NOW! NFT GAME NO MORE BORED!!!

[GENERAL] Summarize your solution to the problem.

Miverse will open up the next generation of NFT games with a multiverse metaverse which can provide gamers with thousands of different and diverse games. Check out our one-page in f9 here

[GENERAL] Summarize your relevant experience.

• In the scope of this proposal, we will use 1 game designer, 2 senior game developers, and 2 artist.
• For making the project succeed, we're working hard with 4 teams of game development, blockchain development, comic production, and marketing with 50+ people

[GENERAL] Requested funds in USD.

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

For easier reading and assessing our proposal please read this proposal with this link.

It has clickable outline to parts & Vietnamese, Japanese version

== STORY ==

• Story: Obviously, most NFT games in the recent past only have a few boring gameplay, which are choosing character cards, moves, skills, and clicking to distinct victory and defeat in a few minutes. Because it is mainly for speculative players, who are not hesitating to delete the game if it does not make any income. Therefore, these games can not attract real gamers – who always pledge loyalty to their favorite games and support developer to develop them better. Or even in the mainstream gaming industry, we can take the failure of Final Fantasy XII as an example. Its gameplay was complained about a lot by gamers after publishing even though the graphic is great. So, great gaming experiences for gamers is one of the most painful points that all game have to try to make.
• Potential: If it can attract billion of gamers in the mainstream industry on-chained, it will create a huge wave of revenue which can multiply many times for both NFT and the traditional gaming industry. At the same time, those models that joined in the development of this market are also sustainable and long-lasting, unlike NFT games of the previous generation.
• Image of success: With thousands of game ideas for the entertainment of gamers in the mainstream gaming industry and association with the crypto world, Miverse will become a potential platform that can help these gamers on-chained on Cardano. As a result, it can create powerful communities not only for gamers but also for game makers, content creators, developers...

== CONTEXT ==

"Story in a game is like story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but its not that important" - John Carmack

• Number of games released on Steam from 2004 to 2021

• Gamers flock to Steam in their millions, with the platform registering over 25.47 million peak concurrent users in May 2021.
• 5B downloads per month of apps built with Unity
• The Video Gaming Industry is now estimated to be worth $178.73 Billion in 2021, which is an increase of 14.4% from 2020. This is a marked difference to what was predicted in 2016 predictions, forecasting a total worth of $90.07 Billion for the same period – a huge 76.8% difference between the two figures demonstrating that we could see a further acceleration in growth.
• As the research of remarkablecoder.com there are 33554 games on Steam, 199 games on Uplay, 3125 games on GoG, 327491 games on Google Play, 811911 games on the App Store, 1893 games for the PS4, 1760 games for the Xbox One, and 2330 games for the Nintendo Switch. 

== PROBLEMS & SOLUTIONS ==

PROBLEM

• NFT games, and crypto games at the moment are not for real gamers
• Crypto game model is unstable and short-term, causing damage for investors
• Speculators and investors of gamefi are starting to distrust gamefi models at the moment due to unstability.
• There are not any NFT games at the moment that has a stable model for investors.
• Gamers in the mainstream gaming industry also want to play-to-earn but crypto games at the moment do not suitable for their entertainment needs/ experiences

HOW MIVERSE SOLVE IT

OVERVIEW CONCEPT

A strategy game that pits warships against each other in space (3-3 or 5-5). The game shares the same maps and assets with the mmorpgs that Miverse will release at the end of phase 3. This game in order to create a first and easier approach to Miverse's target users - gamers in the mainstream gaming industry.

For the overview of the game, please visit here

THIS GAME WILL ATTRACT THEM BECAUSE OF

• A new kind of game but familiar to players because it shares similarities with MOBA game
• Simple gameplay and short playing time (5~15 minutes)
• Can play with friends
• Completely free-to-play
• High quality of graphics (asset & effect) for game lovers, not for financial believers.
• Assets and environments have interesting stories

OUTPUTS

• 2 battlefields with diverse assets & items - CNFT
• Game mechanic
• In-game characters, battleships, light fighters, items... are general for all of Miverse, and items, assets of the battlefield
• Game mechanic designs

== WHO & WHY THEY LOVE IT? ==

GAMERS

This is the main object aimed by the solution of this proposal. The development of this proposal will attract and gain support from this object. Because:

• They have a new type of game to play
• A new style of game play to play
• It will help players to be more understanding about the Miverse game asset, character, and ships for further use in Miverse Multiverse

GAME MAKERS

The development of new gameplay for gamefi industry will promote game makers to invest their time and effort to grow more quality ideas. And with the development of this proposal will support game makers to:

• Have shared assets that they can use for their game ideas
• Create a motive for them to expand their crazier ideas than those at the moment.

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

The technical and oriented foundation of the Cardano platform is a highly adaptable platform for the future development of gaming environment and ecosystems, in addition to affecting metrics related to gaming development such as:

• The number of players from the traditional market switched into Cardano ecosystem, which adds up to the number of people that accepted the platform
• Number of ideas for development on the platform
• Number of CNFT developed on the platform
• Number of ideas, and projects about technology that supports the development of gaming
• Attract and increase the number of game makers, artists, game designers, game developers to Cardano platform

Then Miverse to grow this proposal, as well as the whole Miverse project, would help to:

• Create a flow of investment from the mainstream game industry to this platform
• Create a flow of investors from others to this platform thanks to the sustainability
• Impress both the gaming and blockchain market
• Increase the number of projects about technology, foundation, and infrastructure to serve both gaming and the blockchain industry. For example graphic/ file rendering, scaling... 

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

Except for the common challenges to the whole project as you can check here in our master proposal. For this proposal, we do not have any technical problems when conducting. It also is being operated without funds and we are paying for ourselves. Therefore, the biggest challenge of this proposal is:

NOT GETTING FUND

CHALLENGE DETAIL:

The production of mainstream and quality games requires a large amount of money and time. Although we do have the experience to minimize the cost and do have an amount of money to invest in this part, that amount of money is still not enough to develop gameplay with a battlefield that has quality down to the best details.

HOW WE SOLVE IT:

In case we are not funded in this proposal, we still have the possibility to operate the proposal with our own money but with less quality, less quantity, and less variety of assets on the battlefield. Then we will still develop the premium quality version that we have been aiming for, but the timeline for that final version will be slower.

BESIDE ABOVE-MENTIONED CHALLENGE, WE ALSO FACE GAME MECHANICAL CHALLENGE

For players, developing a new kind of game is a significant technical risk. Because it is necessary to have harmonious in-game stats, which create effects and excitement for players in the most appropriate way. That is the reason why we decided to choose a hybrid genre between MOBA and chess games, the combination will create new gameplay while keeping the old one. It also helps make use of old mechanics, while creating a new genre to challenge players. In addition, we will also arrange a game release schedule with testing times and demos to adjust the game in the best way before officially hitting the market and convincing players.

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

For the detailed execution timeline & output, please check here

For the detailed task, estimation & general timeline, please check here

For detailed planned - on progress - complete tasks, please check: https://development.miverse.io

We will only show the detail roadmap for the scope of work of this proposal only - from Oct 1st to Dec 31st/ 2022 - for the battlefield and game design detail. It seems have same content with some other proposals, but the key activities for this proposal will emphasize by bold font. For the full roadmap from QIV-2021 to QI-2022, please check the link above. It's too long to put here.

QIII, 2022

• Brand design (Done)
• Social media channels & community of Miverse (Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Discord, Telegram, Medium…) (Doing)
• Raise funding at Catalyst 2nd time (Doing)
• Tokenomic development (Doing)
• Litepaper development
• Game document development & finish for chess game (Doing)
• Finish Art concept & direction for the whole Miverse (Doing)
• In-game assets design 2D & 3D (Doing)
• UX/UI design
• Miverse web portal
• Setting up the fundamentals for game development (Doing)
• Back-end development (Doing)
• Front-end develop
• Marketing by communicating and inspiring communities with our works
• Social media channels & community of Miverse comic
• Finish some first story chapters for demo (Doing)
• Release comic on other comic platforms
• Developing the simple comic site in Miverse for readers can read and register
• Organize regular communication event weekly
• Publishing comic marketing materials weekly

QIV, 2022

• Finish Whitepaper
• Marketplace & blockchain development
• Smart contract deployment
• In-game assets design 2D & 3D
• UX/UI design
• Game detail development
• Back-end development
• Front-end develop
• Game Portal
• Other features
• Release the demo of the first game on PC
• Game testing and fixing bugs
• Marketing to inspire the audience to engage with the game release

QI, 2023

• Raise funding in Cardano
• INO
• Release the demo of the chess game on mobile
• Game testing and fixing bugs
• Launching marketplace for trading NFT
• Release new feature in-game
• Ship production
• Birth
• Item farming
• Loot box 

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.

This budget breakdown is extracted from our detailed budget estimation here.

We have a detailed financial plan for the most important part of this project that was made by considering our old projects and from other partners.

So, it can have some points that are different from your experiences and resource because we're in different conditions: location, HR, nation...

About the price/ unit. We use the $3.000 as the average number. In actual execution, it can be higher or lower than that number, but in our experience, that number is ok for estimation.

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

For the information on the whole team, and who is covering which group task/ task please visit our detailed execution timeline & output here

• For the art development of this proposal, Mr. Nings - a senior artist at Unicorn studio who is in charge of the Art development will work with Mr. Thang for developing the battlefield and its assets. If we get funded, we will ask for more artists to come to the timeline to make it on time.
• With the game design position, we keep in touch with a great game designer (Not closed the deal yet because he's in other games). From now to Oct 2022, we will try to work and close with him.
• 2 senior game developers will be led by Mr. Christian Ho - Founder of Unicorn Studio - to cover the technical development tasks.
• Last but not least, I'm - Alfred - CEO of this project - the one who loves playing the game and experienced it for nearly 20 years. I'm also the one that initiate the basic mechanic of this game because I can understand the insight of gamers. Moreover, with my 10+ years of launching and operating new businesses and the support of my current marketing agency. I believe that we can make this idea to the moon. 

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

For the scope of this proposal - No!

If we get funds for this proposal, we will stop to ask for funds for this subject because it's enough. You can check our detailed budget estimation here, there you can see the budget for the implementation of art and game design it no need more after QIV-2022

[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?

Our work will be shown in detail for the community audit on the links below. Depending on your needs, we made some kind of tools for not just auditing our proposal but further development in the future.

• For key metrics of the whole project please check our master proposal here.
• You can check the detailed actual executive roadmap here.
• And if you want to know which group tasks are planned - on progress - completed, you can check our page here: https://development.miverse.io (You can even suggest some of your idea there in the future improve Miverse Multiverse & Platform)

For this proposal, we will measure these metrics including:

• The number of player play the demo games - will be published in our website
• The number of player in our gaming community - it's public in our community, please check in the website for knowing which the community is from us
• The number of people follow our social media channels - it's public in our channels
• The number of produced in-game assets
• The number of designed character, battleship, light fighter 

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

We have a spaced gaming battlefield with new strategic game genres that can make gamers in the mainstream gaming industry curious to play, then start to love it.

At that moment, we're really making our first small goal and to be the first one who connect gamers to blockchain industry with knowledge and without bias.

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

• Yes, it's the next part of our not funded proposal about art development in fund 8 - but we're currently running it with our little money. https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/397499
• And also a part of this proposal is the next part of our funded proposal about gameplay development in fund 8 - https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/397373

In this fund 8, we propose 7 proposals that are all a part of this project - including this proposal.

For easier reading & assessment with clickable outlines on the title, please get in this link to all of our proposal in fund 9

• Game system & gameplay for PC/ Mobile development in QIV, 2022
• Art development in QIII, 2022
• Battlefield & Game Design in QIV, 2022(This proposal)
• Blockchain, Wallet & Smart Contract in QIII-QIV, 2022
• Comic Production in QIV, 2022

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Rating

SDG goals:

• Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
• Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
• Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

SDG subgoals:

Mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources

• Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including through a focus on high-value added and labour-intensive sectors
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• Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalization and growth of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises, including through access to financial services

Key Performance Indicator (KPI):

• Annual growth rate of real GDP per employed person
• Proportion of informal employment in total employment, by sector and sex

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