Season 3 of Summer is already a month underway. 🤯 Summer is of course prime time for all the good shit that does not involve being online! 🙃 😱
Wait, how come then some MetaGamers are still bullish on sweat proof mouses and keyboards? We will get to all that.
OG Octo and MetaGame originator peth 🐙 has taken a bit of time for himself and we miss him goddammit! After 2 years of non-stop, over full time involvement from him we all get it! I can tell he is still doing more than most on strategy and marketing side of MetaGame anyway.
Good to see though, that healthy time out and the making of even more headspace for MetaGame is underway for our much loved top player! 💪
This has left a bit of a black hole hole, where Newsletters used to be. 😱 So here you get a 3 week condensed version. 🤗
Fairies Guild, with penguin at the helm Merkled out another payday, spreading smiles across the globe. Many SEEDs have been planted already but, there are still a bunch for people to claim here, and hopefully plant, with the much needed ETH. The Mint coming in right on time was nailed by process design flow from BagholderMcFomoIII 👏
Wiki content has been pumping at MetaGame. 📚
Great Houses
House of dApps and
House of DeFiance are up.
These were collaborative efforts with luxumbra playing a major role in
getting both from draft to publication (with assistance from the Writers Guild).Also Playbooks to appear are
How to Coach Eth and
How to HackMD both from chair.
Gnomeski contributed Entering DAOs as a Writer, with an optional full length tutorial.
How to Play Twitter appeared from Visa as well!
A new flow for adding PRs to the Github repos in future is planned to make Githubbing way more streamlined, less commits and all that.
Misanth has been working in Notion on organising where DAO calls can focus. Contribute your ideas in there. This manifested as a distilled list of areas the community has identified want focus and after a vote, the treasury and tokenomics side has been identified as first focus area. Brainstorming n DAO calls is underway on how to make SEED stronger. 💪
HackMoney participation has seen a ton of positive results penguin, kyle stargarden, luxumbra and metaverde Created a DeFi strategy called DAOMoon that took 3rd place for the Badger Bounty at HackMoney Hackathon, that was put on by the EthGlobal. The event is the largest DeFi hackathon of 2021 and had over 3000 participants. Badger was one of the main sponsors. Our team was out in force representing MetaGame, taking names, recruiting and also #WINNING! 🏆
Tenfinney is one new player who has jumped in at the deep end, with much valuable involvement in many calls. His work on CryptoVoxels with the Metagame Pop up Booth is a sight for sore eyes and doing guided tours was an especially nice touch. You can rest those peepers on the awesomeness here. 👀 This may become a new space regularly used for Metagame onboarding moving forward.
The CryptoVoxels tour as just one event on a Sunday Funday which is now ‘a thing’ at MetaGame where games, sharing, performance or whatever is happening among the frens.
b0gie | 𝓎𝑒𝓍𝓏𝓊.𝑒𝓉𝒽 has been quietly showing how donuts are the new basic material everything is made of.. forget molecules and atoms.. donuts are where it’s at! This is not madness, but refers to the starting point in the 3D rendering sessions using Blender. b0gie has also been levelling up Metagame artists with Blender like a champ and with some impressive results. He is now also a Videolord Champion. Here is one of b0gie’s Metaplayer Pop Rings.. only the worthy will receive! 😋
Vyvy-vi has created a working prototype of the requested Sherpabot and demoed it in The Bot Army Open Office session. Sherpabot will prompt stand ups from Champions/Guild heads… which, while writing this.. I can see just how much of a damn useful feedback loop this is.. 🦾
Something else that is dopeAF are the 3D Metagame actual Skateboards sold with NFTs, by MLIBTY that are pretty unreal! Check out this post if you missed that and maybe snag one? Buy with SEEDs too!
Latest ongoing raid with The Metarrhizal Network has come to an end also, which was largely champed by Fearless Thompson.
📐+🛠️ Development
The Design team and the builders continue to work very closely with project pairings driving new creation. Davor and Fearless Thompson being prominent in design areas and Alec and Michiel stepping up for builders.
The teams have been busily at work using a Mobile first approach. Working on the understandably popular Role Selection user interfaces to streamline new player experiences and Top 3 skills interfaces also. These have been getting worked with special emphasis on wireframe designs, outlines and usability tests. Buidlers have been fleshing out all this design work
Playbooks UI is being set up for initial deployment to the Wiki, this is being based on player story mapping from those involved in Playbooks so far., Alpha wiki limitations have been identified however, mean integrating into MyMeta is the future of this UI. So the way forward seems open for Playbooks UI.
Executing filters for the players page, especially on mobile. 3Box info caching has been a focus for MyMeta to increase performance while IDX integration is underway in readiness for an upgrade from 3Box for MyMeta.
Dan13ram has been instrumental in creating timezone enhancements system for MyMeta. Timezones will be able to show what players are in neighbouring timezones to enable better synchronous co-ordination and help identify when projects may be better run async. Another feature underway is being able to view seasonal XP as opposed to All Time XP.
One more thing happening is work on functions for changing ETH addresses.
Dysbulic continues being busy and often with online open coding sessions that people can drop into, and is often looking for more hackathons to jump on
🕵️♂️ Headhunting
Head Hunting has been on an Epic push primarily due to the laser focus of kyle stargarden with ongoing help also from metaverde. Kyle managed to generate interest from no less than 200 new people from HackMoney, including many devs! Head hunting at ETHGlobal Discord was driven towards recruiting builders & other aligned folks. This is to drive interest and involvement across the whole Metaspace, not just Metagame.. an absolute ton of Social Admin and for such an awesome cause.. bringing stars into the garden indeed!☄️ More info about this Raid here OR drop into Headhunters Channel here and help metaverde.
🍻 InnKeeping
Innkeeping returned to a high, caring for the curious and engaged Octos arriving and swinging the essential scythes of Necromancy as non contributors are either converted to Patrons or become Fallen Ones to make way for more vital people to assume the limited spaces and get questing. To become a Patron you should own 8pSEEDs.. Process is here. 🌱
More important than ever with the high amount of current interest, tommy has really stepped up and been super active with individuals as well as organising around Innkeeping in General with Innkeepers Align calls to assure we deliver consistently well. 🌟 Amazing resource hub for InnKeepers can be found here at The Portal Room, another gem from Misanth.
😶 Necromancers
The Season 3 Purge is well underway. Get Involved or become a Patron now before it is too late! Purging is, after all, for The Greater Good… ☠️
After analysing did-a-thing and give props tommy concluded that player numbers frequently involved were currently around 25-30 0f the allotted 150 player spaces! 🤯
This revelation has upped the pressure for more hardcore Purging guidelines in the future. As MOAR people are flocking to Metagame who might become properly engaged players, space needs to be made and this involves throwing the dead weight over board! 🏴☠️ This has seen near record levels of memes appearing in support!
Like this one… 🤣 So get busy OR become a Patron!
🐙 Cohorts
Many Curious people have been becoming Curious Octos over the last 3 weeks. Some have become quite Engaged and some new builders are among the ranks also. 👷
Misanth continues to hold space for these new players acting as front line Avatar of Better Onboarding providing a warm and informative greeting and guiding process. In addition Mis has set up tracking and created a guide on how to Cohort.
One cohort had 20+ new Octos. Fine tuning of what these New Roles permissions are is set to be discussed and worked on next in cohort process development.
📣 Shillers
Fearless Thompson and BagholderMcFomoIII ran a long call exploring an experimental brainstorm around people ideas of psychological profiling for different people who may be interested in Crypto in general. This attempted to explore varying motivations and desirable use cases folks might be seeking.
These two players have also been working to make video content from Metafest more useable. This has involved doing edits, cuts, titles and descriptions for around 100 vids!
A fair bit of tweeting has been happening in bursts.
Shillers Guild Inkeeper vid has been created.
Check out MetaMedia on Youtube for a ton of great content and get spreading the word across your networks.
Some great info about vid work can be found in Notion here. It covers Videos required, work flow process, some sample stuff and more.
🖋️ Writers
Writing has been split up with a separate Playbooks Channel driving many raids independently of the Writers Guild but, main thing is that content is being created and the Wiki is expanding nicely as is Notion content.. A few more engaged Octos are showing an interest and Musashi in particular has made a start on some pieces about earning as a writer in Web3.
Onwards! 🐙
Mondays:
Champions Ring - the 14 raid leads stand-up meet
Headhunters Align @ 10am PST / 1pm EST / 7pm CET / 10:30pm IST
Tuesdays:
Free Code Camp @ 6am PST / 9 am EST / 3 pm CET / 6:30pm IST
Content and Shilling Strategy @ 8am PST / 11 am EST / 5 pm CET / 8:30pm IST
Shillers Align @ 9am PST / 12pm EST / 6 pm CET / 9:30pm IST
Designers Align @ 10am PST / 1pm EST / 7pm CET / 10:30pm IST
Wednesdays:
Builders Align @ 7am PST / 10am EST / 4pm CET / 7:30pm IST
Innkeepers Align @ 9am PST / 12pm EST / 6 pm CET / 9:30pm IST
Mid-week Storming, Feedback, AMA - open office, coworking @ 10am PST / 1pm EST / 7pm CET / 10:30pm IST
Thursday:
Free Code Camp @ 6am PST / 9 am EST / 3 pm CET / 6:30pm IST
Jammin on Playbooks @ 9am PST / noon EST / 4pm UTC / 6pm CET / 9:30pm IST
Fridays:
Free Code Camp @ 6am PST / 9 am EST / 3 pm CET / 6:30pm IST
Cohort Onboarding @ 8:15am PST / 11:15am EST / 5:15pm CET / 8:45pm IST
Community Gathering @ 9am PST / noon EST / 4pm UTC / 6pm CET / 9:30pm IST
Saturdays
Creating Virtuous Cycles with Durgadas @12.30 pm PST / 3.30 pm EST / 9.30 pm CET / 0:30 am IST