Takashi Murakami's "Little Flower" set to be released in February 2022, hinting at a mobile game featuring the popular 90s toy "Tamagotchi"?

"murakami.flower2022," announced by Takashi Murakami in mid-January, will be released in February on the 30th.

After being teased by Takashi Murakami in mid-January, the "murakami.flower2022" project was announced to be launched in February on the 30th.

Over the past few days, Murakami has been posting various pixelated flower patterns on his Twitter account:

In addition to the typical pixel digital images, he also posted a prototype of a physical device on the Instagram page of "murakami.flower2022" on the 14th, which was a Tamagotchi, a popular electronic pet device in the 90s たまごっち.

He stated: "I developed this with pixel art because I wanted to create a mobile game that feels like an electronic pet device. The reason I was able to start this project was due to meeting game producer Hashimoto. When we were developing a nostalgic game with low-resolution black and white graphics, he told me about CryptoPunks. At the same time, Beeple had just completed his $69 million high-priced auction."

Murakami continued: "After researching several times, we decided that perhaps the images of this electronic pet project could also be made into NFTs, and that's where the origin of this project lies. After that, we tried several versions of the game, and Hashimoto also began to focus on game development, but we still hope to successfully launch the game by the end of this year."

From the current information available, it appears that Murakami's NFT project set to launch in February will also be connected to his mobile game in the future.