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Free-to-Play Summit: Tales from the Crypto

David Fox  (CEO, Double Coconut)

Location: Room 2016, West Hall

Date: Tuesday, March 21

Time: 3:50 pm - 4:20 pm

Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass

Topic: Free-to-Play

Format: Lecture

Vault Recording: Video

Audience Level: All

For free-to-play game developers, adding elements of crypto tokens and NFTs has tremendous risks and difficulties—but it also comes with outsized potential rewards for both developers and players.

In this session, David Fox, CEO at Double Coconut, will look at some of the best practices currently in the market, and how to integrate some of the best of ideas of Web3 and expand the potential of your "standard" Web2 game to allow for more types of players, investors, and community members.

In the end, attendees will walk away with a heaping toolbox for untapped ways the blockchain and cryptocurrency can make gameplay not only more profitable for the developer—but actually much more fun and meaningful to the player.

Takeaway

Attendees will gain a set of actionable tools that can allow your game to utilize the best parts of Web3 to enhance the free-to-play business model, while keeping players excited and feeling valued.

Intended Audience

This is for free-to-play game developers looking to dip their toes into crypto, as well as crypto play-to-earn developers looking to expand the audiences for their titles.