Flowstate Games unveils Web3 arcade game Smash Stars: Thunderdome and $2M funding
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Flowstate Games has raised $2 million and announced its first Web3 arcade game, a car combat game dubbed Smash Stars: Thunderdome.
The Helsinki-based company has been working on the cross-platform title for a couple of years, and it adjusted its strategy to incorporate its Web3 strategy, said CEO Edvard Groundstroem, in an interview with GamesBeat.
The idea was to develop an arcade full of free-to-play games that prioritized having fun. Groundstroem showed me a demo of the first game, which is a car brawler game where cars maneuver on a Smash Bros.-style 2D arena to get the drop on their enemies with a car-mounted cannon.
Smash Stars: Thunderdome is now gearing up for an alpha test launch in the first quarter of 2023. The car brawler features fast-paced multiplayer gameplay that accessible to anyone from beginners to experts, but it can require a high level of mastery at the most competitive level, Groundstroem said. It’s a physics-based game where understanding gravity’s effects is important.
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The game also has wide array of fun vehicles; expressive collectibles, skins, emotes, action figures and more. That’s where the NFTs come in. You can purchase vehicles as NFTs, or put attachments on the car to make it more capable. And you will be able to trade these items on a secondary market.
“Our long-term vision is to create a cross-platform arcade, packed with fun, approachable multiplayer games, powered
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