AdaQuest(aka The Quest for Ada)

We will offer the whole fantasy gaming experience, story, exclusively hand-drawn artworks, world and game design will be fully hand-made!

Coding: Dirk

Art: Chris

G-Design: Marcin & Michael

Story: Thomas

Over 20 years pro experience

30y Pen&Paper XP

Disclaimer - ALL Artworks are just mood concepts and can differ little in detail from the final version -

• Combine blockchain technology with NFTs in a fun competitive fantasy game environment
• Modular development strategy with three Phases
• Pre-Sale, NFT Marketplace, Native App for Android and iOS
• QUEST is already a Stake pool!

Team

Coding: Dirk worked for Ubisoft, founded two gaming studios as a Dev Lead, and is currently working as a Technical Architect. He is the go-to guy, well in everything tech-related. Besides running and tracking our stake pool he is doing his magic to create the foundation for our project. 20 years of experience! IF var string = "you are looking for a coder?" THEN result="Dirk";

Art: Chris is our Illustrator & UX-Designer with more than 15 years of professional work in drawing stuff, gamification, interface- and app design in the industry. Starting as a big fan of the classic Point & Click adventures (Monkey Island, Beneath a Steel Sky, Day of the Tentacle) on DOS and hoarding tons of comic books he turned his geek hobby into an ever-expanding full-time job.

Game Design, Marketing & Sales: Marcin worked in marketing, sales, and project management for THQ, Ubisoft, CI Games, Daedalic Entertainment, and Rockstar. In the past 10 years, he has helped some start-ups in their initial phase. Michael is the second guy and is mainly responsible for game design and balancing. He holds a degree in business administration and had a lot of experience as a QA Tester in the EA environment. Both OG´s love to crunch numbers, always try to find out which RPG class is the best of all times. The struggle is still going on…

Operations & Story: Thomas is the oldest and financial expert within the team. His knowledge about movies, games, and fantasy worlds is immense. He currently tries to tie the stitches to bring the world of ADA to life.

Overall we offer more than 100 years(!cumulated!) of professional gaming and business experience. We all are old-school gamers(started in the mid '80s), played a lot of pen&paper RPGs, love tabletop games, and of course strategy. This project will be something like our legacy. Ada Quest will not only be for the masses, we are developing this title because we like to play our own games. Maybe one day you will meet us on the battlefield or in a dungeon, cave, tavern you name it ;)!

Story

Welcome to the legendary world of ADA.

It is epoch 259! Long before this time, there was a huge war in ADA, which completely cast a spell over the land. It was about the most powerful gemstone, the Goguen Stone! Whoever possessed this stone would be the absolute ruler of this world. Nevertheless, in the greatest battle, the Goguen Stone shattered into four pieces.

After this bloody encounter, a mage, a barbarian, a dwarf, and an elf were each able to take possession of one of these shards. In order not to devastate the land any further, the four heroes agreed to a truce and founded the first four realms.

Now you have arrived on ADA and it is up to YOU to choose your hero and your destiny. Prove your skills and courage in duels and quests to finally conquer this world! But watch out, ´cause nothing is as it seems. An unrecognized greater threat lurks in the darkness, which wants to use this legendary world for its intrigues.

Start your QUEST for ADA now…

! YEAH WE ARE successfully funded in FUND5 !

So what is finished and what we are looking for:

Estimated Roadmap

2021 Q2-Q3:

• QuestToken created (done)
• Founded gaming studio (http://red-potion-studios.com/ -- webdesign WIP)
• Hired more people (community management, illustrators, junior video artist) (ongoing) 
• Graphics assets, web design, and story created for the initial website release (done)
• Localization of website into German, Polish, Japanese, Vietnamese (done)
• Created a website teaser (by our junior video artist Paul) (done)
• High social media activities (Twitter, Discord, Instagram, TikTok, Podcasts, YouTube) (ongoing)
• **Website released: www.ada-quest.com**
• Creating the first draft of quality hand-drawn artworks for sale (done)
• Four tribes are ready to choose from (done)
• Backend coding (shop system, account-management, marketplace for NFTs) (ongoing)
• Frontend coding (web-based, ready for native) (ongoing)
• Design of game-mechanics (i.e. fights, looting, item handling, etc.) (ongoing)
• Start pre-selling NFTsready to be used within the GAME PHASE 1*(early September)*

Upcoming next (Q4 2021):

• Start developing GAME PHASE 1 (Duel Mini-Game, WebApp(Native?))
• Creating further artworks and selling them as unique In-game characters
• Offering new Items, Quest tokens, further heroes
• Developing In-game marketplace for selling, buying, and trading NFTs
• Hiring further people (focus on Frontend (Angular) and Backend coders)
• Finalizing GAME PHASE 1
• possible porting to iOS (Apple)
• Further Localization French, Spanish, Indonesian

2022 Q1-Q4

• GAME PHASE 2 - Dungeon Crawler
• Polishing and balancing of Game Phase 1
• Ongoing game design and game mechanic development
• Hire further resources like coders and artists, testers
• Collecting more funds for the Next Phase (Catalyst Funding, new NFTs, promotions)
• Starting the first draft of Game Phase 3 (late 2022)

Inside Phase Overview

Game Phase I (Duel Mini-Game) - Q4 2021

• Detailed information on the presentation Slide GAME PHASE 1
• Focus on:

• Fast-paced duel mode (5-10 minutes per game)
• Matchmaking
• First use case and balancing benchmark for further development
• Using the unique AdaQuest NFT Heros within the game!
• Collecting more funds for the next game phase

Game Phase II (Dungeon Crawler) - 2022

• Detailed information on the presentation Slide GAME PHASE 2
• Focus on: 

• Slower tactical gameplay
• Matchmaking
• First chance of NFT drops (kind of play2earn)
• First draft season gameplay (collecting conquer points for your tribe)
• Fully functional NFT marketplace

Game Phase III (Skirmish Battlefield Mode ) - 2023

• Detailed information on the presentation Slide GAME PHASE 2
• Focus on:

• Code freeze GAME PHASE 2(Balancing)
• Feature complete beta version of the game (Q2023)
• Main game mechanics working and tested for initial release (QA)
• Start developing additional deeper game mechanics (depends on funding and sales)

Use of additional Catalyst Funding

• Hire further resources like coders and artists, testers
• Getting dev-kits and dev license for iOS
• Localize in additional languages like French, Russian or Hispanic
• Design of deeper game mechanics
• Some Marketing would be nice :) (teaser, trailer, Facebook(ads), Google(ads), content creation like youtube and twitch)

Business Model- Road to success

We like to call our business model a hybrid one. Since we started to develop the world of ADA, we also already invested time and money BUT we also started to create a community around our project, which we like to expanse to an international one.

The initial NFT sale will hopefully allow us to get some financial support from the community, which would flow completely into the development.

The future business model will be a hybrid of in-game sales (only cosmetics, NO pay2win) and community-based funding for upcoming add-ons and maybe some further rewards from running our stake pool successfully.

Besides the initial NFTs sale, what really will help us to get through the phases is the additional "juice" to set up the business and run smoothly until the release. The first draft of the game is created by us, our coder, artist, and game designer are working already on Phase I of the project. So the requested funds for a full-blown out mobile game are just fair as far as we can see from our experience. Similar independent projects with the game mechanics we are looking for need around 500K$-1M$ budget minimum. So since we collect already 100K from Catalyst FUND5, we need additional budget to implement PHASE 2 & 3.

Short-Term success after 3-6 months

• Awareness of Cardano/ADA getting increased due to our professional game business network
• Awareness of Cardano/ADA increased because of our game setting
• Our own in-game NFT marketplace monetize (ongoing)
• Founding of game studio (done)

Mid-Term success after 6-12 months

• Our resources get paid in Ada and we talk about it (further ADA&project awareness/reach increasement)
• Alpha version of our game modes (ongoing)
• Hiring more resources (ongoing)

Long-Term success after 12-24 months

• Full game ready to be released
• Project is self-sustaining
• Paying back the catalyst funding (further info below)

ADDITIONAL IMPORTANT INFO: If the game will be a commercial success we would promise to give the requested funds back and support with this initiative as another catalyst project in the future (preferably Africa or charity-related).

We would love to see you support the creation of the world ADA and maybe YOU like to cooperate with us.

This or the other way, let's talk!