Gojira Labs Turns Static NFTs Into Playable Game Characters With 'Animatronic NFTs'

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Game studio Gojira Labs has announced Non-Fungible Animatronic Tokens (NFTs) so game companies can take static NFTs and turn them into 2D animated playable game characters. The tech will debut in Gojira's Sprinft racing game using characters from well-known NFT collections.

The New York-based company hopes its aNFTs will disrupt the Web3 gaming market by bringing games to NFTs rather than bringing NFTs to games, Gojira Labs president Mark Soares said in an interview with GamesBeat.

"We've seen a lot of people try to integrate NFTs into games. It just doesn't work. I'm sure you've seen how players have opposed it," Soares said. their arguments make perfect sense, right? They opposed them because they're tired of being monetized. And NFTs seemed like just another way to monetize them. So if I was them, I would be annoyed too. We don't bring NFTs to games. We bring games to NFTs. And that's an important distinction because we're trying to bring utility and entertainment to current or existing NFT collections, which have very broad community bases."

If you disassemble an aNFT character, you get a lot of moving parts.

In my opinion, the game doesn't look amazing right now. But it's a work in progress, and it looks like the idea is innovative and simple to execute. As you can see from the GIF below, it doesn't take much to breathe life into NFT collectibles.

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Developed by Gojira Labs, aNFTs allow you to animate NFT collections like PFPs (profile pictures or "picture for evidence"). aNFTs are a new digital collectible format designed for gaming.

For lack of a better word, it's like creating a moving Frankenstein monster. Arms and legs animate and the character comes to life, with moving eyeballs and more. It's kind of a new concept for NFTs, although others like Mystic Moose are creating 3D avatars out of NFTs. For now, Soares is focusing on 2D animated characters, but he said the team will consider 3D. Others try to create dynamic NFTs, which can change over time.

So far, few others are making the connection, Soares said.

"If you have all the components of a sprite sheet, but it's a character sprite sheet, of all the body components, the game engine can animate them," he said. declared. “And as long as you follow the same format, you can still animate them. It's the simplicity that attracts...