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Mythical Games

Mythical Games

Mythical Games is a next generation video game development company building video games that use blockchain technology. [undefined] [undefined] [undefined] [1]

Games

Mythical Games is scheduled to release their first game Blankos Block Party, a party MMO featuring a universe of fun loving vinyl toys, in Q1 of 2019. The game will be built on the EOS blockchain allowing players to have ownership over digital assets in the game. [undefined] [undefined]

dGoods

On January 23, 2019, Mythical Games and several other blockchain firms announced dGoods, an open source and free standard for digital goods on the EOS blockchain. The standard will make it easier for developers to build digital goods that can be used across the EOS ecosystem. [undefined]

Team

The founding team at Mythical Games has experience working on major franchises, including Call of Duty , World of Warcraft, Guitar Hero, Marvel Strike Force, Skylanders, and more. [undefined]

John Linden is the CEO of Blankos Block Party. He was most recently the President at Seismic Labs (acquired by Niantic) and he has served as a Studio Head at Activision. [undefined] [1]

Jamie Jackson, another former Studio Head at Activision, joined the company as their CCO.

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Other notable members include Head of Blockchain, Rudy Koch (former Senior Producer at Blizzard Entertainment), and CPO Stephan Cunningham (former Director of Global Product Management at Yahoo!). [1]

Advisors

  • Adam Bain (Former President / COO, Twitter) [1]

  • Adam Struck (Managing General Partner of DDC Fund and Struck Capital)

  • Kent Wakeford (Former COO of Kabam, COO of Gen.G

  • eSports)

  • Michael Cudlitz (Actor, The Walking Dead, The Kids are Alright)

  • Ben Esplin (Patent & IP Attorney at Sheppard Mullin)

  • Nigel Daly, OBE (Former Chairman of BAFTA)

Investors

On November 16, 2018, Mythical Games announced that they had raised a $16 million Series A round. The investment was led by Galaxy Digital’s EOS VC Fund, with significant participation from Javelin Venture Partners as well as DDC, Fenbushi, Noris, and OKCoin joining the round. [undefined]

References

[1]
Citation Linkmythical.gamesMythical Games website
Jan 24, 2019, 9:00 PM
[2]
Citation Linktwitter.comMythical Games on Twitter
Jan 24, 2019, 9:01 PM
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Citation Linktechcrunch.comBlockchain gaming gets a boost with Mythical Games’ $16M Series A
Jan 24, 2019, 9:01 PM
[4]
Citation Linkgamasutra.comMythical Games Unveils Teaser Trailer For New Multi-Format MMO Release, Blankos Block Party
Jan 24, 2019, 9:16 PM
[5]
Citation Linkbreakermag.comMythical Games Just Raised $16 Million and Has ‘Fortnite’-Like Ambitions
Jan 24, 2019, 9:51 PM
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Citation Linkbusinesswire.comMythical Games, EOS Lynx, and Scatter Team up for dGoods Standard to Set a New Benchmark for Virtual Items on the EOS Blockchain
Jan 24, 2019, 9:57 PM
[7]
Citation Linkmedium.comMythical Games Tease EOS Community with Blankos
Jan 24, 2019, 10:07 PM
[8]
Citation Linkgamasutra.comMYTHICAL GAMES RAISES $16 MILLION IN SERIES-A INVESTMENT FROM GALAXY DIGITAL’S EOS VC FUND, JAVELIN VENTURE PARTNERS AND DIVERGENCE DIGITAL CURRENCY, TO SET THE STAGE FOR A NEW ERA OF PLAYER-OWNED GAMES
Jan 24, 2019, 11:03 PM
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Citation Linkwww.youtube.comBlankos Block Party Teaser Trailer
Jan 24, 2019, 11:06 PM