🎉 **Ecosystem Showcase AMA with @rogues.near** 🎉 ▪️Date: 11 May 2023 ▪️Platform: Discord near.chat ▪️**TEXT RECAP:** **1. Introduction of Rogues Studio team and their projects in the Web3 space** - Morgan and Anna are co-founders of Rogues Studio, working together since 2017 on gamified training and similar apps. - Rogues Studio creates multiple games in the post-apocalyptic world of the Rogues universe. - Morgan serves as the CTO, while Anna leads business development, marketing, and community. **2. Inspiration and innovative elements of Rogues game** - The idea for Rogues came from a brainstorming session focused on creating anti-hero characters. - The game is set in a post-apocalyptic world with moral ambiguity, allowing for interesting storytelling and character development. - The creators aim to avoid making a "cookie cutter" game and involve the community in developing ideas for the game. **3. Differentiation of Rogues from other Web3 games and NFT projects** - Rogues differentiates itself through its concept, innovation, character, world-building, and storytelling. - The team's background and experience in delivering innovative products make them different from others in the space. **4. Advantages of Near tech stack for Rogues users and gaming experience** - Onboarding is crucial for Rogues to attract more gamers into the Web3 space, and Near has an advantage in this area. - Many Polygon users have been brought to Near by Rogues and enjoyed the experience. **5. Discussing the experience of minting on NEAR and the NEAR community's collaboration** - Rogues team expresses gratitude and excitement for the NEAR community's support and collaborative ecosystem, praising it as friendlier and more collaborative than bigger ecosystems. They are surprised by how quickly connections can be built in NEAR. - Few and Far helped Rogues with a smart contract in less than 10 days and gave them their first point of entry into NFTs on NEAR. **6. Unity API for NEAR blockchain** - Morgan created a Unity API for NEAR blockchain to make it easy for Web3 game developers to integrate blockchain functionality into their existing Unity games. - The Unity plugin is a lightweight wrapper around the standard NEAR JavaScript API and has all the necessary functionality for logging in with a wallet, making smart contract calls, and pulling down NFTs. - The plugin is free and currently supports WebGL, and the next step is to work on Android and iOS support. **7. Utility of NFTs in Rogues ecosystem** - Rogues Studio is building an ecosystem with multiple games and products. - Polygon NFTs give access to all games built by Rogues Studio for free and in perpetuity. There are loan-to-earn opportunities and status unlocks for NFT holders, such as merch and meetings with the team. Polygon NFTs also give access to Morgan’s courses on game development and personal tuition. - NFTs on NEAR are moving in the same direction but for now, they allow players to play with their foxes without restrictions and offer custom avatars with rare traits that will give bonuses in the future. Fox NFTs are stackable on Jump DeFi and Cheddar Farm. **8. The future of Web 3, crypto gaming, and the NFT industry** - Ownership of assets in gaming will become the norm and gamers will resist games that do not allow them to own their assets. - Usability and onboarding are crucial to the growth of the industry. - User-generated content will be key to the development of the industry, allowing for more creativity and innovation. **9. Secret sauce and differentiator** - The team's secret sauce includes game concepts, lore, and design for differentiation. - They achieve diversity and quirkiness in characters and storylines to stand out. - User-generated content and community engagement are important for the game experience. **Catch you all at our next AMAs!** 🙌