Goal: Dive into current state of blockchain-based Trading Card Games (TCG), especially Gods Unchained*.*

🔈 Speakers

Host:

Nico Vereecke - Metacast Host @ Naavik, Investor @ BITKRAFT Ventures

Guests:

Chris Clay - Game Director for Gods Unchained at Immutable

David “Mzo” Becker - Games Commentator & Researcher

🌅 Chris’ Background

• Worked in game development for 20 years - mostly as game systems designer
  • Specialty in moment-to-moment gameplay w/ long-term progression
  • Started out in MMORPG (LOTR Online): a 15+ year game
• Game Director for Magic: The Gathering Arena - an online TCG game
  • Interest in blockchain arose from consistent problem of trapped account value in Magic
• Joined Immutable X and Gods Unchained later

🌅 David’s Background

• Always had an interest in trading card games - loved Magic and Hearthstone
• Worked on a lot of TCG around Facebook and Flash games

🗞 Current State of Blockchain TCG

• Digital trading cards are an easy concept to grasp → scarcity in physical cards is already easy to understand
• Blockchain-based TCG’s allow for full flexibility over player’s choice - e.g. opening a card pack with verifiable probability of rare cards vs. selling the unopened pack on the market

Market Dominators:

1. Gods Unchained - similar to more traditional TCG
   • game mechanics analogous to Hearthstone
   • built on Immutable’s ZK stack
2. Splinterlands - more transaction-based gameplay
   • build team around battle-specific constraints and then submit to see if your team beats opponent
   • mostly on-chain (Hive blockchain)

On the rise:

1. Metropolis Origins - interesting mechanics, but assets are not fully on-chain
2. Skyweavers - closed beta right now, public release on Feb. 8

❎ Gods Unchained & Immutable X

• Initial project for the studio was Gods Unchained, but Immutable X arose as a platform to supplement the use of millions of NFT’s at once in Gods Unchained, instead of just tens of thousands.