BabyShark Bubblefong Friends is a mobile game centered around characters like Baby Shark from the popular YouTube video. Players engage in real-time bubble-shooting competitions with cute characters, enjoying simple controls for easy playability. Participants can earn rewards based on their performance rankings within the game. ^[1]

Overview

BubbleFong Friends blends the casual bubble-shooter and battle royale game styles with characters and stories from The Pinkfong Company's ‘Pinkfong Wonderstar’ and ‘Pinkfong Baby Shark.’ Players can earn and play with various characters from these franchises throughout the game. In the bubble-shooter gameplay, players aim to match three or more bubbles of the same color to clear the board, combining simplicity with addictive fun. The strategic use of combos, skills, and items adds depth to the gameplay, creating dynamic challenges against opponents. The game also features a 101-player simultaneous battle royale mode, offering players a competitive experience akin to live esports tournaments. ^[2][3]

Technology

The game and services are operated on three servers: a blockchain server, a middleware server, and a game server. The blockchain server manages the ecosystem's economic activities. The middleware server is a bridge for transferring NFT and in-game data between the blockchain and game servers. When a player transfers an NFT asset to the game server, the middleware server matches, verifies, and encrypts the data and player's ID before sending it to the game server for use as in-game assets. Similarly, when selling an in-game asset, the middleware server processes the data transfer from the game server to the blockchain server, ensuring data is matched, verified, and secured. ^[12]

Characters

Main Characters

BubbleFong Friends features Main Characters from The Pinkfong Company's popular animation series ‘Pinkfong Wonderstar,’ such as Pinkfong, Jeni, Rachel, Hogi, Poki, Myan, Billi, and Coco. Each character is imbued with different traits and personalities portrayed in the game. For instance, Billi, known as the mischievous character of Wonder Village, possesses a skill that generates a black fog to disrupt opponents' visibility. As Billi advances in level, the duration of the black fog increases accordingly. ^[4]

Partner Characters

BubbleFong Friends introduces Partner Characters inspired by the beloved 'Baby Shark' friends from the viral 'Baby Shark Dance' video. Currently, there are 24 playable Baby Shark Partner Characters in the game. These partners are companions to the Wonderstar characters, providing additional passive effects during gameplay. Partner Characters can enhance players' abilities or disrupt opponents depending on their skills. The strength of these effects increases with the Partner's rank. ^[5]

Each Partner Character in BubbleFong Friends offers unique passive features that can be randomly assigned and adjusted through ability resets. As a Partner's grade improves, it accesses more diverse and powerful features. Additionally, players can equip up to three different Partner Characters simultaneously. By combining specific Partner combinations, set bonuses are activated, enhancing their abilities within the game. ^[5]

Game Modes

101 Battle Royale

In BubbleFong Friends, the 101 Battle Royale mode merges the classic bubble-shooter gameplay with the popular Battle Royale format, similar to successful games like Tetris 99 and Pac-Man 99. This mode enables up to 101 players to compete simultaneously. Players gain advantages in 101 Battle Royale by enhancing their Main and Partner Characters. This progression allows for dynamic gameplay experiences, where players can engage in real-time competition against opponents worldwide. In PvP game mode, players earned BBF tokens and could earn additional trophies. These trophies could be exchanged for in-game goods and enhancement items. ^[6][13]

Mini-Games

BubbleFong Friends offers a variety of mini-games designed for quick, casual enjoyment through 1:1 matches. Players can engage in these mini-games through practice mode or using tickets to earn rewards: ^[7]

• In the Matching Game, players flip over pairs to match them in a 6 x 3 grid. It's a challenge to match pairs alongside BubbleFong colleagues.
• ConnectFour involves strategically placing chips in a 7 x 6 grid to connect four in a row before the opponent does, with gravity adding an extra layer of challenge.
• Othello is a psychological battle in which players strategically flip each other's chips in a 6 x 6 grid to gain the majority and win the game. It offers intense gameplay that requires strategic thinking to outwit the opponent.

Bubblefong (BBF)

In Bubblefong Friends, Bubblefong (BBF) plays a crucial role within the game ecosystem, serving as a governance token and a tradable asset. As a governance token, BBF empowers holders to participate in decision-making processes concerning the game's development and updates, fostering community engagement and ownership. ^[8]

Beyond governance, Bubblefong can be traded on various cryptocurrency exchanges, enhancing liquidity and accessibility for gamers and investors. This trading capability facilitates BBF acquisition for in-game use and lets holders speculate on its market value in the broader cryptocurrency sphere. ^[8]

Players could use BBF tokens to purchase NFT characters or rubies in the NFT marketplace. Owning an NFT character increased a player's winning rate in 101 Battle Royale. Rubies could also be obtained through mini-games, mission content, and drawing lots. Players needed rubies to bet and obtain diamonds in 101 Battle Royale, though participation without earning diamonds was also possible. Diamonds earned could be sold on the NFT marketplace for BBF tokens. ^[8][13]

Tokenomics

BBF has a total supply of 700,000,000 tokens and had the following allocation: ^[9]

• Team: 24.3%
• Play-to-Earn: 21.4%
• Staking Rewards: 17.1%
• Private Sales: 14.3%
• Advisors: 10%
• Operation Fund: 7.1%
• Ecosystem Fund: 5.7%

Partnerships

PROM

On May 26th, 2024, Bubblefong partnered with PROM, a modular zkEVM Layer 2 network that interconnected EVM and non-EVM realms. PROM is focused on constructing a Zk Layer 2 solution capable of submitting transaction proofs across multiple networks atop the selected settlement chain. ^[10]

IQ.Wiki

On June 24th, 2024, Bubblefong Friends announced a new partnership with IQ.Wiki. This collaboration aims to enhance the visibility and dissemination of information about Bubblefong through the IQ.Wiki and IQ GPT platforms. ^[11]