Over the weekend, Mark Venturelli, a game developer and designer, became the focal point of Brazil’s International Games (BIG) festival after delivering a scathing critique of the continued implementation of NFTs and other web3 technologies into the broader gaming ecosystem.
Venturelli, who is perhaps best known for his work on 2015’s Chroma Squad, was originally slated to present a talk under the title “The Future of Game Design,” but the contents of his presentation took a quick detour, ultimately being re-dubbed “Why NFTs Are a Nightmare” within the first five slides.
