jigenator

CEO @ Tatsu Works - developers of Discord life-sim Trailbound ⑊ One part chicken, two parts bear; the Chiibear

[eigen moomin @eigen_moomin]

singapore is the highest iq country that has never shipped anything that matters.

this is my essay on why there are no great singaporean companies. we are a nation of compradors; middlemen too domesticated to do anything but serve.

[ryze (sf 23jul-9aug) @ryzefoo]

Singapore is an air-conditioned nation. The plant which grows in the greenhouse cannot withstand the storm.

Its citizens suffer from two malaises:
Comfort and Conformity.

Everything is much too comfortable. A Singaporean can go an entire lifetime without coming into contact with reality.

The prosperous, comfortable lives of Singaporeans comes from subsidy by the state, & yet this prosperity is more of a socialist prosperity, which is distributed in service of social outcomes, rather than a prosperity that is generated through the +EV effort of Singaporeans creating economic value.

This leaves Singaporeans often with a feeling of “unreality”, working bullshit jobs, being comfortable, sleepwalking their way through life.

Beyond getting your home, or your next trip to Japan or a festival, there is not much to strive for. The government works hard to ensure employment for Singaporeans, by bringing in foreign companies to start branches here (with tax incentives) & forcing them to hire locals, and even employing vast swathes of locals in the government with jobs that pay enough to upkeep their lifestyles.

As an engineered economy, it’s fantastic and stable. But it’s a greenhouse, which explains why all seems to wilt.

It is hard to find truly generational talent and ambition here, it is much too comfortable. As a startup, it’s nigh impossible to hire in Singapore because to many, why grind at a startup, if you can afford everything while working a job that gives you prestige?

Singapore is one of the few countries in which a person can live their entire life within this bubble. Everyone comes to you. Many never have to work part time. Jobs come to you. The schools are right here. You never have to leave your family home. As such you have grown adults who never learnt to cook, do laundry or accept discomfort and solitude.

Comfortable.

Although we develop much human capital, we also do not really provide the preconditions for greatness to emerge.

Non conformity is often punished, or at the very least, judged. Intense academic competition, and being judged for every activity since you were 12. You are forever on a scorecard. You are always assigned a rank at every turn. A series of Pass/Fail gates every few weeks, until you’re middle aged with children in a government subsidized, allotted and ballotted HDB. This requires you to make and clear a certain amount of income as well, and we all know that means sitting in an air conditioned office 99% of the time. Hence the dearth of musical and creative opportunities outside of state sponsorship.

Every dollar spent is ruthlessly optimized, to the point where credit card points conversations are a common topic.

As @hoeflatoor mentions as well, “Sinkie pwn Sinkie” is a common phenomenon.

Some of the smartest, most capable Singaporeans are sniped and brought into government service at an early age.

Others opt out and move elsewhere, most often to America or the UK. I’ve met some brilliant Singaporeans out in SF.

There are no strong incentives for a Singaporean to pop out their head, for the cost of failure is often much too high, and the benefits reaped do not outweigh the sheer comfort. They’d much rather trade, live lives of quiet comfort & anonymity despite their immense privilege, which does not much to inspire the next generation of thinkers, darers, and doers.

Many of them moved away.

One must have enough chaos within oneself to give birth to a dancing star.

[ryze (sf 23jul-9aug) @ryzefoo]

Yesterday, I hacked on the @EvenRealities G1 "AR" glasses (pic2) and did a presentation about it (+ demo)

Put in a little Tamagotchi character that reacts

It took me 4 hours, I deployed a companion mobile app that connects via Bluetooth LE (BLE) to hijack the signal from the Even G1, and display an ASCII Tamagotchi that animates (at about 2 fps)

Since I couldn't really show it on a screen, I had to write a demo page. (pic2) I asked GPT5 to write one for me based on the repo, and it claimed the AI integrations were working.

Probably after 1-2 more hours of debugging, and many more hours of tuning, could have gotten it to an acceptable level

So I asked it to write the realistic page of what we actually implemented (pic3), and it told me "You're absolutely right! Let's be realistic about this..."

And also a page explaining the architecture:

G1 <-> BLE <-> Mobile Companion App <-> AI Services (ChatGPT/DeepSeek, eventually Souls?)

It was very fun. Heads up display glasses are one of the few technologies that make me feel I'm living in the future.

One of the better ways to spend a weekend afternoon

It's a nice potential place to put a Soul friend, too...

[jigenator @jigenator]

Recently we announced our partnership with Ronin and I want to mention that we take our ecosystems and distribution seriously in addition to tackling product challenges. This includes taking steps to ensure that our collection and games remain relevant - definitely not going to neglect our strongest supporters. I see joining Ronin’s ecosystem as a big step forward for us, helping us build within a strong community of web3 gamers. Again want to reiterate that I’m grateful for the support you’ve shown thus far 🙂

[jigenator @jigenator]

@bykaralord @graildoteth @koingamesio @project_o_gg @tatsumeeko Also feel free to DM me or @web3citizen if you want to talk, we're always open to answering more queries

[jigenator @jigenator]

Hello! CEO of Tatsu Works here - Just wanted to mention that I really appreciate the support you’ve given us. I don’t want to hijack a thread meant for another product so I’ll be brief!

I believe that TGE is a really important thing for everyone involved and on the same side of that coin, I also believe that for a successful token we first need to create a kickass product that can stand it's ground amongst the competition and bring fresh new experiences that onboard players into the possibilities that web3 enables.

We are heavily focusing on development and have put in a lot of time, effort and resources to build out truly unique experiences that take advantage of new tech like crypto, so from myself and the team - we really appreciate your patience while we cook! 🫡

[jigenator @jigenator]

@Rojankhzxr @tatsumeeko @web3citizen @iandaog Heya Rojan, our team is on it - would you mind sending me DMs on more details?

[hellotsu @TsuMisugi]

this means that a 100k people have listened to my music. that’s kinda awesome.

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We are LIVE in 8 Countries, with plans of rolling out more once we're ready!

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[ITSJERE @jeremy_cg]

Please notice me senpai ❤️ @tatsumeeko
I've been waiting like forever
Hope you like the sticker that I made for you
this is literally me right now 🥹

[sparkc @sparkcsays]

With all eyes on Solana for JUP airdrop day, it feels like a good time add to my @tatsumeeko thesis

Based on new info from our Alpha Wolves space interviews & the state of the market:

Note: if you haven't read my original thesis on tatsu, the thread is linked at the bottom

I don't want to rehash the entirety of it so the super tldr is:

▶️ SOL project building cross-platform for discord (and mobile)
▶️ Big current web2 player base w/ 120 million lifetime users in millions of discord servers
▶️ Life sim RPG
▶️ S tier backers
▶️ Pre-token, Meekolony genesis NFTs give airdrop
▶️ Discord is where web3 gaming lives and no other top tier web3 game has a discord gaming narrative

Bullish Team Facts
1⃣ Tatsu began as community project back in 2011
2⃣ Built a grassroots game community of 120k players

[v bullish for valuing community & rewarding holders]

3⃣ Migrated the entire community from teamspeak to discord after 5yrs in 2015

[evidence they can migrate their 160k current players to the web3 version of the game]

4⃣ The first thing they built upon moving to discord was leveling systems & social progression models

The same tech that you see in all your discord servers today was pioneered by this team back in 2015

The fact the team are the ultimate discord builder OG's is obviously bullish for their ability to build a game on discord

But any team who's had prior success working w/ new tech & successfully forging their own path, I'm bullish on their ability to do the same w/ blockchain tech

5⃣ The team was community funded in 2019 with many of current team members were volunteers on the project going as far back as 7yrs ago

[Again, bullish sign re: valuing community and wanting to do right by them]

Game Development

▶️There's been a big focus on live ops infrastructure

Why is this important? Games live and die by their live ops (post-launch content releases). Most games with a successful launch lose 90%+ of players within a few months.

Many web3 games are rushing to launch and even if they do put out a great product, will be left without the ability to build on that success.
Preparing for post-launch content well ahead of time is what you want to hear from a team thinking long term.

▶️ They're Building more than a game, they're also building infrastructure - a distribution network, and the team intend the Meekolony NFTs to benefit from it

This is huge news for holders imo.

It allows the valuation of the NFTs to not be capped by the success of a single game but instead to factor in a discord based distribution network

In a space where the reliance on discord and the need for distribution is MASSIVE.

Upcoming
A socially driven web event, 'Uncharted Dream', where users compete to inflict the most damage points to boss monsters.

State of the Market:
Other Sol airdrops have been holding off for JUP to drop so that they don't get overshadowed.

Expect TNSR soon, the major Sol NFT marketplace and one of the biggest airdrops left.

Given how it's being farmed by NFT traders, there's a good chance that this drop is a huge stimulus to the Sol NFT ecosystem, which would be bullish for tatsu.

https://t.co/3vJcb7dXso

[kiet @0xkapital_k]

After a 10+ year break, I restarted playing and logged nearly 400 hours in this game. And, it's leveling up with Web3. Get ready for the next chapter of MapleStory.

I believe it's even more important to pay attention now because of the confluences of gaming trends.

(A) Asian gamers are on the rise (6.5% YoY Growth)
+ (B) RPGs are the highest-spending genre ($25.5B in IAP)
+ (C) Gamers are moving towards more core games (+42% TAM by 2028)
+ (D) Web3 emphasizes ubiquity, transparency, and ownership

"Wen game?" 2024 CONFIRMED soon™️

The more I played the more my brain got to working on how Web3 could have a novel effect on this game. 🧠 🧐 Sparks of innovative game design with a hint of financialization and incentivization systems burst into my mind.

What if my idle characters could be rented out?

How about a resource-sharing agreement between me and another player?

What would an incentivization and reward system look like for creators and community contributors? Maybe portion block rewards, ve?

I can tell you from first-hand experience the amount of effort it took for me to acquire certain resources and assets that are largely left idle for 90% of the time, and you know what we do with idle assets in Web3. 📈🆙

And that's just ONE thing. There are a myriad of other elements that would benefit from the workings of Web3. This makes me so bullish. Before we discuss Web3 though, let's talk about the Web2 game.

My journey with MapleStory started nearly two decades ago from 2005 to 2010. After a 13-year hiatus, on September 29th, 2023 I redownloaded the game.

For the past three months, I’ve clocked over 380+ in-game hours and countless hours on off-game research — watching videos, reading guides, and discussing on Discords.

The result? My main character is a Lv. 260 Shadower 🥷 with 2.5k Legions. IGN: GoForKiet.

But I didn't get to this level alone. I relied heavily on the community to help me as the game today is unlike anything I had played back in '05. This community has created guides, modeling tools, simulation calculators, and so much more. 🤝 💪

MapleStory's official creator program is called Bean Brigade and these player-creators are an integral part of the ecosystem. But there are so many other independent creators. A key resource for me is one of these creators' Discord servers.

All the community support is voluntary, powered by passion and love for the game. Incredible.

Need another reason to be bullish? MapleStory Universe received $100M 💰 in paid-in capital from Nexon -- head corporate buy-in, ✅.

Start thinking about which job you want to be, anon.

🥷⚔️ 🏹🧙‍♂️

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MapleStory Universe is launching in 2024 and I believe it could potentially be the game that cracks the code for web3 gaming.

Read my follow-up posts to see how.

Table of Content

0️⃣ Introduction & Why Bullish on MapleStory Web3 (this post)

1️⃣ Analysis of the Gameplay, Core Loop, and Community Layer

2️⃣ Character Progression - Horizontal & Vertical Systems

3️⃣ Gear Upgrade Systems

4️⃣ Social & Meta Progression

Chat soon! If you found this interesting, give me a follow!

Or better yet, find me in the NA Reboot GMS servers. IGN: GoForKiet

[delty @DeltyThe73rd]

japanese clips of people playing PALWORLD is funny as fuck LMFAOOOOOOO

[kauzie (luffy arc) @kauzieeee]

Your last chance to board the ship to Meekohalla?

1/
The team at @tatsumeeko launched https://t.co/Ag9bk6CKpq (Tatsugotchi) in 2016. Tatsugotchi's a pet management mini game where you look after a pet and design your room FULLY ON DISCORD 🤯.

🧵👇

[jigenator @jigenator]

@MattTaylorLoL @tatsumeeko Thank you! We are building on the Unity engine and are hoping to target players and communities on discord and mobile who enjoy the RPG x Life Sim subgenre 🐓

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[jigenator @jigenator]

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