Rudy Koch, Co-Founder of Fenix Games, on Web3 Gaming, Shipping World-Class Games, and more

Rudy Koch is the co-founder of Fenix Games, which is based out of UAE. He is also the co-founder of Web 3 unicorn Mythical Games, which has raised $270M and is valued at $1.25B. Rudy has over 15 years of game development experience shipping some of the most prolific games in the industry: 5 Call of Duty games, 2 World of Warcraft expansions, 1 Disney MMO, and a handful of #1 mobile games. He is currently exploring the intersection between blockchain technology and games.

In this conversation, we discuss:

- Partnership with Immutable
- Making money playing games
- Shipping famous games like Call of Duty and World of Warcraft
- Shift of gaming: pay-to-play > free-to-play > web3
- Inviting players in as stakeholders
- Game-specific DAOs
- Gaming as a career path
- Web3 allowing gamers to participate in gaming economies
- Biggest advantages/features of web3 gaming compared to web2 gaming
- The biggest roadblocks stifling the mass adoption of web3 gaming