Yuga Labs CEO Is Learning Making NFT Games Is Hard
Daniel Alegre, CEO of Bored Ape Yacht Club creator Yuga Labs, published a lengthy essay on Twitter (aka X) late Tuesday evening, part of which details the company’s challenges and shortcomings with game development—including for its upcoming metaverse game Otherside.
“While Dookey Dash was a fun game and experience, we have fallen well short of expectations with Forge,” Alegre wrote, referring to the startup’s HV-MTL Forge game.
Released in June, HV-MTL Forge is a social building and mech management game where players must complete tasks—like clean up after their NFT robots when they poop, construct tiles, and vote on other players' created environments. It hasn't yielded nearly the same kind of social media buzz as the viral and competitive Dookey Dash.
Yuga Labs has similarly acknowledged the technical issues with its latest game experience, Legends of the Mara (LotM), as it faced server issues and outages for maintenance in recent weeks.
“The lessons that we are actively learning are that we need to rely on seasoned gaming partners to help build our experiences,” Alegre said.
