Like the Pokémon universe, there’s a certain urgency to catching all of what deadmau5 and Richie Hawtin‘s ELYNXIR has to offer. The first opportunity to experience the DJs’ upcoming NFT game arrives this week with the advent of a special augmented reality scavenger hunt from their music metaverse company, PIXELYNX. Taking place in Miami Beach, the hunt for 20 fractionalized pieces of an NFT is set to unfold alongside the start of the annual Art Basel event, which kicks off the first week of December. The gameplay experience has been described as “Rock Band meets Pokémon Go” by PIXELYNX’s co-founder, Inder Phull. The company’s strategy is to present the game in such a way that it bridges the gap between the real world and the digital realm. Scroll t...
Like the Pokémon universe, there’s a certain urgency to catching all of what deadmau5 and Richie Hawtin‘s ELYNXIR has to offer. The first opportunity to experience the DJs’ upcoming NFT game arrives this week with the advent of a special augmented reality scavenger hunt from their music metaverse company, PIXELYNX. Taking place in Miami Beach, the hunt for 20 fractionalized pieces of an NFT is set to unfold alongside the start of the annual Art Basel event, which kicks off the first week of December. The gameplay experience has been described as “Rock Band meets Pokémon Go” by PIXELYNX’s co-founder, Inder Phull. The company’s strategy is to present the game in such a way that it bridges the gap between the real world and the digital realm. Scroll t...
Beatport has announced the headlining speaker lineup for the company’s inaugural ReConnect summit, set to take place in New York on September 21st and 22nd. Dance music stalwarts and PIXELYNX founders deadmau5 and Richie Hawtin are slated to speak about their experience in the Web3 space and provide insights on metaverse music experiences in the years to come. Representatives from Meta, Red Light Management, Disruptor Records, the Association for Electronic Music and more will lead discussions on timely topics like diversity and inclusion, wellness and branding among others. Beatport’s ReConnect summit builds upon Beatport’s philanthropic initiative that launched shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic wrecked havoc on the music industry. It has since raised more than $...
Richie Hawtin and deadmau5‘s metaverse gaming venture PIXELYNX is on the brink of bringing its first product offering to market. The first look at ELYNXIR still leaves much to be discovered, but the clip marks a promising sign that the company will deliver an experience that intersects the world of music, blockchain, and gaming in a way like never before. The free-roaming mobile game will embrace the value propositions of a Web3 world and seek to build experiences that close the gap between artist and fan. PIXELYNX has wasted no time lining up a series of high-profile partnerships to assist in executing the organization’s mission. Scroll to Continue Recommended Articles The gameplay style is a product of the San Francisco-based game developer, Ni...
Beatport and PIXELYNX’s new partnership aims to prove that no NFTs are the same. Their new collaboration embraces blockchain technology to create “Synth Heads,” a series of 3,030 unique NFTs. Rising, an international creative studio, led the design and executed the generative script for the collection. Beatport and PIXELYNX’s new NFT series pays homage to the history of the synthesizer, which goes back to 1965, when the first analog synth was developed. The collectibles use a process called generative art, a system that algorithmically creates new ideas, forms, shapes, colors, or patterns, and ensures that each piece of art is completely unique. Some generated NFTs will have more rare qualities than others. The Synth Heads have names: BØB, Lynn, Pauli...