Simon 💪🏼🐻🕹
@skilllevel7
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CEO @mightybeargames • building @playgoatgaming • 🇬🇧/🇪🇸 in 🇸🇬 • I write weekly threads about game development and online collectibles
Singapore
Joined June 2010
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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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!. /1.
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@BoredElonMusk @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 🧵. 1/22.
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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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.@playgoatgaming OFFICIALLY HIT 6.9M ON-CHAIN TRANSACTIONS!!1!!!!!!!!11ONEONE 🎉. To celebrate this cultural milestone, we are giving away 1 GOAT chain.1️⃣ Spin the wheel and post proof in replies.2️⃣ RT to spread the word for the culture. WOOHOO!
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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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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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GM FAM, giving away 5x allowlist spots for #BigBearSyndicate 🐻. 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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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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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 👇🏻. 1/22.
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Thread on Apple's NFT guidelines and why this is (mostly) good news for game devs. 🧵. 1/12.
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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 👇🏻. 1/22.
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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. 1/17.
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 🧵. 1/22.
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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 🧵. 1/15.
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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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🚨🚨🚨"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! 🧵👇🏻. 1/23.
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"GOAT Gaming represents the next evolution in interactive entertainment. Building on Mighty Bear’s legacy of adapting quickly to emerging platforms—from Apple Arcade to UEFN—Goat Gaming is at the cutting edge of game development and distribution." - @deantak
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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. 👇🏻. 1/20.
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🚨🚨🚨 Huuuuge annoucement! 🚨🚨🚨.@playgoatgaming has gone from 0 to 1.1M users in 3 1/2 weeks. Strap yourselves in because we have a STACKED lineup of games, social quests, and giveaways coming over the next few weeks. LFGOAT!
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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 🧵 👇🏻. 1/13.
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Nice to featured by our friends at @Cointelegraph.
⚡️INSIGHT: @playgoatgaming is set to launch AI agents to play games for you in February. Gamers can now get AI agents to pay and win crypto on their behalf. [Cointelegraph Magazine]
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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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The best take I've seen on AI and how things are likely to play out post DeepSeek.
1/ On Infinite Inference. I used to be a good amateur photographer. A long time ago, a friend was worried that the cycle of growth in hard drives was coming to an end. I asked him why? . "Well, my business documents are only 5 GB or whatever - isn't my 30 GB drive enough?".
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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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S-tier analysis from @CelticMatheus.
The goal of this AI is simple: to make money for you, passively!. You might be wondering, “How does it work?” It’s super easy!. Goat Gaming has a casual gaming platform with lots of games where you can earn money by playing and staking against other players. This AI will play
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Slack, Discord, Flickr, Unity, AppLovin. What do they all have in common? They started off as pure-play game dev studios before becoming category-defining companies in entirely new verticals. Expect AI Agents to follow the same playbook. Why game teams? They're masters at.
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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. ). 1/18
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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! 👇🏻🧵. 1/40.
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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. 🧵👇🏻. 1/23.
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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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Mighty Bear Games 2024 in Review. Feel free to share your thoughts below 👇.
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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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Love what @gabusch and @YieldGuild are doing and making a difference to people's lives. Was also nice to see a little sneaky shot of @PlayMightyHero in there!.
What if you didn’t have to leave home to achieve your dreams?.What if you didn’t have to sacrifice what matters most to find better opportunities?. The Metaverse Filipino Worker (MFW) short film features inspiring stories of Filipinos from different walks of life—gamers,
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gm today I'm taking another step toward becoming a Singapore Permanent Resident 🇸🇬🥰.
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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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@yungchomsky this is such a bleak indicator of how the baking system fails to meet the needs the most vulnerable.
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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 👇🏻🧵. 1/16.
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You are not freaking ready anon. Strap yourselves in!.
What if you could own a gaming champion that competes, creates, and earns for you 24/7?. Introducing AlphaGOATs—AI agents that redefine the future of gaming 🎮. Limited spots. Register NOW 👇.
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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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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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@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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I hope you've found this thread helpful. Follow me @skilllevel7 for more. Like/Retweet the first tweet below if you can:. 22/22.
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 🧵. 1/22.
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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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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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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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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. 1/5.
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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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@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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🚨 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!. 1/4.
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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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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). 1/26.
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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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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.@playgoatgaming retention after 3 weeks is over 40%. Typically games with 3 week retention at 15-20% are considered to be doing very well. What the team has built is blowing industry benchmarks out of the water. Incredibly proud.
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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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Kitty Solitaire is now on @playgoatgaming and it’s frikkin awesome. It’s like Solitaire but you get to smash your enemies! This marks the first game of what is going to be a packed October. LFGOAT!
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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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