Crypto Chris | Star Wolvez

Gm everyone, A little background on this amazing journey so far as we get closer to launch. I discovered Star Wolvez in late 2021 when a mutual friend told me about a project with a doxxed founder, something no founder did back then, that had the intention of building a web3 game and using NFTs as playable assets. And in order to get a whitelist, you had to play a game in their Discord. Not one of those commercial RNG automated games other projects started using later on, an actual custom-built game that had PVP, Boss Battles, and a Battle Royale. Me being the geeky gamer that I am, all it took was hearing the word game to catch my interest. The team had promised an alpha version of the game would be released after mint, and players would get to play it as it's being developed. Proof of work. So in July of 2022 when alpha was released, not only did I play the game, I liked it so much I became a QA tester. Charlie's vision for the game was something no founder took into consideration at the time, and it was really simple: build a fun game with a sustainable loop, benefit from the on-chain aspect, and most importantly, make it interoperable instead of token gating it. During the time I was QA testing, web3 gaming took a hit because every single web3 game was a gamble in disguise to siphon more liquidity from the market, and it became clear that what advertised web3 gaming was eventually going to be its downfall. On-chain gaming and token farming is not gaming. It will never be, and it will never onboard millions of users. It can barely even onboard your typical web3 user, because he's tired of it. Most of it was extraction with a game skin on top. But everyone was chasing the bag so blindly that they're still in denial about it, unironically. That genuinely bothered me as a gamer, because NFTs and gaming have so much potential and no one is capitalizing on it. So I stopped just QA testing the game, and I started building the game I love so much. Four years building, most of it quietly, learning from the mistakes of those who are no longer with us and those that still are, to deliver the promise we made. A web3 game that's fun to play. No ponzinomics, no staking, no yield farming (have we not learned still?). Just pure gaming. Shoutout to whoever else is building a genuine game in web3. See you soon in The Infinite Beyond.