Back to collectionOrdinals Spark a Question About Game Assets
Background: Even in the bear market, the game community was watching for new uses of blockchains, while the team's immediate task was to make its own chain architecture workable. Today: Ordinals inscriptions were beginning to appear on Bitcoin, drawing discussion in a small circle of technically minded people. Impact and next steps: The exchange produced no product decision, but it exposed a communication problem for the Night Watchman.
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Background: Even in the bear market, the game community was watching for new uses of blockchains, while the team's immediate task was to make its own chain architecture workable. During weekend chat, the Night Watchman, a longtime community member, encountered a new topic unrelated to the game but easy to connect to it.
Today: Ordinals inscriptions were beginning to appear on Bitcoin, drawing discussion in a small circle of technically minded people. Someone brought the subject into the community and asked whether putting content on a chain might change how people imagined game assets. The Night Watchman did not answer for the team; he asked people to make their questions specific.
Impact and next steps: The exchange produced no product decision, but it exposed a communication problem for the Night Watchman. When players spoke of on-chain content, they asked what they could do with it; engineers asked how to support it. He planned to turn the discussion into a clear question for a suitable public forum.