A free-to-play game that features digital trading cards as non-fungible tokens (NFT), “Cross the Ages” (CTA), announced a $12 million seed round on Monday. The prominent investors in the round were Polygon and game-focused Crypto Investment firm Animoca Brands and famous Game publisher Ubisoft
As per reports, the funding will be utilised for development programs, talent retention and go-to-market activities. The valuation of the seed round remains ‘undisclosed’.
Other prominent investors include the co-founder and COO of The Sandbox, Sebastian Borget.
In Brief:
- The beta version of the CTA games is expected to be launched in May.
- The game has future-plans which will allow developers, artists and gamers to create new cities and games in its Metaverse.
- CTA will also launch an NFT marketplace and a DeFi protocols suite.
“Cross the Ages” is a mobile-first collectible card game that has a dystopian futuristic setting. It is themed on a series of free-to-read novels. In fact, the first one is already available. Here, players take on each other individually and also in teams for NFTs. The most striking feature of this game is that one can convert digital cards into physical copies.
The game had disclosed its ‘future-plans’ like empowering developers, artists and gamers to create new cities and games in its Metaverse. The other gaming component to watch out for is ‘hunts’ based on clues in the novels.
The beta version of the CTA games is expected to be launched in May. Further in June, CTA will launch its digital and physical cards.
In addition to this, CTA will also launch an NFT marketplace and a DeFi protocols suite with which users can get access to farming, bonding and pooling for optimized trading possibilities in the game’s infrastructure.
CTA co-founder and CEO Sami Chlagou explained, “The CTA DeFi product will be accessible via the main user interface, but it will operate as its own standalone platform”.
He also revealed the firm’s plan to keep the gaming experience separate so that additional commercial aspects of the CTA experiences do not dilute its dynamic metaverse experience.
The team is expected to grow from a staff of 140 members to over 200 by the end of this year and eventually to 250 members by mid-2023, as per Chlagou.
Polygon’s participation in the seed round can be seen off as a timely step in the Crypto gaming scenario with the recent joining of Ryan Wyatt as the CEO of Polygon Studios (the gaming and NFT arm of Polygon), previously the Global Managing Director of YouTube Gaming.
