A New NFT Racing Game Will Feature 10,000 Playable Characters All Designed by AI

For everyone out there trying to find the next big thing in NFTs, you may be surprised to find it in a game that has absolutely nothing to do with them.

Kartsy Monke is a free-to-play game, currently being tested by holders of an Artsy Monke NFT. The addictive kart racing game will bring awareness to the NFT project by allowing users to pick any of the 10,000 NFTs as their avatar, and the owners of those high-scoring NFT characters will be rewarded just for owning them.

Artsy Monke #9999

Imagine owning Artsy Monke #9999, someone enters that number as their racer because they just want to play the game. That week there’s a competition for 1 ETH (currently $1,328.55) and after the race (that they weren’t even involved in) the owner of #9999 opens their crypto wallet to find 1 ETH, because their NFT was used as someone’s game avatar.

There are rumbling that the final release will include 20 levels, each dedicated to one of the AI themes used in the AI creating them. These themes include Adventure, Beast, Bird, Castle, Circus, City, Cloud, Cyborg, Dragon, Engine, Forest, Knight, Octopus, Palace, Sea, Sky, Snek (snake), Space, Tree, and Viking!

This first AAA game is spearheaded by Nintendo registered developer Grims, and blockchain developer Dan Hovey. Their belief? Success will come from taking one of the world’s most loved racers, Mario Kart, and integrating some of the most promising aspects of Web3.

“The players will never need to connect to a single crypto wallet. They’ll select the character they already own on the menu screen and play. The game will do the rest. The owner address of that character NFT will receive any and all rewards. So even if you have people choose to race an Artsy Monke NFT they don’t own, it doesn’t matter. They still get to enjoy the game, and the real owner gets the valuable prizes the player accumulated. It’s a win-win, and nobody has to connect to anything.” Said Grims.

“We believe that the only NFT projects that will survive this bear market are ones with utility.” Said Dan Hovey, lead blockchain developer and co-founder.

The Artsy Monke art collection hit the headlines this summer for transforming NFT’s biggest stars, The Bored Ape Yacht Club, into machine-learned works of fine art. The team is currently boasting a trading volume on OpenSea approaching 300 Eth in secondary sales alone. The project was one of the first in the world to successfully create and sell out an art collection using state-of-the-art AI technology on Google servers. What many initially believed to be a fan art project of their Ape predecessors has quickly built its own unique trademarked art brand, spawning parent company Monke Business LLC (DE, US) in the process.

The game is currently being developed for Steam (including Steam Deck), Nintendo Switch, and on iOS and Android.

Stay tuned to the team’s Discord Channel to see it for yourself. They’re currently raising money for The Skatepark Project, formerly Tony Hawk Foundation.

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