Flooftopia: NFT Interoperability

[GENERAL] Summarize your solution to the problem.

Flooftopia will produce interoperability between multiple NFT projects. The first of which is AdaQuest, and will provide value/interoperability to other NFT Projects, through Flooftopia’s ecosystem.

[GENERAL] Summarize your relevant experience.

Coding: Dirk

Game Programmer: Simon

Art: Christian

Story: Chris

Marketing: Conward

Game Design: Alex

2D-3D Artist/Animator: Oleg

Lighting Artist: Lena

Strategic Advisor: Marcin

(Additional Team Detail Below)

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

Flooftopia is proposing to build interoperability between our NFT project (and the MMORPG game) and other Cardano NFT projects. As Cardano is a 3rd generation cryptocurrency, one of Cardano’s core values are interoperability. We have seen some interoperability between Cardano NFT Projects, but there can be more interoperability.

Flooftopia aims to be the first, if not one of the first, MMORPG games with web 3.0 integration. With this, we hope to bring value and benefit other NFT projects, the holders of those NFT Projects, and the CNFT ecosystem.

[IMPACT] Please describe how your proposed solution will address the Challenge that you have submitted it in.

Flooftopia is a MMORPG game with Cardano-based web 3.0 integration. This means that it would have direct operations within the dApp community, and, with our goal to benefit dApps, NFT projects, and their users, Flooftopia’s value proposition of building further NFT interoperability addresses the challenge of dApps, products, & integrations!

[IMPACT] What are the main risks that could prevent you from delivering the project successfully and please explain how you will mitigate each risk?

Many of the possible risks, shortcomings, or challenges are already being mitigated. I have put in a lot of funding myself to get to where we are. 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 group behind AdaQuest), so we have great partners to help us along the way.

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed plan, including timeline and key milestones for delivering your proposal.

-- Q3 of 2022 --

• Begin reaching out to other NFT projects about mutual interoperability potential.
• Finish interoperability with AdaQuest.

-- Q2 of 2022 --

• Completed interoperability with > 3 projects.
• Begin seeking interoperability potential with non-Cardano NFT projects.

-- Q3-4 of 2022 --

• Completed interoperability with > 7 projects.

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.

Coding: $12,000 (120 hours @ $100/hr)

Marketing: $3000

Total: $15,000

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide details of the people who will work on the project.

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/))

Game Programming: Simon studied in game design and worked as an application and videogame programmer for over 5 years and is proficient in a variety of languages including C#, C++, Lua and CIL as well as the Videogame engines Unity and Unreal. Worked previously with Alexander Cimpeanu on several projects including two titles with Ubisoft Campus and as Technical Lead on Faith & Honor Barbarossa at encurio. Further co-created the Harmony library for a high-level approach of altering compiled code in memory for .net framework applications at runtime.

(LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-latusek-094728143/)

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/))

Narrative Designer: Christopher Smith is a highly experienced writer, and when he is not working on his writing company, Lazy Kid Imaginings, he is building out the questlines, storylines, and dialogue that breath life into the inhabitants of Flooftopia!

(LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-smith-783b6b93/)

Engine Work: Lena is a student in University that wants to work within the gaming industry, and after multiple internships at other companies, she has brought her Unreal Engine-work skills to Flooftopia!

(LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lena-ochmann/)

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, Cardano NFT, 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 build an NFT ecosystem that closer resembles Cardano’s core value of interoperability, and we will do this through example with Flooftopia.

[FEASIBILITY] If you are funded, will you return to Catalyst in a later round for further funding? Please explain why / why not.

If we are funded, we should not require further funding under interoperability. We are aiming to get to a point of financial sustainability through the sales of NFTs.

[FEASIBILITY] Are you or any member of your team working on any other proposals in this Fund9?

[FEASIBILITY] Are you or your team working on any other proposals from previous Funds?

[AUDITABILITY] Please describe what you will measure to track your project's progress, and how will you measure these?

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.

But more specifically, we'd be measuring:

• Number of Cardano NFT Projects that have interoperability between them and Flooftopia.
• Number of non-Cardano NFT Projects that have interoperability between them and Flooftopia.

This information would be readily broadcasted to users in both the partnered project and Flooftopia, and would be readily available for the wider Cardano Community.

[AUDITABILITY] What does success for this project look like?

Success for this proposal would be meeting the deadlines and partnered goals listed above. Specifically, success would be Flooftopia becoming a hub for other projects seeking interoperability with Flooftopia NFTs and game, and having greater than 7 projects with which Flooftopia shares interoperability with.

[AUDITABILITY] Please provide information on whether this proposal is a continuation of a previously funded project in Catalyst or an entirely new one.

This is not a previously funded proposal.