Gaming & Artificial Brains

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→This is a complementary proposal that aims at accelerating the developement of Terra Cognita, an AI + Blockchain game being develop on Cardano. Original proposal can be seen here:

https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Terra-Cognita-AI+Blockchain-Gaming/382216-48088

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The year was 1576…

...the golden era of the Age of Discovery and the greatest navigators of the world were eager to find new lands and to explore new worlds so far unknown to their civilizations. Most continents were already unveiled, all civilizations started to somehow connect to each other, but there was a rumor of a new, recently discovered land that wasn't like any other seen before...

As the word spread, each day more people got curious about the land. Stories about unimagined treasures, strange creatures and unknown natural resources - and as some said, even magic? - started to feed the imagination not only of the greatest explorers, but all sailors brave enough to cross the oceans and see with their very own eyes if all those stories were indeed reality.

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Terra Cognita: Discovering a whole new world

Welcome to Terra Cognita! In this innovative, online, strategic, cooperative, RPG, machine learning powered game, you are part of a group of pioneers discovering this new, yet unnamed land, and you are still to learn what challenges await for you.

Be part of this new gaming experience. Create your own AI (Artificial Intelligence), NFT based characters. Let them explore. Let them play. Let them learn, evolve and conquer. Guide them through this discovery quest. Give them advice. Set their attributes. Set up their equipment. Set your strategy. Explore the land and find treasures while you cooperate to unveil the mysteries of this unknown… island? Continent? Something else?

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The Gaming Experience

Terra Cognita is (almost?) a new genre of gaming.

The players are not directly in control of their characters, as they have their own AI brains and make their own decisions. They decide what to do next, they have their own abilities to fight, explore, negotiate, and they learn over time - their AI brains are powered by Reinforcement Learning - which are basically Machine Learning algorithms that adapt and evolve based on the results of the AI interaction with the environment. Each minted NFT character is therefore attached to an artificial brain that will evolve and perform better over time.

(...) → For more information about the game itself, please refer to our main proposal on 'Gamers On-Chained' Challenge: https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Terra-Cognita-AI+Blockchain-Gaming/382216-48088

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The goal of this proposal

This proposal aims at accelerating the development of the back-end of Terra Cognita by increasing the number of developers involved with the project. The original proposal includes budget to pay for 2 back-end developers, and the current proposal requests budget to add 4 more devs to boost the develpment and reduce the time to market of Terra Cognita.

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Roadmap and Milestones

Q1 2022

• Onboard 4 back-end developers

Q2 2022

• Anticipate the improvement of character's AI, including fighting and advanced surviving mechanisms stated in the original proposal.

Q3 2022

• Deliver final version of character's AI, anticipating the original development plan in 1 year.

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Success metrics

• After 3 months: anticipate the original back-end/AI development plan in 6 months.
• After 6 months: anticipate the original back-end/AI development plan in 12 months.

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The Team

• Victor Corcino: Game architect and ideator, MSc in software development applied to engineers, Specialization in Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, PhD Candidate in Machine Learning applied to engineering, Gimbalabs PPBL Team Member, co-founder of AIM Community Tools.
• Lucio Baglione: Developer with 9+ years of experience (mainly focused on web/mobile. Languages and frameworks: PHP, Javascript, Typescript, Python, Ruby - Laravel, Ruby on Rails, Wordpress, Angular.js, Vue.js, Node.js). CA and vCA, co-creator of the Community Tools (Proposer/CA/vCA/Voter Tools)
• Phil Khoo: Front end UI/UX designer and finance and business background, co-founder of AIM Community Tools amongst numerous other pursuits.
• Filip Blagojević: Entrepreneur, industrial software engineer, Plutus Pioneer, Project Catalyst Community Advisor and Veteran Community Advisor
• Carlos Fonseca: Data science and artificial intelligence engineer.
• Alfredo: Data science and artificial intelligence scientist.
• Felipe Marcel: Designer, specialized in branding and visual identity.
• Victor Lobo: Designer, specialized graphical design and character development.

Budget

• Back-end developers (part time): $800/ month / dev (4 total)
• Work coordinator: $800/ month
• Budget for 6 months: $24k