Yellow Panther on making gaming your full-time job, new AI agent game: Web3 Gamer

Yellow Panther: The gamer who wears many hats

Web3 gaming star Yellow Panther needs to set the file straight: full-time gaming is a lot extra than simply enjoying; it’s mainly working a multi-operational enterprise with out the swimsuit and tie. 

Chatting with Web3 Gamer on the Yield Guild Video games Play Summit within the Philippines, Yellow Panther, aka “YP,” reveals that changing into probably the most in style Web3 players whereas nonetheless simply 26 years outdated has landed him gigs “advising a number of huge gaming corporations and initiatives.”

“I spotted that I’ve a variety of information and a variety of first hadn’t info from the market, and I used to be in a position to make use of this to make a variety of connections and assist these video games go to market and even advise them on the best way to launch efficiently,” the Forbes Web3 gaming creator of the 12 months explains.

“I wasn’t the one which thought I’d ever be an adviser,” he laughs, having constructed a loyal fanbase within the Axie Infinity esports days, the place he was a daily within the high 100 leaderboards.

The Web2-to-Web3 gamer says that creating gaming content material for his social media followers is already a full-time job by itself. And, after all, he nonetheless has to play video games commonly to remain good at it. He first made his cash by means of gaming tournaments.

“So it’s a very fascinating journey from enjoying video games to truly doing enterprise and doing content material creation,” he says.

“We clearly can not actually disclose the figures and stuff like that, however it is vitally area of interest, and never everybody can do it.”

In the meantime, Yellow Panther says a variety of video games are screwing up their token launches.

“They’re actually, actually aggravated on the launches of the tokens as a result of many of those video games are dashing to launch, and normally the [price] chart will go as much as straight down upon launching,” he explains.

“There’s not sufficient liquidity, there’s not sufficient hype, and the video games usually are not doing it proper,” he explains.

He will get why gamers who spend “months” farming for play-to-earn airdrops get aggravated once they lastly occur and are solely price “10 or 20 bucks.”

“You already know you’d somewhat work a traditional Web2 job,” he says.

Web3 gaming and the crypto bull run: Parallel co-founder 

The crypto bull run triggered by Donald Trump’s victory in the US election will give a giant enhance to Web3 video games, says the co-founder of sci-fi-based aggressive card recreation Parallel, Sascha Darius Mojtahedi.

“I feel the downstream results of the optimistic rhetoric round crypto, normally, goes to have a reasonably materials affect over the adoption of those video games within the subsequent two to a few years,” he tells Web3 Gamer on the Yield Guild Video games Play Summit.

However just for the video games that survived the tough previous couple of years and never these gaming initiatives that turned out to be “not professional” or which by no means “delivered,” Mojtahedi explains.

“I attribute that to ignorance somewhat than malice,” he says of his glass-half-full take.

“Lots of people simply weren’t able to delivering however wished to ship, so let’s simply assume that’s true.”

Mojtahedi says that video games presently available in the market have this “immense alternative forward of them,” notably as they not have to fret about departing Securities and Trade Fee Chair Gary Gensler declaring their enterprise mannequin a safety.

“I feel that form of going away, and leaving room for folks to innovate once more, opens up every kind of alternatives for folks to be inventive and create actually significant new experiences, and new kinds of economies which might be ownable.”

Parallel’s subsequent title is Parallel Colony, an AI-powered Web3 survival simulation recreation launching in Q1 2025. “You’re not the participant, the AI brokers are the participant,” he explains.

Mojtahedi is worked up about experimenting with AI and crypto gaming.

“When there’s nothing to form of evaluate it to, you even have the chance to outsize, as a result of nobody’s ever tried it earlier than,” he says.

“There’s curiosity and pleasure round it,” he provides.

Earn ‘questing rewards’ for experimenting with YGG

Sport improvement platform Immutable and blockchain gaming guild protocol Yield Guild Video games have created a $1 million fund for gamers to earn rewards by means of questing incentives.

“Players which might be in it from kind of extra a play-to-earn perspective, it permits them to get gadgets that in any other case they must pay to get,” Immutable chief studio officer Justin Hulog tells Web3 Gamer.

“It’s not kind of dissimilar to Twitch, the place there are Twitch drops if you happen to watch Twitch alongside the way in which,” Hulog provides.

Principally, any gamer enjoying Immutable video games that interacts with different Web3 video games within the YGG ecosystem can earn rewards like skins, characters, or guardians. 

For instance, if you happen to’re into Guild of Guardians and wish to strive the tactical technique recreation Shardbound, you’ll earn rewards only for exploring that recreation because it’s a part of the YGG ecosystem.

“It permits us to form of put collectively particular quests and particular worlds for people who find themselves in each ecosystems,” Hulog explains.

Different Information 

— Federation Internationale de Soccer Affiliation and blockchain gaming studio Legendary Video games have teamed as much as launch FIFA Rivals, a free-to-play soccer recreation on iOS and Android.

— Axie Infinity has launched its occasion The Wings of Nightmare, the place Axies have the prospect to remodel into collectible Axies and probably earn a spot within the Nightmare Corridor of Fame.

— Blockchain gaming firm Game7 has launched a gaming report revealing that Telegram captured 21% of recent recreation launches in 2024.

— YGG has launched Onchain Guilds on Coinbase’s Base Community.

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Ciaran Lyons

Ciaran Lyons is an Australian crypto journalist. He is additionally a standup comic and has been a radio and TV presenter on Triple J, SBS and The Undertaking.