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The principal agency of VOYA Games achieved a great landmark of establishing a $5 million funding round for full takeover of the crypto-gaming space. It was headed by 1kx and Makers Fund with RockawayX joining in their quest to support the newly promising studio in their development pipeline-enhancement endeavor. This injection of capital is a huge vote of confidence for VOYA’s vision of reinterpreting the play-to-earn paradigm.
This round of funding gained some additional glamour from the metaverse itself: Jeff Zirlin, Sky Mavis co-founder, and Sebastien Borget, who is the COO of The Sandbox, joined the investment. Zirlin also being a partner of 1kx is furthering the bet for the future.
“Imagine a universe where your in-game victories translate across worlds, fueling a vibrant, shared economy,” envisions Oliver Loffler, VOYA Games CEO and founder. “We’re not just building games; we’re forging a token-powered culture where players are the architects of their own connected gaming destiny.”
“Powered by new funding, the studio is prepared to drop CraftWorld on loving gamers and construct a major gaming empire that will stand the test of time.”
Consider a world where, instead of destruction, meteors gave a second chance: the peculiar pairing of humans and dinosaurs. Thus, Craft World is a resource management game where survival is about farming, building, and trading in a prehistoric, post-apocalyptic playground. Craft World is already making noise, though the game is still in its testnet phase on an as-yet-uncertain blockchain. With more than 100,000 downloads on Android and an active registered player base exceeding 240,000, this economy is flourishing with more than 1.1 million testnet trades. Jump right in; the era of dino-meets-human ingenuity starts here!
Memorize the phrase, “Forget walled gardens!” This Web3 gaming ecosystem, under the leadership of the persistently elusive Peter Pan of 1kx, regards control as nothing; instead, it is culture. They are realizing an instance of ownership above everything, with the game not being a means for their sustenance, but rather a shared digital commons.
Dyno Coin serves as the economic backbone for the game. Players use the coin to buy the most coveted NFT items and work on their own projects. It is not a pump-and-dump coin; it was created purely for utility.The coin is not to be spotted on crypto exchanges – it maintains an in-game value!
A look at the pixelated aesthetic of Craft World.
Just prepare yourself for a dip into Craft World! Foreseen for a full launch by the end of the year, this will be an immersive experience set for release on both iOS and Android platforms, as well as being available on the web browser, thus placing the realm for creating before your very eyes.
Loffler in 2023 gave VOYA Games birth from the ideas that made the pixelated dino of 2022’s Angry Dynomites Lab a craze. The story, however, does not really start there. The very roots of VOYA are not shallow, commanded by none other than Loffler, co-founder of the mobile gaming giant Kolibri Games. Perhaps you’ve known them from Idle Miner Tycoon: Gold & Cash, a game that, on its own, has been downloaded over 100 million times just from Android. Having so much commercial success, the very name Ubisoft could not resist buying the company in 2020. Now Loffler is back in the picture, ready to erect the next chapter of gaming with VOYA.
Consoles are so yesterday; the real crypto-gaming battlegrounds occupy your pockets! Mobile titles accounted for 29% of all crypto game launches last year, according to Game7. However, the mobile domination doesn’t end with this 29%, since 20% are powered by Telegram games, so in reality, the handheld platform is the world where the crypto gaming revolution truly began.
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