AdaQuest SFX Library for RPG games

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Intro:

AdaQuest is a game project combining three different game phases into one whole Fantasy World Game Experience. Our first game mode is called ARENA. This is also the first use case for our NFT hero cards. Take a deeper look at our Catalyst proposal here

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It is not only our project that has problems finding suitable and precisely tuned sounds for our game world!

Many available sound libraries are very expensive, deliver low quality, or just don't fit the mood and environment in which your game takes place.

Unfortunately, good sound designers are often not available or simply not affordable.

Therefore the team of AdaQuest would like to go a special path and give the Gamers On - Chained Challenge community the opportunity to participate in this proposal.

That's right! If we get funded, we will not only hire the sound designer for AdaQuest, but we will let every Cardano Project Catalyst game participate. For reasons of cost, your project should at least have something to do with fantasy, RPG, or fighting. This way we can create a really large sound library together.

IMPORTANT: This library will not only provide sound FX, but also atmo/mood sounds, voiceovers, background sounds, loops, etc.

Besides this Challenge is focusing on bringing the masses to Cardano through gaming. Catalyst Game projects should use some of the resources wisely and ally to create tools and assets for the whole Gamers On - Chained challenge!

That´s why we have decided that this sound library will be made available to all Gamers On - Chained projects! How about that?

Once completed we will use our social media channels and communicate this appropriately.

Challenges

• Creating a sound library that not only fits AdaQuest
• Making it available to the Gamers On - Chained community
• Delivering the promised version in time and budget

Risks

• Unforeseen technological obstacles
• Not everyone has a game with fantasy, RPG, or fighting theme

To mitigate the risk of not supporting every genre, we will try to find a solution with the hired sound designer that will be feasible for further projects.

[FEASIBILITY]

-- Q2 2022 --

April - June 2022

--> Creating the SFX Library

Main focus for this month

• Collecting sound ideas from the Gamers On - Chained community
• Creating a list with the most important sounds (foundation for library)
• Hiring one sound designer

Goals for this quarter

• Releasing a sound library

Staff: Game Designer, Tech Lead, Sound Designer

Sound Design team:

Experienced freelance Sound Designer = 5000$/month

Setting up and delivering standard SFX = 1 month

• Advanced SFX = 2 weeks
• Background music & themes, atmo, etc. = 2 weeks
• Standard voiceovers = 2 weeks
• Including adjustment, polishing, and different format export

Overall estimated spend == 12,500$

--> Rates & times are estimated on experience in the past!

Game Design & Balancing: Alex worked as a creative director at Ubisoft's campus and as lead developer of Faith and Honor Barbarossa. He has considerable experience researching psychological and neurological sweet spots in game-based learning. With over 4 years of experience in game design, Alex is geared to bring the best gaming experience to AdaQuest!

(LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-cimpeanu-b9507a112)

Strategic Advisor & Founder: Marcin worked in marketing, sales, and project management for THQ, Ubisoft, CI Games, Daedalic Entertainment, and Rockstar. In the past 10 years, he has helped some start-ups in their initial phase, and he will also provide guidance for the Cardano gaming community, as well!

(LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcin-kugla-a92b5964)

[AUDITABILITY]

We use well-known tools like JIRA, Github, and Confluence to track our progress.

However, we develop AdaQuest based on our internal roadmap and the milestones we have set. In doing so, we set realistic goals and report them as we achieve them through our social channels. Progress is documented and discussed with the team every week (Mondays). After that, we update our roadmap and take the next step within the development.

Further, we will create a channel on our discord server our telegram group to communicate with all other interested proposers.

Creating a feasible sound library to satisfy the need of this asset for the Cardano Catalyst game projects out there. Additionally, it would be great to make this library available for different genres besides fantasy and RPGs!

Achieving this will be the main criteria for success!

AdaQuest was already funded in Fund5. Since then we manage to become well known within the Cardano ecosystem (Gamers On-Chained challenge was initiated by us). Besides founding Red Potion Studios, we have hired people, started to develop AdaQuest, created a Web portal with user management & tools, and build a mission statement & vision for the whole AdaQuest project.

Without the initial Catalyst funding, this would never happen!

To all the VOTERS from Fund5 Thank you for this chance!

Nevertheless, as we stated in Fund 5 already:

Our project with the three planned game phases (ARENA, Dungeon Crawler, Skirmish Battlefield - https://ada-quest.com/howto#future) needs a budget of around 500K$. So all our proposals here are aiming to get additional support. Every missed funding from Catalyst will protract development, because of the nature of such a gaming project. As always we are keen to hear your thoughts. You are welcome to comment!

So far our Catalyst proposals:

Fund 5 - DApps & Integrations (funded - 100K$):

https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/351663

Fund 6 - DApps & Integrations (NOT funded - 75K$):

https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/365863

Fund 7 - Gamers On-Chained (NOT funded - 55K$):

https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/382933