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Solana Saga Mobile Game Moon Boi Universe CEO INTERVIEW · The Paul Barron Crypto Show

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  All right, so let's dive into a little bit of mobile gaming today.
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  We'll be breaking down a special project and looking at where mobile gaming could be
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  going. My name is Paul Berre. Welcome back in the tech path.
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  As you guys know, we've been tracking a lot of what's been happening in
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  the mobile gaming space for quite some time. One of the areas we of
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  course always talk about is Solana's mobile devices, because the mobile devices typically for
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  mobile gaming could really accelerate in the Web three side. And whether we'll see
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  a mobile device coming out of Chapter two or not is still I think a
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  speculative thing. We'll probably get a question mark on that today. So we
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  did a video. You guys may have remembered this video. We were looking
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  at Solana start startups and this was one that we liked. It was the
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  Moonboy universe. You probably remember some of the deep planned projects, and we
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  rated the Moonboy project as one to really take a look at a little deeper.
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  So we thought, hey, let's get them on the show and actually
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  dive in a little deeper. So I want to bring into the show right
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  now. MS from Momboy Studio. Hey, great to see you, Hi,
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  Pool. Thank you for having me appreciate it. So ems let's go
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  into a little bit about the project, the size of your team, give
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  us kind of a framework or where you guys are today. So I would
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  say that we're still at the prototype stage. The chosen approach is to building
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  the open and what that means is basically ensuring that there's always an element of
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  the game that is playable and available to the public. We have a team
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  of ten and we've been building for coming up two years now. You look
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  at what some of the popular games are out there and what you guys are
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  doing some of the most popular blockchain games. This is May twenty twenty four.
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  Pixels very similar, I guess to a certain extent, explain the differences
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  between what momeboy is going to be doing Moonboy Universe versus something like what we've
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  seen out there with Pixels. I think personally, the thing that sets us
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  apart is the story element, the deeper side to the characters, the deeper
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  side to what we're aiming to do. We call it Universe simply because it's
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  going to be ever expansive. We can always add more and more to it.
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  And I feel a lot of people and rightly, so I don't have
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  anything against it. They've tried to capitalize on this Web three boom where I
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  saw an opportunity to really create something long lasting for players. I'm really coming
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  at this from the player's angle as opposed to just the studio angle, and
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  I think that's what really separates us from the rest. You look at this
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  and the potential of expanding the NFT side of things, and I want to
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  talk a little bit about the idea behind hybrid NFTs, the difference between a
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  regular NFT, which is speculative value, and a hybrid NFT, which is
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  still technically speculative, however, it has an intrinsic value attached to it from
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  square one. So it is created with a amount of tokens attributed to it
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  from square one, and it creates a beautiful conundrum. Whereas before you would
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  launch an NFT and it would be down to popularity, community, a whole
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  host of things behind it, right as to the reason why the price of
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  this NFT would go up and down. Now with a live token associated that,
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  the NFT pricing will be strongly based with how well that token's doing.
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  But the difference is sentiment is still involved. There will still be features and
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  traits that exist within these NFTs that will now play on the mind as to
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  how they're going to be valued. And if I told you I knew this
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  was going to work for I'll be absolutely lying. I saw something great,
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  I saw something new, and I said, let's run, let's see what
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  happens. Let's see what happens exactly. And I love it to see that.
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  But hey, that's how innovation has done, man, So good for
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  you. Let's talk a little bit about the Tante Tooken or the tent token.
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  Explain the relationship. Yeah, explain the relationship. Go a little bit
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  deeper on that one. Yeah. So thent T is just shortened from authenticate.
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  The ticker is T and T. There's several reasons for that T and
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  T because it sounds cool, like blowing up like T and T. But
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  also I was originally born in Trinidad and Tobago. So that's a little secret
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  one for your for your followers, your subscribers, and it's actually built into
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  the law of moon Boy universe. And this is what I mean about story.
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  We could have easily called the token moon or moon Boy, and I
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  thought, well, it's it's a bit obviously. Sometimes obvious is good.
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  Yeah, sometimes obvious is good. But for this, you know thent T
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  is actually part It's set in the future. It's a cyberpunk setting, and
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  authenticators within the game are machines that authenticate higher value forms of power within the
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  game. So if you have normal energy things called blocks within the game,
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  you can power so weapons, but anti powered items are generally more valuable.
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  Let's talk about memes, because memes are really flying right now. We've seen
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  mean tokens, mean cultures. Do you feel like this is a critical component.
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  It's not the only element of the culture, but I think it's an
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  important one. This is how this world communicates through memes, through jokes,
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  easily shareable pieces of content that are enjoyable. And I think it's no different
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  to how the user may consume Instagram or TikTok But with this there is more
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  behind it. And you mentioned anime. I remember when I was growing up,
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  anime was very niche as you might say, or much as we would
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  say over here, and you know I could only access it. I remember
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  watching Sky and they would show like one anime really really late night that you'd
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  had to stay up, or if you had a cousin and that was in
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  the US. To get it in the UK you had it on like VHS
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  and then you've got access that way. Now it's openly accessible. You know,
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  Netflix and Amazon are fully streaming anime all day long now, and of
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  course you've got sites, massive sites like Country Role that are making anime more
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  accessible. And I think that NFTs are going to be here to stay because
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  whether people realize it or not, there is value in digital assets. Digital
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  is the future and they are going to overlap more and more as we go
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  forward. Yeah, tokenized assets, I think once we see mainstream realizing the
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  connectivity points and then you tie that into in game assets, digital assets that
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  are more on the creative and entertainment space, people will start to understand that,
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  especially from a collectible community side, as we see a lot of that
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  kind of growth. What about you talk about these kind of cultures that have
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  been ingrained in society. Pokemon obviously one of the leading out there. What
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  about a Pokemon catching element within this in terms of the gameplay, Pokemon was
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  one of the biggest inspirations for this game. So there's a few games that
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  I will talk to death about because of the impact that they had upon me,
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  Pokemon being one of them, more specifically Pokemon Red and Pokemon Silver and
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  Final Fantasy and RuneScape. So if you are fans of any of those games,
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  you will be able to see those within the DNA of moon Boy universe,
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  and just like any fan, you want to pay, you know,
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  ode to these games that came before and hopefully add something a bit extra,
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  and then beyond that, hopefully inspire the next generation of gamers to say,
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  look, I really enjoyed that. Now I want to go and create something
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  really coolant that's it iOS and Android rollouts. What's the timeline here potentially getting
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  the games within those ecosystems. So we've actually been pre approved for both and
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  we've been testing on both for quite a while for a few months. However,
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  the legal tease around the acceptance of crypto payments within these games, and
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  then you've got to think about where rated Peggy seven, which is basically family
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  friendly. However, if you start talking payment and transactions, we need to
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  make sure that that is introduced in a safe way, right, especially when
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  you're introducing non adults to this type of world, and I don't think it's
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  going to be any very much different to what's going on now. I just
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  think that web three has this thing where it loves to turn its back on
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  everything that's simple and tries to over complicate the things that should be simple.
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  Yeah, and I really, I really approached this by trying to make things
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  as simple as possible. So we aim to be on both Apple and Google
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  Play Store before the end of What about in chapter two something like what you
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  guys are doing with moon Boy and t and tea, Why not? I
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  think that's definitely possible. I think following the footsteps of Bunk. Shout out
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  to Bunk. They were one of our earliest sponsors, and I feel what
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  they've done really well is make sure that they integrate with as many different deapps
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  as possible, making themselves as accessible to as many different people from as many
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  different defied communities as possible and in a fun way. And I don't see
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  FENTE being any different from that. We may double down more on gaming focus
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  projects, but it's beyond Moonboy universe. That's the beautiful thing about tokens.
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  You know it can exist outside of the game. Yes, it will be
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  part of our in game economy, but why are we going to restrict that.
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  I don't plan to do that at all. I want to get your
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  take on this AMS and this is the device because we haven't Solana hasn't really
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  revealed that this is a phone yet. What about if it were something like
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  what we've seen out there with Suie. I think I've got a tweet on
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  that one. What about that something like that from Solana? What do you?
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  What are your thoughts? See, I'm in a really lucky position since
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  I've spoken to both the Solana Mobile team and the Suite team with regards to,
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  you know, these upcoming things. So Solana Mobile, we're actually already
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  focused on Solana Mobile and we're part of the d app store. They've got
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  one hundred thousand sign ups for part two. I mean that's the last time
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  I checked. It's probably way higher now, but that's exposure there, and
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  they're trying to Yeah, they're trying to go along a similar path to a
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  traditional app store. I know they recently just announced, for instance, that
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  you can now rate different apps within their de app store, which is great.
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  Sweet is going hard down the gaming route, which is of course is
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  you know, attractive to a game studio like us, right, which is
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  why we were having the conversations as what does that actually look like? And
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  I think there's legs on both. However, I will say this, Solana
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  Mobile, if you're talking about being a suit a serious competitor with other mobile
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  phones, devoid of just the Web three aspect, that is a much,
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  I believe, a much deeper hill to climb. Don't get me wrong.
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  Game is highly competitive as well. I just feel like there's a lot more
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  tolerance for new gaming consoles and a lot more people will be willing to try
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  it just offhand rather than gaining a new phone. But that's just my We'll
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  see how well. I mean we you know, we kind of have a
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  running bet here in our own studio around what that device is going to be
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  because we're not really sure it's going to be truly a phone just yet,
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  and if there's enough gaming interest, I think in Web three, by the
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  time it rolls out, it'll be tied into it. I'm looking at some
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  of the architecture you guys are putting within the game. You've got tensor HQ
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  there. We saw the bomb brands, other things that would start to look
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  at almost like product placements, so to speak, within the game. Itself.
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  What's that process look like? This is for me, one of the
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  first steps in true interoperability, and it starts with before you even and put
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  any pixels down, It's starting with the attitude towards building. There's something I've
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  I've called digital billboarding, and it's a natural way of including brands within a
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  game, but in a less intrusive way than pop up ads. Will it
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  work? Once again, I'm jumping in and just going for it. We'll
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  see, yeah, we'll see you. I'll give you example. I'll give
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  you one quick example. So I spoke to a guy at a networking event
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  and he works with an airport. And one of the things that you always
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  come across in role playing games is spas travel. Generally, the digital space
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  is so big to travel and the character can only move at a certain speed
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  unless they adopt a certain vehicle or some type of transportation. Fast travel allows
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  a player to pay, whether it be gold coins, whether that has I
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  r L value or not, to get from one place to another place faster.
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  So I said, for instance, if we were going to take your
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  brand and introduce it, we would have an airport service where the player could
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  and then you can take a quick flight literally like that to another area within
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  the game, and it's it doesn't need to be complicated, it just needs
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  to be open to that idea. You know. That's a great one.
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  That's a good example, I think, because that's that's some of the things
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  that I think we're starting to see more and more openness coming into the game
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  devs. I mean, we talked to him all the time and talk to
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  Corey quite a bit from Honeyland, and he's always got some interesting takes on
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  it because he kind of comes from the Web two space and he's doing a
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  lot within that area. I want to I want to get and get a
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  little bit of an insight on the roadmap going forward. Give me a couple
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  of things. Can you throw me a couple of teasers of what you guys
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  are working on coming up? Yeah, So we've got our NFT and Token
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  launch towards the end of June and the July that we're aiming for, and
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  we're also working on a new mini game which is loosely based on Rock,
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  Paper Scissors, and we're really excited about that one because it gives it once
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  again another genre and another genre a time to I'm within our game, so
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  I'm looking forward to that as well. Like hey, Ams, it's been
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  good having you on. We always love to get creators on here, especially
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  game devs. Is really understanding the mindset of where this is going. I
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  think this is a it's a market that is on the cusp of explosions.
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  So good luck to everything you're doing there. Thanks for coming on, Thank
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  you very much for having me, and I look forward to your future shows
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