21/06/2021 Big Time Studios to Push ‘Play-to-Earn’ Through Binance NFT Marketplace

“Every gaming company that I speak with now is researching NFTs,” said Big Time CEO Ari Meilich.
Big Time Studios, a company focused on bringing crypto-enabled video gaming to mainstream audiences, plans to sell non-fungible tokens (NFTs) through the soon-to-launch Binance NFT Marketplace.

Big Time, recently launched by a team that includes the founder of Ethereum-based metaverse Decentraland, will offer animated NFTs and early access VIP passes to its games, the companies said Wednesday. The sale on the Binance NFT Marketplace will take place on July 15.

Binance’s entry into the NFT sector is expected to bring broader adoption, thanks to a simple interface combined with the largest exchange’s enormous user base.


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“The launch of Big Time Studios’ NFT drops on Binance NFT is another step towards our goal of becoming the ultimate destination for AAA digital collectibles,” Helen Hai, head of Binance NFT, said in a statement.
The link to Binance NFT Marketplace should also help drive the new play-to-earn trend, whereby users can “grind” revenue out of games in the form of NFTs and crypto tokens, according to Big Time CEO Ari Meilich. (A good example is Axie Infinity, where about 100,000 daily users breed, battle and trade digital pets called Axies.)
“A lot of people are actually making a living right now from playing games, particularly people in Third-World countries that got affected by COVID,” Meilich said in an interview. “In our case, players go into dungeons and kill monsters that are going to drop collectible wearables that are backed by NFTs. So by playing or grinding, as it’s called, you can earn items that are worth real money.”

The NFT market exploded earlier this year with some tokenized artworks commanding high prices, such as the Beeple NFT artwork sold at auction for $69 million. The market for blockchain-based title deeds seems to have cooled somewhat, but metaverse and in-game NFTs are expected to remain strong.

Meilich agrees that what happened with NFTs in recent months is not sustainable. But the aggregate volume is pretty much the same, he said, noting that instead of a few big-ticket sales, many more people and projects are entering the market.

“I think it was a tipping point,” Meilich said. “Every gaming company that I speak with now is researching NFTs. They will generally have an NFT team and even if it’s at the R&D stage, they are all figuring out how this is going to disrupt their industry.”

Arts

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Interesting NFTs
Pixel Story
This happy-go-lucky tribe made of lovable pixel Kitties have so much to talk about. While their language skills are simplistic, each Kitty still manages to express themselves with a variety of colorful emoticons and poses. From communicating their basic emotions, to discussing the economic implications of rising Ethereum gas prices, Pixel Tribe Kitties will keep each other entertained for hours. As their communications evolve and become more sophisticated, the inhabitants will come to realize that certain combinations of emotes will unlock secrets within their world. Try it out for yourself, if you're lucky enough to adopt a Kitty. Use the coordinate guide at: https://share.getcloudapp.com/7KumW6Lk to position your kitty Layer.
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Alex in Wonderland
A figure, Alex, stands mostly naked in the midst of a physical and psychological maelstrom. He is clad only in nostalgic 80’s era socks, on a tenuous island between active waters and a variety of shark denizens. Sharks on the right side of the image are all beached, including a shark with a quartz crystal snout, an orange shark wrapped in a life buoy, and a shark further in the distance wearing an 80’s style shirt with the number “88”. On the left side is the largest shark, wearing bright glossy red lipstick and brandishing prominent teeth with braces. She is cordoned off from the figure by a roped float divider, and within her thought bubble is a warning symbol. Behind the figure, hovering in the air, are Grey aliens emerging from the distance, out of a series of elliptical UFO shaped interdimensional membranes. The Greys take on the visual form of spermazoa ostensibly impregnating the interdimensional thresholds. As is typical, these Greys inhabit a zone just behind the unconscious topology of Alex’s dissociative mind. Though Alex’s bottom half is representative, his top half mutates into a psychological cornucopia. In a manner akin to “Auto-Erotic Sphinx”, a predecessor work, the figure has self suctioned—an act of sensual infatuation, enjoyment, and exploration. Upward exists the figure’s primary conscious eye, adorned with a revolutionary beret emblazoned with a Bitcoin badge. The figure’s summit features the nose of a fighter jet facing off against video game Bullet Bills, one of whom is marked by a communist North Korean star. A cropped section of a UFO observes the contest. Alex’s mind branches both left and right. To the left is more singular embodied consciousness, manifesting two eyes and a Ganesh trunk grasping crayons. The right branch dissociates upward diagonally, emerging into an array of eyes, faces, teeth, tail, a unicorn horn, and much more—all of which participate in expressing his unconscious being; a democracy of psychic factions representing thought impressions and associations. All illumination and darkness– fernal, infernal, high consciousness and corporeal underbelly–reside in this realm. In the distance are relatively languid, light clouds, and against the firmament hovers a colossal distant eye peering over the scene and far beyond. This painting possesses underlying genetic traits with previous works such as “Auto-Erotic Sphinx with Toys”, “Dionysus”, and “Fuku-Shiva”. The work serves also as a nod to an earlier period of art inspiration during late teens and early twenties— born out of the nakedness, vulnerability, curiosity, and wonder inherent to coming of age and all subsequent psychedelic revelation.
Stay Free (Edward Snowden, 2021)
This unique, signed work combines the entirety of a landmark court decision ruling the National Security Agency's mass surveillance violated the law, with the iconic portrait of the whistleblower by Platon (used with permission). It is the only known NFT produced by Snowden. Produced using open source software. This auction is on behalf of Freedom of the Press Foundation. https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/appeals-court-strikes-down-nsa-phone-spying-program-aclu-lawsuit