‘Nifty Island’ Ends Play-to-Airdrop Push – Here’s When to Expect the ISLAND Token

Roblox-style metaverse game Nifty Island He concluded Game-to-air campaign last week. In nine months of pushing, the game has attracted more than 140,000 unique active wallets—but now it's gearing up for the ISLAND token launch and airdrop.

Nifty Island has entered open beta. As a voxel-style sandbox title earlier in the year, it allows players to create and share their own game worlds (called islands) to keep an endless supply of fresh content on the platform. Since the launch of the Air-to-Air campaign, nearly 70,000 islands have been created by users as the game's developers have added new game modes and abilities and improved the client.

“We now have a solid foundation on which to build the future of Nifty,” co-founder Charles Smith told Decrypt.

In its lifetime, the game has embraced more than 400 crypto communities, integrating them into the game—adding playable characters like Pudgy Penguin. It's part of what Smith believes is a “huge catalyst” for the title.

Smith said. Decrypt The game has grown to become “the most active 3D user-created game world on the Web,” he said, calling the play-to-air campaign a significant success. He added that “on-chain rewards can drive high engagement,” but acknowledged that putting money online poses particularly difficult design challenges to make everything fair to players.

Air-to-air gaming has become a marketing strategy for crypto games that want to draw players. One of the most successful examples is the Overwatch-style shooter. Nian heroeswhich one Alongside it launched a Play to Air campaign. List on the Epic Games store earlier this year. This activity It appeared provocative It pushed the title into the top 30 games on the platform, bringing in 200,000 downloads in its first playtest window.

For this strategy to work, the project must eventually release a token to complete the push and reward the players for their efforts. This phase is now just around the corner for Nifty Island through the long-awaited ISLAND token.

“ISLAND is coming very soon. It's coming in weeks, not months,” Smith said. Decrypt. “It combines with some of the fun things we cook. After we ship our next big update, Nifty Island will be anonymous.

Exactly how much will be from the total supply assigned The airdrop campaign has yet to be confirmed. The token will launch on the Ethereum mainnet, Smith confirmed, and may launch on other chains as well – although this has not yet been finalized. Nifty Island has previously issued NFTs on Ethereum sidechain network Polygon.

Taking a look at previous game-to-air games like Hamster Kombat, Katizen, and of course Nian heroesIn the days, weeks, and months following the airdrop, many game tokens will see their value drop. Many projects, including those that use Tap to find a modelHe failed to praise the players for the result.

“Air-to-air games have proven to be capable of igniting a community, but no one else has.” It made air-to-air play more sustainable,” Smith said. Decrypt.

He also commented on the recent success of “Off the Grid,” a battle royale shooter being developed on Avalanche that recently launched in early access without the blockchain features being implemented on the player side. It was a major success, but Smith believes that emphasizing crypto elements is losing the blockchain game.

“Like games Off the grid I've done a commendable job of minimizing the crypto-enabled features of the game,” he said. “I consider this a Trojan horse strategy, a very pessimistic view of the crypto game, even if it's viable. If we want to hide crypto, what does embracing the technology do to give your game a critical competitive edge?”

They remain critical of the unsustainable nature of the play-to-air model Off the gridNot focusing on the technology, Nifty Island plans to do something different in the future – Smith shakes up the growing blockchain game space.

“Next, we'll be working on a completely new model of how Web3 games are monetized and connected,” Smith said.

Edited by Andrew Hayward.