Cornucopias The Island NFT Game

Summary

https://www.cornucopias.io

Cornucopias 'The Island' is a blockchain based play-to-earn, build-to-earn game where players own characters, land and other NFT (non-fungible tokens) based assets that have real-world value, all hosted in a fun and expanding metaverse (a virtual-reality space in which users can interact with a computer-generated environment and other users).  It was inspired from Charles Hoskinson's video - "The Island, The Ocean and the Pond".

'The Island' is split into a number of themed zones such as the 'Wild⋆West' zone, 'Farm Life' zone, 'Age of The Samurai' zone, etc where people of all ages can play a series of mini-games, getting lost in the play-to-earn ecosystem where they can earn real-world value as they explore and build in our safe and secure world.

The more creative players can design their own items such as coffee tables, beds and other household furnishings which can then be minted into an 'Island Blueprint' that other players can then buy, gather the materials, and then craft in-game into a brand new NFT. Once created, the crafter can play with the items in their virtual dwelling or sell them onto other players to enjoy or sell on again.

'The Island' combines gaming with real-world commerce and gives opportunities for traditional and ecommerce companies to sell and promote their real-world brands, goods and services, to a hard to reach audience they have potentially never had access to before.

Available worldwide, 'The Island' is built on the Unreal Engine 5 games engine which is compatible with the PC, mobile phone, games consoles and smart TV's, and will be powered, governed and be forever evolving thanks to a growing number of communities including blockchain, Unreal game developers, Voxel, 3D artists and modelers and general game enthusiasts.

Creators and players will discover a new form of currency economics where they can create and trade their own NFT's in-game or on 3rd party marketplaces, and no longer will their purchased game assets be trapped inside a single game again.

A disruptive gaming revolution is upon us and Cornucopias 'The Island' awaits everyone to come and join in the fun of changing gaming forever!

Cardano Background

As a member of the Original 50 Cardano Project Catalyst I have been active in the community and have been working on the Cardano network for over a year - I have successfully delivered a project in Fund 3 https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Visual-Studio-Smart-Contract-Plugin/333827-48088 and I am working on a project for Fund 4.

Knowing the eco-system and community so well I formed a new company in January 2021 dedicated to writing a blockchain game on Cardano. Self-funded with 4 other Cardano pioneers to date we have been busy planning the game, building the team and putting together the Whitepaper and a series of demos to show the community how the game may work.

Cornucopias 'The Island' Game could not have been possible without Project Catalyst introducing me to Cardano however to date it has all been bootstrapped and has had no Catalyst funding.

I want to continue to build Open Source software for the community to use alongside building the game, and if this project is successfully funded I will produce the following using members of the Plutus Pioneer courses to both help my project and to help others in the community to put their new skills to work.

'The Island' is powered by NFT's as players build upon and own the land, characters items and real estate. The game will allow community members to own their own NFT shop and allow them to sell their NFT's.

I therefore need Smart Contracts to help many transactions occur.

The first open source project I need Smart Contracts for is an NFT Auction House. This will be a key feature to help community members to auction their NFT's and in addition the software will be usable away from The Island to help others grow their own software companies.

Why gaming on Cardano?

There are so many reasons to build an NFT game on Cardano, don't look at the network in August 2021 look where it will be in August 2022. We will have:

- lots of DeFi applications and developers that we can integrate and partner with on 'The Island'.

- lots of NFT applications and developers that we can integrate and partner with on 'The Island'.

- lots of Plutus developers we can offer full time jobs.

- Atala Prism will allow us to verify players age which is really important to parts of the game and something no other Blockchain can offer.

- Hydra will offer 1 million transactions per second

- scalability and reliability is critical for a game that is aiming to attract 1m+ players

What does success look like?

Success will be judged on the games popularity and to date we are growing a very good reputation on social media and a lot of positive 'buzz' is happening around the game.

We are looking at bringing over 1 million gamers to the Cardano Network within the first 3 years of launch and are looking to recruit many people from inside the Cardano community.

The Play-to-Earn and Build-To-Earn features of the game will bring prosperity to gamers like never before and has the chance to change lives in many countries.

We have recently teamed up with an Education Centre that holds virtual lessons in Africa and the Learn-To-Earn aspect of the game will help that eco-system grow further.

Stake-To-Earn aims to simplify staking and yield farming using a gamification style interface.

Success will also come in the form of recognition that Cardano is an amazing platform to build NFT Gaming on.

What does the current team look like?

I have a small team of developers, testers and analysts at my disposal that have worked together on many projects. I am self-funding the project. I started building the game alongside my full-time job in January and in July I went full-time working on the game - a huge leap of faith as I have no means of making an income until the game launches. Currently there are 9 members of the team.

Rob Greig – Founder

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-greig-2076b053/

Rob is a serial entrepreneur, building businesses and developing software for 20 years in various industries. Highly skilled developer and Business Analyst. Previously built an estate agent monitoring system and an advanced automated backend/cloud API business that was sold to one of the largest UK estate agent portals (Fish4) and media company 'Trinity Mirror'.

Excels in software planning, development, management along with building and mentoring small to medium development teams.

Delivery Team

Everyone in my team will be working on Cornucopias 'The Island' game.

In addition - we will be recruiting on a contracting basis between 1 and 3 Plutus Pioneer graduates which is where the funds for this proposal will be mainly going towards.

Development Costs Estimate:

Delivery:

The final game will take years to build however a series of Milestones will be achieved over the months to bring the game to life using the Agile delivery method, with the first Web Browser version available in Q1 2022.

This project is to fund Plutus Pioneer to convert our Cardano CLI NFT scripts into Smart Contracts and to build additional Smart Contract functionality.

Costs:

90% of the funds will be paid to Plutus Pioneer graduates and the rest will be used to integrate the Smart Contracts built into 'The Island' game.

Please see our White Paper and our website to find out more .. https://www.cornucopias.io/