Avalanche Q&A with Wildlife Studios - Expanding into Web3 Gaming
Speaker(s):
@avalancheavax,
@EdC,
@NFT_Silent,
@0xJ010
Held on:
16-03-2022
Written on:
16-03-2022
URL: https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1OdKrBgeddqKX
Background
- 10 years company based in Brazil
- 2 billion mobile downloads across apps
- Top 10 mobile developer
- Mobile game with 75mil downloads, and over 1.4 million monthly active users
- Own and upgrade cards
NFTs in Castle Crush
- NFTs will be stronger and cooler looking cards
- Purchase with $AVAX, and also mint using $ACS
- NFTs mid april, playable in june. phased monthly drop
- Hope to convert game community into crypto with Avalanche
- Card Games are a pretty good fit for NFTs
- Game balancing
- Game mechanics will be on own server (off chain) initially to react quickly
- NFT will be used to focus on ownership
- Once reach reasonable development cycle then might it be moved to the blockchain
Thoughts on transitioning from web2 to web3
- Sentiment is similar to web2 f2p games where people were cautious of f2p games with microtransactions
- Evironmental issues on Avalanche nonexistent
- Wildlife Studios web2 revenue can be used to fund web3 games
- No blockchain game has reached critical mass like mobile games yet
- Their mobile game Sniper3D has close to 500m downloads
- Castle Crush community has not manifested any negative sentiment about push to NFTs yet
- Most were quite excited about new content to the game
- Anti-nft sentiment mischaracterized, maybe due to uncertainty in direction
Tackling a web2 audience
- Most players dont really know how NFTs work
- Make it as painless and seamless as possible to use
$AVAX
- Automatic wallet creation
- Gasless Subnet
Why Avalanche?
- Support from Ava Labs was great
- TPS, time to finality of Avalanche
- Road map of Avalanche
- Customization of blockchain ( Subnet)
Subnet
Castle Crush Subnet (name not mentioned)
- gasless to minimize friction
- marketplace will use $ACS, $AVAX
- Automatic wallet creation allowed instantaneous earning once they start playing the game
- Initial validators will be the team
- Process of decentralizing it still in process of being decided
Metrics to gauge success
- Monthly active users
- Lifetime Value
- Conversion of current player base to the NFTs
- Retention - tracking and determining the effect of NFTs in game.
Future Projects
- 2nd web3 project - shooter battle arena 4v4 multiplayer game
- Focus on production quality
- Q2-Q3 2022
- 3rd web3 project
- Still developing internally