Magmic has announced an officially licensed MLB idle investor Web3 game
Gaming firm Magmic, the company behind “UFC Fight Card Rummy” and “Idle Pet Paradise,” announced a new Web3 game for mobile and browser based on the Major League Baseball (MLB) license at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
The yet-to-be-named new game will be an “idle tycoon” game in which players build their own baseball stadium experience. Licenses both MLB and the MLB Players Association. While gameplay details are being kept under wraps, Magmic CEO Mo Aga revealed that players will be able to build and expand their own MLB ballpark and trade players.
Magmic in 2010. It was founded in 2002. As a pioneering mobile gaming company, it has become famous as one of the leading developers of Blackberry games for the Texas Hold ‘Em King franchise and many other titles.
In the decade since, the company's titles have been downloaded more than 250 million times, and Magmic now has a player base of millions, according to the company's latest press release.
MagMic has developed a number of useful intellectual property-based games, including a chatGPT-powered mobile version of Hasbro Scattergories and a real-money Scattergories game on iOS featuring the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) license.
The new MLB licensed game supports both Web3 and Web2 gameplay. Users are said to be able to trade digital assets such as ball players. The game is said to be fully playable as a traditional web2 experience on mobile and browsers without the need to engage in monetized and asset-based web3 features.
According to Aga's comments at the press conference:
“The game is meant to be fun and easy to play and it delivers […] Sports fans and mobile gamers have access to a player-to-player marketplace and in-game player ownership that uses Web3 technology. It's Magmic's vision and commitment to creating an exciting gaming experience, as well as allowing true in-game asset ownership, that makes it unique in the new world of Web3 gaming.
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