Starknet Foundation partners with Ubisoft on educational web3 game dev program
Looking to increase the knowledge of web3 technology in game development, Starknet Foundation has partnered with Ubisoft to launch a new educational program.
In order to close the gap between web2 and web3 game development, the initiative will span across new technologies, marketing strategies, community building, and sustainable monetisation models. More particularly it will cover areas such as in-game design, programming, and asset creation.
Moderated by Starknet Foundation, the program starts 5th March and ends 9th April 2025. Aiming to accommodate participants from all time zones, each webinar will start at 5pm CET (8am EST), and will be hosted on zoom.
Featured speakers include:
- Guillaume Blossier, senior line designer at Ubisoft
- Tarrence Van As, CEO of Cartridge
- Diep Tran, publishing director at Ubisoft
- Sebastien Borget, COO of The Sandbox
- Louis Garoche, Ubisoft’s blockchain technical lead
- Head of partnerships and marketing at Decentraland, Kim Currier
- Gabe Rudich from Cartridge
- Nicolas Pouard from Ubisoft’s strategic innovation lab, and
- Starknet’s Brian O’Haga.
In terms of topics covered during the course,
Starknet Foundation executive director James Strudwick commented, “Ubisoft is revered as a prolific game publisher, making them the perfect partners for this industry-first educational initiative designed to close the gap between web2 and web3 game development.”
“Because of the maturity of the industry, game development in the web2 space is a more well-oiled machine than web3, and there is much web3 game publishers can learn from the experience of their counterparts. But the same is also true in reverse, with web3 bringing in concepts, ways of building, and business models that have never been possible before. Working with Ubisoft, we want to usher in a mutually beneficial ecosystem that brings together the best and brightest in the web3 and web2 game development space.”
