Worst NFT Game EVER? | Undead Blocks Gameplay and Review

[@jauwn]

1 year update: they haven't made a single update to the game and it's still trash. basically a scam

[@NekoAlosama]

"my staking rewards have not arrived"

[@larrymantic2635]

Oh wow, it’s literally dead in the water. Fitting for a zombie game.

[@mothmanafterdark5924]

I've never seen anything like it before!

[@Sogrub]

well... it was to be expected

[@dremoralorde5215]

This is a shocking development.

[@juanmanuelgiraldo5239]

I hope you run these on a virtual machine or something. I feel you're gonna run into malware eventually.

[@TylerTMG]

there safe *antivirus dying*

[@bigdaddydons6241]

I'm surprised most of these games aren't just crypto miners

[@TylerTMG]

@@bigdaddydons6241 can i eat you?

[@mopolita7215]

​@@bigdaddydons6241well, this game probably is one , that would explain the poor performance

[@juaaanbernardofresno9952]

Didn't the twd one run an app always in the background?

[@operatchick6486]

I love how NFT games are built on the promise of 'anyone will be able to utilize any NFT in any game' when 90% of NFT developers are too lazy to get their own NFTs working in their own games.

[@toomanyaccounts]

no nft game uses another nft games nft. plus nfts are on a server somewhere

[@BetaDude40]

As Jauwn explained before, devs have literally zero financial incentive to use anyone else's NFTs. It's far more lucrative to create your own and get shitloads of money than allow NFTs from other games which wouldn't fit

[@PaladinusSP]

Legal Felon is definitely a weird translation of the Russian phrase 'вор в законе' (vor v zakonye), meaning a mafioso who operates some legal business, while actually controlling a criminal enterprise without obvious direct involvement. The female playable character is also Russia-themed, complete with a red star on the hat. Something tells me the game was actually developed for cheap by some Russian outsource team, who were provided very little direction, so apart from flavour text, they didn't even stick to the Russian theme. The map looks like a typical asset store-bought American suburb, nothing like anything from Eastern Europe.

[@jauwn]

It was created by a Ukrainian team actually. Wonder if that term would be used in Ukraine as well?

[@PaladinusSP]

@@jauwn That also makes sense, I guess. How criminals are portrayed in popular culture both in Ukraine and Russia (and some other neighbouring countries) is informed largely by how the criminal world functioned in the USSR and in the 90s, so a lot of criminal slang is Russian originally. There is an equivalent Ukrainian term that can also be directly translated to English as legal felon, but even when talking in Ukrainian, it wouldn't be unusual to keep slang terms like that untranslated. Still, definitely doesn't make sense that playable characters are clearly meant to be Eastern European, while the map is stereotypical American suburbia. Wonder if they still have that red star in the game, though.

[@jauwn]

From my understanding, the game developers outsourced all the artwork to a Ukrainian video game asset consulting / contracting firm. So perhaps the art firm already had some premade assets (perhaps in that Eastern European theme) and then they custom made the map? Who knows. Someone else commented saying that the some of the zombie models used here also appear in Phasmophobia, but I’ve never played that game so I can’t confirm. Regardless, it just shows that the developers have no care at all about the theme and are just picking random assets and throwing them into the game, and then selling them as NFTs. Lazy, shameless, stupid.

[@PaladinusSP]

@@jauwn Yep, sounds like just what you'd expect from a crypto project. Decentralised to the point of no coherence.

[@nicreven]

thanks for the insight :)

[@anon9469]

Interestingly, the idea of "over-rendering enemies causing slowdown" as a difficulty mechanic actually traces back to gaming's earliest days. Space Invaders, at the time, pushed the limits of what hardware could render, so the aliens started off moving slowly but gathered pace as you killed more of them and reduced the load on the processor.

[@Kori-ko]

Honestly it's been a staple of the shmups genre to do this up until x86 PCs in arcade machines became standard. A lot of games would throw a ton of bullets in boss fights such that even the patterns took the slowdown in mind.

[@God-ch8lq]

​​@@Kori-koCAVE loves doing it EVACaneer DOOM or queen larsa come to mind tho larsa could also push the limits on some consoles iirc d

[@Dipsoid]

The irony of making zombies spout a bunch of random crypto-bro cliches is so funny that I find it hard to believe it wasn't intentional, but these people have no self awareness.

[@jauwn]

It's your player character that says those lines, not the zombies. The zombies just make sounds identical to the ones in CoD WaW. But that would be hilarious if the zombies were the ones saying that LOL

[@biigsmokee]

@@jauwn that's a good way to pivot the game; you're the last person left in a cashless society with nothing but a debit card and 9mm pistol and all the cryptobros are trying to surround you and get you to buy an NFT or sign up to a crypto wallet. they should drop gas (ethereum fee) or like NFTs or something, and that's your currency you can use to buy other stuff.

[@M50A1]

@@biigsmokee I had a similar idea to this but instead you're on one of those crypto islands after the place fell apart and all that remains are cryptobros who lost their sanity and you have to fight them off to escape the island

[@aslandus]

@@M50A1 Add in some drugs that let you hurl lightning bolts and you've basically got Bioshock

[@ethanmcneill1941]

@@M50A1 cryptoland survival

[@enderkatze6129]

When you said the *Shotgun* can only hit one Zombie at a time, that's when i knew this game has no chance.

[@jauwn]

The game has been pretty much abandoned by the developers already so yeah it’s exactly as I expected

[@enderkatze6129]

@@jauwn i am absolutely Not shocked.

[@Protog3n_pd2]

modders should fix that issue ngl

[@valletas]

How do you even mess up this badly?

[@DStecks]

@@valletas By not actually trying

[@SilverDragonJay]

So the game shows 10k players online, but no one is getting matched? This makes me think that they spent more time to creating a script that would randomly generate 10k player names instead of working on the actual game. Or even just incorporating subtitles or alternate game settings.

[@CatMandiano]

The dude making 2500 a month selling zombie bucks and gods bucks back and forth seems to be the only one that’s playing this game right.

[@HarmonRAB-hp4nk]

is lie'ing because zombie bucks have been worth nothing fer a tear and a half now lol

[@mariox204]

That is genuily causing more traction to nft for my that any publicity iv seen a 3% transaction fee with transaction rewards more than 3% of the total volume of transactions (im too por to try anyways since it probably has a minimun required of 2500 or maybe that the most efficient point but)

[@jauwn]

16:07 wow i just noticed that even the trailer on gamestop's marketplace shows the amazing ragdoll animation spazzing out. they didn't even care enough to make a trailer that didn't have obvious glitches. also on the trailer on their website the zombies are hovering about a foot off the ground

[@gustavonomegrande]

4:52 the butcher model is an asset flip, it's also used for one of the ghosts in phasmophobia

[@LilBleachThaGod]

phasmophobia was a huge disappointment lol

[@LilBleachThaGod]

and to be fair so is this game lol

[@benkicola2707]

phasma is such a better game then this

[@Legendary231]

Most of the models in this game are actually. I saw the axe ghost as a zombie during the intro reel.

[@idk_why73]

Thanks I was thinking the same thing

[@Rfanq]

Cryptobros: "fiat currency is bad because central banks just exist to print money and generate inflation!!!!!" Cryptocurrencies: 90% APY

[@theoneandonlyartyom]

fiat is cool

[@denjidenji9162]

Its kind of incredible that the best crypto games are all just copy-pastes of actual games, and that despite that they all find a way to play even worse than their original games. Great vid as always! Seconding the other comments about using a Virtual Machine, you never know with these types Edit: the extended "No" on every point you make in the "Will It Succeed" section is my favorite joke youve done so far lmao

[@jauwn]

Don't worry about me guys! I always use protection, I just don't mention it in the videos. Although for what it's worth, I always extract and poke around the crypto games that are made in Unity or Unreal and see what they've got going on, and nothing has been malicious so far. Even the sketchiest game of them all, CryptoFights, didn't actually appear to have any malware, but I really hoped it did because that would've made for great content.

[@wu1ming9shi]

@@jauwn I mean, it would be kind of working against the scam to infect the pc of the people playing it. But yeah, you never know. But still I think if a game is infected with something malicious it was prolly because of coding incompetence rather than malicious intend. 😂

[@Chinothebad]

All these "games" being copy-pastes makes sense. Doesn't take much effort for one to make a copy and paste game scam to rip off any crypto-bro that's willing to believe any of it would make them money.

[@acuddle]

@@jauwn That's so pathetic of them ! The _whole point_ of a crypto game is to provide a distraction while the game mines the coin using the user's computing power, justifying the horrible performance... How can they be in crypto development while they aren't even able to set up crypto mining ?! The standard is set really low and they still manage to not hit it 🤣 I guess they just realized they could mooch off ImmutableX's reward system for wash trading instead of setting up the mining, despite that mining would make them more money and more secure revenue in the long run 🤷

[@liamcollinson5695]

The irony of the company been named after wagyu beef when they game is equivalent to a fast food burger is not lost on me

[@RipRLeeErmey]

Nah bro comparing this game to even a Big Mac would be insulting, This game is the burger equivalent of the hockey puck ass burger you get served at a barbecue that everyone SWEARS is good, "just put a little ketchup on it it's fine".

[@williamdrum9899]

"Scrapple Games"

[@thundercockjackson]

this shit aint even frozen white castle

[@Violetstainn]

Jauwn yet again thank you for risking your mental health, the integrity of your computer and your free time just to put out these banger videos for us:') The amount of effort you put into your channel is crazy!

[@jauwn]

Wow, that means so much! Thank you! I definitely put a lot of effort into making these videos so I'm glad that people enjoy them! I've already improved a ton just in the 2 months I've been doing these so it's only up from here.

[@hugorodriguez8672]

I think the butcher zombie from the website is actually a ghost from phasmophobia.

[@jauwn]

It is

[@Lunar_Sakura]

Holy hell. That "Hole to another universe" graffiti in the main menu is straight up stolen from Life is Strange, Chloe has that on the wall in her room. I'd give it the benefit of the doubt as that's a common thing to throw up on walls as a tag nowadays but as far as I'm aware LiS popularized it and that is LITERALLY the same texture from the game.

[@steele_heart77]

Nah, just commented this same thing. It’s stolen, literally couldn’t get anymore blatant. Just about every crypto game is an asset flip, how would straight-up theft be any different?

[@DirkDiglerTheNHunter]

And this is just as bad as that game lol

[@joemamr710]

@@DirkDiglerTheNHunter This game is 500,000x as worse.

[@dartz005]

Ironically, the zombies in that game perfectly represent the average Crypto Clown. With them just mindlessly chasing & dog-piling anything to do with crypto. Just goes to show that any form of intelligence is unnecessary when dealing with such mindless idiots.

[@signas501]

You KNOW they are marketing their NFT Crypto game well when the website used to advertise their game uses free Unity asset models, like the Male Butcher that can also be found in Phasmophobia.

[@joey0guy]

What will break first? The value of the shitcoin? Your computer? Or your will to play another one of these abominations? Great video as always

[@jauwn]

Hopefully the game falls apart that way I can do an update video where I can say "told ya so" when every one of my predictions comes true. 😂

[@jpanda79]

The nft/crypto craze is just insane history. I love watching all of these documentaries. Greater fool theory taken to the absolute extreme

[@temtempo13]

It's so gratifying to hear someone refer to the blockchain as a database. That's all it is! It's not magic! Yeah, a decentralized blockchain means you aren't going through the company to make transactions, but who cares? When is that actually relevant?

[@williamdrum9899]

It's not relevant. Especially for a game which is inherently centralized

[@temtempo13]

@@williamdrum9899 NFTbros will never understand that a centralized database with a good API will be better than a decentralized blockchain in every single real use case.

[@valivali8104]

​@@temtempo13 well, they don’t understand anything related to technology or finance.

[@asteroidrules]

It's basically only relevant in bad ways since it means there's no consumer protection and extremely slow transaction processing.

[@SpaceManRD]

These games always feel like they were designed by aliens who had video games explained to them one time.

[@AtticusKarpenter]

Not wrong description, though

[@ceddavis7441]

The first round based survival game I can think of is pacman

[@williamdrum9899]

A much better game than this one

[@sick_icarus]

I’ve noticed the number of individual players or items sold is usually around 2,000 in these videos and I wonder if it’s the same 2k people every time

[@richardduska1558]

5:00 The reason behind these very basic zombies is that they are probably ether free assets or very cheap ones that you can easily reproduce.

[@mishimakazuya6167]

I was excited when I first saw undead blocks website it looked like left 4 dead like game with 4 players coop. Downloaded to try it out only to find out it's like a little cod zombies level and feels like 1$ indie game. When I watched other youtube videos I found it funny that some people thought it's finally an AAA quality game

[@biigsmokee]

they are in denial lol

[@ShotgunRocket]

It's funny that this is the best example of an NFT game so far

[@jauwn]

Nah I still think that Gods Unchained is probably the best game so far. But it's still sub-par once you realize it's an identical but way worse clone of Hearthstone.

[@gubeym]

@@jauwn so I just wanted to add a few points that the video missed. I was an “early investor” in this and I consider my investment a total loss. It is what it is. It was about $900, 1 of my NFTs was stolen when MetaMask got hacked and/or the person I gave my NFT sold it and never told me. In any case, I still have 2 that are going the be worth about 1/3 of what I originally paid. 1.) the game is supposedly backed by a top crypto fund: animoca brands that has a multiple billion dollar valuation (which who really knows if that’s in cash or not). 2.) Kevuru games was used to promote the game. It is a legitimate business. However, it’s a 3d modeling company based in Ukraine (before giving the company shit, please understand they have donate hundreds of NVGs to the armed forces of Ukraine while they continue their fight against Russia). It’s honestly a good company, that has dozens of artists working for it, within a country that is currently at work and that, I think, is being misrepresented by the company listing the game. 3.) the company is not hiding that they want to be the call of duty of the NFT world. Quite frankly, I don’t think they could be suit for this as the idea can’t be patented. But yeah, it’s a bad look. 4.). The game hasn’t improved at all since launch of the “beta.” I played it once and just shook my head. It’s very clear that many of the assets are most likely stolen/used from the unreal engine asset store. I also don’t know who are the members of the team as many of the people were never introduced outside of 2-3 people. 5.) The people running the show all have limited experience, they are surrounded entirely by “yes men” that scream at you to leave any time you bring up ANYTHING that might be considered FUD. During one of the AMA’s led by Grant, he exclaimed that the company is worth $40m BEFORE a working game was available and before the NFTs had been sold. I’m not joking. He literally said $40 million. This said. They are all still here. It’s been close to a year, and they haven’t left. So at the very least, they are at least in it until release. Personally, I think the game needs another year of work, so much is still wrong with it, so many bugs abound.

[@gubeym]

@@jauwne original idea was to create “scholars” that would be independent contractors and would play the game. Since that is the main drag to the game, there won’t be any duo matches until play to earn is implemented. You as the NFT holder would profit from their gameplay by then pocketing some of the money the scholars make. The issue for me was, where is the money coming from? In any case, I ended up backing up my original investment of $6k to less than $1k when I had concerns of where the money comes from. It’s a slow burn pyramid scheme as it appears the only money really coming in is from people wanting to make money off the game. I can’t imagine any serious way this game will make money due to the low quality and lack of seriously experienced people behind the helm. Don’t worry about my loss btw. I made it back with a different NFT game called dimension X by sheer luck. So overall I’m even during my tenure with useless investments.

[@gubeym]

Finally, I think people will be in for a rude awakening when tokens are minted en masse to pay for the pay to earn method. I see the token just collapsing in price, honestly, there’s next to zero demand for the token right now and inflation is only going to hammer it down more.

[@harleyme3163]

nah best part is the launcher wont let you download it.... after all that signing up to wallet and wagyu games and... POOF its f'ing dead

[@andantedaregi731]

This channel does a dirty job. But someone had to do it. And you do it well. Keep it going Ser.!

[@williamdrum9899]

Almost a haiku!

[@HyruleDude]

Dude, you literally had me cracking up so hard listening to this review. It is absolutely gold.

[@XAMEREN]

I watch this channel for quite some time. this entire channel is hillarious. i love this.

[@holotori_senior_admin_teno]

The zombies are all asset flips, the SINGLE LEVEL is an asset flip (seen that street and those houses in two other games). No surprise with that ASTOUNDINGLY experienced development team.

[@Ariamaki]

For those who were curious about the results of the BINGO card, since Jauwn never came back to actually do it at the end of the video (although it'd be a great asset for the series): X X X X _ X _ X X X X X X _ _ X _ X _ X _ X X X X That is a center column full-N BINGO folks! We also hit all but 7 squares, making this a trivial win in a lockout as well. We did the worst on the diagonals tragically, and barely missed out on a few row sweeps too. (I am counting the Rug Pull category because while the game itself hasn't technically rugged YET, the tokens and NFTs still have no utility or even game connection, and the developers / their market partners rugged a related NFT collection shortly after this video went live).

[@jauwn]

I rugpulled the bingo card

[@kurayamiblackheart]

the game froze though and forced him to restart his computer. so at least we have "Game crashes" or "Game breaking bugs", both of 'em also makes a bingo :)

[@scp-682-cu6]

Thanks for this, I missed a couple things

[@autobotstarscream765]

Okay, "MongoDB Unlimited" sounds more interesting than half of the cryptoswill floating around game storefronts. 😂

[@moewzers9136]

As a meat lover, the studio being called Wagyu Games actually infuriates me, such a good studio name wasted.

[@williamdrum9899]

A more apt title would be "Scrapple Games"

[@FluttershyIsAGoddess]

16:31 NFL on Fox is the best Sports theme song and you cannot change my mind.

[@thesacredlobo]

So it has the ragdoll physics of something like "Judge Dredd: Dredd vs. Death" where you can fatally shoot someone in the leg and then watch them jerk around a bit before flying off in some random direction at 50 mph. Which means you can actually have an enemy thrown right at you if your lucky/unlucky enough.

[@Elkator955]

If only they had land for sale, or locked beta. I didn't get a Bingo :(

[@thecosmicradiation]

This is a great video - bits of humor without being obnoxious and you explained the crypto integration well. I'm curious about the person who is just trading back and forth to reap Immutable rewards - is it likely or even viable they would be doing this with dozens of NFTs/coins across multiple games to earn more rewards? A grand a month for essentially doing nothing isn't a bad deal.

[@jauwn]

I know they're doing it for this game and for Gods Unchained. I don't know if they're doing it for any other games, but I'd imagine that there are people doing this sort of stuff with other NFT marketplaces. I would guess that over half of any NFT market's volume is completely fake wash trading.

[@oliver_twistor]

@@jauwn I too believe that the majority of NFT trading is wash trading or money laundering. Look at the insane prices on those bored apes and other crappy "art". There is no way anyone would be willing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for a garish unoriginal pixelated ape picture that they won't even own. It's got to be either wash trading or money laundering that is jacking up the price. I remember reading about an NFT being sold for over a million dollars worth of ETH. Right about that time I had seen on the news that Sweden's most expensive water colour painting was sold for less than that. They could have bought a truly unique and very beautiful water colour painting from the early 19th century, but instead they opted for a link to an ugly PNG image that its creator probably spent very little time on. I don't believe those are genuine trades. If they are, I lose the little faith in humanity I still have left. ;)

[@erikn2596]

Not them choosing “WAGYU” as a dumb play on words of “WAGMI” 😂

[@dkreaves]

@ 23:02 anyone see the description of “Undead Blocks is a blend of Call of Duty Zombies crossed with Mario Cart” Like…wtf? I guess it is similar to Mario Cart in the sense that you are competing (barely lmao 😅) but then again isn’t there already a semi-competitive score in CoD Zombies? Like who tf came up with that description 😂

[@xerosereify]

I've watched a few of these videos back to back now and my biggest takaway from these games is that cryptobros are just male mlm huns....

[@dplocksmith91]

Nobody sues for rugs in Crypto because they're too embarrassed to admit they're marks

[@prettyevil6662000]

them being the only zombie game on the block chain, and bragging about it, makes me want to transfer some little indie zombie game onto the block chain and watch it skyrocket past them. A very basic visual novel would probably do better while also having a legitimate use for blockchain (not a good use that isn't better done by existing methods, but at least a use) in locking some special characters behind owning an NFT of that character.

[@williamdrum9899]

That sounds like an actual good idea since most NFTs are images anyway.

[@Syrhunter1]

The bingo card at the beginning is actually a really nice touch :)

[@blaine8216]

You have quickly become one of my favorite content creators, this series is hilarious

[@DrVagax]

UX / UI design 101: Never add a useless button or 'placeholder' UI elements. Seems they failed on that on a few occasions

[@speed0spank]

One more comment- if you ever felt like branching out, I feel like a video about the whole Gamestop cult thing would be incredibly interesting. 🤔🤔🤔

[@jauwn]

I probably will do one in the future once I get bored / finish playing all of the NFT games. That and the current BBBY cult are two of the craziest internet sub-cultures that are rarely covered.

[@archlinuxuser]

That has been done, by folding ideas, but there is still a lot more of it to uncover, such as the racism Dan mentioned, but never went into.

[@Firevine]

I haven't followed the GamtStop crowd, but I can say with infinite certainty that the AMC crowd is legitimately insane.

[@xXHashassinXx]

There's a GameStop cult?

[@Vampria227]

the bingo card is actually great i was so even more invested in this video than i usually am. i’m gonna rewatch vids with this on a srcond monitor now your vids just got even more fun for me 😹😹

[@scp-682-cu6]

Same, I thought it was fun. :> I didn't get a bingo though, did you? Maybe I missed something

[@lethalee]

Top quality review! Of the game AND the SuperStonk community... :P

[@ericjohns6534]

This video should be enough to end careers yet these donkeys will likely just rinse and repeat. Copy pasting COD seems like an easy path to a solid game and im sure the investors thought this too. It is sad to see such a passionate playerbase of gamers and nft bros be constantly taken advantage of. *rising ululation*

[@ShotgunRocket]

The only reason why it won't affect them too much is because they're not really into gaming and the industry in the first place. They just came to grift, and when it ended they just left.

[@jauwn]

You would hope it would be that way, but in reality, these people will just leave everything behind in shambles and then move back to their original jobs. The cycle of nobody ever playing the game but the creators still being able to profit off of it continues. The ex-CEOs and people in charge of these games just return to their original industry when they're done the grift, and then they say "yeah I created a AAA Web3 NFT game that attracted a daily playerbase of 50,000 and a market volume of $500,000 daily." Nobody looks into it further, they just say "wow that's awesome", and they've got a new job and have left this entire industry behind. This would all be fine if they weren't collecting money from vulnerable, unaware people, who have invested $100s and sometimes $1000s in these games. These are normal people who are being financially destroyed, not just venture capital firms. I've seen so many horrible and sad stories of investors in these projects entering due to the false promises of the developers, and then losing their entire life savings. Now, is it their fault for investing their entire life savings in a crypto game? Partially, but it doesn't make it OK that it happens.

[@walzine316]

i subbed because your name reminded me of jaundice

[@andreworhk]

Great content Jauwn, really entertaining to watch! From your videos, it seems that the NFT/crypto bull run created perverse incentives for shady people to overlay NFTs onto shitty games (or even non existent games) to get rich quick. What is your opinion on NFTs for games, is there any use case? Could super established games like PUBG make use of NFTs?

[@jauwn]

Hey Andrew! I appreciate the comment. I have a more detailed answer to this question in my upcoming video, which should be out later this week. But to summarize my stance - I'll take a direct quote from the upcoming video: "I look at it (using blockchain / NFTs in a game) this way. Is using a game engine such as Game Maker Studio the best way to create an MMO? No, far from it. Is using cryptocurrency and NFTs to represent in game items and currencies the best way to handle those systems? Far from it. Is there anything inherently wrong with either of these scenarios though? Not really." NFTs when used in gaming, are really just a less efficient way of doing something that games have been doing for decades (from a tech / data storage and transfer perspective). But let's say we want to use NFTs, for whatever reason, because we want to allow a free trade, unrestricted, real money marketplace for our in-game items, with "true ownership". Take NFTs out of the equation entirely, and let's just talk about the second point there, the free trade of in-game items with real world value. This has existed for years, there are plenty of games that have done this without the blockchain or crypto. But what crypto does, is remove the ability to have regional pricing. If you're not familiar with regional pricing concepts, to summarize. I'm going to use Argentina as an example since it's just a country I'm vaguely familiar with. Basically, a Fortnite skin costs $10 in the US but might only cost the equivalent of $1 USD in Argentine Pesos, for example. They do this so that it can be fair for everyone, no matter how weak or strong their local currency is on a global scale. No matter where you live, it's reasonable to afford to get a cool skin in Fortnite. Well, with crypto, everyone, worldwide, uses the same currency. And like we see with cryptos today, the predominant pricing is usually in USD or Euros, which are some of the strongest currencies in the world. Since all of the items in these games are supposed to be freely tradable, your only choice is to charge everyone the exact same price. What might be reasonable for someone in the US would be unbelievably expensive for someone in Argentina. So, by using crypto, you're effectively locking the game to one region, or at least a subset of regions with stable currencies that are worth about the same. If you allowed people in Argentina to get items at a discount, well, then they would just sell them to people in the USA for what would be an extremely good deal for a US user. This has been the case with Steam's regional pricing for years, you can get CD keys from Argentina for very very cheap, and it's why they've had to get rid of it. Because people taking advantage of the system have made it so the developers, who may be located in the US, are making no money since 90% of their sales are coming from Argentina. So, at the core, the concept of a video game with freely tradable in-game items doesn't really work in practice. It's too easy to exploit it. And this isn't even considering the case where a player may find an exploit to generate infinite currency or items, for example. What happens when they just mint a ton of glitched items onto the blockchain? Code is law, right? Do you let them tank the market? Or do you roll everything back, thus ruining the entire point of having "true ownership"? It's for these reasons that you don't really see a whole lot of games using real money trading. It's always been possible to do everything NFT games promise to do, crypto didn't actually innovate at all. But crypto doesn't fix any of the problems with this system, it's simply a different (and arguably much less efficient and user friendly) way to do the exact same thing. Like I said, my next video goes into this issue in a bit more depth, and focuses more on not why NFTs don't make sense to use in video games, but why the entire philosophy for using NFTs crumbles before you even get to discussing what type of database to use for your real-money in-game item marketplace.

[@andreworhk]

​@@jauwn Thats some great insight about the regional pricing differences! Makes sense for people to do "arbitrage plays" when they see this price gap. At the same time companies need to price things differently to attract customers in all regions e.g. Netflix prices very cheaply to customers in India vs US. For this reason it makes sense to not allow "freely tradable in-game items", using your example, you would make a killing selling fortnite skins purchased in Argentina to US. As you seem to have good understanding of the gaming industry, I think your comment that "crypto doesn't fix any of the problems with this system" quite revealing. Looking forward to your next video!

[@jauwn]

Thank you! And I appreciate you taking the time to comment. If you're interested in another voice on this topic from someone who knows even more about the games industry than me, I would recommend giving the following video a watch: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3zdpqNtjamsp5o

[@LazyLash]

The in-game hud is legit back4blood. Even the settings menu is almost 1 to 1. 😂

[@delta-v4x]

There is a game that can indeed bottleneck into RAM throughput and it's Factorio. For real. Now stutters with both your GPU and CPU well below 100% usually mean the game's bottlenecking into your single-core performance. Unusually there can be some funky business with an fps limiter loke V-Sync, G-Sync, Freesync, but that's a rarity. As you have lots of cores, the average% on CPU is sane and nobody plays with all 12-16-24 logical cores on the screen. Sometimes this can kinda be excused by the game's logic (concurrency is hard), but most of the time that's just insane number of drawcalls thrown per frame by a lazy dev.

[@jauwn]

I decompiled the game a while ago and was messing with the code since it’s a Unity game, and it’s mostly just because it’s doing insane amounts of work every frame that it doesn’t need to do. It’s insane how poorly made the game is, I was able to remove all of the anti cheat and bypass the NFT check to unlock the earning mode with only an hour of work. The devs have now made it so they have to manually review footage of your gameplay before they distribute earnings since it was so easy to hack

[@delta-v4x]

@@jauwn Oh, wow, so it's not lazy incompetence, but industrious incompetence? Client-side checks with even no il2cpp (not that it'd help if the game paid anything of significance) is indicative of the game originally being a single-player shovelware with no budget to even try to convert it to a server-authoritative model. I'm even unsure why as mobile MMO market is cutthroat and the number of decent battle-tested teams who got eliminated in the play market battle royale is bretty high. It's like nobody expects to actually pay the play-to-earn players, so why bother.

[@jauwn]

You're pretty much on the money. It's built off of a singleplayer FPS game asset pack and multiplayer support is just tacked on through a ton of API calls to check if the player has the NFT constantly. Of course, you can just re-compile the game to remove all API checks and have no issues, or you can replace the calls to something local and then you can just do whatever. The only sort of anticheat the game has is it compares the MD5 of your file to what the API has on file, but of course, you can just delete that line of code and it launches with no issues. Lol

[@devilshelby]

I'm way late to comment on a video from 5 months ago, but I paused to read a bit at 23:04 and when I saw "black ops zombie and MARIO KARTS" i just couldn't help bursting in laughter and wondering how ANY of the gameplay we saw of Undead Blocks was meant to as being similar to Mario Kart.

[@ridhosamudro2199]

Oh wow, did nobody points out they stole CoD artwork on the signup page?

[@karsontbh835]

i like how youtube says your playing call of duty: black ops

[@trashbash2788]

4:58 To be entirely fair, this might just be a byproduct of the fact that you're hip-firing.

[@alexandergeorge2063]

They should have called it "Slay to Earn" but that would require a minimum amount of effort

[@steele_heart77]

12:48 That graffiti is literally stolen from Chloe’s bedroom in Life Is Strange, these guys have no shame. Never seen anything more blatant. Please just kill me already, I’m so sick of this planet.

[@TheSonicsean]

So the game requires a ton of resources it doesn't use? Sounds like they're making money off you mining them Bitcoin.

[@williamdrum9899]

Either that or they don't understand how computers work

[@hjalfi]

I'm getting the feeling that Calm Narrator Jauwn should make sure that Red Marker Pen Jauwn sits down and has a nice cup of tea before he finally snaps and assaults MSPaint.

[@jauwn]

😂 Give me 5 more games and Red Marker Jauwn is going to take over the entire channel. Pepe silvia style

[@thegalacticfederation1212]

Interesting, the comment from a couple months ago defending this game suddenly disappeared after the game was abandoned.

[@wewserlethaldude9]

I must say, though: The viewmodel animations seem quite good.

[@Mittens...]

cryptobros literally have THE lowest standards and it's absolutely hilarious

[@untangled_rose]

I've been watching these and I am so glad that anytime one of these studios has approached me about leading their QA dept I have turned them down or not responded. Not only would it likely stop my career dead in it's tracks most of these games are disgusting and mostly predatory.

[@LordOfTheFatties]

I am leaving a comment for the explicit and singular purpose of increasing your engagement. Keep up the good work, I have no notes.

[@jauwn]

Thanks pal

[@lucas23453]

Sounds like they dropped all those coffins to create artificial scarcity to spook the playerbase into FOMO, not so much because they realized how shitty the NFT is.

[@Limofeus]

0:56 Haha, this is absolutely genius

[@Fauxchemill]

The shotgun being a one hit shot is stupid enough to make me quite.

[@FreaKzero]

Its so weird because i seem to forgot that... I played a "free Steam game" years ago from a dev who said it was his "weekend project" which looked and felt mapwise the exact same you have shown here but it was 3rd Person- im just not able to find. (if i find it again i will post)

[@saddemon3913]

Stupidity of zombies reminds me enemies from Pixel Gun 3D, they cant hit you till you stop or till they surround you around

[@ZeroSum23]

I think "blocks" refers to the unit of urban measurement. As in "the block" being the square of homes that you live in. This block happens to have zombies. Hence, Undead Block.

[@RawrX32009]

Yeah But doesn't this game only have 1 block?

[@ZeroSum23]

@@RawrX32009 Depends on how you interpret replaying the game, or separate instances of the game. Also you could assume that even if there is only one block in the game, but that in the universe of the game there is more than one block with a zombie problem. And presumably they were at least CLAIMING that they would make a second level if the game got big enough.

[@RawrX32009]

@@ZeroSum23 yeah fair enough :P

[@vizthex]

man, hearing "undead blocks" made me think they'd go for a minecraft style with the art, which would also be way more optimized by default and probably easier to work with if you're already putting it minimum effort.

[@dimwarlock]

Wait... they gave a decentralized economy the ability to gain money by just trading without limitations? This is why AI has become so prominent, let the machine think for you, because there's not a single light on up there.

[@Willjamesstanfield]

i sold my wife to the blockchain… best choice i ever made.

[@Lewtable]

1:10 Pretty sure the butcher zombie they use on the website is just a free asset from somewhere, Phasmophobia, which was pretty successful is still using that butcher as one of the male ghost models.

[@NoSaysJo]

Congratulations, you've read the other comments already noting this.

[@damafratzen]

Great video, insane quality for your size.

[@litarea]

who ya callin small

[@damafratzen]

@@litarea I have a very warped sense of size because of my Magnum Dong, sorry.

[@kevinthefox]

Wow... even the website blatantly displays 100% stolen assets from phasmophobia. Pretty sad if you need a unrelated games artwork to sell your own.

[@PicaTheWumpus]

holy crap I almost worked for the online coding summer camp one of the devs worked for. They turned me down on the grounds of my lack of coding experience, so I guess that means the game dev has some amount of experience, or maybe he just lied on his application.

[@ImmacHn]

4:05 It never ever crossed my mind I'd get a hearty laugh out of a database on a non-programming related channel.

[@azureth9544]

Still better AI than Redfall. xD

[@lazerpie101_A]

99% sure they just allocate a new high resolution texture for every zombie on the map

[@link_team3855]

11:10 eh, minecraft has this problem, usualy needing 6-8GB.... ... When modded. (technically for smoothness in vanillia, 2GB is all you need, and by default minecraft only takes 1GB... it does usually fail to garbage collect correctly after a while with only 1GB though.) I have seen really weird cases of modpacks needing 10 - 16GB but... those are usually 1.16 packs (at the limit of java 1.8, ask someone not me for better details) and ontop of that, 300ish mod packs, where atleast 100+? of them add some new gameplay mechanic, and likely 70ish are libraries for other mods lol

[@williamdrum9899]

C++ devs: "Garbage collection == skill issue

[@lusamine.5554]

Gotta love that Back 4 Blood UI during gameplay.

[@jackalopebob]

darn i didnt get a bingo welp theres always next video

[@mid-boss6461]

11:14 fun fact: Space invaders difficulty curve is caused by hardware limitations.

[@TeenieTinyTina]

Full Sail university is a scam in itself, they call me ten times a week lol

[@sinty0x]

Wow, I just popped into KZbin and saw this in my feed. The timing!

[@jauwn]

Bro, you're supposed to say "first"!

[@TheHeartlessAlchemist]

"A fool and their money are soon parted."

[@apolux359]

Im sure they just bougth the house from the asset store, that why the "realist" basement.

[@Tir33nts343]

It used to be “can it run crysis!?” Now it’s “can it run crypto games?”

[@shinanimedubs1269]

it really is crazy how ludicrously bad all these games are

[@shellbullet37]

This shit looks like the slaughtering ground xD

[@matanui232]

You know when you watch a haha youtuber play a game poorly and find yourself wanting to play the game better than them? I think thats how i feel about these games. It motivates me to make a better game. Hell, it can't be that hard.

[@muhammadjuhlan]

You should try

[@TheCammerhammer]

This might be fairly late to comment on, and it is a fairly small nitpick, but I think it would be nice to include the cited video at 9:07 in the description.

[@yesnutches]

21:52 why did bolson construcion fire my guy, now he needs to work on nft games 😔

[@jax3235]

EVEN KZbin THINKS THIS IS BLACK OPS, JUST CHECK THE GAME IN THE DESCRIPTION LOL

[@ArmitageShanksMC]

The alpha/beta conflation isn't restricted to crypto games. Many, MANY triple A devs misuse alpha and beta stages, and use terms like "pre-alpha" which simply doesn't exist.

[@ironhide615]

Bruh the menu UI is just Black Ops 3 lmao

[@L_e_t_h_e_r_e_a_l]

The in game HUD looks just like Back 4 Blood 💀