Meta Residence Tower (re-proposing to correct category)

by 0xedf458ce355c755e1973778b51b917066d4c0bad (Tony)

Should the following $100,000 grant in the Accelerator category be approved?

Abstract

This is a revised proposal of a previously accepted grant. After discussions with GSS, we decided to re-propose it under the correct category.

The Meta Residence Tower (MRT) project seeks to address the hurdles that Decentraland users currently face when trying to access or create customised virtual spaces. The present method, which requires the costly and time-consuming hiring of developers, needs an alternative. MRT offers a simple, no-code solution for the citizens of Decentraland.

Grant size

100,000 USD in DAI

Project duration

5 months

Beneficiary address

0xb12ba0b2dc9d9811a7e3b1f76b3f8318bcb58f20

Email address

digalgfund@pm.me

Description

Through these problem-solving features, the MRT project aims to revolutionize the way Decentraland citizens access, create, and interact with virtual spaces, offering a cost-effective and user-friendly alternative to the current process.

The Meta Residence Tower represents a virtual skyscraper with 10,000 NFT apartments (spaces). Access to an apartment is provided with an NFT key, which the user can purchase on the website or in the building itself.

The building offers four types of layouts: Studio, 1BHK, 2BHK, and Penthouse. There is also the possibility to make it an open space.

Each apartment includes an interior design constructor with more than 700 furniture items (from bedroom to bathroom), along with options for ceilings, floors, and wallpapers. Users can create unique furniture arrangements with this tool.

All project features, including the builder, smart-items, and upgrades, can be found in the last proposal. Of course, we've made a lot of additions since then. Please check out real-time development changelog where you can see about a hundred of pull requests from the last proposal.

The progress since last proposal:

• New upgrades (10 in total) & Smart Items (30 in total) include:
• Open Space: The ability to remove all walls and create an open, flat space.
• A ticketing system allowing users to sell tickets for events they hold, either permanently or one-time.
• A subscription-based video streaming service.
• An event system: Space owners can highlight their events on an internal Event board.
• Teleport from flat to location
• Teleport from flat to flat
• Custom text
• The ability to enter the tower and user's flat WITHOUT WEB3.
• Dozens of UI elements
• Scene animations (doors, elevators, NPCs)
• Numerous CI/CD additions
• Several team and user-made interactive experiences (mini-games and quest-like stories) showcasing the possibilities of creating games with MRT's easy to learn integrated builder.
• We also hold a Mini Game Jam event for game makers
• Scene optimisation for more than 100mb of space.
• Asset optimisation to improve scene loading times and performance.
• Tutorials on using features.
• $5k in sales from the last proposal even during this bear market and despite currently limited userbase.

Social aspect & UGC

While we've already built a substantial feature and technical base, I'd like to highlight the Community part and UGC. The Tower hosts many community events:

• Babydolls live from Penthouse is a weekly event

• DJ-Trax has held numerous parties

• Dcl Brazil Birthday Party

• We were a venue for BeatTrekker events

• And dozens of other residents.

Over 80% of our 800 tweets are user-generated content. Check out our Twitter

All these events were hold without our help only with built-in features.

Roadmap and milestones

In addition to the milestones of the previous proposal:

Decentralisation:

Our main goal is to eventually make the project fully decentralised, allowing users to own their spaces in perpetuity. Steps towards this include:

• Representing smart-items and upgrades as NFTs.
• Ensuring all smart-items & upgrades work without a webserver. We aim to implement two modes, with and without a server.
• Establishing a DAO & Multisig wallet.
• Transferring land to a community wallet (we will transfer 15 parcels of our own land to the Tower DAO).

Upgrading to SDK7:

This will enhance the user experience & possibilities for new features

Flats in Worlds:

This feature will allow users to deploy a space with full functionality to a separate world by NAME. Once implemented, up to 100 worlds with different content could be deployed immediately

Visual improvements:

We plan to beautify the entire Tower, including the main building, indoor areas like lobbies and corridors, flats, furniture, and the UI.

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