On the back of building our own NFT game - Duo - we found that a set of stable, well documented, tools and a website for NFT Game Asset generation doesn't exist. So we started building Revelar.
Revelar is the first NFT Game Engine on Cardano and will bring gaming-specific tooling for artists and developers alike.
This proposal covers a web app for artists to use the Revelar as a no-code drag and drop experience to create all final assets out of their art layers. Pick from statistical/random rarity generation algorithms to automatically combine your art assets into final files ready to mint.
V1 of this website will include:
- Create/manage projects
- Create/manage layers
- Bulk Upload and Store art
- Create/manage attributes
- Create rarity with rules or pre-built models
- Combine layers into final assets
- Export all images/metadata with CIP compliant metadata in bulk
Many amazing games are being built on Cardano, many require early asset generation to jumpstart their NFT project for the next stage of development. This No-Code generator enables those who aren’t quite ready to hire developers or learn the Cardano blockchain a simple way to Generate, Mint, and Sell their assets with Revelar.
This proposal helps meet the challenge goals by increasing the variety of games earlier and at a lower cost. This allows game creators to spend time on mechanics and develop a thriving community of gamers around their project.
Our world today is full of risks, especially with the unknown nature of our global economy & workforce.
- Death by success: Trying to onboard too many excited early customers to try and self-fund with revenue. Since primary revenue is earned at the mint, often infrastructure is underwhelming, under-tested, and fails. *We aim to solve this by using a launchpad application approach to run several scaling cohorts through, allowing us to vet early projects for alignment, as well prepare in advance to increase support staff, testing, and infrastructure for better launches.
- Subjective budgeting: Every team builds and spends differently. A risk if funded is being transparent with the community through open accounting on what we are spending. Thankfully the Catalyst team allocates awarded funds in tranches and as we report our progress every month for ongoing funding. *To create accountability and offset this risk we use them as a community arbiter to review our spending & hold us accountable by withholding or delaying funds if we abuse the budget.
- Software delays: Show me software shipped on time, I’ll show you software riddled with bugs. This is the largest risk with any DApp project due to the unknowns of this decentralized frontier and new technology that becomes available along the way. *Our approach is to keep it simple solving 80% of the problem early on with known systems and infrastructure approaches from our previous experience. This means limited complexity with smart contracts and a focus on scalable simple solutions with business processes (like 24/7 customer support, dedicated QA) that often save time by solving problems early and supporting customers when systems break.
We have also partnered with a contracted dev shop as needed for engineering overflow needs. It’s a known team for us and they work on enterprise FinTech software deployments around the globe. Reference available upon request. https://www.excellarate.com/
There are likely other risks, but we believe these three are the primary ones to take into account and mitigate along the way. Again keeping in line with the Challenge Brief, we want to deliver the highest value with the least amount of technical sophistication to grow the community.