Super Snappy aims to make Web3 games on social messaging platforms

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Social game startup Super Snappy is taking Web3 games into cross-platform social messaging platforms, enabling players to join games with friends using just a link.

Super Snappy is a cross-platform HTML5-based messaging app to play games, a games portal, and a persistent social network with 3D avatars, pets, spaces, and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The private launch is set for July 15 for the holders of the First Citizens NFT collection, and the official launch is set for September 15. You can grab your first citizen VIP access at this link.

Super Snappy is producing the first few dozen games for its platform in-house. It is partnering with Voodoo, and getting ready to targeted three billion mobile game players. Super Snappy is going this route of making its own platform because it has been kicked off of too many platforms in the past.

Yohami Zerpa, CEO of Super Snappy, remembers the time when the “social gaming dinosaurs” ran the world. These included Club Penguin, Habbo Hotel, and Facebook Canvas (remember Farmville?). There were games on Skype — gaming on messenger apps and social networks was the hype, and the world was increasingly being connected through games.

Then the app stores surged, the Flash Player died and Facebook pulled the plug on their own Canvas platform. Social gaming didn’t die. Instead, it became fragmented, with each social game forced to develop its own social graph and ecosystem, Zerpa said.

Then, in the natural continuous process of birth and death of games, all those social connections, all those friendships, were lost. Super Snappy is a platform that wants to bring that back.

“For