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

<p>Is Blockchain Gaming the next big thing? </p><p>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. </p><p>Alroumi joins Tom this week to answer some perplexing questions on blockchain gaming and play-to-earn game economies.</p><p>Here are your cheat codes:</p><p>1:19 How did Khaled Alroumi get into the video game industry?</p><p>3:43 How do you make money from “Play-To-Earn”?</p><p>9:25 Do Block Chain Transactions make a game “Play-To-Earn”?</p><p>14:32 Economy Design for Play-To-Earn games.</p><p>18:41 Reselling items within Play-To-Earn Games.</p><p>21:47 Paying Your Studio Employees through the Marketplace approach in Play-To-Earn games.</p><p>27:50 Accidentally Tanking Your Game’s Economy.</p><p>30:26 What will LiveOps look like moving forward in the Play-To-Earn genre?</p><p>32:34 Is Block Chain necessary, trendy, or both?</p><p>37:05 Can Play-To-Earn exist across all Genres of gaming?</p><p>38:37 What are the most important things to consider when starting a gaming studio?</p><p>39:41 How to keep more playing around longer. </p>