Jon Jordan talks to Laguna Labs' CEO Aron Beierschmitt about leaving behind debut game Crypto Unicorns and moving to new project Neo Olympus, which is a fully onchain game using the MUD engine and running on the B3 blockchain, with assets on Ethereum and Base.
- [2:45] What happened to Crypto Unicorns?
- [4:02] 2024 was a rough year. We went from +90 people to 10. But the DAO still exists.
- [5:27] "I accept all the blame for the failure. But I'm optimist about the path forward."
- [9:08] What was the spark of inspiration for Neo Olympus?
- [11:10] Why Aron is bullish on fully onchain games.
- [12:05] "Crypto Unicorns would still be around today if it was fully onchain."
- [13:15] Why did you choose B3 as the blockchain for Neo Olympus?
- [14:12] Neo Olympus will be cross-platform: playable from Arbitrum, from Abstract, from Ronin.
- [15:20] Most of the Neo Olympus' NFTs will be minted on Base.
- [18:57] The DN404 standard is "memecoins meets NFTs".
- [25:49] There's no investor or team allocation for the Olympus token.
- [28:39] "Time-based token vesting is silly."
- [31:15] What did your investors think about this approach?
- [34:20] How do you hope to scale Neo Olympus as fully onchain games can be complex?
- [35:27] Neo Olympus' gameplay is map-based tactics - Fire Emblem with titans.
- [37:22] We're building the game on Lattice's MUD engine.
