Games: Portal to Web3
Tired of the usual faces and same formats at Web3 gaming events? Break free from the Web3 bubble with "Games: Portal to Web3" at KBW!
About this event:
Join us on September 3rd, 4pm at Portal Gangnam. Dive into on-site tournaments and epic events led by esports veterans, network with Korea’s highly acclaimed esports teams, and compete alongside your favorite esports players from diverse genres for prizes and glory!
What to expect:
🎮 Experience open playtest opportunities for top Web3 games
🏅 Join live, on-stage tournaments and events stacked with prizes
🏟️ Network with Korea’s top esports teams and players
🎤 Panel Discussion on Web3 Gaming with industry leaders
Hosts:
SKYGG
SKYGG is an elite gaming guild based/esports player agency in South Korea, composed of a wide array of esports players and officials from various genres. As the official YGG partner DAO in esports, SKYGG is an investor and partner to top Web3 games on game design and tournament structure. Additionally, SKYGG conducts in-depth research on the gaming and Web3 industries and publishes a weekly newsletter via Substack. Weekly content is forwarded to KHAN, one of the largest daily newspaper brands in Korea.
• https://skygg.substack.com/
YGG
YGG is the most powerful gaming guild in Web3, functioning as a Web3 guild protocol that enables players and gaming guilds to find their community, discover games, and level up together. Its mission is to become the leading community-based user acquisition platform in Web3 gaming through quests that help players build their onchain reputation.
• https://www.yieldguild.io/
Sponsors:
Sui
Sui makes Web3-powered gaming viable at scale with the fastest performance among blockchains, a seamless user experience for players and elastically scalable architecture that keeps infrastructure costs predictably low for game developers and players alike. Its technology also enables unique on-chain features for games, such as dynamic NFTs that can be updated in real-time, and royalty enforcement at the protocol level for IP-related assets. Publishers gain exceptional control over in-game assets, creating a bounded ownership experience between them and their players.
• https://sui.io/
Spacebar
Spacebar is an interactive interface that visualizes and gamifies Web 3 building blocks, aiming to create an onchain playground where communities can collaborate, innovate, and grow together. In this playground, communities create value, capturing returns that grow exponentially over time, fostering a self-sustaining cycle of creation and composability.
• https://www.spacebar.xyz/
Sparkball
Sparkball is a 4v4 adrenaline-packed ‘sports brawler’ where players select from a cast of lovably unique heroes and carefully balance both ballin' and brawlin' to score in the enemy team's goal! Affectionately described as League of Legends meets Rocket League (or Kung Fu-tbol!), Sparkball grips you immediately with its dopamine-inducing take on combat sports and keeps you coming back for more as you strive to master its surprisingly complex strategies.
• https://sparkball.gg/
Faraway
Founded by veterans from Glu Mobile and Scopely, game developer and publisher Faraway is building the premier interoperable gaming ecosystem that combines original IP, a robust developer platform, and a portfolio of games that spans a wide audience of players and features interoperable player-owned content. Games within the Faraway ecosystem include Mini Royale: Nations, Legends of the Mara, Dookey Dash: Unclogged, HV-MTL, Shatterline, Rebel Skies, Serum City, and more. Faraway is backed by a16z, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Pantera Capital, among other top funds in gaming and crypto.
• https://faraway.com/
HyperPlay
HyperPlay is the premier Web3 game store crafted to empower gamers and developers alike by removing obstacles and enhancing creative autonomy. Launched in March 2023 as a collaboration between MetaMask and Game7, HyperPlay prioritizes the player in everything it does, leveraging Web3 technology to improve developer tools, introduce new gameplay mechanics, and establish interoperability in gaming. HyperPlay’s game store functions as an aggregator of other stores, like the Epic Games Store, bringing together titles from various storefronts into a unified hub and allowing players to play the latest games free from walled gardens.
Wanderers
Wanderers is a sci-fi based rogue-lite with card collecting and deck building elements. Each run is unique, and each season presents new stories, abilities, and challenges to overcome. An epic sci-fi experience with you in the pilot's seat. Build your Galaxy, Earn $WANDER.
• https://codex.wanderers.ai
GAM3S.GG
GAM3S.GG is the #1 web3 gaming platform with over 1M+ users featuring 450+ games, reviews, guides, quests & daily news. Its mission is to help onboard millions of gamers to web3 through a superapp comprising of a discovery portal, rich content, unique player engagement features & one of the largest brands in web3 gaming.