Mimetic games.

Trends and observations:

• the “metaverse”
  • real names are archaic (cc: Matt from Paradigm)
  • anons
    • fbifemboy knows more about FTX news than mainstream media (commentary)
• open lore
  • Headless brands
  • the old way:
    • Games Workshop (Warhammer) bans fan animations, issues takedowns on Youtube
  • Loot / the Lootverse.
    • the lowest fidelity (0D) is canonical.
      • metadata around “concepts”.
      • scarce, ownable as an NFT.
      • metadata was viewable through an on-chain SVG generation.
      • metadata is at lowest possible fidelity - words on an SVG canvas.
    • maximum possible remixing to higher fidelities.
      • 1D - raw, low-fidelity lore.
        • Loot bags.
        • More Loot.
        • Synthetic Loot.
      • 2D - expansion of the original lore.
        • Currencies - Adventure Gold.
        • Levelling systems.
        • Item stats.
        • More items - rings.
        • Loot Realms. 8000 procedurally generated map packs.
      • 3D - higher-fidelity lore.
        • 3D map packs.
      • 4D, 5D, …, ND
        • …
• metagames
  • the evolution of the game’s rules is a game
  • DeFi metagames and trading
    • Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash.
    • Ethereum PoS, ETHPOW.
    • Dogecoin, Shiba Inu.
    • Loot, Synthetic Loot, etc.
• democratized game making
  • D&D -> Tabletop simulator
  • Roblox platform (stats)
• eternal games
  • on-chain
    • requires: more computational bandwidth (Cairo/StarkNet)
  • never die, culture lives forever (hauntology)
    • old way: Halo servers shut down
• mimetic
  • good marketing now consists of making things that are memeable
    • How to incorporate memes into your marketing strategy (Twitter)
    • chief meme officer
    • shitposting is now a 6 fig job
  • protoforms: KanyeQuest 3030
• private information games
  • MEV
  • DarkForest
  • problems: very hard to program atm.
    • example code
    • proposal
• generative AI
  • code - CoPilot
  • 2D, 3D models
    • https://nv-tlabs.github.io/GET3D/
  • character animation
    • https://github.com/sebastianstarke/AI4Animation
  • concept art
    • Midjourney
  • style transfer / remix
    • pixel art
    • “Grand Theft Auto: Tiananmen Square for Playstation 2”
• MMO’s
  • EVE Online

Predictions on the future:

• War, depression.
• AI will disrupt many ways of making money - esp. programming and artists.
• But people will still want to entertain themselves - games.
• Best positioning? Become a platform for making games based in culture.