Flickplay, an NFT interactive character platform, has teamed with Bandai Namco Leisure—one in every of its buyers—to launch a Pokémon Go-style scavenger hunt to have a good time the forty fifth anniversary of basic arcade recreation, Pac-Man.
Set to debut in February 2025, the partnership will start with the discharge of two sequence of unique Pac-Man digital collectible “toys.” One sequence will solely be accessible to these within the Japanese neighborhood the place Pac-Man was first seen in 1980, Shibuya.
Flickplay is a platform stuffed with character NFTs that may be imported into video games. For instance, the platform launched a Bratz Dolls assortment earlier this yr. These “Digi-Dolls” may be performed with in Flickplay experiences—i.e. GIF creation and Tamagotchi-style character widgets—and have since been built-in into Ethereum metaverse recreation The Sandbox as playable characters.
I’m extremely excited to announce @flickplayapp is partnering with #BandaiNamcoEntertainment Inc. and the Metropolis of Shibuya for what can be a groundbreaking inaugural @flickplayapp activation in #Tokyo, celebrating Pac-Man’s forty fifth anniversary.
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— Pierina Merino (@MerinoPierina) November 19, 2024
The primary Pac-Man assortment is deliberate to launch through the four-day DIG Shibuya Competition in Japan, as a part of a location-based occasion akin to Pokémon Go. The scavenger hunt will happen from February 8-11 at over 40 places in Shibuya Metropolis. The collectibles may have a restricted provide, so finishing the hunt shortly is essential.
As soon as the Pokémon Go-style occasion begins, Flickplay will announce particular places in Shibuya Metropolis for gamers to go to. As soon as inside a predesignated radius of the situation, followers may have the chance to trade Diamonds—Flickplay’s in-app forex, granted via an Expertise Move—for the Pac-Man digital collectibles.
The second assortment won’t be tied all the way down to these in a specific location, opening it as much as a worldwide viewers through the Flickplay retailer. Extra particulars and dates have but to be introduced.
events will be capable of buy an Expertise Move, as a part of a pre-sale. It will grant customers sufficient of the Flickplay’s in-app forex to unlock the total Pac-Man assortment in Shibuya Metropolis. Plus, customers can be given a Pac-Man digital collectible proper off the bat while not having to do any legwork.
On prime of all this, Flickplay claims that individuals within the occasion can be gifted a “Thriller Tremendous Uncommon merchandise.”
Flickplay at present helps Circulation, Ethereum, and Polygon, however the platform is at present in dialogue with different Ethereum layer-2 networks to increase the challenge’s interoperability.
“Wanting forward, it’s in our 2025 roadmap to make the expertise of taking digital toys seamlessly from one ecosystem to a different accessible to common customers,” founder and CEO of Flickplay, Pierina Merino, informed Decrypt.
On the time of writing, Flickplay has but to determine which chain the Pac-Man NFTs can be deployed on. For now, there are not any confirmed recreation integrations for the Pac-Man collectible toys, however the firm is looking out for tactics to offer holders extra utility.
“We’re actively scouting for nice video games the place we might pilot deeper interoperability with our characters as a step towards introducing a broader ecosystem strategy,” Merino completed.
Edited by Andrew Hayward
