Eyeing expanded the utility of $PIXEL, the largest web3 game by daily active players Pixels announced Pixel Dungeons, a fast-paced dungeon-crawling game.
What’s the significance: Pixel Dungeons offers web3 gamers a new competitive experience while expanding $PIXEL token utility and rewarding real players, not bots.
Key Details: Developed in partnership with Crack and Stack, the closed beta of the game started on December 16, 2024.
- Gameplay: In Pixel Dungeons, players mine for $PIXEL, defeat goblins using TNT, sabotage opponents, and survive to claim loot—all within a two-minute time limit.
- Rewards: The game is also integrated with the Pixels Reputation System for reward mechanisms.
About the Beta Launch: Closed Beta starts with tiered early access based on Reputation Scores.
- 3,000+: Early access on December 16 (4:00 to 8:00 UTC)
- 2,000+: Access to free maps on December 17.
Key Quote:
“Integrating web3 components into gameplay and launching successful tokens is a significant challenge for many studios, but that’s where Pixels excels. Through this publishing deal, the team will access one of the largest paying user bases in Web3, with over 200,000 monthly active spenders while we will be able to expand the Pixels user base and showcase our ability to scale horizontally.”
Luke Barwikowski, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Pixels
The numbers: The Pixels’ ecosystem has over 200,000 monthly active spenders.
- In November, 22 million $PIXEL were distributed as rewards
- 11 million $PIXXEL, or over $2 million, were reinvested
- The revenue for this went up by 64% since August, reaching 6.7 million $PIXEL.
- For the past 30 days, 203,000 unique users spent $PIXEL.
Pixels in PH: Last May, Sky Mavis co-founder Jeffrey “Jihoz” Zirlin told BitPinas that a significant portion of Pixels players are Filipinos, estimated to make up around 30% of the Pixels player base.
What’s next: Pixels plans to scale horizontally with new games and acquisitions, using $PIXEL as the central token across its gaming ecosystem.
Worth reading: Last August, Pixels’ Guild Crop Wars was launched, where guilds compete for an $85,000 prize pool by planting and sabotaging mushrooms to enhance social dynamics and engagement in Pixels.
- Moreover, in July, Pixels expressed its plans to expand its ecosystem with a potential Telegram-based game, leveraging Telegram’s 900 million-user base.
This article is published on BitPinas: Pixels Unveils Closed Beta of Fast-Paced Game Pixel Dungeons
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