Zynga Announces Its First Blockchain Game “Sugartown” 

Zynga, the gaming business’s greatest cell video games developer, introduced its first-ever blockchain sport, Sugartown, on Monday, in accordance with an preliminary report by Decrypt. 

Finest recognized for its widespread 2009 video games Farmville and Phrases With Associates, Zynga rapidly made a reputation for itself after launching one of many first few video games on Fb, bringing in over 80 million folks taking part in their video games. 

Final Could, it was acquired by Take-Two Interactive for $12.7 billion, the place the cell gaming large would convey its hottest video games over to Take-Two, together with Farmville and Phrases With Associates. As a gaming powerhouse, Take-Two presently manages a number of the business’s hottest franchises, together with, however not restricted to Grand Theft Auto, Crimson Lifeless Redemption, NBA 2K, BioShock, and extra. 

Inside Sugartown

The sport will leverage Ethereum-based NFTs that convey avid gamers into an alternate dimension the place they are going to be launched to creatures often called ‘Oras.’ 

As the sport begins, avid gamers uncover that three livestock from one other dimension have unintentionally opened a wormhole intoSugartown, with creatures often called ‘Oras’ coming into town and remodeling it right into a gamified panorama that may solely be accessed by avid gamers holding considered one of 10,000 Ora NFTs. 

These Ora NFTs is not going to solely unlock the flexibility to play in Sugartown, but in addition present holders with entry to its embedded free-to-play minigames. Avid gamers can even have the flexibility to “stake” or lock their Ora NFTs in trade for receiving Sugartown’s in-game foreign money, known as “Sugar” that enhances and enriches the general gaming expertise. The in-game foreign money is just not a cryptocurrency. 

A Zynga consultant advised Decrypt that Sugartown is anticipated to launch at “a later date,” however didn’t present a precise date. Nevertheless, the Ora NFT assortment, in accordance with that consultant, is anticipated to be launched later this yr.  

“We created Sugartown to attraction to a local Web3 market,” mentioned Matt Wolf, Zynga’s Vice President of Web3 Gaming, in an announcement to Decrypt. He additionally mentioned that their focus is to scale the sport a lot additional over time whereas they construct up a group of Ora NFT holders. 

On Tuesday, Sugartown held its first official Areas with Zynga’s Wolf and its Head of Product, Tommy Ngo, diving deeper into the sport.