AdaQuest - Concept Phase 2

PHASE 2 - Gameplay Concept - Dungeon Gameplay

Dungeon Gameplay – 10 important questions – some answers

1. What can you expect?

Since Phase 1 is all about individual character and ability development (Leveling), Phase 2 will bring your friends to the show! This will be a fully fleshed-out competitive dungeon crawler with some absolutely new and fresh unique features in this genre. Dungeons will be generated procedurally!

2. This is how a Round in AdaQuest Phase 2 will look like!

After you and your friend (2vs2) decide on which tribe you will go in season gameplay (dwarfish, barbarian, elfish, magician), you will be able to select one of the available dungeons.

In one of these dungeons, you will encounter a duo of a rival tribe. Besides this, the dungeons will offer hidden secrets, traps, monsters, and of course treasures! (Somebody says NFT? *looking around*)

You and your comrade will explore the dungeon in real-time and after solving some of the riddles and secrets you will be hopefully able to fight against the boss of each dungeon.

3. What will happen to the rest of my NFTs, when I choose the seasonal gameplay?

Hopefully, this overview will make it easier to understand:

Phase 1 - Duel-mode: All of your NFTs are available for leveling - no gain of season points

Phase 2 - Dungeon-mode: You choose a folk (Barbarian, Dwarves, Magician, Elves) for season gameplay:

• All other folks will be NOT available and locked for collecting season points!

• A Season can last 3-6 months. This has to be decided!

• There will be a bot mode for testing every NFT you like within one generic dungeon. 

• In the future, there will be more than one tribe within a folk (like two different Elf tribes e.g.)

4. Can I fight against the player rival tribe duo within the dungeon?

This will be possible and will include one of our secret mechanics we do not like to spoiler now!

5. Will I lose my equipment or even my NFTs?

No! Even if you die this won´t happen. BUT you and your tribe will lose season points which will lead to loss of territory --> Please remember we are creating a whole World for this.

6. What kind of battle mode will be used?

We asked already our community (over 600 members on Discord) and the majority seem to like a mixed-mode. Since we always communicate that this game is created by games for gamers, we will use the real-time mode for exploration and scouting and the turn-based for fighting and riddles.

7. Will it be possible to play Phase 2 in 1vs1 mode?

Yes! Of course!

8. How will matchmaking work?

For the first version, we will always adjust the power and level of each duo or single (1vs1) hero. Example:

• Your friends Stonebiter Bone Twister Dwarf (Level 10) and your Spade Walker Dwarf (Level 20) will meet in the Black Bay Caverns a Stormbreaker duo (Level 20 and 25).
• Since the Stormbreaker Barbarians have a stronger Power-Level (45) than your team (30), the Stormbreaker level will be adjusted (thanks to a nice formula) to make this a fair as possible fight IF you will encounter this duo at any given time in the mentioned dungeon!

9. My precious! My treasure! Where is all the gold? What can I earn?

Okay, okay understood. As already mentioned and typical for this genre, you will get for fighting monsters, rivals, bosses, traps, and secrets this kind of rewards:

• Fragments (Special In-game currency – NOT buyable with Ada, Euro, Dollar, etc.)
• Gold (Also an in-game currency – Also NOT buyable with crypto or fiat)
• QuestToken (our own token used for promo and for buying cosmetics ONLY within our game)
• Basic Items (only available within our game, these are not the NFTs you are looking for :D)
• Equipment NFT (here you go! Our lightpaper will be dealing with this issue in a more detailed way)

10. How many Heroes do I need to play this game?

Well, at least you will need one NFT AdaQuest hero to really enjoy the game with all the features. However, we decided also to create a basic Adventurer totally free to play. This hero will let you experience all the important mechanics, but without play 2 earn, token gathering, or further ability development.

Like every other hero on Ada, this one will also use the basic items available through gameplay and at Tingle&Tangle special store 😊

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Please keep in mind this is currently our concept. So, every subject can be changed within testing.  However, and as promised we will also let the community decide after creating the fundament. Thanks!

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Back to Phase 1 - So what we have accomplished within the last 3 months?:

• Founded Red Potion Studios 
• The team grows from 5 people to 15 (part-time and full time)
• Went live with our website incl. first versions of NFT marketplace and user management
• Offering our first NFTs to the public (September 2021) 
• Optimized the website for mobile & tablet devices (incl. backend)
• Game Design started for Phase 1 and beyond (Phase 2)
• Phase 1 game development started (Alpha est. December 2021)
• Established a community with more than 600 Discord users

Designed a whole world:

• The lore that is truly handwritten & inspired by Cardano Community
• A ton of Illustrations for different areas, biotopes, and mystical caverns :)
• Additional content like tribes, demographics, conflicts, gameplay mechanics
• A whole continent ready to discover (once we are going live)
• You and your tribe have finally a place on Ada!

Marketing/PR campaign started:

• Joined Podcasts & YT (CryptoLoops, Kaizen Crypto, Play to earn world)
• Participation in Indie Game Dev talks and Events (Indie Game Fest)
• Presenting in TownHalls and Catalys Swarm Fest
• Sharing knowledge within the Cardano community (Breakout rooms, Playermint TH, Telegram)
• Started own YouTube & YTShorts channel

Creating own API & Marketplace ready for smart contracts:

• Prepared our marketplace to offer full functionality early/mid-2022 incl. smart contracts
• Developed user account management tool for customer relations & support
• Started to design & develop the first API for game projects

KPI - REPORT PHASE 1 incoming...KPI Report loading....done

• KPI 1: Total Accounts confirmed = 1425
• KPI 2: Addresses assigned = 647
• KPI 3: Transactions total = 4440
• KPI 4: NFT Jobs total = 3201 / 6100 (max.) = 52,47% NFTs sold
• KPI 5: Page impressions = 136,527
• KPI 6: Visits registered Accounts  = 3473

How many developers are engaged in total since the beginning of the project?

• We started with one guy and until today they are 5 coding developers working on the game

How many products or services has this project generated?

• Hand-made Website
• Over 640 verified Discord users! (started with 11)
• 1850 Followers on Twitter (started with under 100) 
• NFT direct to Wallet Marketplace
• Sold more the 3000 NFTs, 
• Games development insight(YouTube), 
• Created Fund 7 Challenge Gamer Onchain
• Cooperation with Flooftopia.org as Advisors 

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Why we need this additional budget:

As already stated in FUND5, this kind of game will cost around 500K$-1M$. So it is clear that Phase 2 will be not feasible only with the 55K$ we are asking for. But here comes the part where we need this "boost" mostly for the initial Phase 2 :

1. 2D environmental design and graphics
2. 3D motion design & animations
3. Game Design Phase 2 --> mechanics & balancing

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Roadmap 2022 - AdaQuest Phase 2

Q1 2022 (estimated)

• Moving game design from concept too --> initial Phase

• Game Designer(full-time) = 120h --> 30$/h == 3600$
• Game Desgner (freelance) = 50h --> 60$/h == 3000$

• Moving 1st 2D concepts too --> final design Phase

• Illustration & concept Artists (Two freelancers) = 120h --> 60$/h == 14400

• Starting 1st 3D whitebox phase

• 3D Artists (Two freelancers) = 120h --> 50$/h = 12.000

• Ongoing game design fleshing out mechanics

• Game Designer(full-time) = 100h --> 30$/h == 3000$

• Prototype and overall supportive coding 

• Coding (freelancing) = 80h --> 80$/h == 6400$

Estimated cost: 43.000$ (adjusted)

Success after 3 months:

• Game Design ready 
• 3D shows first animations
• Phase 1 and NFT sale generates more income

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Q2 2022 (estimated)

• Hiring more 3D animation artists 
• Prototype coding starts
• Start of 3D greybox phase
• Ongoing game mechanics design

Estimated additional cost for this transition period: 12.000$

Success after 6 months:

• 3D artist team established
• Phase 1 is moving into Beta
• Additional budget is available through the success of the mobile WebApp
• Possible proposal funding from Gamers On-Chain Challenge 

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Q3 2022 (estimated)

• Prototype

Q4 2022 (estimated)

• Alpha Version

Success after 12 months:

• Either a Prototype or an Alpha Version of Phase 2 will be available
• More funding support was received from different sources incl. Gamers On-Chain
• Phase 1 move to Release Gold candidate status

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Support us here:

www.ada-quest.com (Check out our NFTs)

Merch-Shop:

https://adaquestloot.myspreadshop.net/

Discord:

https://discord.gg/ZjaDMQv9NZ

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/AdaQuestGame

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/adaquest_of...

Facebook/Meta:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/adaquest

YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJdf...

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Team Members Bios(as available on LinkedIn):

Business, Testing, Lore, Sales:

Marcin Kugla - https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcin-kugla-a92b5964/

Michael Fischer - https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-fischer-574678212/

Art & Illustration:

Ann-Kathrin Raab - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ann-kathrin-raab-8b1815184/

Christian Hayungs - https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-hayungs-9ba22457/

Robert Schneider - https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertschneider138/

Game Design:

Alexander Cimpeanu - https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-cimpeanu-b9507a112/

Coding:

Dirk Potuslki - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dirk-potulski-71313428/

Viktor Machnik - https://www.linkedin.com/in/viktor-machnik-98b9031a8/