Square Enix, the developer behind JRPG giants like Remaining Fantasy and Dragon Quest, is now working with a significant metaverse funding agency by itself crypto-based NFT recreation.
On Monday, the company announced it had signed a collaboration settlement with Animoca Brands to strengthen advertising efforts for “Symbiogenesis,” the sport and its related assortment of 10,000 Ethereum NFTs.
Square Enix Meets Animoca Brands
Animoca Brands Japan mentioned it could assist the sport with experience in increasing its Japanese merchandise abroad, NFT gross sales, and selling collaboration with Animoca’s existing portfolio corporations.
“Animoca Brands Japan is happy to be working with SQUARE ENIX, an leisure firm that gives world-class content material and IP that Japan will be happy with,” mentioned Kensuke Amo, COO of Animoca Brands Japan.
Symbiogenesis is a PC narrative journey recreation primarily based in a “devastated excessive fantasy world” through which gamers roleplay as their Ethereum NFT avatars. Gamers may also work together with different in-game NFTs minted on the main Ethereum scaling community Polygon. An NFT is critical to entry the Symbiogenesis recreation.
The sport takes place on a ‘floating continent” on a future polluted model of Earth the place people struggle to outlive the assaults of a fantastical dragon. Will probably be featured in Animoca Brands Japan’s upcoming NFT launchpad, which is anticipated to go dwell this summer season with Ethereum and Polygon assist.
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……起きたのね。まあ、あのまま……アンタに死なれちゃ目覚め悪いし。
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Square Enix Loves Crypto
This isn’t the primary time Square Enix and Animoca have joined forces. In 2020, Square Enix led an investment round within the common Animoca-owned NFT recreation “The Sandbox,” which later featured characters and belongings from its Dungeon Siege recreation in Sandbox’s game-making instruments.
Square Enix additionally launched Final Fantasy VII-based NFTs on Polygon in 2022 and invested $35 million in Bitcoin gaming and cost platform Zebedee that very same yr.
Final month, Square Enix introduced separate investments in crypto-native PC launcher apps Hyperplay and Elixer Video games.
“We’re very enthusiastic about this initiative and look ahead to working with Animoca Brands Japan to convey the Web3 expertise to a wider viewers in an much more strategic approach,” mentioned Symbiogenesis Producer Naoyuki Tamate on the partnership with Animoca.