Ronin Adds ‘Kaidro’ Role-Playing Game Following ‘Pixels’ Ethereum Token Launch
Sky Mavis, creator of the Ronin blockchain and its Axie Infinity recreation, introduced the following recreation that’s coming to the Ethereum gaming sidechain: Kaidro, an anime-style role-playing recreation primarily based on the webcomic of the identical identify by Gadget-Bot Productions.
Initially deliberate to launch on Immutable X, one other gaming-centric Ethereum scaling community, the Kaidro recreation will as a substitute launch completely on Ronin.
Kaidro is ready in a post-apocalyptic world the place gamers battle enemies utilizing mechs and magic. Groups of three gamers will compete in player-versus-player and player-versus-environment gameplay throughout varied maps and targets.
Along with the sport, Gadget-Bot is collaborating with author Tim Hedrick, identified for his work on “Avatar: The Final Airbender” and “Voltron: Legendary Defender,” on an animated Kaidro TV collection. The studio additionally partnered with the musical duo Odesza to create the brand new Kaidro recreation trailer.
Gadget-Bot was co-founded by Peggy Chung and Robert Simons, who’ve substantial movie and online game credit between them together with “Jurassic World” and Name of Responsibility. Final yr, they instructed Decrypt’s GG why they wished to show the “Kaidro” webcomic right into a crypto recreation.
“Once we have been rising this fanbase, we have been creating this large world. Once we noticed Web3, we noticed it as this fashion of giving possession to that fanbase and letting them be part of it,” Simons mentioned in April 2023. “We noticed issues like NFTs… as a method for individuals to really personal a portion of the ‘Kaidro’ world and endlessly personal it.”
Wednesday’s announcement comes throughout the identical week that Pixels, at present the most well-liked recreation on Ronin, launched its long-awaited PIXEL token following play-to-airdrop campaigns. The token generated greater than a billion {dollars} value of buying and selling quantity in lower than a day on Monday, coming into the highest 10 amongst all cryptocurrencies by that metric.
Editor’s notice: This text was written with the help of AI. Edited and fact-checked by Andrew Hayward.
