The London-based studio, VIKER Games, is known for its mobile Play-and-Earn titles such as Solitaire and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.
These titles integrate crypto rewards for players in a “friendly manner, ” making it easy for players to start earning Bitcoin with no previous knowledge of blockchain and without a stressful sign-up process.
VIKER successfully closed its latest round of investments in November 2022. Bringing the total raised to $4.1 million. Investments were led by Animoca Brands and saw participation from Initial Capital and IVC. VIKER Games has had more than 500m+ downloads between their games – with more than 500,000 monthly active users and 2 million new wallet connections in 2022.
The founding team includes Dan Beasley and Ben Cusack:
Ben has worked on:
→ Lara Croft
→ Final Fantasy
→ Space Invaders
→ Mini Ninjas
Dan has worked on:
→ who Wants To Be a Millionaire
→ Championship Manager
→ Mr Bean
→ KSI
Animoca Brands backed PolkaPets is described as a digital collectible card game that features Polkadot projects in an interactive and immersive game. $PETS is the utility token for the Pets ecosystem. It can be used for Staking, Governance, and in Play-to-Earn.

Each PolkaPet features an artistically inspired collectible card that is tied to a non-fungible token (NFT), which will allow for digital sales of each item using cryptocurrency. Each of these NFTs will have a unique utility designed by the PolkaPets’ partner that is co-releasing the card. Whoever holds these NFTs will have access to the benefits that this card utility will provide. PolkaPet is designed not only to be attractive to collectors but also to be used as part of a competitive game.
PolkaPets just announced a new partnership with Polygon for their NFT card game – PolygonPets. PolygonPets are unique characters representing Polygon and are inspired by:
– Bengal Tiger
– Indian Leopard
– Clouded Leopard
Each will come in 4 rarities and will be available to the Polygon community via social interactions, gamification, and direct sales.
