Golfcraft game and more projects by Eibriel, Pablo & co.

by 0xcf10cd8b5dc2323b1eb6de6164647756bad4de4d (Eibriel)

Should the following Tier 6: up to $240,000 USD, 6 months vesting (1 month cliff) grant in the Gaming category be approved?

Abstract

Golfcraft is a free-to-earn and build-to-earn game for Decentraland we have been working on in the last year and half.

Our vision is to empower the community to decide the market prices, minting NFTs at not cost and trading them on OpenSea.

We have different player types, some improving their game every day, others building golf courses or organizing tournaments; each of them being able to generate resources for themselves in a passive or active way.

While creating Golfcraft we established OhMyVerse, a company dedicated to create experiences for the metaverse.

With the help of this grant our goal is to continue dedicating 100% of our effort to improve Decentraland creating engaging content.

Grant size

240,000 USD

Beneficiary address

0x0B2Ad22519013B7d119F3c3C26bb65E2A4596379

Description

Some time ago the DCL community trusted us with a Tier 5 grant, after several months of hard work we are currently completing the last milestone: adding the golf course editor!

While building the game, the scene received a continuous traffic of users and we had some experiences to remember:

• A course builder contest where our users had the opportunity to express themselves.
• The launch of a new Building designed by Polygonal Mind hosting a treasure hunt coordinated with different influencers and communities.
• Intense competition events.
• Collaborations with several community wearable designers: Aeyon, Tobik, SparkleStudios, PolygonalMind, Doki, DuckiezKing.
• A 12 week league and other independent events driven by streamers like helpimstreaming, LucasCol, BobysBongZ and their communities.

In the next quarter our plan is to complete the most important pillar for Golfcraft: Crafting mechanics. Allowing players to gather materials, and craft Parts and Courses with them.

Once done we will have the last part of the structure and the base for building a carefully designed game in decentraland to be proud of. The list of NFTs a player will be able to mint/claim in the game are:

• Golf clubs
• Wearables
• Refined materials (from wood, stone, iron and gold)
• Fashion tickets
• Diamonds
• Golf course parts
• Golf courses
• Compicactus
• Voxters

We have been making the game as bot resistant as possible, using an authoritative server for the game logic and physic simulation.

We, as the OhMyVerse company, are committed to work in this three core values to attract users to Decentraland: social, building and investment. Our goal will be focused on those aspects, considering “social” the most important to work on the immediate future.

Our plan is to go beyond a golf/builder game and provide more activities around it to strengthen the social aspect.

Having support from the DAO allows us to make more attractive content, with more accessibility to those users with lack of resources, and to give the community the control over the crafting resources at Golfcraft.

We already have a productive team able to deliver a top product, with a plan to grow thanks to the help from the DAO, and to provide even more good content to make Decentraland more attractive.

Specification

The Golfcraft game is composed of different services and servers:

• Authoritative servers for gameplay and physics reproduction, using Colyseus, placed in the United States and Europe, wanting to provide another in Asia to improve the experience due to websocket connection latency.
• In-house developed bridge service to move resources from game to blockchain and vice versa.
• In-house indexing service to handle variables which would be expensive and slow to manage directly via smart-contract / blockchain.
• A dApp to create tournaments from the web https://golfcraftgame.com .
• A service to manage competition groups.
• An administration panel.
• A service plus addon to export golf course parts (models and physics) from Blender.
• Playfab integration.
• Customized smart contracts for each NFT on the game. The golf courses being an ERC-721 NFTs able to contain ERC-1155 golf course parts.
• Crafting smart-contract to convert refined materials into golf course parts.
• Service to mint wearables, golf clubs and to deliver NFTs from storage addresses.
• TheGraph indexation for different contracts.

Golfcraft is, of course, already available to play here.

Personnel

• Pablo - Development and Management
• Eibriel - Development and Management
• Laura - Concept art and 3D modeling
• Carlos - 3D modeling and coding
• We also plan to hire another senior developer, now delayed due to bureaucracy and legal matters.

Roadmap and milestones

2022 Q3

• Golf Courses NFTs, Parts NFTs and “play & earn” system around it. The last pillar for the game, and then we can start polishing to improve the game experience and user retention.
• Golf courses themes for golf course parts and wearables: Egypt and Space.
• Daily missions to improve player retention.
• Improve onboarding for new players with tutorials and guidance.

2022 Q4

• Social activities (collaborative canvas to draw).
• More golf courses themes: Urban, Jungle, Mountain.
• Seasons with different competitive Tiers.
• New mechanics for editing golf courses: wind, explosives, randomness and interactive parts.

2023 Q1 (rough estimation after this grant vesting contract last release date)

• More effort/resources in marketing to attract also non-decentraland players to the game.
• Start the analysis and design for new content to deploy on the neighbouring lands, like virtual-pet games, social games, etc.

Vote on this proposal on the Decentraland DAO