Upper/Cut! Unity Card Game dApp

Anon Dev**: Developer with experience at Blizzard Entertainment and Arena Net

DigiPen Institute of Technology: The leading school for game development and design! Guest lectures and access to the creative minds of faculty members; many of whom are from or still in the game industry. Currently working on setting up an internship program to help on this proposal's effort!

Game Industry Advisors:

Anh Doh: Producer at Giant Enemy Crab.
Stan: From working on award winning student games to AAA titles such as Robo Recall and Fortnite at Epic Games, Stan has been involved in games his whole career.
Steven: Physics programmer at Epic Games.
Aaron: Designer, developer, artist - Aaron does it all with some of his most popular titles being Robo Recall and Fortnite at Epic Games.
Jordan: Jordan went to school for game development and is now a Senior Developer at Riot Games working on popular titles such as League of Legends.
Alan: Project Manager at Xbox Game Studios
Alexander: Developer at Treyarch
Joe: Developer at Probably Monsters previously at Respawn Entertainment

Defining Success

A ton of work has already been done! The design, design boards, proof of concept in a discord bot (invite for playtesting will be made available shortly. Respond in a comment for an early invite), prototype are all completed. Taking it from here with a bigger team will require some thoughtful planning as the team learns how to work together successfully and integrate NFTs.

1 month in

Design Documentation and Spikes started for extending Unity tooling and Cardano integration
Long term planning, strategy, and support
Work Items created, costed, and planned and Agile Methodologies set up
Sample sandbox plugins compiled in Unity set up and running
Improving existing systems
UI started
Gameplay systems improvement
Networking design review
Visual design iterations
Catalyst Community prototype playtesting and feedback collection
Uppercut website made with updates and concept art
Advisory board feedback on NFT integration and playtesting
Ready for testing and outreach starting

3 months in

Beta testing
Wallet integration
API for connecting to Logosphere work started
Player-To-Player tooling started
Reaching out to community for testing
UI improvements
Gameplay systems finished
Gameplay improvement iterations
Networking ready for testing
Cosmetics and custom animations for NFT integrations V1
Addressing community feedback
Catalyst Community Playtesting and feedback collection
Advisory board feedback on NFT integration and playtesting
Grow adoption and make splash with production release

6 months in

Unity NFT plugin ready for production [see https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Ikigai-UE4-Unity-Plugins-Tools/369860-48088] Disclaimer: this may take longer if funding does not go through on that proposal for plugin development.
Logosphere integration
Player-To-Player tooling finished
Player-To-Market integration started
Grow developer adoption with marketing materials
UI improvements
Gameplay polish
New fighter released
Networking bug fixes
Cosmetics and animations for release
Addressing community feedback
Extended playtesting and feedback collection
Advisory board feedback
No one likes to use plugins that are no longer supported. Any bug fixes or enhancements will be planned for and done here. Finishing all remaining tasks. Press releases and marketing to bring on more developers into the ecosystem will continue here.

8 months in

Release!
Unity plugin support and bug fixes
Marketing and outreach
Special release cosmetics
Special thanks for early playtesters and active community members via cosmetics/accolades/etc
Addressing community feedback
Custom cosmetics and animations
Onwards+
Continued game improvements
Community engagement and tournaments
Custom cosmetics and animations

Expected Launch Date: Q2 2022

Budget

Developer Costs ($14,500):

Senior Engineer (Because this is also a passion project, development will continue all the way up to funding. Some resources will be reserved to compensate the work done up until funding) = $8,000

Senior Engineer (Rest of compensation will come from sales of game) = $6,500

DigiPen Intern (Cost subsidized by Ikigai Technologies) = Free

Artist Costs ($5,000):

Characters, animations, UI, level, environment, cosmetics = $5,000

Website ($500):

Website, discord bot and community engagement = $500

Marketing ($0):

Marketing, sales, and outreach = Free as complimentary from Ikigai Technologies Team

Total ($20,000)

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