Pudgy Penguins Game ‘Pudgy Party’ Launches on iOS and Android

Ethereum NFT model Pudgy Penguins and sport developer Legendary Video games introduced the worldwide launch of Pudgy Get together, a cellular get together sport that’s now accessible on Android and iOS. 

Pudgy Get together attracts comparisons to fashionable video games like Fall Guys and Stumble Guys—colourful riffs on the battle royale style by which gamers race by way of wild impediment programs and persist by way of survival challenges.

And this time round, it has a Web3 twist.

“We took our personal interpretation of that style,” Legendary Video games CEO John Linden advised Decrypt. “We thought it was the correct focus for not solely the model, however the gameplay—one thing the neighborhood can actually get behind.” 

In Pudgy Get together, customers will step right into a sport stuffed with Pudgy Penguins characters, which have made an impression throughout social media and by way of retail merchandise like plush toys. And gamers will mechanically enroll in Web3 gaming within the course of, even when they don’t notice it.

“Each participant that is available in, they’re mechanically onboarded right into a pockets,” Linden mentioned.

“They’ve a pockets, however most of them gained’t even learn about it,” he mentioned of the onboarding expertise, which is designed to encourage “getting in and taking part in.” The sport integrates blockchain by way of the Mythos Chain, a community constructed on the Polkadot blockchain, within the background. 

“The Web3 stuff is sort of simply seamlessly behind it,” he added, “You’re all of a sudden getting property and also you’re leveling them up, and you’ll change them and you’ll burn them for different issues. All that’s pretty hidden from the consumer initially.”

Customers will be capable of gather outfits, emotes, and different in-game property, in addition to costumes that may be minted as NFTs and later traded by way of {the marketplace}.

The sport will launch with its first seasonal occasion, “Dopameme Rush,” a brainrot-themed occasion that includes fashionable web memes. Seasons will run month-to-month and include free and premium passes, in addition to particular occasions and leaderboard competitions. 

After taking a once-declining model to the cabinets of Walmart and Goal, Pudgy Penguins CEO Luca Netz has set the bar excessive for the upcoming sport launch. 

“It has to have, at a minimal, tens of hundreds of thousands of gamers and downloads,” he advised Decrypt. “My hope is we are able to really push and make this a high app on the App Retailer, interval.”

Netz expects that Pudgy Get together will make an enormous push past the crypto bubble, and develop into the primary Pudgy franchise product.

“I believe you’re going to see a number of the world’s greatest streamers streaming Pudgy Get together. I believe you’re going to see epic IRL occasions, large campaigns, and tournaments and prize swimming pools to convey individuals in,” he mentioned, including that thinks it is going to be the “greatest Web3 sport that we’ve ever had.” 

Legendary Video games has already constructed a few of Web3’s most outstanding video games with its FIFA Rivals and NFL Rivals, which have collectively amassed hundreds of thousands of cellular downloads. It hopes to construct one thing related with the Pudgy Penguins. 

“We’re after constructing a without end franchise with Luca,” Linden mentioned. “We wish to assist them take this into the gaming world and have one thing that may be round and performed by actually lots of of hundreds of thousands of individuals over a time frame.”