Spent the last few weeks building the @kamigotchiworld guide I wished existed when I started.
Every mechanic, every strategy. Interactive calculators, ready to use builds and (hopefully!) easy and enjoyable.
It's live! Check BIO⬆️
Breaking down what's inside in this thread👇
This post is really special, because I am really proud of the community I feel part of - @kamigotchiworld community.
Sometimes people ask me - how to find the best gaming projects? One of the best ways is to look for projects where the community builds on top of the ecosystem. It means that they care, they love the game and they feel they should contribute to make it bigger and more enjoyable.
Kamigotchi is one of them, and I want to show you the analytical tool recently built by @0xCanzi that proves this point.
kamistats[dot]com (LINK IN THE FIRST COMMENT) - the most advanced analytics tool in Kamigotchi, and probably one of the most sophisticated in web3 gaming overall. Let me break down what makes this tool essential:
Sacrifice System Tracking
The tool started with tracking the sacrifice mechanic in Kamigotchi. You can see how many Kamis were recently burned, which specific Kamis got sacrificed, what players received in return, and complete sacrifice history with all the data you need.
Individual Player Profiles
Every player has a separate profile where you can check their full inventory, complete game history, activity analytics, and performance metrics.
Leaderboard System
The site features its own leaderboard that ranks players by in-game activity, number of Kamis owned, liquidation stats, and other competitive metrics.
How I actually use it:
For competitive intelligence, I track my competition - what they're doing, why they're making specific moves, and how to counter their strategies. This helps me stay ahead in the PvP meta.
For trading advantage, I check player inventories to identify OTC deal opportunities, assess player activity before proposing trades, and make informed decisions about who to trade with.
Players profiles - I really love analytics, checking what other players are doing - let's say I am stalking everyone a bit, because it gives me information advantage. Before, I had to use the @initia scan and sometimes spend hours to find something. Now it's more accessible and easy.
Daily check around the game - how many sacrifices today, what people are buying on the market, activity tab - who's active etc.
Kamigotchi sits at the top when it comes to community-built tools (alongside @lootsurvivor and @playgigaverse). When the community invests time building sophisticated analytics on top of a game, it's a strong signal that the project has real substance and engaged players. And I've heard about at least a few tools building on top of @kamigotchiworld.
This is what separates quality web3 gaming projects from quick cash grabs - look at what the community is building, not just what the team is promising
Shoutout to @0xCanzi, thank you for this!
For the past few months, the ZORB developers have been hard at work building a novel privacy solution for free shielded transfers on @solana.
The wait is nearly over, and the product is finally ready to be shipped. We're immensely proud of what has been accomplished and thrilled to share it with all of you.
So what better way to do that than with an official submission to the Solana Privacy Hack!
With this announcement we want to thank all of you early supporters for your invaluable feedback and participation. Let this contest be our time to make you proud.
Looking for an Onchain game where you can:
> Play on autopilot with minimal checking
> Actively assassinate your enemies
> Farm materials to craft valuable items and sell them
> Complete quests
> Strategize to trade, betray, create drama, and even earn some money...
Play @kamigotchiworld and thank me later
since the temple of the wheel has been opened, 260 kami have been sacrificed so far. i'm very excited to see the chaos unfold as more pets enter kamigotchi world and begin affecting the game balance.
Attention has shifted to business with real revenue.
This is why I'm so bullish on DePIN this year.
Let's look at @GEODNET as an example:
Top DePIN projects have profitable and growing businesses. These Physical Infra Networks include bandwidth, energy, compute power, location services, and more.
GEODNET provides precise positioning for robotics (robots, drones, vehicles, etc.) with RTK (Real-Time Kinematic) positioning. GPS is not viable since these use cases, such as drone landing, are delicate and require centimeter-level positioning.
GEODNET's decentralized model changes the economics and disrupts the corporate RTK subscription model ($1K+ per month), users can now pay a fraction to access a globally distributed network of base stations.
The network effect is straightforward:
more base stations → better coverage → more customers → more revenue.
GEODNET just published their numbers: $8M ARR, on a path that could reach $50M ARR by 2027 as traction is growing fast + 80% of fees go to $GEOD buybacks
This sector is really interesting. I'll be sharing more on DePINs to cover all the hidden gems.
this is my first post ever on X. i literally just paid for premium for one month so i could write a long post lmao..
but there is one thing i want to say that is genuinely important to me:
@kamigotchiworld
today i had the thought:
“fuck… what would i do without kamigotchi?”
and that’s when it hit me because i really want this game to win. like actually succeed. because it deserves it.
when i started playing kamigotchi over a year ago on testnet, my mindset was simple:
farm the airdrop → get passports → make some ETH → nice.
i was like “alright, fun little game, bit of money, cool.”
my girlfriend kept saying: “you’re playing a fucking pixel game.” ... and she wasn’t wrong.
i was grinding levels to qualify for those passports. even on my holiday in spain, during a road trip, i opened my laptop in the car while she was driving… to feed my kamis some cheeseburgers so they wouldn’t starve.
degenrate behaviour...
but fast forward one year later - i’m still here.
and the funny thing?
i was NEVER into games.
i do have an xbox. i’d play a game for one or two days and then drop it forever. i always thought gaming was mostly a waste of time for me.
kamigotchi is the first game / art / experiment / whatever you wanna call it that i actually care about.
from the outside it looks dumb.
if someone would look at your screen in a café it’s probably “oh… some retro pixel shit.”
but if you actually look properly - this game is insanely deep:
after more than a year, i still can’t say i fully understand it.
you have different kamis with unique traits, skills you can level in totally different directions, peaceful harvesting strategies, and full chaos modes where players attack and liquidate other kamis to steal their musu (the resources they harvest from nodes).
on top of that you can feed them different stuff, craft tools and items, optimize builds, and stack systems on systems. everything interacts in ways that make the game feel way deeper than it has any right to be.
the wild part is that some mechanics only really show their implications after they’re live once we start using them in ways no one fully predicted. second- and third-order effects.
it got so deep that the team set up a player council today: predators, peaceful harvesters, different regions - all in the same room, helping shape what happens next. I fucking love this lmao...
that’s how deep this thing is.
random but important for my wellbeing at least: every room in kamigotchi has its own music and vibe. different moods, different energy.
at some point we were literally pushing to release the soundtracks on spotify because it’s way too good to live only inside a pixel game. absurdly good soundtracks...
if you’re curious, you can check a starter guide here https://t.co/JDJiDorbqQ
and
https://t.co/IpDTA3fXlx
but the reason i’m writing this post is actually not just the game but the community.
sounds nerdy, but i’ve made some genuinely cool internet friends here. and for some reason, kamigotchi attracts smart, creative, slightly unhinged (in a good way) people. maybe i went to far today saying "i would send thebasement (yes his name) all my seedphrases and know its fine" but this community is really something else, never seen something like this before.
when new players join, the early game can be rough because there’s so much going on. so what happens?
veteran players come together and create starter packs with food and resources - just to help newcomers not get wrecked on day one.
some predators among them even agree to not kill the new player’s kamis for a bit, basically a “no bullying” pact so they can settle in first.
during my lunch break at work, i hop into the discord just to chat for a bit. it lets me switch off and disappear into this tiny (big) pixel world.
kamigotchi deserves way more love than it gets.
web3 is brutal right now and so is web3 gaming.
but a fully onchain game like this, at this level, basically didn’t exist before. It really is the first of it's kind.
you might not realize how insane it is just by looking at the pixels and playing it for a day... but underneath, it’s one of the deepest systems i’ve ever seen in gaming.
all i want from this post is simple:
new players.
i promise you - there is so much depth hidden under those pixels. you can play for weeks and still keep discovering new mechanics.
i’ve got around 80 kamis by now.
below is my favorite one.
they all have different traits, strengths, weaknesses (and imo personalities)
if you’re even slightly curious:
give it a shot and join our discord.
you might end up feeding pixel creatures cheeseburgers in a car too.
Here’s an infographic to help you start playing @kamigotchiworld
Recommended:
- Starting with >5 kamis is ideal
- Reach out to @birthdayboi to get the Welcome Pack: free items, free tutorial, free* kami
- Use KamiBot AI (≈ Fireball)
- Join Discord server ASAP for help
It's 5 o'clock somewhere, but it'll be 21:00 UTC / 1 PM PST tomorrow when we torture @0xtorngarsuk with a drinking stream! Tune in, kick back and relax with a drink to end the week!
I am putting out a call to Chinese @kamigotchiworld players; we want 2-3 of you to represent your side of the community in balance discussions.
DM me here, or on discord. We want someone who can represent the Chinese player cabals in these groups. It's up to you.
So many people are out here declaring that "Crypto games are dead".
That's just cope.
You've probably never even touched a real onchain game. And I bet you don't know how to tell the difference between an onchain game and a grift.
I get it. You put your money into slickly marketed pump and dump schemes, and then you got burned. That doesn't reflect on crypto gaming. It reflects on your ability to do due diligence.
The fact that you got scammed by an "AAA" looking fake game trailer made in Unity in 45 minutes is on you.
Building a decentralized videogame is just hard work. It's not something that can be done to an AAA standard in 6 months. In fact, it's harder than building most DeFi protocols.
But guess what? I'm still out here doing it, and so are plenty of other people. Because the payoff is creating a whole new type of game - a new type of world, a new type of art.
And also, a way of building a Web3 protocol that actually has a business model.
That's why our team at @kamigotchiworld are still here. So are @Skarly and his people at @onchainheroes. So are the guys at @playgigaverse. So are @playcambria.
And our products work. In fact, they actually make enough money to sustain development. And we're still building.
@kamigotchiworld is generating more revenue than multiple failed alt-L1 projects put together, right now, today. In fact, I'm pretty sure we're one of the only projects in this entire space with anything approaching a sustainable business model.
And last time I checked, both @onchainheroes and @playgigaverse actually make more money than us. (For now.)
This "tiny" surviving onchain game space actually has more users than most of the blockchains that are left standing. And I think you can expect all of us to keep growing and building.
Stop whining about your own fuckups. If you want to see real onchain games - come play one of our games, and come support them. We're all locked in here to make this shit work.
Have a great day. And go play @kamigotchiworld right now.
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