What's with the newsletter & what's up with MetaGame?
A bunch, oooh, a bunch.
Wanted to start with “I hope everyone is ok” but of course everyone is ok; all we lost is money. Shitloads of it perhaps, but, if you’ve been smart, you only lost in fiat terms, and we all know that doesn’t even count as a loss if you’re holding the right bags. 🙃
I do hope you haven’t leveraped & gotten raped.
One thing I want to say is that I am proud of your diamond hands, dear Seed hodlors. During the whole meltdown, only 2 people sold any Seeds; neither sale was significant & one of them wasn’t even by a player. 🤷♂️
Being backed by ETH, the price of Seeds obviously still tanked.
It brings up an important point: the bull run will at some point end and with less than 100eth backing Seeds - MetaGame won’t survive the next winter unless we get serious about bringing in more patrons.
With a strong community & vision we’ve slowly but surely been realizing, I believe at <$1m marketcap & >$500k in the liquidity pool - MetaGame is a good opportunity for any Etherean with a long term vision.
Know anyone that aligns with our vision of a decentralized society & the future of human coordination? - Send them this!
Newsletter News
With people missing an awesome workshop beta test on Saturday (Creating Virtuous Cycles), the MetaCartelxMetaGame meetup on Tuesday, and yet others asking “did I miss last week’s newsletter?” - I think the newsletter is ready for a change.
There will be order! ✊
In the beginning, the blog post itself was the news - I didn’t have much actual news to share. I kept laying out the vision & stringing together pieces of narrative with fresh content pretty much every week.
Well, as MetaGame evolved, so did my roles & responsibilities. I no longer have the bandwidth to consistently deliver fresh content every week. These days, the posts are what is delaying the newsletter.
From now on, newsletters will be consistent.
MetaGame Meta 👀
Durgadas gave us a great beta test of his workshop on Creating Virtuous Cycles (how to work hard & break new grounds without burning out)
The Purge concluded by Bagholder McFomo with a bunch more people reactivating as players, some as patrons & a bunch more dropping out of the game altogether - weaklings 🤭
The MetaRadio team launches a new podcast series - Humans of MetaGame - starting with Hammad the MetaDreamer of many DAOs. Also records the next episode with Santi Siri, to be released next week.
Designers Guild continues plucking away at the MetaOS. A card sorting exercise was followed by a questionnaire leading into this MetaMenu wireframe draft. Blake rejoins as a designer with builder chops, then Alec & Michiel jump on the call to discuss more cross-collab between designers & builders. Pairing?
Builders Guild continues doing shit - yay! For a long time, development work was the only part of MetaGame I was worried about - constantly lagging behind the rest of the community. With incentives for builders raised, Gelee jumping on to structure it with raids & awesome people like Alec, dan13 & dysbulic kicking things into gear - I’m thrilled to say this is no longer the case ☺️.
Some bugs were hacked & slashed, the staging environment was set up, guild pages put online, MyMeta profiles now include filtering (WIP) & a comprehensive code walkthrough was recorded.
Last but not least, 4 new builders just joined us two days ago: izkp, sackofjoy, jonathan_p & Frankie. Thank you Raid Guild for sending these fine folk, we’ll make sure to treat them as fair as you would ❤️The Better Onboarding raid is coming to a close. Of course, improving the onboarding system will be an ongoing effort for innkeepers, but huge chunks of work have been churned out & the raid no longer requires focus of so many people meeting twice a week. The rest of the guilds have been written out as well as patron’s & a few other questlines, onepagers done, welcoming doc & warmup quests updated as well as the onboarding path fixed and probably a bunch of other things I forgot about. The main chunk of work remaining:
Work on the Metarrhizal Network - final review & implementation following up.Notion got a huge update with a lot of quests cleaned, descriptions edited, the whole thing reorganized into a bunch more boards based on raids & a table of content made - making it much easier to navigate & understand, especially for the people without full access 🙃.
Headhunters Align begins! The Headhunters Guild will now be aligning on a weekly basis, plotting conversions of more normies into players. 😈 We’ll be hitting up hackathons & other places worth recruiting from. By posting about the builders role on AngelList, peth already attracted ~30 potential new builders. 😱
Shillers Guild launching soon? 👀
Reminders:
Awesome 3D animated achievement awards for Season1 were sent out through ChievMint on xDAI
2.5k Seeds (>$80k worth) are still waiting to be claimed by players
Open Roles
🛠️ Builder
We got a bunch of new builders but the list of issues is long 🙃
Good thing is that we don’t need Solidity developers, we need good old web2 developers. Those of ReactJS, TypeScript kind & those familiar with Hasura & Graph.
Check the role description here, get going on the builders path here or ask about it in the #builders-guild.
🤑 Patron
Patrons are the players that are contributing to MetaGame by buying & planting Seeds. You can read more about how it works here. We won’t be making a big push for patrons for at least another week, but do know that the planting season is soon & it might be worth it being among the earliest 🙃
🕵️♂️ Headhunter
Headhunter is a player who knows a lot of people or where to find them. His role is to get the other roles filled. Currently, the highest priority for headhunters are the builders, though finding more innkeepers & patrons definitely won’t hurt 😇
Onwards! 🐙
This week’s Community Gathering special - Security Tips & Tricks
Mondays:
Champions Ring - the 14 raid leads stand-up meet
Headhunters Align @ 10am PST / 1pm EST / 7pm CET / 10:30pm IST
Tuesdays:
Designers Align @ 10am PST / 1pm EST / 7pm CET / 10:30pm IST
Wednesdays:
Builders Align @ 7am PST / 10am EST / 4pm CET / 7:30pm IST
Better Onboarding @ 8am PST / 11am EST / 5pm CET / 8:30pm IST
Mid-week Storming, Feedback, AMA - open office, coworking
Fridays:
Better Onboarding Standup @ 8am PST / 11am EST / 5pm CET / 8:30pm IST
Cohort Onboarding @ 8:30am PST / 11:30am EST / 5:30pm CET / 9pm IST
Community Gathering - Security Tips & Tricks @ 9am PST / noon EST / 4pm UTC / 6pm CET / 9:30pm IST