Laguna Video games has introduced that it’ll broaden the Crypto Unicorns franchise with the launch of 4 new cellular titles, out there on iOS and Android.
With video games developed in-house and alongside three strategic companions, the brand new cellular titles will carry collectively the expertise of informal cellular gaming with the favored characters from Laguna’s whimsical web3 farming simulation and collectable sport Crypto Unicorns.
“We’re working with an unbelievable group of worldwide builders to construct generational IP collectively on Crypto Unicorns,” mentioned Laguna Video games CEO, Aron Beierschmitt. “The hyper-casual gaming market is a big untapped alternative that we’re very excited to start pursuing. We look ahead to bringing our Crypto Unicorn collectables to cellular gadgets worldwide by the top of subsequent yr.”
In keeping with machine studying and digital efficiency options firm, Moloco, the hyper-casual video games market accounts for practically half of all cellular sport installs. The class’s dominance dates again to 2017 and now generates upwards of $3 billion in annual income.
The sequence of mini-games being rolled out in This fall embody
- Unigatchi: a Crypto Unicorns tackle the favored digital pet sport, Tamagotchi. The aim of every participant is to maintain their Unicorn blissful and wholesome whereas partaking with it in real-time by means of gesture and voice instructions powered by Multiversal Ventures;
- Bumper Corns: a multiplayer sport the place the participant has to bump different unicorns off the land to win, in partnership with Coda Labs;
- Mob Run, a multiplayer sport the place gamers compete to amass the biggest mob of unicorns, in partnership with Coda Labs; and
- Rainbow Rumble: a winner takes all battle royale-style sport in partnership with IguanaBee.
The introduction of those new video games comes after an already profitable reception to Crypto Unicorn. Since launching this yr, gamers have already collected 2,200 ETH with of land and pet collectables. The sport has additionally been named Prime Mission on Polygon blockchain because of its push in direction of staking-based gameplay.
Whereas the video games are blockchain-based, gamers is not going to be required to make use of cryptos or NFTs to benefit from the full expertise. These cellular video games will mark the primary wave of hybrid, informal blockchain video games to reach on cellular.
“Laguna is among the greatest studios on the market,” mentioned Şekip Can Gökalp, CEO of Coda Labs: the cellular sport writer with over 100M complete downloads. “We share a imaginative and prescient for utilizing video games to carry web3 to the lots and dealing collectively on increasing the Crypto Unicorns multiverse was the right alternative to try this. The Laguna workforce is innovating greater than most, and we’re actually trying ahead to studying from them.”
Crypto Unicorns hopes to take its multiverse to higher heights by making its sport out there to informal gaming audiences worldwide.
Screenshots of newly introduced cellular titles may be discovered right here.
