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Gala Games is an ecosystem of games 🎮

In this episode of @zima_red, @BitBenderBrink goes in deep into @GoGalaGames with @AndrewSteinwold

Read all about it here 👇

@zima_red @BitBenderBrink @GoGalaGames @AndrewSteinwold Background

🎮 Came into the space in 2014
🎮 Wrote a paper on the use of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology to fix problems in foreign aid 🩹
🎮 Got an award from the Global Development Network - Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
🎮 President of Blockchain in Gala Games

@zima_red @BitBenderBrink @GoGalaGames @AndrewSteinwold Foreign Aid

🩹 Working as an academic consultant
🩹 Saw a call for papers for the Global Development Network
🩹 Before that, had done work in foreign aid at post-earthquake Haiti & Peru
🩹 Used blockchain technology in the essay
🩹 Received a call from them after a few months

@zima_red @BitBenderBrink @GoGalaGames @AndrewSteinwold Journey post-2014

🎮 Started working on various projs
🎮 Marcomms role: Explaining technical things in a simple way
🎮 Kept working in that capacity because he believed in the space
🎮 Involved in @QUOBlockchain. Project is currently idle

@zima_red @BitBenderBrink @GoGalaGames @AndrewSteinwold @QUOBlockchain 🎮 Talked to his friend, Eric Schiermeyer, the founder of Gala Games
🎮 Found ways to improve their site and social media handles. Invited to join them

@zima_red @BitBenderBrink @GoGalaGames @AndrewSteinwold @QUOBlockchain First impression of Gala Games

🎮 Loved the idea of game ownership
🎮 Wrote a paper on player ownership before 📜
🎮 Joined Gala Games because they can execute on their ideas

@zima_red @BitBenderBrink @GoGalaGames @AndrewSteinwold @QUOBlockchain Gala Games

🎮 One liner for Gala Games: We are here to give power back to the gamers 😎
🎮 People working on Gala Games are from the games industry, using blockchain as part of their tech stack
🎮 This is very different from a blockchain company that tries to make games

@zima_red @BitBenderBrink @GoGalaGames @AndrewSteinwold @QUOBlockchain 🎮 Half of "blockchain games" are not games, but are Gacha slot machines with some sort of economic component tied in.
🎮 If people were not paid to do it, they would not play these games
🎮 Gala Games wants to make games that are fun, that people would love to play

@zima_red @BitBenderBrink @GoGalaGames @AndrewSteinwold @QUOBlockchain 🎮 Every game is pay-to-win. The question is what the gamer is paying in:
1️⃣ Paying in money 💸
2️⃣ Paying in time. A highly skilled player has put in time to get to what he/she is today 🕑
🎮 Creating an ecosystem where people paying in money ➡️ people paying in time

@zima_red @BitBenderBrink @GoGalaGames @AndrewSteinwold @QUOBlockchain Play to give

🎮 Had AMA with @opera & Mercy Corp Ventures
🎮 Created a building called the Sanctuary in-game
🎮 % of resources collected by new players go back to it
🎮 Resources given out to charity
🎮 Allows players not just play-to-earn, but to play to give to a cause

@zima_red @BitBenderBrink @GoGalaGames @AndrewSteinwold @QUOBlockchain @opera Tokenization

🎮 Traditional games have a closed loop system
🎮 When developing games for the blockchain space, game devs have to be more careful about the game ecosystem
🎮 Foresees that tokens, blockchain, and NFTs are going to be how we are going to build the system

@zima_red @BitBenderBrink @GoGalaGames @AndrewSteinwold @QUOBlockchain @opera Games

Spider Tanks
🕷️ Brawler/MOBA game
🕷️ Worked with @GAMEDIA_GAMES to produce it
🕷️ Own Spider Tanks, which are spider-shaped tanks, and fight one another
🕷️ Use resources to upgrade your tanks

@zima_red @BitBenderBrink @GoGalaGames @AndrewSteinwold @QUOBlockchain @opera @GAMEDIA_GAMES @TownStarGame

⭐️ 1st internal game
⭐️ A town building farming simulation
⭐️ Gave away a million dollars in May to players. There were people in the community who were able to purchase their homes using their winnings

@zima_red @BitBenderBrink @GoGalaGames @AndrewSteinwold @QUOBlockchain @opera @GAMEDIA_GAMES @TownStarGame Fortified

🎮 A tower defense game that is still in development
🎮 Players build towers to defend against enemies

Echoes of Empire

🚀 Developed by Ion Games
🚀 A space 4X strategy game
🚀 4X stands for Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate

@zima_red @BitBenderBrink @GoGalaGames @AndrewSteinwold @QUOBlockchain @opera @GAMEDIA_GAMES @TownStarGame Mirandus

⚔️ MMO RPG with an entirely player-driven economy based around a medieval feudal system
⚔️ Have smaller homesteads all the way to massive citadels
⚔️ Difficult to give a rough launch date
⚔️ Some stuff would be out this year

@zima_red @BitBenderBrink @GoGalaGames @AndrewSteinwold @QUOBlockchain @opera @GAMEDIA_GAMES @TownStarGame Gala Nodes

🎮 A series of node licenses that allow people to buy these licenses and run nodes
🎮 By running nodes, they are supporting the network by providing processing power and storage
🎮 In return, node operators are rewarded in GALA tokens 👀

@zima_red @BitBenderBrink @GoGalaGames @AndrewSteinwold @QUOBlockchain @opera @GAMEDIA_GAMES @TownStarGame $GALA Token

🎮 ERC-20 token
🎮 Can be obtained from running a node or from DEXes
🎮 Each of their games/products will have separate tokens
🎮 There will be interlinking ecosystems — $GALA will tie everything together 🪢

@zima_red @BitBenderBrink @GoGalaGames @AndrewSteinwold @QUOBlockchain @opera @GAMEDIA_GAMES @TownStarGame Grand 5-10 Year Vision

🎮 Believes that they have the ability to become the next Steam
🎮 Want to see hundreds of games, all with player-owned assets, integrated with Gala Chain

@zima_red @BitBenderBrink @GoGalaGames @AndrewSteinwold @QUOBlockchain @opera @GAMEDIA_GAMES @TownStarGame News to share 👀

🎮 GalaCon at Las Vegas in December
🎮 Announcements of things that are coming to the platform both before and after the event
🎮 Cool stuff related to Mirandus
🎮 Triple A gaming titles coming to the blockchain space. An example is a FPS game 🔫

@zima_red @BitBenderBrink @GoGalaGames @AndrewSteinwold @QUOBlockchain @opera @GAMEDIA_GAMES @TownStarGame Single favourite NFT

🎮 Owns quite a few buildings, shops, and deeds for Mirandus
🎮 Owns a couple of @TheHashmasks
🎮 Owns several VOX

@zima_red @BitBenderBrink @GoGalaGames @AndrewSteinwold @QUOBlockchain @opera @GAMEDIA_GAMES @TownStarGame @TheHashmasks Most controversial thought

🎮 Loves NFTs, but there's a lot of trash out there
🎮 Thinks that there is a degree of collusion that drives the value of some NFTs up
🎮 Some projects will succeed tremendously 📈 while a lot of projects will fade away 📉

@zima_red @BitBenderBrink @GoGalaGames @AndrewSteinwold @QUOBlockchain @opera @GAMEDIA_GAMES @TownStarGame @TheHashmasks NFT Ecosystem in 3 years

🎮 Going to be a shakeout in the blockchain collectible space 📉
🎮 Legitimate projects will continue building while the rest will fizzle out
🎮 After the shakeout, there will be innovation in the space 💡

@zima_red @BitBenderBrink @GoGalaGames @AndrewSteinwold @QUOBlockchain @opera @GAMEDIA_GAMES @TownStarGame @TheHashmasks 🎮 NFTs will move to different chains. Thinks that Flare, Polygon, and Gala will become heavy hitters in the NFT space
🎮 Larger acceptance of NFT art. May lead to a mass onboarding of new users
🎮 On-chain photography/selfie to verify user identity to counteract deep fakes

@zima_red @BitBenderBrink @GoGalaGames @AndrewSteinwold @QUOBlockchain @opera @GAMEDIA_GAMES @TownStarGame @TheHashmasks Links:

Substack post: thereadingape.substack.com/p/zima-red-ep-…

@zima_red @BitBenderBrink @GoGalaGames @AndrewSteinwold @QUOBlockchain @opera @GAMEDIA_GAMES @TownStarGame @TheHashmasks Links:

Podcast: anchor.fm/andrew-steinwo…

Thanks to @AndrewSteinwold for this episode!

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