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building fun • @d20_labs, ex-@zynga web3 spinout • @visitsugartown • 戦え
San Francisco
Joined April 2009
For me, the most bullish announcement from @frankdegods and @delabsxyz was sunsetting the points parlor. Takes strength to recognize when a product isn't achieving desired results and a lot more courage to kill it. Bet on teams with conviction to experiment. Hi @y00tsNFT fam
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Web3 is a fast moving space. Metas change daily and weekly — even in bear markets and crypto winters. To keep up with the pace, every team need 3 things: . 1/ Product and development expertise.2/ Native web3 acumen.3/ Ability to move fast and experiment. Our team has decades of.
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Lets drop some Sugartown alpha. If you haven’t heard yet, Sugartown was created by us at Zynga, yes that Zynga. Lots of things brewing and announcements will be coming, but since the community is so active today, I’ll fill the gap for our new friends. Lets go 👇. Where’s the
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I'm excited to welcome @acollnft to the Zynga Web3 Gaming fam as our new Product Community Manager. I've chatted with Acoll for awhile now and have so much respect for her presence and contribution to the space. The Sugartown Community just got even stronger. Welcome Acoll!!
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Sugartown. ⚡️ Set vision for the long term.⚡️ Plan for the mid term.⚡️ Execute in the short term.⚡️ Learn and adapt, always. We're here to build.
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Builders supporting builders. Hi @shanicucic96, how'd I do? Tell me this jira doesnt look like my ora though.
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Have you been tracking Sugartown? You should. 1/ Under 3 months since doxxed as Zynga.2/ Under 2 months since Free Mint.3/ Tested 3 game events.4/ Revealed 2 weeks ago.5/ All holders get game access next week.6/ Game 2 launching after. This is still only Chapter 0? .We cookin'
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Sugartown's next game: All Time Heights. Objectives with game #2.1/ Launch a fully 3D game.2/ Experiment chill gameplay.3/ Bring a beloved IP into web3. Staying true to our vision to build, explore, and expand web3 gaming with the Sugartown IP. Sugartown Chapter 0 continues.
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Web3 KOLs be fudding all day until I post a job listing then start spamming my DMs.
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I just want to take a second and give Camol some roses for grinding day after day, going well beyond his job description, constantly challenging ideas + bringing new ones to the table, talking daily with their community members to onboard them, and helping grow Sugartown's.
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gm. what an amazing few days as we wrap up the first week after doxxing. we're excited to keep telling our story to surprise and delight the community in the weeks to come. STAY TUNED ⚡️⚡️⚡️
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gmgm, only 1 out of 3 of the statements below is true. 1/ eth is going to 0.2/ water is wet.3/ sugartown community is strong af
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Timing is always tricky with web3, development, and big news. We are extremely excited for the update, but hit an unexpected roadblock. The community has always been patient. The community continues to be patient. We recognize, appreciate, and are grateful for the patience. Bet.
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It’s amazing to see all the new holders and community members in Sugartown. But — the job’s not done yet. Say it with me, Sugartown is the alpha.
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Congrats on the successful launch of $MOCA @tylerdurden88 and our friends over at Mocaverse!!. Had to put the Moca mask on in support. Looks like a great fit to my Ora.
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Just got off a long call with the Vice President of Web3 at Zynga, Take-Two Interactive and he's excited about 2024 for @visitsugartown. Bullish.
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Sugartown's Growth engine is always improving. First Community Captains and next?. PCM, our first Product Community Manager. A unique, new role on Zynga Web3 Gaming who will be the bridge between the community and game operations. Excited to announce who they are on Monday.
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SUGARTOWN ORAS mints tomorrow. Can't wait to start Chapter 0, LFG
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Camol told me we need more IP touchpoints so here it is:. SUGARTOWN'S NEXT CHAPTER IS COMING. 1/ New Product.2/ New Systems.3/ New Rewards.4/ New Partners.5/ Same Killer Team. Thanks for joining tongo's 3 seconds ted talk.
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Mobile games’ dev cycles used to be 6 months. Today? 18+ for dev and 6+ for testing. Sugartown delivered a lot in 6 months, here’s what’s next before our 1 year:.1/ Cross community play.2/ A game that will hit PMF .3/ L2. Summer is coming, we are coming, and we don’t miss.
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To the current and future Oras. I know it's quiet.I know there are expectations.But I also know we will exceed them once we are able to reveal. We only have one chance at perception for each market deliverable and we'll get it right. So thanks again as always for sticking with.
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Social casino games are on track to make $8b in 2024 and growing to $12b within the next 4 years. Our space is in need of a sticky product that works for online (web2), offline (IRL), and onchain (web3) players. RNPC is here to pioneer social gaming and contribute to the wider.
Introducing the worldwide release of Royal Nutz Poker Club, D20's first social casino poker game - built on Base and optimized for both Web and Mobile experiences ♣️♦️♥️♠️. RNPC will be the first multi-table poker championship game brought onchain, powered by sponsorships.
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Hot take: web3 gaming will take off when we move away from farming. If farming is the primary use case - the game, the product, and the fun become secondary. This creates a negative behaviour cycle and will lead the game to death when the farming ends. Web3 gaming becomes
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Super excited for this partnership with APECHAIN and @apecoin. This partnership signals our big step into bringing the entire web3 space together and into RNPC. For a long time now, NFT holders have gotten utility from their respective projects. Today we bring utility not just.
Royal Nutz Poker Club x APECHAIN by @apecoin ♠️. We are thrilled to announce Royal Nutz Poker Club will be open to all $APE holders, with specific boosts for apes who hold their $APE on APECHAIN. Rewarding play for everyone who has a seat at the table is on the horizon. More
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A project's vision, products, and growth are only as good as the team. And to succeed in web3, the team needs to fully understand the space, the nuances, and most importantly the culture. Sugartown puts action above words -- our latest move? Onboarding @Web3Adam to our team.
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Should I start a tweet series on web2 game analytics and their relevancy to web3 products?.
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Happy 1 year mintaversary to @visitsugartown's Oras. What started as a free mint has formed into such a fun community of believers in Sugartown. Excited to continue building out our ecosystem, innovate on some cool shit, and expand the community. ♣️♦️♥️♠️
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Gm. I sent a corporate email reporting on the current state of the market and project. It felt a little too bullish so I signed the email at the end:. NFA,.Tommy. It was to our exec team. AMA.
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You can't build a great architecture on a weak foundation. Creating a great, long-term product requires having the right building blocks. Today marks the first building block for @visitsugartown with our staking launch. warning, real-in game image below
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Been seeing the sugartown team get more active in the space, engaging with communities, and all growing. I’m failing the team if I can’t do the same. Tongo’s education arc is now loading. Will write about web2 scale + web3 theses. More to come, lmk what else to write.
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Web3 is about supporting other true builders and our friends at Animoca have been a pillar in helping move the space forward. Both @mwolf and I are extremely excited to be joining the Mocaverse community and watching the future unfold. And name a better duo than my moca + ora
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All Time Heights event is now live. ✔️Said game would be chill, we delivered.✔️ Said we'll experiment a new reward structure, we delivered.✔️ Said we'll listen to the community, we did. Actions > Words. Sugartown is the alpha.
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One of the best feelings in the world? . Seeing your product, game being enjoyed by players. NGMI Alpha Event 1 hour in and I'm so happy to see folks like the game. 🥹
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Gmgm, would love to personally commission artists to draw a few Oras. Who's your favorite web3 artist?? HMU
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Gaming is cyclical and a new vertical emerges every decade. Once the industry gets saturated, new tech brings in new gamers. 1990s/ Console gaming.2000s/ PC online gaming.2010s/ Mobile Gaming.2020s/ Web3 gaming. Gaming's next big growth will be from web3. Sugartown is coming.
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Mobile games just aren't real games tbh. 1/ Mobile makes up over 50% of all of gaming revenues. 2/ The #1 grossing mobile game in 2012 made $300k per day. In 2024, $4m+ per day. 3/ Casino and poker genre in mobile games generate $10b per year. Mobile gaming really is dying.
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When the world zigs, you zag. That's conviction. Breaking paradigms, creating new norms, lead and not follow. That's what Sugartown is about, and that's what the team is best at. Locked in.
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ORA PFP change imminent when I finally choose my forever Ora 🥹. But before I swap my PFP, I wanted to show this amazing piece @kamogawayuka created for me and my best friend. Joey was so special to me and Yuka captured his essence perfectly. <3
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OMFG I’m so stoked, so I got way to excited and called my doctor I said listen maaan, this Sugartown thing it has me so pumped. I eat Sugartown, I speak Sugartown, I dream Sugartown. Sugartown is life man. I threw everything out for Sugartown.
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Web3 is an attention economy with zero sum liquidity. Increasing an ecosystem’s supply typically hurts the floor of their existing collections. What if there was a way to build demand, grow a player base, reward holders, all while not falling into this trap? Learn how 👇
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shoutout to @ohDotss for a dope experience with Augmints szn 3! . got to pair my kaiju with a jolly rogers captainz hat 🏴☠️.#kingzontop
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Gm. Over 50% of jobs/roles are filled through referrals. If you're not building a network, you're cutting your chances down by half. Align yourself with people you admire, want to work with, want to work for, want to learn from.
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SUGARTOWN. @mwolf and I are looking forward to talking all things ZW3, Sugartown, and web3 gaming with @waleswoosh and @shivst3r . See ya'll there 🫡.
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An omni-chain open edition? SHEESH. Congrats to @ohDotss and the Kaiju team on their launch!! This team has been delivering so much innovation to the space and is often overlooked. Minted, ready, and excited for Journals of Stod 🦖🫡.
KAIJU ORIGINS: The Journals of Stod. The Replicator drop to begin your adventure is now LIVE and can be minted for only the next 48hrs at:.
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In web3 - your exp doesn't matter, your resume doesn't matter, your accomplishments don't matter. But your oversimplified tweets do matter. That's a problem in our space. We need to support real builders, empower them to experiment, and put our liquidity where our mouth is.
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Love seeing fantasy top get the much deserved love and traction. But while the game is well made and fun, it points to a core problem we have in the space -- all of our products and use cases are tailored ONLY to web3 natives. Want to play fantasy top? .1/ Understand crypto.
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Today we updated our smart contract to show your Oras in your wallet even when staked. Not only is this cool to see them, but also in real time help other platforms reference them for utility — like Nifty or Opensea’s unique holder count. Blockchain is undeniably amazing.
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Ideas? Dime a dozen. Building something great is about execution and vision. Sugartown wouldn't be here without the amazing effort of the ZW3 team.
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Another exciting announcement we're stoked to go deeper into. Our parternships with RNPC aren't always at the surface level like a typical collaboration. We explore deeper, more meaningful conversations when working with web3 projects. We had an opportunity to see PV team has.
Royal Nutz Poker Club x Pixel Vault ♠️. We are thrilled to announce RNPC will be open to $GG holders, with specific boosts based on the amount of $GG tokens held. Stay tuned for official announcements on deeper tech integrations in addition to $GG rewards pool. /all_in 😈
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So much respect for @NFT1nsight and what Chimpers has done in the space. An OG team, project, and community that has shipped a ton since inception in 2022. We're excited to not just bring Chimpers to the table, but continue our deeper collab strategy by cross-pollinating every.
Royal Nutz Poker Club x Chimpers ♠️. We are excited to announce our partnership with Chimpers, an established community with a massively scaled Web2 IP. Royal Nutz Poker Club will be open to all Chimpers holders, and Chimpers Collectible Card Packs will be part of the rewards
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Conviction. Motivation. Purpose. Fear. Stress. Excitement. All of it is needed for success, you just need to be ready for them. I'm ready, I'm locked in.
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It all started in January 2022, we were looking for a marketing hire at Sugartown. Marketing NFTs is hard, but marketing NFTs while inside a publicly traded company is a near impossible task. That’s when I saw a job application that piqued my interest. Someone that had
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It's almost time. We're about to go nutz.
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3 days of GDC and dozens of meetings wrapped up. Should we recap in the next crystal cabal spaces?
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So proud of the Sugartown team and so excited for next week. All Holders access is the start of another beginning for Sugartown. We're builders, creators, and we love delivering products. Don't just listen to us, watch us.
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RNPC just wrapped up its first tournament and I am buzzing. Mostly because of how incredibly proud I am of the team and their relentlessness to their visions. This first event is our early build to showcase the the first onchain multi-table tournament poker game. The event will
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Gm. Respect and conviction are needed for a team to work well together. Without it, the vision becomes blurry and execution becomes messy. Create a team you respect and members that respects you.
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Love the idea. Copying and started a new wallet to send $100 to whoever knocks @moocookiie or @acollnft out of our grand opening tournament. 0x772309EE00362A028bcc6aCade3976738960931F.
I don't know what these rock shaped prize things are but I do know that I am going to go out of my way to knock @camolNFT out of the @visitsugartown tournament and then post about it nonstop. I heard someone might even put a bounty on him just to make things fun.
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Jpeganomics > Dripanomics. iykyk.
Sugartown Oras Jpeganomics. Details of our mint supply, reserves, and community expansion plans 👇
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6 tournaments, 84 oras, sugartown only for phase 1. GLHF.
The doors to Royal Nutz Poker Club are open EXCLUSIVELY to Ora holders ♣️. Register now for your seat at the table. Our Ora exclusive event will be available on both desktop and mobile browser. Players can participate in up to 6 tournaments, with two main events, between 10/18
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KPI tip and share for creators building a competitive game. You'll get the best retention if your players' win/loss ratio is between 45%-55%. This has been proven time and time again in several games and AB tests with 99% statistical significance. Want to win? Study data.
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The best advice I can give any current or aspiring product managers; know your users, know your industry. You can’t build what you don’t understand. Our team buys and researches jpegs, coins, and ordinals/runes -- both for the culture and to learn what's new. Data is alpha.
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Web3 gaming is about value first, gameplay second. If the game focuses on the inverse, you are now competing with web2 publishers. Value is what brings people to crypto, NFTs, and web3 gaming. Potential value = hook.Fun gameplay = engagement .Rewards = retention.
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Here at @visitsugartown, we don't just invest time and effort into the project, we want to support and show love to the community too. @camolNFT always expressed this importance daily so one his fun ideas was creating gifs for holders. W. Have fun with your very own @DWebbs1 !!
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I'm so tired of hearing "how do we onboard ppl into web3". I get it, we want exit liquidity. But this is why non natives see the space in such a negative light. The question should instead be: how does web3 and blockchain meaningfully elevate an existing experience like gaming?.
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.@moocookiie has returned from vacation for about 4 days now and @camolNFT has lost in every single poker playtest since. Coincidence or correlation?
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