Aavegotchi x TheSandbox Expansion and Maintenance Renewal

Author: The GotchiFArmy [GFA] The Gotchi FArmy#6696 Gotchi ID: 8050 Quorum requirement: 20% (9M) Vote duration: 14 days Discourse thread: https://discord.com/channels/732491344970383370/1292835280964948029

The GFA Studio journey created the first Aavegotchi experience in the Sandbox delivered early November 2023. https://x.com/aavegotchi/status/1721528506826498384?s=20

About TheSandbox Team and community, we got tremendous returns. TheSandbox was shocked by the richness of Aavegotchi ecosystem and Lore applied in their voxeled environnement.

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This project scope of work supported by the DAO was established as follow :

1) Creation of a Sandbox Single player experience providing :

• Educational content about Aavegotchi
• Aavegotchi Lore exploration
• Cross universe Aavegotchi Artistic creation

2) Second: One Multiplayer experience

• Bêta test of TheSandbox 0.9 Gamemaker Version Multiplayer features
• To be delivered early 2024

3) Organization of incentives around the project

4) Aavegotchi x The Sandbox AMA

GFA decided to go further by achieving unscheduled/ out of scope milestones:

• Forge an official partnership between Aavegotchi and TheSandbox
• Bridge of gotchis as Official TheSandbox Aavegotchi Aavatar Collection
• Negotiations to gain access to top tier (VIP) partner communication by TheSandbox on social media concerning the release
• Creation of 3 full OG equipment sets (Sandbox Marketplace)
• IRL event Hosted in TheSandbox Office in Paris
• The Enigma Odyssey (300+ contestants)
• RIPPLES OF THE GOTCHIVERSE Graphic Novel (Delivered Q2 2024) : https://x.com/thegotchifarmy/status/1839785178543337753?s=46&t=-tigmrVYfWHNvAwPchKHsw

Entrusted by the Licence IP signed with Aavegotchi, GFA community made the choice to lean over the revenue share repartition even if the initial proposal only mentioned 10% Royalty to Pixelcraft Studio.

Different types of revenues are generated through this project : Direct and indirect returns.

About Direct financial returns, here is the repartition GFA decided to apply :

From returns we had upon our work for the DAO and returns from TheSandbox operation teams the benefits of TheSandbox initiative is felt at very different levels in terms of visibility and returns.

1) Visibility 💎

• hundreds of thousands TheSandbox Players beeing part of Alpha Season's
• Alpha season 3 numbers : 360 000 unique players and over 17 Million visits which is quite massive even considering botting activity.
• Source : https://medium.com/sandbox-game/the-sandbox-alpha-season-3-reached-17m-visits-a-threefold-increase-over-season-2-5f56071455aa

2) Partnership 🤝

• Beeing partners with one of the largest Gaming entity in the CryptoSpace beeing highlighted during dedicated events (Like the release of the single player experience which was a good success in terms of participation)
• Hosted stages in the Sandbox office like in 2023
• Major release as alpha seasons !

3) Contribute 💪

• Expand the offer of GAMES in the Aavegotchi ecosystem in line with the vision of the DAO and PC to propose multiple Aavegotchi experiences that can be hosted on our HomeChain (GEIST:GHSTGOTCHiCHAiN: ).
• Possibilities of bridges between TheSandbox and Gotchichain are discussions and developpement that were handled during our first mission of continuation of TheSandbox Initiative.
• Hosted on Aavegotchi homepage Games : https://dapp.aavegotchi.com/games/sandbox-aavegotchi

4) Interoperability 🔁

• 1:1 Aavatars every Aavegotchi Holder owns in TheSandbox and is capable playing with directly in experiences.
• Aavegotchi Aavatars in TheSandbox were negociated to be part of Official Partner collections going with the Elligibility for every gotchi holders to SAND dedicated pools of rewards during multiple events hosted Source : https://x.com/aavegotchi/status/1786532484064137619?s=46&t=-tigmrVYfWHNvAwPchKHsw

5) Incentives 💰

• For Aavegotchi Holders mostly during the Single player experience release: Over 220 SANDS were distributed to each player which managed to finish the experience (around 130$ by then) beeing an aavegotchi asset holder
• Around 95 SANDS were distributed to each player which managed to finish the experience (around 60$ by then) beeing an aavegotchi Holder

6) Direct and indirect Incomes 🧲

• For the Project and the DAO
• Direct can be measured and is split according to the repartition Shared previously with DAO members and revenue sent to DAO treasury back then.
• Indirect revenu are much more difficult to measure but traffic generated by the single experience even not beeing showcased during a massive event as alpha season is very encouraging from our POV.

So far, around 13500 SAND tokens sales has been generated. DAO Share was delivered in December (7 425 SAND). Multiplayer Experience is empowered to generate more of those.

With the great impact this initiative had, Aavegotchi made the choice to get some lands (1 Estate 3x3) in TheSandbox. It Gives the possibility to Selfpublish Aavegotchi experiences beeing playable without interruption.

Here is the location of Aavegotchi 3x3 Estate owned by Pixelcraft : https://www.sandbox.game/en/map/?lat=82&lng=-158&zoom=4&x=-158&y=82

The GFA Studio was trusted by the DAO to operate the continuation of this project in the [AGIP 106] from Februrary 2024 to July 2024.

One great Milestone and achievement of this period o,n top of the scope of work is the integration of the brand new Aavegotchi Multiplayer Experience in the Alpha Season 4 which began the 8th of October 🔥 https://x.com/thegotchifarmy/status/1842077945705185362?s=46&t=-tigmrVYfWHNvAwPchKHsw

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Proposal of Funding

This proposal of funding is to empower GFA to pursue his operation of Pixelcraft lands and partnership for a limited and renewable 6 months duration with as follows duties :

1. Management of Project and Coordination
2. Partnership Management

• Maintain channel of discussion with Sandbox officers like Sebastien Borget
• Upgrades of Aavegotchi avatar collection in Sandbox
• Aavegotchi Assets collection utility and highlight in game

3. Experience Updates

• Management of Aavegotchi Parcels in Sandbox + Collect & analysis of InGame and Traffic datas with TheSandbox
• Upgrades and modifications of experiences due to Sandbox New GameMaker and GameClient release (Forecasted Bi-Monthly for 0.10 minor versions and transition to 0.11 Major update) and specific events
• Interaction in the Slack Technical support with Sandbox Team and ticketing system

4. Organisation and Strategy for futur events

• InGame contests / Social events
• Maintain & highlight Aavegotchi in next mainstream Sandbox events like ie. alpha seasons / IRL events

5. Managing Alpha Season 4 specific interface with PC (Marketing and Communication)

The overall budget breakdown necessary to achieve those tasks for the 6 month duration of this request is 26 940$ as follows taking under consideration REX from our previous initiative schedule :

We would suggest a monthly payment to be delivered each beginning of month in GHST (Transfer with the value of the day).

Thanks Frens for your attention and your support 🙏