Yomi Games raises $2 million to become the “Zynga of Crypto” | Pocket Gamer.biz
Recreation developer Yomi Video games has introduced the elevating of $2 million in a seed spherical following its first NFT launch.
Individuals within the seed spherical included Hypersphere Ventures, Infinity Ventures Crypto, Cultur3 Capital, Maveron, Momentum 6, Taureon, and a variety of angel traders.
Yomi Video games has acknowledged that it goals to be the “Zynga of crypto” with informal, social video games which might be extra accessible to these new to crypto gaming. The agency has outlined that it’s going to take a mobile-first strategy to releasing titles.
The studio plans to place the seed spherical funds in direction of reaching its imaginative and prescient of making blockchain video games for informal audiences.
Oni NFT assortment
Oni Squad, Yomi Video games’ first NFT assortment, incorporates 6,666 hand-drawn generative Onis and launched as free mint in January. On its first day the gathering reached 300 ETH (greater than $1 million at the moment) in buying and selling quantity.
It launched with an accompanying minigame known as Oni Mansion, whereby these NFTs function playable property. Gamers can collaborate within the sport to customize an NFT mansion and participate in each day missions to earn tokens, which can be utilized in flip to additional improve mansions.
“We consider player-owned economies, enabled by blockchain know-how, are the way forward for gaming,” mentioned Yomi Video games CEO Pavan Katepalli.
“We wish all of our video games to be as accessible as attainable to the broadest viewers and onboard folks new to digital collectables and gaming NFTs,”
Yomi Video games is one in every of a variety of studios trying to carry blockchain video games to cellular audiences. Not too long ago, Battlebound (whose founders a former Riot Video games workers) raised $4.8 million in its seed spherical after partnering with a variety of NFT collections.
Since then, The Sandbox developer Animoca Manufacturers revealed its acquisition of France-based Eden Video games to carry blockchain to racing video games.
