Flooftopia: Social CNFT MMO Game!

[IMPACT]

Flooftopia is a community-driven NFT MMO game that caters to all demographics. Users will be able to customize their Floof (NFT) before the game is released, but how will they be able to customize it? Users will be able to make numerous customizations including:

• Selecting head shape and editing width, height, and length
• Selecting which ears they want along with where they can be put, within a specific range (want to avoid ears on the bottom)
• Selecting which tail they want and the length of the tail
• Choosing if they want any markings on their Floof such as a star, and more!

Flooftopia is a great game to bring gamers into the Cardano Ecosystem as it doesn't require an NFT to get access to the game or to play it. Also, we are building Flooftopia with two points of avoidance in mind. We are avoiding Pay-to-Win (P2W) and building a game where the game comes second to the NFTs.

Here is a quick overview of Flooftopia's gameplay & mechanics.

Flooftopia will be in a 3D environment where players will be able to jump, run, walk, craft, speak with NPCs, trade, go questing, and much more! A unique and challenging feature of Flooftopia is that it is NOT combat-centered. Though as other games have proven, you do not need combat to take on bosses or to cooperate with players and compete with other guilds.

As with most MMOs, Flooftopia will have skills that players can level up (i.e. fishing, woodcutting, etc.) As the player levels their skills, the proficiency of the skill will increase and new abilities/options will become available.

Similar to the skilling system that is common in MMOs, Flooftopia will have many professions that users will be able to pick from and switch between. Each profession will bring value to the player and/or other players within their group, guilds, or village (i.e. Angler may increase a player's fishing ability or provide an invisible +2 bonus to their fishing level and others around them.) Though, some more beneficial professions may have higher level requirements or quests having been completed.

Players will be able to build individual or guild houses and move the individual houses of multiple players together to form a village. Housing will always have benefits for the players with individual houses offering the smallest, and villages offering the biggest advantages!

Overall, Flooftopia is an MMO game that will have players working together in a social/cooperative manner. Whether it is the elements or bosses that players will have to overcome, there will be benefits to players working together. This will be accomplished in multiple ways such as:

• Joining NPC-led guilds that specialize in different skills or game-aspects
• Join/start your own group, guild, or village
• Cooperate to take on bosses & challenges
• Work together on an in-game scale to overcome obstacles
• Compete with or against other groups, guilds, or villages, and more!

It is with this blend of MMO common features and unique features/mechanics that Flooftopia will be a game that users will want to play and will help bring gamers into the crypto space.

Flooftopia is the ideal project to make the Cardano Ecosystem the premier blockchain for gaming. We are appealing to all audiences with our unique gameplay and ensuring a high skill ceiling and a low skill floor to minimize barriers to entry.

As stated previously, we are building Flooftopia with a game-first and NFT second mentality. What we mean by this is that we are building Flooftopia to be an engaging and long lasting gaming staple within the Cardano and gaming ecosystem, and in doing this, we will be able to create value in ownership of game assets to convert gamers (who are already digital natives) to blockchain natives as well.

We'd be measuring:

• Gaming NFT Sales
• New Users & changes in the flow of new and returning players
• Amount of/Quality of gaming content created featuring Flooftopia
• Gaming partnerships with Flooftopia/Utility provided to blockchain gaming through working with Flooftopia
• Increase in new wallets made for connecting with Flooftopia (measuring conversion from gamer 'digital native' to blockchain/cardano native

We could communicate these outcomes once we begin NFT sales in May, and continue to monitor and provide new metrics once the game is finally released (i.e. Player retention, Player Satisfaction, etc.)

Many of the possible risks, shortcomings, or challenges are already being mitigated. I have put in a lot of funding myself to get this project up and running. Therefore, we can say that, should we not get funding, we are still going to be producing Flooftopia.

We are also working with Red Potion Studios (the studio behind AdaQuest), and with their expertise and history, we are able to avoid many of the game development pitfalls that would make us fail to produce what we are promising.

[FEASIBILITY]

-- Q1 of 2022 --

Complete/revisit Website Development

Continued development of Flooftopia 3D world

Continued development of Game Design/Play

Continued development of Lore/Questlines

-- Q2 of 2022 --

Complete Website development

Have Whitepaper developed before or near date of completing website development

Have >30% of Flooftopia World made through Unreal Engine

Release of Customizable Floof (NFT) Minting by the end of May 2022

-- Q3-4 of 2022 --

Finish of 1st Iteration of Flooftopia's World (Game is meant to be built on continuously with expansions, as most MMOs are)

Alpha Released for users to try/test*

*timeline may vary

Game Design: $2520 (~72 hours @ $35/hr)

Concept Art: $5100

Webpage Development: $6900

3D Modeling/Animation: $9375 (~125 hours @ $75/hr)

Coding: $18,000 (6 weeks @ $75/hr)

Marketing: $5500 (10% of budget)

Legal: $4000

Total: $51,395 + tax(7%) = $55,000

Coding: Dirk worked for Ubisoft, founded two gaming studios as a Dev Lead, and is currently working as a Technical Architect. He is the go-to guy, well-versed in everything tech-related, with 20 years of experience!

(LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dirk-potulski-71313428/))

Art: Christian is our Illustrator and UX Designer with more than 15 years of professional work in digital art, gamification, interface- and app design in the industry. Starting as a big fan of the classic "point & click" adventures (e.g., Monkey Island, Beneath a Steel Sky, Day of the Tentacle) on DOS and hoarding tons of comic books, he turned his geek hobby into an ever-expanding full-time job!

(LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-hayungs-9ba22457/))

Strategic Advisor: 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 provide additional guidance for Flooftopia, as well!

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

Game Design: 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 Flooftopia!

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

Marketing: Conward is the lead of marketing and founder of Flooftopia! He has been within the Cardano Ecosystem for 3 years. He is the host of The Cardano Convo Podcast, and he is an avid gamer at heart. After noticing that there weren't any NFT games being built for a broad demographic, he began putting together the ideas that would define Flooftopia!

(LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/conwardswift/))

Together, we have decades of professional gaming and business experience. We know that games are a great way to bring people together and into the Cardano Ecosystem. With this in mind, we will create an NFT gaming experience that caters to all ages and the broadest possible demographic.

We are all avid gamers and want to create an inclusive environment that mirrors Cardano's culture and environment.

[AUDITABILITY]

We will be able to measure the progress of the development of our project by how closely we are able to keep to our timeline. If we are able to get the customizable minting of the Floofs up and live by the end of May, that would be a great indicator of being on track for the development of the project.

Success for the minting would be an excess of 10,000 Floofs minted and purchasing of Floof Cosmetics.

Success for the game would be a steady player count over months of time, and multiple new Cardano Wallets created to allow for use of the blockchain integration within the game. Also continued funds through stake pool operations/incentives and in-game cosmetics would be a great indicator of a successful Flooftopia.

This is a continuation of the project that we proposed in Fund7 titled, "Flooftopia: An Adorable CNFT Game!" The funding requirements are identical, but I have been providing funding and seeking additional funding routes to make Flooftopia a reality.