Sky Mavis, creator of the Ronin blockchain and its Axie Infinity recreation, introduced the subsequent recreation that’s coming to the Ethereum gaming sidechain: Kaidro, an anime-style role-playing recreation based mostly on the webcomic of the identical title by Gadget-Bot Productions.
Initially deliberate to launch on Immutable X, one other gaming-centric Ethereum scaling community, the Kaidro recreation will as an alternative launch solely on Ronin.
Kaidro is about in a post-apocalyptic world the place gamers battle enemies utilizing mechs and magic. Groups of three gamers will compete in player-versus-player and player-versus-environment gameplay throughout varied maps and aims.
Along with the sport, Gadget-Bot is collaborating with author Tim Hedrick, identified for his work on “Avatar: The Final Airbender” and “Voltron: Legendary Defender,” on an animated Kaidro TV sequence. The studio additionally partnered with the musical duo Odesza to create the brand new Kaidro recreation trailer.
Gadget-Bot was co-founded by Peggy Chung and Robert Simons, who’ve substantial movie and online game credit between them together with “Jurassic World” and Name of Responsibility. Final 12 months, they advised Decrypt’s GG why they wished to show the “Kaidro” webcomic right into a crypto recreation.
“After we have been rising this fanbase, we have been creating this large world. After we noticed Web3, we noticed it as this manner of giving possession to that fanbase and letting them be part of it,” Simons mentioned in April 2023. “We noticed issues like NFTs… as a approach for folks to really personal a portion of the ‘Kaidro’ world and perpetually personal it.”
Wednesday’s announcement comes throughout the identical week that Pixels, at the moment the most well-liked recreation on Ronin, launched its long-awaited PIXEL token following play-to-airdrop campaigns. The token generated greater than a billion {dollars} price of buying and selling quantity in lower than a day on Monday, getting into the highest 10 amongst all cryptocurrencies by that metric.
Editor’s word: This text was written with the help of AI. Edited and fact-checked by Andrew Hayward.