‘Dookey Dash’ Gets Free-to-Play Reboot With Token Rewards for Ethereum NFT Owners

“Appears to be like like Curtis must get the plunger out, there’s one thing in the bathroom,” a submit from Yuga Labs reads.

The crypto startup will deliver Dookey Sprint again someday this quarter, in accordance with the submit. Within the single-player authentic Dookey Sprint, players needed to race via a 3D sewer tunnel as an ape driving a car underwater to realize as many factors as doable whereas avoiding obstacles that, if hit, would remove them from the sport.

In contrast to the primary launch—which required a Sewer Move NFT on Ethereum, granted free to Bored Ape and Mutant Ape NFT homeowners—anybody will be capable to play the sewer-themed infinite runner.

Dookey Sprint noticed fairly a little bit of competitors throughout its earlier launch. Again in February 2023, the professional Fortnite participant often known as “Mongraal” gained the primary model of Dookey Sprint with the best rating—and bought his profitable NFT key to billionaire Adam Weitsman for $1.63 million.

That mentioned, those that do maintain Yuga Labs Ethereum NFTs like Bored Apes, Mutant Apes, Kodas, Bored Ape Kennel Membership canines, and HV-MTL Forge NFTs can be eligible for “token advantages,” in accordance with the corporate. The trailer posted to Twitter reveals ApeCoin logos, suggesting the Ethereum token for Yuga’s Bored Ape ecosystem can be given out as rewards. Nonetheless, a Yuga Labs consultant wouldn’t affirm that element.

The brand new Dookey Sprint: Unclogged sport can be launched for iOS, Android, Mac desktop, and Home windows desktop customers—suggesting it gained’t be an internet browser-based sport like earlier than. Cellular and desktop app-based video games are likely to run extra easily and securely than browser-based video games, so this can be a win for followers of the smelly authentic.

A Bored Ape and gaming influencer often known as The Fortnite Man or “TFG,” who was a part of the newest Dookey Sprint playtest and Yuga Labs’ gaming council, added Tuesday that the sport is slated for a mid-February launch and that choose Yuga NFT holders might get extra NFTs by way of the sport.

TFG confirmed a video that shows totally different playable character skins, new sport autos, a leaderboard, and purchasable in-game currencies within the new upcoming sport model. Yuga Labs’ official gaming account on Twitter shared TFG’s video.

The brand new model of Dookey Sprint seems to supply “Cash,” “Boosters,” “Vitality,” “Skip-It” passes, and different objects obtainable for buy utilizing fiat foreign money. TFG additionally acknowledged that cash could be earned by taking part in the sport.

The video additionally reveals a brand new “Sewer Rank” system to indicate the sport’s totally different aggressive tiers. There’s Beginner on the backside, adopted by Semi-Professional, Skilled, All-Star, Champion, Corridor of Famer, and GOAT listed as the sport’s ranked tiers, every with a distinct respective “increase” proportion. Gamers will be capable to choose totally different boosters earlier than the sport begins, with choices like a “sluggish booster,” a “magnet booster,” and a “energy shart,” for instance.

Presumably, the sluggish booster slows down the sport to make it simpler to navigate the cramped tunnels, whereas the magnet pulls in fascinating objects for the participant to gather, and the “energy shart” is… properly, principally probably Dookey Sprint’s model of a really putrid nitro increase via the cartoonish sport world.

The sport’s up to date model and re-release seems to be an effort to attract within the broader crypto group. Hopefully, this new model gained’t undergo from fairly the identical ranges of reported dishonest and boosting as its authentic.

Edited by Andrew Hayward