Intern Notes #2/ 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
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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
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)
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