Meta #28 - MetaGame Is In Trouble 😱
Meta #28 - MetaGame Is In Trouble 😱
Sell Your Seeds!
Troubles 😬
On Friday calls we set up the agenda for the week.
Seeing people tend to… Not really do what they say they’ll do; I started regularly checking up on people and asking about their progress.
Yesterday was that day. Today, I woke up to a response from one of the core contributors asking to be removed from the inner circle. 😦
I like being angry more than I like being sad - the angry energy is easier to put to good use while sadness usually just makes me unproductive.
Anyway, here’s what he said:
lack of project management
Ascribing this to my lack of experience. When starting MetaGame, I was 100% aware of my incompetence at doing something as complex as this. What made me take the leap is my hope that, it being “a DAO”, more competent people will naturally rise up to the challenge & fill in the gaps.
Disclosure: At first, I was even naive enough to think the projects will be autonomous, not require management & the people working on them will just manage themselves. 😂
I believe it is because of lack of incentives
Seeds are not distributed regularly neither have understandable value
Its truly been far too long since we last minted Seeds. The gas prices were crazy and we were endlessly debating moving to xDAI or other layer2 solutions. We also underestimated people’s patience for receiving Seeds based on it not mattering to Hammad & I.
We’ll be moving forward with Seed minting in the next few days. If you haven’t already, register your eth address in the #set-eth-address channel.
If you received the Seeds already and want to sell them without crashing the price on Uniswap, contact me @petheth.
It’s been a year and I don’t think metagame moved far, or got any significant traction.
This is the bit that actually hurts me. I’m painfully aware that even though we did do a bunch of things, the technical progress has been damn slow.
My problem: Trying to figure out whether its me that’s the problem, my lack of ability managing the project, explaining it, promoting it etc. or is MetaGame simply something people don’t care about?
Help me figure it out, please.
Click one of these:
I don’t want to cling on to it if nobody cares about it, I can give it up.
Downward Spiral
Slow progress means having less to show, making it harder to raise money, making it harder to make progress making it…
It’s a vicious cycle, a downward spiral.
It’s the death of a project.
We can’t have that shit.
⚔️State of Raids⚔️
Regardless of things being slow, there are things being done. Here’s what they are:
You can read more about what the raids are & how to get involved through associated forum threads or reaching out to people connected to them.
🌱 XP & Seeds DAO
During the last call we decided that the Seed market stays on mainnet, the "where-from" of the membership paying problem will most likely at least temporarily be solved by minting +5% on all Seeds minted for contributors, then providing those as liquidity to money contributors who need to subscribe to buying as membership. Disagree? Contribute to the discussion through #memberships channel or the forum thread.
The “where-from” problem: If membership is paid automatically through off-chain Seeds, what do we do about the people who want to join by buying on-chain Seeds? If membership is paid through on-chain Seeds, what do we do about the people who want to join by contributing labor? It would also require additional steps as you would have to not only buy Seeds but also send them away at the same time.
Want to sell Seeds? Contact @petheth.
🧙 MyMeta
A decentralized profile/business page displaying your skills, achievements & reputations across DAOs & communities. Or whatever you want it to display.
During the week, Hammad took up merging the three branches of MetaGame. We can’t simply deploy MyMeta profiles, directory & navigation bar, to metagame.wtf because they’re just pieces of the puzzle. We need to merge MyMeta with the main page & the Wiki.
Kris & dan13 were supposed to be working on the profile creation flow and adding the skills to the profiles but one of them left the game and the other disappeared.
Despite this being the raid of highest priority, it is regularly the least worked-on. 😬
We need more developers on this!
If you’re a developer or want to help us get more developers, please get in touch.
🗺️ MetaMaps
Ronin is done rewriting MetaMaps with React Flow, revamped the UI, re-added all of the features and fixed most of the bugs. Time to figure out the next steps, what needs to be built, what needs to be tested, the roadmap etc.
🏘️ MetaVille
We figured Calla won't be suitable as the basis for MetaVille and we settled on the Traviso engine once and for all. Cagince has been doing some code refactoring and mostly migrated the prototype to Traviso.
The next major roadblock? In-game assets.
Cagince will give us an overview of the progress on tomorrow’s call of which we’ll dedicate a good chunk to figuring out what the next steps for MetaVille should be.
If you know any good artist that might be into drawing isometric buildings, let us know through the Discord or message me @petheth.
Also join us tomorrow if you want to help hacking on the project or help us find more devs.
📻 MetaRadio
Rather than building a standalone website, we decided last week that MetaRadio should simply have a page on the wiki.
I bought a proper microphone and the podcast is rolling again thanks to kris, now we’ll try to get it on a more stable release schedule.
Here’s the new episode: Austin Griffith - Onboarding, Prototyping & Sidechaining
And in case you missed last one: Local Economies & Decentralized Societies
Now we mostly need help distributing the podcast to places where people might find it useful (someone post it on r/ethereum pls) & making some memes (quote images or short clips) out of it.
Who should we interview next? Drop your suggestions in the Discord channel.
🌳 Skill Trees
We decided not to wait for MetaMaps to be ready and started working on the Skill Trees. I made the middle one and started adding more details, ben.oxmo made the cloud on the left which is more about practical steps of researching and becoming useful in crypto, and Austin & Simona made the one on the right, which is about developing in Ethereum.
I don’t know whether the tree structure will actually work for what we’re trying to do (probably not?), I don’t think “skill trees” is the right name if we want to include knowledge and not just skills and I have no idea how to actually integrate different versions & methods into one comprehensive map…
Oh, and the tree illustration is absolute crap.
But we’ll probably have to abandon it for something more of a network anyway, so..
Anyway, if you have any ideas on how we should structure this, want to add details, new branches or a better illustration - please do:
Or get in touch @petheth
🤗 Interconnection
During last week’s update, mprime told us the #👋🤝-friend-finder channel is not working as expected 😬
Doesn’t matter! We’ll either get it fixed or find other ways of strengthening connections within MetaGame and making MetaFam a stronger community. 🤷♂️
We’re having a meeting dedicated to the topic in just a bit. Drop into discord if you’re reading this right as it arrived.
Otherwise, read this post & drop some suggestions:
👕 MetaMerch
Penguin joins the raid. We got the first designs ready to print on some shirts & Loop is working on sourcing more from his designer friends. Next up, coordinate with the MetaFactory and get the MetaMerch/MetaSwag/Whatever store up.
If you’re interested in contributing some design or helping in other ways:
💬 Improving Discord / 🤖 Villagers
Gotta keep improving Discord, it’s our man communications platform. This week, Vanilla did more testing on our playground server, then started implementing changes on our main server.
He added the announcements channel (which is somehow different than a normal channel just named “announcements”) that will get hooked up to other announcement channels across the MetaNation, Metaverse or however you want to call it.
Geleeroyale meanwhile added the first embassy, 1Hive. “Embassies” is the new channels category on our Discord, as the name suggests it will contain channels that act as embassies with other guilds - bridging messages from server to server.
If you can’t see the “embassies” category, it’s because it is only available to Silver league or higher ranked players.
Other than that, he added the “!?portals” functionality to the bot, which should make it easier for players to get to other parts of MetaGame.
If you got any improvement suggestions for Discord, get in touch with vanilla or post in the #improving-discord channel.
WAT DO? 🤔
Well, there’r still 7 player spots left in MetaGame & 2 spots left in the inner circle. 😱
Join us tomorrow for another battle-planning session!
We’ll be digging through the Navigation Board, setting goals & assigning roles.
⏲ 10am PST / 1pm EST / 5pm UTC / 7pm CET / 10:30pm IST