#358: Amitt Mahajan, Founder of Proof of Play, on Building Viral Games, Web3 Games, Building Community, and Co-creating FarmVille

Amitt Mahajan is the Founder of Proof of Play, the creators of Pirate Nation, the fully onchain free-to-play pirate-themed roleplaying game (RPG). Prior to founding Proof of Play, Amitt was the founder and CTO of MyMiniLife (acquired by Zynga), founder and CEO of Toro (acquired by Google), and the co-founder and CTO of Rare Bits, an NFT marketplace launched in 2018 the same week as OpenSea. While at Zynga, he co-created the game FarmVille (300M players, $1B+ in revenue) and served as the CTO of Zynga Japan. Before his entrepreneurial work, Mahajan was an engineer at Epic Games on the Unreal Engine and Gears of War.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Building FarmVille and working at Zynga, a top 3 gaming studio of all time
- The importance of distribution in gaming
- Distribution in FB vs Telegram vs Discord
- Social gaming
- Creating games = giving multiple choices and giving high player agency
- “Finding the fun”
- Building decentralized games and gaming infrastructure
- Crypto is ethical neutral technology
- Importance of streaming in today’s games
- Building community
- Dev cycle speed

Pirate Nation
Website: piratenation.game
X: @PirateNation
Discord: discord.gg/piratenation

Amitt Mahajan
X: @amittm
LinkedIn: Amitt Mahajan 
 
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