The NFT Gaming Podcast - Season 2

[IMPACT]

Currently, on chain gaming communities grow through word of mouth and social media. This has lead to isolated communities that are only exposed to games building within their current blockchain. In conjunction with this, NFT game creators have no wide reaching platforms for promoting their games and finding new players cross chain.

We believe a solution to this is to develop a podcast that can serve as a media hub for games building in this new play-to-earn industry. In our podcast, we interview verified NFT game developers across a multitude of chains to expose listeners to new ideas and begin to break down the barriers between gaming communities.

To be a guest on The NFT Gaming Podcast, the game founder must go through an application and interview, which helps us ensure a level of authenticity and transparency. We believe this will help us build a credible brand voice for NFT gaming that will last long into the future.

The NFT Gaming Podcast is hosted by Jason and Jacob, the founders of Duo, the NFT card game on Cardano. Jason has over 10 years of experience as a technical founder and developer, and Jacob is a professional YouTuber and designer with 5 years of experience in startups. This combination of hosts is key to the dynamic flow of the podcast and the depth of topics covered.

In our first season, sponsored by Stocktwits, we interviewed guests from a multitude of chains, and we’ve had tremendous feedback so far! We have already seen cross-chain collaboration beginning with partners rallying behind the vision of player owned gaming. We are looking forward to producing a second season, highlighting even more games.

We believe The NFT Gaming Podcast is a key component to unlocking collaboration between games, developers and players across different blockchains. At Revelar, we believe, a multichain world is both inevitable and beneficial. However, a thriving multichain gaming world will require game studios to have cross-chain exposure. The NFT Gaming Podcast is a perfect way to facilitate these interactions and begin to open people up to the idea of a cross-chain team.

As The NFT Gaming Podcast becomes a wide reaching media outlet, we believe there is an opportunity to become the future industry leader in NFT gaming related content from all chains. By actively promoting Cardano through this platform, we will not only bring more collaboration to Cardano, but will also increase our chain’s overall exposure to potential gamers and developers.

Our world today is full of risks, especially with the unknown nature of our global economy & workforce.

• Unable to find guests: When launching a new season, logistics around finding and scheduling guests can be complicated. We aim to limit this through an application process that includes scheduling times in advance.

• Platform policies: Certain social media platforms have restrictions around advertising NFT related content. While we try to always abide by all platform policies, if platforms restrict or ban content related to NFTs, it could affect the reach of our podcast. We believe the best way to mitigate this is to quickly build an audience that supports our work.

• Technical problems: Managing remote recording, as well as in house audio and video can be a challenge. There is always a risk when working with digital audio and video files that errors may occur. We attempt to limit this by recording on multiple cameras and making multiple file backups.

There are likely other risks, but we believe these are the primary ones to take into account and mitigate along the way. Again keeping in line with the Challenge Brief, we want to deliver the highest value with the least amount of technical sophistication to grow the community.

[FEASIBILITY]

The primary deliverable for this proposal would be the podcast episodes for Season 2. We target an 8 episode season released biweekly starting in June.

Milestone 1 (3-4 Weeks): Season 2 - Episode 1

Milestone 2 (2 Weeks): Season 2 - Episode 2

Milestone 3 (2 Weeks): Season 2 - Episode 3

Milestone 4 (2 Weeks): Season 2 - Episode 4

Milestone 5 (2 Weeks): Season 2 - Episode 5

Milestone 6 (2 Weeks): Season 2 - Episode 6

Milestone 7 (2 Weeks): Season 2 - Episode 7

Milestone 8 (2 Weeks): Season 2 - Episode 8

The requested funding amount for $16,500 will be allocated as follows.

$6,500 : Marketing and outreach

$8,000 : Podcast video and audio production

$2,000 : Software expenses

This cost estimation is obtained based on Season 1 expenses and projected growth.

Jason Toevs - CEO / Founder

Jason’s formal education is in Mathematics with a focus on Set Theory. With 10+ years as a full stack developer and technical founder, he has experience building and scaling software products and teams. His most recent experience has been focused on systems architecture design and leading an engineering team for global enterprise SaaS products used in Fortune 50 companies and 127 countries with 99.95% uptime. Plutus Pioneer Cohort #2, Atala PRISM Cohort #1

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

Twitter: @JasonToevs

Discord: ₳ussieGingersnap | DUO#1037

Jacob Christian - CCO / Co-Founder

With a double major in Entrepreneurship and Integrated Marketing Communications, Jacob is an experienced brand strategist and content creator. Before founding Revelar, he worked alongside startups across the United States to help them build their brands and grow their communities. His skills in content creation are best shown on YouTube, outperforming the channel average growth rate by +80%. His passion is cultivating community engagement through creativity and brand experience which is highlighted in Revelar’s flagship game, Duo daily as the game lead. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/designerfourteen/

Twitter: @designerfourteen Discord: designerfourteen#8550

[AUDITABILITY]

As defined by the challenge, our goal is to focus on two primary metrics over a 24 week period post funding.

Interview and review the gaming projects across multiple blockchains (Solana, Ethereum, Algorand, etc.).

Measure the views, downloads, and listens to the podcasts and report those back to the community each episode.

We measure the success of this proposal by two things: the growth of the podcast with a cross-chain audience and the quality of the content. We will define this project as done after the release of a high quality 8th episode for Season 2.

Revelar has a catalogue of past proposals & their progress at: https://catalyst.revelar.co

Season 1 of The NFT Gaming Podcast was proposed in the Fund 7 category F7: Improve and Grow Auditability and was not approved. We believe the community wanted to see this proposal in Gamers On Chained. https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/383950