Flickplay, an NFT interactive character platform, has teamed with Bandai Namco Leisure—one among its buyers—to launch a Pokémon Go-style scavenger hunt to have a good time the forty fifth anniversary of traditional arcade sport, Pac-Man.
Set to debut in February 2025, the partnership will start with the discharge of two collection of unique Pac-Man digital collectible “toys.” One collection will solely be accessible to these within the Japanese neighborhood the place Pac-Man was first seen in 1980, Shibuya.
Flickplay is a platform filled 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 sport The Sandbox as playable characters.
I’m extremely excited to announce @flickplayapp is partnering with #BandaiNamcoEntertainment Inc. and the Metropolis of Shibuya for what will likely 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 in the course of 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 areas in Shibuya Metropolis. The collectibles can have a restricted provide, so finishing the hunt rapidly is essential.
As soon as the Pokémon Go-style occasion begins, Flickplay will announce particular areas in Shibuya Metropolis for gamers to go to. As soon as inside a predesignated radius of the placement, followers can have the chance to trade Diamonds—Flickplay’s in-app foreign money, granted by an Expertise Go—for the Pac-Man digital collectibles.
The second assortment won’t be tied right down to these in a selected 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 Go, as a part of a pre-sale. It will grant customers sufficient of the Flickplay’s in-app foreign money to unlock the total Pac-Man assortment in Shibuya Metropolis. Plus, customers will likely be given a Pac-Man digital collectible proper off the bat without having to do any legwork.
On high of all this, Flickplay claims that individuals within the occasion will likely be gifted a “Thriller Tremendous Uncommon merchandise.”
Flickplay at present helps Circulate, Ethereum, and Polygon, however the platform is at present in dialogue with different Ethereum layer-2 networks to broaden the venture’s interoperability.
“Trying 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 shoppers,” founder and CEO of Flickplay, Pierina Merino, advised Decrypt.
On the time of writing, Flickplay has but to resolve which chain the Pac-Man NFTs will likely be deployed on. For now, there are not any confirmed sport integrations for the Pac-Man collectible toys, however the firm is looking out for tactics to provide 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 method,” Merino completed.
Edited by Andrew Hayward
