Challenging game developers to change their outdated blockchain mentality
“Blockchain is a revolutionary technology of the enlightenment, like the guillotine, designed to remove the crowned heads of Europe, or the centralizers that effectively control the industry,” said Miko Matsumura, managing partner, gumi Cryptos Capital, kicking off a panel at the recent GamesBeat Next 2023.
The problem, he added, is that blockchain has produced its own centralizers, such as disgraced crypto company CEO and billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried, who may have single-handedly propped up the blockchain space as a for-profit arena. What game developers should really be considering is what Web3 games blockchain will actually enable: will the technology live up to its primary ethos, and enable games that are both fun and fair?
Matsumura was joined by Sean Pinnock, founder and CEO of Avalon, Canaan Linder, CEO at Stardust and Matt Wolfe, VP of web3 gaming at Zynga, to break down what blockchain really means for the games industry, and the professionals who pour their time and attention into making good games.
“I can’t unilaterally say that fair gaming or less fair gaming is better, because that doesn’t encompass what players play games for,” Linder said. “The capability of blockchain, it gives us the power to define many of these rules better and more open than we have been in the past. But going forward, players and developers need to come to an agreement on the rule sets they create.”
They’re just technologies and tools, Wolfe added.
“Blockchain, digital collectibles, none of them have to do with fun or fairness,” he said. “That’s how you develop your experience, what your loops are, how you’re designing it, and how you want to operate your business and your product. Blockchain and fungibility and provenance and all that
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