NFTs
Ubisoft to Implement NFTs in Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles
Ubisoft has announced a new partnership with doublejump.tokyo for its upcoming NFT RPG, Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles, doubling down on implementing NFTs in gamesdespite NFTs are an obvious market failure. This marks a continuation of his NFT initiative ‘Quartz’ created in 2021.
Ubisoft’s new development isn’t too surprising. In November 2023, Ubisoft partnered with Immutable, another NFT-focused gaming company with a lineup of three existing NFT games. Given that these games are all built around NFT ownership, it stands to reason that Ubisoft’s planned games, including Immutable and now Doublejump, will also be centered around NFT ownership.
This leaves Ubisoft’s own NFT initiative, dubbed Quartz when it was announced in December 2021, in an odd place. Ubisoft claimed that Quartz remained active as the underlying infrastructure at the time, but these partnerships would lead one to believe that Ubisoft is instead leaning on Web3 partners for these needs.
At the very least, it looks like Champions Tactics will be developed on doublejump.tokyo’s backend and not Ubisoft’s.
Champions Tactics – Alpha Gameplay Trailer – YouTube
Champions Tactics certainly… feels like a video game. If you’ve played any free-to-play card game on mobile or PC in the last five years, you’ve basically played this one.
The gameplay trailer provided doesn’t give any information about how NFTs are implemented within Champions Tactics, though presumably, Ubisoft’s reported partnership with “double jump. Tokyo” will allow them to properly implement blockchain in its most expensive form in an RPG. Perhaps the announced “thousands of unique heroes” will correspond to NFTs.
In any case, tracing this story back to a doublejump.tokyo post from June 3 reveals a bit more information, as well as some official website, trailer, and Discord links. The most pertinent information is that Champions Tactics will use the “HOME Verse” blockchain, which is run by doublejump.tokyo and certified by Oasys. Doublejump.tokyo has also partnered with companies like Square, Bandai Namco, and Sega for their NFT game projects, none of which have been successful.