How Mighty Bear is vibecoding web3 games at speed for gen TikTok

Singapore studio Mighty Bear Games continues to lean heavily into new technology and the early impressions are it’s making real progress.

Its new Telegram-based GrabGifts project was developed within four weeks. Since it went live in September, it’s engaged with 130,000 users who can either claim a free mystery reward chest daily, or pay to chase valuable rewards such as Telegram’s digital collectibles and tokens such as TON. 

As well as the audience attracted organically, Mighty Bear also points to the project’s very cheap marketing costs – less than 20¢ per activation.

Indeed, some of its direct community partnerships are already delivering 171% return on ad spend in the first two weeks.

Taken as a whole, GrabGifts has already outperformed Mighty Bear’s existing Telegram-based gaming and reward project GOAT Gaming in terms of average revenue per user, retention, and user acquisition costs. 

“GrabGifts proves two things,” explains CEO Simon Davis. 

• The first is that VibeOps – what he calls small teams shipping new games weekly – works.
• The second is that “TikTok-generation players” want instant gratification and asymmetric upside – small stakes spent on potentially large prizes. 

“Without token giveaway promises, we attract players who actually want to play instead of rewarding farmers gaming the system,” Davis says. 

Looking ahead, the next step is to expand GrabGifts beyond Telegram to web and other platforms. In conjunction, the rewards offered will also expand with tokenized Pokémon cards launching this week.

This will be followed by tokenized Magic: The Gathering and sports cards.

“In gaming, speed and systematic experimentation beat large budgets and long planning cycles,” Davis states.

“Legacy studios are still debating features in year two of development. We’re shipping, testing, and iterating on 100+ game concepts in the same timeframe. This speed advantage is about market share. 

“When you can identify and scale winning formulas in weeks instead of quarters, you capture attention and players before competition even launches.”