KemiLand MVP - The Royal Palace

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

KemiLand Metaverse MVP(Minimum Valuable Product) is an unreal 5 simulating Ancient Egyptian life 4500 years back in history. Users will use a VR to browse an imaginary Ancient Egyptian royal palace. Users will enjoy the 3D structure and have a glance of how Egyptians used to live in such an Ancient Egyptian royal palace. The journey should last like 15 to 30 min. For the purpose of the MVP A non-player character (NPC) will represent the Ancient Egyptians in the palace.

Once MVP is completed, it will be released with number of selected persons(10-12) from around the world to acquire users feedback. The selected persons will promote KemiLand and its MVP to local surroundings. The target audience should be people that already have VR setup or are willing to acquire VR setup and can convince others to try KemiLand MVP. These people will be considered as our first ambassadors.

This proposal is an extension to "Cultural Tourism - Beyond Borders”' proposal submitted in fund8, during the first few months since submitting "Cultural Tourism - Beyond Borders" we got more focused on creating the MVP as the basis for the entire project. This is part of restoration cycle 01. Many building blocks for the metaverse require further investigation.

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

KemiLand metaverse MVP is developed in Egypt, Africa and as its reparation increase it will position Cardano as one of the blockchain success stories in Egypt, Middle East and Africa.

We have great ambitions for the project the community benefits stated in the previous fund8 proposal and here is how we see the community profit

"KemiLand will target the public not only blockchain enthusiast, It will target ordinary people attracted by Ancient Civilizations, artist, celebrities' and everyone that interested on the Ancient Egyptian Civilization."

This MVP will not utilize the Cardano blockchain.

But Cardano blockchain will be utilized for the following features in the future releases:

• Minting KemiLand digital assets(Parcel, Avatars, Structures, Furniture, Wearable, etc)
• Issue visit tickets.
• The foundation for governance features (DAO/Voting/Minting/Stacking..etc)
• Maybe for game multiplayer features as physics(Movement) and communication(Voice,etc)

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

Lack of resources to build the MVP to mitigate the risk we are self funding the MVP

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

Current Proposal Plan:

• July 2022:
• Complete Royal Palace 3D design
• Basic game movements.
• August 2022:
• Build user trip scenario
• Create Characters
• Add palace decoration(furniture, attraction, etc.)
• September 2022:
• Integrate Sound effects
• Add Multiplayer options
• Integrate non-player character (NPC) 
• Release beta version of the MVP for testing
• October 2022:
• Release ambassadors version
• November 2022:
• Publish users feedback results

Complete Project Roadmap:

Warning! A Complete roadmap is work in progress according to the finding of restoration cycle 01(RC-01). The below explain our initial approach for future restoration cycles and not to be considered a final or confirmed detailed roadmap.

Project Phases

The project is divided into four phases with each phase consist of four restoration cycles. The planning is considered to keep development of features in progress.

*Khufu , Khafre , Menkaure and Sakara are the biggest and heights Pyramids in Giza Plateau.

The Khufu Phase(Establishment)

Lunching KemiLand and building teams, experience, publicity and relations. Main deliverables of this phase is a beta version from the platform.

The Khafre Phase(Into the new world)

Platform performance and enhancements and the start of community initialization . We expect first version from the platform will be ready by RC-06(Restoration Cycle 06). Visitors and citizens will start journeys for so far restored monuments. Citizen start contributing and building ecosystems.

The Menkura Phase(People are the Power)

A Complete decentralization for the platform and community preparation. Second version from the platform with complete decentralization should be available by RC-10(Restoration Cycle 10). Citizens start proposing KemiLand regulations and future meanwhile operate the complete platform.

The Sakara Phase(The Human Transformation)

More realistic humans actions simulation in the platform and community decisions enforcements.

A Restoration Cycle

A restoration cycles are the iterative cycles to complete monuments restoration, developing platform and introducing governance tools.

1. Each restoration cycle is estimated for 3 months(Subject to change and according to findings in Restoration Cycle 01 and complexity of restored location)
2. Only one monument will be considered in each restoration cycle
3. Total restoration cycles are 16. in addition another 2 cycles are considered for user experience enhancements. 
4. A typical Activities for each restoration cycle includes:
5. Site visits
6. Site design and mockup 
7. 3D simulation
8. Adding Game development features(User experience, gamifications, performance ,etc..)
9. Adding Governance features(Staking, Voting, Delegations ,etc..)
10. Experience testing
11. Announcements and publications
12. Public Sales for parcels and avatars to fund next restoration cycle

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.

3D Illustration, Quantity:3, Total Hours:250, Hourly rate:$8.00, Total :$6,000.00

3D Character, Quantity:1, Total Hours:180, Hourly rate:$6.00, Total :$1,080.00

Art Director, Quantity:1, Total Hours:150, Hourly rate:$12.00, Total :$1,800.00

Sound Effect Engineer, Quantity:1, Total Hours:120, Hourly rate:$9.00, Total :$1,080.00

Unreal 5 Game Developer, Quantity:2, Total Hours:150, Hourly rate:$8.00, Total :$2,400.00

UX/UI Developer, Quantity:1, Total Hours:150, Hourly rate:$6.00, Total :$900.00

Product Manager, Quantity:1, Total Hours:140, Hourly rate:$8.00, Total :$1,120.00

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

Mohamed Mahmoud

25+ years of experience in the technology field, bringing the true values of enterprise digital assets.

linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohamed-mahmoud-a54aa173/

Youssef Hosny

Working as a developer in creating interactive architectural visualization, digital twin, and smart city. He also published papers on "Performance Optimization for Standalone Virtual Reality Headsets"

Haitham Yehia

Working as a unreal 5 game developer

Andrew Ashraf

5 years experience in Autodesk Maya for Modeling, Texture , Rigging, Cloth Simulation, Hair Dynamics, Also scripting (Mel & Python)

linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-ashraf-64409618b/

behance:https://www.behance.net/andrewmalak1

Esraa Badr

She is creative and detailed-oriented 3D artist. She is highly passionate about art, computer graphics and creative process involved in 3D modeling, texturing and rendering.

behance: https://www.behance.net/IsraaBadruddin

Ahmed Zaki

Modelling polygonal environment assets, sculpting details in ZBrush, unwrapping clean and optimized UV's, high poly to low poly baking and texturing-painting in Substance Painter

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

Yes, the reasons is because of the community

[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?

• Progress of the MVP and its completion as planned schedule
• Number of feedbacks received from people visitor used the MVP
• The number of selected people from around the world for KemiLand ambassador role.
• Rate of increase of social media followers as per our organic marketing strategy.

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

For this proposal the success will be:

• Obtains more than 12 Ambassadors from selected countries.
• Social media followers exceed 15K
• More than 100 user feedback, with 75% positive ones

For the entire project:

• Completing set of platform development planned
• Completing set of governance tools planned
• Number of features raised and delivered by the Citizens
• Crowding for next Parcels and Avatars public sales
• Public attention compared with pervious restoration cycle.(Followers/news press/etc)
• Number of Community Assets sold per month via marketplace
• Number of Community Assets created per month via marketplace
• Volume and Number of transactions via marketplace
• Number of tickets issued for visitors.
• KemiLand asset price growth rate in public sales.

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

No, its continuation for unfunded proposal in fund8