Ep 775 - AAA+ Web3 Gaming with Astra Nova

The Bad Crypto Podcast

Joel Comm and Travis Wright

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🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Are games on blockchain ready for their time to shine? The initial wave showed some promise, but it was too much “make money playing games” and not enough “play games that are fun”. That seems to be changing as the move to make AAA games is in full gear.

Today we welcome DG from Astra Nova to the program to show how mainstream adoption of blockchain-based games is already happening. And we’ll show you exactly what they are working on which gamers could find quite impressive.

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0:00.0	Are games on blockchain ready for their time to shine?
0:03.0	The initial wave of blockchain-based games show some promise,
0:07.0	but it was too much make-money-playing games and not enough play games that are fun.
0:12.0	That seems to be changing as the move to make AAA games is in full gear.
0:17.0	Today, we welcome DG from Astra Nova to the program to show how mainstream adoption of
0:23.0	blockchain-based games is already happening, and we'll show you exactly what they're working on,
0:28.6	which gamers could find quite impressive. Let's peo-pue with both barrels on today's
0:33.5	episode number 775 of the Bad Crypto podcast.
0:39.0	Five, four, three, two, one, two, a little, remember that last round of blockchain games, where we saw all this hype around games like Star Atlas, Splinterlands, what do you call them, Axi Infinity, and many others.
1:24.3	And there's this big boom. And then the whole crypto market went.
1:29.6	And everything kind of went.
1:30.5	That was the last cycle.
1:33.9	And then now this one, we have Gunzilla off the grid. We're starting to see AAA quality, you know, Unreal Engine type of games that are just really bringing the A game. It's the AAA game bringing their
1:46.8	AAA games. Yeah. And so these are getting really good. Like off the grid, that game is crazy.
1:54.1	Like the graphics are amazing. And so today we're going to be talking with another project
1:58.5	that's doing some similar things with really amazing
2:01.6	graphics, really great storyline, and a very amazing venture-backed sort of a project. So this is not
2:08.4	small potatoes, folks. You're going to want to tune in on this one. Yeah, the project is called
2:13.4	Astra Nova. And the website is astronova.com. And these guys have an AGI-driven universe.
2:22.1	It's built over in Saudi Arabia in the Middle East.
2:25.9	And this is a blockchain game that is designed to provide real world assets for people
2:32.0	that live on long beyond the playing of the game.
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