The highlight of July’s Brazil International Games (BIG) festival was a surprise for everyone, especially the event’s blockchain sponsors: game developer Mark Venturelli’s viral talk ‘Why NFTs are a Nightmare’. In an interview afterward, Venturelli said something about the convention that I’ve kept thinking about since I left Brazil: “I don’t feel I have hurt BIG by talking shit about NFTs because BIG does not need these guys,” he said. “It’s the other way around. Our biggest event here in the Brazilian industry is not going anywhere.”
Outside of Venturelli’s talk, which was a brilliant takedown of the design and politics of blockchain games, BIG
