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The video is meant to snapshot a moment in the creative process of the project and will be available to mint for free from now until the Night Run mint begins via http://zora.co. Learn more at https://nightrun.art/



In this short film created by Zora we explore the world of Night Run, created by Matto and the team at Thousand Ant. Night Run is a conceptual art project which includes a motorcycle video game, an NFT project about imaginary AI powered fashion houses and a series of videos documenting the creation process.


The Night Run NFTs will interact with the game by allowing collectors to make aesthetic choices which affect the experience of all players. This brings part of the audience into a collaborative role of helping to curate the virtual space of the piece. The elements collectors will be able to change will include the music which plays on that route, which collections of artworks are randomized across the billboards of the city and certain color choices in the environment. The choices collectors make are saved and replicated across everyone who plays the game.

Night Run by Matto (A film by Zora)

In this devlog video for our project Night Run Matto explains how the idea of CC0, creative commons zero or freely usable open source artwork plays into the project.

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Creative Commons Zero Art in Night Run (Devlog)

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In this video Matto from Thousand Ant talks about how using NFT sales to fund your gamedev projects can offer a better outcome for developers, players and investors potentially.

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Funding Gamedev with NFTs & Web3 - Night Run Devlog

Matt Mirrorfish from Thousand Ant discusses the pros and cons of doing revenue share game or rev share projects where groups of people come together on the internet and work for free in the hope of making a game and sharing the money later.

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Revenue share game development: should you do it?

What type of game you make is one of the most critical factors in your success as an indie developer today. Many devs start out trying to make a game from their childhood out of nostalgia, but are people still looking to buy those games years later? In this highlight from the Thousand Ant podcast Matt Mirrorfish talks with Chris Zukowski about choosing the right type of game in order to be successful today in indie game development.

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How to pick the right type of indie game to make with Chris Zukowski

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ADN's blog post: https://www.a327ex.com/posts/marketing_skills/

SNKRX on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/915310/SNKRX/

In this video Matt Mirrorfish explores when NOT investing energy into marketing your indie game is the right thing to do. Indie game marketing strategy is complex and it's not a one size fits all subject. In this video we talk about when it may be a good idea to invest energy into improving the quality of your games, instead of marketing.

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When to NOT market your game

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In this video Matt from Thousand Ant talks about how WHAT you make is more important than how you make it, and how if the only reason you're making a game is "it's my dream game" you might be setting off to build something that nobody but you wants.

This may be unpopular advice as very few people get into indie game development because they love market research, but let's talk about it ;)

Lost Relic games video referenced about the failed networked indie game launch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lytuRLkfhus&ab_channel=LostRelicGames

Dan Cook minimum sustainable success article: https://lostgarden.home.blog/2015/04/13/minimum-sustainable-success/

The beaver game I talked about: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1062090/Timberborn/

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Love the process, not your dream game

In this video Matt from Thousand Ant shares some thoughts on how NFTs or non-fungible tokens relate to game development. We try to take a balanced look at some of the problems with NFTs including why play to earn games like Axie Infinity have problems, why you won't be able to move your items between games and and also some ways in which they may be useful or relevant for game devs including for royalty distribution, digital collectibles and maybe a decentralized steam.

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NFTs and game dev, the good, the bad and the ugly

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In this video Matt Mirrorfish from Thousand Ant analyzes two recent small, low budget indie games that have sold well: SNKRX and Vampire Survivors. In the video Matt walks through how the designers chose a small, simple game design that still has richness and variety and executed with a simple art style to create something that could sell. Picking small game ideas is hard, and both games using random progression, arcade mechanics and combinatorial growth to interesting effect.

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PICKING SMALL GAME IDEAS THAT SELL (SNKRX, Vampire Survivors)

In this video Matt Mirrorfish from Thousand Ant explains a simple formula that allows you to calculate how much a given game has made by selling on Steam using the "boxleitner method".

The Boxleitner method allows you to take publicly available data, the number of reviews, to calculate hidden data: the estimated total revenue and game sales numbers.

If you just want the formula it's: sales x 50 x price, where 50 can vary depends on various factors.

Note that there is some guess work involved, but this can be a very useful tool to figure out roughly how much a given game has sold, and can help you plan your own productions and create reasonable budgets and plans.
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boxleiter, boxleiter number, game sales numbers,

FIND HOW MUCH MONEY ANY GAME MADE ON STEAM

In this video Matto walks through the creative process behind the experimental AI driven fashion photography for the Night Run NFT collection.
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Night Run Devlog 4 - Experimental Fashion Photography With AI

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In this devlog for Night Run we discuss the creative process of combining Stable Diffusion text to image photography and generative design techniques using the P5JS creative coding library.

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Combining AI Photography and Generative Design - Night Run Devlog 5

In this video Matto breaks down the graphic design process of creating four imaginary fashion house brands using AI photography for the Night Run art project.

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Night Run - Designing Imaginary Brands

In this video Matto walks through the creative process of developing the prototype version of the Night Run game and moving that into a production build.

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Night Run Devlog 3 - Prototyping & Production

In this video Matto discusses the work of Virgil Abloh and how it’s influenced the development of his conceptual art video game project Night Run.

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"ON VIRGIL" - Night Run Devlog 2

Night Run is an experimental artwork which includes a set of creative processes including the development of a video game, an NFT project, an online community and this documentation and presents them together as a single piece of conceptual art. Thinking about it in this way, the interactive experience of the production process is a part of the artwork itself along with the final products that are produced. During the process there are places for the collectors and audience to interact and contribute, and in my mind the fullest experience of Night Run as a piece is to engage with all of its parts.

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Night Run Explained: Devlog 1

In this video Matt Schell aka Matt Mirrorfish aka Matto shares his experience as an indie game developer exploring the Web3 and NFT space for one year. 

Check out my Matto NFT focused channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCltBNxU-aSMEr8zm4roH4bg

Matto on Twitter: https://twitter.com/matto__matto

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My story exploring AI Art and NFTs as an indie game dev

In this indie devlog Matt Mirrorfish from Thousand Ant offers shares how a series of ups and downs in the process of doing contract work lead to him running out of money to continue producing the Untitled Cute Space Game indie project, what that means for the future and some reflections on the challenges of managing cash flow in an indie studio and funding indiedev projects using contract work.

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