Please describe your proposed solution.
========== IRONSKY GAME STORY ==========
The game is a fantasy that spans real life to hundreds of years in the future. The main character is a boy who grew up in the war and joins the air force to protect his homeland. Most of his life is spent in spaceships. He rarely returns to earth, except for visits to do his duty.
From then, the man starts his journey exploring the galaxy, the vast universe. Beside him are friends who are his support in this journey. In this endless journey, he has encountered many interesting things in space.
From having to fight to protect yourself and the loot to doing your own journey quests.
From receiving many strange signals, sounds, languages, light waves, magnetic fields in the universe, to completely new sensations in every moment he contemplates.
The game has 6 phases (AURORA, LUNA, SOLAR, STARS, GALAXY, UNIVERSE)
Overview about game phases:
Phase 1: <u>AURORA</u>
(First light version)
This is the first part of the game, the character is built together with basic components such as the earth space, the sky, and air battles.
Player's Tasks:
- Build character with basic skin items such as outfits, hats and power.
- Build weapons, spaceships
- Battle screen
- Small missions to challenge
- Collect awarded items and NFTs for completing missions
- Collect special items to proceed to phase 2 of the game
Phase 2: <u>LUNA</u>
(First step version)
After completing the tasks in phase 1, the character will be lost in another space (namely the moon). The tasks are similar to phase 1 but different in the scenery, status, items, methods of completion, monsters in the form of meteors, and fuel stations
Player's Tasks:
- Build new skills for the character to adapt to the new game environment
- Build weapons, spaceships
- Battle screen
- New special missions
- Collect awarded items and NFTs for completing missions
- Collect special items to proceed to phase 3 of the game.
Phase 3: <u>SOLAR</u>
(Origin version)
After having skills in phase 2, the character will enter the solar system era, the scene is switched to 8 planets in the solar system. Gamers have to go through missions on each planet. The Sun, The Mercury, The Venus, The Earth (removed), The Mars, The Jupiter, The Saturn, The Uranus, Neptune - and "The Ninth Planet ".
Player's Tasks:
- Mission objective is to conquer 9 planets in the Solar System by completing each specific task designed in this phase
- Collect awarded items and NFTs of phase 3
- Adding the appearance of space monsters
- Defining conditions to go to the next phase
Phase 4: <u>STARS</u>
(Discovery)
The game context takes place in a galaxy of stars with millions of dead planets. It is the stars that have never been known to humans and it seems that since it is also unknown, the character's earth exists. In the context of this game, the more players discover in the game, the more chances they have to receive valuable NFT items.
There is not much combat at this level, instead, the character needs to complete missions to discover many dead star planets. The character must have a special spacecraft to be able to explore the infinity of stars with millions of light-years.
Player's Tasks:
The player's task in this game scene is:
- Build your spaceship capable of entering the galactic space by upgrading existing spacecraft over time or buying in-game materials to craft.
- Discover as many stars as possible to further improve your chances of moving on to the next exciting new game scene.
- Collect valuable NFT items
- There are special quests that make it easy to level up, it's uncommon and can be lucky for gamers.
Phase 5: <u>GALAXY</u>
(Infinity)
In an endless journey like never-ending, players now have to constantly extend their survival time in space to be able to explore more levels and items that can be encountered.
Now the space monsters appear more and more powerful than before. In addition, special events that only appear once in the game are set up, players must reach a certain level to be able to participate in this event.
The special thing is that only NFTs will also appear in the event, which is very desirable for every gamer.
In this game the player must try to maintain the playing time as long as possible it will help to achieve a significant level in their game.
Phase 6: <u>UNIVERSE</u>
(Metaverse)
A perspective in the universe is opened, in this part players can experience virtual reality in the game. This section is specifically designed to support VR devices participating in the game's space exploration. Players must be skillful to cross the screen as well as explore many landscape angles and strange items. Above all in this part, players can design their own space like a miniature universe with friends to join the guild.
Please describe how your proposed solution will address the Challenge that you have submitted it in.
===== Solutions to solve the above specific problem =====
<u>Solutions game mechanics:</u>
The game allows players in the following forms:
- Play to Earn
(allows the purchase and exchange of items accessible as a special part of the game).
- Playing Free
(You can still experience the game at a basic level and hunt for items).
- Play to Earn goto Travel
(It's a perfect scenario where players hold the game's ADA and $ISKY, NFT coins as a reward for paying for their unusual travel).
<u>Scenario games:</u>
- Characters must complete the tasks in each phase to move to the next phases of the game.
- Each phase’s task will be different and the game space, graphics, and scenery are different. Like searching through the game space for special NFT items, quests to fight enemies, or space monsters.
- Strange objects or meteorites always exist in the game that keeps gamers cautious all the time.
- Gamer will collect points, items through gameplay which can be converted into game Tokens, and ADA through staking, farming or trading.
- Mechanism of hybridization of special meteorites collected. Create high-value NFT items in the game.Players can stake these items for rewards or use them to upgrade their spacecraft to a more special version.
- There is also a marketplace for players to store items, buy, sell, exchange, or upgrade items (such as Spaceships, clothes, weapons, powers, other accessories ..).
- Create events in the game, but the task that the player has to achieve from time to time every day to receive the reward is NFT or a token or something in the game.
- Conclusion: So the economy is built in the game to be beneficial to the parties involved.
This is our long-term vision and the continued evolving of the game helps players to experience the most enjoyable game experience.
<u>KEY METRICS - KPIs to achieved in this fund of ours is</u>
- Develop versions of the game IRONSKY running on iOS and Android. Players can download the game from the Apple Store or Google Play.
- Release of official versions for PC.
- Introduces a complete marketplace for players to participate in buying, selling, and storing the game's NFT items.
- Create events to attract players, issue rewards to players who complete missions, or win events.
- Release tokens for the game's ecosystem, for advertising, partners, or airdrop for the Cardano community.
- Increase the number of ADA participating in the game as well as the number of wallets registered for the game.
- Attracting the gaming community in the crypto world to be more interested in the Cardano ecosystem.
What are the main risks that could prevent you from delivering the project successfully and please explain how you will mitigate each risk?
<u>RISKS</u>
It is true that we faced a risk from the very beginning of the project when the price of ADA continuously dropped from $2.4, but we did not have time to pay staff salaries as well as lacked funds to hire more people. It was a very difficult time for project developers like proposer us on the Catalyst.
We've slowly progressed through it since Fund7, 8 and the project is on track with our roadmap. Now we have the confidence to develop many projects, and confidence in our team, they already have project management experience through the problems we have encountered.
Possible risks with our proposal are:
- Funds may arrive late or less than expected, affecting resources for the project.
- Some stages are not ready for support from the Cardano blockchain for the game in the future.
- Negative influence from the cryptocurrency market.
<u>SOLUTION</u>
We fully anticipate the above risks as well as the solutions available to them.
In the long term, the cryptocurrency market is having a strong sustainable trend. Blockchain technology is being applied more and more popularly and especially positively in the gaming industry.
In addition, funding from the Catalyst may be delayed. We may be funding a seed round for the initial operating budget of the project.
Currently, we gather experienced engineers to research and realize products on the Cardano blockchain. Those things make us determined and confident to carry out this project successfully.