Game Economy Design | Vader Research, Mete Gulkin | Web3 Wednesdays Ep. 14

Web3 Wednesdays

Game economies are notoriously difficult to master, and web3 makes a potent ingredient in that mix -- but extreme care must be taken, lest the game become a recipe for disaster.
Join Mete Gulkin of Vader Research, one of the most prolific writers in the web3 gaming space who frequently shares theoretical and practical examinations of the current gaming landscape, alongside Sam Peurifoy, CEO of Playground Labs and Partner at Hivemind Capital as they dig into the nitty gritty around web3 game economy design.
Web3 gaming has been through a tumultuous recent past, with numerous high-profile games suffering severe market downturns as a consequence of both economic design and macro conditions. Mete sits right in the nexus of that information maelstrom, and we’re keen to hear his take on how the economic structure of games going forward may continue to evolve.
Mete's Twitter: @DeFiVader
Sam's Twitter: https://twitter.com/SamPeurifoy
Kapital DAO's Twitter: https://twitter.com/KapitalDAO
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Read the companion piece to this episode here: https://medium.com/@sampeurifoy/zero-sum-plus-zs-gaming-679b94da1438
Listen on Buzzsprout: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2006743/11409982
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/U_HKTu5sxIY
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0:00 - Intro
1:05 - Vader Research
2:10 - Which Economic Models are Popular Now
6:48 - Big Web3 Games Changing Their Models
10:35 - Trends in Presales in Web3
13:25 - Scholars & Guilds in Games
18:30 - Virtual Land
21:10 - What Economies Do You Like?
23:00 - Advice for New Builders
24:56 - Outro
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Sam is the CEO of Playground Labs, a web3 protocol dev organization, and Partner & Head of Interactive at Hivemind Capital, a crypto-focused multi-strategy fund. Follow him on Twitter @SamPeurifoy. Web3 Wednesdays are sponsored by the Kapital DAO, the leading provider of institutional web3 gaming asset management tools.
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