by 0xd4076b05a720d263993bc5801d74692d1588c68a
Should the following Tier 3: up to $5,000 USD in MANA, 3 months vesting (1 month cliff) grant in the Gaming category be approved?
Abstract
The Infinity Keys team will create a multi-step puzzle challenge requiring players to participate in projects across Decentraland in order to earn an achievement NFT and be eligible for a random drawing.
IK will design & implement a “Pack” of four minigame challenges across projects in Decentraland. For each challenge players must solve simple game tasks based on existing content. This will orient players and enable pathfinding. After each challenge, players will be able to claim a free IK NFT. After claiming each of the four challenge NFTs, players can then claim an overarching Achievement Trophy NFT to show completion of all four minigames. Optional: After 1 month, a random drawing to reward those who collected the final achievement NFT.
Grant size
5,000 USD
Beneficiary address
0xD4076B05a720d263993BC5801d74692D1588C68A
Email address
Description
Infinity Keys is a creator tools platform to enable anyone to build and launch Web3-capable challenges, including treasure hunt-style puzzles for activation events.
Presently, the Infinity Keys team is the first platform user, creating hunts to demonstrate how puzzles can lead to significant engagement through working with partner brands and projects to launch the first season of coordinated, composable hunts with Web3 benefits. We’re offering to provide this experience for the Decentraland community.
Our aim in the future is that IK will evolve into a platform where community members can submit and QA puzzle modules as templates, and then projects can use those templates to host engaging quests for their own content. Like decentralized Roblox for casual puzzle games using Web3 composability and treasure.
For now, we are working with existing Web3 projects to provide extended engagement for existing content to help fill up space in the metaverse with more and more content as users onboard. While we build these experiences we are continuing to grow our available features for hunts, challenges, and puzzles to help projects give their users actually engaging games instead of surface-level contests and impression-based promotions.
Specification
The IK Team will design and implement a “Pack” of three challenges across projects in Decentraland. For a simple example of a Pack, please play with the IK Starter Pack: https://www.infinitykeys.io/pack/starter-pack. Each requirement has its own challenge (which can be multi-step), and players must solve a simple riddle, solve an anagram using the IK Thesis, and find IK values in our Discord channel.
For the Decentraland Pack, we will create multi-step challenges inside Decentraland, such as locate object hunts on particular plots, hidden ciphers and passcodes, riddles based on text or lore, claiming in-world items, or signing guestbooks on particular plots.
The IK team will monitor relevant Decentraland Discord channels and maintain a dedicated Decentraland channel on our own server.
The IK team will launch social and signage assets in coordination with Decentraland and relevant project accounts to alert users that there are challenges and games to play.
At the conclusion of each challenge, players will be able to claim a free NFT on Ethereum, Polygon, Optimism, or Avalanche C-chain. These are Infinity Keys 1155 NFTs that feature different concepts, from themed art to ancient maps.
While these NFTs are collectible by nature, collecting them can also be used as requirements for future Decentraland (or other) hunts.
After claiming all three challenge NFTs, players are able to claim an overarching Pack Achievement. Players that claim this achievement will have demonstrated significant engagement across Decentraland and will be eligible for a randomly selected drawing for $500 in MANA to be selected and distributed at some predetermined end date. This step is optional.
The hunts and NFTs will remain available for play as long as the associated projects and lore remains available to keep the puzzle logic intact (e.g. if one of the partners changes their plot and removes the location of a passcode, the game will not function and either need to be revised or removed), but the incentive for a campaign-focused drawing will end at the predetermined date.
How it benefits the DCL Creator Community:
- Infinity Keys provides a place for DCL visitors to participate in treasure hunts, fostering a stronger sense of community and engagement through providing content and puzzles that engage curiosity and satisfaction.
- Decentraland community will collect NFTs, and be entered in a drawing for MANA, funded by this grant.
- Infinity Keys will continue building experiences for Decentraland, we will add functionality based on community feedbacks and ideas.
- Strengthen community ties and foster a stronger sense of belonging to Decentraland by creating hunts that allow people to collaborate together with friends and strangers to solve problems.
The budget for this proposal is $5000. The typical B2B price for this level of a designed 4-challenge package is $4,599. We have reduced that price in order to make $500 in MANA available as a player giveaway incentive. There are more substantial packages available in a subscription-type model, but we anticipate running this initial campaign as a pilot before approaching Decentraland DAO for recurring funding.
Personnel
Infinity Keys is a small team currently developing puzzles, infrastructure, an initial B2B model, and a small community of puzzle builders. We are in the midst of an angel funding round and will conduct additional fundraising to scale and turn the B2B model into a community-facing platform in the future. This proposal would effectively treat Decentraland as an entry-tier B2B client. We anticipate running this as a pilot with the ability to create many more nested and expansive hunts across Decentraland in the future.
Gage Mondok, Technical Co-Founder, (Twitter anon)
Tawnee Allport, Front-end developer
Kori B. Riddick, Front-end developer
Chris Bloom, Advisor + Full-stack developer
Mr. E, Advisor, AAA Game Studio Senior Designer, (anon)
Roadmap and milestones
- Hunt scoping and project recruiting
- 2 weeks from start of project to sort and contact partners for plots and lore potential
- Puzzle drafts
- 2 weeks after finalized partner recruiting
- Finalized Puzzle Demos
- 1 week from puzzle drafts
- Social campaign content & approvals
- 1 week from finalized puzzles
- Campaign launch
- Anytime after social campaign is finalized and approved
- Campaign monitoring
- 1 month ongoing
- Campaign conclusion & drawing
- After 1 month campaign
The general scope here is to create a playable event within 2 months that includes partners across the Decentraland ecosystem. The target launch date could be slotted to almost any fall timeline given 2 months. I would like to target mid October to early November to provide a virtual experience before Art Basel in Miami in December, but we’re open to more strategic dates for marketing pushes if there are some.