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Community-centered gaming startup Moku has hired Cathleen Osgood as his Chief Business Officer to cement the firm as a prominent player in Crypto-Interested AI Gaming.
Osgood was the first Ronin Builder Sky Mavis’s director of business development for three years, and before the capital development of the capital.
Osgood told me in an interview that it would focus on bringing new partnerships, market-makers and institutions to the A16Z Speedron-Samvaded Studio.
“Web3 Gaming is broken. Almost everyone is trying the same model,” OSGOOD wrote Announced his new role in a post. “It’s not more sports. It is a different way to earn from sports.”
In September, Moku picked up $ 5.35 million In funding from Sky Mavis, A16Z Games Speedron, Framework Ventures, 32-bit ventures, and more than a dozen fairy investors, plus others.
Moku began in 2021 as a launchpad and engagement platform to organize the Ronin community around various projects, but now has its own Ronin-based NFT collection 8,888 cutecy characters and a major game, Grand Erina. Mokis looks like bear-rakeoon hybrids, and wear a series of various accessories and organizations. Floor price The NFT for Moki origin is about 219 ron, which is approximately $ 96.
“It is designed for AI,” Osgood told me about the upcoming game. “I think web 3 has a lot of problems, and people are watching, are there a lot of bots, and not a sticky audience.”
“Moku is beating it on its head and being like this, we are going to make a game for AI, and we are going to make this entire AI system,” he said.
Essentially, Grand Arena players can bring selected NFTs that they are their bosses in the card and can fight each other in a hand off manner where human players are primarily an audience. NFT owners can also earn royalty on their property when they use in-games.
NFTs that can connect with Grand Arena will be able to fight others’ NFT characters, and will change depending on what happens in the personalities of their characters.
Something quick Rendering And Art The environment of the game suggests that it may have a vertical battler element in the vein of maplestory or super smash Brothers.
“I think it can cross and become like an AI-origin competitive layer for all of gaming,” Osgood said. “Even the previous gaming, it is mostly inactive NFT, property, or IP that can come in and plug itself.”
Grand Arena has an inactive, casual battler game symptoms that can appeal to those who have different NFTs, but who do not have time to grind the level in different sports.
The Moku team first planned to focus on Moki Mehme with their own NFT within the Grand Arena, placing to plug the third party collection in the future.
“This is actually creating a new niche within the crypto,” said Osgood.
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