Manchester company BlockRocket has announced the launch a new blockchain-powered football digital collectible game. Called Nifty Football[1], the new game lets players collect and play with provably scarce, unique digital trading cards powered by Ethereum. The first digital trading cards are now available for purchase, the company said on Wednesday.
Nifty Football trading cards use the same token standard as other popular blockchain-based games including CryptoKitties. Each card has a unique non-fungible token (NFT) comprised of particular traits and attributes that affect scarcity and gameplay. These include the nationality of a player, their kit and the power of specific attributes which contribute to a card’s ranking within the game. Each trading card is illustrated by Manchester-based artist Stanley Chow.
Initially, Nifty Football will launch with players from 6 nationalities, 30 kits, and 26 colorways, meaning that the first series will comprise tens of thousands of combinations of cards available.
Cards will be sold as blind packs in multiples of three. These packs will be randomly generated with some traits scarcer than others and discounts available for those who purchase in larger amounts.
Nifty Football will initially sell[2] two types of blind packs: regular, which will have four nationalities (England, USA, Italy and Argentina) and elite, which will have the possibility of two more nationalities (Russia and Brazil).
Customers will be able to instantly view[3] their cards on the public Ethereum blockchain, via the company’s decentralized application (dApp), and on popular third party trading sites such as OpenSea.
The first 1,000 cards will be treated as genesis cards and the design including card color will reflect this scarcity.
Nifty Football is being built by BlockRocket. The company consults and builds[4] blockchain solutions including NFT solutions and crypto-collectibles such as
