The creators of cat-mech game Nyan Heroes want to save real cats

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Cats are having their game renaissance. While felines have been part of the meduim for years, last year’s Stray proved they can carry games as heroes. Now a developer called Rude Robots wants to bring cat power to the web3 space with a free-to-play third-person shooter called Nyan Heroes. In addition to wanting to provide an appealing game that will change the perception of blockchain gaming, Rude Robots also wants to use Nyan Heroes to help save real cats.

GamesBeat spoke with Rude Robots CEO Max Fu about Nyan Heroes, its blockchain base and how it’ll benefit kitties. Fu co-founded Singapore-based studio Rude Robots in 2021 with YouTuber Wendy “Wengie” Huang. The developers plan to launch the game sometime early this year on PCs, expanding onto other devices later.

Nyan Heroes is a third-person shooter battle royale built on the Solana blockchain. The player characters are bipedal cats who pilot mech suits at least ten times their size. While describing the heroes to GamesBeat, Fu compared them to the palicoes from Monster Hunter. There are multiple different kinds of heroes to play, including bulky Bulwark tanks, Deathmark assassins and Megami supports. Fu also drew comparisons to mecha-based anime, such as Evangelion.

In addition to gameplay, Nyan Heroes also offers in-game token-based economics, with an incorporated wallet. Rude Robots held its first NFT sale of “Genesis Guardian” mechs late last year. It’s implementing a series of balances into its economy to keep it stable in crypto winters. According to Rude Robots, it plans to make the cryptocurrency features more unobtrusive, so that gamers who just want to play