Tomer Pascal, CEO of CityVerse Tycoon, on Web3 Mobile Gaming Ecosystem, PWAs, and Battling the Apple/Google App Stores | Ep. 335
Cryptonews Podcast host Matt Zahab recently sat down for a chat with Tomer Pascal, the CEO and co-founder of OwnPlay, a Web3 mobile gaming ecosystem and developer of CityVerse Tycoon, a PWA game allowing players to trade, buy, and sell tokenized replicas of real buildings in New York City, USA.
Pascal talked about the advantages of Web3 gaming over Web2, deciding to avoid Apple and Google for its game, succeeding in creating a PWA game, and the exciting launches coming very soon.
It was 2022 when Pascal reached out to his old colleague Boaz Levin about creating a startup together. Pascal found that the time was finally right for the Web3 gaming.
Their joint endeavor eventually became OwnPlay.
“Creating a mobile Web3 game presents a big opportunity,” he said to Levin.
Web2 became heavily dependent on paid customer acquisition. But Web3 elements are exciting, he said.
They allow people to finally leverage gameplay to provide the players themselves an option “for a potential financial upside from the gameplay itself.”
If done correctly, it can add a new level of excitement to the gameplay and continue the Web3 narrative, sad Pascal.
OwnPlay created CityVerse Tycoon to provide its players with a seamless experience, Pascal told Matt.
However, the team had a giant conundrum – Apple and Google. “How the hell are we going to bypass this,” they wondered.
Apple Store and Google Play are extremely unfriendly to anything crypto-related. Getting approval for a Web3 game with non-fungible tokens (NFTs) would be impossible.
These companies are primarily protecting their own interests – primarily, financial interests. These may or may not align with user interests.
What they do not align with is the on-chain experience. These two methods are not
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