My involvement and engagement with games. These are, of course, a selection of the salient, and are not meant to be exhaustive.
DOING
- Game Designer @ Limit Break, a Paradigm-backed Games company (200M fundraised)
- Metaversus: a Substack with >1800 subscribers on Game Design, Frontier Technologies x Gaming
- Blockchain Gaming focused Twitter (>14K followers, focused on blockchain / future of gaming content)
- Game7 DAO Contributor
DID
- Delphi Digital Gaming Citadel (Research, & Investment in blockchain game companies — Tatsumeeko (VentureBeat), Spectarium (VentureBeat), Jungle (VentureBeat)
- Wrote various thought leadership pieces / research articles on gaming (Sustainable Web3 Game Economies Is a Cursed Problem, Rise of Kingdoms: What Does It Feel Like To Be King?, STEPN Sprinting Away, Star Atlas – The Most Ambitious Blockchain Game, The Future of (Crypto) Gaming, not exhaustive)
- Built voice games (Karaoke Quiz @ Volley, YCW18) (QuizLah at Hack&Roll 2021)
- Trained speech-to-text wake-word detection models — using convolutional neural nets on spectrogram data, at GovTech Singapore
- Speaker at various conferences re: building web3 game economies / transitioning from web2 to web3. (Binance Blockchain Week, Google x Deconstructor of Fun Istanbul Gaming Event, Gam3r Forum @ UC Berkeley, 3XP @ Pasadena).
- First gameplay engineer & game designer for a play-and-earn game. (peaked at 4M ARR with 5,000 users)
- Awarded multiple prizes @ an ETHGlobal hackathon for building an on-chain cyberpunk game. (Best Gaming, Best Hack on Polygon, etc)
- Economy design, web3 strategy & game design consulting & advising for various established game companies moving into web3.
- Articles on game design (Among Us – A Game Designer’s Perspective, Cat and Mouse Games: A Genre (Game Design)
- Cyberpunk Twine Game (Paranoid Android)
- Games in Unity (aPOPcalypse) (Unity Certified Game Developer)
- Gitcoin Quests: Come to Consensus
PARTICIPATED
- ELVTR’s Game Production Course.
- Gitcoin’s KERNEL Block 4.
PLAYING
- A lot of games for research while at Limit Break 🙂
- Diablo 4
- Starcraft II
- Rimworld
- DotA 2
- Diablo Immortal
PLAYED
- Open World: Cyberpunk 2077, Shadow of Mordor
- Card games: Hearthstone, Duel Masters, Gods Unchained
- Sandbox, Sims: Minecraft, Rimworld, Game Dev Tycoon, Zoo Tycoon, The Sims (mobile, etc)
- RTS: Starcraft II (peak: Master’s League Terran/Protoss/Random in SEA and US server, current Master’s 2v2), Starcraft: Brood War (Protoss, Terran), Age of Empires (and expansions), Command and Conquer, C&C Rivals, Stormgate
- Tactics: XCOM 2, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Fire Emblem, XCOM: Chimera Squad, Into the Breach
- Shooters: CS: GO, Valorant, Splitgate, Halo series, Call of Duty series, Helldivers 2
- VR: Beat Saber, Pavlov, MotherGunShip, Population: One
- 4X and Grand Strategy: Stellaris, Crusader Kings II, Crusader Kings III, Civilization II, III, IV, V, VI, Old World
- Not-so-grand Strategy: Chess, Checkers, Go
- Action RPG: Diablo III, II (Path of Diablo), Diablo II: Resurrected, Diablo Immortal, Path of Exile
- MMORPGs: MapleStory, World of Warcraft: Shadowlands (Mage), World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (led 25 man raids, GDKP and on) (Mage), Cataclysm (led 25 man raids) – (Hunter), Battle for Azeroth (Hunter), Monster & Me, Cabal Online, Guild Wars 2, Water Margin Online, Monster & Me
- Roguelites: FTL, Into the Breach, Crypt of the Necrodancer, Dead Cells, SNKRX, Hades, Slay the Spire, Vampire Survivors
- Tower Defense: Element Tower Defense, Sunken Defense, Desktop Tower Defense… etc (played hundreds of variations), Wintermaul TD, Legion TD, Heroic Origins Galaxy TD (most recently), etc etc
- Idle Games: Tap Titans, Swarm Sim
- Mobile: Clash of Clans, Boom Beach, Clash Royale, Mobile Legends, Archero, Everdale, Command and Conquer: Rivals, Rise of Kingdoms, Game of War, a lot of other games (for research @ Limit Break that I won’t list :-))
- Pet Raising: Digimon World, Digimon World 2, Insaniquarium series, Monster Rancher 1 & 2, Axie Infinity
- Pokemon: Red, Yellow, Blue, Gold, Silver, Crystal, Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, Fire Red, Leaf Green, Diamond, Pearl, Black, White, Sword, Mystery Dungeon series, Go, Unite, various ROM hacks
- Countless more…