Building Game Studios is an Accumulation Game — Josh Lu
Building a great game is important. But building a great company is how you ensure you'll be around to seize the opportunities that matter most. The difference between chasing a wave and creating one often comes down to preparation & a willingness to play the long game — Read More
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☢️ Infected — New, hyper speculative, pandemic simulation game where 30 deadly viruses compete to infect the most population on Base
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Decasonic — AI x GameFi Market Map
• GameFi market cap has contracted 80% to $23 billion since peaking in 2021 at $114 billion
• Rise of Casual GameFi in 2024: Drove millions of users but adoption still lags behind other sectors
• 3 Pillars of AI x GameFi — Infrastructure, Adaptive Gameplay & Economies and AI Agents
• Emerging Opportunities: Economic automation, creator empowerment, mobile-first experiences, and community governance
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• Interest read BITKRAFT thesis (AI x Web3 x Gaming) — Rise of agent-first games, autonomous NPCs & emergence of on-chain ecosystems that can pave way for new digital economies & player engagement models
• InfiniGods release tokenomics whitepaper & launch token ($GOD) on HyperLiquid ($74m FDV as of write)
• Telegram announce that all mini-apps w/ blockchain features must exclusively use TON blockchain (Feb 1 — Full compliance required for all mini-apps), (Feb 21 — Deadline for migrating existing apps to TON). Interested users/developers can read more via TON Ventures thread
• Seeds AI released $SEED whitepaper (60% distributed to holders of AI-related projects across ETH/SOL) — learn more here + GOAT Gaming announce their Alpha Goats initial agent offering (February 6), user can now secure allowlist here
• Interest listen on the Deconstructor of Fun (TikTok Ban + Matthew Ball: State of Gaming Report), Naavik (Web3 Gaming: What will 2025 bring) + Is starknet gaming cooked by the shadowfax (most the FOCG/AW/AIAG build on StarkNet)
• Indie.fun — Game Jam (Feb 1 - 21)
• Goat Gaming — Alpha Goats Initial Agent Offering (Feb 6)
• Sipher — Genesis NFTs coming to Funkichain (Feb 10)
• Forkast — $CGX TGE moved to Feb 19
• Engines of Fury — Launching on Epic Games (Feb 25)
• Rumble Kong League — Announced their move to Ronin Network
• Tribo Games — Announced that Rumble Arcade is now on Telegram
• Spellborne — Announced early access on mobile
• Daydreams — v0.0.1 release
• Paragons DAO — PDIP 25: Restructuring DAO operations
• Delysium — Released whitepaper for their platform that helps facilitate mass adoption of AI Agents on blockchain
• BLOCKLORDS — Battleborne Closed Beta
• Gomble Games — Released 2025 Roadmap
• Dope Wars — Starknet Migration
• technoir (BITKRAFT) — Crypto x AI x Gaming Thesis
• Simon (Mighty Bear Games) — Introducing AlphaGoats
• Arto (Tribo Games) — Notes from Pocket Gamer Connects London
• Kiet (Arbitrum) — 5 Levels of AIAG (AI Agentic Gaming)
• 0wen (0xmons) — Introducing monchain, a pokemon x smash bros x mugen inspired PvP game for on-chain communities
• Beramonium Chronicles — $BERAMO token overview
• Indie.Fun — Crowdfund games 100x faster
• Seeds AI — Released $SEED whitepaper
• Telegram — Introduced new blockchain integration guidelines for mini apps
• Today The Game — Announced rebrand to Youmio
• Smolworld — Released Whitepaper for Smolworld, a virtual universe of AI Smols built on Eliza OS & Smolverse IP
• Ethan (Digimon) — Why Digimon Engine is the perfect framework for AI-native agent games
• Mike Lau (Treasure DAO) — All you need to know about Ride, a next gen meme platform
• Simon — Mighty Bear Review 2024: The GOAT is Risen
• FaultProofBen (WASD) — Onchain Games that will make me fucking rich in 2025
• FOCGERS — FOCG Money: Realms World
• Naavik — Web3 Gaming: What will 2025 Bring?
• FOCGERS — Meet the FOCGER: Matt Dion, Always Scheming
• Doubl3Tap — Episode 32: Abhi (AP Collective)
• shadowfax — Is starknet gaming cooked
• Deconstructor of Fun — TWIG #315: TikTok Ban & Matthew Ball's State of the Market Report
• Ponzi Land
• Desert Drift
• Daydreams
• BeraTone — Announced $2m seed round led by Animoca Brands & incubated by Build A Bera Workshop
• Tarta Games — Secured $1.25m grant from Mantle to continue developing their 3D ARPG, Spot Zero
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BITKRAFT — Agents of Change: The AI Saga Revolutionizing Gaming Worlds
• Agent-first games are emerging as a new paradigm wherein AI characters operate autonomously enabling persistent game worlds that evolve even when players are offline (Example: Seed | Parallel where players guide AI agents instead of directly controlling them)
• Current agent frameworks democratize AI agent development in gaming with different approaches (Example: Virtuals — Structured cathedral model offers reliability whereas Eliza provides open-source bazaar model that enables rapid innovation
• AI AG x Web3 Gaming creates new possibilities for Autonomous Virtual Beings (AVBs) that can own assets, manage resources and participate in game economies independently, which can help solve common challenges encountered in games (Example: "cold start" problem in multiplayer games & enabling novel player experiences)
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TGE ≠ Payday, TGE = Debt backed by reputation — Gengmo Qi (DragonFly)
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Unfortunate but in Web3 game sector, there is many this ... explain why many the gaming TGE is 📉
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8 reasons to think twice before launching a fair launch coin to fund a long-term project — Shaw (ai16z)
We should be able to balance the spirit of fair launches wherein we enable everyone to get what usually only VCs get, with realistic mechanisms to enable teams to build real tech — Read More
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• GDC in ~35 days, dm @kapital_k if you are attending
• Attach dedicated Web3 event list soon, wuwu🪚 🪚
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Steam — Banned games that utilize paid ads in-game
• Ban only applies to games that force players to watch ads before continuing or offer players in-game incentives such as virtual currency for watching ads
• Developers can still engage in cross-promotion
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Valeria Games (Formerly Antebellum Games) also shutting down — Source
Development and support for the mobile game as well as the $LOV TGE will be suspended indefinitely.
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Axie Infinity — Announced ATIA’s Legacy (MMO)
1st playtest is in Summer 2025
Testers can now pre-register
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• Wuuu hope all is okay. Market down but continue BUIDL🔨
• Gaming sector has not perform well in recent months with several studios closing down. Teams that have been able to raise during this time period are very lucky and should remain cash prudent in order to capitalize on opportunities as they arise. More important than ever for teams to be able to show some semblance or path towards obtaining PMF in order to attract VCs & liquid funds. Expect more developments when proper regulation is released
• Attach soon GDC Event list. If you are attend dm @kapital_k @wassiecapital for meet❤️
• Mighty Action Heroes — Season 9 now LIVE
• BLOCKLORDS — LORDCHAIN now deployed on mainnet
• ZED Champions — Alpha 3 Playtest Signups
• GODS Unchained — Migrating over to Immutable zkEVM
• Crypto: The Game — Season 3 Public Mint
• Wonder Wars — Wonder Pass coming to Ronin (4,444 Supply, End March)
• Ronin — Cerastes Upgrade goes live on March 17 (Enables Ronin to direct portion of RON gas fees to the Ronin treasury)
• Rumble Kong League — $FAME TGE
• Naavik — Com2Us’s Evolution: Gaming Innovation and Global Expansion
• Deconstructor of Fun — How Türkiye Became the New Capital of Mobile Gaming and Where It's Headed Next
• ReplyCorp
• Animoca Brands — Acquired 2% of $WOOF supply in strategic sale
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• GDC in ~1 week! Release soon our GDC event list. If you are host Web3 game event, feel free dm @0xkapital_k @wassiecapital to include❤️
• Interest see Axie Infinity new MMO (Atia's Legacy) will not issue new token, value to accrue to $AXS😳
• Some interest listen are Insights from Ronin Ecosystem after they transition to Open Ronin (Permissionless Model), How MapleStory is doing Web3 differently and the MON Protocol share they experience on Hyperliquid Listing🎵
• Still see studio announce closedown — Environment still tough especially for those that are plan TGE this Q1 / Q2 2025🥺
• Rumble Kong League — $FAME TGE (March 11)
• Dark Machine — 1st Access Edition Launch Phase #1 (March 13-16)
• Burn Ghost Games — Cash Clash Arena is now LIVE
• The Readyverse — Early Access is now LIVE
• Mythos — $MYTH Staking is now LIVE on Polkadot
• Vulcan Studios — Released 2025 Roadmap
• LANIAKEA — Movement Mainnet is now LIVE
• Axie Infinity — Atia's Legacy will not have a new token & value will acrue to $AXS
• LE7EL — Announced that they are shutting the studio down
• Goombles — Announced that they are discontinuing development after getting 339 downloads in 2024
• GAM3S.GG — How MapleStory Universe is doing Web3 Differently
• Naavik — Web3 Gaming: Insights from the Ronin Ecosystem
• Doubl3Tap — Episode 34: Heimdall (Citadel)
• GameSpot — Inside MON Protocol's Hyperliquid Listing: Is This The Next Big Breakthrough for Games?
• Alara Prime
• Fate Adventure
• Golden Company
• Bossu
• emptyvessel
• Nums
• Peer Global — Raised $10.5m for Metaverse Engine
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Battlebound (Formerly Evaverse) announced that they are shutting down — Source
They are also pausing the development of the creature-collector game, Anterris🫤
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• Today another studio also announce shut down — Speaks volume about even trying to survive is hard🥺
• Interesting to see how Parallel TCG mobile performs (March 18) when launch on traditional app stores as Web3 elements will likely be obfuscated and only accessible in D2C web shop / browser)🤔
• Interesting read from Ronin about the Ronin Growth Playbook (Share they experience from Axie, Pixels, etc)
• WILDCARD release they $WC whitepaper (100% community unlock) — But believe there is a governance token that will be issued later on as well*)
• Parallel — Launching on mobile (March 18)
• Nyan Heroes — Battledome Early Access (March 19)
• MetaCene — Asia Server Merge (March 20)
• Middle Earth AI — Game I is now LIVE
• Maxx AI — Mixmob Racer 1 is Live
• Forgotten Runiverse — A new Era of Player-Owned Gaming
• Ronin — Introducing the Ronin Growth Playbook
• Fame Network — $FAME Claim & NFT Staking Platform
• WILDCARD — Released $WC whitepaper (100% community allocation)
• GAM3S.GG — Building the Next Star Wars
• GameSpot — Inside Koin Games' Web3 Marketing Playbook
• FAME Network
• DEFECT
• Metal Slug — Recipient of Starknet Seed Grant
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• Treeverse announce their launch on Windows + Google Play Store, BEAM Nodes now live (user can start delegate $BEAM) + PlayDuper announce ACE migration🎮
• Some interest listen are Deconstructor of Fun: Future of Skill-Based Gaming especially since see more games pivot towards skill-based PvP (instead of P2E) + Blockchain Gaming World interview w/ Hilmar Peturrson regarding EVE Frontier Ethos & Building Better Games: The Real Cost of Founding a Game Startup — Very apt especially for Web3 game studios & founders trying to survive the bear market📉
• Interest see today strategic equity investment from ATMA (Developers of Star Atlas) into Shaga (Decentralized Cloud Gaming Platform)🎮
• MEGAWEAPON — Playtest launch today (March 13, 5PM EST)
• Beam — Announced that BEAM Nodes are now live and users can start delegating their $BEAM and node tokens to earn rewards
• Star Atlas — New preseason patch (March 19)
• DUPER — ACE Migration, Staking and 1st DUPER Skin release
• FAME Network — $FAME Token Claiming & Staking Portal is now LIVE
• Treeverse — Announced their launch on Epic Games (Windows) + Google Play Store (Android)
• Deconstructor of Fun — 274: Skillz CEO Andrew Paradise on the $75M Accelerator and the Future of Skill-Based Gaming
• Blockchain Gaming World — 194: EVE Frontier's Blockchain Ethos w/ Hilmar Petursson
• Building Better Games — E84: The Real Cost of Founding a Game Startup w/ Joseph Kim
• Shaga
• Shaga — Announced a strategic equity investment from ATMA (Developers of Star Atlas) to build a decentralized cloud gaming platform
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