Gunzilla Games now represents Delphi’s biggest gaming investment to date, as well as the largest angel cheque I’ve ever written. Having spent ~7000 hrs playing shooters throughout my life, and now over 60 hours in their flagship battle royale Off The Grid (OTG), I can confidently say this is one of the best gaming experiences I have ever had. We have seen a glimpse of how powerful crypto can be for user acquisition, retention, and monetisation. We are yet to see this unleashed on a truly world-class title. With 5 years of development, 340 employees, and almost $100M invested Off The Grid is the first ever onchain game to be releasing on PC and console within 30 days.

Development is led by the former Crytek Kyiv team that built Warface—reaching over 140M players and $1B in revenue—and worked on games such as Far Cry and Crysis as well as developing CRYENGINE which pushed the frontiers of graphics in its prime. The project boasts world-class creative direction from co-founder Neill Blomkamp who is known for legendary films such as District 9, Chappie, Elysium, and Gran Turismo. Unique to battle royales is OTG’s 60 hour PvE campaign written by Richard Morgan, author of Altered Carbon (one of my favourite Netflix shows ever).  Across PC & console the battle royale genre generates roughly $10B per year and continues to grow. We are confident that the OTG universe with its world-class gameplay, rich lore, deep liveops treadmill, and huge go-to-market campaign is going to entice more of the 1.2B shooter players into the genre.

The notion of onchain item ownership in open game economies began to come into focus ~6 years ago, inspiring a generation of brilliant builders to forge a new path for the industry. Those of us that were evangelising the marriage of crypto and video games would often make reference to games like Warzone or Fortnite to illustrate not just the scale of these economies, but what the world might look like i