Bazooka Tango Raises $5 Million to Revive ‘Shardbound’ as NFT Game
Bazooka Tango, a studio fashioned by former builders of the fantasy MOBA recreation Vainglory, has secured $5 million in a brand new spherical of funding led by Bitkraft Ventures, the sport studio introduced Thursday.
RW3 Ventures, Sfermion, and 1Up Ventures additionally participated within the spherical. Bazooka Tango plans to make use of the recent funding to develop its staff and additional growth on its upcoming title, Shardbound, which has dedicated to launch on the upcoming Immutable zkEVM community.
“Amid an extremely difficult 12 months for VC funding, it speaks volumes to the standard of our video games,” stated Bazooka Tango CEO Bo Daly in an announcement in response to the funding information. “We’re centered on increasing our staff in crucial disciplines important for launching and rising the Shardbound universe,” Daly added.
Shardbound is a mixture of an NFT buying and selling card recreation and a turn-based player-versus-player RPG, the place gamers should place characters strategically onto a tiled board.
A glance inside Decrypt’s early-access playthrough. Picture: Decrypt/Bazooka Tango.
However the recreation was very a lot incomplete when Bazooka Tango took it over from its indie builders at Spiritwalk Video games, who had left many artwork property unfinished. The unique model of Shardbound solely reached “early entry,” and was partly funded by Kickstarter individuals beneath its earlier builders—solely elevating about $150,000 again in 2017.
Indie Card-Battler Shardbound Revived as Web3 Sport on Immutable zkEVM
Shardbound’s revival beneath Bazooka Tango was first introduced again in March. In September, Decrypt briefly playtested the sport in early entry and located that whereas the sport’s core has been established, some playing cards nonetheless confirmed placeholder artwork or no artwork in any respect.
Now, Shardbound has hundreds of thousands in funding to see its growth by to the end line. Bazooka Tango has already employed executives from gaming corporations like Apple, Disney, and Digital Arts, in response to the corporate, and has additionally added builders from studios like 2K, Sledgehammer Video games, and Pocket Gems, to call a number of.
