Crypto Hunt
A 3D web game: players drive a rover across a planet, mining for hidden crypto prizes in ETH, POL, BNB and more.
All work
Game economies, for two Web3 games.
At INFINITE8 – LandRocker I owned product development for Crypto Hunt and Hidden Bitcoin: game economies, leaderboards and retention loops, plus smart-contract, NFT and Layer-2 integrations with blockchain partners. I managed a team of 20+ engineers, designers and economy specialists.
The games.
Two treasure hunts, one product team. Hidden Bitcoin is the big prize; Crypto Hunt is the smaller, faster game.
Hidden Bitcoin
Players search a one-million-cell online map for a single hidden Bitcoin.
What I owned.
Product development end to end, and the team that built it.
- Game economies
- Leaderboards
- Retention loops
- Blockchain integrations
- A team of 20+
Two product decisions that shaped the games.
Where the economy and the blockchain met the gameplay.
01Designing the reward economy
- Challenge
- Keep rewards meaningful without flooding the game economy with tokens.
- Decision
- Balanced token rewards against sinks and other mechanisms that remove value from the economy.
- Result
- Rewards that support continued gameplay without an unsustainable supply of tokens.
02Making blockchain usable during gameplay
- Challenge
- Normal gameplay couldn't depend on slow or expensive blockchain transactions.
- Decision
- Moved in-game transactions toward a Layer-2 network with our blockchain partners, so players didn't pay mainnet-level costs for every action.
- Result
- The blockchain supports the game instead of getting in the way of playing it.
The results.
From the CV, not estimates.
20+engineers, designers and economy specialists
+20%velocity and quality, through agile practices
2games owned
4 yrsApr 2019 – Mar 2023
Also at LandRocker (2023): I redesigned onboarding for the Web3 launch. Satisfaction rose 28%, with 70K+ wallet connections in the first week and $100K+ in NFT sales within 7 days.