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cryptoplaza

Founder of CryptoPlaza. Delegate at dYdX, MakerDAO (Sky), and AAVE. Member of MetaCartel. Ambassador for Superfluid.

the cool thing about games is that they can be a good Trojan Horse to onboard non-crypto users

Farville 🧑‍🌾

didn’t realize it first, and kind of deceiving myself for building /farville vs drift.money (onchain commerce)

in the beginning i was feeling that /farville was a less impactful project wrt drift 

i’m not anymore of the same opinion, as i’ve witnessed many non-crypto ppl coming closer to it just because of the game, this experience thought me a lot

in the end my crypto journey started through Axie Infinity…

chief shitposting officer @ /builders-garden 🌳 • currently /farville 🌽

product /builders-garden /farville | 
 organizing /just-frame-it | hosting a web3 hub in rome /urbe-eth /ethrome 🇮🇹🐺

https://limone.lol

so true…. make them come for the fun and frens, not for the free cookies

yea I agree, crypto should be secondary

as on warpcast, you can use it the web2 way, but if you want you can enable the warplet and dive into the web3 features

I think we are also going in this direction with /farville

Well not all games are designed this way.
Most of games are somehow Token Gated so you are not onboarding any non crypto users.

But there are as well positive example, simply being a game in an web3 environment without the need of web3

On Iota there are 2 great games which you can play fully without a wallet. Using a wallet and Tokens/NFT will give you some perkz but you can fully and with all facettes without Tokens/NFTs and I think this is the way to go.
If they got attached to the game they will lurk around how to get the Perkz

I like building crypto apps and learning new things. 

vmathur.com

yes that’s a great analogy, didn’t think about that but definitely relatable

games are a great way to push the boundaries of new technologies and onboard people. Have seen that pattern play out with PCs and mobile and think it could happen with blockchains too!