No-Code NFT Generator [Revelar]

On the back of building our own NFT game - Duo - we found that a set of stable, well documented, tools and a website for NFT Game Asset generation doesn't exist. So we started Revelar.

Revelar is the first NFT Game Engine on Cardano and will bring gaming specific tooling for artists and developers alike.

This proposal covers the entire website for artists to use the Revelar API in a no-code drag and drop experience to create all final assets out of their art layers. Pick from statistical / random rarity generation algorithms to automatically combine your art assets into final files ready to mint.

V1 of this website will include:

- Create / manage projects

- Create / manage layers

- Bulk Upload and Store art

- Create / manage attributes

- Create rarity with rules or pre built models

- Combine layers into final assets

- Export all images / metadata with CIP-25 compliant metadata in bulk

Measurables (Auditability)

As defined by the challenge, our goal is to focus on three key metrics over a 3, 6, 12 month period for the Revelar Game engine's impact on Cardano NFT games.

Number of unique projects that use this website (targeting non-developers)

Number of assets created through our generator be minted as a CNFT for gaming & % that end up being minted.

Mint day value (ADA) of CNFT's that contain assets created by our generator.

To create a level of transparency with the public to be able to audit this success we will automatically include a metadata element in the JSON exported prior to minting.

Our 3 month goal after v1 of the website is live is 50 projects with > 500 assets each.

Our 6 month goal is 120 projects with > 500 assets each.

Our 12 month goal is 150 projects with > 500 assets each

If we reach our minimum 6 month goal of 120 projects with 500 assets each, at an average price of 30ADA per asset we can create (120*500*30) = 1,800,000ADA in value for indie games/artists, create 60,000 Assets, help onboard thousands of gamers, and bring a no-code asset generator online for artists and creators around the world.

Development Timeline (Audibility)

Start 1 month post funding:

- Mid Feb - March 1st 22' (Sprint 1): Frontend UI/UX design finalized.

- Weeks 3 & 4 (Sprint 2): Begin frontend development off final UI/UX design, test web app with backend cloud services.

- Weeks 5 & 6 (Sprint 3): Dev load testing of web app and final tweaks to frontend code

- Mid April (Sprint 4): Launch public Beta

Public delivery by: April 26th, 2022

Costs & Use of Funds (Auditability)

The funds used in the development of this web app will be used to (partially) pay developers. We will be paying all cloud service costs out of pocket. Since this will ultimately be a commercialized service for developers, Revelar will provide the equivalent of USD value in credits to artists / projects who use our no-code NFT Generator on a first-come-first serve basis (cap per project). This will extend the Catalyst Fund value to projects (verifiable with our JSON metadata) far beyond this initial investment.

Development hours: 400 (2 devs each contributing 25 hrs each week for 8 weeks)

This ends up being $34/hr to the developers, the rest of their rate will be covered by Revelar.

We know auditing developer time is hard, which is why we are giving back the entire amount as credits to our first projects - easier to audit.

**This proposal augments another proposal (https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/API-for-NFT-Game-Asset-Generator/383968-48088) that we have also submitted in Fund 7, in the case this No-Code NFT Generator is funded and the API isn't we will still create the backend infrastructure needed to run this, however we won't make the API available out of the gate.**

Proposer: Jason Toevs

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-toevs/

- Twitter: @JasonToevs

- Discord: ₳ussieGingersnap | DUO#1037

Team: Revelar | NFT Game Engine

Experienced team of cloud architects and full stack software engineers bringing the quality of enterprise grade systems to the emerging NFT & Cardano ecosystem. We are gamers at heart and want to see NFT's & game tokens replace loot boxes and dlc's. Take back ownership of your games.

Jason Toevs: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-toevs/

- Technical Founder, Plutus Pioneer, Tokenomics

Benjamin Beer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-beer/

- Blockchain Engineer, Cybersecurity, Game Theory Design

Jacob Christian: https://www.linkedin.com/in/designerfourteen/

- Design Lead, Community, Marketing

Thomas Ford: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-ford-18b035a1/

- Azure Cloud Architect, Database developer, Project Manager

Greg Ervin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregory-ervin/

- Sr. Engineer, Dev Ops, CI/CD Pipelines

Alexa Varady: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexav/

- Full Stack Developer, Computer Science Educator