The Big Time Holiday Sale will be the first primary sale on the Open Loot Marketplace where Mystery Boxes will be sold, starting on December 22th at 10 a.m. PST. This will be the first opportunity for players to acquire utility NFTs. The assets will be necessary to build buildings within SPACEs and are essential to Big Time’s economy. Each mystery box will cost $49.99 USD – at the time of reporting.
Co-founded by Decentraland and Zynga alumni, Thor Alexander, Big Time Studios recently raised $21 million in two funding rounds. Investors who participated in the initial $10.3 million round include FBG Capital, North Island Ventures, Digital Currency Group, OKEx Blockdream Ventures, Alameda Research, Circle Financial, and Ashton Kutcher’s Sound Ventures. The second round closed an $11 million fund that will apparently be used to invest in game companies adopting its technology.
Big time is described as a co-op action RPG played from a third-person perspective built on Ethereum. In Big Time, players travel through “space and time to defend history itself and battle against a mysterious force that is tearing apart the walls of history and time”.