46 / Moonstream

We're joined by the founder of Moonstream, Neeraj, as he delves into the world of sustainable blockchain game economies. Learn about the challenges of decentralizing a community and the role of game design in web3 games. #blockchain #web3games #metaverse

Timeline

01:40 Intro Neeraj

02:45 What will make web3 games break out?

05:03 Does SMB1 ownership values like Web3?

06:35 The metaverse is really about communities

07:06 Neeraj motivation

08:54 Prerequisites for this call

13:03 Reputations in Moonstream community

13:42 How do you decentralize a community?

14:14 ICO token distributions

15:30 Why it's impossible to build a DAO

16:46 How are arcades like DAOs?

19:17 The secret for avoiding large community incentive problems!

21:55 Hire a game designer to make daos?

23:00 Where is the fun in web3 games?

24:04 How game design affects lore

25:50 Dark forest vs StarCraft

Participants

@fulldecent

William Entriken

@dtedesco1

Daniel Tedesco

@zomlings

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@t012n4d0

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@VjDeliria

Vj Deliria

@yodude38

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@037

AKM

@cryptonerdylady

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@EllieVoxel

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Episode notes

Guest: Neeraj of Moonsteam.to. founder of Moonstream, Neeraj, via Game7. He thinks much more deeply about how to make blockchain game economies sustainable than just about anyone I know. And they open source everything.

Neeraj’s X: https://twitter.com/zomglings

Moonstream Discord: https://discord.gg/BSxjMyfWgW

• Moonstream.to
• Want to build games that people want to spend their lives playing, without any dark design patterns but rather because they love it
• The first step of the metaverse is a name on a Pacman arcade machine
• Neeraj’s backgroundhttps://clashroyale.com/blog/news/community-update.html
  • Started in mathematics research
    • Integer sequence encyclopedia
    • Neel Sloan, John Conway
  • Grandmother’s health saga inspired to help solve diagnosis issues
    • Research in Japan for a while using
  • Always interested in tech
    • Google Tensorflow a bit
    • Always interested in Bitcoin since the paper came out
• Moonstream team/community
  • Can’t have Neeraj being the one person controlling wallets forever
  • Decided to decentralize everything
  • Building a reputation system
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winning_Ways_for_Your_Mathematical_Plays
• HOw to decentralize?
  • Moonstream will probably never do a token
  • Things to avoid in decentralization
    • Transactional, financially-oriented relationships
    • Don’t want to build things that will break at scale
  • Will wrote a paper about the game theory of this
    • Can’t avoid transactional nature of decentralized systems
    • Instead, designers have parameters to tune
    • https://medium.com/0xcert/token-curated-registries-8035d7fac2b7
• Can we build systems that scale arbitrarily?
  • Neeraj says no
  • Big tech company example
  • When community becomes too large
  • Federation seems to work
  • Book: Driving Honda: Inside the World’s Most Innovative Car Company
• Is Neeraj a game designer?
  • Maybe old school game designers are not the best for designing blockchain games
  • Want all types of game designers in teh community though
  • Cryptounicorns Minigame – designed as not fun, but players found fun and meaning in many aspects of it
• Moonstream has it’s own nodes, crawlers rather than 3rd parties
  • Could use some help on
• I can give out Remixer NFT badges for people that completed classes before! See https://rewards.remix.ethereum.eth.limo/ how to organize this?
• Make clips
• What are some Twitch channels I should add to SUGGESTED CHANNELS?
• And who should we Twitch raid??
  • —> Day9tv