Create personalized AI NPCs to expand Decentland's metaverse ecosystem

by 0x80c0ac9c0ea90b6d464854e478331320e4a3bb32 (banyu)

Should the following $85,000 grant in the In-World Content category be approved?

Abstract

We will add AI NPCs to Decentraland to bring a more interesting experience to the game and provide more diverse elements to the metaverse. They can simulate human behavior and dialogue, generate personalized action plans and conversations, and each NPC is unique and assigned connections. We plan to enable these AI NPCs to affect each other's relationship values in the final stage, and players can observe or influence the NPCs' social relationships.

Grant size

85,000 USD

Project duration

6 months

Beneficiary address

0x0FFf31581A95F2926ae656db886229c9B053ee2E

Email address

blockerchain519@gmail.com

Description

With the outbreak of AIGC, our team, as early participants in Decentraland, realized that AI + Decentraland would be very cool. This year, we began to explore how to build intelligent Decentraland elements. Originally, we planned to create browser components embedded in the 3D model of Decentraland, allowing players to search for metaverse strategies without having to leave the current immersive scene. However, during the development process, we found that AI NPCs would be more likely to expand the ecosystem of Decentraland.

Once these NPCs have their own story background and form their own personalities, and even generate relationships between these intelligent NPCs, the scene will be very interesting. We hope that this IDear can be realized in Decentraland.

As Decentraland serves as a carrier for the metaverse, AI NPCs can play various roles in Decentraland and can respond to different situations and player behaviors in different ways, generating personalized dialogues and action plans.

For example:

• In a tavern, a chatty bartender can be found. When chatting with him, he will constantly talk about what he has done today.
• In a painting studio, an artist who only knows how to draw circles may become panicked when asked to draw squares. You need to calm the artist down through suitable conversations.

This intelligent game element can bring more interesting experiences to players, thus attracting more users.

At the same time, in order to achieve sustainable application and integrate with other landowners' fields, we have designed a reasonable development route with phases. Each adorable AI NPC born is actually like Decentraland welcoming a new resident, they have their own birthdate and sign, they have their own favorite food and NPCs, as well as dislikes. The only similarity is that these adorable NPCs always stand firmly on their posts and hope to gain the player's love after completing their work.

In our plans, AI NPCs can not only be applied in the above-mentioned scenarios, but we will also operate these AI NPCs.

For example:

• Establish dedicated social media accounts to create a popular internet personality IP, a AI NPC with human fans is also a very interesting scenario.
• And by organizing some activities around these AI NPCs in Decentraland, it can lengthen the brand effect of Decentraland.

Our work in addition to implementing development, we also have specific marketing plans, after all, marketing is a long-term process. In order to attract attention, we will seek cooperation with KOL and media in the early stage, and let them promote and advertise Decentraland. In the middle stage, it can be adjusted according to the situation, such as promoting through various channels such as social media, email, advertising. In the late stage, it can be more focused on user experience and interaction, by enhancing user loyalty through interactive experiences with AI NPCs.

Roadmap and milestones

Our roadmap is divided into four phases, each with different goals, and our roadmap also contains achievable commercial use cases with a planned period of six months.

• The first stage belongs to experimental and testing on a single field.
  • The experimental scene of the first field will be designed.
  • AI NPCs will be tested.
  • Marketing will open a media platform.
• The second stage is a cooperation test with the goal of allowing AI NPCs to appear on other fields and expand the application map.
  • More scenes will be created to welcome more Decentraland residents, and NPCs will be arranged in appropriate scenes.
  • More land owners will be contacted to customize AI residents for them.
  • Marketing will collaborate with KOLs, artists, and media.
• The third stage will open full-scale operations after completing the first two testing stages, and more players can participate in it.
  • Activities will be held in Decentraland.
  • The participation of media will be another measurable indicator in this stage.
• The fourth stage will add more logic to AI NPCs and enhance their social abilities.
  • Attempting to have AI residents form their own relationship network actively in Decentraland, without the need for our team to set initial values for these AI residents.
  • A plan is in place to allow users to observe the social status of these AI residents.

This proposal is summarized due to technical limitations. To view it complete and vote on it, visit the DCL DAO Governance dApp