Pudgy Penguins’ Telegram game Pengu Clash begins launch
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Pengu Conflict has kicked off its launch in the present day by letting in a portion of its waitlist forward of a full public launch.
The brand new Telegram recreation that includes the Pudgy Penguins NFT assortment’s cutesy seabirds is a 1v1 multiplayer battler. Gamers can costume up their penguins and combat one another at various kinds of minigames, whether or not it’s curling, darts, soccer or one thing else.
Pengu Conflict isn’t a pay-to-win recreation however as an alternative rewards talent, Michal Dabrowski, CEO and founding father of crypto gaming protocol Elympics, advised me in an interview.
Elympics constructed Pengu Conflict for Pudgy Penguins with the aim of beginning a pattern round skill-first crypto social video games.
“Pengu Conflict is created with nice look after precise gameplay,” Dabrowski stated, emphasizing that it’s totally different from different Telegram-based crypto “clickers.” Such clicker video games have quick lifespans as a result of they revolve round customers farming for an airdrop, he added.
“I’ve combined opinions about some video games which have been on the market on Telegram. However this…this connects to the pattern and to the subject [of] why crypto gaming has not, you understand, fulfilled its promise to deliver plenty of customers to crypto up till now. I believe that plenty of the video games created have been very superficial, let’s say.”
Dabrowski continued: “So ‘crypto’ was simply to have some form of buying and selling, or have some form of crypto part, and not likely specializing in the gameplay. And I deeply consider that it ought to be the opposite manner round.”
A have a look at Pengu Conflict’s store and curling minigame.
The sport presents quickplay matches, a “PVP area,” and a store tab as of proper now, with quests coming quickly. The waitlist presently consists of greater than 1.1 million Telegram accounts.
Like different crypto Telegram video games, Pengu Conflict is utilizing TON for its in-game NFTs and elective wagering part (the unique Pudgy NFTs are on Ethereum and the Pudgy memecoin is on Solana).
Gamers can get pleasure from Pengu Conflict with out logging in or making a pockets, however those that wish to purchase beauty objects can join the Telegram built-in pockets (that’s not but accessible within the US, UK, and another international locations), or join an exterior TON pockets to the sport.
