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Wale x Forgotten Runiverse
Recorded: April 9, 2025 Duration: 1:13:41Space Recording
Short Summary
Forgotten Rooniverse launches as a new player-driven MMO RPG, backed by strategic partnerships and an innovative token economy, aiming to redefine community engagement in Web3 gaming.
Full Transcription
One and we're live.
I'm going to wait a few minutes for everyone to join.
It really takes a few seconds.
But Helen, welcome to the stream.
How are you guys doing?
Great.
How are you doing?
I'm jealous that your weather sounds like it's better than the snow I have outside my window.
Yes.
For the people who don't know, we prepared.
So pretty good weather here in Europe today.
Helen says she's from Canada.
So it sounds like weather is not too great.
Bear, are you in Canada as well?
No, right?
No, I'm in California.
So me and you are soaking up the sun rays.
And Helen's over there with a blanket on.
Yeah, pretty much. Accurate.
Let's go.
Thanks so much for
joining us today.
For the people who are just tuning in,
we're checking
out Forgotten Rooniverse today,
talking a little bit about their plans, also testing
the gameplay. If you watch
the stream, you already see
my whale avatar. I built it and
looks pretty much like my PFP. They don't have the mass trade yet, so we have to talk about that
after the stream. Other than that, it looks pretty, really similar to my PFP, so that's good.
Maybe Bear or Helen wants to take us while we wait for more people to join.
Maybe Bear or Helen here wants to take us while we wait for more people to join.
For the people who don't know yet who you are,
maybe what Forgotten Universe is,
can you give us a brief intro for the people who don't know yet?
Yeah, you want to start us off, Bear?
And then I'll talk about you?
Yeah, sure, of course.
Thanks for having us, Whale, Helen.
Awesome, as always, to be here with you as well
um huge fans of whale and and you supporting the community so stoked to be here um so like the two
minute i'd say summary uh i'll try to make it as short as possible uh forgotten forgotten
rune reverse is based off of uh forgotten runes which was a project that was minted back in July of 2021, coming up on almost
four years. I can't believe it. If anyone asks, it is possible not to sleep for four years because
I am proof of that. So happy to be here. You know, we are a fantasy-based project. I would say,
you know, we're really proud to still be standing after four years and stronger than ever.
Obviously, we're talking about the game today. That was a huge part of sort of the promise of
the project. But overall, the concept behind Forgotten Runes is about building, truly building
a decentralized fantasy world. I would say Dungeons and Dragons would be the closest comp,
I would say, in Web 2 and traditional media.
Really, it's all about, you know,
it's all about these big media expressions,
but, you know, all of these big media expressions,
like games, comic books, the television show,
they're all really sort of fed and supported
by the creative contributions from the community.
So we have something called the Book of Lore, where you can essentially write the backstory of the character that you own.
And then we take all of these stories, of which there's almost 5,000 at this point, and we take that as sort of source material.
And then we create comic. we have a comic book series.
There's a new bestseller on Amazon.
We have a television show with Derek Colstead
from Who Created John Wick.
So that's an active development.
And of course we have our MMO.
And so it's just been such a wild ride.
We're so happy to be here.
I think, you know, this is still ending. I feel like we're
in inning three. There's a lot to look forward to, but I think it's also really important to
make sure that we take the time and talk about the wins and what we have in front of us today.
And that's Forgotten Runeiverse. And we partnered with a company called Bisonic to help develop that game.
The game is on Ronin.
Big fans of Ronin.
I'd love to talk about Ronin and sort of how that's perceived and where it's headed.
And so, yeah, I'll leave it to Helen.
I'm going to stop yapping.
Thank you, Bear.
Beautiful intro.
I'm Helen, and I'm one of the people with the bisonic development team who
made forgotten rune universe this is our free to play mmo rpg bringing the forgotten runes wizards
cult to life and as bear said we're on the ronin network the whole game revolves around a player
driven economy so you're going to explore complete quests you can own, you'll battle foes and earn items, armor, housing, decor,
all this stuff is mintable and there are no shop owner NPCs in this game. The players are the market.
So you can play it right now. It is live at game.runiverse.world and we've launched early development we're calling it early global access because
there's already a lot of game here but we envision the full game as even more and we're building it
alongside the community alongside the cult that's what we affectionately call the community members
from the forgotten runes wizards cult yeah we're just gathering feedback and building and building. More updates to come.
Our next major milestone is our partnership with Pixels.
We're really excited about it.
We will have an event coming up soon
where you can use the Pixel token in Forgotten Runiverse
to get boosts.
And we also will be able to use Quanta,
our in-game currency, to claim Pixel in Forgotten
Runiverse.
Plus, there are going to be some Pixel-themed rewards in our game.
You can also expect some Forgotten Runiverse things in Pixels.
It's a real proof of concept of how Web3 can integrate.
And through the Ronin Network, we're going to be able to collab and show what can be done
here I'm pretty excited about all that shall we dive into the early game whale are you excited
yes let's do it thanks for the intro uh as I said also very excited to uh to to do this together
with you guys so for people who want to join us uh I I shared the link in the stream.
So you can go there right now.
It's pretty easy onboarding.
Helen, I already told you, like, it's really just like in a few minutes, you can set everything up.
So you don't have to download anything.
You can play directly from your browser.
So if you want to join us, we'll be here for probably an hour, something like that.
So feel free to join us. We'll be here for probably an hour, something like that. So feel free to
join now. You see the link on
screen,
game.universe.world.
I will
take it away from
the screen. We see the gameplay now, but I will
share it later again. But you can
see it on the screen right now.
So, yeah, as you mentioned, you've really been long-term, long-time builders.
Just because I know I have a very NFT-centric audience as well.
Let's see.
So I'm pretty sure people are familiar with this collection, right?
Forgotten Wounds, Wizards, Cult.
That's probably something people people have seen uh
already so you've really been like in the space for uh space for a long time and really like one
of the one of the uh like builders we will dive into the game now so people can can see it for
themselves um tell me like maybe about before we while we while we, Rahela and I,
start to jump into the game,
what was the last few weeks, the last few months?
I know we talked, it was a really big milestone for you guys.
What was kind of the, especially since we've been in this game
for such a long time now, what was kind of the feeling
leading up to all this?
Oh, gosh.
I mean, well, you know, I think it's been craziness.
The game has been being developed.
It's been developed over the past three years.
So, you know, I think what's really great about projects that are still in the space and sort of lasted and maneuvered through the bear is that now we're starting to see the fruit of all the labor that's behind the scenes, you know.
And I think, you know, we've been doing play tests over the past, you know, two years just to like give a taste of what the game is.
But really, this is the first time the full build has been out.
So I think for us, it's really,
it's a badge of honor. It's a notch in our belt, whatever silly metaphor you want to use.
But it really is a proof point for us delivering something quite large that we promised years ago.
And so for us, like, you know, and i'm sure hella can speak to this um
you know when it comes to launching a game it feels like a marathon just to get the game out
and of course there's like some relief and happiness that the game is out it's live service
you can jump in it's free you can play as your wizard nft if you want um there's benefits to
being a wizard and and to like you know, being a part of the original
cult. But I think what you realize is, is that it's really just the beginning of another marathon.
So you got to like switch your shoes off, you got to switch your shoes out, change your socks,
put on a new fresh set of clothes. And now that the game's live, I think Bisonic can really
sort of pay attention to the emergent behavior,
what people are liking, what people aren't liking,
and sort of make adjustments.
And I think that's one of the cool things about a live service game
is that, you know, the teams can make adjustments on the fly.
And I will have to say, like, giving flowers,
hats off to the Bisonic team.
They're in the Discord.
They're talking to all the people that are building in the game.
And, you know, for instance, like PvP is something that is very interesting
and I think makes a lot of sense.
And it seems like it's been pushed up on the roadmap.
So it's just great to have it out there and people playing
and getting real feedback as opposed to sort of guessing what people want.
Amazing stuff.
All right.
So for the people who are just tuning in, we're playing Forgotten Rudy Wars.
You can join with this link right here.
We have Bear and Helen on today to talk a little bit about what they're working on.
Play the game. check it out.
So if you want to join, you can join right now.
So, Ellen, tell us where we're at right now.
Yes, so we're starting the earliest quest in the game
after the tutorial.
This is the Gathering Tree.
So I'm going to take Whale to meet the Green Hat Wizards
who need some help dealing with dark magic
spreading through the
forest. And along the way, pro tip, if you see flowers, definitely gather them because you'll
need them later. Yeah. So by the way, here in your journal, you can see like the quest. So
I already completed learning the ropes. That's the first one you will see when you newly join the game. And now we'll follow Helen to where we have to go next.
Awesome. Yeah, this is all based on the original Forgotten Runes Wizards Cult lore. So there are
seven colors of magic in this world. And early on in this starting area, the Hedge Wizard Encampment,
all the colors are represented, which makes it a really colorful area, which is fun.
And you're going to meet the green wizards first you'll meet some red wizards yellow and what you'll find is that they're all
very different from each other these first ones are all about nature later
on we're gonna meet some who are more about business deals and you can choose
which ones you want to align yourself with. We're also going to get into some combat probably.
These bats are crazy.
Look out.
They're going to...
Oh, that was my fault.
I couldn't dodge.
Here we go.
First combat.
Let's go.
I like the face you chose for your wizard.
He looks very in control.
So I have an item here. These ones are mintable rewards. It's one of the items you can put into the market.
We've seen a lot of spells being sold recently because, you know, obviously being more powerful is great.
being sold recently because, you know, obviously being more powerful is great.
You can go find your own spells and build them or you can just go buy your spells.
Sporkly on our team did that and she's way stronger than I am now.
The spell looks dangerous.
We gotta move around that.
Yeah, he's a little scary right now.
Feel free to gather some wood if you'd like.
And we have more resources over here.
These are going to help us build items as we go, build spells, just like a good classic MMO.
And I happen to know the way to the wizards.
We'll follow this path.
Along the way, I'll let you know when we pass some player land as well.
There are plots of player-owned land,
and you earn in-game currency from people using your land
because, of course, it's a player run economy if
you're going to be the shop owner in the world you need to be rewarded for that right and barry said
like people can play with their with their own wizard right when they when they have one that's
who i have equipped right now by the way this is one of the wizards from the Forgotten Reads Wizards cult collection.
Oh, I wondered how you get that.
I wrote her lore and everything in the book of lore, you guys.
OK, so this will be the wizard for you to talk to.
Let's see.
what's that the green we just need to help us that's wonderful
What's that, the green?
I just need to help us.
That's wonderful.
you need to wear a special flower crown it's the rule
okay it's recipe i see for petals from yellow and orange flowers that grow nearby so it shouldn't
take you long to cure yourself a hat. Okay. Come back when you do.
We'll be finishing the ritual preparations in the meantime.
Okay. So we got to get the hat.
You bet.
So this is kind of an early introduction to the forge.
Any items that you, any recipe,
recipes for items that you get in the game,
you'll craft in a forge.
Spells you build in the Mage Workshop.
So we'll gather all the items we spells you build in the Mage Workshop.
So we'll gather all the items we need to build this item
and then head on back to Hedge Wizard Encampment and build it.
Let's go.
Let's see, trying to remember all the best spots
for flowers for you.
So I really have a cheat code here by having Helen
on to show me around.
So if you, again, for people just joining us,
we have about 800 people.
So if you want to join,
game.rooniverse.world is where you will find us.
You can be like, okay.
Oh, I'm from the red, so.
It's okay, I got you.
We gotta find a guy that was busy talking to the audience.
That's an important part of this.
It is.
All right.
Victory.
Yeah, we got some more items we can use for spell crafting later.
I don't see you anymore.
I find following the dirt. i think that's you yeah yeah you'll notice i
am the green hat on your mini map it'll be easier to find
Oh, wolf.
more
Oh, no.
I thought it was actually.
It's just where it's doubling up.
Oh, and an ant.
Okay.
Surprise, surprise.
This is done in the style of kind of those older MMOs where we don't have any waypoints,
it's about paying attention to what they say. So you were just talking to that green wizard who
said you'll have to look around for the flowers of this color growing in the area, for example.
So it's a lot more exploration based
there's ah flowers
so the flowers are not only beautiful but they're also green with green magic okay
we are going to get 16 petals and if you'd like to check how many you have so far
you can open your inventory it's the backpack icon at the bottom of your screen
how are we doing a lot of materials here
i think i saw 12. hydrogen
so we should need one more flower. There we go.
Wolf almost got us.
Oh, the bats.
Oh, no, the bats.
Like, they'll be going away from me.
I think there's a wolf lost behind me.
It was impossible to escape.
You were surrounded.
They always surprise me.
I've actually gotten jumpscared by bats turning around and attacking me.
Okay, I've finished them.
Very good. Lovely. Okay, we finished them.
Lovely.
Let's see.
Oh, is there one here?
Yay, we got our flower.
If I'm not mistaken, that should be your 16.
So we can check your inventory if you'd like,
or we can just go for it.
I'm pretty confident.
Oh, yeah, they were just over there, 16.
Pardon my stream sniping.
Oh, yeah, flower.
Yep, flower button, 16.
Amazing.
You hit M, it'll pull up your map,
and you can travel to Hedge Wizard Encampment
at any time for zero gold.
Traveling further distances increases the gold price,
but you can always come back to Hedge Wizard Encampment.
Let's go, Hedge Wizard Encampment. Let's go, Hedge Wizard Encampment.
Almost there, it's one of the big ones. You're looking at some places and cities there.
So, zero cost.
Perfect. We can also check out other cities if you'd like. There are player-owned plots of land there, and the players who have built up their cities a lot were able to create city stones so people
can teleport there, and they named their own cities and everything. So those are the smaller
teleport points you're noticing on the map. Okay. So are you here as well? I can't see you.
Oh, sorry.
There are a lot of people playing.
Do you have numbers on how many people are already
like playing for the universe?
I mean, thousands.
I wish I had the number off the top of my head,
but we do consistently have thousands.
So it's been going really well.
Every time I play, there are quite a few people on there.
So yeah, definitely. You and I are quite a few people on there. So, yeah, definitely.
You and I were pulled into different instances this morning.
We'll have to go to the forge and I swear, remember where it is.
I promise.
Here it is.
Oh, yeah, there it is.
All right.
Let's see.
I can't wait to see how you look in your flower hat.
I think it'll be awesome with that expression.
Yes, I think it's gonna be good.
So let's see.
So flower hats.
So for the people who were just shouting us,
we collected the
flowers and now we can forge a flower hat looks pretty good let's see how it looks on maybe it's forged okay let's go okay that's an upgrade
blooming equip That's an upgrade. Amazing. Oh, and it's looking like we might have lost Bear.
I think he might need another invite.
I still see you here.
Oh, yeah, just Bear, I think, in the call here.
Proof we're doing it live, I always say.
Oh, yeah, Bear's left, right.
Yeah.
Okay.
I thought you left that. Okay. I thought you left. Okay.
I would never leave you.
What are you saying?
All right.
So let's see.
So for the people who want to join us,
you can join us right now with this link right here.
link right here.
I don't search.
Bera, I no longer see you in the bottom bar.
So I see you in our chat.
Invite me to stage two minutes ago, but I no longer see you in the bottom bar.
So let's see.
Mercury retrograde is supposed to be over.
What on earth?
So we try to get Bear up on here as well.
He got booted, but I just invited him again.
So I will keep an eye on the bottom bar if I see him.
While we wait for him to join,
maybe I can share your screen, Helen, so I can stay on the stream yard and see once he joins.
Yeah, sure.
Helen's stream real quick.
Hello, hello.
So maybe you can show people something they should check out.
Maybe you're...
Yeah.
You know what? I'll go to some of our other cities so that you can see all the different types of wizards, all the different types of landscapes.
This is only the beginning.
The map at full scale is like twice the size of Paris to walk, apparently.
So definitely mounts are a good thing to have in this game.
We're in the green wizard city here.
So you can see more of a
solar punk aesthetic happening.
we'll enter our first district.
Let's go.
Here we are.
It is nighttime.
And the sound in this area
is very, it feels like I'm in a
rainforest, but nothing's going to eat me. Very peaceful. I love it. And the sound in this area is very... it feels like I'm in a rainforest but
nothing's gonna eat me. Very peaceful. I love it.
Statues. And I'll find us some player-owned plots so you can see areas you can build up. We've recently increased by a lot how many plots of land you can get
just at our font of memory, which is kind of our gotcha system. So you can earn mana in the game,
which is one of our in-game currencies, use it at the font of memory and get land.
So you can build it up, style it how you like,
put down gathering stations
so players can come get resources from your land.
Right. Amazing.
All right. We don't see Bear yet.
So I will keep our chat open.
So if he joins us, we'll let you know chat once he's up again.
But yeah, for now, I'll probably jump back into the game.
But I have a chat open.
So if he wants to hop on again, he can do.
If you, we passed 1,000 viewers.
So if you want to join us in the game
you can join us with game.univers
world you might find
me and Helen
maybe you
don't maybe you have to send me an invite
first okay
Barry's joining us just messaged me so
we'll wait a few
seconds for him maybe Helen we can
meet up at where I'm at right now.
So we can.
Yeah, sounds good.
I can stream swipe you again.
So I'm going to exit Green Wizard City and rejoin you.
Let's go.
So for the people who are just joining us,
we just forged the flower hat.
I thought I clicked on equip, but it doesn't show up.
Here, I got you.
You can open your character menu.
It's the little person icon at the bottom of your screen.
This guy.
And you can equip items here with the staff.
All right.
Okay.
I'm wearing some items myself, but I have my Forgotten Runes, Wizards, Cults NFT equipped.
So I get all the stats from these items, but I'm rocking a different look.
It's purely cosmetic,
but you can also equip just cosmetic items.
Wait, I want to show people your,
oh, it's still on your screen.
Okay, I thought, okay, so people saw your equipment.
Okay, that's good.
I thought I already showed you.
Okay, we have Bear back here.
Hey, Bear.
Jim, sir.
Hey, sorry, Mark, the power went out of my office. Jim, sir. Hey, sorry, Mark.
The power went out of my office.
Oh, no.
It's okay.
We're back online.
Hi, how's the game going?
Hello and I were so focused on the game,
we didn't even notice that you left.
You know what?
That's good.
That means you're having fun playing the game.
That's good.
Good to have you back.
So I don't know when you were booted from the stream,
but we just equipped the flower head.
You see it right now.
Wait, I will share my screen again so I can see it.
So I think that's an upgrade to my character compared to before.
That's good. So now I'm waiting to meet helen again outside i guess
let's see
well lovely yeah i i think i think last time right when i got booted i was trying to talk about how
um you know going back to sort of the ethos of forgotten runes this idea of like a decentralized
fantasy world um you know incorporating all of the lore
that the community has written you know a lot of the npcs that you run into into the game the
the dungeons um they're all in a lot of them are inspired by community written lore and i think
i just think that's the coolest thing maybe i I'm just a super nerd, but this idea where someone can, you know, well, you've been here just as long as I have in Web3 and NFTs, this idea of like, OK, well, what's the power of nfts are in community when you build tools that allow people
to tell stories and contribute to you know the the project itself and then you get to play as your
wizard in game you get to you get to like run into your friends that are npcs in games some people
have run into themselves as they're playing.
This is the area I just brought us.
This is one of the wizards that Bear's talking about.
So the team created the whole potion lab based on community art inspired by the wizard that was funded by the Wizards DAO that the Forgotten Wizards cult runs.
Like, this is a pure, a perfect example of exactly what bear is saying lovely we we timed
that we we did that we planned that perfectly thank you talk about the community and like the
the people like co-building uh with you like playing a big wall like in the storytelling as
well is it like i know you're probably to act like a lot you know with your with your holders
or community members uh is it
like a lot of people that freshly joined you know uh in the last few years is a lot of people you
know from the og days uh that kind of stuck with the project uh for a while when you look at like
the people who really contributed or uh that you really like either integrated into game or that uh helped uh by creating like their own
you know uh storytelling uh how's the distribution there because you know you said that we we've
both been in the space for uh for a while we are part of a lot of communities so it's always
interesting to to hear like how those uh kind of held together over time. So any data on there?
Like how many people been like really long-term members
of Forgotten Ruins?
Yeah, I mean, I would say for the most part
the community is quite diamond handed.
So I think, gosh, I wanna say there's about,
I have to check the latest stats.
I wanna say there's three or 4,000 holders
and I'd say the majority of those people have been here since the beginning.
Most of my friends now are just people that are in our discord from the community.
So I think, you know, when it comes to stats, like I think I had mentioned it earlier,
the book of lore, which was the first thing that our project built, you know, there's
almost 5,000 original stories. So I think that that goes to show, I think that's what sort of
sets us apart is this idea that we may not be the biggest project, but the people who are in it are
sort of quite smitten, if you will, with sort of this, the ethos and this idea of like,
if you will, with sort of this, the ethos and this idea of like building together. So, you know,
I think, you know, when you look at how many entries there are, how much content the community
has built, it just sort of speaks volumes about that. I mean, like 5,000 original stories written
by the community is no small task. That's a pretty high barrier to entry is to write stories.
And I think that was sort of phase one.
And phase two, which we'll be rolling out soon, is the creator economy.
People who love fantasy, who love fan fiction.
And instead of having fan fiction be something separate from
let's say like the ip owners um we're sort of on the same level um if that answers your question
amazing it does and you know from an nft perspective we like the uh in both window
holders like helen said uh her avatar is like one of the Forgotten Rune's visit avatars.
So that's pretty cool that people can play with their own NFT right in the game.
Oh, there's someone with a flower head as well.
It's really cool.
And I think a really great sort of case study for us was a comic book series.
So we have a comic book series.
It was illustrated by Riley Brown, who has been drawing Deadpool and other Marvel DC comics for a long, long time.
He actually was behind the Fortnite Batman crossover, which was one of the best-selling comic books a couple years ago.
And so we have like this global publishing
deal you can go to your local comic store and the comics are in most of these stores you can order
them on amazon uh a little bit of a flex uh in february we actually uh our graphic novel hit a
new bestseller so people are really buying um these physical. It's quite exciting. And in issue number one,
speaking of sort of contributions being rewarded,
we paid out thousands of dollars to people
whose wizards and stories showed up in the comic books.
So I think it's a great case study for this creator economy.
If people wanna tell stories,
those stories get elevated
into these major media expressions, and then they get
rewarded for that. And I think that's the promise of an open Web3 project is this two-way street
where people get rewarded for their activity and engaging. It's quite exciting.
Amazing. We'll definitely dive into that a little bit more later on as well.
So again, for people just joining us, we have about 1,300
totals. For the people just joining us, I will share the link here. You can join
game.rooneyworth.world. Again, super easy onboarding. You don't have to download
a game or anything.
You can play on your, whatever on your laptop,
whatever you usually use.
We're on, I forgot really where it's right now.
I completed the first one at the first,
what's the right, the first quest,
the first couple of quests.
Finger ropes.
Yeah, the onboarding quests, exactly.
So we're right now at what stage, Helen?
So we got this beautiful flower head that you see on the screen right now.
So what's next?
So you are now going to help the green hat wizards perform a spell
that will help the animals in the forest that are acting strange
after dark magic has taken
over the area so let's see what happens when we perform our spell here in our spell circle
amazing let's see so do we have to flower with you yes i do
get in the cycle attendance design a wordless song
and you hum along the best you can
you can just start
to feel a drawing of green magic
when a pack of feral wood
lands animals springs around
from the western trees
and surrounds you
oh okay
uh oh
they look dangerous.
It's okay.
I got your back.
Yeah, let's go.
Yeah, but that's definitely some scary magic coming off of those animals.
I just thought you killed both of them with one.
Yeah, we've been leveling up.
It's actually good for me because I had to level up a bit more myself
for my next dungeon I want to complete.
So we have a Victor here, everyone.
Whale, did you play MMOs at all growing up?
at all growing up?
Or was that not a ton?
Not a ton, though.
Not a ton, no.
I was more of an
FPS Halo guy growing up.
For me,
a big part of this journey was
just learning more about MMOs
how complex the economies are,
how deep people get into it.
I know you hear about people
playing World of Warcraft
and Ultima Online and EverQuest,
and people just go absolutely batshit over these games.
Helen, I mean, you've worked in live service games before.
Yeah, maybe talk about, I would love to hear from you.
I mean, I know we've talked about it personally,
but this idea of like how the category of MMOs sort of makes sense in Web3, it feels like it's probably one of the better categories of games that sort of map over crypto.
Yeah, because it's fulfilling a need in the space. So obviously players are the ones that build MMO worlds. They give them life and they invest countless hours in them.
But there's that issue of ownership that gets tricky. So you run into problems just because
of the Web2 business model and the way it's set up. No one's fault. But you need money to keep
your studios running, to support the development team. And so often they need to control the primary transactions and restrict secondary markets so you
run into this issue of players of mmos contributing to these worlds building them then trying to earn
money off of their in-game skills by doing things like selling characters or really difficult to attain items through gray markets for real money.
And that breaks the terms of service. So then they're banned and it doesn't feel good.
Web3 presents an opportunity to correct that in the industry. There's a need there
There's a need there that I'm really excited about.
that I'm really excited about. The whole team at Bisonic is really excited about.
The whole team at Bisonic is really excited about.
So Forgotten Runeiverse, we're trying to set that up.
It's no small thing setting up an economy, right?
Like we're really happy that we're partnering with Pixels because it's going to give us that opportunity to experiment with setting up a token in game before we release our own.
And we want to rise all ships with this tide.
You know, all of us in Web3 are learning how to do these economies really well.
And we're with you on that.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think it's really interesting.
You know, Whale, I know that you cover sort of um token launches uh along with a bunch of other
things in the space and i think you know the market is what it is right now it's a little crazy
um given sort of the macroeconomic forces at play but i think for us it you know you're never going
to be able to time the market um there is a token on the horizon, the XP token, which is being launched by the Arcane Foundation. The first two partners for the Arcane Foundation are Forgotten Runes and Forgotten Runiverse.
that supports the game economy. And then, of course, you know, I was speaking earlier about,
like, you know, tracking contributions and building creator tools. XP will be that rewards
layer. But I think we have this opportunity now before we TGE XP to partner with outside,
you know, partner tokens, which I think is really interesting. I mean, Helen had mentioned Pixels is coming up.
We announced, I think it was last week.
Pixels is, I would say, I think the biggest game on Ronin now,
maybe sitting next to Axie.
And what's cool is Luke and Heidi and the people from the team,
they have their Pixel token.
They have Pixels the game.
They have Pixels dungeons. you know they have they have their pixel token they have pixels the game they have pixels dungeons
but you know a token needs a lot of sinks um for it to be really interesting and to grow value over
time and so you know we're partnering with them pre-tg of xp to really understand the implications
um and refine the implications of like having a liquid token integrated into game um and so we have this
really cool opportunity not only to sort of create additional benefits for people who who hold pixel
and trade pixel and play pixel games um to come in here and use that pixel in in another ecosystem
um and i'm super excited to get that launched because one, it allows players to have a liquid token to swap out when they earn Quanta in game.
But just as important is the data, right?
How people are interacting with the token, how people are approaching Quanta, which is sort of the off-chain in-game currency that will be swappable for XP eventually.
in-game currency that will be swappable for XP eventually.
So it's a really cool experiment.
So it's a really cool experiment.
As always in Web3, it's like this building in public open experiment.
And I have very high hopes for how everything is going to go.
Amazing stuff.
For people who might listen to the stream right now
who want to learn more about the token, token kind of those uh or that side of
things what's a good place for them to to get started and to to read like a little bit more
about that yeah so we um have not given a ton of information on that uh specifically i would say
we go ahead one of our design elements on the game side on our live paper.
So if you look up, you can just Google forgotten runiverse live paper.
There's a breakdown of how land is used, the economy, the gotcha system, all of it.
Because as Bear was saying, we're building in public here.
We want everything transparent.
So you can track our plans there.
And we'll keep you all posted about the pixels partnership as well.'ve announced that it's coming but there are more details to come too
amazing so i guess good place to start is always to follow like the uh the people behind the
project and the project itself i don't know helen bear if you want to show your x pages here but we
already got forgotten rooting where i guess that's like an account people know. I think
you guys have a ton of followers
there as well.
So Bear Snake,
are the numbers behind your
username or is it just Bear Snake? I don't remember.
Say this again.
For your X username,
is it just Bear Snake?
Yes, it's Bearsnake
underscore 21.
Because apparently there's 20 other bearsnakes.
What?
So, oh, even for the people who follow us,
I just retweeted like the tweet like from the Wooniverse account.
And so if you go to my page, you will see, uh, usernames I think. Let me check.
Yeah. I think you tagged us. You tagged us.
Yes. They're common. Come hang and watch bear snake underscore 21 and Helen
underscore hi Keela.
So if you follow those and follow the forgotten runes with a cult account to
to stay up to date there. So,
so Helen, So, Helen,
I just, I think I helped the bear that we
almost killed. I think I
breathed life in him.
So, what's right now? So,
we're back here to
the wizard where
I got my flower head.
You told me about the flower head.
So, they need us to break
a rune that has been hurting the animals.
I do believe we walked away from the bear too soon.
So let's head back over there because he was guarding something important.
A piece of dark magic.
I thought I saved the bear.
We're good to go.
I understand.
It's a good day to kill a bear.
Not me.
I know you bears get very protective of your turf.
Here we go.
It's hard being a bear in the bear if we are in fact in a bear.
So if you come up and look at what he was guarding,
you'll have a decision to make with this rune here.
Be able to interact with E unless you're in chat.
There we go.
You spot a rune of mars carved into the stone a symbol
of regression in battle the power and maintain from it seems to defy the magic color spectrum
okay breaking the stone should disrupt the local curse so we can either break it or walk away. I guess we'll break it, right? That's good of you.
Yeah.
A cool piece of toy.
Lovely.
Now we can go share the good news with the green wizards.
Let's go.
And I'll show you my favorite line in the game
my favorite line in the game before we walk away let's go
before we walk away.
Let's go.
go down the beautiful steps into the flowery meadow i do love the art it's so beautiful it's
amazing yeah it is yeah the team worked really hard of course and based on
all these designs from the community
the lingering dog it still affects these poor creatures so now we must complete the ritual to
the spell that's left of the course touch just don't look at the green magic flow
through you you will be right behind. OK. So.
You did it.
You're a green wizard.
You helped the forest.
Let's go.
OK, now please come to me.
Yeah, we're laughing at you, see?
Let's go.
This wolf has my favorite line that is currently in the game this will here
or about you
there we go so now we can head back to the Hedge Wizard encampment
and let the Green Emissary know
that we have helped the Green Wizards.
Let's go.
And Johnny B. Wolf, that wasn't like him.
The Green Wizards, yeah.
There's seven hat colors in the Rune-iverse
and they all sort of represent a different kind of magic.
Green wizards are, of course, very connected to the earth.
And yeah, Helen, do you consider yourself a green wizard?
You know, if I'm honest, I think I align more with the purple wizards.
The hair was fate, I suppose.
They're the ones who are more they
embrace chaos more right try not to teeter on evil but if there's one who's
likely to go to the dark side it's probably a purple wizard I'm evil not
that I mean you're really throwing yourself under the bus here sorry I got
excited to talk about the Lord and maybe gave too much away.
What about you, Bear?
Are you green or are you purple?
Well, you know, I think I'm a little bit of a mutt when it comes to magic.
I love having a good time.
Yellow hats are known to party into the night.
I do feel very connected to earth and plants so i think there's a bit of green um you know i pro i'm probably
living in between the yellow and the greens and maybe not too far off from the purple it's very
hard to categorize me put a label on me well. Very hard. I'm a complex
wizard over here.
We just
heard a rumor, right?
Yeah.
So now we're going to go meet
a red wizard. We have red wizard
emissary in town here.
And now we'll get a sense of
what the red wizards are about.
I really love the red wizard Capital, by the way,
which you can already visit in-game.
It's super cool.
Here are the yellow wizards.
Bear was relating to their partiers.
Okay.
Yeah, the Red Wizard hats are capitalistic in nature.
They're very financially motivated.
It's why the Red Wizard capital is on the coast.
It's a major port in the world.
So they sort of control a lot of the commerce.
We're hoping there's been whispers of tariffs in the universe.
We're really hoping the Red Wizards do not follow suit with what's happening.
I thought tariffs would be the orange wizards and not the red ones.
Yeah, exactly.
We have no orange wizards in our world.
It's good.
All right.
So we're here.
We're talking to the first red wizard.
So the hero only for one reason, one reason only, opportunity.
Opportunity.
Since the biggest influx of magic to the world since who knows when.
But the only way to seize this particular opportunity
is by offering some in return.
And have I got an opportunity for you?
Okay.
Let's do business.
What I need is for you to check in
on a man named Gaines,
one of my attendants,
whose ambition has gotten the better
of his senses.
Is this the band of mine
in the southwest of
the Horses of the Horses?
I want to offer you a contract.
Okay, there's a business side.
Yeah, you bet.
Reboot of a tunis from the mine i need a
world with him i'm offering a word with him offering a recipe for heat wave up front so
50 gold and 50 gold and uh mount upon completion okay good deal contract. Contract you made with office,
a lot of fine print.
Okay.
Here's the recipe.
I like the whimsical,
cheeky style of the writing.
Right.
Like they really made a point to bringing that in.
And it was hard.
John was telling me to find a narrative style here because of all the
contributions from so many different wizards.
But it had to be done.
This is what the whole project's about.
So they will have some darker areas in the game where things get really serious.
But they also maintain this whimsy of funny jokes like, yeah, contract with a lot of fine print.
Right.
I like finding those little flares.
I love it.
Wizards as an archetype are such an interesting character elf talks about this a lot uh one of my partners
is you know wizards have have like they're they're they have two sides of the spectrum
baked into one right they're they're incredibly uh sort of goofy and can be clumsy, but at the same time, they wield incredible magic and power and
can destroy an army with one spell. So I think John and the Visan team have done a great job
sort of walking that line where you can have a little bit of comedy along with some seriousness.
It's the tone that you guys are nailing the tone.
I think it's a great part for this way more fun to
interact when it's also like the
funny side or fun side
of all that. So I agree.
So attention to
mining rights.
Publisher.
Okay.
So that's the new one.
You signed a contract with Alphus,
the rather missionary to recalibrate his attendant
gains from a nearby
mine that has been seized
illegally in the mine
of the rest of the encampment. So,
we gotta head southwest.
For the people who are just joining us, by the way, you can
head to this
link here,
game.universe.world, to play with us.
Really easy to join even if you didn't play before.
Just create an account.
You don't need to download the game or anything.
So really easy to join and a lot of fun if you've been watching the stream.
So we're going to head to Southwest now.
And if you want to join us,
you can head to this link right here.
I'm gonna leave it here for a couple more seconds
while I follow Helen to our next destination.
We're going through a gate that just opened.
So Southwest WC, so we gotta head.
Yeah, that's the right direction. I love seeing everyone with their
hats in this area.
Looks like
Primo
knows us, his followers
are around. Primo!
You could invite me.
I don't know.
Okay.
And for people, you know, I think
what's another interesting thing about this game
and the complexity of the game will grow over time.
Like I had mentioned, I think PVP has been moved up
on the roadmap for the game, which is quite exciting.
I think what's kind of neat is, you know,
there is something for everyone here, right?
If you're more of sort of a farmer
and you really want to grind
to sort of the more play to earn mechanics and loops,
you can do that and earn Quanta
and eventually you'll be able to swap
for like live liquid tokens like Pixel
and then XP after that or on token.
Or if you just want to sort of play the game
and not even interact with Web3, which I think is incredibly important, you know, it's browser-based. It's free to play. You
don't need an NFT to jump in here and get started. And you don't even need to interact with blockchain
until you're ready. And I think that's, we sort of did this on purpose as a Trojan horse, right?
Get people, like, just make a a fun game make a game that people just
enjoy playing and spending time in and then have them discover the benefits of oh gosh wow i sort
of crafted these items or i uh you know i want to buy land and earn you can do that and then check
out and sell those items in game instead of having sort of to break terms of service and more traditional MMOs. So really trying to sort of have a game for everyone.
And so far, so good.
XP is a great ticker, by the way, for a gaming token.
Yeah.
We launched it, and then, you know, it just makes sense.
Experience points, fantasy, gaming.
It just, I really do.
I really do think it's
a weird ticker I agree
so it looks like we're at the mine here
Helen right
that's right but it's blocked
someone here says the area is off limits
leave now
you have a contract to fulfill
what are you going to do
you have to fly it so otherwise we can't break the contract the only way
and i invited that friend who was following us so oh it's a good time to mention that fights even in
parties are proximity based so if you have a party member
who has strayed far away from the party they won't be pulled into the fight and you can tell based
on the color they are in the bottom right corner of your screen where you're managing your party
if they're red they're too far away to join your next fight
let's go it's really good that i got you with me here, Helen. You fight these people like crazy. So I don't know if I would have won this if I was alone. Okay. So.
Just take a little leveling up.
Right. Let's go. Okay. So.
Someone else is having a fight now. That's what that.
Maybe it's our friend who's been following us.
Oh, no. We left him to mind. I think it's our friend who's been following us. Oh, no.
We left him mad, but it's okay.
Oh, so these nodes, they'll rotate the resource they give,
but the red one is Ruby.
So when it respawns, it'll be different,
but Ruby is useful for early spellcrafting,
so I highly recommend getting that one.
I also have some over here.
Oh, you're getting that thing.
You're doing your spell ad infinitum.
Oh, okay.
But you look normal on my screen.
Oh dear, I forgot to tell you to build a spell, but I'll give you a pro tip.
These tents over here, if you have the heatwave spell that you got when you signed your contract,
you can burn these tents down and it'll distract guards to make the fight easier.
But not to worry, I am here and I will make it easier for you. We don't need to distract the guards.
Okay. Okay.
Here we go.
There they are.
They're very cool.
Who in the void are you and how did you get past the other guards?
All right.
I'll give you a return to leave with your life ticket with I.
You still have the contract, right, Helen?
So we have to fight.
It's in, you know, it had a lot of fine print. So there's no other option here.
We got to fight.
Let's see.
Okay.
I get such a kick out of your wizard's expression with the flower crown. I look very intimidating here with the flower hat.
You look way more intimidating.
I don't know.
It's pretty intimidating to me.
It says confidence.
It says serious.
We won. It says serious.
We won. Victory. Continue.
We did it.
So it looks like we are close to fulfilling our contract.
That's right. Let's see what's through here.
Oh, okay. I guess that's the guy we're looking for how did you get in here i swear the quantum shadows it's only one person with a discussion budget to hire you but it doesn't mean he offered
you the best deal how about this walk away from this venture as it's proving to be more trouble
than it's worth and you can have what I found here.
I can probably even collect
on your contract. You expel me.
If not, I will be forced
to defend myself to the fullest.
What do you say?
What do you say?
We can either
break our contract and
get what
Alphos has here or we fulfill our contract and fight him Alphus has here,
or we fulfill our contract and fight him, correct?
That's right.
Okay.
Decisions, decisions.
We're going to say a lot about you, Wael.
What kind of person do you want?
There's a lot of people watching, so I will take the evil side here,
but we have a lot of people watching so
they're not thinking i'm breaking breaking contracts but all right so we decided to break
our contract with uh the wizard who hired us and now i guess as you said bear like they they are
about business right so it's nothing personal personal. We're about business here.
Take the stash.
Perhaps your past will cross again somehow.
I would love to do some proper business with you.
Until then, I bet you are.
All right.
Oh, boy.
Can I just say I've never broken the contract before?
I don't even know what happens next. I guess the journal recommends.
Okay. Let's see we'll have to go back and tell the red emissary oh so oh do I have to go back to Alphys anyway and tell him yeah oh boy I can't wait to see how
this conversation goes can we we just close him?
So we'll not be able to teleport out of here,
so we'll walk out, and then it's go time.
Yeah.
We'll teleport back to the camp
and see what Alphys has to say.
Maybe he'll be able to trick him.
I don't know.
I've never done this path before.
Let's go.
So something new for you as well.
That's good.
Yeah, this is fun.
So everyone fulfilled the contract so far.
That's surprising given that we're free.
Everyone on my team anyway, I guess we're too afraid of fine print, but you're a brave
wizard.
I'm also traveling back.
Here we go
wait is it teleport to the right region oh yes you'll head down west southwest
yeah between the trees there. Okay, I'm so excited to see what happens.
I found it.
Okay, so for the people just tuning in,
we had a contract with this guy right here on the left with the wolf.
We broke the contract.
So the content was we found uh his affiliate and
bring it to him but we decided to side with uh his uh affiliate so i guess he will be angry
with us so we will see what he says welcome background news for success has in fact preceded
okay but i want to hear it from you.
Okay, what do we say?
So we can either say, I let your attendant go,
but the mine is yours, or your attendant was gone
by the time I got there.
Do we tell the truth or do we lie?
Okay, I think.
We're already out of my depth here.
I have no advice.
Hmm.
I don't think he knows that we left as a telling guy so we probably lie
and risk it
I wonder what could have driven
him to abandon his investment
great question
anyway
it's nothing to do with you
your end of contract is complete
here's your payment in full.
It's always on their contracts.
Wow.
Keeping you in the mind. Okay. Very good.
We tricked him. You know,
there was a hedgehog over there with red hair
who was trying to contract me for how to
check or something. Seems like something
you could handle.
Amazing. So we fought on the contract.
He's not mad at us.
And we got some goodwill from the other Red Wizard
that we didn't capture.
So that's good.
Kids, this doesn't mean you're allowed to lie all the time.
Yeah.
Don't lie.
Lying is bad.
This is just a game.
But it looks like it worked out here.
So I don't think it works out IRL,
but it worked out here, so that's good.
All right.
If you open your character menu now,
you can go to your mounts in the bottom left,
and you will find the only free mount in the game,
the rune of bird that you just got
from completing your contract.
Wait, so my character, where do I go?
Yeah, that last page you're in there
with the
person icon in the top left
now. Yes.
And at the bottom left in yellow
you'll see the mounts.
Oh, yeah, okay.
He's super cute.
Alright. Ah, okay. I wonder super cute. All right.
Ah, okay.
I wonder where people get those from.
Very good.
Okay, now we're fast.
Not a best game.
That has a map twice the size of Paris.
It's very useful to have a bird to run with.
All right.
All right.
Now, there are a few options.
If you want to open your journal, you can peruse the things you can do.
Let's see.
All right.
So we opened the journal out of the woods.
Grateful for your help, Alpha.
Successful that you talked to a red-haired hedge wizard in camp about a big bird situation there are men there may also be another hedge results in the
southern ticket i think i too can inform you about it okay so we're looking for a red-haired
hedge wizard now let's hear you bet if we go to the i happen to know which one but normally
you'd want to look around
and anyone who has an exclamation mark over their head
is someone who has something to tell you,
maybe a quest to share.
So we return to the area.
Where did you go, Helen?
I can't find you.
Oh, sorry.
Yeah, I'm so fast now with Runabird.
That's crazy.
Oh, yeah, I see.
Okay, there you are. Hello. Let's crazy. Oh yeah, I see. OK, there you are.
Hello.
OK, well, we head to our next one.
Bear, I noticed Ronin as a whole ecosystem
is doing really well, especially in the last few weeks
and months where it hit a lot of people's radar
who might not have been in the ecosystem before.
I know you're pretty close to it.
So any insights you can give people there?
Or Helen, maybe even you?
Yeah, I mean, I'm happy to take it, and you can put a button on it, Helen. I think, you know, when we got to a certain point a year or so into development of the game, I think it was time to start sort of talking with all of the different chains out there that we could sort of bring the game to, right? And when you look at game publishers, choosing a game publisher, you
look at, like, what kind of users are they going to bring to your game? Because essentially,
you know, games are about distribution, or they're about fun, but you don't get to have fun unless
people know that you have a fun game. And so, you know, we really spoke with everyone.
really spoke with with everyone um and it was quite clear after sort of speaking with all the
big gaming chains that ronin was the home for the game right and i think that's for a couple reasons
one a lot of people including myself would say they essentially created a web3 gaming category with Axie. And so they had gone through the, you know, talk about like
staying power. They've been around for six years. They've been at the highest highs.
You know, they had a huge hack. They came back. And so I think for us, it was really important
to bring the game to a platform that really understood what can go right and what can go wrong and gone through that actual experience.
Because a lot of people are signing up a lot of games, but they've never actually had success because they're still looking to launch their first big hit.
So I think for us, it was they just had the experience and sort of knew how to navigate the world
of like launching a game.
And then on top of that,
I think, and just as important
or more important,
is that they have players, right?
People who grew up playing on Axie
now were looking for other games, right?
And I think Pixels had launched,
you know, came to Ronin at the top of 23. um and and so we we we just felt that ronin was the place for us they
had real players they had real users they had the experience and um and so that's why we went with
them i think one of the interesting things is we come from like the OG ETH crowd, I would say, right in the 2021 era. And so a lot of people from our community, a lot of our peers and the other founders that we had collections with on ETH really were unfamiliar with Ronan.
And I think that is part of our job is to sort of bridge that gap.
And obviously Ronan just partnered with OpenSea to sort of bring their collections to that platform.
And so I think, you know, Ronan was interested in tapping into, I would say, the more U.S.-based, maybe European-based sort of NFT ecosystem.
While we were really interested in plugging into the asia and latin american
predominantly asian and latin american community so i think we have a chance to sort of bring both
worlds together and ultimately be you know one plus one equals three um and so that's that's kind
of the back story for it amazing we already i didn't even notice, like, we were so focused
in the game, so we already streamed, like, for
a while, I think, almost, like,
one and a half. Yeah, not quite.
A little bit over an hour.
So, tell us how much fun the game is.
Like, we were so focused, I didn't even notice.
Time went fast.
So, we also crossed, like,
2,200
so that's great.
For everyone who is tuning in right now,
you can play the game.
We're probably wrapping up like soon.
You can play the game if you want,
even after we ended the stream on game.rooneyverse.world.
It's free to play.
You can join.
If you want an avatar like Helen has here.
You can buy one of the Forgotten Runes wizards.
And you will get your own custom avatar.
Or you can go with the version that I have here.
I will probably equip my wizard after this.
I didn't know.
But I have like the default.
And with a flower hat.
Looks pretty cool too.
So you don't need it to play. It's free to play. And you don't have like the default. So and with a flower hat looks pretty cool too. So you don't need it to play.
It's free to play and you don't have to download it.
If you go to this link here, you can play yourself.
Okay.
Hell, we're probably wrapping up.
After we wrap up, what's like the next?
Oh, Jesus Christ.
I got to hit like my bad tweet as a row.
It's okay.
I'll hold your task here.
What would be the next quest for us?
I think there was the wizard that gave us the last contract.
I think he sent us to another wizard to fight, correct?
That's the next one?
Yes.
So he encouraged you to go talk to some other wizards in the Hedge Wizard encampment who need some help.
And the one we just talked to said that there is a cockatrice nest
that's causing trouble in the area.
So at this point, it's about going and finding that nest,
dealing with the cockatrice.
Amazing. All right, everyone.
So I'm going to do this off stream.
We will be back.
It won't be the last Forgotten Universe stream. It was a ton of fun. Thanks so much, Helen, for guiding me through
the map and showing me around. It was really, really helpful. So I hope next time I will have
you as my guide on there as well. I'd be honored. This was a lot of fun. You're a great wizard.
We had a
magical time here i appreciate it and bear so thanks so much for joining us well uh was good
to hear from you again really a big fan of what you uh what you're doing at forgotten forgotten
ruins been like as you said like a really an og team in the space building so thanks so much for
taking the time to come on today. Thanks for having us, Will.
Appreciate you, man.
Thanks for everything that you do.
Let's go.
All right, everyone.
Thanks so much for tuning in.
We will be back soon.
If you want to play the game, you can go to this link right here.
Play for yourself.
You saw it's a ton of fun.
I really enjoyed it, even though this bat's going to kill me for the first time now.
Yeah, get out of there.
Oh, no.
I'm busy talking, so I'm not playing right now.
But, okay, even with that, you can play yourself.
It's a ton of fun.
We'll be back soon.
Thanks, everyone, for tuning in.
See you soon.
Bye-bye.
Thanks, Will.
Bye.
Bye, everyone.
Bye.
