Gaming Big Brain

My games are good, the algorithm just ignores me My games are good, the algorithm just ignores me My games are good, the algorithm just ignores me My games are good, the algorithm just ignores me My games are good, the algorithm just ignores me

@SpikeCollects "still in the trenches. building quietly. staying off twitter because it’s gotten toxic." This is actually my life now, Back to X pretty soon tho to ignore that toxicity and just bring back gaming and good energy

web3 gaming isn’t broken right now.
the narrative around it is.
and honestly, it’s getting worse. the Solana Foundation president fudding web3 gaming and the team calling it a “marketing stunt,” while their own game partners are some of the least supported in the industry. guilds launching 100+ creator networks
full of people who don’t even play games, farming engagement and running campaigns that don’t convert. meanwhile the OG builders?
still in the trenches. building quietly. staying off twitter because it’s gotten toxic. this is why the space feels off. who’s actually moving things forward? 
reply with one project or builder that’s actually doing it right.

@SenseiSOL @Somuchmorefun @DegenerateNews @calilyliu That's what I do! Thanks Sensei 👌

@Somuchmorefun @DegenerateNews @calilyliu @GamingBigBrain

NEW: SOLANA FOUNDATION PRESIDENT @calilyliu SAYS "GAMING ON A BLOCKCHAIN IS NOT COMING BACK"

@TuTuScani Exaxtly 🙂‍↕️

@GamingBigBrain Don't have to worry about coming back...if you never leave

Oh no... then I won't launch mines on Solana.. 🙃

@PapiChuloGrim Trolling works when you're up!

Solana: posts obvious rage bait CT: has desired reaction Solana: JK this was a funny, we love the thing CT: wow, incredible trickery Kudos to foundation for this working so well continually. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it

@vibhu @SolanaFndn @calilyliu It'll be fast!

Release from @SolanaFndn crisis comms: We do not condone the statements made by the Solana Foundation President @calilyliu. These statements, while factually correct and extremely based, have done irreparable harm to our gaming ecosystem. As a punishment, Lily has been asked to play all of the current games built on Solana.

@SirLicksaTwat @StarPlatinum_ People who share their opinions and thoughts regardless the engagement are the best of X

@StarPlatinum_ As opposed to people who stop tweeting because they get 0 likes?

mfs who keep tweeting with 0 likes are likely psychopaths

@phantom you have marked Papu Party Rock as spam in your wallet. It's one of the healthiest Solana collections, dropped for free to the core NFT community and with a solid project behind. Please, fix this. magiceden.io/marketplace/pa…

@KieranWarwick All the best! Plans that are focused on releasing a good realistic product are what we need now. I'll be playing

Huge ecosystem update. To be clear, this is not another gaming shutdown notice, so you can breathe a sigh of relief. The last 6 months have been tough, to say the least. Sentiment in crypto is now at an all-time low. And crypto gaming is even lower. But, despite that, Illuvium pushes on. I promised six years ago that we would give it our all, and we are still in a position to come out of this bear market strong, with games that people in both mainstream and crypto want to play. We are lucky to be in a better financial position than most studios in the space, and we have recently reduced our costs even further to ensure we make it out. We have also spent a lot of time strategising about the future, and this post is the first look into our new vision. This is a focused shipping plan across the products that can move Illuvium forward fastest. Overworld We have decided to release Overworld much sooner than planned. We are targeting December 2026. We can do this by cutting out the things that are massively resource-intensive while keeping the things people love and will love. The game will have multiplayer combat, dungeon runs, bosses, creature capture, hundreds of items to collect (all on chain), open world grinding, with the focus on progression, think almost limitless progression, while adding in some spice of gambling to completely max out your ranger, illuvials, and items. For those who played the most recent test, you know all of those things (apart from dungeons) are in the game already. The big thing that will still be missing at launch is PvP. What comes next after launch will be driven by player demand. The exciting part is that we’ll run more playtests throughout the year. The feedback we got from testers was fantastic and helped us shape the final vision listed above. No more ambiguity on the release dates of 3 years from now. We’re talking a December 2026 target. Beyond This little collector's game has generated more revenue than most crypto games ever released. The fanbase is strong. But it needs more, and more importantly, deserves more. We have decided to put a small team of our best web developers onto a tabletop game using Illuvium Beyond characters. Think Unstable Unicorns meets Marvel Snap. We want to build this game quickly and make it available on the web and mobile. This game will integrate heavily into the Beyond ecosystem, including stretch goals, burn mechanics, and disk sales. I have always invested heavily in each wave of Beyond, and I know many, many others have too. Finally, we will have something to play outside of just pure album collecting (which, btw, is obviously still addictive as fuck). On top of the new game, we have Wave 5 coming up, which will complete the set 1 collection, and then a few weeks later, we launch the biggest partner collection we have ever had in Beyond. A brand that is going to turn heads, and the artwork looks beyond fire. Once Wave 5 wraps up, we move into the three-year celebration set and then into Set 2. Arena Oh, my beloved Arena, where did we go wrong with you? As most of you know, I love this game. Of course, I think things could be better if we had more characters and new content, but there is a reason you still see me in lobbies late at night: I simply love playing the game. While we have some updates to Arena, like Ascendant mode returning and rewards being turned back on, for the most part, Arena is built and released. From a development standpoint, we won’t be spending more time on it. That’s not to say we won’t be running events; we certainly will, and the first big one will be hosted by our Beyond partner. But as for development, those resources will be going elsewhere. However, that isn’t the big update for Arena. About three years ago, the head designer of Arena said to me, “You know this would sell much better if it were just a web2 game that we sold on Steam?” At the time, I wasn't thinking of ripping out all the web3 elements, since we had been pushing the crypto gaming dream nonstop for 2 years prior, so I dismissed it. Still, that conversation never really left me. Neither did it for the Game Designer, because he came to me a few weeks ago and asked to license the IP and launch it as a web2 game, with Illuvium capturing the majority revenue share (after platform fees). After some discussion with the council, we decided this was a good decision, given that his team would handle development and that all the artwork was already complete. He has promised me that the game will be ready for the October Steam Fest. Death Match The IIP has just been approved, and we’re good to start development, although we have decided only to release the game on Web and Mobile Browser. The game will feature 2d versions of Illuvials and will be accessible to almost everyone. I’m excited about this one because A) it introduces an Illuvial burn mechanic, and B) it's our first foray into risk-to-earn games, which have become extremely popular amongst crypto gamers. This game reminds me a lot of Beyond. When I first pitched that, I got a huge amount of backlash internally and externally, but ironically, it's our number one revenue-generating game by a long shot. Now you might say, “uh oh. Illuvium is doing it again, building 5 things at once.” But again, ironically, this is where we did our best work. Before, when we were building four products simultaneously, it was chaotic, but in the end, we pulled it off. This time, we are being a lot more strategic about it. Firstly, all teams are completely segregated into separate Discords, so there is no cross-over of work outside a couple of roles, like QA and UX/UI. Secondly, the products being worked on have an extremely strong foundation, and lastly, Arena “web2” isn’t being built by us at all. The reality is we need to make multiple bets at the same time. While we still have runway into mid next year, we need more revenue-generating products. So moving the release date up on Overworld by a considerable time will certainly increase revenues, but so will giving Beyond players more reason to purchase Illuvitars each wave, and likewise, Arena might finally start generating meaningful revenue, even if it’s in the polar opposite place we initially envisioned. The reality is, it doesn’t matter. We need to make moves, and we need to make them fast. And that is exactly what we are doing. So there you have it. A massive update, a huge amount to be excited about, and I know there will be some people in the comments sharing our token chart and saying “it’s over bro,” and that’s fine, but let me be very clear on this, it aint over until the final breath, and we are far, far from that, so the show goes on.

@Sychype If you do a bad ad, better do it so bad it looks you've made it on purpose, it sometimes works well. I give them that

"Buybacks don't work, you should spend that money on marketing!!!!" The marketing:

@iceyyy_gaming 🤜🤛

@GamingBigBrain big brain take, appreciate you fam! feels good having you around as well

If crypto gaming projects supported me as much as I supported them My engagement and reach would be thru the roof Lol good times

@iceyyy_gaming @JonahBlake You have decent engagent anyway and will grow exponentially when things get better. I dont know you but you dont look like the kind of person who will stop posting just because web3 gaming is down. Feels good having people around with some hope and trying to make things better

It doesn't hurt my feelings, I appreciate you always looking out I understand the space is down bad, I understand no one cares about my content and that it hurts my algo and crypto friendships to stay in web3 gaming The thing is, I came here with a very specific mission, to help contribute to the growth of web3 gaming And as long as I can pay rent and buy my gf sushi, I will not give up on that mission There may come a time that I need to capitulate and if that's the case, then so be it But today is not that day So yes, the industry may die tomorrow, but I'm still gonna plant some trees today But seriously, really appreciate you caring and looking out for my best interests

@0xwillthetrill The difficult part is knowing who's a random. Anyway I trust you because you're a tottenham supporter

this is why you shouldn't listen to randoms on this app, people can just say anything lmfao Actual Numbers based on proprietary + public data: >VP/Head of BD: $200-400k per year >Sales Lead: $120-180k (200k+ OTE; commission based role) >Product Manager: $125k-200k+ (Market avg looks to be around 170k) >Finance/Treasury Manager: 120-200k+ >Head of Ops: 140-220k+ >Marketing/Growth Manager: 100-150k is generally correct >Regulatory Lead: 140-210k+ >Growth Lead: 120-200k+ >Social Media Manager: 80-120k *All of these numbers are assuming base salary unless stated otherwise Reminder however, that there's many variables which influence compensation such as funding stage, team size (are you the "Head of/Lead" at a 5 or 50+ person startup), geographical location, manager vs IC, upside/bonus structure, market conditions, benefits package etc.

@0xjay The handle is already suspicious 🤔

Fake MonkeDao holder going around scamming users 375 mutuals, crazy

@Gamefi It's not a scam, they just failed. I wish we had games of this quality on web3

Ashes of Creation is a scam. In development for approximately 10 years. This game raised $3.2M via Kickstarter back in 2017. People bought into the first alpha for $500, then $250 for the second alpha, and THEN $50 for early access. The creative director resigned after essentially losing control over the board when he was the only one listed on the board? 🤔

Never expected you'd betray Man City @LucaNetz

@0xrwu Crypto influencers will bring them to us. Absolutely safe

Now imagine a vibe coded crypto app 😳

@Berna7224 You're just realizing most projects lied to you and were only taking advantage of another crypto trend. There's hope, good games will come, they are being built by studios more focused on building them than making noise and launching tokens before an imaginary release.

I am extremely demotivated. It's been a while since I felt like this but I'm not even sure If web3 gaming is gonna make It at this point. So many games shutting down too little games launching, have the people lost their belief in web3 gaming?

@TondoXXII @jup_studio @JupiterExchange @JUPCommunity @ALLEYCATNY @awesomesinyee He's so cute not gonna lie 😂

The guy she tells you not to worry about Steve is ready to race 😎

@StarPlatinum_ Crypto is a totally healthy environment for mass adoption

In 2024 a kid launched a memecoin with his mother In this stream the mother was showing her breasts every time there was a large purchase The stream reached over 1500 viewers and the token 3M Mcap