfolio | PGbiz

Pip World lands $10M in seed funding | PGbiz

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👋 Web3 Gaming Recap — Oct 28 to 30 🗓

🔄 Gaming Updates
• Legend of Arcadia — $ARCA listing (November 4) & Tournament S1 launch (November 7)
• Kamigotchi — Launched testnet 2
• TOKYO Beast — Released whitepaper
• Lumiterra — CBT #2 Launch (November 11)
• Mithraeum — Tournament launch on zkSync (November 18)
• Mystery Society — Live on Google Play Store
• Biomes — Alpha Release Launch
• Moonfrost — Opened up Alpha Release #4
• Tatsumeeko — Launched Lumina Hunt Phase 2
• METAL SLUG — Register to early access alpha
• Reboot — Launched Get Paid arcade on ApeChain
• DF Archon — Dark Forest being ported over to MUD
• Duper — Announced that they will be on Abstract Chain

🔖 Gaming Reads
• Jonathan Huang (BITKRAFT) — Why BITKRAFT is leading Party Icon's $9m private round
• Funki — What is Funki Chain
• Franklin Bi (Pantera) — Investing in Azra Games: The Next Generation of Mobile RPGs
• lordOfAFew — Deep Dive into the Economics of Loot Realms and its commercial viability at scale & why this game is different
• Hyperloot — Announced Project Zero, their new fully onchain game built using MUD wherein players explore, team up, battle and expand in an ever-evolving world
• Crypto Maestro (Vamient Labs) — The tales of Kamigotchi: Its concepts & premise
• Treasure DAO — Wanderers is joining Treasure
• 1kx — These are not the bots you're looking for
• METAL SLUG — The First Run'n'Gun Tactical RPG on Starknet
• Gabe Rabello (VanEck) — Gaming is one of the most promising categories of this cycle: Our 2 key long-term liquid bets
• p/dash — An off-chain game inspired by geometry dash integrated with PixeLAW and built with zkp
• Anton Kraminkin (Sleepagotchi) — When's the right time for a game to do a TGE
• Psycheout (Sky Mavis) — General thoughts about Off The Grid & Web3 gaming

▶️ Gaming Watch/Listens
• FOCGERS — Meet the FOCGER: Shora, PixeLAW
• Deconstructor of Fun — Supercell's Marketing Shakes Up while Web3 Shoots Back
• GAM3S.GG — Are Gaming Tokens NGMI
• WORLDS — Building Open Worlds with David Amor from Playmint

💸 Gaming Fundraising
• Party Icons — Raised $9m private round led by BITKRAFT to develop a mobile-first gaming platform
• Sparkball (Opti Games) — Raised $2m funding round led by L1D together with CMS Holdings, Impossible Finance, YGG and Monad Angel Group

✅ Gaming Projects
• Negation Game
• zKube
• F Foundation
• ETHER BROS
• Newcoin
• Sky Kingdom
• p/dash
• METAL SLUG
• PlayerHouse
• Evermoon

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👋 Web3 Gaming Recap — Weekend + Nov 4 🗓

🔄 Gaming Updates
• MON Protocol — LaunchPool Event #9 (Nov 1 - 4)
• The Machines Arena — P2A Season 2 (Nov 5)
• Party Icons — Closed Beta Test (Nov 6)
• SHRAPNEL — Shrappy Holidays (Nov 18 - 25)
• Maple Story Universe — 2nd Pioneer Test (Nov 20)
• Blast Royale — Released 2025 Roadmap
• B3 — Announced Season 2
• Catizen — $GODL will be the second project on Catizen Launchpool

🔖 Gaming Reads
• Andy Lee — Learnings and thoughts on gaming after launching Legend of Arcadia and its $ARCA token
• Jonah Blake — GTM mistakes that we can learn from Play Off The Grid
• Jon Cooks — Building a game is a dumb idea

▶️ Gaming Watch/Listens
• Game Economist Cast — E34: Halo's Economist, Anti-Cheat Economics, Web3 Property Rights, and Player Price Experiment Complaints? (w/Dr.Jason Arentz)
• Game Makers — The Dramatic Economics Behind Web Stores
• FOCGERS — Dith: From launching the fastest PC to leading GTM at Stripe and Pirate Nation
• FOCGERS — Loaf: Building Realms Eternum during the bear market

💸 Gaming Fundraising
• Gunzilla Games — Raised undisclosed amount from VanEck as their second liquid token strategy investment
• Alliance Games — Announced $5m Series A funding round led by Animoca Brands and Asymm Ventures to build a decentralized AI infrastructure built for gaming
• Delabs Games — Announced strategic investment from TON Ventures to be one of the leading mid-core gaming projects on TON

✅ Gaming Projects
• Project ROG
• Puffy Games
• Unchained
• CapSha
• Supersize
• Unchi Coin
• Dormint
• Collective Casino of the People

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