Ep. 60: Blockchain gaming and play-to-earn game economies

Is Blockchain Gaming the next big thing?

Khaled Alroumi (Game designer at Illuvium) thinks so! Adopting the Play-To-Earn format, Alroumi and his team are on the verge of creating an open world RPG that exists on Ethereum blockchain.

Alroumi joins Tom this week to answer some perplexing questions on blockchain gaming and play-to-earn game economies.

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1:19 How did Khaled Alroumi get into the video game industry?

3:43 How do you make money from “Play-To-Earn”?

9:25 Do Block Chain Transactions make a game “Play-To-Earn”?

14:32 Economy Design for Play-To-Earn games.

18:41 Reselling items within Play-To-Earn Games.

21:47 Paying Your Studio Employees through the Marketplace approach in Play-To-Earn games.

27:50 Accidentally Tanking Your Game’s Economy.

30:26 What will LiveOps look like moving forward in the Play-To-Earn genre?

32:34 Is Block Chain necessary, trendy, or both?

37:05 Can Play-To-Earn exist across all Genres of gaming?

38:37 What are the most important things to consider when starting a gaming studio?

39:41 How to keep more playing around longer.