Another World - Growth Experiments - Cycle 11

[jackie]

Thanks a lot for this opportunity to grow with OP!!

Cycle 11: Final Grants Roundup

The Grants Council has finished its review for Cycle 11. Cycle 11 presented an opportunity for the Grants Council and proposers to engage more deeply on applications, as each Sub-Committee provided forms for proposers that were designed to elicit information relevant to the rubrics used to assess projects. During Cycle 11, the Grants Council focused on standardizing the intake process and improving consensus-based reviewing during the Preliminary and Final Review stages. The Council had the pri…

[jackie]

GM OP community,

We’d like to provide an update on our progress. We are now in our pre-season playtest period for Another World (https://anotherworld.gg, plz give it a try using web-based preview).

Season 1 is scheduled from June 15th to Aug 15th, 2023. We listed Another World on the Epic Games Store (the first OP game? in its Blockchain/NFT category): https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/another-world-b86b7e (will be fully ready for Season 1). Pre-season players will be awarded a score multiplier (1.2x to 2x) when they acquired one or more Treasure Fragment NFTs in the game. Final rewards will be distributed based on Season 1 scores. The score leaderboard will be available on our official Dune dashboard. We are lining up our launch partners for a series of summer events in Another World.

Currently, we have completed the following milestones described in the proposal:

• [completed] Have a Dune page (https://dune.com/jackieleeeth/anotherworld) to show in-game statistics - wallet counts, NFTs, and eligible rewards by the end of May.
• [completed] Deploy, publish, and audit in-game NFT item and OP token claiming contracts by the end of May (Treasure Fragments on OpenSea, audit report)

Please reach out to us for private tours (and ideas to integrate your tokens in Another World).
Thanks a lot for all of your support!! We are optimistic!!

jackie.eth
skvll.eth

[Mark.eth_De.Fi]

It looks really interesting and impressive, because there are not many quality projects like this in all crypto

I will be pleased to see the development of such a project and to participate in it

@jackie

How many users does your project have currently? Please include how you arrived at this estimate:
We have around 1k users who accessed our game based on our in-game questionnaire (about 1k answers) on the main menu. Our game is playable from the web browser (limited preview) and the full game client can be downloaded from HyperPlay and from our website.

How do you plan to maximize user interactions with Optimism and attract NFT holders and their friends to the game?
Do you have a clear plan for this, perhaps some prepared marketing strategies?

[jackie]

Thanks for stopping by, Mark! We are finalizing our Season 1 details. Yes. We plan to have waves of marketing pushes on our Twitter and with partners throughout the summer! We will start from 3XP web3 game expo in early June.

[Mark.eth_De.Fi]

Sounds great
Thank you for your reply, I will wait for an update

[jackie]

Hi @Michael

Here are updates on the current progress. We are currently on track to complete the last benchmark milestone 5k players by the end of Aug and completed the critical milestones (described below). We had a slight delay but we had a quite successful Season 1 as an indie web3 game studio (built with a 2-person core team with help from several web3 friends). Currently, we are running invite-only tours and battle events for feedback and planning on playoff contests for more prizes and Season 2 activities.

Another World is a play-to-earn digital world for gamifying token utilities to engage communities and their friends. Our main activity consists of Pre-Season (ended on June 30) and Season 1 (ended on Aug 15). Players are able to enter Another World from our website built with Unreal Engine 5 Pixel Streaming or download Windows Desktop Client from HyperPlay or Epic Games Store. We decided to delay our Epic Games Store public launch to a later date (Season 2) and have our main inbound flow coming from our website (casual players) and HyperPlay (gamers).

We designed our Season 1 game mechanism that combines both PVP battles and treasure hunts for both casual players and PVP gamers. Casual players can win by collecting on-chain game items whereas PVP players can take those items from eliminating other players. Game items are on our custom chain because of the frequent Tx during battles (imaging each bullet has an owner’s address). We were happy that we accomplished a series of battles during Season 1. More to come!

We will update our progress in the original post based on this reply.

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The goal of this project is to bring in more players for web3 activities in a game-like metaverse. Here are key features and milestones:

• [completed] Have a Dune page (https://dune.com/jackieleeeth/anotherworld) to show in-game statistics - wallet counts, NFTs, and eligible rewards by the end of May.

• [completed] Have PVP game zones that provide NFT items such as bounties, airdrop packages, and loots that contain special abilities and be ranked on a leaderboard by the end of June.
  

  

• [on-track] Attract 5k players to interact with in-game NFT contracts by the end of Aug.

We aim to acquire 5k players based on 50k OP grant funding. Our critical milestones include:

• [completed] Deploy, publish, and audit in-game NFT item and OP token claiming contracts by the end of May. Evidence: Treasure Fragments on OpenSea, audit report

• [completed] Have an OP claim webpage outside the game to allow leaderboard users to claim their OP rewards by the end of June. Evidence: OP reward claiming page for pre-season activity here. We are reviewing player activities and calculating a leaderboard for Season 1 (which ended on Aug. 15).

• [completed in early Aug] Have 2k players to interact with game state and in-game NFT contracts by the end of July. Evidence: We ran a couple of Twitter collabs, tours, and marketing campaigns for our Season 1 play-to-earn battles and treasure hunts. Check the battle game clips here. In those experimental PVP tournaments (which lasted about 10min each), on-chain game items (for scores) can be picked up by players and lost to other players when killed. These Tx were on our own custom chain and settled onto OP mainnet and chains that can be indexed by Dune. More stats on our Dune page.

Thanks a lot for supporting us and getting us to kickstart building a digital world with OP!

jackie.eth
skvll.eth
anotherworld.gg

[FractalVisions]

Very cool any updates on the last few milestones here from the end of August?

[jackie]

Gm @FractalVisions

We hit the last benchmark milestone in August and completed all benchmark and critical milestones in this proposal. Our Season 1 battle and treasure-hunting activity ended in mid-August. Currently, we are giving scheduled tours to NFT sub-communities. Our next activity is with ApeCoinDAO, we won the Top 1 place in the ThankApe Futurist Prop House.

Our primary target audiences are NFT holders and their web2 friends. The web3 gaming is warming up, but the NFT market is cooling down. We are at our activity-evaluation phase before we distribute Season 1 prizes and adjust our strategy for bringing the players back for more sustainable growth.

We also deployed our own OP-stack to handle in-game item TX. On the battlefield, a player picks up Soul Crystals (ERC1155 on OP-stack) for battle scores. If s/he got killed by another player, the Soul Crystals balance will transfer to the other player. Our main Treasure Fragment collection remains on OP mainnet and custom game TX will be mainly on our own OP-stack.

Season 2 will kick off in conjunction with the Season 1 prize-claiming period in order to gain momentum.

Thanks a lot for all the support from the OP community.

[FractalVisions]

Do you have any dune analytics charts that show the impact of your project in comparison of the grant that was received?

The reason I am asking is because we are seeking out projects on the Optimism network that help contribute towards the growth of the community. As we continue with the deployment of our platform on Optimism we are focusing on featuring projects that are specific to the impact in the realm of public goods funding on our marketplace. Gaming can be a huge catalyst to onboard folks into the impact making environment that we are a part of.

[jackie]

Thanks for your questions @FractalVisions!

Another World has been fueled by Optimism grants since the beginning. In fact, Another World was born in ETHGlobal SF Hackathon 2022 (as an open source project) when we first received Optimism’s Hackathon grants as a winning project - Another World | ETHGlobal. We keep working on it as an indie game studio project and just started to pick up steam over the past 2 months while executing our Growth Experiments in our Season 1 activities. Our Dune page can be found here. I highlighted our pre-season and season 1 time period here in the following figure.

We expect major upcoming activities would be 1) S1 reward distribution with the S2 kickoff events and 2) Epic Games Store launch (we are approved to be launched publicly as an Early Access Blockchain Game but seeking the best timing and other launch partners now).

Jackie

[FractalVisions]

Awesome great dashboard. I appreciate all your thought out responses about this project. I would love to see other games like this come to Optimism as well.
I will follow your progress throughout the near future.