Afleveringen

  • ā€œAt the end of the day, games can facilitate learning and learning is one of the most satisfying  experiences we can have.ā€

    This week I sat down with Rafael Morado to talk about Blockchain and Game Design. I love this episode for two reasons. First, because it made me smarter, dispelling a lot of my naivetƩ about building games on the blockchain and second, because it all sprung from a dumb tweet I made a few weeks ago (Read the tweet and initial convo here).

    Rafael is a consummate professional, he studied game design and has worked for studios like UbiSoft and the makers of Eve Online. Heā€™s currently at Dapper Labs building games and product managing and heā€™s got a fantastically unique perspective as heā€™s begun blending those two expertises into a really unique POV in the space.

    Be sure to check out MetaMedia whoā€™s publishing and cross-sharing this show under their media-umbrella on  Twitch  and  Twitter  for their weekly live show, The Spicey Take, and their first podcast show  The Defi Download.  

    Iā€™m Zach Herring, Iā€™m on Twitter, @ zherring , DMs are open. You know of amazing designers, researchers, or product people in the space doing dope stuff, drop me a line, let me know who I need to talk to!

    Relevant Links

    Find Rafael on Twitter ā†’ https://twitter.com/nagual_ape
    Follow Dapper Labs ā†’ https://twitter.com/dapperlabs
    Find Zach on Twitter ā†’ https://twitter.com/zherring
    Cheese Wizards ā†’ https://www.cheezewizards.com/

    Resources

    Man, Play, and Games ā†’ https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/bDjOPsjzfC4C?hl=en
    Rules of Play ā†’ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176698.Rules_of_Play?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=4SARd4zpZq&rank=2
    Global Game Jam ā†’ https://globalgamejam.org/
    Game Maker Studio ā†’ https://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker

  • I sat down with Jessica Schilling and Jim ā€œCakeā€ Lee, designers and technologists working with Protocol Labs on their IPFS and FileCoin Slate projects.  It was a banger.

    When designers ā€œtalk about designā€ a lot of times, itā€™s the shop top. The tools, the instruments.  The systems. Thereā€™s a lot of content like that out there. In this episode we dug a lot more into the philosophy behind it, the why that goes into designing these meta-systems.

    This has been Proof of Usability. Be sure to check out MetaMedia whoā€™s publishing and cross-sharing this show under their media-umbrella on  Twitch  and  Twitter  for their weekly live show, The Spicey Take, and their first podcast show  The Defi Download.  

    Iā€™m Zach Herring, Iā€™m on Twitter, @ zherring , DMs are open. You know of amazing designers, researchers, or product people in the space doing dope stuff, drop me a line, let me know who I need to talk to.

    Relevant Links

    Find Cake on Twitter ā†’ https://twitter.com/wwwjim/

    Find Jessica on Twitter ā†’ https://twitter.com/dzesika/

    IPFS ā†’ https://ipfs.io/

    Slate ā†’ https://slate.host/

    Zachā€™s Twitter ā†’ https://twitter.com/zherring

    MetaMedia ā†’ https://twitter.com/meta_media_

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  • For the first official episode of Proof-of-Usability, Iā€™m re-releasing my chat with Blocknative's Co-Founder and CEO Matt Cutler ( @mcutler) from back in March. Why should you listen to Matt about building products people want? Uh, because heā€™s a boss. Literally.

    Founder & CEO of Block Native. Multiple founder, 7 times over. Heā€™s taken companies public, split them up, merged them together and has a just a really unique, seasoned perspective. Heā€™s been building internet companies since 1994. This kind of seasoned founder is still rare in the blockchain space.

    Like a lot of killer projects in the space they started buildingā€¦something that wasnā€™t BlockNative. His story of how they pivoted by listening to user feedback is a great one. And how Mark thinks about building market-informed products is worth the price of admission (your time!) alone. I learn a ton every time I sit down to talk with him, and this time was no different.

    This has been Proof of Usability. Be sure to check out MetaMedia whoā€™s publishing and cross-sharing this show under their media-umbrella on Twitch and Twitter for their weekly live show, The Spicey Take, and their first podcast show The Defi Download. 

    Iā€™m Zach Herring, Iā€™m on Twitter, @zherring, DMs are open. You know of amazing designers, researchers, or product people in the space doing dope stuff, drop me a line, let me know who I need to talk to.

    Relevant Links

    https://www.blocknative.com
    BlockNative's Latest Research Study: MemPool Forensics For Black Thursday
    Matt Cutler's Twitter
    Zach's Twitter

  • We kick things off with Proof-of-Usability, a limited series exploring Design in the Blockchain space. 

    A special shout-out to MetaMedia whoā€™s currently publishing and cross-sharing this show under their media-umbrella. Be sure to check out their weekly live-stream, The Spicey Take, find them on Twitch at Meta_Media and Twitter @Meta_Media.

    Iā€™m Zach Herring, Iā€™m on Twitter, @zherring, DMs are open. You know of amazing designers, researchers, or product people in the space doing dope stuff, drop me a line, let me know who I need to talk to.