Avalore Dump Week 32
"Positivity Arc Continues?" Edition
Happy Friday! We opened donations last week, and as of writing we have had nearly 200 cover mints! I can’t believe it! Thank you guys so much, seriously. I never envisioned we would get anywhere near that number.
Special shoutout to Voh, Chimba/Team1, LHB, and HopHopHoppin for minting all 31 (!) covers! You guys are crazy. Seriously, you may want to see a doctor.
Now that the exit scam is complete, I don’t have to try anymore! This will be my first article in the “low effort” era.
Kidding! There wasn’t much going on this week though so it will be a shorter article. Let’s get into it.
Build Games Round 3 Culling
It sounds like we jumped down to ~120 projects from the ~400 that were left at the end of Stage 1. Honestly at this point I’m just ready to see who the projects that get funding are—there’s not much to say about the competition until it’s over.
I’ve seen some examples of projects get cut that I know people put a lot of effort into, so I wanted to highlight some of them before we move on:
My lovely wife was working on a sourdough-themed ponzi (sorry, gamefi flywheel) project that got the axe this week. I still think it’s really cool and am hoping she continues. To be fair, she was having some second thoughts anyway. Running a ponzi is scary! People will be mad when it collapses (it always will) and there’s very little reward.
Some kind of guaranteed funding would have been nice so she didn’t have to rely on selling the token/skimming from presale to get her money’s worth, but obviously I have some bias here.
Make sure to message her and tell her she should still try to launch and you won’t be mad at her based on token price! Words of encouragement!
Mocket has been pulling daily 15 hour shifts working on his Flesh Nuggets game. Personally I’m not such a big indie gamer (sorry Wrath), but this has more effort than most of the games I’ve seen so I wanted to shout it out here.
He’s working on a Binding of Isaac style roguelike, and you can play the demo here. Hopefully he keeps working on it!
I put out a post yesterday trying to bait out some more projects but honestly I didn’t get many replies!
There were two separate token launchers that responded (probably no market for these currently!) and I know that Frogwell’s secret Avalore project got chopped as well. Apparently his Luma free trial expired before the judges could click his MVP link so it was deleted. Hate to see it! Should have used YouTube!
Overall I don’t have a ton of complaints. Once this is over I’m going to try to test all the winning projects and review them so you don’t have to! Then we can fully assess the impact of the program. Exciting!
Nahas Speaks With the Peons
John Nahas and Voh held a call to take some questions from members of the community this week and I was there! Avalore media pass!
It was a lot of yapping so I don’t have a ton to report, but it was cool for an executive employee to interface with the community on any level at all, so thank you for that! My main takeaways are that Nahas’ office has beautiful lighting and that Andy takes calls sideways in a spaceship orbiting Mars.
Nahas mentioned that he wants to see the AVAX ecosystem flourishing again. I asked him what that means, and the first thing he said was that he wants to see new defi primitives get developed on AVAX. He also mentioned that “success” to him would mean AVAX having 5-7 strong new native apps over the next year.
Another thing he said was that he doesn’t like KPIs, which was news to me! There are some KPI non-believers at the company! We must cherish them!
It seems like this type of call might become a more regular thing, so please feel free to send any questions you want asked and I can try to get them in.
Summit NYC!
The AVAX Summit location and time have officially been announced! Tickets have started being sold (I think, I didn’t make it past the 20 question form to verify this) so it’s all confirmed now. See you there?
I can’t believe this is getting a whole section! There’s no interesting news this week! AHHHHH
I’m just gonna end it here! Maybe I missed some news as it’s been a busy week for me. We got married a second time (American immigration doesn’t care about European weddings) and my dad had surgery (he’s fine!) so maybe I missed some things?
Animoca invested in AVAX or something? More institutions to buy our bags? Idk what it means.
I’m sure Wrath will link me 9000 posts of his that I didn’t cover this week. He got a whole section last week! That’s enough exposure for the month!
Please make more drama next week, thank you.
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