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Matt Van

@mattvv

25 days

We're not even fully ramped yet with player counts and @ProofOfPlay 's Apex chain is already 14th on @l2beat 's list. Remember that we're an L3. We're coming for you, ApeX

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I just overheard this in the war room of our discord "My name is @0xDith ius Maximus, commander of the Pirates of the North, General of the Scallywags and loyal servant to the TRUE captain, @amittm , Father to a murdered blockchain, Husband to murdered royalties. And I will have

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Alright - to celebrate the announcement of Multichain I'm giving away 5 codes for a gen1 pirate for people to try the game. Rules are simple: 1. Follow @mattvv (I need to reply to you) and @PirateNation 2. The first chain in the multichain is Apex, but if Apex was a pirate,

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Theres never been a better time to be a pirate. @ProofOfPlay Apex chain looking good!

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@mattvv

6 months

Trade-ability and ERC20: We plan to bring (A LOT) more players into @PirateNationNFT . But without the right systems in place, that could have profound effects on the game's economy, in particular on our game currency, PGLD. 🧵 ➜ how we're solving for this with two ERC20s. 👇

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@mattvv

3 months

For anyone that's been following, we've been hard at work on how we can scale up to user amounts that are beyond a single blockchain. Multichain allows us to scale both vertically, but also horizontally. If you've been following us for awhile you'll have known we have designed

Proof of Play

@ProofOfPlay

3 months

Introducing: Proof of Play's Multichain An ultra fast constellation of blockchains built on Arbitrum Orbit and paired with our proprietary onchain game engine. The Multichain is optimized to serve real-time, fully onchain gameplay and internet-scale decentralized applications.

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@mattvv

8 months

We just announced who we are and who's behind us

Proof of Play

@ProofOfPlay

8 months

Introducing Proof of Play, an onchain game studio & technology company. We are delighted to announce our $33m seed round led by @a16z and Greenoaks, with participation from incredible angels & founders incl. @naval @balajis @justinkan @jtwald @immad @nikil @gabusch & many more.

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@mattvv

15 days

What do you call an onchain Pirate? Blockbeard gm pirates

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@mattvv

2 months

Data is beautiful. Pirate Nation recently migrated off Nova - pretty crazy to see the change in traffic on nova! All aboard the Apex chain 🚂

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@mattvv

28 days

My friend at OpenAI just sent me a message thanking me for boosting their subscriber count yesterday and this really interesting chart

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@mattvv

2 months

lfg

Pirate Nation

@PirateNation

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@mattvv

8 months

On joining @ProofOfPlay : Our intentionally lean team is composed of entirely senior-level, self-motivated individuals with a desire to push boundaries and have a big impact not just at Proof of Play but within this new sector. 1/3

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@mattvv

12 days

gm. It's never been a better time to be a Pirate 🏴‍☠️

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@mattvv

24 days

There's never been a better time to be a Pirate

Pirate Nation

@PirateNation

24 days

There's never been a better time to be a Pirate. 🏴‍☠️

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@mattvv

14 days

Today Hardmode is free entry free - Give it a try! There's about 10ish hours left on the hard gauntlets, let us know if it's challenging enough

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Matt Van

@mattvv

9 months

Building fully on-chain games is a lot fun, and often challenging. Recently been seeing an issue on @PirateNationNFT causing some tx's to fail. Just diagnosed, and deployed a fix. Sharing what we learned and built to resolve:

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@mattvv

8 months

I know the guest and you really don't want to miss this one.

Pirate Nation

@PirateNation

8 months

Pirate Nation x [redacted] You'll never guess Don't miss this one 👇

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@mattvv

8 months

RCA: How did the two High Seas Maps get away? Read on this thread for how we let two soulbound items get around our trading rules last week but quickly sorted it so no more would get away 🧵

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@mattvv

2 months

In a world of looting, those that get the Booty are Pirates. Pirates are gonna make it

Pirate Nation

@PirateNation

2 months

There will be plenty for Pirates to be celebrating together soon. So be merry, and get ready, because there’s never been a better time to be a Pirate 😏

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Matt Van

@mattvv

23 days

Soon everyone will be a Pirate

Pirate Nation

@PirateNation

23 days

Announcing our first set of community partners @pudgypenguins @doodles @azuki @sappysealsNFT @underground @bodoggosNFT @rektguyNFT @kanpaipandas @memeland @glhfers @ethlizards In 1 hour, you'll be able to mint a free Pirate & start collecting BOOTY in your Discord servers 🏴‍☠️

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@mattvv

17 days

Fully onchain games are inevitable, in a future not far from here you'll see games taking up significant blockspace, with vibrant composable worlds.

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@fern

17 days

Update.... Proof of Play APEX is now the 11th most active rollup by activity. h/t to @l2beat for the data.

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Matt Van

@mattvv

3 months

We're live and everything is up on a new chain, but dw you shouldn't notice. Just jump back in to PN and start playing again - no need to re-auth, no need to change networks. Back and everything on Apex!

Proof of Play

@ProofOfPlay

3 months

The Proof of Play Apex chain is now live w/ Pirate Nation! Pirate Nation is now the first fully onchain game deployed to its own Mainnet chain. This is the start of the Multichain: an infinitely scalable constellation of chains that allows us deliver onchain gaming to millions.

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@mattvv

3 months

Watching this stream takes me back to early esports, lan parties with quake3, ut, cs 1.x, tfc and lets not forget wc3 and aoe2. Competition survives in all games. Great communities empower this.

piratemastermurdoch🏴‍☠️

@TheGodMurdoch

3 months

Pirate Nation Community Stream: EP. 42

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@mattvv

2 months

Hard to believe less then 2 weeks ago this was 0 tx, now approaching 2million

Proof of Play Apex blockchain explorer | Blockscout

Explore tokens, items, activities, addresses and other transactions on the Proof of Play Apex blockchain.

explorer.apex.proofofplay.com

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@mattvv

24 days

@PirateNation never, in the entire history of the world, not even when the Caribbean was initially discovered, has there been a better time to be a pirate. Trust me, I live in the Caribbean and there is plenty of RUM

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@mattvv

9 months

If you caught the talks at ethCC, you probably saw the in progress prototype, here's the real thing :D

Pirate Nation

@PirateNation

9 months

💥 COMBAT v2 IS NOW LIVE. We’ve completely overhauled our combat gameplay, introducing new depth & choices to make during each battle. Also, it's A LOT more fun. 🧵 on how we reinvented combat, and why you need to try it:

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@mattvv

8 months

Onchain gaming is coming! Excited to be apart of this tournament. Disclaimer: noobing into this tourny having never played the game (follow the tech), spent all night coding more things for @PirateNationNFT instead of practicing, whoops

ggQuest

@gg_quest_gg

8 months

Join the onchain gaming movement and WIN 2 @PirateNationNFT 's To be eligible: 📺 Tune in today at 2PM UTC 📍 🎁 Like + Retweet this tweet ❤️ Support @AW_Research @PaladinsDao @Composablelabs 2 lucky viewers will be selected LIVE on stream!

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@mattvv

5 months

This year has been massive, but we are only just getting started. Look for us to increase our velocity in 2024

Pirate Nation

@PirateNation

5 months

It's been an incredible year for Pirate Nation. And we're grateful to YOU 🫵 our community & players, for making it so! 🧵 on the BIGGEST things we've accomplished together in 2023. 🤝

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Matt Van

@mattvv

2 months

Come and meet some of the @ProofOfPlay team on Tuesday with some of our friends from @PlaymintUK and @cartridge_gg

Onchain Games at GDC · Luma

Onchain chads assemble! A get together for anyone interested in building, investing in, or playing onchain games.

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@mattvv

1 month

One thing cool about fully on chain gaming, is measuring on chain activity is relatively simple, just track the on-chain events!

Pirate Nation

@PirateNation

1 month

🏴‍☠️ CALLING ALL PIRATES: SEASON 1 OF JOLLY ROGER IS NOW LIVE! 🏴‍☠️ You can now earn BOOTY Points by playing Pirate Nation and by collecting Founder's Pirates & other game items. Rank up on the leaderboards to secure MAXIMUM BOOTY! Here's how to JOIN and EARN. 🧵

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Matt Van

@mattvv

27 days

Re-engagement in discord is challenging. Once someone mutes your server there is something like a 90% chance they never engage in your server ever again. These numbers are incredible

Dith

@0xDith

28 days

Pirate Nation's server is already one of the most active web3 gaming servers. We just 2x'd our # of active chat participants in the first 12 hours since launching our Jolly Roger quests. Next week, many more communities will be talking about @PirateNation 🍻

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Matt Van

@mattvv

9 months

Greetings Pirates! We have heard your feedback and today we are releasing an update that will begin to address it. Read on to find out what we added in the last 24 hours!

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@mattvv

8 months

We want anyone to be able to play the game, not just people who know how to use a web3 wallet.

Pirate Nation

@PirateNation

8 months

Ye didn't think we'd just announce funding today and not ship anything... did ye, matey? 📧 No wallet? No problem. Sign in with email. Custodial wallets are now LIVE in Pirate Nation. 💥 Yes, this means yer auntie can play too (if she has an invite code!) & more. 🧵

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@mattvv

3 months

One it the superpowers of FOCG is collaboration and expanding the universe of the game together with composability, imagine wc3 or cs custom maps on steroids. I loved the last paragraph with our community build0rs and tournament hosts. Not to mention ronins endless scrims in

RoninNupe

@RoninNupe

3 months

Inception in Gaming? The Magic of Fully On-Chain Worlds 🌀✨ Despite my deep dive into gamification and its psychological impacts, I'm still spellbound by its ability to captivate. My journey began at the Gamification Summit in the Bay Area, focusing on harnessing gamification

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@mattvv

3 months

This is by far, hands down the fastest way to bridge your assets to Apex. Direct jump from nova too!

Relay

@RelayProtocol

3 months

Are you ready for Layer 3? ⛵ Relay now supports @ProofOfPlay 's Apex chain, the new @arbitrum Orbit L3 for @PirateNation It’s time to explore new chains Any supported chain → Apex in 6 seconds

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@mattvv

1 month

This is one of my favorite 'features' of working at Proof of Play, we're remote work maxis. Being able to quickly see everyone and drop in and chat feels like an office, but we're completely remote. One of the more interesting things about this though, is the genesis of this

Amitt Mahajan

@amittm

1 month

Something I've worked with the team to build at @ProofOfPlay is a truly open and collaborative culture. Not just on paper, but in actual practice. We're fully remote so this problem is even harder. The secret sauce? @discord voice channels.

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@mattvv

2 months

Security in web3 is something else. Just this last week i’ve seen: Someone did a 3 week setup including a fake blog about focg on farcaster trying to do an “interview” which lead to a shady video conference download (no i did not download). A candidate apply who with a “bait

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@mattvv

15 days

It's been pretty amazing what people have built on Pirate Nation with very little docs! We've released some basic docs to help and will continue to update and improve them!

Pirate Nation

@PirateNation

15 days

As a fully onchain game, @PirateNation can be built on & extended by our community. 🤝 Our v1 Developer Docs are now ready! They contain: ➜ Existing projects & ideas for new ones ➜ Details of our core constructs, reading data, writing data ➜ Art & other resources

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@mattvv

10 months

Some Parisian coffee and slide run through before #ArbitrumDay at ⁦ @EthCC ⁩ - catch us at 2:30 talking about on chain gaming and what we’re up to at ⁦ @ProofOfPlay ⁩.

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@mattvv

24 days

@RealJonahBlake My timeline is only people saying There has never been a better time to be a Pirate.

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Matt Van

@mattvv

17 days

Some incredible web3 games in this list, we welcome you to the universe of the Pirate and the land of fully onchain games. Much respect!

Pirate Nation

@PirateNation

17 days

Announcing our first set of gaming community partners, including Pixelmon, FRWC, Wildcard, InfiniGods, and many more. In the next few minutes, you'll be able to mint a free Pirate & start collecting BOOTY in your Discord servers 🏴‍☠️

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@mattvv

5 months

I'm really excited to see how players use this. To upgrade a ship you need to use a shipwright, which is only available on an island where someone has built the shipwright. Who will be the upgrade baron?

Pirate Nation

@PirateNation

5 months

INTRODUCING: THE SHIPWRIGHT 🏗️ Use the Shipwright to merge & upgrade your ships, and more. It is a new type of building - a Settlement Building - allowing you to provide goods & services to other players in Pirate Nation. 🏪 Here are the details you need 👇

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Matt Van

@mattvv

6 months

Let the speaking fesitivities begin. First panel (done, done) - ty @josebetandcourt for the invite, it was a fun discussion. 🫡

Virtual Labs

@0xVirtualLabs

7 months

@MantaNetwork @native_fi @biconomy @decryptmedia @OPCryptoVC We have a full slate of amazing speakers and events! We're thrilled to welcome @CoChilli_io @ProofOfPlay @azuroprotocol @mattvv @RossToTheFuture to speak about Fully Onchain Gaming

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@mattvv

10 months

Piece by piece we make our moves, we grow our game. Hand in hand with the community.

Pirate Nation

@PirateNation

10 months

Pirate Nation soon goes F2P, starting on a community-invite basis. 💌 Incoming players will be able to create a Pirate for free to access the full game. A 🧵 of key differences between Pirates (our F2P collection) and Founder's Pirates (our genesis collection). 1/many

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@mattvv

8 months

Several of us were formerly founders and technology-leads in previous jobs and thrive in the uncertainty of creating something new. 2/3

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@mattvv

2 months

Two mega brains in one space

Arbitrum (💙,🧡)

@arbitrum

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@mattvv

9 months

1. Snapshot, 2. Unlock, 3. Airdrop. Oh and 4. F2P mode: on. LFG

Pirate Nation

@PirateNation

9 months

📸 SNAPSHOT INCOMING 📸 In preparation for Pirate Nation going free-to-play (F2P), a snapshot will be taken of all Founder's Pirates in early September (date: to be announced). Existing players will be grandfathered into our new trading system for F2P players. 🧵 with details:

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@mattvv

4 months

Founders Pirates holders get a sneak peak at PvP while helping us test our infra :D Give it a whirl and let us know what you think!

Pirate Nation

@PirateNation

4 months

PvP preview is now LIVE! 💥 This early preview mode of PvP is available exclusively for Founder's Pirates. Battle yer fellow Pirates on the high seas, as we work on polishing PvP mode off for it's imminent release. Here's how it works & other things in this release! 🧵

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Matt Van

@mattvv

29 days

This is just the beginning of Jolly Rodger, a brand new way of engaging with our community that's beyond just the game. Be ready to role play like a pirate, more then just in-game.

Pirate Nation

@PirateNation

29 days

Meet JOLLY ROGER: an all new type of social questing system, built for maximum Piracy and fun. 🏴‍☠️ Earn BOOTY Points in the Pirate Nation Discord server NOW, and soon, in partner community servers. THERE'S NEVER BEEN A BETTER TIME TO BE A PIRATE. Here's how it works 🧵

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@mattvv

9 months

One of my favorite parts of releasing games is watching players figure out the meta, how to play and different mechanics. Here's a little UI help - but you'll have to figure out the meta yourselves, mateys

Pirate Nation

@PirateNation

9 months

How to combat? Simple, matey. 👩‍🏫

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@mattvv

9 months

Really excited to see what peoples reactions are to this one :)

Pirate Nation

@PirateNation

9 months

Shipping very soon™ to a deck near you. 😏 COMBAT v2 IS ALMOST READY me hearties. Keep yer eyes peeled. 👀

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@mattvv

3 months

Thanks @RealJonahBlake for digging into the multichain here :) Internet scale fully on chain games are going to need more then one blockchain if they want to scale users to >100m users

Jonah 🎮

@RealJonahBlake

3 months

I spent the last week diving into potential Arbitrum native investment opportunities. Of all the options I left out @ProofOfPlay because it is the most technical. Writing won't do it justice. So here's the co founder who will break it down. Sponsored by @Stardust NFA DYOR

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@mattvv

25 days

@0xDith @ProofOfPlay @l2beat We're only at Charmander right now... people are gonna go crazy at Charmeleon....

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@mattvv

5 months

If you use a ledger, the best course of action right now is to unplug it from your computer and wait. The exploit is because ledger libraries hot load their latest software, and someone compromised their key to the location they hot load from (npm) and uploaded malicious code.

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@mattvv

5 months

People preach composability and FOCG - This is just the beginning. Without any docs @ezsnipedoteth and @PainGravity were able to add player value improving @PirateNation - Great job guys! Now the shipwrights look like the tesla charging stations 🤣 All in use

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@ezsnipedoteth

5 months

🌊 Ahoy, Sea Dogs of @PirateNation ! @PainGravity and I have launched the ultimate Shipwright Dashboard! 🏗️📊 Spy from afar which Shipwrights are hoisting the flag for public use and keep an eye on the countdown till they're shipshape again! No more

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@mattvv

9 months

Incase you want to see how the sausage is made

Proof of Play

@ProofOfPlay

9 months

We just launched an all-new combat system in @PirateNationNFT . 🧵 Behind the scenes: our process reinventing the fun of combat ↓

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@mattvv

7 months

Really looking forward to this event! Some great minds on stage!

AW Research

@AW_Research

7 months

🇹🇷AW DAY hosted by @AW_Research & @arpaofficial 📍Nov 14 Panel Announcement - FOCG in AW @guiltygyoza @sylvechv @mattvv @damor_eth @realricosly @TheLastTriarius @wighawag Moderator: @Yi_Judinho Applying here ➡️

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@mattvv

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@lordOfAFew @tax_cuts @l_udens @tarrenceva @SpeculatorArt @aloothero @DarkosNightmare @Web3zy @smsunarto @kzdagoof @ArthurRoingBaer @NicoVereecke @damor_eth @gubsheep @0xferg This is a business model question not a technical one. I think games have proven that many models can survive, paying for tx seems most similar to arcade machines. Collecting at point of tx seems a bit of an odd way of charging to a player though...

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@mattvv

9 months

One of the most significant things about this change in gas cost, is the game is now unit economic positive (royalties from sales cover gas cost of users). Which is an amazing sign for building a forever game.

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@DotZeb

9 months

Gamers don't want the friction of paying gas to take actions in on-chain games. Not only have 1 million transactions been hidden from players of @PirateNationNFT , they are all paid for. Frictionless. No gas, no popups, only play. Presented by @mattvv of @ProofOfPlay

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@mattvv

6 months

We also enabled anyone who doesn't yet have a trade license to trade from PGLD to MARKs in-game, which allows new players to purchase PGLD on the secondary market and use it. This allows our existing elder players to sell their resources to new players.

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@mattvv

8 months

If this type of challenge and culture resonates, check out our jobs page and reach out: We have an open application and opportunistically hire exceptional people with a focus towards can also apply via the links on @ProofOfPlay . 3/3

Early Stage Team @ Proof of Play

We are a small group of veteran game developers and entrepreneurs creating games using blockchain technology. Our vision is simple: to create generation-defining games that fundamentally grant power...

beforeyouapply.com

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@mattvv

3 months

@PirateNation can confirm this ship is damn fast. we had to write special code to prevent it from being flagged as a speed hack. (Yes speedhackers, we know who you are and you are violating the fair play rules)

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@mattvv

1 month

@0xWave @PirateNation @amittm Imagine if you got the co-founder of farmville, then poached key team members from amazing teams like riot games, epic, blizzard, big huge games who are all pilled into the future of decentralization. Then you've got proof of play.

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@mattvv

6 months

We've had this in the wild now for a few months, we're monitoring the approach and are happy with it. If you'd like to see more break downs of technical approaches to FOCG - drop me a follow and let me know what you'd like to hear more about next!

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@mattvv

6 months

Our key method for this is a technique used in many games: require players to invest a significant amount of play time before they can effect the economy. For example in WoW, leveling to max is a requirement before you can craft and have an impact on the econ.

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Matt Van

@mattvv

10 months

3x the size of a haas, just as tasty🙂 gotta love these backyard avos

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Matt Van

@mattvv

27 days

Whos the character you are turning into? 🏴‍☠️

EMB3R - The NPCEO

@TheNPCEO

28 days

Who’s the character you’re slowly turning into?

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Matt Van

@mattvv

9 months

We have a pool of n (right now, 4) different relayers that we use to pay for users transactions on-chain, These all forward transactions to our forwarding contract which allows players to play without paying for gas.

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@mattvv

1 month

Excited for Dora on Apex!

Dora

@SearchOnDora

1 month

Dora powers @XAI_GAMES Dora powers @ProofOfPlay Dora powers @animecoin Dora powers @arbitrum Dora powers @ethereum Dora coming to Arbitrum soon ❤️💙

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@mattvv

10 months

Definitely give this one a listen, lots of alpha coming about where we are heading to enable free to play while on chain.

Pirate Nation

@PirateNation

10 months

Town Hall: Gen 0 vs. Gen 1 Join us for a live discussion on expanding Pirate Nation's player base and the role of Gen 0 Founder's Pirates in the ecosystem. Tune in to hear from @amittm @fern @williamschmitt tomorrow at 12pm PT / 3pm ET!

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@mattvv

10 months

@OwnerOfJK @arbitrum @PirateNationNFT It's an awesome stat - One thing that's super cool that I mentioned when presenting this, was that because of the reduced gas costs, we're now unit economic positive (royalties from trading cover the gas for players) which is key to making it a forever game!

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@mattvv

6 months

Our team came up with a few ideas, all with various merits, but the one we went with was to create a new token (MARKS) that is exactly the same as PGLD, but only given to those without a trade license. MARKS aren't tradeable (soulbound) but can be minted & burned by game systems.

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@mattvv

6 months

To set the stage - Pirate Nation launched with one currency (PGLD), and every game system in our game accepts or rewards this currency. So we needed to find a way to allow new players to join, but for them to be able to not instantly dilute the in-game economy.

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Matt Van

@mattvv

9 months

With today’s release we have re-worked the Pirate and Ship selection flow, implemented Double Click (and Shift-Click!) functionality to trigger an Action (who even drags anymore?) and added max rounds back to Combat.

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Matt Van

@mattvv

4 months

We're doing a townhall, leaking some alpha on our discord right now, come have a listen

Discord - A New Way to Chat with Friends & Communities

Discord is the easiest way to communicate over voice, video, and text. Chat, hang out, and stay close with your friends and communities.

discord.com

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Matt Van

@mattvv

9 months

This update marks the beginning of ongoing improvements as we receive and incorporate user feedback to optimize this feature. Keep an eye on Discord and Twitter for more updates as we keep iterating on Combat

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@mattvv

6 months

For full context on trade licenses in Pirate Nation (they have to be earned by players by reaching Command Rank 10 in the game), check this thread.

Pirate Nation

@PirateNation

9 months

As we approach the snapshot, unlock & airdrop on Monday, September 11, here's a brief recap 🧵 with the 3 ways trading can be unlocked in Pirate Nation, once we go free-to-play (F2P) in the days ahead.

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Matt Van

@mattvv

3 months

Never underestimate the power of debugging. Put in the reps, when I was an early programmer I banged my head against the wall against so many problems, it makes you understand how everything works and the more you learn the better you get

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Matt Van

@mattvv

6 months

When you activate a trade license your MARKS are automatically converted to PGLD which are fully tradeable by anyone, and all reference of MARKS in your game disappear (quests that require or award MARKS now award PGLD). This keeps the experience simple & clear for our players.

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Matt Van

@mattvv

9 months

So let's test it. We saw a relayer starting to have the issue, so we deployed the fix. After deploying observed that the failed relayer was pulled out of rotation, and then put back into rotation once its pending transactions were cleared up - in record time! Success!

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Matt Van

@mattvv

25 days

@rickcoindoctor @ProofOfPlay @l2beat It's likely this list isn't going to truely show what multichain does once PN scales across more then one PoP chain - you will likely see multiple Pop chains in this list.

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@mattvv

9 months

Previously, we were doing some basic load balancing between the relayers, but sometimes we saw a relayer get stuck for various reasons (in this case, it was retrying transactions with nonces out of order).

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Matt Van

@mattvv

15 days

I have a lot of respect for those modding fully onchain games - @koheingt proposes some great ideas in this space sparking some thought for how to incentivize builders. I also think another reason he hasn't proposed here is there just are not really that many players on FOCG yet

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Matt Van

@mattvv

9 months

We were able to pull this Relayer out of the rotation manually with oncall, but it cost us time and a few late nights - we saw this happening at 1-3am sometimes. This also takes time for a human to be paged, respond, get online, understand the problem then take action.

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Matt Van

@mattvv

9 months

You can see these transactions at

PopForwarder | Address 0x70d4b47b123e22acdb7b3f6c02632b8611f05eb8 | Arbiscan

The Contract Address 0x70d4b47b123e22acdb7b3f6c02632b8611f05eb8 page allows users to view the source code, transactions, balances, and analytics for the contract address. Users can also interact and...

nova.arbiscan.io

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Matt Van

@mattvv

2 months

PvP for everyone

Berna🏴‍☠️

@Berna7224

2 months

HUGEEE UPDATE from @PirateNation ! As a gen1 (FREE MINT) you can now PVP! A feature that many wanted really badly and atleast I was super anxious to get!! There's never been a better time to be a pirate YARGH🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

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Matt Van

@mattvv

7 days

Apologies for being 404 on twitter this week, but we've been busy! Thankful to the amazing community who never stopped believing in us!

Pirate Nation

@PirateNation

7 days

To thank you for your patience & support this week, all players active in the 10 days preceding the outage have received a special 404 chest. Login to the game & open the chest to secure a bonus +20,000 BOOTY Points, along with resources, and a chance for rare items. 👀

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Matt Van

@mattvv

8 months

Its time… to Parley

Pirate Nation

@PirateNation

8 months

AHOY @wolfdotgame IT IS TIME... FOR PARLEY! For the next 48 hours, if you hold a Gen 0/1/2 Wolf or Sheep, or a Farmer, or a Genesis Land, you can mint a free Pirate and immediately begin playing Pirate Nation. No gas needed! Timer... starts... now! ⏳

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Matt Van

@mattvv

25 days

@graildoteth @PirateNation It really has never been a better time to be a pirate! Welcome to the crew 🏴‍☠️

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Matt Van

@mattvv

9 months

This got us into a state where we would have a partial outage Some transactions would go to healthy relayers and be fine Some transactions would go to the unhealthy relayer and fail. Not great.

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Matt Van

@mattvv

1 month

@0xDith @PirateNation YARGH (give to someone who replies to my YARGH!)

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Matt Van

@mattvv

9 months

So, we put in a change that now checks how many transactions are pending per relayer, and will route new transactions to the relayer with lowest pending tx. This in theory should allow any relayers that are stuck with nonce issues to self-heal.

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Matt Van

@mattvv

8 months

We released a lot of new things! Go try them out :D

Pirate Nation

@PirateNation

8 months

Our largest release EVER went live earlier today. ⚡ In Release #36 : ✅ F2P entry (invite-based) along with Gen1 Pirates ✅ Marks, a currency for F2P players (until they get their Trade License) ✅ New action cards to play in combat ✅ Command Rank system & much more 👇

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Matt Van

@mattvv

27 days

@STEVEW00DY @playbigtime If we ever decided to not continue making @PirateNation - you can fork our orbit chain and run it yourself, infact if you want to make Space Nation or something right now, you can already do this- because we are fully onchain.

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Matt Van

@mattvv

25 days

@Crypto_McKenna fully onchain gaming is inevitable

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Matt Van

@mattvv

8 months

Great ep! Give it a listen! The farmville growth is bonkers

Beneath the Layers

@BTLayersPod

8 months

🚨NEW EPISODE ALERT🚨 In the latest episode of Beneath the Layers we speak with @amittm of @ProofOfPlay ! We dive into his time working at Zynga as co-creator of FarmVille, his past as a serial entrepreneur, and his take on gaming and web3. 🎮 🔗

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Matt Van

@mattvv

8 months

Soulbound is an item that can be earned but cannot be traded. We have a number of these in Pirate Nation because they encourage people to play to get progression rather than enabling the game to be pay to win.

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Matt Van

@mattvv

6 months

We didn't want to change every single game system contract, so instead we made a Strategy ERC20 (dw, I won't enterprise fizzbuzz any further) which decides which token to use based on your account. Here's an example of the mint ability game system use to mint:

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Matt Van

@mattvv

8 months

gm. poured too much so I couldn't quite finish the pull through of the design, the making coffee, without having had coffee dilemma is real

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Matt Van

@mattvv

25 days

@graildoteth @inhuman @PirateNation @ProofOfPlay @amittm actually worked on Unreal Engine, so he knows his shit here :D

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