San Francisco, United States, August 6, 2024, Chainwire
Duper invitations gamers to expertise a enjoyable and strategic recreation with excessive stakes.
Curio, a recreation studio and developer, introduced as we speak that it has raised an extra $5.7 million in capital, collectively led by Bain Capital Crypto and SevenX Ventures, with participation from OKX Ventures. The most recent spherical is betting on $2.9 million raised in 2022 led by Bain Capital Crypto.
On the identical time, Curio launched Duper, its flagship technique recreation, alongside the launch of its first season. Duper is a high-stakes social technique recreation that emphasizes collusion, deception and social group play the place 5 gamers interact in 40-minute high-stakes matches stuffed with strategic maneuvers and pure chaotic enjoyable. Duper takes inspiration from real-money skill-based video games like Poker and combines them with the digital medium gamers are acquainted with, within the browser.
“Our purpose for Duper is to turn into the very best digital skill-based betting recreation. Right now's most enduring skill-based betting video games, Poker and Mahjong, had been created many years in the past, lengthy earlier than video video games existed. Duper is the very best of each worlds – combining thrilling mechanics skill-based betting video games along with the immersive medium of video video games,” stated Yijia Chen, CEO and co-founder.
“Whereas most crypto video games try and mimic current video video games, we regarded in a special course to traditional board and card video games which can be easy, endlessly replayable, and meaningfully combine stakes into the sport as a part of the core recreation design. This distinctive kind issue makes the Duper extremely accessible. We wish Duper to turn into a family title, similar to Catan and Poker,” added Kevin Zhang, co-founder.
The Duper group consists of web2 gaming veterans from famend studios comparable to MiHoYo (Genshin Impression) and Lilith (Rise of Kingdoms) together with high web3 expertise, all working collectively to redefine the gaming panorama. Based in 2022, Curio is devoted to constructing disruptive video games and infrastructure that use blockchain expertise to create distinctive new experiences.
“Duper is a seemingly unending fountain of strategic depth. Making alliances and offers is as widespread because the frauds and dangers that compel you. By no means depend on a participant, as a result of in Duper the financial institution is claimed by those that depend on all potentialities,” added PhyzixTeacher, lead contributor at Citadel.
Web3 video games as we speak fail to retain gamers because of an absence of partaking recreation design. With out a sturdy core loop that works synergistically with crypto, these video games are typically both unexciting or tedious replicas of current Web2 video games. At the moment, no recreation efficiently integrates betting and cash with satisfying new gameplay. Many builders concentrate on creating hyper-casual video games or massively multiplayer on-line (MMO) video games, which in the long term are combating the competitors of web2 video games. Duper seems the opposite approach and fills this hole by being the “poker for web3” or the “go-to crypto board recreation” developed from the bottom up with a novel IP.
“We've been working with the Curio group because the very starting and proceed to be impressed by their imaginative and prescient of how next-gen video games can use blockchain parts,” stated Stephan Cohen, Accomplice at Bain Capital Crypto. “Specializing in rising social dynamics and expertise, Curio combines the very best components of traditional video games like Poker and Mahjong with the immersive nature of video video games, and we're excited to work with them to develop the following era of technique video games.
Right now, Duper releases its first season – a month plus event with giant prize swimming pools. At the moment, gamers can declare loot bins that unlock emblems that kind the financial basis of the Duper ecosystem.
To begin taking part in Duper and keep knowledgeable about upcoming bulletins, customers can go to duper.gg.
About Curio
Curio is a number one crypto recreation studio that goals to create game-changing video games that use blockchain expertise to enhance gaming experiences. Curio's first recreation, Treaty, is a 4X technique recreation that enables gamers to create arbitrary social agreements and “contracts” with one another on a series. Curo is backed by Bain Capital Crypto, SevenX Ventures, TCG Crypto, OKX Ventures, Formless Capital, Smrti Labs and Robotic Ventures.
About Duper
Duper is a novel social technique recreation that mixes betting with components of collusion and group play. Launched in Might 2024, Duper provides an immersive and replayable gaming expertise the place gamers can interact in high-stakes strategic battles.
For extra particulars and updates, customers can observe Curio and Duper on Twitter: Curio Twitter and Duper Twitter.
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