Economics Of Blockchain Gaming And Play-To-Earn

Understanding Business Model and Token Engineering of Play-to-Earn Games including Axie Infinity.

What you'll learn
Economics and Business Model of Blockchain Gaming
How Play-to-Earn platforms create value?
Token Engineering aspects of Play-to-Earn
Sustainability of Play-to-Earn Economics
Requirements
Some basic understanding of web3 will be helpful.
Description
In 2021 blockchain game activity grew by 2000%…yes 2000% and 52% of blockchain activity come from gaming dApps.Now, When it comes to mass adoption of crypto and web3, no other industry is likely to play a more important role than online gaming.Some web3 concepts such as virtual currency ownership, trading of virtual goods, user-generated content, and tokenization already existed in the online gaming world.Another aspect is that the regulatory scrutiny that most applications areas of web3 are exposed to, is virtually non-existent in the case of gaming. So, gaming web3 platforms can scale fairly rapidly without the fear of regulatory interventions.Unlike most other web3 application areas, incumbents are themselves driving the growth of the sector. For example, Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard, one of the biggest California-based video gaming companies in a $68.7 billion dollar deal to build its own Metaverse. Major game publisher Ubisoft launched in-game NFTs.The point is that like any other industry blockchain gaming has challenges but it is most likely the best-positioned sector for mass adoption of blockchain and web3.Now, this course is not about which game tokens to invest in, neither it is about game design or game building. This course is about the economics of blockchain games and more specifically play to earn games.Blockchain games especially play-to-earn game platforms are intricate economies that require special attention from the game builders.This means designing the game economics should involve utmost care and this is what this course is about. Yes, we will discuss some projects in blockchain gaming and play-to-earn but the focus will be on economics.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Who is this course for?

Lecture 3 Course Outline

Section 2: Video Gaming Market Trends

Lecture 4 Video Gaming Market Trends

Section 3: Some Gaming Concepts you need to know

Lecture 5 Pay to Play, Free to Play and Play to Earn

Lecture 6 Gameplays

Lecture 7 Single Player, Multiplayer Games, and Massively Multiplayer Online Games

Lecture 8 User Generated Content

Lecture 9 Metaverse

Lecture 10 Gaming Guilds

Section 4: Some web3 Concepts

Lecture 11 Smart Contracts

Lecture 12 Tokens

Lecture 13 Types of Tokens

Lecture 14 NFTs

Lecture 15 Token Supply

Lecture 16 Token Marketcap

Lecture 17 Minting, Supply, and Burning Schedule

Lecture 18 Liquidity Mining and Yield Farming

Section 5: Primer on Token Engineering

Lecture 19 Intro

Lecture 20 Role of Tokens on Web3 platforms

Lecture 21 Tokens as Payment Instruments

Lecture 22 Tokens to enable Governance Voting

Lecture 23 Tokens that enable tracking of liquidity pool contributions

Lecture 24 Tokens that are staked to mint Synthetic tokens

Lecture 25 Goals of Token Engineering

Lecture 26 Product Goals

Lecture 27 Product Perspective - Behavioral Perspective

Lecture 28 Value Related Goals

Lecture 29 Role of Token Engineering in Platform Design

Section 6: What is Blockchain Gaming?

Lecture 30 Intro

Lecture 31 Benefits of the use of Blockchain

Section 7: Some Blockchain Games

Lecture 32 Huntercoin

Lecture 33 CryptoKitties

Lecture 34 Axie Infinity

Lecture 35 The Sandbox

Section 8: Choices in Blockchain Gaming

Lecture 36 Choice of Gaming Architecture

Lecture 37 Choice of the Blockchain Network

Section 9: What is Play-to-Earn?

Lecture 38 What is Play-to-Earn?

Section 10: Growth drivers for Play-to-Earn Games

Lecture 39 Growth drivers for Play-to-Earn Games

Section 11: Play-to-Earn Business Model and Value Creation

Lecture 40 Play-to-Earn Business Model and Value Creation

Section 12: Thanks

Lecture 41 Thanks

This course is suitable for techies and analysts who want to build and analyze blockchain gaming systems.