The team at Zilliqa (ZIL) announced on February 13th that it had completed the official spin-off of its gaming division into an independent entity, Roll1ng Thund3rz (RTz).
The breaking away of Roll1ng Thund3rz is a major milestone for the blockchain project as it ‘pursues a strategy of building and incubating internal businesses that demonstrate innovative use cases of Web3 and blockchain technologies.’
Roll1ng Thund3rz Has Been in Development for the Past Year
The development of Roll1ng Thund3rz has been in the works for the past year and will be led by Zilliqa‘s head of gaming technology, Valentin Cobelea, who has been part of its team since its inception.
Mr Cobelea will now serve as Roll1ng Thund3rz co-founder and CTO while continuing with his role with Zilliqa to develop its technical gaming capabilities.
Zilliqa CEO Matt Dyer marked the milestone through the following statement:
Gaming in the blockchain and Web3 space has been a key area of focus for us at Zilliqa – representing an underserved and largely untapped market brimming with potential…
Today’s announcement is the culmination of a year of hard work by the whole team at Zilliqa, but just the first step on the journey for Roll1ng Thund3rz. We look forward to maintaining a close relationship with the team and contributing to their future success.
Roll1ng Thund3rz co-founder and CTO Valentin Cobelea added:
It is a great honour for me to be leading Roll1ng Thund3rz and be empowered to pursue a vision for Web3 gaming that truly puts gamers first.
Our philosophy from day one has been to ‘build fun games first’ that leverage blockchain technology to provide genuine utility to the players, not create thinly veiled financial products that masquerade as games.
Roll1ng Thund3rz To Release a First-Person Shooter Game on March 21st
In addition, Roll1ng Thund3rz will release its first Web3 game titled Web3War on March 21st. It will be a free-to-play, cross-platform first-person shooter game. It is currently in the beta phase of development, with an estimated 7,000 players as it gears up for the official release. A glimpse of the game can be found below.
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