Gamify Your Life using Cardano

Create a Gamified (RPG-like) Task Management System using the Cardano Blockchain similar to Habitica - https://habitica.com

Full Stack Software Engineer with 17 years experience

Solutions Architect

Plutus Pioneer

Blockchain Enthusiast 

Entrepreneur

Gamer!

The goal is to Gamify your Life with the help of Blockchain Technology via Cardano. It will be similar to Habitica RPG but the app will be more decentralized. There will be a separate lore / world on how the RPG side of this app works (to be provided on a separate Design Document) but the general idea is: 

This Cardano App works on real-world goals so "Tasks", "To-Do's", "Dailies", "Habits", "Rewards" should be user based. All these terminologies / names are not final and is subject to change. Once you setup your goals, tasks, habits, etc..., then you start the process of actually completing them. You will gain "Experience" and "Native currency or ADA" upon completing certain tasks/goals/to-do's while you will be penalized for missing your dailies/to-dos by things like losing "Health Points" and/or "Experience", etc.

The exciting aspect that I'd like to fully implement within this Cardano Gamify Your Life App is the ability for users to connect with other users, buy items and equipments on a decentralized marketplace, buy and train pets (a.k.a companion/familiar as per RPG term) (and sell them!). There will be options to create / forge your own weapons and transmute them to acquire rare items/equipments which you can also sell on the marketplace. There will be tons of concepts of a Play-To-Earn model to keep users engaged as they continue to maintain their tasks and goals in real-life while having fun and earning ADA. It will have social network integrations to connect their favorite social media channels as they actively uses the app. 

The graphic design will be subject for debate if it will use pixel art based style or 2D painted artwork style but I'll leave that to the Graphic Design Team.

The idea is to fully implement this on Cardano's Blockchain both on-chain and off-chain. Although if we can't fully do that in order for massively adopting this app for general public use then we need to do a hybrid DApp (we might use resources provided by cloud solution providers). The idea is for this game to have a single codebase but can be played both on Web Browsers of Native App (iOS/Android).

A separate Game Design will be part of this deliverable that tackles on the game's mechanics. As for the breakdown of the resources needed to built this idea is as follows:

Game Designers 

- This team will just focus on the game's mechanics. Half of it will be based on Task Management Systems like Habitica but more on new lore, battle system etc... It will be a completely new RPG world but still has this great concept of solving real-world problems which will be for the betterment of an individual.

Developers 

- This will be a mixture of Cardano Plutus / Haskell developers which will focus on the decentralized aspect of the game such as the in-game wallet, Play-To-Earn model (i.e. if you completed a task with friends then you earn ADA. if just your personal task then you earn just the in-game currency). Another one is like creating your own items for selling, or when you train your familiars/pets/companions then you can trade/sell them to others. These logics lies on the Blockchain for governance. The other mix of this team are the mainstream programming languages/tech stacks in order for us to be sure that we are scalable and able to be adopted by general public as quickly as possible so we need the existing infrastructure / platforms to build with this DApp.

Graphic Artists

- This team focuses on building the assets necessary for this Blockchain RPG game. It will be the UX/UI and will affect how this game will be marketed to the general public for adoption.

Testers

- This team will focus on just testing the DApp before launch. The concept of beta testing is mostly used on mainstream games but for a Decentralized App which boasts the Cardano Blockchain as its backend then, this part can be taken differently. We can either, do the same beta testing phase (via testnet) then incentivize beta testers on mainnet launch. 

The requested funds will be the minimum resources with a MVP product. The idea is to target a full-blown DApp after Alonzo launches to utilize the smart contract functionality of Cardano. The requested funds may vary by a margin. I will be responsible on gathering this team and/or would warmly welcome anyone from our Cardano community who is willing to take part on this idea. If the team is funded and gathered, I can see a 3-5 months development so its likely we can see this DApp by December of this year. 

I am willing provide additional information as requested. 

Thank you,

Jon