Gaming giant Ubisoft, the publisher behind franchises like Assassin’s Creed and Just Dance, has set the launch date for its upcoming game Captain Laserhawk: The GAME on Ethereum layer-2 network Arbitrum. And today, a free NFT coin for the game starts.
The competitive, top-down multiplayer shooter is set in a dystopian world inspired by the Netflix animated series ‘Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix’, which is partially based on a game from the Far Cry game franchise, and features characters from hit series. Assassin’s Creed, Rayman and Beyond Good & Evil.
The game’s Niji Warrior NFT Collection, which launches today as a free coin on the Magic Eden marketplace, gives players input on game mechanics, card designs, and storyline developments. Players with these tokens can access exclusive benefits, participate in community decisions, and potentially develop their NFTs based on their level of involvement.
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“This project represents a new frontier in collaborative game development, where players become co-creators,” Ubisoft technical director and executive producer Didier Genevois said in a statement.
Each of the 10,000 Niji Warrior NFTs depicts a pixelated robot or creature, based on artwork shown through the Magic Eden starting point list. The approach is similar to the artwork for the Warlords NFTs released last year for Ubisoft’s Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles game.
An example of Captain Laserhawk: The GAME NFT artwork. Image: Ubisoft/Magic Eden
The project is a collaboration between Ubisoft, the Arbitrum Foundation and Sequence, a crypto gaming development platform from Horizon, the developer of the competitive card game Skyweaver.
“Players have forever followed the storylines, character arcs, and game designs that were given to them. Now that changes. We are excited to see the results as we put the power in the hands of the gaming community,” Arbitrum Foundation Head of Partnerships Nina Rong said in a statement.
Ubisoft recently launched Champions Tactics, the first original blockchain game built around NFTs on the Oasys network. The company has been building the Web3 space for years, supporting various startups and networks, releasing experimental projects, and even adding NFTs to one of its Ghost Recon games.
Editor’s note: This article was written with the help of AI. Edited and fact-checked by Andrew Hayward.