Nassau, Bahamas, Aug. 24, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) —
Quickly increasing online game developer Fancy Studios is on a quest to revolutionize the trade, creating its personal suite of hyper-casual cellular video games and partnering with key firms to launch “web3” titles that give gamers extra involvement and possession.
“Constructing enjoyable blockchain video games” is the corporate’s motto, and it’s already off to a fast-paced begin, having already raised $12.5m with a crew of over 50. They’ve already produced a full-fledged title with 4 different video games in improvement. Its founders purpose to place Fancy Studios as one of many premier and most progressive gaming studios for web3, a next-generation decentralized web that goals to present individuals extra management over their knowledge and true possession of their property.
“We make enjoyable, community-focused, and player-centric video games,” says Fancy Studios’ Chief Technique Officer Paul Taylor. “We needed to flip the standard gaming mannequin on its head through the use of blockchain expertise. As a substitute of the ‘you personal nothing’ mannequin which is whenever you make a purchase order of an in-game merchandise or spend quite a few hours leveling up your character however really personal something – we wish our video games to be ‘you personal all the pieces.’”
In conventional gaming, gamers typically spend many hours grinding to extend their character ranges, get hold of gadgets (that may additionally price actual cash), and develop their very own id by progressing by way of the sport. Gamers do that all whereas having a whole lot of enjoyable. That every one sounds nice, proper? Nicely, after a participant leaves the sport – they lose all of that – numerous hours and cash – gone immediately. That is the “you personal nothing” format that players are used to right now.
With crypto gaming, gamers really personal their characters and sport property. They will purchase, promote, and commerce all the pieces they spend their money and time on with different gamers. Fancy Studios believes that this can enable their customers to develop a deeper reference to their video games and likewise enable them to recoup (and in some instances, even revenue from) their money and time spent. Taylor, having spent hundreds of hours enjoying video games rising up, equivalent to RuneScape, League of Legends, and Guild Wars, believes this can resonate with players, each informal and aggressive sorts.
The corporate was based lower than a yr in the past, however its first title “Fancy Birds” – based mostly on the viral sport Flappy Birds however with distinctive twists together with tournaments and breeding – proved a fast success, with its devoted gaming neighborhood leaping from beneath 1,000 members final October to greater than 100,000 gamers in June.
“We’re one of many earliest crypto gaming firms that already can boast a full launch sport. Most crypto gaming studios are nonetheless in early improvement or have solely launched trailers to date. We advised our neighborhood from day 1 that we might produce a high-quality sport rapidly and we’ve got delivered on that promise. Fancy Birds was our first full proof of idea and now we’re actually ramping up with a number of extra deliberate for launch this yr,” says Taylor.
Fancy Studios plans on making a various portfolio of video games out there on all cellular gadgets, together with Android and iPhone, with the power to play on desktops and tablets as nicely. These video games will cowl all kinds of standard genres and are designed to be easy and enjoyable.
One main cause for Fancy Studios’ swift progress is the significance that it locations on participating with its neighborhood, by way of the corporate’s repeatedly up to date weblog, Twitter, Discord, and internet hosting common reside AMA (ask me something) discussions. Its gamers repeatedly chat about methods to enhance the sport expertise and infrequently get sneak peeks of future sport developments and options.
Moreover, Fancy Birds is a “play-and-earn” sport, which implies its gamers can earn cryptocurrency tokens by finishing quests in-game. The cryptocurrency will be exchanged for real-life cash as nicely. “We’re actually happy with a whole lot of the success tales that we’ve been in a position to create by letting our gamers become profitable simply by enjoying Fancy Birds. Particularly, we’ve got a really giant presence within the Philippines the place the minimal wage there may be extremely low. We’ve witnessed many individuals from creating nations really earn considerably extra by enjoying our sport for an hour a day vs working a full-time job again dwelling. For some, it has been life-changing earnings, and it’s been actually fulfilling for us to see that.”
Web3 permits Fancy Studios to present gamers the possibility to make use of helpful non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as their characters and in-game gadgets that they honestly personal. “Group possession is without doubt one of the many distinctive points that set us aside as leaders in revolutionizing video games. Gamers have a stake within the sport and actually do personal a bit of the undertaking,” Taylor says. “We additionally enable our token holders to vote on key choices to ensure their voice is heard in a good and clear method. Really fairly not too long ago, the neighborhood picked the title for our 2nd sport.”
That forward-looking strategy to gaming has helped Fancy Studios safe strategic investments and partnerships with a variety of notable trade leaders, together with Framework Ventures, Illuvium, Polygon Studios, Benefit Circle, Yield Guild Video games, Polemos, BreedFi, PathDAO, YGG SEA, Loot Squad, The Juice Group, IndiGG, SNACKCLUB, GameFi Squad, AMG DAO, BAYZ, and others. They’ve additionally been in dialogues with a number of main conventional gaming studios about incorporating web3 parts into their present and future video games.
“Fancy Studios totally intends to change into the premier web3 gaming studio that develops progressive video games designed for max enjoyable and neighborhood participation,” Taylor says.
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