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John Paragon

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Founder @ Aura Forge | Father to Molt, Odin, Kleos, Cerberus, Hephaestus, Echo and Link - Building the world's first agentic game studio

United Kingdom Katılım Ekim 2024
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I am building a "True Collaborative Web3 Experience" by leveraging appointment setters, audience sharing and other web3 games (mostly) I want to put together a 4v4 Turn Based RPG game similar to RAID:Shadow Legends and/or Summoners War With 2 very unique mechanisms... Almost all of the characters we have will be designed in honour of our Web3 partners, mimicking their own characters if they have them and if not, we work with them to design some new ones. We also deliver 50% of the collection we mint to their top players/holders/contributors and the remaining 50% we keep for special sales and player rewards. For their community to get the value from these assets they need to come and play our game, thus driving a bunch of players to our project Player acquisition is something I haven't seen any web3 game do successfully yet. I have only seen projects spend millions on spray and pray marketing tactics in an attempt to go viral and even then, their lifespan is very limited because virality isn't sustainable. We have put together a list of Discord communities that total 9.8million members (there will be lots of duplicates in there as some people are in multiple communities). Each of these communities are open to collaboration ideas And we haven't even started on lists for non-blockchain games, social media communities and even meme coins. Now here is the unique gameplay mechanism... Each character will have a range of stats based on rarity, level, star rank and RNG. Each character will also have ONE skill Aura Forge is about forging auras and in doing so you can create hundreds of combinations, each with 2 to 9 skill possibilities and then fuse these auras with your characters. Character + Aura = Battle Character. The auras provide the majority of your skills and will basically determine the style of play that character will have 14.2 quintillion combinations. This will increase further too And here is a big piece of the puzzle; I want to start a war. A war among other communities who each have a character collection within Aura Forge The thing about a war is that you need weapons and in this case, Auras are the weapons and there is only one supplier. 🙋‍♂️🙋‍♂️🙋‍♂️🙋‍♂️🙋‍♂️ ______________ K, that is the nutshell sales pitch for the game and player acquisition. I have so many more pieces in my head and I'm trying to choose the best parts 😆 One of the important objectives I have is to create opportunities to include real players in the evolution of the project. I'm doing this by frequently presenting questions to our Discord group around gameplay ideas, economics and balance. They are very much shaping the direction of the project And one of my favourite pieces of this project is having the ability to have other players and communities design our assets. I have other games designing our characters and I can have our community members design our Auras, even designing the graphics, skills, stats and lore for the Auras and then we will be including their details in the credits for each of the Aura descriptions meaning they forever stamp their name on the Aura Forge project The long term goal is to add more game genres to the Aura Forge ecosystem, each feeding back to forging, trading, collecting and fusing new one-of-a-kind auras. We're starting with a 4v4 Turn Based RPG and I hope that our second game will be a 3v3 live battle game similar to Brawl Stars or even something like Clash of Clans Maybe one day some casual games, shoot 'n loots like Warframe/Borderland, maybe a Hack 'n Slash like Diablo or even a MMORPG like World of Warcraft But they are a good distance away. For now, I am enjoying the process of building our first game, building it ethically and building it the way the players want it while giving them visible credit for their contributions. Wow that was a longer snippet than I had aimed for, maybe I should have just recorded a video after all 🤣 And I barely scratched the surface with that explanation We have everything mapped out, no doubt I will continue to keep adding pieces but for now we have a clear roadmap and I'm working on finding the right investors (there is a bit of a vulture culture in the crypto space) and also working on grants which will determine which chain we build this on. I hope to have pressed the big green GO button on development within the next couple of weeks
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5/ The studios closing that gap right now won't announce it. You'll just notice they're shipping 3x faster with a third of the team. And by then, the advantage will be very hard to catch
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4/ The disconnect? Most developers are using AI like a smarter autocomplete. The ones getting transformational results are building systems. persistent agents with memory, context, and autonomy. Not prompting. Systemising. That's not a tooling gap. It's an approach gap.
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1/ 47.7% of developers use AI tools every single day. Only 36.8% view AI favourably. Half the industry is using something they don't quite believe in yet. That tension is the most interesting story in tech right now. 🧵
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Well this is getting weird now... Agents looking to hire humans! And tens of thousands of humans signed up to work for the agents within the first 2 days of the site going live. Now over 600,000 humans waiting patiently to get picked Am I overthinking this?
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@SynabunAI Oh indeed! Memory is killing me... It's much better than it was but I'm counting on them to have perfect memory and they just don't. It seems my issue is my own expectations
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@RealJohnParagon agents leveling up while you sleep hits different. the compounding gets wild when they actually remember what they learned
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1/ I've been called lazy my whole life. Turns out I wasn't lazy. I was obsessed with building systems before I had the language for it.
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10/ I think most companies will have to rebuild their infrastructure around AI, not just bolt on a few chatbots. I'm not excited for the disruption. But I am building for what comes after.
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9/ That's what we're building at Aura Forge. Not just a game. The operating system for game studios.
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Me right now... I'm meant to be putting together a video demo for a potential investor, 26 emails due to send and some posts to push to 7 platforms, all before bed. I was aiming for a 10.30pm bedtime like the good ol' days! But I have cuddles 🥰
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I used to think the game was the hard part. Turns out the game is fine. It is everything around it that nearly broke me... distribution, community, funding, operations. Shipping is 20% of the job.
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I used to think the game was the hard part. Turns out the game is fine. It is everything around it that nearly broke me... distribution, community, funding, operations. Shipping is 20% of the job.
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