Xerxis Web3 3D Game

[GENERAL] Name and surname of main applicant

Mearaf Tadewos Tiranchie

[GENERAL] Email address of main applicant

mearaftadewos@gmail.com

Additional applicants

Kaleb Birru

Eyasu Birru

Eyasu Birhanu

[GENERAL] Please specify how many months you expect your project to last (from 2-12 months)

12

[GENERAL] Please indicate if your proposal has been auto-translated into English from another language.

No

[GENERAL] Does your project have any dependencies on other organizations, technical or otherwise?

No

[GENERAL] If YES, please describe what the dependency is and why you believe it is essential for your project’s delivery. If NO, please write “No dependencies.” .

No dependencies

[GENERAL] Will your project’s output/s be fully open source?

No

[GENERAL] If NO, please describe which outputs are not going to be open source. If YES, please write “Project will be fully open source.”

The game logic and NFT game objects will not be open source.

[METADATA] Category of Proposal

Gaming

[METADATA] SDG rating

We would rate our project 8 out of 10.

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

The solution we plan to deliver to this problem is a play-to-earn Web 3 3D game. Such a game can attract a lot of users from different backgrounds including students, developers, people who want to use NFTs as an investment, and those who want to create a side income while enjoying their free time playing games.

The effect of this game would be attracting more users hence more transactions on the Cardano blockchain, and more usage of ADA since we transact everything in ADA Cryptocurrency, besides showcasing the real-world usability of the Cardano blockchain which would make developers feel more comfortable to try Cardano.

[IMPACT] How does your proposed solution address the challenge and what benefits will this bring to the Cardano ecosystem?

The major impact on the Cardano Blockchain, the ADA cryptocurrency, and the community can be described as follows.

Adoption: Using the Cardano blockchain to support our game, we will introduce the technologies to a new audience of gamers. This will increase awareness and adoption of the Cardano blockchain and the ADA cryptocurrency, benefiting both our game and the wider Cardano ecosystem. We believe that our game can positively impact the adoption of the Cardano blockchain and the ADA cryptocurrency. By creating a fun and engaging gaming experience that leverages these technologies, we can attract new users and help grow the Cardano ecosystem.

Promotion: By running on the Cardano blockchain, the game could leverage the platform’s advanced smart-contract capabilities and security features to enable secure and transparent trading of NFT objects. That effect will attract players interested in participating in a fair and decentralized in-game economy and demonstrates the capabilities of the Cardano blockchain technology.

Overall, a Web3 game that runs on the Cardano blockchain and allows players to trade NFT objects using ADA cryptocurrency could help promote the Cardano platform by showcasing its capabilities and attracting new users.

Fan base support for ADA Cryptocurrency: A Web3 game that allows players to trade NFT objects in the game using ADA cryptocurrency could potentially have fan base support for ADA cryptocurrency by creating a demand for ADA within the game’s economy. The gamers must use ADA to participate in the NFT game objects marketplace. As a result, an increase in the demand for ADA cryptocurrency is the most likely event. Web3 games use blockchain technology to enable the creation, ownership, and transfer of unique digital assets, such as NFTs, within the game world. These assets can be traded between players using cryptocurrency, creating a player-driven economy within the game.

By allowing players to trade NFT objects using ADA cryptocurrency, the game could create a use case for ADA within its economy. This could potentially attract fans of ADA who are interested in using the cryptocurrency for in-game transactions, as well as players who are new to cryptocurrency and are looking for an accessible way to get started.

This creates a win-win situation both for the users and the Cardano community. Because the gamers are beneficial economically, while the community in-general benefits from the increase in demand for the ADA Cryptocurrency and game NFTs.

[IMPACT] How do you intend to measure the success of your project?

Success Measurements

The success of our Web 3 game project will be measured by several key metrics:

- User adoption and growth: We will track the number of new users who join our game over time. We aim to attain steady user growth and attract a large player base.

- User engagement: We will measure how often users play our game and how long they spend playing each session. Our goal is to create a highly engaging gaming experience that keeps players coming back.

- Revenue: We will track the revenue generated by our game through sales of NFTs, in-game transactions, and advertising. Our goal is to generate a steady income stream from different monetizable points of the gaming experience that supports our game's ongoing development, maintenance, and operation cost.

User Adoption Projections

Based on our market research and analysis, we project the following user adoption for our Web 3 game after we fully launched:

• Year 1: 25,000 users
• Year 2: 100,000 users
• Year 3: 400,000 users
• Year 4: 1000,000 users

We believe that our game has the potential to attract a large and engaged player base. By leveraging blockchain technology and NFTs, we can create a unique and compelling gaming experience that stands out in the market. We believe we’ve laid out quite realistic user adoption projections. Our marketing efforts will focus on reaching our target audience and driving user growth and surpassing the goals a little bit when possible.

[IMPACT] Please describe your plans to share the outputs and results of your project?

We will launch our game and promote it in multiple marketing channels.

Marketing Channels

We will use a variety of marketing channels to reach our target audience:

• Social media: We will use platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram to promote our game and engage with potential players.
• Influencer partnerships: We will partner with popular gaming influencers to showcase our game to their followers.
• Gaming events: We will attend gaming conventions and events to demo our game and generate buzz.
• Catalyst Town Hall
• Local Web 3 Meet-ups: through the organizers of local Web 3 meet-ups in different countries on the meetup app, we will be able to advertise this game to acquire more players.

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] What is your capability to deliver your project with high levels of trust and accountability?

We are a team of experienced and skilled professionals.

Our team has won different awards in

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] What are the main goals for the project and how will you validate if your approach is feasible?

Main goals:

• reach as many users as possible
• attract developers to develop on Cardano
• increase the user base of the ADA cryptocurrency

We do our feasibility validation by confronting the skills, commitment, and resources of our team against the time we set to complete the project. Our analysis resulted in a positive on the feasibility of the project Xerxis Web3 play-to-earn game.

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed breakdown of your project’s milestones and each of the main tasks or activities to reach the milestone plus the expected timeline for the delivery.

Delivery Schedules

We plan to build and deliver the game strategically. We provide the initial version with enough fun and engaging features as soon as possible, and as we build up the user base we will parallelly build and release more of the visualized target features one by one. That would allow us to study user behaviors and preferences and deliver a finer product to an already building-up fan base.

Milestone 1 - To be completed in one month: 

• Graphic design for the game
• Specific items of the game are ready to be minted as NFT
• Game Environment
• Creating/Minting 40 percent of the NFT game objects required for proof of work of the Game.
• Enabling the website to connect with wallets to log in users and enabling users to buy or sell our NFT Game objects.
• Game rules, reward and punishment system design guide for development completed on Miro board.
• The layout of the vision for the end product is drawn clearly on the Miro board.

Milestone 2 - Completed in two months:

• Create the starting animation
• Creating the remaining
• Start developing game logic in specific features below
• Roads and maps
• Reward Tracking 
• Recording performance state including rewards, number of found oasis locations, associated with the user’s address, and stored in their wallets.
• Creating Oasisses environments with a certain amount of rewards
• Unit testing on the features

Milestone 3 - Completed in three months: 

• Creating the remaining game environment and character designs
• Enemy characters (with guns, effects, positions, and weaknesses)
• Sound alignment
• Default player characters and their abilities
• Making purchasable Characters
• Unit testing of the features

Milestone 4 - Completed in two months: 

• Gunfight logic integrated with the actions of the characters and the animation 
• Complete Bullet-count and Bullet-refill functions
• Sound and environment alignment
• Unit testing of these features

Milestone 5 - Completed in two months: 

• Oasis area fight logic and UI integration
• Sound and environment alignment
• Game over state logic and state recording.
• Integrating the function does "Reward calculating and sending rewards to users' wallets" to game over state.
• Unit testing of the functionalities

Milestone 6 - Testing: Beta release Open for users for testing purposes - Completed in 7 weeks: 

• Promote the beta-release
• Rigorous unit testing and Bug fixing
• Usability Testing and bug fixing
• Testing by users and bug fixing according to feedback
• Testing the seamlessness of these functionalities

Milestone 7 - Launching: Completed in one week:

• Doing graphic designs for a marketing tool kit
• Digital Marketing and network marketing in different countries using our networks and social media.
• Discord server open for marketing and Xerxis international community
• Physical event organizing
• Introducing the game and the Cardano blockchain we are running our game on
• going live with Video and photo on Twitter
• Users playing the game
• Feedback from the crowd

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] Please describe the deliverables, outputs and intended outcomes of each milestone.

The intended outputs of each milestone:

Milestone 1 - Outputs: 

• Website connecting with users' wallet by consent
• Half of the Game environment and game objects in 3d designed
• Mint selected game objects as NFTs
• The layout of the vision for the end product is drawn clearly on the Miro board
• Game rules, reward and punishment system design guide for development completed on Miro board.

Milestone 2 - Outputs:

• Starting animations
• The game has Roads and maps to destinations AKA the Oasis environments in our game.

Milestone 3 - Outputs: 

• The other half of the game's objects are created.
• Mint selected game objects as NFTs out of the game objects.
• Enemy characters are defined including their behaviors and weapons.
• Sound and actions are aligned.
• The game has a default player now.

Milestone 4 - Output: 

• Gunfight logic in alignment with Character actions is done.
• Amuniuation count and refill with certain triggers done and set in place.
• Sound and environment alignment is complete

Milestone 5 - Outputs: 

• Set up the fight triggers for conquering the Oasis
• Sound alignment in place
• Game over logic and state recording done and set in place
• Rewarding function integrated with the game-over state.

Milestone 6 - Outputs: 

• Beta-release
• Bug-fix traces on GitHub and Trello board

Milestone 7 - Output:

• The Xerxis Web3 game is open for use internationally
• Digital Marketing graphic design toolkits like animations and flyers/posters
• Physical event for game Launch
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[RESOURCES & VALUE FOR MONEY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown of the proposed work and resources.

Total Budget and Budget Breakdown

Total Budget: $ 60,000 for one year of development and user base building.

Marketing Costs: $10,000

• Advertising: $3,000
• Influencer partnerships: $5,000
• Gaming events: $2,000

Operation and Maintenance Costs: $15,000

• Server hosting: $ 4,500
• Customer support: $ 3,500
• Transaction fees for testing and before revenue: $ 2,000
• Initial prize money until we build a sustainable revenue: $ 5,000

Development Costs: $ 35,000

These will consist of the salaries of our development team, as well as the cost of any software or hardware needed for development.

• Salaries for the development team: $ 31,000
• One Fulltime Smart Contract Developer: 
• Two Fulltime Game Developers:
• One Digital Artist / Game UI Designer:
• One Project Manager: 
• One DevOps Engineer:
• One Web Frontend developer:
• One Web Backend Developer:
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• Software and hardware: $1,000
• Outsourced services (e.g. art, music): $ 4,000
• Smart Contract deployment cost: $ 1,000

[RESOURCES & VALUE FOR MONEY] How does the cost of the project represent value for money for the Cardano ecosystem?

1. Adoption of Cardano blockchain for Web 3 development,
2. ADA cryptocurrency support,
3. More transactions on Cardano from the Game object NFT markets,
4. Demonstrating the usability of Cardano hence attracting more for-profit developers.

[IMPORTANT NOTE] The Applicant agreed to Fund10 rules and also that data in the Submission Form and other data provided by the project team during the course of the project will be publicly available.

I Accept