The 13th Seasoning & Beyond!
MetaGame so far, what we did in S12, what's next & what comes after!
Hello & welcome!
This post goes through:
Pre-history
Current state
Past Season
What’s Next?
Phase I > Phase II
The 13th Seasoning!
Pre-history
Epochs ago, before the first DeFi & NFT Summers, at a time when there were 5 active DAOs, Web3 wasn't seen as an MMO-RPG, metacrisis was unknown in Web3 & network states weren't conceived of; MetaGame was started.
To be built in 3 phases:.
Phase I - A Decentralized Factory (2019-today)
Phase II - A Web of Opportunity (2024)
Phase III - A Web of Life (TBA)
The goal of the Decentralized Factory was to streamline the onboarding process for joining the space as a contributor, build a network of service DAOs, project DAOs, DAO tooling, knowledge & other necessary resources.
Current state
After 4 years, we're finally almost there!
A community of hardcore fans
A network of 30+ aligned projects
Organized dozens of events on URL & IRL
Produced hundreds of newsletters & podcasts with over 10k readers
Basics of Web3 & DAOs covered, full DAO Playbook in the making
A platform with:
An ecosystem onboarding system
A decentralized education system
A decentralized identity system
A questing system
A modular dashboard bringing it all + more together
A market (soon!)
Past Season
MetaGame has been undergoing a transformation. First came the realization that we would be a lot more effective if we reliably & properly paid a few people instead of just spreading $5k/mo across the whole community.
This allowed us to move from hoping people would naturally focus on things that matter, like user experience, to making sure they do. Then we spent the next months revamping all of the UX/UI:
Massive simplification of the navbar
Questing interface redesign
Landing page improvements & extension
Redesign of the signup pages & value prop
Redesign of the educational pages & building of The Academy
Redesign of the calendar block
Redesign of the Seeds page
Reworking of the leaderboard
Beautiful new background
A bunch more smaller things
Other notable things:
Rewrote the onboarding game
Raised about $20k in grants
Upgraded MyMeta to ComposeDB
Published a few podcast episodes & the rest of the MetaFest talks
Had 7 speakers to our community calls
Most importantly - organized DAOcember
300+ telegram members & twitter followers in 2 weeks
69 DAO veterans reppin 80+ DAOs & related orgs
100+ DAO summoners signed up
First day attended by 400+ people
25 hours of content captured
$4k raised from the community
You can read more about it in MetaNews September, October & November.
What’s Next?
There are a few things we need to do before moving on:
Finish the full DAO Playbook
Continue onboarding DAOs
Implement the new Seeds page design
Build the Bazaar (inverse of Quests)
A rudimentary version of the activity feed,
here’s this mockup just to catch your eye! 🙃
How?
Now that we’ve adopted a leaner, more product focused strategy & built most of the remaining pieces, I think it’s time to start scaling MetaGame horizontally by onboarding, integrating & incubating more DAOs.
Bazaar & MyDash (full version of the above, not the MVP activity feed that just surface things that happen on the platform) - will most likely be built as their own DAOs, in their own repos, with their own funding.
We’ll be building things outside & modularizing the MetaOS repo for practical as well as philosophical reasons. There’s a bigger think piece coming soon - Meditations on MetaGame - but here’s the tl;dr:
In short, MetaGame succeeds by:
No longer building new things inside the monorepo
Scaling horizontally by onboarding, incubating & delegating to other DAOs
Building self-sustainable projects & having multiple revenue streams
Focusing on creating value for the wider ecosystem & instigating more DAOs
Longer term…
Phase I > Phase II
A Decentralized Factory > The Web of Opportunity
In the next phase, MetaGame becomes more of a DAO Federation.
DAOists are here to build better kinds of organizations & institutions. What’s the end game? Putting the pieces together. We’d all benefit by joining forces, building shared capacity, pooling resources etc. - helping each other & growing the ecosystem.
MetaGame & the MetaAlliance should evolve into a DAO Federation.
Our ultimate goal is to build an alternative socioeconomic system, along with physical locations like hacker houses & eco-villages - offering an alternative society & lifestyle for people driven by self-actualization & impact-making, to escape the rat race.
To play metagame is to play a game beyond the one played by most people. A game beyond the game. META also stands for the Most Effective Tactics Available in gaming lingo. To play MetaGame means to play life as best & meaningfully as you can.
The 13th Seasoning!!!
Now that we got all of that out of the way, onto The 13th Seasoning!
Things we’ll do this seasoning:
Recap everything we’ve done
Testing the revamped MetaGame
What went well & what didn’t
Discuss the next season & beyond
Strategize on the Phase II transition 👀
The 13th Seasoning is happening on Friday 22nd - yes, this Friday, at 5pm UTC!
As usual, it will happen on MetaGame’s discord, inside the townhall.
Looking forward to jammin’ with you!
peth