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Don’t Be a Tool — Use One!
Getting a Huge Head Start on Web3 Game Development What!? Still talking about building a web3 game? Aren’t NFTs gone with the tulip bulb petals? Aren’t all things crypto dead as disco? Well we here at Double Coconut are still believers. We don’t know the ultimate form mass-market crypto gaming will take, nor do we…
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Milky Way Miner Visits the Alien Worlds
Double Coconut is happy to announce that we will soon release a Web3 version of our popular idle game Milky Way Miner as part of the Galactic Hubs Season 2 Development Grant! We are teaming up with the Alien Worlds | Galactic Hubs program to create an out-of-this-world experience for Alien Worlds players. The game will be…
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Tales From the Crypto
At GDC 2023, I gave a talk about the reality of making Blockchain games in 2023, after the crash, in the coldest winds of the crypto winter. A good number of victims actually showed up… For those who didn’t, we covered everything a F2P Developer Always Wanted to Know About Web3 Gaming But Was Afraid…
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WIPs and Chains: Which Blockchain to Build Your Game Upon
The single most important go-to-market decision when developing a crypto / play-to-earn game is which blockchain to build upon. The choice will affect the audience you can attract, the way your game economy is structured, how your title is funded, how risky your business is, and of course the engineering effort of your team. Most…
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Insert Quarter: How the Hell to Play Blockchain Games
Games, like anything powerful, often have ties to money. As we navigate these early days of blockchain gaming, the raw mix of money and games has triggered a lot of folks. There are many good-faith concerns about this new ‘play-to-earn’ genre: That many projects are bait-and-switch scams. That the tech they use is immoral from an…