Bored Ape Yacht Club Releases Video Game 'Dookey Dash' Where You Can Pay To Run Through Infinite Poop

As if Bored Ape Yacht Club hasn't already been through enough crap, Yuga Labs is giving its community the chance to pay to run through infinite, literal crap.

That's because the company has released Dookey Dash today, a video game where you, the player, can run forever through a sewer filled with human and monkey waste. According to the official announcement released last week, all you need to play is an ape NFT and a "Sewer Pass" NFT to gain access to this opportunity.

Heads up, Apes: Our video explainer for the latest update on the Sewer Pass and Dookey Dash can be found below and on our official Yuga Labs YouTube channel! Take some time to watch it through once… Or twice. pic.twitter.com/QIeGMw7Oqa

— Bored Ape Yacht Club (@BoredApeYC) January 14, 2023

Dookey Dash is essentially a Temple Run clone, meaning an infinite runner where the object is to see how far one can get in a procedurally generated level while avoiding obstacles.

The reason a player would do this is that, in the game, they're attempting to reclaim a key pooped out by a monkey that will open a treasure chest. Apparently, getting a high score offers players the opportunity to transform their ape NFTs into something rarer and potentially more valuable. There are also ever-contentious microtransactions.

Gm to everyone except Jimmy The Monkey. It’s crazy that whoever gets the key out of his butt on Dookey Dash game will have his/her life changed. Are you ready to dive in anon? pic.twitter.com/aqclDTcV6l

— Rayo (@RayoNFTs) January 18, 2023

How is social media responding to the release of Dookey Dash? Aside from intrigued BAYC holders, the endeavor appears to have elicited more eye-rolls consistent with bizarre NFT projects. Some other NFT organizations also found it childish, posting their reactions online after word of the game spread this week.

A lotta yall still don't get it. Every BAYC/MAYC holder has the opportunity to claim a Sewer Pass during the claiming period, which will stay open through Feb 8. Dookey Dash will still begin 24 hrs.

— Katie Notopoulos (@katienotopoulos) January 18, 2023

Hell yeah bruh, #BAYC making games that came out in 2014 great again, but UPPING the micro transaction idiocy. https://t.co/e9eMh9W6Fh not only is the whole thing stupid, but on top of it, WHY would any actual gamer wanna spend crypto on transactions in a dumb ass game concept?

— BeardedKsum📍#H-Town (@BeardedKsum) January 17, 2023

What BAYC really thinks about their holders:

🗑️Sewer Pass = You are Garbage
💩Dookey Dash = You are getting shit on
🐵Monkey Butthole = You are Being Laughed at

The "genius storytelling" of the premier brand in Web 3.0 has been reduced to poop jokes from kindergarten. pic.twitter.com/g77CjW4iaZ

— HashBastards NFTs 🤑 (@HashBastardsNFT) January 18, 2023

Yuga Labs said that Dookey Dash will run until February 8th, at which time the "sewer closes," and then a week later, something called "The Summoning" begins.