Alaskan Magpie · Shiny Things

[0:00]win, lose, make mistakes, mess up, and I just had this deluge of information to

[0:05]kind of pull from and like be an information sponge around, which is great. And before I was lucky enough to

[0:10]be in those positions, I worked my way up directly from being a community

[0:13]member and a mod, which is a very, very common pathway that we see out there.

[0:17]There's a lot of these community managers out there that are just looking for a break. I'm living proof that like

[0:22]if you give the right guy a break sometimes, like they will completely outpace your expectations. So, um side

[0:28]note, like I am hiring right now, but I will be at some point. And for my

[0:31]community, I'm I'm really looking forward to seeing There's more me's like me out there, is what I'm saying. I'm

[0:36]excited to meet those guys. You specifically remind me a lot of the cool

[0:40]stuff that I've been doing as well. Like you just can't be stopped as far as

[0:43]creativity. And it's it's nice to be in good company. >> Amazing. There's so many ways you can

[0:47]tap into things there. I think what I'm trying to do with this hour is very

[0:51]aligned with that whole message, and even to the fact of one of the things

[0:55]I've always thought that will be really powerful in the new creator age is not

[1:00]actually having uh solo devs or solo entrepreneurs or solo artists, however you look at it,

[1:06]hiring people under them, but actually just having contractors of other solo devs or solo entrepreneurs and solo

[1:13]whomever, right? And solo practices. Um whether that be like a salaried position, but just through the

[1:19]contractor lens. And I think it'll be a really powerful um way because each individual can grow

[1:26]um as fast as they can grow themselves as opposed to being um having different friction points of

[1:32]the the human element, right? Um where you can work in uh some of that right

[1:37]there. So, I'm excited to find more you as well. Um I think I've been seeing

[1:42]some of the activity in your community and just getting excited to meet some

[1:45]more of the folks. So, um I'd love to hear with you hear about

[1:50]like what you've created and and kind of like your story into into creating shiny

[1:58]things? >> Absolutely. Um the the truncated version of it essentially is that uh

[2:05]while I was a partnership manager manager at my previous position, uh we were working with devs and like

[2:11]there was a very broad team and stuff, but it was so it wasn't corporate, it

[2:14]was definitely startup culture, but there was a lot of friction with like, "Hey, here's this really cool idea."

[2:19]And then I had like 400 cool ideas just like everybody else on the staff.

[2:22]Getting it past the ideation point to like having a prototype was so much

[2:27]trickier back then, whereas now uh like especially since February, like you can have an idea for like a cool space MMO

[2:33]or like a love letter to the old uh like retro nostalgic gaming consoles and like

[2:38]have it in your hands that afternoon if you know how to work with like AI

[2:41]tooling and stuff. Um like there's I'm seeing a lot of on my X feed, which is

[2:46]really cool and like inspiring as a solo founder. I'm seeing a lot of people

[2:49]going this route where they're just like screw the team, screw the red tape, I'm

[2:53]just going to build it myself, and like if it works, sweet, if it doesn't,

[2:56]sweet. Like I'm not determined to be a solo founder. I would love to work with more people. I just

[3:01]like we have the opportunity to get so far on your own now, which is

[3:04]incredible. Um and then from from those things and the between the ideation speed that like

[3:10]being a vibe coder unlocks, like you still need to have the vision. Like you can't just say, "Build

[3:15]me cool thing," and then Fable Boy spits out. You know what I mean? But um

[3:19]between the like how fast you can ideate on the vision that you have now, I think

[3:23]it's really cool to be in this renaissance and be hopefully like at the

[3:27]forefront of this renaissance for people are making cool stuff that's going to all work together, which

[3:32]is another point of like coming from that partnerships and community manager thing. We managed to do a couple of

[3:37]really cool things, but like now from the ground up um with Fable Boy and

[3:42]Waypoint, like my basically everything in my studio is designed both with itself and within my studio to be

[3:49]interactive, but also like on the back of the skin I built for you, it takes an

[3:53]afternoon to build an entire like collab with somebody and it's not just like,

[3:57]oh, let's get some visuals out there and do the numbers. Like it's about how fast

[4:01]you can reach out and represent a community now instead of having to have

[4:04]like an entire like three, four weeks build up and then like maybe a poker

[4:08]night or you're playing um what was it? Uh the the free go-karts rumble battle. You know what I mean?

[4:14]Like we were all there in the communities through the 2022 etc. But now you can you can in an afternoon you

[4:19]can give them representation through an entire custom skin. You could build them out like games if you wanted to,

[4:25]leaderboards from the ground up like as a community manager most of the the

[4:29]builds that I have are tools to allow for as much or as little time as a

[4:34]community has to engage with the product. So like a classic example, my launch partner OpenServe um

[4:41]which I can show here on the screen here in a little bit. Uh with them I built

[4:44]them an entire like just like I would did with you, I built them a custom skin

[4:48]for Fable Boy, but I also built them an entire game cartridge that is a it's

[4:52]like a there's an old game called Wizards um which I took a lot of inspiration from

[4:57]but it you got three of their AI agents in there making most of the decisions

[5:00]for you but you can guide them. There's 10 different levels and then a remix

[5:04]options so you could just keep playing indefinitely. Um and there just like any

[5:08]classic game of the day you're playing it for the high score. If you put a high

[5:11]score on that leaderboard um there's some alpha now. Like all of the leaderboards which every single game

[5:16]cartridge supports uh eventually all of those leaderboard placements are going to be used for some

[5:22]community kickbacks in the future. So literally just spending your time on any of my products, like if you had fun and

[5:27]posted about it like and I mean posted as far as a leaderboard score. We'd love

[5:31]engagement. If you want to post on X, hell yeah, it's built for that. But like

[5:35]the whole core premise of my studio basically and that I learned over those

[5:39]300 partnerships and so on and so forth is that the a lot of the things that people were

[5:44]doing quote unquote wrong was trying to get your attention and trying to get

[5:48]your money. And the thing that people in order to get anything from somebody,

[5:54]you need to respect their time. Flat out, because it's the only resource we're never going to get more of. So,

[5:59]and we've all gone into DMs, we've all gone into projects, or checked out an X,

[6:03]where it's the same thing you've seen a million times. And you just immediately

[6:06]turn out or tune off because it's you've spent your time down that avenue

[6:10]already. You know it's a dead end or it's unlikely to not be a dead end, or

[6:13]etc., etc. So, from the get-go and with the core everything I do, whether it's

[6:18]Waypoint, Fable Boy, or Doctrine, or any of the other things that I've got

[6:21]cooking, the core concept is that if you have time to play it, awesome. If you don't,

[6:26]the AI can play parts of it for you and still keep you going.

[6:30]Um like in Waypoint, we've got the I think Claude right now, GPT, and

[6:37]Hermes can all play the game for you while you're away to an extent. Like

[6:41]you're not going to get to the absolute top of the leaderboards letting your AI

[6:44]play for you, but they're all built to be idle games with teeth, basically. So,

[6:48]like if you have [clears throat] time to spend on them, hell yes. But there's no

[6:52]version of this where I'm asking for hours of your day every day in order to

[6:56]get >> you're not also losing out by by missing a day or two because you can

[7:01]have something keep up some of those small things like daily quests, etc., or

[7:05]however it looks. >> Exactly. 100% And I do uh we have daily quests. Like there's a like in Waypoint,

[7:11]it's a great example. Um >> And when you keep saying Waypoint, what what do you mean by Waypoint?

[7:17]>> So, that is a great Thank you. Goodness. The amount of devs, myself super, super

[7:21]guilty of this. You think you're walking around with like that bus thing on your

[7:25]head where it shows exactly [laughter] the destination. And people aren't psycho or they're they they can't read

[7:29]your mind. You know what I mean? So, heck yes. Um So, my studio is Shiny Things because

[7:35]magpies make shiny things. Uh I have a lot of experiences coming to that, but

[7:39]the two flagship titles that I would say for it, The first one is Fable Boy,

[7:43]which we'll get into shortly, but Waypoint is the other one. And technically the first of the two that I

[7:48]built. Um what Waypoint is is it is it is a it is hopefully the world's

[7:54]first AI-enabled sci-fi MMO that has full idle play-through time. So like you can play 10 seconds a day or 10 seconds

[8:02]a week and still keep up with things. Or you can dive completely in and do ground

[8:06]PvE that feels like XCOM sort of. There's space PvE where you can send and

[8:10]hire mercenary fleets at each other. Um for free you can sign in and it will

[8:16]randomly generate for you an entire solar system with complete regular orbits, moons, all sorts of stuff with

[8:22]like shops on it, NPCs to talk to, full quest lines. Um it does that in 30 seconds by the way

[8:27]with zero install in any screen, which is great. Um So what I'm saying when I'm talking

[8:33]about Waypoint, I'm talking about uh this big expansive like MMO that is also very

[8:39]very easy to interact with you can just pop in for 10 seconds and

[8:43]say, "Hey, send my crew out and do some stuff." and it'll do that for you, which

[8:45]is incredible. Um Between the two of them, some alpha for some people. I have and you've seen this

[8:52]already, Zal, which is cool. I just haven't fully pulled the trigger on it.

[8:55]Um I'm going to be doing a scavenger hunt in Waypoint where just any of the

[9:00]stuff that you're doing, whatever you're doing, even if it's your AI playing idle

[9:03]mode for you basically. It'll be a lesser drop rate for those obviously. Um

[9:08]But you'll be able to find loot caches that open up just like you'd expect from

[9:11]like Overwatch, the cool stuff like that, that have a lot mostly in-game resources, cool stuff, rare things. But

[9:17]they will also have uh scattered throughout them partner prizes. Like I'm working with Meshy right now for some

[9:23]stuff to give away. I've got a lot of partners in the works. But the core

[9:26]thing that everybody will be hunting for is uh golden cartridges for Fable Boy.

[9:31]>> Oh, okay. I do like that. Like But golden Pokémon, right? >> Yeah, yeah. Or like a Willy

[9:38]Yeah, exactly. Or like a Willy Wonka kind of a thing where it's >> Yeah.

[9:41]>> as you're just going around and like you can ask the different AI like

[9:45]you'll get tips and be like it's somewhere over in this sector sort of

[9:48]and then you'll go to that place and you'll check out with the AI that like

[9:51]is at the station that knows a a little bit about it and you can like buy a hint

[9:54]or whatever or just quest through it and get lucky. But as you if you're one of

[9:58]the people that earns one of these golden cartridges, it's a literal like 3D cartridge that you can take and if

[10:04]you were also a member for free uh on Fable Boy, you'll be able to redeem

[10:09]that cross-game loot and in that cartridge there'll be I don't really want to say quite yet,

[10:15]but there's going to be including some >> surprises. >> Right. >> Yeah, that's all you have to say.

[10:20]>> Exactly. Exactly. >> love the idea of the cross-game collaboration, right? Because there's so

[10:25]many creators out there that have like you said the ability to go from

[10:31]idea to something that you can put in your hands is so fast now that people

[10:35]have just these random one-off whether it's an idea that they just got on that

[10:40]day of or have had it for 15 years, the ability to now potentially at least see

[10:45]that through is there. So being able to now >> Uh >> take some of those things that you have

[10:51]built and interact with them together, right? The things that you said okay like this is going not only from an idea

[10:58]to an MVP, but something I want to like invest my time, effort, and energy

[11:01]towards and now not only the one thing you're putting your time, effort, and

[11:05]energy towards, but the next thing is something you can unlock and it is

[11:08]amazing. So I I love the way you're thinking. I really am excited to see

[11:13]um you know, as these things come out and continue how we can help share some

[11:18]things and and try things out. I'm excited to to to tap in with where where

[11:23]we're going here and and just if you if you're ready, I feel like

[11:28]I'm excited to just share share your screen and tap into some of these fun

[11:32]things. >> Absolutely. Let's get that >> Oh, I did have one question for you. How

[11:36]long have you been doing shiny things? What is the How long have you been

[11:40]Magpie doing shiny things? Is that Or have you been Magpie for longer? >> That's uh you've activated my trap card

[11:46]and I'll keep it very short. So, Magpie is actually uh a nickname from a very

[11:50]old friend of mine um based on just the first bird name that I remembered

[11:55]learning and uh she had one, too. I've used that moniker for a long time since

[11:59]then, but shiny things specifically uh I built my portfolio site that eventually emerged into the studio I

[12:05]think in February. Um very shortly after I stepped away from my previous position

[12:10]to go solo basically. So, uh Magpie about a decade now, give or take. Um and

[12:16]uh the studio itself is about 8 months old at this point. >> Awesome.

[12:21]>> Yeah. >> Let's get into it. That's super exciting. >> All right. So, we've got uh make sure

[12:25]this is here. Share with audio, perfect. All right. So, I just did some updates

[12:29]today, which I'm really >> Let's go. This is amazing. >> Thank you. Thank you. So, this is this

[12:33]is Fable Boy. This is a fully uh virtual console that has uh all of the

[12:40]bits you'd expect. The buttons actively work. Like I can press A B. Got the full

[12:44]D-pad, start, select as you would expect. Um this here you can see it

[12:48]wearing the very very It's one of my favorite >> What was that a boy game?

[12:53]>> Yes. Yeah, I I had one $3 for So, let me let's pop this in right now just to kind

[12:57]of show you. I built this in like an hour basically. And all it is is it's

[13:02]>> [snorts] >> Every game comes with like the preview of what you can do and how to play it.

[13:05]I'm noticing that on the recent thing I usually I can drag this up and down,

[13:09]so we're just going to have to deal with it being a little bit now. But yeah,

[13:12]uh So, as you can see, it's just find a challenge and basically it's take a

[13:15]bounty, view the board, how it works. Uh Perfect. And then if I want to open the

[13:20]link it just takes us uh let's just share this tab instead. It because it's built

[13:25]in 3.js, like I can link anything from anywhere and there's no installs. So

[13:29]like uh I use this as an example of um being able to just hotlink and show off

[13:36]different parts. So like one of the things I'm going to be doing with the

[13:39]whatever attention I do get um is showing off some of my favorite things

[13:43]throughout the space completely for free. Uh like one of another great example for that, let me scroll down to

[13:47]the bottom here is Herm's World, which is This is actually the world's first AI MMO

[13:54]and he's one of the reasons I built Waypoint in the direction I did, which

[13:58]was to enable the MCPs and let AI play alongside you as like like while you're

[14:02]away and also just straight up as wingmen and stuff like that. But this is

[14:06]an entire love letter. Let me zoom in here. that you can play straight up

[14:12]built in with the lore from his is basically wow but AI plays with you.

[14:17]This is what that looks like if it was on a retro console of this exact type

[14:22]that you would expect for. You can play all the way through. There's a bunch of

[14:25]fun stuff that you can do for it and then of course just like any of the

[14:28]titles, you can set a leaderboard which every single one of the leaderboards like I mentioned earlier is going into

[14:34]like this meta contest that I'm going to be announcing here probably season two.

[14:38]Um but what this has is let's see if I can see the entire Ah. Perfect. So there

[14:44]are There's 30 games right now. Like let's just pop in Puff Sprite real

[14:48]quick. Take a look at it. Mhm. Yep. Nice. >> Ah. >> Oop. There we go. There we go.

[15:01]>> Ooh. >> [laughter] >> So there's 30 full like love letters to retro games already built in which is

[15:07]particularly cool. But for the people that are like this is awesome but like I

[15:10]never had a Game Boy and I don't particularly like older games which I

[15:13]completely feel you. Let me uh show you around the arcade real quick. I just put

[15:18]out V2 of this today. So this This first time people are seeing this right now.

[15:22]>> Exciting. >> [laughter] >> So, first and foremost, we've got all of the different consoles here. Like, for

[15:28]example, you can see the Fable Boy here, which if you click on it, it takes us

[15:30]right back to the screen we were on. >> [snorts] >> But, you can also get a sneak preview of

[15:34]the nine console generations that I actually have built out and are coming in future seasons, like the Fable Boy

[15:40]Color, for example, which has its own entire modeling. It has its own entire skins. It's got Q,

[15:48]midnight, like you you name it. Like, this has been an entire like full love

[15:51]letter. Uh it's an entire regular model. It's got all the bits you'd expect and

[15:56]this particular one has five games, but they're not unlocked for public view right now.

[16:00]Um kind of going back to the gallery just to give everybody an overview. From

[16:05]there, we've got the Advance, ready to rock. We've [laughter] got the Fable 2600. We've got the Fable Home System.

[16:13]We've got the Fable or the Mega Fable. >> I love >> One of my favorites, the Fable Station

[16:18]with the nice crystal clear screen. >> That was my first console. Well, the

[16:21]PlayStation 2 is my first console, so >> Absolutely. >> I like enjoyed that one.

[16:27]>> You can see it's got the full like the nice little preview area, which is a

[16:30]little a little out of date, but it still shows off the different skins. So,

[16:33]like, we've got the ghost shell. You got the basics. You've got the nice debug

[16:37]blue, straight black, little snow, and then right back to the ghost shell. So,

[16:42]all of these consoles are built out ready to go. So, it's not like one of

[16:46]the things that I've mentioned a few times briefly is I hate road maps. I

[16:50]love having a road map, but I hate when an entire project is just oh, hey, the

[16:53]road map's coming, which we we've all been through those. You know what I

[16:56]mean? So, >> So, you built your road map here. >> Yeah, exactly. It's ready to rock. It's

[17:01]ready to go, which is great. I've got it all the way up to the Fable Q.

[17:06]Including it does have we do have the orange skin for it. But, also on the

[17:10]shelf here, you can see like I've got the media the way that you'd expect it

[17:13]to look for all of these. We've got the mini discs. Got the cartridges.

[17:16]>> Wow. >> Right? Like, this is it's a love letter to retro games. If I'm going to ask for

[17:21]your time, I want it to be worth something, you >> Okay. I got another uh potential idea

[17:26]for you if you don't have it. Maybe you do already, but uh I had a handheld

[17:30]Tetris. That was actually my first my first uh and I love Tetris. I'm a big

[17:35]Tetris guy. So, that could be another Maybe maybe you already have Tetris somewhere in one of these games.

[17:41]>> [laughter] >> That would be fantastic. I do I have a I have a block version

[17:45]>> Yeah. But like uh I'm curious if I can even find it online again, but like

[17:50]yeah, just like it's like it was just a handheld. Uh Yeah, I digress. But uh this is

[17:55]amazing. Yeah, I'm just thinking of all the possibilities. >> Right. Some of the other just super

[18:01]quick like fun bits that I've got in here. Oh, okay. Well, never mind.

[18:05]>> [laughter] >> Apparently. That's funny. This is usually a fully functional like pawn

[18:10]machine mini game that I'm going to be hiding different pricing in as well.

[18:13]Well, you'll be able to like if you have a token, then you can play it. There'll

[18:16]be a bunch of cool stuff in there from partners or just like ship skins and

[18:19]stuff. Uh I just added this actual interactive thing, but I've got uh continuing the love letter theme like if

[18:26]you want to learn how to play Fable Boy, there is an entire I have a whole

[18:30]interactive 24-page like Magpie powered magazine for you that tells you exactly how to play all the different stuff,

[18:36]shows off like here's Magpie Quest the different vault maps and stuff like that. Like uh version two

[18:43]>> Was that burning your first part? Actually, go back to that cuz that was

[18:46]one of my questions is let's say a creator that's out there is like, "Oh,

[18:50]this is amazing. I want to create a game. I want it to be in the Fable Boy."

[18:55]How what's a process for a creator to to do something like that? >> That's a fantastic question. So, let me

[19:01]pull this up here. What I'm going to be allowing soon and I've got built out and

[19:05]tested for the most part is people to create their own Fable Boy cartridges or

[19:10]games for any of these consoles. Um it will not let you emulate anything.

[19:15]It won't let you steal IP and stuff like that. So, that was where most of the

[19:17]testing went. Um because Nintendo doesn't care what the thing looks like. They just don't want

[19:22]you playing Mario or any other games on it. So, it will report any emulation and

[19:25]all the legal stuff you'd expect. >> But, it also has like like boundaries basically, which like

[19:32]you can get around but like for instance, if you build one with the the

[19:36]Fable Boy, it's going to make sure the screen is in specific colors with a

[19:40]specific amount of It's going to have the right retro feel to it. You know

[19:42]what I mean? Um right now, the ability to buy dreams and create dreams is turned off

[19:51]because it's going to be you'll be able to use any of the usual cryptos that you

[19:54]want or if you choose to buy it with my token, you'll get a discount. Um

[19:59]but you can also if you want to skip all that nonsense like the the the prompting

[20:02]and stuff, the API docs are right here. You can just go ahead and check it out

[20:05]and build your own. And shout out to Ryan from Triumph Games. He's got If I

[20:12]screwed that up, I'm sorry, Ryan. But, he sent me over the file to a really

[20:15]cool like Dig Dug kind of a game. And I just haven't had time to slap into a

[20:19]cartridge yet. But, like just using this like you can already just copy paste

[20:23]this and send it to Claude or your AI agent of choice and say make me a Fable

[20:26]Boy game that does this. And if you send that to me, I will make sure it gets in

[20:30]here. It's got a leaderboard like you can run events off of it right now if

[20:33]you want to. Um >> So, >> Yeah, we will definitely get a ticket a

[20:37]Zao game in there soon. >> That would be a lot of fun. Um and then

[20:43]let's see. There's of course the tutorials and stuff like that. But, let me go back to

[20:47]the arcade here real quick. And the controls just isn't touch. You can they

[20:51]come by default but all of the controls are fully customizable. So, if you don't

[20:54]like the basic default etc., you can swap it all up. >> [snorts] >> Uh let me do a quick skin showcase here.

[20:59]>> That's actually something I was always didn't like about certain emulators in different capacities where it was like

[21:05]oh, I just no choice of customization for some of these things. >> Right, exactly. It's It's just no fun.

[21:11]Actually, I'm curious. Let me check this real quick. Ah, okay. So, this is still

[21:14]a little bit WIP, but I realized when I was building like the accounts page for

[21:18]Fable Boy, I really liked the like the interactive magazine style. So, your accounts page is just going to be its

[21:24]own like the Nintendo Power magazine. Yeah. It'll keep track of all of your

[21:27]different scores. Um just like the the third edition right now in the arcade

[21:32]actually tracks everybody's scores. That's how I'm keeping track of the stuff that's coming up. Um but I

[21:37]digress. Let me take us back to the arcade real quick and then I can show

[21:39]off uh Waypoint here as well. And one of my favorite things about this because

[21:44]this is all built with 3.js. First off, this is just in any browser. There's no

[21:48]installs. So, there's zero security risk to anybody with like It was It was a worry to me having run

[21:54]support for so long that I don't want anybody to ever install something on

[21:58]something that they have like their crypto wallet on or that they have important work files on. You know what I

[22:02]mean? 3.js allows that, but it also lets you do cool stuff like build an entire

[22:06]row of fully built out ready to rock arcade cabinets that in the click of a button take you to any

[22:12]other experience. So, this is the Waypoint cabinet, but it'll take you straight to Waypoint.

[22:18]>> [laughter] >> Which is great. >> That's great. Yeah. >> It's It's a blast. So, as I'm building

[22:22]out different titles like Doctrine is coming in here, Graph Free is coming in here, but I'm

[22:27]also going to be working with some of my community and just different projects

[22:30]that I like to get them free console arcades and stuff just to help drive

[22:34]mutual traffic to show off cool [ __ ] that I like like High Tides or Assault

[22:37]Ships is my motto. >> Amazing. Yeah. >> Let me pull up This is Waypoint through

[22:43]Fable Boy, but let me just pull up straight Waypoint. >> Okay. >> Just so it's got the nice There we go.

[22:49]Full screen. Full screen is so much nicer, you know? >> [laughter] >> This is This is Waypoint.

[22:56]Um and a lot of things are going to run through it, but they have also it's

[22:59]>> And you started this earlier this year. >> Yes, this is like the first thing that I

[23:02]built out actually. It started with uh somebody I was building some work for a

[23:06]client and then they were like, "Do you think you can get me like realistic

[23:10]orbits for this visualizer type of thing?" And I was like, "You know what?

[23:13]I can." And then long story short >> everything blew up from there. >> Right. But I realized like I can't I can

[23:19]literally do that. So like this is my home system. The orbits are all like normal orbits

[23:24]they go through it but like if I click on this one here you can see then the

[23:27]orbits of all of the moons around it >> Oh >> Like it is it is a full solar system

[23:34]built in 30 seconds. And anywhere you see one of these symbols here there is

[23:40]an active space PvE fight that you can get into. You can hire instantly

[23:44]a bunch of randomized mercenary ships. Like this is the copper roof prime. This is how much it costs. This is its

[23:50]stats built from built on the fly from a set of 116 or so different parts that

[23:56]are kind of inspired from Kerbal Space Program. So you can build your own ship

[24:01]piece by piece or you could just hire an entire mercenary fleet. This isn't

[24:04]enough let me get overwhelming force. Let's get 21 ships in here. I don't like any of these. Let's reroll

[24:08]the entire fleet real quick. >> Oh my goodness. >> Perfect. All right, adaptive I like it.

[24:13]Let's just let's do a quick one here. >> So when you say there's an active PvE

[24:16]fight going on does that mean some other player hypothetically is in an active

[24:20]PvE fight? Or player or agent? >> So it's Yes, so you've got agents in

[24:26]here that are kind of helping you. You can set their their attitudes up here at

[24:29]the top so like you can make fighting optimal range or you can have them be

[24:33]snipers and kite and stuff like that. And they will make decisions for you and

[24:37]I can just kind of show you a quick one. Let me call some backup with this fleet

[24:39]as well. Which this is an interesting feature that is not fully ready yet. But

[24:44]one of the things you'll be able to do is like you have your own fleet that you

[24:48]can hire out to other people that will just show up in their options down here

[24:51]and when they hire that fleet for free you'll both get more bonuses just kind

[24:54]of to do player stuff. Itty bitty down here, I have a co-op in

[24:59]testing as well. So you'll be able to like send an invite code to people. But let me just show you

[25:04]the stuff real quick. We'll see how polished it is from some updates I did

[25:07]last night. Um but there's a ton of different stuff. Oh yeah, there we go. There we go. Not

[25:13]quite the distance I'm looking for, but yeah, here's here's my fleet. >> Okay.

[25:18]Yeah. >> Here's their fleet. Oh, we've got some frame rate issues right now. I

[25:21]apologize. I will have to optimize that. >> Yeah, might also be part of it being

[25:26]sharing screen as well. >> I I always forget that the the the the

[25:30]tax that that takes on it. But the idea is even this isn't a great

[25:33]representation, these guys are going to go in and they're going to fight each

[25:35]other. They've all got a whole bunch of different stuff. You can see I can do

[25:38]>> So but the the the people that they're fighting are the environment, not

[25:42]another player. You're adding to another player's army. >> Yes. Well, you you you are hiring these

[25:48]guys to go complete this task. >> With the other person. Okay. >> Yep. That's this green fleet, which is

[25:53]not the most obvious over here, but this green fleet warped in to help out. Um on

[25:57]wide screen, it's not liking. But then these guys will do battle. You can see

[26:00]all the stuff down here. It's designed to be like you can tell them to go attack

[26:04]certain targets, which I'm not going to try to do with this effort. >> of Legends base where it's like it's

[26:08]just happening, but you kind of have input if you want. >> you can be like I need this guy to die

[26:12]or I need you to retreat back here or those like some basic stuff, but it's

[26:15]going to mostly kind of play itself out based on the pre stuff that you have.

[26:20]And then once I've got the this polished and I've got the PV or the the group PVE

[26:25]where you're both joining at the same time to fight uh NPCs, one of the things

[26:30]probably season two, I'm going to have it so that you can uh asynchronously

[26:35]because like you can set the the the attitude in the fleet and stuff

[26:37]beforehand, you'll be able to climb up a PVP ladder for rewards as well both in

[26:41]the token and if I can get some partners to sponsor it as well, then sweet. But

[26:44]if not, that's the whole point of me having my own token is so that I can

[26:47]just iterate on stuff really quick and have a lot of fun, you know what I mean?

[26:51]>> No, I love it. One of the things I did this year that I would just did as kind

[26:55]of like a fun challenge was I did a 3-month-long build-a-thon and did it in

[27:00]a lot of different capacities where the first month was just like a bunch of

[27:04]friends and interesting teachers that I got on to share a little bit. The second month was an open builder,

[27:10]anyone could build, and the last month was a curated build with our six

[27:14]finalists from the artist track, the builder track, and the creator track. And I was thinking it'd be really

[27:19]interesting to incorporate people like you and other partners that I've been seeing building cool things that are

[27:27]open, not open just open world, but open buildable like on top of like having other people come in and add

[27:34]their flavor. And I think it'd be really fun to do a version of the of the Zeball

[27:39]games the next time where that's the biggest thing it incorporates is it asks

[27:44]you to go and explore different creators' builds already, add on top of it, and create something that a creator

[27:52]could have never expected, but then that ultimately that creator to be able to

[27:57]do something with that or build on top of that or go in a different perspective

[28:01]or at least see something else that's out there. So, I think that could be a

[28:04]lot of fun, and and it'd be really fun to yeah, play around here. I don't know

[28:08]if you want me to potentially open it up and we can show it just like

[28:13]from fresh cuz I think you said it was like a 30-second um something within the

[28:19]>> yeah, here. I can I can do that for you right now. So, I think I Do you have a

[28:22]system yet? If not, I can build it for you. >> think so. >> All right, let's check this out. This is

[28:26]the This is all custom tooling and stuff like that. Let me just close this so it

[28:30]looks even cooler when we're doing our thing. We're just going to go Do you

[28:33]have a specific name you want or just the Zeball? >> Zeball is all is my go-to.

[28:38]>> You want space in there? >> Zeball actually. >> Got you. >> Because see, the thing is I Yeah, yeah,

[28:43]yeah, yeah. >> And you you can change this later. It's just >> Amazing. No, I love social platforms

[28:46]where I can just use all. I'm still a little upset that Instagram has an inactive dollar account.

[28:52]>> We actually The thing you sent me earlier today about that about a column

[28:57]sitting is the exact same same thing. But but again, so okay, boom. >> This is your system built, ready to go.

[29:05]And just like I said, you can see there's there's there's combat ready to

[29:08]do. It's got all the different stuff. Anywhere you see >> Okay, so the system is not a player's

[29:14]profile. Like it's a singular thing by player. It's something that's on the platform as a place anyone can go,

[29:22]basically. >> Yeah, this right now anybody can go and visit this and start questing in this

[29:26]like literally right now. It's that it's that built out. And like it they all

[29:30]come with at least eight venues. So this guy here, Bram Holt, was built on the

[29:34]fly. These quests here are all local things. Like if I go to accept contract,

[29:38]I can be like, "Oh, I want this crew member. I want this crew member. I want

[29:40]this crew member." And we're going to launch that mission. They'll be done in a few hours. Very

[29:45]idle stuff. If you don't have time to log in and do this, you'll be able to

[29:48]tell your Telegram bot to do it for you. Like it'll be able to do a lot of the

[29:52]idle stuff. And then just give you full like scale kind of stuff cuz this cool.

[29:56]Yeah, so >> One of the really cool things that you have as a potential as well with this

[30:00]with your potential customers is not only like community members helping create community in different

[30:06]capacities, but community members like with the optimal meta participating in Waypoint and having

[30:16]different perspectives and opinions on that. That'll be really interesting cuz one of the things I always liked in in

[30:22]trading card games when I was really into it was just understanding that the

[30:26]collective intelligence of what everyone was thinking. And then my favorite thing is when everyone was like, "Okay, this

[30:31]is like how everything is always supposed to play out." And then someone comes in with a completely new

[30:36]perspective and absolutely destroys the meta that's out there with a completely new thing. And then everyone does that

[30:43]because that's now the most optimal option, right? So, I'm really interested to see how people create media around

[30:50]playing the game, but not only playing the game like in the lore and like how

[30:55]all that works, but also how to optimally use your time as an individual

[31:00]to push your AI agent forward to play in the in the Waypoint ecosystem.

[31:05]>> 100% those things are all top of mind as I'm building it out like

[31:08]super super quick touch though which it's not built fully yet, but one of the

[31:12]things that I have like So, there's there's SAS. What I like to think I have

[31:19]admitted here is solar systems as a service. >> [laughter] >> Which is ridiculous, but also like

[31:25]right? >> Yeah. >> Each one of these planets like the stores eventually you'll be able to sell

[31:30]your own stuff through your venues if you want to and rig all that stuff up or

[31:33]like if this planet here there's nothing stopping you from here in a month or two

[31:36]when I finalize the code make this a place where you can come and visit and

[31:40]see like all of the cool like art you can turn it into an art gallery. That's

[31:44]the >> Very cool metaverse style, but in a very not using the word metaverse, but

[31:49]getting those benefits. >> Exactly like a galaxy type of thing. >> Yeah, no this is amazing. Cuz I've been

[31:55]>> two cool things real quick that I just I one of which I almost never get to show

[32:00]off just because it's it's so nerdy who cares and then the second one is

[32:03]>> No, those are the things I love. >> Right, this is not the super nerdy one.

[32:07]This is just a cool thing that I have finalized today. Let's see if it works.

[32:11]>> Establish trade. >> Yes, okay so perfect. So, I just started a trade route with you Saul.

[32:16]From now on forever me and you are going to get 30 resources per hour from the

[32:21]two native for my system if you need them. >> is the question. When you say you

[32:26]>> Yes. >> and when you say system, what is the relation of like do I log in and I have

[32:33]to now claim this specific planet or am I logging >> this is your

[32:37]This entire solar system is yours. >> Okay. >> The whole thing here and that's the

[32:42]thing I'm about to show you that's really cool. But when you log in it'll

[32:44]ask you and you don't have to, but it'll ask you to come to this thing here and

[32:49]this little >> It's like your home planet, basically. >> Yeah, basically. Except that it's your

[32:52]home solar system. So this is your This whole thing is yours. So trade routes are live. Anybody that's

[32:58]playing passively right now, I encourage you to go look around the galaxy map

[33:01]which I'm about to show you. But the second thing that's like really niche,

[33:04]but very cool is the the background stars. Notice how they line up. >> Yeah, I I've been wondering this for the

[33:10]whole time. >> Right? So this is the thing that's really cool is there's no reason that I

[33:13]had to make these actually the like this These are the stars based on where your

[33:17]thing spawned in and I'm about to show you what that means. [laughter] >> How far am I from you?

[33:23]>> Yeah, exactly. So you can see here there out that way is a little less

[33:27]dense. Right there in the middle >> Oh, that's >> Those are literally the background stars

[33:32]and you can see the whole playable galaxy here. All of the different players that are on

[33:36]the server >> goodness. You're making me want to learn about space more. I love this.

[33:41]>> Well, the thing is you don't have to know anything about space if you don't

[33:44]want to. >> I more just mean like you're making me want to go back to the time that I've

[33:48]like thought about wanting to dive deeper into space and this is like this

[33:52]is why. It's so cool. >> Yeah, right? It's just as an example, like I can search for whatever I want to

[33:58]or I can just hit like give me a random star system. It'll show me the whole

[34:02]route. Hey, it's D. Daniel. I hope he's watching right now because this guy he's

[34:05]been a freaking OG in the community since we launched a couple weeks ago. So

[34:08]let's let's check out his system real quick. It should load in 5 seconds real

[34:11]quick. Bang. We are now in the D. Daniel system. He's got a really sick little

[34:17]white dwarf. That's awesome. Those are rare. Um, but this is his whole system. Uh,

[34:21]fully RNG, all the names, all of the content, all the questing. I can start a

[34:25]trade route right now with him. Me and him are going to get resources. There's

[34:29]no limit to the amount of trade routes you can have. I encourage everybody to

[34:32]go visit as many systems as they can and check it out. And to show off the cool

[34:36]time saver thing, this AI is built with the back end brains from Open Serve and

[34:42]it's layered on top of Claude and GPT. So like when I tell it to just "Can you

[34:47]send some crew on a mission?" Even if I misspelled it, I'll send Maracrest or Inveilen. Okay,

[34:54]yep, done. Please, yes. Yep, go. Good. It just It just started That thing

[35:01]I showed you earlier where I assigned crew to a specific local quest, it did

[35:04]all of that for me. And you can do that here or you can do it in Telegram if you

[35:07]want to. Like there's a whole MMO here, but it doesn't require you to give it a

[35:11]full day's worth every time. You can pick it in Like it's built to be

[35:15]forgotten about and still let you win. Because at the core of everything I'm

[35:18]doing, your time has to matter. It just has to. You know what I mean?

[35:22]>> That's [laughter] amazing. Okay, so I'm going to I'm going to give you a

[35:25]question and I think I don't normally do like specific questions with people, but

[35:30]I have so many things I want to tap into. I just want to play the game,

[35:33]honestly, at this point. But um I'm a trading card game person. When I was

[35:38]growing up, uh there's this concept in Magic the Gathering of different types of player. Timmy, John Johnny, and

[35:45]Spike. And I'm curious um the idea is that uh Timmy is uh let me just Timmy is a power

[35:54]gamer. Timmy likes to win big. He doesn't want to eke out the last minute

[35:57]victory. Timmy wants to smash his opponents. He likes his cards to be impressive and he enjoys playing big

[36:03]creatures and big spells. And Johnny. Johnny likes a challenge. Johnny enjoys winning with cards that no one else

[36:10]wants to use. He likes making decks that win in innovative ways. What sets Johnny

[36:14]apart from other profiles is that Johnny enjoys deck building as much as he

[36:17]enjoys playing. Blah blah blah blah blah. And then there's Spike. Uh Spike is a competitive player. Spike plays to

[36:24]win. Spike enjoys winning to accomplish this. Spike will play whatever the best deck is, copy decks off the internet,

[36:30]borrow other good players' decks. Despite the thrill of magic is the general rush of competition. So, I

[36:36]really like those the concept of like magic having the ability for each of

[36:41]those archetypes to not only be like you can be 100% of the these individuals,

[36:45]but portions of each person is portions of this and being able to play as each

[36:50]person is a success of like the game style of Magic the Gathering. I'm

[36:56]curious if you've thought of anything like this, like kind of player profiles, and then also if you were going to pick

[37:02]you like your percentage of those characters, what would you be as Magpie? >> I think I probably

[37:10]I would lean a little bit competitive because I definitely like the red deck

[37:13]wins, but I also like to do stuff that's not just the meta. So, like like for

[37:18]example, for the people that would understand it, I when I did play magic

[37:22]cuz I used to work at a local game store. So, I played it professionally,

[37:26]not like as a professional, just I had to learn it for work, is what I'm

[37:29]saying. [laughter] That's how I approach magic, but once I did, I found that I

[37:33]really like playing like um kind of chill sneak up on you things where it's a little obvious what's

[37:38]coming, but with a little bit of a dagger in the back. So, like I would

[37:41]play um like go wide decks, white green, but I would keep a little bit of red in

[37:44]there just because I like you not knowing your total health is actually 15, not 20. You know what I mean?

[37:49]>> I love that. >> A little bit of a >> That's exactly That's exactly where I'm at. I love the

[37:53]competitive. I'll take anything that I can do to win win, but also the the

[37:59]winning big and and the combo are really important in those 10% moments where

[38:03]it's just like you're not just playing the meta, right? Like you said, it's fun

[38:07]to have those absolute fun get decks to play or or or play styles. And I think

[38:12]this reminds me of that a little bit of like, okay, a person that's just like

[38:17]just trying to like be on it all the time can do that. A person that's uh

[38:21]spending maybe 5-10 minutes a day or 5 10 minutes a week to be able to

[38:26]keep on growing towards a specific goal in mind to be able to like attack that

[38:30]specific part of the game. You have a little bit of for for everyone.

[38:35]>> Absolutely. Let's see. I'll show you actually since you mentioned card games I'll show you

[38:40]the thing that I mentioned in a DM a while ago just kind of also show that

[38:43]I've got more than just these two games coming. But what was the other thing I

[38:46]was right. Let me go ship and upgrades real quick. This is a little Robbie

[38:49]because I haven't pushed like the back end dev updates yet but like here

[38:53]just to show off like each ship that you have like hero ship wise has its own

[38:57]stats and so and so forth. But like the pieces as you're questing you'll find

[39:01]different bits that are literally like polynomial type of sits and you can there's a bit of like a Tetris kind of a

[39:06]cargo game which is fun. But mostly I wanted to come here and show off the

[39:10]loot caches which are still in early development but like you can see here

[39:14]this one I earned from space PVE. This one was just an idle crew dispatch like

[39:18]the one you saw me send them on. This one is my first scan etc. But let's

[39:21]let's just open the loot chest real quick and see what I get. It's a little rough around the edges but

[39:25]let's see what we got. Let's open the merch cash. Aww. >> Okay. >> And see you can see here there's the

[39:34]golden cartridge right there. >> Oh, wow. >> Just as an example. This is not live

[39:39]loot yet but just to kind of give people an example of what we've got. We've got

[39:42]six different slots for stuff to put it in. You can see here like there's active

[39:45]like this is that's the exact shape of what that piece would go on to your ship

[39:50]etc. to make it nice and easy inventory kind of fun stuff. But like as an

[39:53]example these are the chests that you'll be able to find for free as you're just

[39:57]playing the game. I'll have loot chests and other things and stuff but like just

[40:01]figured I'd give off an example and then real quick let me uh This is one of my other titles that I

[40:06]built for our vibe jam a while ago but it is very card game heavy.

[40:11]>> [laughter] >> Okay. >> It's a few months out of date so it's

[40:13]going to be a little rough when I get in there but this This of my favorite

[40:15]things that I have ever built, I will say. So, it is a You can play against

[40:20]players or you can play against Let me >> [laughter] >> Let me go back, actually. We'll get to

[40:25]that in a second. Give me doctrine again. There we go. So, in match setup, you can

[40:30]either play against uh survival mode, you can go up against the AI ladder. So, I've got like a bunch

[40:35]of the free AI out there that will pilot the AI the things against you or you can

[40:39]play against other people. But, the premise is that you are a wizard that

[40:42]has already beaten a bunch of ass in the past and you have turned say this root

[40:46]sanctum that gives you uh two heavy units uh from the Amber Monks. You have

[40:51]like I'm going to grab this guy and put it right here. >> [snorts]

[40:53]>> I'm going to let's let's skip through the page here and find some other spells

[40:56]real quick. These guys here, you beat the hell out of them and you have worked

[40:59]with them now. So, that when you are in a fight with other wizards, you can call their HQ and

[41:04]they'll come running out to help fight exactly with you right there. So, it is

[41:06]an RTS that you can kind of play at the speed of What the hell is that?

[41:11]>> [laughter] >> Kind of weird bug on the visuals. But, just to give you an idea uh definitely

[41:15]non-polished and this isn't one of the ones that's coming out immediately. But, what I have worked with here is like

[41:21]with this root sanctum, I can just drag this here. Lightning zap, the building

[41:24]sprouts up out of nowhere and then the units come spilling out to start

[41:27]fighting each other. It's very like Avatar: The Last Airbender where they're fighting with like magical powers and

[41:32]stuff like that. But, I also don't think I have it in here right now, which is

[41:36]unfortunate. But, I built a hover tank that is also a waypoint that you can

[41:40]spawn into this as well because why the hell am I? I can be multi-job.

[41:43]But, the idea is that you you collect different cards that you'll be able to

[41:46]loot a waypoint or from Fable Boy games and stuff like that. Like, let's slap

[41:49]out the Drift Auto ways and see what that looks like. It spawns in and dudes

[41:52]start running out to go fight for you and do all sorts of stuff. And they Of

[41:55]course, you can tell them to go into a formation, all the stuff you'd expect

[41:58]from an RTS. And there is somewhere in this massive buildings, you can see them sort of

[42:02]fighting with these other guys right now. They're fighting over the nodes. So, when I'm talking about shiny things

[42:10]I'll go to the portfolio page real quick. We've got two flagships and then the one

[42:14]that you saw there, which is doctrine over here. But like I've got tons of stuff that's in the line. So,

[42:20]when I say I hate road maps, it doesn't mean I don't have road maps. I got road

[42:24]maps on road maps. I just I'm doing it in a way where if it's going to use the

[42:27]token, it will use it intelligently. It will not gatekeep behind the token. Everything's going to be free to play

[42:33]and at the end of the day your time's going to be the thing that I'm asking

[42:36]you for, not your funding, not your your attention necessarily. I I I got just if

[42:40]you give me 30 seconds, I'm going to give you 5 minutes worth of value out of

[42:43]it. You know what I mean? That's the whole >> that. Studio. >> Amazing. Yeah.

[42:49]What's the 34? What's the glitching in the Magpie shiny things? >> Ah, so

[42:54]Mag That's literally just 3.14. Magpie. It's a pie pun because math is [ __ ] nerdy stuff. Oh.

[43:01]>> it. >> Yeah, it's just the the reason why it glitches is just to literally get your

[43:05]>> [laughter] >> And if you click on it, I think it takes you to my X and so on. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[43:11]>> So, it's a That is my portfolio site. >> Sure, this tab is dead.

[43:15]But yeah, it takes you to wherever you'd expect it to and then back on this one

[43:18]it's just like each one of these is like a full project that I've got built out

[43:22]for my repos and this is not even up to date, which is pretty cool.

[43:27]And that's the that's the rambly gist of what I'm doing over here is that uh

[43:30]>> Amazing. >> aiming to be a collab powerhouse and that that specifically means is that

[43:35]the 30 seconds or 5 minutes or however much time you decide to give me per

[43:39]week, even if it's zero, is still going to be filling up with interesting and

[43:43]very fun things to do with that time that will also have optional kickbacks

[43:46]and all sorts of fun stuff. >> Wow. I love it. Candy said that game

[43:52]looks sexy, very nice graphics. >> Thank you. >> So, yeah. No, I'm I'm excited to play. I

[43:57]definitely will be building some worlds here. I think you you One of the things

[44:02]I love is uh world builders give me the opportunity for other people to build on

[44:06]top of it, like I said earlier. So, I'm stoked to jump in, jump in. I have I

[44:11]have a bunch of games I've been meaning to to to jump on. So, this gives me that

[44:16]that push and that opportunity. >> 100% and that's a that's a great real

[44:20]quick shout out cuz if I've got if people are watching the water or if

[44:23]they're in the audience right now. So, one of the things that I've got built

[44:25]into this like a waypoints way down there in the end. But, this this QR code

[44:29]here works. Uh of course this going to break on me right now, which is fantastic. It works.

[44:34]I promise, guys. If if you scan this QR code here, it'll give you all the information on how to

[44:39]apply. I would love to for free get your game literally playable either on the

[44:44]arcade with the buttons down there or if you want it to just link directly to

[44:48]your experience. Like there's there's nothing stopping me from slapping in thousands of these things and making

[44:53]this way bigger than it is. I just didn't want the arcade to be like

[44:56]unnecessarily large. But, like each one of these cabinets is for rent. And anybody that wants to be some of the

[45:01]first ones is for rent for free. Um and I can also build cartridges. Like

[45:06]if you want a skin for your community just like with the Zao skin like this

[45:09]this is built from the ground up. Every part of it is permeated with being

[45:13]able to collab with you in a tasteful way. Not just to have it happen, but

[45:17]like I am a bipedal synergy engine. If you are a thing that exists, I can come up

[45:22]with cool ways to work with you, is what I would say. >> [laughter]

[45:26]>> That's crazy. I That's something that I feel in my heart, but I've never said

[45:33]those words and that I like I I definitely I definitely empathize with that

[45:38]message. So, I love it. Do you Do you have any last fun bits of

[45:44]of anything that you want to show us as we're kind of getting to the end here?

[45:48]>> Um Yeah, actually, you know what? I do. Let me show This is going to be some of the

[45:53]rougher stuff that's still down in the pipeline. But, let me just do like some

[45:55]blasters. Let's see. >> Amazing. >> Let's see if this will load. Yeah, okay,

[46:00]cool. So, this is something that I put like an afternoon into a while ago and

[46:04]haven't done much with, but it is a one-to-four player version of Degen, the

[46:08]game of life, basically. Um, where I'm absolutely going to be building in the ability with like I I

[46:14]use Meshy for a lot of stuff, so I'm going to be building out like any This

[46:18]is true also for Waypoint and for Fableboy as well. Like Fableboy skins or

[46:22]Waypoint uh those crew members that I sent on things, those are placeholder crew that are just going to be the

[46:26]generics, but I'm working with some NFT communities right now to allow their users to make their NFTs just the JPEGs.

[46:33]I don't want any of their keys, but just the JPEGs they can come and turn into a

[46:37]full crew member that just like the mercenary fleets they can hire out and

[46:40]as they're doing stuff for other people, they get like resources back in game and

[46:44]stuff like that. But instead of these like little rubber duckies here that are

[46:47]on the board all stacked up on each other. I don't even remember the camera

[46:52]controls for this, but it's a full board game that as you go through it's just more

[46:56]and more Degen and it's about who can get the most bags from it. It's just uh

[47:00]Put in the roll the dice and see how it goes. You can see this guy

[47:04]Yep. And it's just a board game for Degens and >> a one-player? >> It's uh four-player and you can invite a

[47:10]lobby >> Oh, okay, I see. >> But this is this is an afternoon of work

[47:15]with like uh you can see like I've got a repo that just makes infinite buildings

[47:19]and stuff that's slapped in here. I have This is nowhere near complete, but this

[47:22]is one of the things that's coming where you'll be able to have a game night

[47:25]between communities literally on the fly in a neutral space if you want to or

[47:30]Here's another one that I entered into a a contest which is like a week's worth

[47:35]of work and is in a little bit of a rougher state, but this one is coming to

[47:38]one of the cabinets as well. This is a love letter to the old F-Zero games.

[47:43]It's got 20 different pilots, 20 different hovercrafts right now. Let's just go ahead and grab uh It was a a

[47:49]capybara themed thing, so that's why half of them are capybara racecrafts. But we've got stuff like this guy here.

[47:54]Let's just grab this one here and play now. And it's just a a very fun retro like a

[48:00]hovercraft or whatever you want to call it. Right now it's a standalone thing, but

[48:05]eventually this is going to be a sort of an actual race. This is going to be an

[48:09]optional game mode in Waypoint where if you want to do racing leagues across the

[48:12]galaxy, you'll be able to. Uh and I am honestly particularly excited about that. This is

[48:19]>> That's awesome. Yeah. >> Right. This is definitely a bit of a >> more game functionality and game types

[48:24]in new labs based on how people participate and interact with the substrate that you've created.

[48:30]>> Yep. Exactly. It's it's just more ways to engage with the same stuff. And like

[48:35]with like with those those loot chests where you'll be able to earn like the

[48:38]golden cartridges or insert partner pricing here, that will just be like this will be one of the ways eventually

[48:43]in Waypoint that you'll be able to earn those if it's the preferred way to

[48:46]interact with it because your time is the thing that matters. If you choose to

[48:49]spend it with me, I hope you find something that's cool with it, you know?

[48:53]>> No, I'm I'm stoked. I think there's something for everyone in our community

[48:58]here and I'm excited to to tap in more. Maybe we do our next live as a little

[49:03]game night as a demo with with other people. We can just we can make it a two plus player game

[49:11]where it's like if it's just me and you on an X space or whatever, we have a

[49:15]great time. And if anyone else joins in, they can immediately pop in on a browser

[49:19]or hopefully mobile maybe. That could be really fun. So yeah, I I appreciate your time,

[49:25]Magpie. Thank you for joining me today. This was an absolute blast. I'm definitely excited for more.

[49:32]And yeah, do you want to share where people can find you on the internet? I know you

[49:36]shared it a little bit earlier, but if you want to share one last time.

[49:40]>> The easiest way is >> [snorts] >> to join our Telegram, but that's

[49:44]That is not the easiest way because in order to do that you have to go find me

[49:47]on X, which is x.com/alaskanmagpie. It's spelled exactly like you would expect with no spaces. Um,

[49:54]yeah, just come say hi. And if you remember any of the links that I said

[49:58]today, you'll be able to find me through those links. So, if you just happen to

[50:01]be checking out Fable Boy or Waypoint, you'll be able to find your way to me as

[50:03]well. >> Boom. I love it. Thank you so much for coming on. Thanks for for popping in and

[50:09]we'll see you all soon. Cheers. >> Have a great