What’s a Fully On-Chain Game Anyway? | EP 27

Imran and Qiao brought on Will Robinson to discuss fully on-chain games, the current state of it, why people want to put games on-chain, and more.

No BS crypto insight for founders.

Timestamps

(00:00) Intro
(00:53) Welcome to Good Game
(01:23) Will's background on the history of games
(01:57) How Will got into crypto
(04:14) What are on-chain games?
(08:35) Which game has the longest shelf life?
(09:47) The importance of balancing games' meta
(10:43) What is DOTA
(12:15) Is CryptoKitties a game?
(13:03) What is the definition of a fully on-chain game?
(16:26) Can Counter-Strike be a fully on-chain game?
(19:32) Can Civilization be a fully on-chain game?
(21:54) Why do we want to put games fully on-chain?
(26:09) What is Dark Forest? | Game modding
(39:06) How would Warcraft III look like on-chain?
(42:08) A DeFi analogy by Qiao
(45:30) The definition of "games" people don't often think about
(48:41) Financialization
(52:11) "Speculation" in gaming | Words3 on-chain game
(55:46) What makes people scared of fully on-chain games in the future?
(01:00:27) What's the TPS needed to build an on-chain game?
(01:10:14) What kind of games can we actually build today?
(01:14:48) What are the other major constraints on building on-chain games?
(01:17:21) MUD (Multi-User Dungeon)
(01:22:49) Jared from Subway (sandwich attacker) behavior in games?
(01:29:04) Are there any fun games today?
(01:29:13) The logic behind Primodium Game
(01:32:33) We already have a fully on-chain game and that's DeFi
(01:33:56) Any attack vectors on on-chain gaming?
(01:36:39) Final thoughts

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