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

Wildlife Studios

• 10 years company based in Brazil

• 2 billion mobile downloads across apps

• Top 10 mobile developer

Castle Crush

• 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

@NFT_Silent:

• 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

@0xJ010:

• 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?

1. Support from Ava Labs was great

2. TPS, time to finality of Avalanche

3. Road map of Avalanche

4. 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

Validators

• 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