The Fang Report #3: What problems may Gamefi run into in the Future?
The Dev blog has revealed some key new insights and we have the debate of the Century. I want to use that discussion to analyse potential issues in Web 3 Gaming as whole.
July is coming to an end and currently there seems to be a lot of quiet building from not only Illuvium but many other Gamefi and Crypto projects. As the world waits on the sidelines as different countries suffer extreme inflation everyone is being more cautious with their funds
In this newsletter I have some really interesting topics to cover:
The Illuvium Dev Blog came out and as always it absolutely crushed it. I am going to quickly discuss the timelines and where things could be at
ETH Has had some nice rallies and I want to discuss what I am looking for in the coming months in the Crypto markets.
Lastly we experienced an epic Debate between Michael Wagner and Kieran Warwick as founders from the top 2 Gamefi projects debate the future of Web 3.0 and their individual projects.
We will cover all of that here and more so please keep reading. I am excited to share this journey with you.
Illuvium Timelines
The Illuvium June Dev Blog is out and here is what AARON had to say.
Before we go on you can find the Dev Blog here: https://medium.com/illuvium/illuvium-dev-blog-june-2022-f995873349e2
There is so much to unpack here but I am going to save you some time and give you the cliff notes. Firstly with the big survival mode upgrade (PB2: Arena) we learn that checkpoints AND Interest will be coming to it, this is on top of augments and most of the T0 illuvials and beyond, once this launches the survival mode will be unrecognisable. For those unfamiliar augments will play similar to items in an autobattler like TFT (without the bs RNG) and interest will play similar. Essentially you will be rewarded for making your life harder through careful strategy and gameplay. I am very excited to stream more often on my twitch and YouTube.
https://www.twitch.tv/scoriox
Not much was said about the overworld but Grant revealed in a recent interview that plants will be able to attack you. He also discussed the current systems for the capturing workflow and the amount of strategy that will be involved is a breath of fresh air. Adding elements of greed to the systems where players choose to risk it all for the better outcomes will certainly only add value to the NFTs people will gain from playing the overworld. This is all a giant step forwards and I know they aren’t done yet. You can catch the interview here:
They have almost readied Illuvium Zero, its hard to say where this is at. With Illuvitars they are adding nice new features to the Illuvidex, we do not yet know what. They will also add functionality for transferring Illuvitars to other wallets, I point this out because IMX hasn’t even added this to their own marketplace, its good initiative for the communities benefit.
This brings me to the important highlight.
There’s a lot that can be taken from this. The first thing is this makes me believe in an August release of PB2 (Arena), based on Kieran’s comments in the debate I may even say early August. This would also place Illuvitars in late August or early September and then the overworld beta sometime in September in my mind. The most confusing component here is actually the Illuvium Zero Alpha version. I expected this to come before Illuvitars and still expect it before September.
By this logic it leads me to guess that we could obtain 3 things all in August or this list will be moved around a little bit with Illuvium Zero instead coming after the Arena PB2. Ultimately I expect September to be a huge month for Illuvium one way or the other. My hopes for big things happening in August are mostly hopium but I say if we don’t get at least one of these releases it would be incredibly unusual. Either way now I have a month to continue stacking USDC and ETH and staking as much as possible.