Ain’t nobody got time for writing great intros. Season 4 was great, Season 5 will be epic - read on!
WTF happened in Season 4 - Fall
WTF happened then (at the season closing/launch & Season 5 design sprint)
WTF is happening next
How you can take part in it 🙃
👨👩👧👧 Community
Always the best part of MetaGame - the community has mostly been smooth sailing and in no small part thanks to tommy sticking to his Innkeepers guild champion post, Misanth taking care of onboarding of the newly Engaged Octos & discord regulars such as Luxumbra & Polimyl being helpful all over the place. 🍻
Misanth has done a full revamp of the onboarding flow, starting from the wiki & discord to the things that are available in Notion - everything has been revisited, restructured & new things such as the Engaged Octo board added.
By continuing the Onboarding flow of an individual from a Curious Octo to an Engaged Octo and only then possibly to Player status - if you meet the requirements - has meant Player numbers are fluctuating less, with window shoppers and Cred farmers no longer flooding through the gates. Quality over quantity. ✅
This also means that a load has been lifted off the Necromancers that now need to spend less time purging players. After the heavy purge of the last season & the raising of the entry bar, we are still well under the 150 active players limit. 👌These are important and effective changes and the benefits have been felt properly in Q4.
The weekly Cohort meetings have run well with naturally varying attendance.
Octos earning the Player role this Season include:
Anna - Shillers Guild champion
Hbesso31 - Headhunters Guild champion
Pvblick Vniversal Friend - MetaMedia champion
Polimyl - All around useful player, helping & asking the right questions
vid, Uddit-takkar & tommymaher - Great builders
We have a few more promising Engaged Octos that are on their way to become Players but aren’t quite there yet.
The Radical Inclusion raid made a great impact this season, especially in terms of female Community Gathering speakers - pretty much at least 1 female speaker per meetup. biux, eowulia and Anna all becoming Champions also shows gender balancing is happening in MetaGame 😇
Friday Community Calls have pretty much doubled without quality dropping by any means.. So, commonly, we have had 2 Guest speakers from various projects every Friday; instead of the usual 1, sometimes it went up to 3 😱. 🚀 Many have been non-male and all have felt welcome and shared well. So with more than 20 Speakers having visited. Who exactly was into sharing with MetaGame? Well, how about Vinay Gupta, MetaGammaDelta, Mintbase, 40acres, Panvala, Sourcecred, Lani Trock, Seed Club, Maria Helena Trad, EthernautDAO, UBICollective, YAPDAO, DigitalAx, dOrg, HipHopHeads, DoinGud, Deep Skills, Project Ark, Web3Bridge, Token Engineering Academy, Witnet, IndieDAO, CabinDAO, Daniel Ospina, WillowTreeDAO….🤯
Always a very interesting variation of speakers from all over the Globe coming to MetaGame. 👍🏽
There have been more Sunday Funday events, commonly centered around having fun hanging out while exploring metaverse spaces such as Cryptovoxels and Neos. 🍻🤼 Wanna see the recent fun and games had with b0gie as the host, with 4 hrs of MetaGame NEOS Metaverse here on twitch?
On Saturdays, there is now a Yoga session called Fractal Yoga which is a helpful thing to keep us supporting our health, that can sometimes suffer when behind the screen a lot of the time. 🕉🧘🏽♂️
Of course there has also been some tensions and conflict, which is not uncommon anywhere people are passionate about what they are doing as well as on the edge of burnout. We were better prepared and more responsive than before. Respect to those involved in navigating and moderating at the time. 🙏🏽
One of the outcomes was the addition of the NotCoolCall where players are encouraged to vent their frustrations with other players & MetaGame as a whole and the other was improving clarity about duties & responsibilities of the Championing roles - find the new version of How to Champion here.
In order to make sure everyone is being rewarded fairly & long term thinking as well as consistency are better than quick one-off task completions, the Balancing SourceCred raid has been officially kicked off with some of the changes already taking effect in the last distribution. More on this in the coming season.
In short:
Much improved the onboarding flow
Onboarded a bunch great players & improved diversity
Did shitton of great guests & projects gave talks at Community Gatherings
We did a bunch more workshops & Sunday Fundays
Started building bridges with a bunch more communities
🖥️ Content
As you might already be aware, at MetaGame we believe that the production of good content is a critical compontent for informational & educational as well as entertainment & promotional purposes. So, we’ve been writing newsletters, recording podcasts, recording talks, writing playbooks & now, upgrading the news side with videos as the next step, moar below.
tenfinney & Misanth have streamlined the Playbooks workflow and tenfinney has been very committed to running regular Playbooks based calls and consistently explaining the workflow in some depth. Anyone interested please join a call in Discord at 5pm UTC on Thursdays of each week, all are welcome. 🖊🍺
With the Playbooks raid finally being properly championed & chair stepping to the deputy role of sourcing them from outside MetaGame, we’re about to see an uptick in the number of playbooks being output.
News has been getting a good deal of attention from a new player Pvblick Vniversal Friend who created a pilot video exploring how the kind of news that comes in these newsletters might be shared in that kind of format. 🤔 Since then, discussion is now underway as to what different sorts of News we could create, that could be better suited to the medium. News from the wider meta ecosystem? Wider DAO, Ethereum or Web3? Global? Thoughts are welcome on the forum here. 👈🏽 Or in Discord 📻-metanews channel.
MetaRadio has heard 5 new podcast episodes. 📻 Two came from in the lively and laid back form we have come to expect of ‘Share What You’re Makin w/ Chair and Bacon’. These were with Ross Campbell of LexDAO and Dekan of DAOhaus. The others were classics, hosted by peth in interview with Alec of MetaGame, Roberto and Laura of Liminal Village and with Richard D Bartlett aka “Rich dB”. 🤩 Listen to those at our Anchor here.
(Almost) all of the Community Gathering guests have also been recorded & the recordings made available on our YouTube channel.
In short:
New Playbooks workflow & champion ensured a lot more is being written
5 new podcast episodes have aired
10+ great guest talks uploaded on youtube
MetaNews raid has been launched with a pilot
📱 Technology
Previously the weakest part of MetaGame, the building side has been making great strides. Things taken care of in the previous season, such as proper onboarding & documentation, as well as project management, clearer roadmap & regular meetings have yielded great results. Now, the main issue seems to be the lack of funding to pay more builders.
While the work on MyMeta has steadily continued with dysbulic working through the muck of migrating to Glaze, the work on the rest of the MetaOS has properly begun.
MyMeta is built with cutting edge tech which means its quite a learning curve for our builders as well as prone to disruptions due to new versions.. As already mentioned, the latest version of Ceramic meant a lot of the work was scrapped & begun anew. And even without it, the migration is a long & laborious process - finally ready to be reviewed & merged 🥳
With MyMeta finished, we’ll be looking to resurrect the Web3 Profiles interDAO collaboration group as well as start reaching out to more communities that might need cool member directories - some of the guest speakers have expressed interest in MyMeta for their projects. 🤩
Other work on MyMeta this season includes “quick edit” to skip going through the onboarding flow, “top 3 skills” & “player contracting” allowing people to set up escrow & do contract work directly through their MyMeta profiles.
As for the rest of the MetaOS, the main change is the Dashboard 👀
It has largely been built, ready with cool dynamic features and configurable to personal layout preferences. News, leaderboard, calendar, XP & Seed stats, content feeds as the basic features. 😍 This creation process as usual was a co-ordinated effort between designers and builders.
Why not go and have a play around with this early version? 🤷♂️
To make all of this navigation through MetaGame smoother, the MetaMenu has also seen great improvements in terms of opening things directly under vs opening in a new window & the visual styling of the menu itself - yet to be merged.
Other than that, formatting has been added to the Questing module meaning we mighht soon go on with migrating the quests from notion to the MetaOS 👀
Somewhere in-between technology & community, the minting process has finally been fully taken care of with Seeds arriving on time. Michiel has led the mint as a champion with Luxumbra as the deputy making sure it goes smooth. 😎 New and detailed documentation of ‘How to mint at MetaGame’ is currently under construction for extra anti-fragility in future as well. 💪🏽
In short:
More engaged builders
Minting process fixed
Basic version of MyMeta finished
First version of the Dashboard finished
Landing page & the rest of the MetaOS starting to come together
🌱 Growth
Every living thing seeks to grow & reproduce in one way or another and MetaGame is no different. And well, its been growing!
While the growth of the number of players decreased as we made it harder to join in order to optimize for quality over numbers, twitter followers & email subscribers have accelerated in numbers! MetaGame’s twitter following has went up by something like 30-40% while the growth of newsletter subsribers almost doubled 😱
Sometimes growth happens below the ground, in the roots. This appears to be the case with MyMeta coming together in less visible ways - rest assured, its almost ready & there’s no lack of projects interested in using it. 🙏🏽 MyMeta is the key piece for fundraising which is certainly going to be necessary to maintain the Seed price while we put together the rest of the MetaOS & build towards sustainability.
Speaking of the Seed price - its growing in reverse! 😱🤣 The pool migration to Polygon at 60%, meaning less liquidity coupled with crypto market pullback & flatlining means numba go down. Seeds at $17 & marketcap back under $1m doesn’t feel good but we’re not afraid nor stopping, great things are on the horizon! 🙃
Shilling has been consistent and Headhunting has seen a new strategy by a new champion - HBesso. Unfortunately, HBesso has been dealing with a major blocker when approaching people - the unpredictability of pay. Security is important to some folks more than others and the pay is currently neither predictable nor safe.
Seeds safu soon - peth’s rainmaking work has led to some offers of substantial funding but also shown us where we are lacking. 🧐 One blocker to growth is valuable educational content in the form of Playbooks which are slow to appear & another is the general lack of cohesion around the pieces of MetaGame..
Everything will make much more sense as the new landing page together with the MyMeta creation flow, Dashboard & the rest of the MetaOS come together. 🙃
While we remain persistent in doing just that, new people joining will still need to take a leap of faith & help us really PUSH this thing to the next level!
In short:
Twitter followers numba go up 30%
Newsletter subscribers almost double
5 new champions take posts
Seeds degrow 😅
Looking back & ahead
If you’ve been away from discord, you’ve been missing out!
As mentioned in the last newsletter, the season 4 closing & season 5 opening ceremony was set to happen on the 21st - and so it did.
Without going into all the details, it was a great fun bonding experience, as always. We collectively went over what happened in season 4; what we hated, what we loved, what we are thankful for or who are we thankful to. Then we looked out to season 5; what are we looking forward to, what are we afraid of & what are our wishes as well as personal goals. You can check the board here.
Onwards from the ceremony, dawg of Deep Work facilitated another great design sprint where we spent almost 4 hours ideating, discussing & prioritizing things we want to focus on in the next season.
Here are some of the outcomes:
Implement a buddy system - Guru Makasi
Start building the Playbooks UI ourselves 🤷 - Alec & tenfinney
Move the questing system out of notion onto the MetaOS - vid
Make Seeds more understandable & easier to buy, plant or spend - peth
Onboar more projects to MyMeta & Ceramic - peth & dysbulic
Expand onboarding from MetaGame-specific to Web3 in general & start building the UI for it on MetaOS - peth & Guru
Incentivize consistent & long term commitment better than one-off tasks - peth, then the ever-missing XP Fairies Champion (pls halp 🙏)
Note: All of the above was only talked about & prioritized by 20-odd people on the call, we want to hear more from EVERYONE.
👉 Community Feedback Pls 👈
🎩 Open Roles 🎩
The above made you want to jump in & do shit? 🙃
Here are some of the open roles 👇
🐙 Normal Roles
Normal roles are entry level roles that anyone can take on without committing too much time or taking on too much responsibility.
🛠️ Builder - An evergreen role, always looking for more TypeScript & other kinds of builders. Know someone? Bring them? Its you but you got frustrated with stale PRs & bad PMing - give us another chance 😇
🤗 Innkeeper - Another always-in-demand role, but this one requiring less specialized skills. Interested? Go down to the 🤗-innkeepers-guild
📣 Shiller - Promote MetaGame & the upcoming fundraise in any adjacent DAO or crypto community
💩 Shitposter - Come up with funny tweets & memes to post on twitter, drop in 🐤-tweet-arena
🧠 Educator - Come up with useful knowledge & tips we should be posting from MetaGame’s twitter account, drop in 🐤-tweet-arena
🐙🐙 Deputy roles
Deputy roles are more important, thus come with some responsibility & commitment. You will be working with Champions.
🤗 Innkeeper Deputy - Help Tommy run the Innkeepers Guild & do anything revolving around making players happy.
🌉 Bridgebuilders Guild Deputy - Bridgebuilders are about making connections between MetaFam & other guilds, both "MetaGame guilds" & those that haven't been onboarded yet. Its perfect for those that are active in multiple DAOs or know many DAOs & want to bring them closer together.
🤑 Rainmakers Guild Deputy - Rainmakers are about saving Seeds from the collapse & helping MetaGamers build through the Winter Season as well as the upcoming many & towards sustainability. Join peth in securing MetaGame’s future & secure yourself a spot in MetaGame’s history.
🙌 Meetup Master Deputy - To help Tommy with organizing community events with the focus on workshops - facilitating knowledge exchange by scheduling workshops based on 🧠-brain-exchange
🎨 Artists Guild - We're trying to make MetaGame into "an intersection of technology, philosophy & art". Well, we need more art! There is no lack of art that needs to be made, just ask about it in 🎨-artists-guild
👘 MetaMerch - This art should also get on all sorts of "wearables" & other physical items. Could be a shirt, could be a portable eco-friendly ashtray.
🧚 XP Fairies - This one's for those who get frustrated with the injustices in the XP system. Sourcecred is great but its not a panacea & there are problems that can be fixed, things that can get balanced! Ask 🤗-innkeepers-guild & help.
🐙🐙🐙 Champion roles
Champion roles are of highest importance and highest commitment & responsibility roles. There are requirements that need to be taken seriously.
❓ Re:Quests Champion - All about making sure that quests are written up as they arise, well explained & distributed. They scrape Notion & work closely with other champions to know what their needs are
✔️ AchievMinter - Keeps track of 🔮-guild-n-raid-reports, 😇-did-a-thing & 🙌-give-props, collaborates with 🧚-xp-fairies-guild to make sure people who do great things are rewarded with achievement NFTs
🤖 Bot Army - Bot army champion does what bot army champions do - work on bots. The needs for bots are many & varied, there is much to do
Meta 👀
A different kind of Meta. Starting from this issue, we’ll be attempting to include a bit of wider ecosystem news in the newsletters so as to make it less MetaFam-specific & more useful at the Meta & Web3 ecosystem level. 🤷♂️
These may or may not also be appearing in the video form 👀
Giveth launches GIVeconomy & all MetaGame players got some GIV tokens! 😱
Some of our friends at EF & Developer DAO are doing this 30-Days of Web3 challenge thing we’ll probably be joining
Our friends at Crypto Commons Gathering are organizing a ReFi Unconference about regenerative finance, stay on the lookout for announcements or DM peth
??? - got something newsworthy? There are Seeds in reporting news here 👀
🐙 Onwards!
Fall is behind is, more planning for Winter Season & action is ahead of us:
Closing/Opening Ceremony as well as the Season 5 Design Sprint yielded great insights & actionable next steps 💪
For the next few weeks, all of the guild & raid align calls will be about building their chunks of the overall roadmap & executing on the first steps 👌
We really do want to hear more from each & every one of you, please take a few minutes to fill out this feedback form 🙏
All calls as per usual schedule 🙃
Wish you all the best,
Gnomeski & peth ❤️