Sunday News Feature: MechaFightClub releases “the very first glimpse of a fight scene from the cockpit.”
Gaming veteran Rahul Sood is the founder of startup Irreverent Labs developing the blockchain game: MechaFightClub. The Seattle-based company is working on an accessible “play-to-earn” game with artificially intelligent characters living on the blockchain as NFTs.
Rahul Sood is a former Microsoft Ventures executive and is creating a game to tap the power of NFTs. It apparently took less than a week to close their first $5 million round of funding led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z Crypto), and additional investment from The Chainsmokers’ Mantis Fund, Keen Crypto, Unlock Ventures, and AdvancIt Capital.
Irreverent Labs’ first game is MechaFightClub. The characters are mechanical-looking roosters that are reminiscent of cock fighting. MechaFightClub’s chickens are mecha bots with nonfungible tokens (NFTs), which use blockchain to verify the uniqueness of each chicken. The title is a “play-to-earn” game, where players can own the characters they buy and profit from them if they can resell them to someone else once they’re leveled up.
The game is set in a dystopian future dominated by extraterrestrial mecha bots. When a global resistance hacks the 41,000 remaining chicken-shaped mecha bots, these weapons of war are redistributed to the public as “weapons of mass entertainment.”