“There are 10,000


CryptoPunks. They’re a mixture of males and females – and even some aliens – wearing


different costumes and outfits. It’s pixelated art and no two are alike. They were the original NFT on the Ethereum


blockchain, and today they’re still probably the most famous NFTs in the world.”


Where do CryptoPunks fit in? What are they and how do they work?


Tere are 10,000 CryptoPunks. Tey’re a mixture of males and females – and even some aliens – wearing different costumes and outfits. It’s pixelated art and no two are alike. Tey were the original NFT on the Ethereum blockchain, and today they’re still probably the most famous NFTs in the world.


Tey’ve skyrocketed in value and the currently cheapest price for a CryptoPunk is around US$400,000 - the most expensive CryptoPunks have sold for $10m. We love the pixelated, old- school style of them, and we ended up building the entire game around this.


What were the most interesting elements from a design perspective utilising the CryptoPunks?


Well, the CryptoPunks are the central element of the game. Tere’s four of them in the game, and the way players will have big wins is almost entirely through the CryptoPunks. In the bonus


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there’s a mechanic where you collect CryptoPunks, just as you would in the real world – the more you collect them, the bigger the multipliers get and the more money you can make.


So, we made them the central element of the game in terms of how you make money, but then we went even further.


We wrapped the entire style of the game around these CryptoPunks by going with a pixelated video game style for the entire game – which players are just raving about.


What challenges did you face in pioneering a 'first-of-its-kind’ game?


Te first challenge was simply around publishing rights and trying to understand if we could feature the CryptoPunks by displaying them inside of a slot. Tis is a new area of the law, so when we purchased them, we weren’t sure what rights we had. But it turns out CryptoPunks are unique and that they can be publicly displayed with ownership.


Once that hurdle was crossed the rest of the challenges were around thinking deeply about: what is a CryptoPunk, what is an NFT, and what do they represent to players? A CryptoPunk is something you collect; it is something you hope goes up in value. It is fun, it is edgy. And it’s a little bit underground. It’s also a sort of meme, and so we wanted to really lean into this. Te supporting symbols around the CryptoPunks that we used in the slot machine are all very meme driven.


Why you think other slot developers haven't gone down this route before?


It’s a great question that you always ask when something is a first. And I suspect there are many other slot makers who are disappointed when they saw that we had launched this, because they were probably thinking about it and talking about it – but not quite acting on it. It’s just too juicy of an idea to think that we were the only ones that thought of it, but we were the first ones to execute on it.


One other reason someone might not have


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