‘Notcoin’ Studio Expands From Telegram Tapping to ‘Not Games’ Platform

Open Builders, the corporate behind influential Telegram tap-to-earn recreation Notcoin, introduced Wednesday that it’s increasing past particular person video games with the rollout of Not Video games, a platform with unified development and rewards shared throughout a number of new video games.

Not too long ago teased by Notcoin, the platform goals to unify what has beforehand been a fragmented gaming expertise on Telegram by creating persistent participant profiles, shared inventories, and an built-in financial system throughout a number of video games.

Not Video games will function a single participant profile that maintains achievements and rankings throughout all titles inside the ecosystem. Gamers may even have a unified steadiness and stock system, permitting belongings earned in a single recreation to probably have utility in others. And earned gadgets could be bought by way of secondary marketplaces.

Not Video games will probably be powered by the prevailing NOT token on The Open Community (TON), which Notcoin launched final 12 months in a large-scale airdrop to tens of millions of gamers. NOT surged to a peak market cap of practically $3 billion final 12 months, making it final 12 months’s high gaming token launch by that metric. Nonetheless, its worth has fallen considerably since then, like many different gaming tokens.

Gamers can use NOT for purchases, upgrades, and rewards throughout all titles in Not Video games. In accordance with Open Builders, the highest gamers will compete for NOT rewards each three weeks in skill-based challenges.

The primary recreation that will probably be built-in by way of Not Video games is VOID, a real-time skill-based recreation impressed by widespread net recreation Agar.io—a easy multiplayer recreation set in a petri dish. VOID launched to the general public final week following a closed beta interval.

Nevertheless it’s simply the beginning for the deliberate Not Video games ecosystem, with Open Builders promising a minimum of 5 extra video games in growth for the platform.

Open Builders founder Sasha Plotvinov had beforehand teased plans for a Not Video games-like platform final spring, forward of the NOT token launch, saying that the studio hoped to domesticate a Netflix-like platform for locating and enjoying a gentle choice of new video games.

“We wish it to develop into the Netflix of social, viral video games,” he instructed Decrypt final April.