Yuga Labs, the heavyweight behind some of the biggest Web3 IP, including Bored Ape Yacht Club, CryptoPunks, and Meebits, made its first foray into games just over a year ago with its toilet-themed infinite runner, Dookey Dash. Now Yuga is here with a sequel called Dookey Dash: Unclogged, and there are a lot of innovations from the original - the most important of which are that it is not token-gated, and it is mobile. The game was developed in partnership with one of the earliest Web3 game studios, Faraway Games, best known for its shooter Mini Royale: Nations. In conjunction with this release, Yuga and Faraway have announced that Faraway Games is acquiring a subset of Yuga’s IP portfolio and that Yuga Chief Gaming Officer is joining Faraway as Chief Product Officer.
In this episode your host, Niko Vuori, dives into Yuga’s and Faraway’s strategy, how the partnership came to be, what acquiring some of Yuga’s IP means for Web3 gaming more broadly for the ecosystem, and what learnings Yuga took from Dookie Dash to the sequel.
00:00 - Start
01:21 - Intro
02:54 - Spencer's backstory
04:30 - Who are Faraway Games?
12:30 - Faraway and Yuga labs collaboration
20:55 - How Faraway works within different genres
31:50 - Token gated vs Free to Play
43:50 - Why infinite runner?
52:00 - Game metrics
56:48 - Community reaction
01:04:10 - Wrapping up
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Guest: Spencer Tucker: / spencer-t-ba6b7418
Host: Niko Vuori: / nikovuori
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