Tower Defense game for CU to fight other Communities

[sauliusj.eth]

Abstract

For quite some time we were building Tower Defense game. Some negative sentiment is floating around our beloved unicorns, so decided to step out and do my best to help CU.

Won’t bother you all with lots of text (more details below), just simply try playing Demo version here – https://towerdefense.fun/

Tip #1 – Mobile – some browsers (Safari) allow full screen mode in horizontal view: make sure to have single tab (TD game) open, rotate phone (I usually use incognito mode).

Tip #2 – No blockchain – current game version is not connected to blockchain, so there are no limitations of Ammo NFTs, Superpowers usage. You can enjoy full power now, cause in real duel you’ll need to earn it. Try using Base ammo, if you can’t make it, gradually increase better ammo usage.

Tip #3 – Skills – only 1 level out of 10 needs better ammo than Base and it’s not lvl10.

Motivation

We need to grow in terms of new players and this Tower Defense version could be the right choice to have fun and bring more attraction to our ecosystem.
• Classic genre proved its popularity through time
• Communities are very important in web3, so duels between them are more than intriguing
• Gamified marketing through bringing attraction from different Communities
• Zero inflation: no native token, all minted NFTs through game shall be burned
• Incentives for daily play, easy posting on X, special Daily, Limited time challenges to get instant NFTs
• Compete with comrades to climb leaderboard, get part of whole rewards pool if your Community wins the season
• Micro earnings (negotiation of partnership with XAI gaming meme coin leadership is in progress)
• New maps, monsters, settings (meta) in each season/ duel will keep players constantly searching for best strategies, acquiring more skills

Details

Disbursement Schedule

• First payment – $ 40k (stablecoins) after succesfull voting for these deliveries to be done in TEST environment during 3-4 months
  • Bugs fixes, UI improvements and new page(s) „Rewards“
  • Towers, Monsters, waves settings changes for balancing gameplay (Community feedback)
  • Build backend, connect to XAI blockchain (create Ammo, Stamps NFTs collections, read/use players owned NFTs, mint Stamps NFTs, contribution, bonus, rewards functionalities, transactions fees coverage)
  • Connect wallet with Social login
  • Purchase Ammo NFT‘s directly in game (Credit card and Crypto)
  • New UI elements reflecting Communities participating in duel themes (maps, Towers, Monsters)
• Second payment – $ 20k (stablecoins) after succesfull testing in TEST environment for these deliveries to be done in PROD environment during 3-4 weeks
  • Deploy deliveries made in TEST environment, test, fix in PROD
  • Add additional cloud resources
• Candidates for additional deliveries (when main ones are done and some time, money left)
  • Smart contract audit
  • Connect wallet with Metamask, Base
  • Purchase ammo with Apple, Google pay
  • Statistics collection (in game, on chain actions)
  • 2x game speed on/ off
  • Medium difficulty „Daily Challenge“ level to get Stamp part NFT after finishing it
  • Hard difficulty „Limited Time Challenge“ level to get whole Stamp NFT(s) after finishing it
  • SEO

Conclusion

Obviously (seeing what is already build) I believe that challenging, not monotonous (often introduced new maps, monsters, settings) gameplay and fighting against other Communities is really fun and innovative in web3.

More than ready to hear what CU Community think about this. Thanks for your feedback in advance!

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[KeizerMc]

The biggest de-motivator for this proposal is the CU treasury. Would love to support this but I want to see first what the others are going to say.

currently for me is a “not at this time” state.

[Prof]

Hey SJ,

First off, thank you for putting the time into this proposal and your game. I appreciate that you actually thought of your game loop and tried to put out a demo before putting in a proposal. My answer is going to be no for the time being for the below reasons:

1. The treasury is really struggling right now to keep our primary game afloat, thus we cannot take on additional risks at the moment.
2. If a game is complete and the risk was taken from your team, I would be more interested in providing a marketing budget to help get you started, as opposed to a whole project development budget.
3. I would like more details on the team members, who is everyone that will be involved in the project.

Mainly, I have to say no because of our treasury situation and I don’t think this is the right time to take on an additional risk. So, timing is my main reason, keep this on the side in case we enter a bull market where/if we have excess funds and taking risk is more acceptable.

Thanks again for your proposal SJ

[GoliathRulz]

Due to past attempts to support 3rd party projects showing less than favorable results it is the recommendation of this council member that funding be acquired through other means and the author return to the DAO when a full working alpha is ready for review for potential consideration. While the idea is interesting, it would be more appropriate to find funding through venture capital and/or a XAI or Arbitrum grant for initial game discovery.

Additionally, blockchain support; security and auditing will require to be supported prior to consideration under the DAO. It is highly risky and dangerous to all parties to considering a project that may not have a full understanding of these requirements.

Also, due to timing with the treasury funding from the DAO will be dedicated to supporting and expanding core game functionality.

As a result, at this time this council member will be voting for against supporting this endeavor.

[Eyolis]

I really like the Tower Defense idea but I would prefer it to be connected to our main game and that we stop building alt game that do not make any difference neither bring players into CU.

If you can work in coordination with LG and make this happens, that would be dope, with some nice CU burn mechanism and real utility to use our NFTs in here or new NFTs if there is reasons for but please please please, connect it to our main game !

[timetraveler]

Wish I could entertain your proposal at this time. I don’t see a single CU in the treasury we can spare at the moment. So without any funds I can’t support. Let’s hope for some better news and revisit your proposal in future.

[sauliusj.eth]

Thanks for feedback, some comments below

"Due to past attempts to support 3rd party projects showing less than favorable results it is the recommendation of this council member that funding be acquired through other means and the author return to the DAO when a full working alpha is ready for review for potential consideration. "
COMMENT: fully working 10 levels game with different monsters, towers and their abilities can be tried here - https://towerdefense.fun/ (no need to connect wallet, just try finishing all levels using Base ammo)

…timing and with treasury state…
COMMENT: I have some CU bags to care about, so that’s exactly why I step out from silently building the game and offered one of the most innovative tool to put on LG marketing table to get more attraction, hooking gambling degens…

…connection to CU main game…
COMMENT: there is a strict rule not to mention anything where LG support/ help is needed in Proposal, so directly I can’t ask LG to make some recipes for ammo crafting, incorporate other main game usable stuff into Tower Defense, I can’t even ask them to use their connections and agree with other Community to have a real duel…
For now I can offer wCU usage for ammo purchase, which means that 20% of it will go to LG, will be burned or redistributed to Community

Core of whole TD loop is

1. Get attraction of players from different Communities
2. Hook them into challenging loop, emotional wish to win the duel (+get rewards)
3. Skills are needed to finish as much levels as possible with Base ammo (free one), but there is at least 1 lvl where player has to buy ammo (spend wCU = generate revenue)
4. More contributions, more powerfull Community becomes unlocking superpowers to be used
5. Contributions bonuses for Daily play, posting on X incentives constant playing and social awareness…

Thanks again for the feedback, I did my best to help beloved unicorns!