Web3 Gaming is Inevitable: ft Moonveil

Recorded: Jan. 22, 2025 Duration: 0:50:51
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I don't know.
Maybe we can have a little bit of fun.
I'll put some music on just while we're waiting for people to kind of tune in.
It's not going to sound good because it's just straight phone to computer audio.
So let's see how it goes.
I can't wait for you to come and play the cover.
I can't wait for you to come and play the cover.
But now you're going to leave with nothing but a sign.
Another reason I'll be sitting reading in between.
I can't wait for you to come and play the cover.
I can't wait.
I can't wait.
I can't wait.
I can't wait.
So, get away, and know the way you feel
How you do all yourself tonight
And let yourself go
You know you do all yourself control
It's the start of the road
Turn away, and know the way you feel
How you do all yourself
And let yourself go
And let yourself go
All right, all right, all right
So, I'm a little rusty
For those who don't know
I used to actually host spaces
It's been quite some time since I've done it
But let's see if I can kind of shake off
Some of the rust that we have here for a little bit
But I want to go ahead and say
First off, thanks to everyone who's tuning in right now
If you guys can do me a huge favor
Bottom right, there's a little button right there
You can go ahead and leave a like
Go ahead and comment
Reshare the space
It'd be pretty beneficial
I think today's going to be a fun one
We are going to go for about an hour or so
We'll see how everything's turned out
But yeah, there's a couple of people
That are going to be tuning in
And hopping on the space here
I know we're still waiting for
Yep, he's coming up right now
But yeah, today's going to be a fun one
We're talking all things kind of
Web3 gaming
A lot of cool stuff being built
In the industry right now
I think this year's going to be kind of a crazy one
So, I'm going to go ahead and invite
One more person up
And then we're going to kind of go around the room
Just introduce ourselves
Say what's up to everyone
How you doing?
Let's go ahead and go over to MJ first
We got MJ on the mic
He's the founder CEO at Moonvale
I've been lucky enough to get a chance to see
What's been going on underneath the hood
But I'm not going to yap too long
I'll go ahead and pass the mic over to MJ
MJ, how you doing brother?
Happy Tuesday
Oh, it's Wednesday
Happy Wednesday
How are you?
I'm good, I'm good
GM, GM everyone
Super excited to hop on the call
In the panel together
And meet up
And talk with so many great founders
And also Polygon veterans again
I appreciate it, man
Yeah, I don't know if you
I don't know if you rugged right there
If you were done
But yeah, I wanted to say
Thanks, man
I really appreciate that
I want to go ahead and pass the mic on
Over to the fam at Wilderworld
I'm assuming it's Zen behind the mic
Zen, how you doing brother?
Happy Wednesday
Yo, what is good, Rudolf?
Thank you so much
Happy Wednesday
Happy Thursday where I'm at
But you know, I'm always calling out from the future
So let me tell you guys
The markets are hot
It's not the top
It's not happening
It's all going on
So jokes aside
Very excited to be here
With the Polygon fam
Some of my favorite people in the space here
We're cooking
You guys are cooking
We are excited
2025 will be our year
So thank you for the invite
My name is Zen Wilder
For those of you who don't know
I'm heading up growth over here at Wilderworld
We'll see some growth this year
Let me tell you this
It's going to be fun, man
It's going to be a fun, fun year
I think we've seen a lot of other narratives
Taking the spotlight right now
But I've been a firm believer
I've been saying this probably since
Middle of last year
End of last year
That I think gaming is going to have
A really, really massive year in 2025
All the teams who've been building
Some of these incredible games out
Over the last year
Three years
Four years
Five years
There's a lot of really interesting stuff
That's finally coming to fruition
And it's going to be a really, really hot one
I'm pretty certain of that
So I do also want to pass it over to Greg
The legend himself
Head of gaming and consumer BD
At Polygon
Greg, brother
How you doing, man?
Happy Wednesday
GM, GM, everyone
Happy Wednesday
I'm actually in an Uber
Hiding back to the office
But glad I could jump in here
Because three of my favorite teams
In one space
And I don't think I've seen that yet
We have Immutable
We have Wilderworld
We have Moonvale
What a time
Yeah, it's fun, man
I'm actually going to bring up Tyrus as well
Speaking of which
You mentioned Immutable
And look, he's already in the hot seat
Tyrus, how you doing, brother?
Happy Wednesday
Coming over here from Immutable
Game Partnerships
What's going on, man?
What's going on, Ruto?
Good to be here
And happy to be up here
With some great teams
And friendly faces
And excited to talk some
Web3 gaming
Yeah, it's going to be a fun one
It's funny because
I know a couple teams
Or even internally
They're like
So, Ruto, do you have
Do you have like questionnaires?
Do you have like
Do you have a strategy
Going into the spaces?
And I'm like, listen
I've hosted spaces
For almost four nights a week
For almost a year
I usually just freeball it
And usually that ends up being
Some of my favorite spaces
So, there are
There's no real structure here
But I did want to go ahead
And at least start off
From the very, very top
I want to go ahead
And highlight
Everyone who's up here
As speakers
The team from Wilder World
The team from Moonvale
As well as what they're doing
At Immutable as well
So, I want to give the spotlight
A little bit to you
MJ, I'm just curious, man
I know that I know
What's kind of going on
Behind the scenes a little bit
For those just tuning in
Who maybe aren't familiar
With who Moonvale is
I'd love for you to go ahead
And just chat
And tell everyone
Exactly who you guys are
Exactly what you guys have coming
Yeah, absolutely
We actually started Moonvale
Back to, damn
I used to say two years ago
But right now
It's nearly about three years ago
That we got a bunch of people
Gaming dev veteran
Publishing veteran
From traditional gaming
At the very beginning
Aspiring to build
Some cool Web3 games
That can authentically
And naturally
Integrated Web3 features
Technology
And also community
To make that better
Further elevate
The bar of the industry
Me, myself
Was from a traditional
Game dev background as well
Used to work at
Riot Games
Building League of Legends
For over seven years
As a GM of Greater China
And I got a lot of
Old connections
From my past time
Joining me together
With a similar vision
And three years
Has passed
And we learned a lot
I think the game dev
But right now
I would say
We've made some big upgrades
In the past 12 months
From Web3 game studio
To more of a
Comprehensive gaming ecosystem
That right now
Moonvale is more like
And AI powered
Gaming ecosystem
Built by a team
With traditional
Gaming dev veteran
And blockchain veterans
Previously from
Riot Games
That we are focusing
On building
Great games
I think that's our
Core and fundamental
While leveraging
The aggregation layer
As well as
The operation layer
We call that
That can build up
The AI integration
Refined operation
To further empower
The member
Of the ecosystem
From our collaborative
To make their experience
As a gamer
To be better
And in the past 12 months
I think our community
Has been navigating
A pretty robust growth
With right now
Over 1.7 million
People registered
And we did have
A lot of traditional
Performance marketing
Experience as well
That successfully
Onboarded nearly
About 900k
Gamers from the
Traditional gaming
By teaching them
How to use SBT
How to understand
Why that matters
I think so far
We are on the right track
And very excited
To showcase
What we are going to
Deliver from the
Game product experience
As well as
Some key milestones
That's going to be
Disclosed very soon
Disclosed very soon
So it looks like
Hopefully by the end
Of the chat
I don't know
Maybe I can squeeze out
A little alpha
For those tuning in
If I kind of
If I sign up him
Into some alpha
Later down the line
But I did pin up
A couple things
At the top
Some of my favorite
Trailers that I've
Actually seen from
You guys' team
I know one that
Launched in October
If you guys haven't
Taken a look at it yet
From one of their
Games called
It's actually a
Really crazy trailer
I remember when I
First was speaking to him
I was like
Can you send me over
Any trailers
That you guys
Have been working on
And they sent this
Over to me
And I was like
It's really
It's really
Really cool
So I appreciate it
We're going to go
Keep going down the line
And then we'll
Come back to you guys
I want to go ahead
And pass over to Zen
I feel like
At this point
I don't even
Really need to do
Much of an introduction
For those of you
Who have been
Zen is literally
Everywhere
I'm convinced
The man is
Doesn't sleep
Awake at all times
On every single
Space imaginable
I wanted to pass
Along to you
For those who
Maybe have been
Living under a rock
And who don't know
Wilderworld is
I would love
I would love for you
To kind of
Just pitch
And tell everyone
Exactly who you guys
What you guys
Have coming
In the pipeline
And I'll pin up
Some stuff too
Yeah awesome
Thank you so much
You'd be surprised
Of how many
Spaces invitations
I actually have
To decline
Because you know
I'll have to sleep
At some point as well
I have a baby
Waking me up
Every morning
So you know
You know how that goes
Thanks so much
So I just pinned up
The trailer up at the top
I think that is really
And I saw you
Just pinned it up as well
So I think that's the best
Quick glance
That everyone can have
That don't know
Wilderworld
We essentially build
The photorealistic metaverse
In the sense that
All of us thought about
The metaverse
When we heard about it
The first time
A vast virtual world
That pushes the boundaries
In game design
Blockchain technology
AI integration
And similarly
Some people say
We were dubbed
But with real money
So it's kind of like
From a gameplay perspective
GTA and cyberpunk
If you like
Halo and Spider as well
The shooter slice
But really everything
Maximum on chain
So everything that you see
In the world
From the avatars
To your clothes
To the cars
To the vehicles
To the land
To your pet animal
Eventually everything
Will be tokenized
In the true OG
Web3 fashion
Where we are right now
As last year
We released a trailer
We've been building this
For over four years
And the virtual world
Our first city
Is so vast
That it's 13 and a half
Times the size
Of the GTA 5 map
Just for people to understand
What scale we're talking about
And the way that
Wilderworld will come to life
Is initially through
Gaming experience
So we have a racing slice
We have a first person shooter
We have a combat game
We have a mining game
That's coming live
This year as well
When we go live
With the land economy
And each gameplay mode
Has its own economic loop
That's tying into
The greater wilderworld economy
All powered by the wild token
That essentially
We believe that
The digital economies
May just be as big
As the real world economies
That we have right now
And we've been really
Building for years
Trying to figure out
The right economic models
For these individual
Gameplay modes
To make sure that we have
An economy that's
Highly scalable
And we're working
We've been working
With Polygon
Obviously for years
We've been friends
For years now
But we essentially
Build our own blockchain
Which is going live
In the next few weeks
So that is really exciting
It's been a big push
To get to that point
But since we're talking
About everything being on-chain
We are aiming at
Billions of NFTs
Billions of on-chain assets
Over the next few years
And in order to facilitate that
Obviously we need
A very high level
Top-notch technology
We want to facilitate
A gasless experience
For the users
So this is why
Building our own blockchain
Is necessary
And we utilised
The Polygon CDK
Tapping into the egg layer
Here as well
To make this come a reality
And just a bit of alpha
Where we're going
What's coming up next
Is the trailer teased
On how the world looks like
You'll be able to
Actually jump in there
And play it for yourself
I'm not going to talk
Too much about
How the gameplay
Will actually come to life
But it is amazing
The initial concepts
Are just beautiful
And the team is already
Cooking hard
And making this a reality
But until then
We'll be talking more
About the AI layers
That we have embedded
Inside Wilder World
We've been building
Some of the most advanced
AI protocols
For the last 12 months
And we haven't spoken
Much about it
For good reason
As you know
Everyone who knows
Wilder World
Our content
And our quality standards
Are right at the top
And we want to make sure
That anything we communicate
Or anything we release
Is right at the top
And not just vaporware
Or you know
Buzzword marketing
But actually
Look at this
This is all happening
This is the future of gaming
So very excited
To release that
To the public
And I think people
Will be talking about it a lot
So that a bit of an intro
Of Wilder World
Yeah thanks for that
Dude I'll tell you what
I can tell a man
Who has had to
Talk about
The project
A million times
Because that was
That was really
That was really ironed out
I mean when we're
Talking world building
I think you guys
Took it literally
And you're actually
Building like
A legitimate world
Which is insane
Just from like
The scale of it
Yeah it sounds
Really really interesting
If you guys haven't
Already taken a look
At the trailer
I know it's something
They've worked on
For a very very long time
So you'll see
A little bit of their
In game play
You'll also see
Some cinematics
You'll also see
What the world
Probably looks like
You'll be able to
Also see just kind of
Like the scale
Of everything
If anything that was
Probably one of the
First things I noticed
When I first watched it
I was just like
This is like
This is a legitimate
It's insane
So I appreciate that
We're gonna go ahead
And pass it over
To the one and only
Tyrus am I pronouncing it
I don't wanna be
You got it
No you're all good
I'm on the game
Partnerships team
Here at Immutable
So really just working
With games
Understanding their
Web3 integration
What their goals are
And seeing if it's
A good fit for them
To build on the platform
Immutable itself
Is a Web3 gaming
Only focused platform
We have Immutable
Which is the chain layer
In conjunction with Polygon
And then we have
All of the tools
Around that
Make it as simple
For developers
To integrate
Web3 into their game
To make it easy
For players
To you know
Have a wallet
And never have to
Sign a transaction
With our passport
And just make that
And as smooth
As possible
I think another
Key differentiator
About Immutable
Over 250 people
So it's not
Just like we
Partner with games
They use our tech
We do a couple
And call it good
They're really
Working with us
Improve their retention
Find the points
Where players
Are dropping off
Or where the
Web3 integration
Is not working
And you know
Everybody's trying
To figure this
Space out still
So we're doing
It together
And helping
To succeed
Because in the
End we succeed
When our games
I couldn't have
Said it better
I think people
Don't really
Understand how
Like the scope
Exclusively
Where games
People working
At the company
I'm sure you
Guys are just
At all times
Of the day
Tyrus is there
Anything particularly
That you're
Excited about
Within the
Immutable ecosystem
That's coming out
This year by any
I think the
Easy answer
I think that's
Always the
Games like
Raven Quest
I'm not sure
If everybody's
Following them
But they've
Global launch
They've had
Some really
Exciting metrics
And people
Are really
Having fun
With the game
One of the
First true
Number one
We've really
Been focused
Because we
Passport wallet
If it wasn't
Good enough
Like going
After players
Just wasn't
Going to be
Successful
We feel that
The tech's
Build this
Of players
Are excited
Into games
Have access
To millions
Of players
And succeed
From there
No I think
It's a good
Little bit
Because while
And getting
Actually really
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Has actually
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