YGG Spaces: How Web3 Flips the Process of Game Development
Leading up to W3GS in Manila this November, Nix Eniego, Luke Paglia and Kamila Gora join Sedano and Fallencorpsez to discuss how their communities have been shaping their esports initiatives.
In anticipation of the upcoming YGG Web3 Games Summit (W3GS), happening November 18-25, 2023, in Metro Manila, Philippines, the guild's game partners, including Axie Infinity, My Pet Hooligan, and ZTX, were brought on for an X Spaces discussion.
W3GS will bring gamers, investors, protocols, exchanges and game developers together to explore the trends and projects that will shape the future of web3 gaming. With over 90 speakers and more than 40 web3 games from all over the globe, the summit will also feature a conference, game expo, hackathon and esports tournaments.
In this X Spaces event, YGG’s Community Marketing Manager John Sedano and Game Operations Manager Fallencorpsez were joined by Sky Mavis Philippines Lead Nix Eniego, AMGI Studios COO Luke Paglia, and Kamila Gora, the Community Manager of ZTX, an immersive 3D open world where users can create, trade digital assets and enjoy social interaction.
During the discussion, the panelists talked about how web3 flips the process of game development, where communities form around games before release and help provide developers with active feedback and frameworks to build upon. They also discussed how the Axie Infinity Builders Program, My Pet Hooligan's AI chatbots and ZTX's creator SDKs empower creators by simplifying content creation through tools that leverage web3-native IPs.
The following excerpt features Luke describing how the AMGI team has been embracing community feedback to refine the two new game modes in My Pet Hooligan, Anarchy and Coinpocalypse. Nix also shares how the Axie community has been organizing tournaments, establishing buy-in fees, and pooling rewards to create a sustainable environment for competitive play without relying on Sky Mavis.
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YGG Spaces: Discover the Future of Gaming ft. My Pet Hooligan, Axie Infinity & ZTX
Sedano (54:05): What do you think the esports scene for My Pet Hooligan and the next for Axie Infinity is going to be looking like? What are you building now, and then how does it look when it gets released or when it comes full-scale 100%? What are the few pieces that you can share with us?
Luke (55:06): For us right now, we have some teams, some folks and some creators we're talking to, to help gear up our esports push and initiatives that we're doing between Anarchy and Coinpocalypse, our two battle incentivized gameplay. We're working with some folks to help make those stronger and a little bit more compelling. We love what we have right now, but we know it can be improved, and we know there's a lot of development to be done on that front.
So, expect in the next couple of weeks to months that these game modes that we put out there are going to keep developing, getting stronger, keep getting a little bit more intricate. And what you see today is just the beginning of where it's going to really start to develop and grow. So esports is a huge focus of what we're building and how we're going about it. And again, you can't build this stuff in a vacuum. You have to bring experts, and you have to bring the people who have experience in this field to know how to give the right kind of feedback to it.
Anybody who's out there listening, there are people we're working with, but if you're new to My Pet Hooligan and you want to test it out, you want to see what we're talking about, we do reverse AMAs every week and we have AMAs pretty frequently. Our community is very vibrant. Our Discord is always chattering in there. We listen. If you are hearing us for the first time and you want to jump in, test it out, you have good feedback, you feel like you want to throw it our way, please DM us. We are open to always listening and hearing, and we're always reacting to that. And, again, this is building it together. So we're here to do that.
Nix (57:18): I can go next, based on that. Competitive gameplay in Axie is very important, and this season, that has been emphasized as well with the restructuring of the leaderboard. After the season, there's another tournament for the top eight players to showcase that and try to see who really is the champion of the season. So we're seeing a lot of interesting community concepts as well, in terms of what tournaments could look like and what kind of executions they could be.
One new thing that we've been experimenting with within the last, I'd say, two months plus, is the concept of buy-in tournaments, where players who want to participate could pitch in and have a buy-in fee, which makes them have more skin in the game and, in turn, have more potential rewards in the end. So seeing the success of that with Axie Classic and with Axie Origins, and seeing players really wanting to take part in tournaments even though there's a buy-in involved, is encouraging.
And that, to me, is another way to have a sustainable competitive scene because we could always have tournaments where we fully fund the thing, and that can always be the case. But it's also nice to see community-organized tournaments, where there's a buy-in and a tournament can start and end with just the community running it, and the prize is pooled from the players. So having seen those things, I think it’s really encouraging what esports or competitive gameplay in Axie would look like.
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