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CEO @mightybeargames • building @playgoatgaming • 🇬🇧/🇪🇸 in 🇸🇬 • I write weekly threads about game development and online collectibles
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I've gained a few followers recently so I've compiled a thread of threads 🧵 across different subjects related to game design, startups, management, and digital collectibles. Feel free to like and comment if you find any of these useful!
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Super stoked to be building with
@darylX24
@viktoriya0x
@seangeng
and the rest of the
@b3dotfun
gang. From the moment they first came to Singapore to meet with us I knew we were on to something special.
GOAT partnership alert! 🐐
🚀 We're over the moon to announce our epic partnership with
@b3dotfun
, leading the charge on the Web3 gaming revolution! 🫡
💰 $21M funding round led by Pantera
💪 Built by Base/Coinbase legends and OG ETH contributers
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@stillgray
Imagine getting triggered by the fact you find a videogame character unattractive 🙃
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Watching the funding announcements in Web3 gaming over the past year or so, it’s obvious that the bulk games in this space have raised not enough money to succeed but just enough money to fail (<$5M). We saw this in mobile in the 2010s, thread on why and what’s next 🧵
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Excited to be a part of the journey with our friends at
@Ethlas_Official
and the
@BSD_Gambit
gang. Here's to co-learning and building together!
Welcome abroad
@skilllevel7
💀
You know him as Simon, but many know him as Papa Bear. Bringing decades of gaming experience across King & Ubisoft, he's a heavyweight in the scene🥊
We’re honoured to officially announce that
@PlayMightyHero
CEO &
@arcthecommunity
inhouse gaming
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@chrisp1ne
Up until the furore around Parasite's Oscar win kicked-off, I had no idea that so many adults struggled with basic literacy. It's actually quite concerning and goes some way to explaining the mess we're in.
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Thinking of moving over to the
@nothing
phone after 10+ years on iOS. Anyone done this? Worth the switch?
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GM FAM, giving away 5x allowlist spots for
#BigBearSyndicate
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1️⃣ Follow
@playmightyhero
@skilllevel7
2️⃣ RT this tweet
3️⃣ Reply with your fav action hero & tag your trusty sidekick!
WINNERS PICKED AT 2AM UTC NOV 23!
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I see huge parallels in Web3 today with the first batch of F2P browser and later mobile games. Back then everyone also agreed that the space needed "more good games" but the games that went on to be successful looked nothing like the games that came before them. A thread 🧵 1/13
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This month I'm giving away a MightyNet Genesis Pass worth over US$260!
The MightyNet Genesis Pass gives access to all drops and content in
@PlayMightyHero
and all future MightyNet titles.
TO WIN 👇🏻
1️⃣ Follow
@skilllevel7
2️⃣ Follow
@PlayMightyHero
3️⃣ Reply to this with a
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@GoodBoyMachine
As a music graduate I want to explain why Monk is a freaking genius and what he's doing here but I also know full well it's a waste of time to attempt to have that discourse on Twitter.
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Thread on Apple's NFT guidelines and why this is (mostly) good news for game devs. 🧵
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Why your studio is probably over-indexing on gameplay, how the VC model for early stage mobile gaming is broken, and why it’s going to take you two years before you can get meaningful metrics for your “MVP”.
A thread 👇🏻
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5 reasons why most games studios are terrible at managing team performance and identifying issues before they arise.
Lessons from 20 years in gaming and how to not make the same mistakes 👇🏻
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I don't normally tweet about what I hold but
@GirliesNFT
is a very wholesome project. A 14 year-old girl and her dad making really nice and inclusive PFPs (I minted one with vitiligo) and I'm happy to be a supporter. Still minting!
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Big Bear Gang: I'm going rogue and giving away 5x more allowlist spots for
#BigBearSyndicate
🐻
1️⃣ Follow
@playmightyhero
🔫🍕💥
@skilllevel7
🥰
2️⃣ RT this
3️⃣ Reply with an original wholesome meme (no copy pasta rubbish) & tag a trusty sidekick!
WINNERS PICKED 4AM UTC NOV 25!
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In 2022 I shared my perspective that projects raising <$5M in Web3 were raising just enough to fail. I got a lot of pushback for that but after the last few months I'm even more certain that 2023 is going to be a brutal year - a 🧵 on what's next
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Watching the funding announcements in Web3 gaming over the past year or so, it’s obvious that the bulk games in this space have raised not enough money to succeed but just enough money to fail (<$5M). We saw this in mobile in the 2010s, thread on why and what’s next 🧵
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Completely BLOWN AWAY by the fantastic work the team did with the
@PlayMightyHero
Big Bear Syndicate mint. Full 5K sold out within 20 minutes of phase 2 opening, flawless execution and top 5 on OS within 30 minutes of mint opening. PROPS TO THESE MIGHTY BEAR HEROES!
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It’s been a tough week so I’m going to go rogue CEO and giveaway a *guaranteed* Allow List spot for the
@JoinMightyNet
Genesis Pass mint (please don’t kill me
@missfors
!) Reply with the most wholesome meme you have and I’ll pick a winner on Tuesday evening (Singapore time) ✌️
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Super excited for the
@PlayMightyHero
Genesis Pass mint last weekend. There's SO MUCH in the pipe and I just want to show it off and tell you all about it but the team would kill me for going rogue, so all I'll say is make sure you have your notifications turned on. IT'S COMING.
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The game discussers on CT have been talking about the impact of 0 royalties on Web3 game projects. There seems to be a school of thought that this won't have much on an impact on games, this is completely mistaken. A thread why royalties matter for Web3 games 🧵
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@Daley_Kong
I don't think this person has ever worked on an MMO, RPG, or game with a high skill cap (like Mario Kart).
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Running a studio is a crash course in management and all the different things that can go wrong when you assign one person to be in charge of the development of one of their co-workers.
A 🧵 on the challenges faced according to staff seniority and avoiding mistakes. 👇🏻
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Web3's future is in good hands with the "MMO guys" leading the way! Why they're the perfect fit and what's next. A quick 🧵 👇🏻
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Just picked up a cleeeeeean gold chain
@KaijuKingz
to celebrate the merge. How my Kaiju gang feeling today? I hear it's one of the best communities in Singapore, look forward to seeing you folks around!
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.
@PlayMightyHero
might be the first Web3 game to be promoted by Apple (they even included the part about "real prizes").
* 5 months of development effort to abstract away the wallet experience for non-crypto natives
* Multiple meetings and email exchanges with folks on both
Oh looky who's featured on the Apple App Store! 👀 (credit to
@abeltan
and
@citizen906
for making this happen)
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Amazing seeing our very first NFT launch appear on the homepage of
@opensea
as trending (top
#6
right now) within 30 minutes of the allow list starting. Team at
@MightyBearGames
absolutely crushed the launched!
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🚨🚨🚨"Project CLIPPY" revealed 🚨🚨🚨
Why we're all-in on AI, how we're using AI to build
@playmightyhero
(with screenshots and examples), ethical considerations, and why recent developments in generative AI are *GREAT* for game devs.
WARNING: May contain alpha! 🧵👇🏻
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The year gaming got REKT (market down 97%!), the parallels with Web3 today, and what we can learn from history to make it all back! A thread🧵 👇🏻
(I still can't get over this ad! The 80s were nuts...)
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A thread on:
- Surviving the early years as a founder
- How short-term attempts to save money ended up costing more and made us LESS LIKELY to succeed
🧵👇🏻
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2022 was incredibly tough on all of us, but it wasn't without lessons. Here are 10 lessons I learned building
@MightyBearGames
@PlayMightyHero
through the crypto winter.
STRAP YOURSELVES IN! 👇🏻🧵
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Made my first Angel investment this week. Looking forward to my new life as an investor complete with a 11-4 working day, Patagonia vest, and taking calls from my car (which I don't have yet). Already got the Twitter thread writing part down.
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Oh looky who's featured on the Apple App Store! 👀 (credit to
@abeltan
and
@citizen906
for making this happen)
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So proud of the team today. 11 months of hard work being shared with the community for the first time. See you on the battlefield!
AND AWAY WE GO!! 🚀 🚀🚀
Open Beta is here. Live permanently, anyone can play.
See you on the battlefield. ✊
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gm today I'm taking another step toward becoming a Singapore Permanent Resident 🇸🇬🥰
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@yungchomsky
this is such a bleak indicator of how the baking system fails to meet the needs the most vulnerable
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Tips to avoid getting hacked:
Recently had someone ping me on Telegram to discuss investment. I didn't know them but they seemed to have done their research on us (this actually happens pretty regularly so not immediate red flag).
- We set up a call, invite has no link for the
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With
@yellowpantherx
and
@klickdotgg
dropping
@PlayMightyHero
alpha!
(Thanks for
@abeltan
for the presentation)
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While I'm stoked for the Big Bear Syndicate mint tonight, I couldn't resist picking up this dope
@FroggyFriendNFT
with a little bear buddy as a symbol of the friendship and respect between the two communities. Godspeed
@0xFonzy
, you're a true builder in this space.
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In 2022
@MightyBearGames
moved into Web3. It was a harder switch than we originally anticipated. The root cause of most of our pain points came from a very simple and unexpected flaw in our systems 👇🏻🧵
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First ever in-person event for
@PlayMightyHero
was fire! 🔥 Servers were flawless and the game super watchable. Kudos to the team at
@MightyBearGames
for the execution and to our friends at
@YieldGuild
for the support 🙏🏻 (also
@tonichi_bonoan
crushing it on-stage!)
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Thanks to everyone who just joined the space. Was crazy to see the growth of these over the last few weeks. First one was about 12 people, tonight was over 200. BIG BEAR GANG 4 LYFE!
@BabyBox_Me
@skilllevel7
@marnold_mch
@retripaladin
@coin_artist
Please join the AMA and I hope your question will be picked!
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@Botanygeek
Mate you shouldn't be getting in a cab (or public transport) with that. Someone once put a load in the company fridge and I went mad, takes forever to get rid of the smell.
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We're minting the
#BigBearSyndicate
soon and a bunch of folk have gotten allowlisted via applications.
Here's how we picked successful applications for the Big Bear Syndicate - 🧵
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Filled up pages upon pages of notes on everything I've internalised or learned since founding
@MightyBearGames
. Rather than drop a 500+ tweet thread going to to start slowly sharing bit by bit over the coming weeks. Excited to be sharing and to get your thoughts.
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I hope you've found this thread helpful.
Follow me
@skilllevel7
for more.
Like/Retweet the first tweet below if you can:
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Watching the funding announcements in Web3 gaming over the past year or so, it’s obvious that the bulk games in this space have raised not enough money to succeed but just enough money to fail (<$5M). We saw this in mobile in the 2010s, thread on why and what’s next 🧵
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Proud to be repping
@MightyBearGames
and
@PlayMightyHero
at the Web3 Community Summit in Manila. Feels pretty amazing to see our logos everywhere and Mighty Action Heroes on the big screen, always lovely to see
@gabusch
and the
@YieldGuild
fam. 🥰
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Diablo's success is notable because it highlights the disconnect between social media noise + hostility from the legacy gaming press vs. what happens in the real world.
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So proud of our (no longer secret) UEFN team
@thelegitgamesco
for smashing into the top 20 on Fortnite.
We've been quietly shipping a map a week since November last year and learning the platform. It's a testament to their AMAZING work and infra we've built as a studio.
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@OzKaterji
These guys have always had consistently terrible takes. My favourite example of the genre is the time that Jones declared the Tories should be worried because Russel Brand had thrown his weight behind Milliband.
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Going to be in LA, SF, and NYC later this month. Who are the top investors and founders we should be meeting?
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🚨 Calling all web3 peeps! 🚨 Join us at Bear Force One as our new Social Media Manager and help us build the biggest and baddest shooter in the space - Mighty Action Heroes, with input from our players! - Please share and retweet with your friends!
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Introducing The Bored Artists Agency, why we took up the gauntlet to propose setting up a games publisher in Web3 via the ApeCoin DAO, and how we will help usher in Web3's golden age of gaming.
(Credit to
@RealJonahBlake
for getting the ball rolling)
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This is a VERY valid question regarding what I want to do in
@apecoin
DAO. If anyone can find someone in the DAO who is an expert I will support them instead with full weight.
I hear similar questions to
@notthreadguy
. So I say you’re right, then who will step up?
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When someone completes 5 years at
@MightyBearGames
we give them a gold bear to mark the occasion. Proud to say we've given out a good number of these over the years!
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On my way to Saudi Arabia to discuss all things gaming, web3, and esports at the Wadi Ashar Dialogue. This airport lounge in Dubai is something else.
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Throwback Thursday to the
@MightyBearGames
founding team in 2018 when we were still fresh-faced and hadn't endured the ravages of entrepreneurship.
cc:
@iluzdaf
and
@cocolitron
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It's called a bear market because it's ours! Excited for mint day today with the Big Bear Syndicate 🐻
@PlayMightyHero
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Want to express my deepest love and gratitude for everyone at
@MightyBearGames
, the wonderful
@playgoatgaming
community, and our partners and investors. Couldn’t be happier with the reception to this reveal and this is only the beginning. See you in-game!
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Had people in my DMs asking about which roles we're hiring for. We have many open roles right now including:
🐻 Senior Product Lead
🐻 Social Media Manager
🐻 Community Manager
🐻 Collab Manager
🐻 Senior Technical Artist
Find the full list and apply at:
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We had a discussion today about pushing back announcements and events we have coming up in light of all the recent news.
There is SO MUCH coming atm that we're going to go ahead as planned. I'm EXCITED to finally show off what we're building and even let some of you play!🫢
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.
@9gagceo
is a GOATed founder who in every chat we’ve ever had has the community at the forefront. We need more like him.
Some people always comment, "This is a whale's game," under every project we help launch on
@Stakeland
.
Yes and no.
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Yes, web3 is a whale's game.
Liquidity is the most sought-after resource in web3. It is reasonable that ecosystems reward people who are willing to
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Growing is a LOT more about failing than it is about winning. Today I'm going to share about the times we FAILED when trying to learn from other studios. This thread will cover the dangers of trying to transplant otherwise successful working practices to a different org. 🧵
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@Football__Tweet
Ferguson did it with players like Irwin, May, and Poborsky in his squads. Pep never had to take middling players and turn them into world beaters.
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Some high-level (and not totally scientific) observations about different NFT communities and their strength based on the different experiences of members of the team at
@MightyBearGames
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Thanks to
@mikelauofficial
and the team at
@Treasure_DAO
for giving me my very own custom Smol inspired by my
@PlayMightyHero
bear! Love this little guy! 🥰
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Delighted for the
@PlayMightyHero
team (I do emails and spreadsheets, they do the real work) getting the recognition they so richly deserve after what has been a tough year for all of us in the space.
Huge shoutout to everyone who supported us. Thank you, you rock!
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I spent a large part of the last 30 years playing guitar and games. Two things everyone told me were a "waste of time", made a living from both and today I'm the CEO of a games company. Didn't work out so bad. 🤷🏼♂️
Maybe ensuring there's joy in your life isn't such a bad goal.
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Which is your fave ecosystem for blockchain gaming? If Other, comment below (Twitter only supports 4 choices 🙃)
Polygon
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Arbitrum
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Immutable
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Ronin/Avalanche/Other
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A long overdue update but the building has not stopped.
We spent November tackling issues that arose and are starting to see positive changes. As challenging and uncharted the road ahead is, we’re excited for what’s coming next.
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Delighted to see
@PlayMightyHero
nominated in *two* categories (best mobile game, best shooter game).
We only began working on this in August of last year. It's a real testament to the team's amazing work and this is only the beginning!
Announcing the
#GAM3Awards
final nominees! ✨
40 shortlisted gam3s, $2M+ in prizes.
What's next? 90% jury, 10% community voting.
Winners announced 14 December 2023 📆
VOTE NOW ➡️
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The .
@MightyBearGames
team just dropped Waifu Tycoon 3 for .
@playgoatgaming
but what if I told you we had *ANOTHER* game coming THIS WEEK? Steady lads...
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New
@DigiDaigaku
, who dis? Let's get some love from the Digi gang! Thanks to
@0xRyze
and
@gabusch
for the shilling, glad to be aboard :)
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So proud of the team and all their hard work. Today was a milestone for us as a studio.
2am GMT+8 war room in Singapore for
@JoinMightyNet
Genesis Pass mint!
🐻❄️ First ever NFT collection
🐻❄️ First ever on-chain interaction
🐻❄️ First ever physical war room… at 2am!
See you tomorrow if you’ve been allowlisted for the remainder of the mint!
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