Mythical Games will bring Blankos Block Party to Web3 mobile players
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Mythical Games is revising its Web3 PC game Blankos Block Party and taking the title to mobile gamers.
The move comes after the company saw good success with its NFL Rivals game on iOS and Android, with nearly 2.5 million downloads to date. The company launched NFL Rivals back in August with timing tied to the NFL season kickoff. It was the first Web3 game to be featured on the app stores.
But NFL Rivals was a combination of both Web2 and Web3 features, said John Linden, CEO of Mythical Games, in an interview with GamesBeat. The game enabled players to pay for things inside the app stores without having to use cryptocurrency or even Mythicals own tokens. That stopped it from being blocked.
While Mythical Games had to play by the rules set down by Google Play and the Apple App Store, it succeeded in getting onto the most populous stores for gamers. Google Play explicitly laid down rules that stopped any Web3 games from being linked to gambling, and it had other restrictions too. Apple, meanwhile, appears to have approved the game on an experimental basis. And Apple featured the NFL Rivals title as “game of the day,” which Linden said was “great for us.”
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