MEET THE TEAM

I’m Filipino, but I grew up in Dubai, UAE. I worked there for a few years before going back to the Philippines. I have a Bachelor’s in Game Development, not just the programming side, but also the design and basically everything that has to do with games. I worked for an agency company and a startup immediately after graduating so. Our startup created an augmented reality app. After that, I went back to the Philippines and did some freelancing.

I do play a lot of grand strategy games. You can see it from my Steam profile and my Epic games profile: 10,000 hours in 3-4 different games that are all grand strategy, like Civilization, and EU4. I do play some MMOs, but really it's the grand strategy games that I'm really into.

Since I was in grade school, I was already playing a musical instrument. I started with the acoustic guitar. I think it was the time of Bruno Mars and Ed Sheeran when I used to play guitar all the time at school. Then I transitioned to playing drums. I do play drums in my local church ministry.

Yeah, I'm basically Garfield. If you have a lasagna in front of me, I could eat that every day. If it's like Filipino food, then it's dinuguan or adobo.

When I arrived here in the country, I was already interested in crypto projects because I was looking for something to invest my time in. Not just to invest my money, but also really dive deep into crypto. Because I do love games, and most games in the crypto market aren't really that engaging in a methodical sense like grand strategy games are. But when I saw Cryptopia, which blended economic games and everything in between. It made me fall in love with the concept. And because I'm Filipino and I'm also kind of like, I’m on the cheaper side, I realized that in Cryptopia you can start without really buying anything big. That's what really drew me in.

I think the major part that we're trying to achieve in Cryptopia is the gameplay first, right? Most crypto games don't really care about the gameplay. There's always that earning aspect that comes up on top. But my philosophy is—how do I make even the mechanics of Cryptopia fun? Will it look good and will it handle well when you're playing it? I think that's really what sets us crypto means apart—the fun aspect that we try to blend in.

This is going to be controversial. But even before I joined the team, I was already in the industrial faction. If you’ve seen the history of my logs, I was already in the industrial faction. People kind of expect me to go techno, but honestly, the capitalistic views of industrial leaders are what I really resonate with.

Hmm. I mean, there's a lot to know about Cryptopia, but I think the very first one is it's a game about community and working together. And that's that. That's probably one of the core concepts that I really love. You can't advance if you don't work together.

I really do enjoy the mechanic which is just going around tiles and talking to people, interacting with them. It's something that I really want users to wrap their heads around because it's not being done on a server, it's all being done on the blockchain.

I handle mostly development, but I do know, that it's a very robust system. Where you could use it for basically anything outside of Cryptopia. It's very secure as well.

If you're already a long-time citizen, it's the voting. It's making sure that your voice matters, because it does. It is a community game. So you being part of that community, you deciding the future of Cryptopia is really a significant part of really investing your time in the game. You must have your signature on the direction Cryptopia is heading.

They're really fun to be talking to, but I think the best way to describe them is they're a team that I look up to. They’re a team that cares not just for itself, but for the community.