Description of your project
1. Background and Motivation
The story-gameplay (also known as Script-Murder) is becoming popular in recent years. Based on the story, the player acts as one of the story roles, and interacts with others to achieve the ultimate goal from the first perspective. It is characterized by the strong immersion, content-based, social networking attributes, etc.
Our team started story-gameplay Web2 project from 2017 and became one of the TOP brand in this category. We have accumulated 30 million Web2 online users, nearly 100 offline studios which can give story-gameplay offline play service to customers in different cities.
The story-gameplay has its own ecosystem roles, including creator, publisher, service provider, player, etc. With the rapid growing, this industry encounters several issues which need to be solved urgently, for example:
- The piracy is rampant, which will affect the content quality;
- The story price cannot be correlated with actual popularity;
- The creators only get a small part of the story selling;
- The players have no way to be profitable.
- The creation effeciency is low, which will affect the content quantity;
These issues limit the development of the whole industry. We believe that the content creators and players need to receive more incentives in the whole economic system as they contribute their innovative ideas and active participation to the whole system. Moreover, we belive that not only professional creators, but also ordinary users can create their favorite contents to make the whole industry prosper.We found that the Web3 and AIGC technology is very suitable to solve the problem and can give an explosive growth for the production of high quality contents. This is the main motivation of our team to build this project.
2. What do we build?
Our vision is to create a STEAM-like story-gameplay co-creation platform in Web3 and AIGC. To solve the current issues in story-gameplay industry, e.g. the copyright problems, the creation effieiency problems, etc., we designed the FindTruman platform. Based on the co-creation economic system we designed, the rights-and-interests and the incentive mechanism of story-gameplay could be clarified. For creators, their income is directly correlated to the story’s popularity. For players, they could hold the Story NFT which will make them profitable. Moreover, with our AIGC engine, all participants could easily generate story cover images, clue cards and more contents without any creation barriers. It will greatly enhance their creation efficiency.
We design our FindTruman platform containing UGC Editor platform and Story-gameplay platform. The details are as following：
2.1. UGC(User-Generated Content) Editor Platform
The UGC Editor platform is a multi-chain co-creation platform. With our designed multi-chain mechanism, the creators will freely publish the stories to corresponding blockchain according to the communities they want to attract. It can attract more participants, expand the audience, and strengthen the fluidity of the Story NFT and story content of the platform.
1) Story content on chain
The creators can freely create their stories, and update the stories according to the feedbacks. Moreover, they can also invite the players to decide the plot development. All the story contents and story updates will be recorded on the chain the creators selected.
2) Issue Story NFT
The creator could issue Story-NFT on the corresponding chain according to the communities they want to attract. Story NFT holders will be deeply bound with this story, enjoy the whole plots and obtain future rewards from the Story NFT. For creators, their income will directly be linked to the story popularity which will incentivize the production of higher quality content.
3) Co-creation with Story-NFT
The creators could invite the story NFT holders to decide the plot development by voting. Moreover, the creators could set the co-creation tasks, like creation of the cover image and role images, translation of the story into different languages, design of clue cards, 3D construction, etc., and incentivize others with story NFT to join the co-creation procedure together. By this way, the community with good adhesion can be created.
4) AIGC (Artificial Intelligence Generated Content) tools
With AI technology, our platform will assist the creators to expand the inspiration of story creation, automatically improve the story logic and polish the story, intelligently generate story covers and illustrations. It will not only improve content creation efficiency, but also lower the threshold for content creation, which will definitely empower more users to quickly create high-quality contents with AIGC technologies.
At the end of this procedure, the story will have a high quality content or IP with their first fans. The UGC editor platform is aimed to improve the creation efficiency. For example, creators usually spend 2 months for text content if he/she does the creation work alone. With this platform, the creators could co-create the story contents through community cooperation, and will only take 2 weeks to finish the story contents.
2.2. Story-gameplay platform
1) Construct 3D story-gameplay
For the completed stories on UGC Editor platform, the users or community fans could build the releated 3D scenes by dragging and dropping on the page, just like Decentraland, Sandbox, etc. Then, the 3D story-gameplay will be released on the story-gameplay platform for public to experience.
2) Enjoy the unprecedented gaming experience
For Web2 and Web3 players, they will pay the tickets to be immersed in 3D story-gameplays. In the story-gameplays, the players need to act as one of the story roles and interact with other players to unlock the hidden clues. Finally, they will make reasoning to reveal the truth. The story-gameplay combines the strong sense of immersion, various story contents, thrilling reasoning experience and social networking. It will bring the players unprecedented gaming experience.
3) Obtain incentives
Players need to pay for the tickets of story-gameplay, and they could get further rewards if they have an excellent performance. The ticket sales of story-gameplay will be shared to its Story NFT holders and other contributors.
3. Our differentials
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TOP brand of story-gameplay category
Our team started story-gameplay Web2 project from 2017 and became one of the TOP brands in this category. -
Accumulation of large user group base
We have accumulated more than 30 million Web2 online users, and more than 1,500 creators. -
Multi-chain integration
Our story-gameplay platform and UGC editor platform both support the integration of multi-chains. Creators from other ecosystems can easily join in building IRISnet after the integration. We have supported several chains, including Polygon, Ethereum, NEAR, Dfinity, Tezos, and etc. In the future, we are looking forward to the cross-chain transfer of assets between IRIS and other chains. This will allow users to easily transfer the digital assets. In this way, the liquidity and value of NFTs will be increased. Moreover, it will also allow users on different blockchains to share resources and information, which will drive the collaboration and development of blockchains. Finally, a wider community and network will be built. -
A brand new blockchain gaming form
In the story-gameplay, the players act as one of the story roles, and interact with each other from the first perspective to experience a new piece of life. The story-gameplay is not just a game, it belongs to the content entertainment industry which could be equivalent to the film industry. Its life cycle is much longer than gaming. The story-gameplay uses GAME as the carrier and allows users to obtain CONTENT by acting as the story role from the first perspective. This experience will bring a strong sense of immersion to players to experience different lives. The story-gameplay, integrating “CONTENT”, “Games”, “IP”, “Social networking”, is deeply favored by Gen Z. Currently, the story-gameplay is the Social King of Gen Z. For the current issues like the profit distribution problem, the piracy problem… We found that the blockchain technology is very suitable to solve these current issues in Web2 story-gameplay industry. With blockchain technology, we further clarify the rights-and-interests and incentive mechanism to make the creators and players more profitable, which can give an explosive growth for the production of high quality contents and forms a positive cycle.
4. Our previous works
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We have constuct the initial version of UGC editor platform with multi-chains. It can provide more choices and flexibility. The users will be allowed to choose the blockchain that suits their needs and preferences,access more blockchain ecos and discover more value and potential. Currently, our platform has successfully integrated with Polygon, NEAR, Ethereum, Dfinity, Tezos, and etc. Here are the demo video of UGC editor: youtu.be/yjrb5hYAcJU
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We have construct the demo of FindTruman story-gameplay platform (youtu.be/-TApcp99avQ)
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We have won several international hackathons, including:
· Champion of 2022 Wanxiang Blockchain Fall Hackathon
· 3rd place of Polygon’s global hackathon of BUIDL it Summer hackathon
· Bronze winner of Blockchain Gaming Hackathon hosted by ABGA. -
We have built the early community of our project in Web3. We have successfully attracted nearly 20K followers in our Twitter, 14K followers in our Discord and 25K participation badges.
5. Deck
What and how would your project improve the IRISnet ecosystem?
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Our project focus on the multi-chain NFT gaming. Through integrating with IRISnet, users could issue the story contents and Story NFT on IRISnet. In the future, we will realize the cross-chain transfer of assets through IRIS protocol. The liquidity and value of NFTs will be enhanced, and it will drive the collaboration and development of blockchains.
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Introduce players from our Web2 platform. Our team started story-gameplay Web2 project from 2017 and became one of the TOP brands in this category. We have accumulated more than 30 million Web2 online users. We will attract users from Web2 by our incentive mechanisms and promotions to IRISnet and Cosmos ecosystem.
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We will build the story-gameplay content with the theme of IRISnet to attract more creators and players to participate in the co-creation procedure, which will have a better promotion effect of IRISnet. Moreover, since our platform has multi-chain mechanism. We will make promotions to make more players come to enjoy our story-gameplay on IRISnet.
What is your detailed work plan?
Here is our developmental roadmap:
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Step 1:
Develop the story releasing functions of UGC Editor integrating IRISnet. The creators can freely release their own stories on chain, and update their stories according to the readers’ feedbacks. Moreover, we will develop the function of Story-NFT on IRISnet. The creator could specify the related NFT information ( i.e. the total number, the price, etc.), and issue the Story-NFT on IRISnet. -
Step 2:
Develop the co-creation functions of UGC Editor integrating IRISnet. The creators could set the co-creation tasks and incentivize others to join the co-creation procedures with the rewards of Story-NFT on IRISnet. -
Step 3:
Based on the UGC Editor Platform, we will create a new story and build the relevant 3D scene story-gameplay and will launch on IRISnet. The story-gameplay will be opened to the public to experience and play. We will co-host the story-gameplay with IRISnet ecosystem. -
Step 4:
Develop an AIGC(AI Generated Content) tool with Text-to-Image function. It could help creators on IRISnet to generate wonderful contents just by inputting text, which will make their stories more vivid. Host story competition with blue-chip communities. -
Step 5:
Improve the AIGC tool with Text-to-Music & Text-to-3D functions, which could help creators on IRISnet to generate 3D models and music contents just by inputting text. It will generate various 3D models to the story-gameplays and enhance the creation efficiency.
What kind of resources are being requested?
We need some fund to support the partial cost of the hardware resource and the labor cost of our developers, and contribute to the innovation and prosperity of IRISnet.
Here are our milestones and deliverables:
[Milestone 1]
- Duration: 6 weeks
- Funds request: 12,000 USD
- Deliverables:
- Design UI/UX of story releasing functions on IRISnet.
- Develop the function of issuing story content on IRISnet: The creators can freely release their own stories, and update their stories according to the readers’ feedbacks.
- Develop the function of Story NFT on IRISnet. The creator could specify the related NFT information( i.e. the total number, the price and the number of author-retained NFT), and issue the Story NFT on IRISnet. The story’s future profits will be shared to its Story NFT holders.
[Milestone 2]
- Duration: +4 weeks
- Funds request: 7,000 USD
- Deliverables:
- Design the UI/UX of co-creation functions on IRISnet.
- Develop the co-creation functions. The creators could set the co-creation tasks, like translation, illustration design or 3D construction, and incentivize others to join the co-creation procedure with the rewards of story NFT on IRISnet. The users could submit their own works for the creators to review. Finally, the user of the best work will be rewarded as the corresponding NFT after the creator’s review. The review of the submitted works will be judged manually by the creators, while the rest of the business logic (i.e. sending NFT rewards) will be automatically executed on IRISnet.
- Gather ideas based on users’ feedback
[Milestone 3]
- Duration: +4 weeks
- Funds request: 6,000 USD
- Deliverables:
- Design the UI/UX of 3D scene story-gameplay on IRISnet.
- Develop the customized 3D scene story-gameplay for IRISnet. The players will be immersed in 3D scenes, act as one of the story roles, interact with other players to collect the scattered information, unlock the hidden clues, make reasoning and reveal the truth. Players could get more rewards if they have an excellent performance.
- The story-gameplay will be opened to the IRISnet network members to experience and play. Collaborate with other projects in IRISnet, e.g. co-host AMA, games and other events.
- Official launch: Release 1.0. Users could join the co-creation process through IRISnet.
Detailed costing
- Contract engineer ($7k in total): develop the contract of story content and story NFT on IRISnet, including: create and update new story content, publish and buy Story NFT.
- Frontend engineer ($5k in total ): develop the related webpages of the current UGC Editor Platform.
- Backend engineer($6k in total): design and develop the interaction logic of UGC Editor Platform.
- Hardware and data resources ($4k in total): Purchase computing equipment, storage, cloud servers.
- Marketing ($3k in total): Promote the platform, including advertising, participating in exhibitions, etc.
In future, we are looking forward to the cross-chain transfer of assets between IRIS and other chains. This will allow users to easily transfer the digital assets, which will increase the liquidity and value of NFTs, and drive the collaboration and development of blockchains, allowing developers and users on different blockchains to share resources and information, building a wider community and network.
How will the improvement that you provide be quantitatively measured?
- Build the UGC co-creation platform integrating IRISnet to attract more creators to participate in the co-creation procedure, catalyze adoption of IRISnet ecosystem growth.
- Build one story-gameplay with the theme of IRISnet to attract more players to enjoy the unprecedented gaming experiences.
- Build a AIGC platform in IRISnet. All users can create IRIS related AI content without any barriers.
- The development codes, including front-end, back-end, smart contract of the UGC Editor Platform on IRISnet will be open source.