Pocketful of Quarters becomes Unity partner to let devs transfer virtual currency between different games

Pocketful of Quarters (POQ) has grow to be an official Unity associate. This won’t solely permit builders to implement blockchain know-how for his or her initiatives, but in addition to switch in-game tokens between a number of titles.

POQ is now formally licensed as a Unity Verified Resolution Companion. Due to the partnership, recreation builders will be capable to use the corporate’s SDK for blockchain integration.

“We bear in mind the times when one token might play all of the machines within the arcade,” COO Tim Tello mentioned (by way of GamesBeat). “Connecting video games with the identical token is the problem. What you are able to do now’s use the blockchain to attach your recreation to 100 totally different video games. As you utilize the tokens, they go away. However once you pop into one other recreation, they’re immediately there. And that’s essential to the use case.”

How does it work?

• Based in 2018 by then 12-year-old George Weiksner and his father Michael, POQ is constructed across the concept of taking digital forex throughout a number of video games.
• The corporate has its personal token titled Quarters, which permits gamers to maneuver it from one recreation to a different.
• The factor is that POQ doesn’t use NFTs. Quarters doesn’t have a monetary worth; it’s only a Ethereum-based token with the identical set value.
• “[Quarters] has no par worth exterior of its financial system. It’s not a speculative token,” Tello famous.
• In 2019, the US Securities and Change Fee allowed the corporate to legally promote the Quarters tokens with out registering them as securities.
• POQ additionally doesn’t gather any private info, saving solely the acquisition and gross sales historical past.
• With the corporate’s SDK, builders will be capable to combine Quarters into their titles. The token can both substitute their present in-game forex or grow to be an addition to it.
• So the concept is to supply gamers with a digital forex that may’t be offered exterior the gaming ecosystem. On the identical time, it may be utilized in, say, a number of Name of Obligation video games, or in several titles from totally different builders that help Quarters.