If the majority of mobile casuals' target audience takes Ozempic, what effect does that have on games? No one's asking these questions, so welcome to ...
E47: Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma, Social Norms Go Astray, and Why Game Economy Needs Math
Jan 26 2026 • 01:11:01
Chuck E. Cheese is still alive, and so is the analytics-to-product pipeline. @Amanda Cesario analytics lead turned product leader, joins @Phillip Blac...
E46: Economics of Sweepstakes, Vertical Word Game Progression, and UXR Failure
Dec 14 2025 • 00:55:41
Is fair matchmaking actually bad design? And how exactly did gaming companies fumble the bag when it came to the army of PhD psychologists they employ...
E45: Autobattler Econ, WILD UGC Algo & A Currency Debate for the Ages (w/Arto Huhta) Autobattler Econ, WILD UGC Algo & The Big Currency Question (w/Arto Huhta)
Nov 23 2025 • 01:13:44
What happens when autobattlers fail to monetize? We pull Arto Huhta into the cast and chat about Telegram’s pseudo-WeChat ambitions. Eric releases a d...
E44: Incentive UGC Determinism for the Future of Gaming (w/Alex Seropian)
Sep 29 2025 • 00:45:55
UGC is about to change forever. In the same way all technologies govern and enable the creative, MTX will do the same for Fortnite. Or will it? Alex S...
Eric Seufert joins to dissect AI hype, marginal ROAS, Jeremy Bentham's legacy, and managing a multi-million-dollar marketing budget that falls em...
E42: Vertical Progression Is Gaming's Sex & Finally A Web3 Hope
Sep 01 2025 • 01:06:22
Forget the endless autopsies on why Web3 gaming flatlined, @Chris gets past the clichés and gets into the real pathology: a misdiagnosis of what “play...
E41: Karl Marx as a 5* Character & Ukrainian Drone Economy Design
Aug 04 2025 • 01:02:19
Eric covers the economy and the system’s design of Ukraine’s Drone squadron. What does economy balancing look like in the face of war? Phil can’t stop...
E40: The Best Web3 Arguments (w/Yat Siu, Cofounder of Animoca Brands)
Jun 16 2025 • 01:10:24
Yat Siu, Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Animoca Brands, steps cast to defend Web3 against @Eric and @Phil’s vigorous skepticism. @Chris just wan...
E39: Law & Economic Order, A Game Economist Investigation
May 12 2025 • 01:10:09
Pokémon's patent of spherical objects throwing of cartoon creatures threatens Palword's lifeblood, while Tim Sweeney has lifted, at least a ...
