8MetaBalls - P2E Billiard Game

by 0xb12ba0b2dc9d9811a7e3b1f76b3f8318bcb58f20

Should the following Tier 5: up to $120,000 USD, 6 months vesting (1 month cliff) grant in the Gaming category be approved?

Abstract

8MetaBalls - is a P2E Billiard Game located at 117, -27 on 3*5 Estate. Users can play arcade or PVC mode, earn in-game currency like balls, chips and change it for NFTs. Ball Cards & Wearables grants access to different game mechanics. Cues NFT have an in-game utility like hit power, angle of fine-tuning, etc.

Links

• 8MetaBalls DCL Location
• Twitter
• Discord
• OpenSea

Grant size

120,000 USD

Beneficiary address

0xb12Ba0B2dc9D9811A7E3B1F76B3f8318BcB58f20

Description

What have been done:

• Four months of development with two months of public beta-test included
• The fully worked game with user experience.
• A few types of the game. Arcade mode with >1000 levels & PVC mode
• In-Game economic. A few types of reward/redeem
• In-Game cue shop, cards-shop. Three types of payments(by in-game currency, in MANA by metatransaction, OpenSea)
• In-Game NFTs. Collectables & with utilities (ball cards, cues, etc)
• Wearables with Utility
• Users retention mechanics(daily rewards, leader of the day, leaderboards, etc)

Achievements since the beta test was started:

• More than 10 000 users visit the game
• More than 2000 WAU
• More than 100 000 games played
• More than 1000 NFT holders
• More than $1500 in-game income over the beta test period
• Always staying at TOP Places in DCL for the last two months.

Technical stuff

• Colyseus Framework + MongoDB for backend
• A few servers for serve game mechanics, economic logic, distributing in-game NFTs (gasless for users).
• Advanced logging system on graylog + errors handling via Sentry for backend and frontend
• Analytics dashboard for game-metrics, such as WAU, DAU, registered users, game played, win/loss ratio, game types slices, currency and chips reward/redeems, etc.
• ERC 1155 Tokens for in-game mechanics
• Contracts and Frontend for exchanging in-game NFTs
• First steps to the anti-bots system.

Specification

Roadmap (briefly)

1. Multiplayer mode between users.

• Ability to create/join P2P games
• Ability to reserve game for specific players
• Live stream translation of important games and tournaments.

2. Tournaments and Pool Clubs

• Weekly $prize tournaments between users
• Pool Clubs - groups of players to compete with each other
• Pool Clubs Tournaments

3. InGame NFT, Wearables, Game Mechanics:

• Add more NFT with an in-game utility which improves game mechanics such as cue chalk, gloves, etc
• Loot Boxes with game resources & NFTs
• Daily tasks for additional rewards

4. Betting

• Ability to bet in MANA on the tournaments or individual games(through smart contract). For all players, clubs, and viewers

5. 3D Modeling

• Creating a new pool building exterior & interior
• Creating a new set of pool tables with higher quality
• Creating a new set of game rooms with higher quality
• Shop for in-game NFTs, Loot Boxes, resources.
• Private MetaBallers Space - the space with inclusive access for players.
• Creating pool buildings for specific parcels sizes(11, 12, 2*2) for a franchise (see below)

6. Franchise

• Creating separate pool buildings includes an arcade, PVC, p2p modes, NFT shop. In different sizes (11, 12, 2*2, custom)
• Landowners can place a small version of the game on their lands
• Profit-sharing with landowners.
• Automation publishing and updating.
• The team will provide backend service & marketing support

7. UI

• Creating new UI of the game in union style
• Creating GUI shop for in-game NFTs

8. Code stuff

• Since the game is MVP in the beta test version, there is not a good quality of code
• Refactor the scene & servers code
• Improve the specific parts of the system
• Fix known bugs
• Scene optimization (images/materials sprites, models optimization, etc).

9. Game Center

• An MVP version of an additional game (not a pool)

• Combining economies with the existing pool game

• Re-organization to Game Center with more than one game under union economic

10. Website/Frontend

• Create a website for the game
• Create Docs section
• Frontend for franchise
• Frontend for game mechanics which we can’t do in-world due to limitations of the engine.

11. Game Analytics

• Continue to develop game analytics

Personnel

The Team

• Tony - Co-Founder, Core Dev (full-time)
• Vitally - Co-Founder, Operation, Game Design (full-time)
• Alex - 3D Modeller (full-time)
• Vite - Senior TS Dev (part-time, ready to join for full-time)
• Alex - Marketing, Game Economic, Collabs, Community (ready to join for full-time)
• Jesica - 3D Modeller (part-time)
• Helen - web designer (part-time)
• We are also planning to onboard two more devs. Already have candidates.

Spendings

We are looking for accruing $120 000 under tier 4. Almost all the spending is a salary for our team to be able to work full-time on the project and onboard a few new members to the team. It will help us build the game and prepare for the next level of development.

Roadmap and milestones

Millestones

• Q2 2022 - Multiplayer, Pool Clubs, Tournaments, Betting
• Q3 2022 - Franchise, Game Center with the additional game.

UI improving, new models, in-game NFTs, etc will be delivered continuously for all periods.

Vote on this proposal on the Decentraland DAO