All the Ways Crypto Can Make Gaming More Fun Unchained

Marguerite deCourcelle is co-founder and CEO of Blockade Games, which is releasing the role-playing game game Neon District the day this episode comes out. She discusses her background in art, how her love of video games led her to discover Bitcoin in the early days of the cryptocurrency, and how she helps create the next phase of web 3.0 content creation and distribution. Topics include:
how Marguerite became involved in crypto and what led her to co-found Blockade Games
her work on Pineapple Arcade and Plasma Bears
the problems she sees with gaming and how blockchain technology can solve them
how Blockade Games is utilizing blockchain tech
Neon District, a blockchain-based RPG game with active gameplay and animation that uses NFTs and farming
the difference between ERC-721 and ERC-1155 tokens and how each is utilized in Neon District
how they have been marrying NFTs with DeFi through the NIFTEX exchange
how an open economy challenges the dynamics of gameplay and how they account for this in their game design
why a decentralized profile can be so powerful in gaming
the types of users Blockade Games hopes to attract with Neon District
why they are using the Matic Network
how blockchain tech within a game changes the business model for Blockade as opposed to a traditional gaming company
whether she thinks conventional gaming companies will be disrupted by blockchain technology
the problems in content creation business models and distribution and how she thinks blockchain can solve them
her personal token, COIN, how it is connected to CRED and how the two work together and people earn them
what Coin Artist Liquidity Mining is and how it works
 
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Episode links: 
Marguerite: https://twitter.com/coin_artist
Coin Artist: https://coinartist.io
 
Yield farming NFTs: https://www.coindesk.com/nfts-yield-farming-defi-buzz-explained
 
Crypto puzzles: https://www.coindesk.com/theres-more-money-to-win-in-the-310-bitcoin-challenge-heres-some-hints
 
Blockade Games's seed round: https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-puzzle-artists-blockchain-gaming-startup-valued-at-13-million
 
CoinDesk podcast network with Marguerite: https://www.coindesk.com/what-artists-love-about-crypto
 
Delphi Digital podcast with Marguerite: https://www.delphidigital.io/podcasts/marguerite-decourcelle-building-towards-a-neon-future/
 
Delphi Digital report on Coin's E-den syndicate: https://www.delphidigital.io/reports/social-tokens-the-rise-of-the-coins-e-den-syndicate/
 
OpenSea store for Alex Botez chess pieces: https://opensea.io/collection/get-pwnd
 
Blog post about the Alexandra Botez collaboration: https://coin-artist.medium.com/bringing-chess-to-ethereum-5969d9cfa07a
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