Keep Web3 separated from the actual game
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GamesBeat’s own Dean Takahashi and Consortium9’s Brooks Brown took a few minutes to talk about Web3 gaming at the GamesBeat Summit. Brown is of an almost unheard of mindset when it comes to Web3 and crypto integration.
In short, he doesn’t think it’s viable. Brooks, historically, is rather anti-crypto and Web3 in gaming. He’s never seen the point in trying to make games that way when practically every example of a crypto game works fine without that stuff.
But there’s definitely some kind of a use case in the stuff around a game. Just not the gameplay itself.
“It’s not about bringing crypto into games,” said Brown. “It’s about understanding how finance and crypto and speculation impinges on games.”
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Brown takes inspiration from the sports world. Pick a sport. Any sport. Anyone can learn to play it with very little investment. From there a person can play and practice until they’re amazing at it. The actual gameplay of a sport doesn’t change just because you throw more money at it. The rules of, say, hockey don’t suddenly change because you dumped a few thousand dollars into it.
Brown’s mission is pretty simple when you boil it down. He wants to design something that allows players not interested in spending money to enjoy themselves just as much as players willing to spend a lot of money. He wants a game to be a game and Web3 elements to be outside the core gameplay.
That’s Nor, which is described on Consortium9’s website
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