Immutable Video games introduced Tuesday that its long-in-the-works cellular role-playing sport Guild of Guardians will lastly launch globally on Could 15 throughout Apple’s iOS App Retailer and Google’s Android Play Retailer.
Operating on Immutable zkEVM, an Ethereum scaling community, the free-to-play crypto quest helps you to information fantasy adventurers via dungeons and battle in opposition to highly effective bosses as you amass loot. The sport has notched over 1,000,000 pre-registered gamers within the run-up to launch.
Prematurely of the worldwide launch, Guild of Guardians is introducing an on-chain crafting system referred to as The Altar of Sacrifice on March 25. This permits gamers to gather and mix NFTs to acquire new rewards. The primary “Altar Occasion” on March 25, referred to as Eri’s Grand Opening, will let gamers receive after which “sacrifice” (aka burn, or completely destroy) particular NFTs in change for in-game characters.
“These two additions mark the primary playable Web3 options in Guild of Guardians and we couldn’t be extra excited concerning the progress we’ve made on the sport as we speak,” stated Immutable Video games Chief Studio Officer Justin Hulog, in a launch. “The power to ‘sacrifice’ Prayer NFTs to mint new Guardian NFTs opens limitless potentialities and provides a totally new stage of technique and competitors to the sport.”
Decrypt’s GG went hands-on with a preview construct of the sport in August 2023 and got here away intrigued by the streamlined, mobile-centric fantasy battling expertise at play. We wrote that it supplied a “wholesome mixture of randomness and technique that might make it interesting to RPG followers who can’t grind for hours on their PCs—however can possibly carve out a couple of minutes on their telephones.”
Guild of Guardians has been on the horizon for years now and has beforehand seen regional mushy releases. Nevertheless, amid behind-the-scenes shifts, it by no means fairly reached the end line by way of a full, world launch.
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Guild of Guardians can be launching globally on iOS and Android!
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Final yr, Immutable Video games restarted growth on Guild of Guardians in collaboration with Mineloader, a veteran assist studio that has assisted with the event of main video games like The Final of Us Half I, Metroid Prime Remastered, and Resident Evil Village.
“It has been a whirlwind since we rebooted Guild of Guardians with Mineloade,” Immutable Video games Vice President and Guild of Guardians sport director Chris Clay informed Decrypt’s GG. He additional cited “difficult selections” and the “troublesome and delicate steadiness” wanted to weigh participant suggestions with its personal bold goals.
“On the finish of the day, we determined that we would have liked to deal with the basics to make sure we hit our high quality bar at launch—one which we will really feel proud about attaining,” he stated. “We all know that we solely have one likelihood to make a primary impression, and we wish to give the Guild of Guardians group the sport they deserve after patiently ready these previous three years.”
Editor’s word: This text was written with the help of AI. Edited and fact-checked by Andrew Hayward.