Interview With the Dexioprotocol Team – Play to Earn

A couple months ago we introduced Dexioprotocol – a crypto-based gaming company with several utilities, including an upcoming AR-mobile game, wallet, and soon-to-be-released blockchain, the Smart Dexio Network (SDN). Most recently, the project announced several releases through the month of April, which may include an entirely new wallet with a web version, browser extension, and integrated swap, play-to-earn and player-vs-player mechanics to their DexiKnights game, and a yet-to-be-named second game. All of this before their flagship offering, DexiHunter (think Pokémon-Go for crypto) enters its beta version, which will go-live in five cities across the globe.

We had a chance to sit down with a few members of Dexioprotocol – a fully doxed team that spans across the globe. We spoke with Robert Barlow, Chief Strategy Officer, Ovi Sanz, Head of Game Development, and Hameed Khan, Full-Stack Developer. We asked several questions about the project, its users, and the future of Dexioprotocol. 

PTE: Ten months into your Dexioprotocol journey, what are you most proud of?

RB: I’m most proud of how the team has grown from a handful of enthusiastic and passionate people to a well-structured and diversified machine. Our team spans across the globe and everyone, from the chat monitors to the CEO, are really great people that do such a fantastic job for Dexi. Every day the team is working to push the project forward. Dexi is here to stay, and that makes me proud.

Dexioprotocol is just ten months into its crypto-gaming journey but the team already has a lot to be proud of. A wallet, Game Emporium, and NFT Marketplace released within the first six months of launch. They followed those utilities with their first game, DexiKnights – a competitive PVE game with upgradable NFTs – which has been in community beta for several months, going through various updates to better game dynamics, smooth graphics, and increase fluidity. Still to come, the team is introducing PVP mechanics to increase the playing value and allow its community to challenge competitors directly. They see this as the next logical step in their entry to P2E gaming.

PTE: What challenges do you and your team face when building engaging games in the crypto space?

O: Our game development team is comprised of mostly gamers. We looked at the most popular NFT games currently available and we felt that they were lacking in a few areas. Our first and primary goal is to create games that are safe for the user and addicting and fun to play. We feel that most of the NFT games we come across simply don’t look or feel very fun. Our secondary goal was to figure out a viable way to integrate true play-to-earn mechanics with a model that would benefit everyone equally and not just create something that would only benefit users that joined early. We had to ask ourselves how we could create games that…