I know Marin from the PBA in Hong Kong. Driven, hardworking guy! As for the game, this is a no-brainer. If we want Polkadot to be part of this domain as well, we need to support this. This company GreatEscape has already proven it can do it.
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Love the project, I talk with marin about The Great Escape, and love it. I think this project have a great future, its will be a good way to landing community to web3. Love the chain agnostic idea. I am supported the Project.
Good Luck Marin
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Best crypto project with an amazing team behind it! never failed the community and always deliver amazing stuff! proud to be part of them!
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Big support to The Great Escape and the team. I love the game and itās a real use case of Polkadotās tech stack and XCM.
We should give more support to teams building on-chain products with fundings, not marketing agencies or fake initiatives. 
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I would be happy to bring in my support to TGE team, we have known Marin for years in Polkadot French community for his involvement on many initiatives like the ParisDotComm event and much more.
TGE free to play and gasless model is extremely well aligned with this vision of open games available to everyone Snowden described during this talk with Gavin Wood, not injecting this artificial sense of scarcity into the post scarcity domain that is Web3.
Good luck on this, hope it gets approved.
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You have my full support.
Iāve followed the evolution of The Great Escape team from the beginning, and theyāre a really great team with a real passion for gaming and technology, and a clear vision for their community. Their game is really superb. We need to give more support to this type of project, focused on educating the uninitiated about crypto-currencies.
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Hi Marin, thanks for sharing The Great Escape with all the community, before going to the PBA HK cohort, I knew about the existence of PINK thanks to Polkadot Mexico community, which they love. I had the pleasure to play TGE during the PBA HK cohort and is attractive for players, I can relate, to the technical, and financial problems of founders when it comes to building, shipping, and delivering, and I admire all the milestones TGE has achieved and the previous efforts of the team.
I have just one thought and is this, āgaming is diverse and helps gamers understand complex conceptsā This also applies to crypto. Iām waiting for TGE to reach its next milestone!
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As a huge fan of both the TGE team and web3 gaming, itās been a pleasure to work with the team, and Iām all in to support the teamās initiative!
Gaming is a fun and addictive way to onboard more users to web3, and in turn helps to lower the entry barrier. Letās push Polkadotās gaming scene to new heights together. Super excited for whatās to come!
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The great escape has one of the most driven teams Iāve ever seen, always active since day 1 and collaborating and partnering up with promising projects in the Web3 space. Can recommend to create a free account and claim your gibbon, if you also join the weekly discord hangout to get the vibes of the jungle and all the plans and alpha.
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Hey everyone, Marin, CTO & co-founder of The Great Escape here.
Iād like to say thank you very much to all your messages of support on this post! 
Your words show just how much the Polkadot community cares about gameFi and sees its potential. Thatās why weāre precisely building web3 games here.
Decentralization is at the heart of our ecosystem.
In The Great Escape, we bring players closer to their success, items and experience through ownership and governance. Itās a truly on-chain approach thatās totally at home on Polkadot.
Weāre doing it by mixing it with whatās actually working in the traditional hypercasual game world.
Fun is key to make blockchain accessible.
Although free-to-play, our game runs on smart-contracts and NFTs, benefiting from XCM and interoperability between parachains and/or the relay chain. All liquidities, from the Polkadot ecosystem or the EVM world, can be used here.
Thatās how we make a truly accessible game, capable of bringing thousands of new eyes to our native gameFi scene.
In the future, we want to push our technology further.
We think there are huge possibilities here:
- Asynchronous backing reducing blocktime production,
- Deepest native assets integration (BTC, ETH, stable),
- Coretime market reducing barriers to entry,
- dApp-chain infrastructure built on Tanssi,
- Dynamic NFT transfer via AssetHub,
- New gaming-oriented parachainsā¦
The opportunity offered by Decentralized Futures would enable us to reach new heights. We could devote ourselves to growing our products, facilitated by the knowledge accumulated over the past 2 years.
At our stage of development, this would certainly help us to achieve long-term sustainability.
Thanks for reading!
Happy games to all 
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Currently, the gaming industry (in Germany) is facing hard times, with lots of studios closing. Do you see some new talent from tradgaming in GameFi and a rising demand for new recruits? Iām soon at a gaming conference and would like to point studios and developers to take a look at GameFi on Polkadot - some arguments and facts would be handy.
Cheers!
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Hi DotDotApe,
While our expertise is primarily centered around the South-East Asian gaming landscape, we can offer some insights into the broader trends in the gaming industry. Unfortunately, we may not be as competent to address the specific challenges faced by the gaming industry in Germany.
However, on a global scale, there is indeed a noticeable shift towards web3 games, and the interest in GameFi is clearly growing, also on Polkadot. Particularly in the indie game development sector, developers are increasingly exploring opportunities within the web3 space. Integration of blockchain technology (tokens and NFTs), account abstraction, decentralized finance, and play-to-earn mechanics in games is definitely garnering attention.
You might want to reach out to the EVRLOOT team (LINK: https://evrloot.com/). They are actively building games on Polkadot and are based in Germany.
Best of luck at the gaming conference, and we hope you find the information you need.
Cheers!
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I met Marin during the last days of the PBA, and even in that short time, I can definitely say that he has been a huge source of inspiration for me.
I love games and support his project. Polkadot desperately needs to get more involved in the games industry and become more popular among indie developers.
I am excited that they have addressed the problem of solving web3 gaming āfragmentationā using XCM and moving towards a chain-agnostic approach.
I also look forward to seeing the developments and such concepts applied in future games. I hope this will be an incentive for his game to go viral.
All the best and good luck!
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