Originally Broadcast: October 14, 2021
In this episode, Amy Jo Kim and Jon Radoff cover some of the most important trends happening in game development: solo-to-social, technologists-to-artists, and games-to-economies. They talk about all manner of online games, MMOs, Roblox, Undertale, Axie Infinity, Cookie Clicker, Archer Danger Phone, The Office, and many others.
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0:00 Intro
3:06 Solo to Social
5:43 The Idle Game Genre
6:56 Building Communities Around Games
8:26 Live Ops & Live Event Strategy
11:10 Technical to Artistic Team Composition
12:48 The Creator Era
16:14 Game Development Informing the Future
15:32 The No Code and Low Code Movement
17:40 Economies Around Games
19:21 The Size of the Gaming Industry
20:28 The Live Games Trinity
21:57 The Marketplace Model for Games
24:25 Community First Game Dev
29:40 All Gaming is Social Gaming
32:06 Play to Earn
37:20 Play to Earn
41:11 Sustainability in NFTs and Third Party Ecosystems
46:03 Is Play to Earn Really Play?
47:58 Money-Winning Competition Games
49:41 Habit-Forming Apps Using NFTs
52:42 The Sandbox
55:10 Wrap Up
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Amy Jo Kim: the trends in gaming influence all of tech.
Amy Jo Kim: You and I have worked in gaming for long enough to know that everything we deal with in gaming, then you see three to five years later in the rest of tech. AI, bots, graphics, huts, etc, etc.
Jon Radoff: Yeah, game development is informing the whole future of everything we're doing. And that's how I really think of the metaverse at this point, which is it's just games showing you what the future of the internet is going to look like.