P2E is Dead? Long Live P2E! With Pixels.xyz

After the meteoric rise - and equally meteoric fall - of Axie Infinity, the term “Play-to-Earn” lost much of its cachet, and web3 developers avoided the term throughout the 2022-23 crypto winter. Adjacent concepts such as “Play-and-Earn” or “Play-to-Own” proliferated instead while developers and investors largely ignored the genre, and P2E was effectively declared dead.
But not all developers felt this way. Through the crypto winter, Pixels.xyz continued to believe in their thesis, that if done thoughtfully and methodically, P2E can be sustainable. Now, almost 3 years after they started building their social farming sim, Pixels.xyz has hit 500,000 Daily Active Users with over 80,000 concurrent players during events, has announced a partnership with Yield Guild Games and is about to introduce the biggest overhaul of the guilds concept in any web3 game.
In this episode your host, Niko Vuori, talks with Luke Barwikowski, Founder, CEO & CTO of Pixels.xyz, and dives into how it quietly grew into one of the biggest web3 games by player count after migrating to Ronin, why Luke believes P2E can be sustainable, what utility the $PIXEL token provides players, and more.
To learn more, visit pixels.xyz. You can find Luke Barwikoski on LinkedIn.
00:00 - Start
03:00 - Luke's journey into Web3
06:58 - What is Pixels?
10:40 - Pixels Web3 metrics
13:10 - Pixels Tokenisation
16:45 - Pixels Game Mechanics / Economics
35:54 - Player engagement strategies
50:44 - Play to Earn sustainability?
57:00 - YGG partnership
59:45 - Future roadmap
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