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DoubleTapDoubl3Tap Ep 34 - Heimdall (Citadel)In this episode, we explore some of the economic nuances in fully on-chain MMOs with Heimdall, the Chief Economist at Citadel. We discuss topics covering some of the novel ways blockchain games can monetize, the challenges and opportunities of designing and managing in-game cryptocurrencies, and why any of this might actually matter to gamers.If you want to learn more about Citadel and why they decided to build a blockchain-dependent MMO in the first place, you can refer back to our previous episode with the Citadel team.Timestamps:00:30 What games are you playing?2025-02-2627 minDoubleTapDoubl3Tap Ep 33 - Nick Metzler (WinWin)This week we sat down with Nick Metzler, co-founder of Web3 gaming consultancy Win Win, to discuss some fascinating topics around token LiveOps for blockchain-enhanced games.
The conversation centered around Nick’s recent article Burn Notice, which dove into the implications of token burns and some core considerations for teams managing a token LiveOps treadmill.You can also find us on:https://x.com/DoubleTapGGYouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@DoubleTapGG
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00:20 - What games are you playing?
03:28 - What makes a great forward-facing founder?
12:00 - Will AI replace CMs?
18:00 - Nuances between Web3 and traditional growth models
23:21...2025-01-2233 minDoubleTapDoubl3Tap Ep 31 - Michael O'Connor (Today The Game)In this episode we sat down with Michael O-Connor, CEO and co-founder of Today The Game, to chat about AI’s impact on gaming. Michael and his team have been working with AI both in their development pipeline and in their game’s core loop.
We took this opportunity to hear more about what he has learned, his thoughts on the current landscape of Web3 agentic frameworks, and what we should expect from them over the next 12 months.
1:02 What games are you playing?
7:03 AI’s impact on gaming
12:38 Leveli...2025-01-1734 minDoubleTapDoubl3Tap Ep 30 - Kam Punia (Pixion Games)As we edge closer to the launch of their flagship title Fableborne, we sat down with Pixion Games founder and CEO Kam Punia to discuss his philosophy for making games and the lessons he’s learned in the 8 years since founding the studio. You can also find us on:
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Disclaimer: The content of this video is for entertainment and in...2025-01-1026 minDoubleTapDoubl3Tap Ep 029 - Sean Geng (B3)We sat down with Sean Geng, co-founder and CTO at B3, a new gaming layer three on Base, to discuss why he thinks Web3 needs more app-specific infra for scale, the future of service chains, and more about B3’s vision to aggregate cross-chain liquidity and solve many of the issues with fragmentation.
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...2024-09-0428 minDoubleTapDoubl3Tap Ep 027 - Alex Paley (Faraway)We spoke with Alex Paley, co-founder of Faraway, about his approach to building a blockchain-powered mobile gaming ecosystem. Alex shared his views on how tokens can impact monetization and distribution and how Faraway combines strong IP with single-ecosystem interoperability and token incentives to grow players’ collateralized LTV.
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Long shared his thoughts on the importance of building where the users are, how on-chain player ID and community building are at the heart of social gaming ecosystems, and how they plan to leverage NFTs for cross-game composability.Stay up to date & pre-register for some exclusive content on https://www.doubletap.games/
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We sat down with Ryan to discuss the topic of “build vs. buy” and how services like theirs are democratizing game development and simplifying workflows so teams can get back to focusing on finding the fun.
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We sat down with Andy to discuss similarities between WeChat and Telegram mini-games, how Telegram’s leading blockchain, TON, will fast-track ecosystem growth, and what the early-stage playbook will look like for teams looking to leverage the platform’s recent explosive growth.
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Fountain - ht...2024-06-2629 minDoubleTapDoubl3Tap Ep 021 - Arena X Labs (AI Arena)Arena X Labs is on a mission to make machine learning fun again by gamifying AI inference. We sat down with co-founders Brandon and Wei to discuss what they learned building an AI 2D fighting game and how it encouraged them to create two AI-focused platforms called ARC and SAI.
Key themes throughout the conversation include commoditizing player skill, nuances between different learning models and the AI agents they produce, and how abstracting complex machine learning models with competitive games will onboard the next generation of AI engineers.
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Toby highlights how they reverse-engineered the “perfect game” for Steam users, getting on Steam’s front page with nothing but elbow grease and gorilla marketing, and how they are managing both a hardcore PC gamer community and NFTs.
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Giulio is now the CEO of Pixelmon and the MON Protocol, and in this episode, we discuss the key learnings from the Pixelmon acquisition, weaponizing a community for UA growth hacking, and the sad state of current game token launches.
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We sat down with co-founder and lead game designer Kohji to talk about how blockchain integrations impact game design, why fun is the true Trojan horse, and the novel emergent behaviors AI agents can facilitate.
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We had a chat with co-founder and CEO Kix to discuss why the benefits of bridging real-money gaming to the blockchain outweigh the downsides brought on by the constraints of building fully on-chain.
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Fountain - https://fountain.fm/show...2024-04-0929 minDoubleTapDoubl3Tap Ep 013 - CitadelCitadel is developing a sci-fi MMO where the majority of game state, logic, and assets are stored directly on the blockchain.
We sat down with 3 of the 6 co-founders to discuss emergent player behaviors in programable worlds, how being fully on-chain is bad game design, and how they are approaching game design under the constraints of blockchain technology.
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two & a half gamersUA trends, TikTok, building communities for power users: Doubl3Tap x 2.5gamers crossoverAnother crossover episode is here! Talking UA with Doubl3Tap gaming:
Matej is a UA consultant & co-host of the Two and a Half Gamers podcast. In this episode, we chatted about UA trends, TikTok, and building communities for power users. Matej also shared his thoughts on how blockchain games have great retention (so does a typical 9 to 5), his favorite UA hacks, and the importance of leaving some budget for experiments.Stay up to date & pre-register for some exclusive content on https://www.doubletap.games/You can also find us on:Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/6Z1Gt4g...2024-03-1628 minDoubleTapDoubl3Tap Ep 012 - Luke Barwikowski (Pixels)When Luke originally created Pixels to be a digital events company. He then re-branded the company into a blockchain game in 2021. After more than a year of building outside of the spotlight, Pixels is now one of the hottest P2E games in Web3, successfully launching its crypto token at a more than $300M market cap.
We sat down with Luke to talk about his views on bottoms-up growth, creating distributed value incentives, and bot prevention.
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...2024-02-2827 minDoubleTapDoubl3Tap Ep 010 - Jon Radoff (Beamable)Jon was previously CEO at Disruptor Beam before he sold the games business to Tilting Point. During his time at DB, the team worked on a ton of cool IPs, such as Game of Thrones &Star Trek.
He's now building the future of live ops at Beamable and shared his thoughts on attention economies, the future of content, and how testing early with tight feedback loops is quickly becoming table stakes for indies.
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RSS...2024-02-0729 minDoubleTapDoubl3Tap Ep 007 - Jon Hook (PlayEmber)Coming from the challenges of hybercasual, Jon's now experimenting at the intersection of mobile gaming & blockchain incentives. In this episode, we discussed the benefits of creating community-based feedback loops, the pros and cons of in-game BTC vs native token rewards, and collecting data on global web3 gaming markets.
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2024-02-0134 minDoubleTapDoubl3Tap Ep 006 - Matej (Two and a Half Gamers)Matej is a UA consultant & co-host of the Two and a Half Gamers podcast. In this episode, we chatted about UA trends, TikTok, and building communities for power users. Matej also shared his thoughts on how blockchain games have great retention (so does a typical 9 to 5), his favorite UA hacks, and the importance of leaving some budget for experiments.
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Founta...2024-01-2427 minDoubleTapDoubl3Tap Ep 005 - Ike (Fusionist)Fusionist is building 3 intertwined Web3 strategy games & launched its ACE token earlier in December 2023 at a $300M market cap. We sat down with the project's co-founder and CEO, Ike, to chat about his thoughts on reverse engineering product-market-fit in Web3, the importance of creating different financialized game loops for different types of players, and how the project grew a dedicated Japanese and Korean fan base as a foreign team.
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RSS - ht...2024-01-1039 minDoubleTapDoubl3Tap Ep 003 - Aiko (Folius Ventures)We sat down and chatted with Aiko, a gaming investor at Folius Ventures, about why Chinese game developers have a competitive advantage in creating blockchain games.
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Deus Ex DAOThe State Of Onchain Games: How And Where It Is GoingIn this episode, we are joined by JACL. JACL is a research associate at Delphi Digital and is also co-host on "Doubl3Tap". Our host Kepler and JACL talk about all things on chain gaming. They talk about how and where on-chain gaming is going. This is packed with insights on all things gaming, make sure to listen from start to finish. Like and subscribe to stay updated with our latest content.
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