Cardano After Dark - Hold'em poker

"Kaleidoscope" to the paper [2]"Royale"* as well as [3]"21 - Bringing down the Complexity"*

This will not just get IOGs papers in a real Environment but will also bring lower cost to Pokerplayers and raise awareness for Cardano within the gaming-community. Our implementation will be open source and well documented which means it can be reused and built upon by everyone in the Cardano eco-system. In addition our hope is to benefit from an ecosystem, filled with professionals in mathematics, game theory and exploitation.

Poker could be just the beginning, creating a poker-platform based on these papers we keep other card-games in mind for easier integration in further iterations while others could use our model to build their own card-games or find other usecases in other Cardano-markets for this model!

Within the context of this proposal we will create Testnet-player-NFTs to incentivize and have an immutable record of their participation and who knows what else we can bring to the community once we have a plattform to implement these, Avatar-NFTs, open-source-contributers, DIDs.

How does success look like?

A proof of concept/MVP on the Cardano Testnet

Users who own ADA can play the game using real tokens

rules should be applied correctly (e.g. a user leaving midgame loses part of his stake)

Responsible game actions shall be applied (e.g. prevent addictive behaviors, by alerting or incentivising game-stops)

A mechanism for social compensation shall be applied.

The Plan: Roadmap and Milestones

While working in a Lean and Iterative Methodologie, we think these Milestones can be met.

First three months:

Implement part of the smart contract, including the below bullet points

Wallet integration
Smart contract
Frontend
Backend

Extensive documentation on what we do and on the process.

Part of analytic documentation incl. flowchart, algorithm, contract.

first six months:

go from development to public testnet

publish articles about what we do

open source the project

MVP finished

ready for auditing

Team

Seomon - Cohort F6, CA, IT consultant
<https://github.com/Seomon4u>
Psuzzi - Fullstack Engineer, Banking, Automotive, SW Modeling
<https://github.com/psuzzi>
David Baxter - Front end Engineer and Founder of Beanchain Coffee
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/baxweb>
Cem Karaca - Cardano Architecture & Design Developer Professional Student @Emurgo. fintech data center owner, MFC/C++ developer, cyber security professional. <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ckaraca/>
<https://github.com/ckaraca>
Cagkan - Backend Engineer. Experience in Python, PostgreSQL and a bit of HTML&CSS.
Jude Ben - 9 years+ Software Development , Plutus Smart Contract Development , Cloud and Infrastructure Engineer <https://www.linkedin.com/in/judeebene/>
Thomas - Theoretical physicist and mathematician
<https://nl.linkedin.com/in/thomas-vellekoop-1a622119a>
Steve Lockhart - Community builder, decentralization advocate, arborist, dog owner.
Nori Nishigawa -
<https://github.com/xeeban>
Shannon Baxter - UI/UX Designer, Information Architect, Management
<https://www.sbax.design/>

Budget Breakdown

Programming: 450 hours 50$ = 22.500 $
Project Management: 120 hours * 50$ = 6.000 $
Marketing: 80 hours * 50$ = 4.000 $
Documentation: 50 hours 50$ = 2.500 $
Community and partners = 5.000 $

Success metrics

Userbase:

Do we have enough initial users/testers? (100+ users)
How many rounds have been played (2000+ rounds)
How many transactions are being made? (250+ transactions)

Functionality:

The Poker application is complete and functional
We use funds from the connected wallet
If signs transactions that are directly sent on chain
It applies the rules of the game and enforces penalties
Reusability: can you use the application as a template for building similar applications?

Usability:

The application shall be easy to use and intuitive

Transparency:

Smart contract backend and (open source architecture) makes the system transparent.

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Links:

Check out our Github
<https://github.com/Cardano-After-Dark/>
check out our initial idea for an architecture
<https://github.com/Cardano-After-Dark/co-ordination/blob/main/docs/architecture.md>
Check out our ideation
https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lhLk_UY=/?invite_link_id=544237046605 ()
Join our community and talk to us!
<https://discord.gg/VwxRdEBwBE>

References:

[1] <https://iohk.io/en/research/library/papers/kaleidoscopean-efficient-poker-protocol-with-payment-distribution-and-penalty-enforcement/>
[2] <https://iohk.io/en/research/library/papers/royalea-framework-for-universally-composable-cardgames-with-financial-rewards-and-penalties-enforcement/>
[3] https://iohk.io/en/research/library/papers/21bringing-down-the-complexityfast-composable-protocols-for-card-games-without-secret-state/

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