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Crypto gaming will be defined by these two new concepts:
- Cross-game functionality
&
- *True* lifelong ownership of in-game items/assets.
Let's break it down in a 🧵
Excited to share that I've been promoted to Head of Business Development at
@Stardust
!
The last 2~ years have been an incredible journey. I have worlds of appreciation for my amazing team, our badass clients, and my very wise network - all of whom have taught me so much.…
So excited for the
@forgottenrunes
party on Monday.
Been involved with this project since week 1. What a thrill to see them crushing it.
Can’t wait to meet some wizzies IRL.
Maybe I cosplay Charlord???
We've brought Charlord to life!
Please leave a respectful F in the chat for our boy😩
Huge shout out to
@Tadmajor
for creating this. He really cares about making something the customer enjoys.
@forgottenrunes
@dotta
I'm proud, pleased, and honored to be helping sponsor
@RealJonahBlake
(again) and
@SamSteffanina
for all of 2024!
Both have historically and are currently using unique methods to create far-reaching, low-level, and self-aware web3 gaming content for both developers and players
Okay who at GDC gave me Covid
I’m suing for the difference in dealflow
This is corporate espionage
Too many infra providers
When will we stop hurting each other
2024 will be a big year for web3 gaming. A lot of rubber will meet the road.
2024 will also be a breakout year for
@Stardust
. This team has consistently zagged the market with its ahead-of-the-curve vision.
Also, we'll be announcing a lot of BIG clients & partnerships.
Few.
🫡
To all the web3 BD folks out on the frontlines.
Drinking more than they should, yelling about tech they don’t understand, over club music that’s too loud
🙏We thank you for your sacrifice🙏
🫡We salute you🫡
#EspressoMartini
Imma let you finish but
@LowEffortPunks
has been one of the most consistent content creators in the NFT and twitter space - been firing up the Windows69 machine every damn day since April 2021.
Drop mic
Could not stop playing
@BloodLoopGAME
!
Awesome team, awesome game.
The
@Stardust
crew simply had to keep running it back.
Also - nothing quite like gaming outdoors.
#AvalancheSummit
So excited for this news and more importantly for the imminent success from this team!
Now's a good time to start following
@raini_coin
if you aren't already.
Months in the making.
An absolutely EPIC collaboration.
We’re incredibly excited to officially announce that
#RTLOL
Raini: The Lords of Light will be one of the first
#web3
games on the
@EpicGames
Epic Games Store.
Coming to a PC/Mac desktop near you, June 2023.
LFG!
It’s May 2023.
You’re in beautiful Barcelona for the Avalanche Summit.
The sun is shining.
The market is up 40% MoM.
Lazily munching on a Catalan charcuterie board,
You overhear, “a la mierda estos gilipollas criptomoneda”
Tears well and you close your eyes
You’ve made it.
Itttttt’s Rich Cabrera!
@ReadyPlayerRich
has seen a LOT of web3 gaming. It speaks volumes that he wants to grow this product.
As of Monday he’s joined
@Stardust
on the business development team!
Reach out and say hey!
His announcement thread here:
Null Mage Charlord of the Light:
Cursed to walk all of eternity with a delicious ice cream cone ... with a flaming skull for a head. Alas, he may view Valhalla, but may not taste it.
(Plus Kip the Fox for comedic relief)
@forgottenrunes
You drink Gatorlyte because you’re hungover.
I drink Gatorlyte because I need peak performance while I secure the web3 gaming GDC bag.
We are not the same.
And I’m hungover.
THIS IS MY WIZARD
THERE ARE MANY LIKE IT, BUT THIS ONE IS MINE
MY WIZARD IS MY BEST FRIEND. IT IS MY LIFE. I MUST MASTER MAGIC AS I MUST MASTER MY LIFE ✨
THIS IS MY WIZARD
THERE ARE MANY LIKE IT, BUT THIS ONE IS MINE
MY WIZARD IS MY BEST FRIEND. IT IS MY LIFE. I MUST MASTER MAGIC AS I MUST MASTER MY LIFE ✨
Stardust takes a huge amount of pride in providing a partnership-driven culture for game dev teams.
This space is too nascent, volatile, and confusing to have our team lean into 'transactional selling'.
There's just too much learning at stake for both teams in a meeting.
DICE and GDC looking very solid already.
Still booking meetings for both!
If you wanna !vibe and/or chat with
@Stardust
, hit me up asap!
(GDC gonna be dummyyy)
My new VC, WithGuns Ventures, is exclusively deploying into cutting-edge games that have gun mechanics and are actively defending IP litigation
(Looking for LPs, DMs are open)
Just want to say if/before this space blows up with folks/noise from the macro, it's been an honor building web3 gaming with you all🫡
😩don't forget your roots😩
#topsignal
Can I be the PM for
@TwitterSpaces
?
Losing millions by not enhancing this feature.
There’s not even iPad support, much less desktop.
Entire podcasts would move to twitter for live recording.
Big jump in potential ad $$ and they’d even eat into discord’s marketshare
ASLEEP.
Presenting, as part of the
@Runes_tcg
game, and by amazing artist
@GulceKuter
, the latest iteration of my first wizard:
🔥𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑻𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅🔥
“An ethereal wizard, his skull alight, an eternal ice-cream held, Craving its sweetness day and night, his…
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Owning a game item in the form of a blockchain token allows for the item to have utility outside of AND outlive the game itself.
This game asset persistence has two main appeals:
Been saying this for a while, but UGC in web3 gaming will be HUGE!
~~~~
Distributed and incentivized content creation
+
(modular) tokenized proof-of-creation for game assets/levels/modes/etc
+
Peer-to-Peer value transfer networks (chains)
=
✨s y n e r g y✨
Sad talking to teams stuck on isolated chains with no tooling and quiet ecosystems because of grant money in an insane bull market.
Trust your gut.
If 6+ months of wasted work is worth more than the grant, consider building where there’s a clearer path to success.
Well we have some big news to share and we cannot contain our excitement!!! Thank you to everyone that's been a part of our journey. Check out the full article 👇 Now, back to building!
Very excited to announce that
@Stardust
is the new partner and sponsor of my podcast/Twitter spaces for
@realthirdweb
starting Thursday. They are a fantastic web3 game tech company working with amazing IP such as
@12am
. This is going to be fun and their team is top notch!
Very excited to announce I’ve made a big career move!
I’ve officially joined
@StardustPlatfrm
as a Solutions Engineer.
Huge thanks to everyone I’ve had the pleasure of speaking with over the last few months❤️
If the idea of combining crypto and gaming annoys you, unfollow now.
People of LA - If you’re reading this, it’s *not* too late!
@Stardust
is hitting the road!
Tuesday, September 20th
You have the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hang with other gigabrains in the web3 gaming industry!
Lunch, open work space, and dev programming
Send me a DM!
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In hindsight, joining a web3 gaming infra startup, which relies on many games to be finished in order to have accelerated growth...
..IN THE SUMMER OF 2021...
sometimes seems like one of the craziest things I've ever done
but web3 gaming is inevitable so we ball👉😎👉
building games is really hard man.
production will take years minimum.
and then you need tens to hundreds of thousands of people play daily to get back your return.
in a brutal industry.
🚨San Francisco, October 24th 🚨
@Stardust
is hitting the road again for another ✨Stardust Roadshow✨ in collaboration with the amazing squad at
@hiFramework
Ventures!
If you, or someone you deeply care about, are in SF or coming for
@GamesBeat
Summit, hit me up!!
#GBSummit
3XP - Stardust doing it big!!! (hmu)
🌟Kickoff happy hour with
@avalabsofficial
(hmu)
🌟Taking meetings during the days (hmu)
🌟I am speaking on an infra panel on Thursday!
🌟We are sponsoring the 3XP After Party w/
@FaZeClan
at their warehouse! (hmu)
(hmu)
(🤝,🤝)
A lot of web3 natives think L2s and appchains are too painful because of the difficulty to traverse there from L1.
But if we agree that gaming will be a major vector of web3 onboarding….
and we agree that gaming at scale will happen on L2s and appchains….
Then we can…
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Cross-game functionality:
You now *own* this token/asset. The walled garden is walled no more. You can bring the token anywhere and it can interact with anything. Tokens be used as 1:1 item replications, access for in-game clubs/guilds, cosmetics, etc.
The failure to pursue a criminal
Investigation in to Stardust involving the deaths of 48 working class young people in 1981 is a shocking indictment of the lack of concern by successive governments… Fair dues to the families in pursuing this.
@Stardust
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1) Cross-game functionality - Any game on any platform from any company can read a wallet for any specific item token to utilize it in-game
2) Virtual sentimentalism - Accessing your items/achievements from games you played 20+ years ago can be nearly impossible, until now
The people who know what they're doing don't get it and the people who get it don't know what they're doing.
It's an amazing time to be building.
Downright fun.