Puzzles, Games, and Onchain SVG with CyberBrokers Developer Ben Heidorn

My guest today is Ben Heidorn, better known as @cybourgeoisie on Twitter. Ben is a Solidity developer who has been building crypto puzzles and games for several years. He is the CTO at crypto game studio Blockade Games, developers of Neon District, and principal developer on Josie Bellini's CyberBrokers, a massively on-chain SVG NFT collection that has been in the works for over two years.

In this episode, Ben and I chat about many of the projects he's worked on over the years, including Torched Hearts, Plasma Bears, Tokens of Infection, F473, The Ledger of Szabo, and more.

If you're excited to hear the details on how Ben stored more than 1400 SVG layers in over 2000 contracts on Ethereum L1 for CyberBrokers, make sure to stick around for the last third of this episode.

It was a pleasure chatting with Ben about the early days of puzzling and cross-chain experimentation, and his more recent experience building sophisticated onchain NFT projects. I hope you enjoy the show.

Interview by @nnnnicholas. Produced by @0xRavel.

Topics discussed:

• COIN ARTIST and the invention of crypto puzzles
• Rhea Myers
• @Zd3N puzzle artist
• @Zd3N's Litecoin puzzle
• Torched Hearts
• Tokens of Infection (September 2019) (Etherscan)
• CryptoKitties
• Diego Rodriguez lead artist at Neon District
• David Hoover, founder of Red Squirrel technologies) wrote the original Neon District trophy contract (January 2018)
• Pineapple Arcade
• Plasma Bears (March 2019) (article, OpenSea)
• XCOPY plasma bear
• Loom Network, now-defunct alt-L1 EVM.
• Axie Infinity
• Loom DM: "We're shutting down tomorrow."
• The Ledger of Szabo (Aug 2019), cross chain Ethereum-Lightning puzzle game (team) (Etherscan)
• Die Kitty Dai (Feb 2020), demo (team picture), Etherscan
• JTobcat creator of the first NFT airdrop
• F473 (Fate) (2021) documentation,