thecoreloop.gg — Web3 [SUNSET]

👋 Web3 Gaming Recap — August 26 + Past Week 🗓 🔔 Gaming Actionables • GOAT Gaming — CLAIM 🤕 Free Spins & Crowns for Season 2 of GOAT Gaming on Telegram. Ref Link • XTREMEVERSE — TRY 🤕 extraction shooter game, Battle Xtreme that just released on iOS • Infinite Seas — CLAIM 🤕 daily $ENERGY from faucet for PT Batch 0 • Nyan Heroes — CLAIM 🤕 early access code in Discord for Playtest 3 Early Access 🪚🪚🪚 🔄 Gaming Updates • Forgotten Runes — Released New Foundations (August 26) • Today The Game — Pioneers closed playtest (August 26) • SHADOW WAR — August Playtest (August 30) • Variance Poker — Launched their on-chain poker game on Arbitrum, Base & Mantle • Catizen — Launched the beta of their mini game center • MetaCene — $MAK is now trading on ByBit's Pre-Market • Zeeverse — Launched Telegram Mini-Game • D'islands — Soft launched their on-chain Dapp on Telegram • Soulbound — August Release: The Discord Open Beta • Aavegotchi — Rarity Farming Season 9: 1.2m $GHST to be distributed to top 7500 Gotchis • Burn Ghost Games — Releasing 2.0 soon • Karnak Legacy — Will launch S1: The Awakening of Karnak Collection on Beam's marketplace, Sphere • PlayFi — Launched roadmap detailing their upcoming token launch • Revolving Games — Reached their Node WL Pre-Sale Targets • Trial Xtreme — Announced their soft launch 🔖 Gaming Reads • Lattice — Sky Strife Enters Autonomous Mode • Oscar (Wolves DAO) — Gaming Mint Playbook is evolving • Sweep — A prediction market for your favorite streamers • Obviously obvious (Devmons) — Gamescom 2024 had 10+ Web3 games with public booths ▶️ Gaming Watch/Listens • Gam3s.GG — The Value of a Name ✅ Gaming Projects • Derby Race • Ethgard Legends • Karnak hope helpful wuwu 😆💞 ✅ Gaming News ✅ Web3 Gaming Coverage

MapleStory Universe unveils their Nexpace Protocol for a new game economy View Tokencomics 📘

The bar has gone up, but too many games are the same. Don’t make simple games, make games few can copy, either thru depth, originality or production values. Strategy/deep genres remain safest due to high barrier of entry. Be the best or be the first.

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👋 Web3 Gaming Recap — August 22 🔔 Gaming Actionables • Forgotten Runes — START 🤕 earning & stacking Donut Points. Ref Link • Counter Fire — TRY 🤕 the public beta for Counter Fire on iOS & Google App Store (Aug 22 - Sept 22) • Rumble Kong League — PLAY 🤕 in their Season 01 Ground Zero Playtest, access limited to digital collectible holders (August 21 - 28) 🪚🪚🪚 🔄 Gaming Updates • Mystery Society — Announced the Mystery Foundation with more details to come around the $MYSTRY token (50% allocated to the community) • Proof of Play — Launching Multichain v1 next week (Constellation of blockchains on Arbitrum Orbit that work together with their on-chain game engine to support real-time, fully on-chain gameplay and internet-scale dApps) • Otherside — Project Dragon Episode 2 (August 29) • Mahjong Meta — Launched a new game, Mahjong 123 • Root Network — Updated to Substrate v1.0.0 • Star Atlas — Crew trading now available on Tensor 🔖 Gaming Reads • Gam3Girl Ventures — Exploring the Web3 Gold Rush: Leading Game Genres • 0xmons (Sudoswap) — Existing on-chain game designs favor automated players & put non-automated players at a disadvantage ▶️ Gaming Watch/Listens • GameSpot — Founder explains how his Fortnite team, Evade got acquired, now he runs a Multi-Million Dollar Startup in Moku (Hantao) ✅ Gaming Projects • Age Of Memes • FOLK hope helpful wuwu 😆💞 ✅ Gaming News ✅ Web3 Gaming Coverage

Improve crypto consumer UX by bringing the chain to where users are — Source Related Material (Variant Fund) — Headless Marketplaces: Go Where the Wallets Are

👋 Web3 Gaming Recap — August 21 🔔 Gaming Actionables • bsmnt — Mint a free gasless collectible for Goat Gaming • Oceanus — Test Oceanus, an on-chain strategic adventure game powered by World Engine (Argus) and provide feedback on Discord • Rug Poker — Join discord to learn more about an idle money game where users plunder ETH by winning poker games 🔄 Gaming Updates • Nyan Heroes — Including payload as a new game mode for Playtest 3 • AI Arena — Soft staking cycle 1 rewards are now claimable • Sofamon — Introduced Gacha Machine that will launch a cat-themed gacha collection w/ Catizen (August 21) • Otherside — Hosting Poker Alpha Testing (August 22) 🔖 Gaming Reads • Messari — Understanding Ronin: A Comprehensive Overview • Levx — Building rug.poker, an idle money game • Kaito AI — What's going on with Gamefi ▶️ Gaming Watch/Listens • Blockchain Gaming World — Promoting long term play in Blocklords ✅ Gaming Projects • Oceanus • Clash Foundation • Sanko Arena • TOY • めめめのくらげ TCG (Takashi Murakami Game?) • Rug Poker • Radiant • Soteria hope helpful wuwu 😆💞 ✅ Gaming News ✅ Web3 Gaming Coverage

AppMagic — Casual Gaming In H1'24: Tough Competition And New Opportunities

This report mainly focuses on the performance of the mobile games market in Tier-1 West countries, which include the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, France, and Germany.

🤔 Interesting how this will look for Eastern Markets but expecting current TG games to expand into these genres Read More

The Alumni Effect: A Deep Dive into Studios Founded by Ex-Rioters

Ex-Riot founders typically secure larger average deal sizes and are more likely to close follow-up funding rounds compared to the broader industry.​

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💰 TON Foundation — A Look Back at The Open League Hackathon: Meet the Winners

This hackathon saw 13 bootcamps with 1,970 attendees, over 1,000 participating projects with 3,664 hackers and 2 months of building

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The future of play-to-earn lies in smart token distribution

Give less tokens to extractors & more to players who hold & use them

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👋 Web3 Gaming Recap — August 20 🔄 Gaming Updates • Wilder World — Genesis Land Drop Snapshot (August 21) • Catizen — Launching Mini Game Center (August 22) • Counter Fire — Releasing public beta (August 22) • Ember Sword — Closed beta will end soon (August 23) • Nyan Heroes — Playtest 3 Early Access for Genesis NFT Holders (August 23) • Edison Metaverse — Releasing Summercrush, a block-building game on browser (August 23) • MetaGravity — Revealed new edge of chaos website • Project Mirage — Update Dev Log 🔖 Gaming Reads • Lawrence (Spartan Group) — An ode to (crypto) gaming: A tribute to interactive worlds • bard.eth — $SIPHER Deep Dive: AAA Web3 game with 10x potential • Adam (FrenPet) — Fren Pet players down ~77% (h/t Peter) ▶️ Gaming Watch/Listens • 51 Insights — The Future of Web3 Gaming with BITKRAFT • WORLDS — GG Quest: Building the Metaverse through User-Generated Content • GameMakers — Chinese Gaming Giants: Tencent vs Netease • a16z Games — The Illusion of Overnight Success: The Among Us Story with Forest Willard (Co-Founder, Innersloth) ✅ Gaming Projects • AneeMate • Wizzwoods • GOY • Moonwalk Fitness • DojoMon • Tamayoshi (ETH Global) • Kiss or Slap (ETH Global) • Draw Dash (ETH Global) hope helpful wuwu 😆💞 ✅ Gaming News ✅ Web3 Gaming Coverage

An ode to (crypto) gaming: A tribute to interactive worlds

To understand why blockchain could transform gaming, we must first explore the origins and evolution of games themselves.

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The current form of P2A is a flawed UA strategy that gaming projects have resorted to in the hopes of farming the stats they need to secure a CEX listing

Tokens given to users/bots that will never convert = unsustainable business Source

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👋 Web3 Gaming Recap — August 19 + Past Week 🗓 🔄 Gaming Updates • Tatsumeeko — Pre Beta Preview #2 Registration (August 13 - 23) • Indus Game — Launched the Open Beta for their Battle Royale Game on both Android & iOS (August 16) • Ragnarok: Monster World — Launched closed beta for both Android & iOS (August 19 - 26) • Fableborne — Season 2 Launch (August 19) • Dark Machine — NFT Mint (August 19) • Call of the VoYd — Genesis VoYd Heart NFT Launch on IMX zkEVM (August 19/20) • Real Jonah Blake (Real Third Web) — NFT Public Mint & Reveal (August 23) • The Forgotten Runiverse — Opening New Foundations Portal to everyone (August 26 - September 7) • Gangster Arena — Completed their Gangster Presale • READYgg — Announced rebrand to PLAY • Etherscape — Launched on Epic Games Store • Crystals of Naramunz — Announced their rebrand to Crystalfall • Holdara — Released their v1.1 Litepaper • Treasure DAO — Announced that App & Portal will merge in preparation for Treasure L2 • Champions Tactics — Open Beta in September • Sparkball — Announced their rebrand and revealed their roadmap (Founder's Pass Mint & S0 Launch in October 2024) 🔖 Gaming Reads • Sean Geng (B3) — Why we launched basement.fun, a consumer app bringing more gamers on-chain • B3 — Launched BSMNTᴮᴱᵀᴬ, a discovery platform for on-chain games (11 onboarded atm) • Catizen — Announced Sniper Shooting: A FPS game that will soon be part of the Catizen Mini Game Center • Jonathan Huang (BITKRAFT) — Case Study on how Happy Fishing Master redefines mobile fishing games w/ fast-paced action & clever design, expanding its appeal beyond its traditional audience • Aavegotchi — Announced Geist, an L3 Gaming Chain powered by Arbitrum, Base, Alchemy and the $GHST token • Limit Break — Shared details on their progress, upcoming products and contributions to the Web3 community 2 years since launching their free DigiDaigaku NFT Mint ▶️ Gaming Watch/Listens • Stash — Zynga's rise from Facebook app to gaming empire (Justin Waldron, Co-Founder) • GameSpot — Why Web3 Gaming Founders are massively out of touch (Simon Davis, Mighty Bear Games CEO) • GAM3S.GG — Exploring Web0 • Naavik — Animoca Brands and the Motorverse • Making Markets — Enabling the Metaverse: Herman Narula (CEO, Improbable) • a16z Crypto — Token Do's and Don'ts • Blockchain Gaming World — Why Gamee is back building on Telegram • The Block — Gamifying fitness: Moonwalk wants to turn user tasks into tokenized rewards 💸 Gaming Fundraising • Auto Legends — Announced $8m fundraise led by White Star Capital to develop a social drag-racing Web3 game • Starkfit — Received seed grant from Starknet Foundation • GAMEE — Received investment from TON Ventures to continue development around its WatBird Mini App ✅ Gaming Projects • DUEL3 • Omnia • KOKODI • Frenzy Farm • TonTon Games • Hello Monster • Wonder Wars • Enzo Racing • Pistols at 10 Blocks • Sundial Mirage • Speedtracer • Based MC hope helpful wuwu 😆💞 ✅ Gaming News ✅ Web3 Gaming Coverage

Dimensionals RPG — Gross Incompetence or Malicious Rug

How a team of exceptionally poor operators managed to raise 8 figures on equity, generated $10m volume on their NFT collection by promising utility to buyers, and ultimately exited Web3 by blaming the bear market and profit-centric crypto users for their inability to find PMF

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Dimensionals is transitioning to a pure Web2 title that will launch on Steam without any NFT integration and none planned in the future. The company previously launched their Genesis Stone NFT collection in March 2023 as a free mint keeping the supply to generate hype, leaning into the free Factory NFT meta as a source of UA. Ultimately, the negative sentiment they acquired on major distribution platforms regarding their association with NFTs forced the team to consider the Web3 business model unviable for their future plans citing the lack of distribution, marketing and audience outside the Web3 niche — Source

Telegram mini-apps would be the next generation of mobile app that bridging the users into Crypto

• Telegram User Name on TON • Telegram Stars • Ads System using toncoin on TG Source