Back to collectionA New Player’s Question Cuts Through the Blockchain Pitch
Background: The studio’s small Discord server was still gathering its earliest players, including friends and traditional-game enthusiasts. Today: A newcomer whose ID contained a K joined Discord, introduced himself as a longtime traditional-game player, and asked: “Would I want to play your game if it had no chain?” Impact and next: Until then, the team had mostly described the game through technology and deck-building.
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Background: The studio’s small Discord server was still gathering its earliest players, including friends and traditional-game enthusiasts. The team needed to understand why they would stay. If “on-chain” could not explain a player’s interest, the project first had to show that its gameplay was worth trying.
Today: A newcomer whose ID contained a K joined Discord, introduced himself as a longtime traditional-game player, and asked: “Would I want to play your game if it had no chain?” The group fell silent for half a day. People later called him the Night Watchman. There was no easy promotional answer, but the question pulled design discussion back to the choice a real player would make.
Impact and next: Until then, the team had mostly described the game through technology and deck-building. The question forced them to treat “is it still fun without the chain?” as a core test. The Night Watchman was still only a new member, and the team had no immediate answer; the prototype and playtests would have to demonstrate the gameplay itself instead of letting the blockchain label speak for it.