Paul Barclay, CEO & Founder at Dragon Foundry LLC - Dragon Foundry LLC / Nova Token
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2018
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Founded Dragon Foundry, a game studio developing revolutionary real-time cross-platform games for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android mobile. Managed all aspects of the studio and its growth, including recruiting over 30 people across engineering, product management, design, and art. Developed and launched the award-winning Nova Blitz real-time card game.
- Raised two rounds of investment funding
- Closed partnership & publishing deals with major publishers, including Electronic Arts
- Reduced content development costs by 60% compared to similar titles
- Delivered 0 minutes of downtime by developing a scalable automated live game service
Nova Token - Nova Token holders earn new cards through proof of stake. Stake your NVT on a game, and when the game releases new cards, you'll earn copies of them based on the amount of NVT you stake. And because these are tokens on the blockchain, you own them, and can: Play with them and sell them to other players Distribution of cards is based on proof of stake. A minimum NVT holding is required, and the more NVT you stake, the more copies of each card you'll receive.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:07.0 | Future Technologies is to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used. |
| 0:17.0 | Or just around the corner, for Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, |
| 0:21.0 | 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to Feature Tech Podcast. I'm your host |
| 0:31.0 | Juliet Lamar and joining me today is Paul Berkeley. He is the CEO and |
| 0:36.0 | founder of Dragon Foundry LLC. Welcome Paul. Hi Juliet. How are you doing today? |
| 0:41.8 | Oh, doing well. |
| 0:44.0 | Surviving the smoke up here in Seattle. |
| 0:46.0 | Oh, yeah, I heard about that. |
| 0:48.0 | We're down here in Los Angeles and have not got as much smoke, but I know we're surrounded by fires. |
| 0:52.0 | Yeah, that's the way of the |
| 0:54.6 | world moments. You know that's okay watch it burn and then rebuild. So Paul let's give our audience a little bit of overview. I know we're going to get into Nova |
| 1:05.9 | token in a moment, but give us that overview about Dragon Foundry and what you do there. |
| 1:10.3 | Well, we started Dragon Foundry in late 2013 to make mobile and steam games. |
| 1:20.0 | We've built a few games, we put out a game called Nova Blitz on Steam and iOS and |
| 1:28.2 | Android. A bunch of people started playing it. And then we got into the cryptocurrency world. One of our investors was a big |
| 1:40.8 | player in that world and we started figuring out how we could tie games into |
| 1:51.0 | crypto currency. We've been doing that for around a year now, not quite a year yet, but almost a year. |
| 1:58.8 | And we've put together the Nova token project, which the goal of that is to give game developers the ability to give grants crypto assets to game players without the game developer or the game |
| 2:17.4 | player actually needing to understand how blockchain works because the big problem we found with all the blockchain solutions |
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