Reimagining Game Development as A Public Good
Event Date
Sep 28, 2021
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Call Recording
Interesting questions
- Is it possible for the metaverse to be a public goods?
- How big is the video game community to be a metaverse?
- Directing Public Funding–How?
- What are the terms other orgs and companies do to capitalize on your work?
- Do you see a pathway to decentralize Apple?
Open Source Motivations
- fun!
- volunteering!
- legitimacy
- even if other people copy you, you become a choice product or provider
- eg Sushiswap copying Uniswap didn't kill uniswap
- pushing back against centralisation
Some challenges
- App stores, Apple store, centralised stores that require approval stifle the way people do things
- geo-location data on blockchain, why hasn't people done this?
- reputation layer, help your neighbour and rep goes up.
Some examples
- "people only notice when a restaurant closes down"
- Loot - a public game, public good, people can literally build on it like Andre's rarity manifested
- Wikipedia - inspired a generation of open source contributors
- What are some pathways to decentralization?