Intern Notes #2/ Avalanche Q&A with Wildlife Studios - Expanding into Web3 Gaming

Mar 16, 2022

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Background

Mobile game with 75mil downloads, and over 1.4 million monthly active users
Own and upgrade cards

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

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

Most players dont really know how NFTs work
Make it as painless and seamless as possible to use $AVAX
- Automatic wallet creation
- Gasless 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

2nd web3 project - shooter battle arena 4v4 multiplayer game
- Focus on production quality
- Q2-Q3 2022
3rd web3 project
- Still developing internally