Flickplay, an NFT interactive character platform, has teamed with Bandai Namco Leisure—one among its buyers—to launch a Pokémon Go-style scavenger hunt to have fun the forty fifth anniversary of basic arcade recreation, Pac-Man.
Set to debut in February 2025, the partnership will start with the discharge of two collection of unique Pac-Man digital collectible “toys.” One collection will solely be accessible to these within the Japanese neighborhood the place Pac-Man was first seen in 1980, Shibuya.
Flickplay is a platform stuffed with character NFTs that may be imported into video games. For instance, the platform launched a Bratz Dolls assortment earlier this 12 months. These “Digi-Dolls” will be performed with in Flickplay experiences—i.e. GIF creation and Tamagotchi-style character widgets—and have since been built-in into Ethereum metaverse recreation The Sandbox as playable characters.
The primary Pac-Man assortment is deliberate to launch throughout the four-day DIG Shibuya Pageant in Japan, as a part of a location-based occasion akin to Pokémon Go. The scavenger hunt will happen from February 8-11 at over 40 places in Shibuya Metropolis. The collectibles can have a restricted provide, so finishing the hunt shortly is essential.
As soon as the Pokémon Go-style occasion begins, Flickplay will announce particular places in Shibuya Metropolis for gamers to go to. As soon as inside a predesignated radius of the placement, followers can have the chance to trade Diamonds—Flickplay’s in-app foreign money, granted via an Expertise Move—for the Pac-Man digital collectibles.
The second assortment is not going to be tied right down to these in a specific location, opening it as much as a worldwide viewers through the Flickplay retailer. Extra particulars and dates have but to be introduced.
events will be capable of buy an Expertise Move, as a part of a pre-sale. This may grant customers sufficient of the Flickplay’s in-app foreign money to unlock the total Pac-Man assortment in Shibuya Metropolis. Plus, customers might be given a Pac-Man digital collectible proper off the bat while not having to do any legwork.
On high of all this, Flickplay claims that individuals within the occasion might be gifted a “Thriller Tremendous Uncommon merchandise.”
Flickplay at the moment helps Movement, Ethereum, and Polygon, however the platform is at the moment in dialogue with different Ethereum layer-2 networks to broaden the venture’s interoperability.
“Wanting forward, it’s in our 2025 roadmap to make the expertise of taking digital toys seamlessly from one ecosystem to a different accessible to common shoppers,” founder and CEO of Flickplay, Pierina Merino, instructed Decrypt.
On the time of writing, Flickplay has but to resolve which chain the Pac-Man NFTs might be deployed on. For now, there are not any confirmed recreation integrations for the Pac-Man collectible toys, however the firm is looking out for tactics to provide holders extra utility.
“We’re actively scouting for nice video games the place we may pilot deeper interoperability with our characters as a step towards introducing a broader ecosystem method,” Merino completed.
Edited by Andrew Hayward
GG Publication
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