Hi Jack, thanks for the questions!
I will send you that info via DM on TG in regards to those profiles. Here’s the Cosmic Universe GitHub as it exists right now:
Currently, the core team consists of myself, a web designer, and the Troll Guild leader Mr. M who is our lead strategist. We also have an in-house NFT designer for our current collection Cosmic Wizards, plus 2 Unreal Engine 4 devs plus 1 more that is a temp while we are onboarding another full-time dev later this month. We are also looking to expand our team even further once we raise more capital with our upcoming NFT collection to develop the blockchain aspects of the game, such as the NFT marketplace, land NFTs, etc.
I’m unsure of the second question. I would assume however you normally distribute funds so whatever that would be would be fine. Harmony multisig wallets still haven’t been fixed so I cannot access any of our treasuries, nor have I ever been able to. Jenya has informed me he’s working on fixing it since there was a database crash in August exactly when we deployed everything that needs to be manually fixed but it hasn’t yet. If it was to be resolved, I think it would be best if the ONE would be sent to our project’s development treasury in the Harmony safe multisig.
Cosmic Universe is going to be the most immersive and advanced game to come to Harmony. There isn’t any other project as ambitious as ours when it comes to blockchain gaming. This means it will require significant investment, and we prefer not to pursue VCs but rather receive funding from NFT sales and the Harmony grant plus an Unreal grant. I’m unclear of what you are referring to when you say “undeveloped regions”?
The $250K will go towards devs, designers, animators, advertising. Unreal Engine 4 game development, senior blockchain developers, music & sound design, and game asset design. Other games like Axie Infinity are looking to raise millions of dollars while their game are far simpler when it comes to developing them. We could have developed an Pokemon/Axie-style battle-breed-win game for around $100K most likely but what we’re looking to develop will excel beyond simple 2D games like that.
The Cosmic Wizards NFTs are a collection of 2D gamified avatars representing customizable 3D root race characters within the game. Here’s a bunch of info plus examples of the these NFTs if you’d like to learn more. I believe Cosmic Wizards is the best-looking NFT collection to be released on Harmony thus far.
I will say that we are also looking into the feasibility of creating 3D animated low poly NFT characters in 10K collections that can directly be integrated as playable characters within the 3D immersive open world of Cosmic Universe, and with free airdrops of corresponding 3D characters to those who would possess 2D characters up until the point of those being developed. Again, we will have to look at the feasibility of that given I am not aware of any other project that has animated 3D low poly NFT characters that are playable in-game.
DFK is a DEX. Cosmic Universe is going to be a 3D MMORPG. I don’t see why we would build a DEX for our game or am I misunderstanding the question? We will however have a marketplace within the game and on the game’s website, like The Sandbox, Axie Infinity, etc. This native marketplace will be for land NFTs, character NFTs, items, loot bundles, Badge NFTs, and potions. There will be ONE, MAGIC, and COSMIC used as tokens within the marketplace (MAGIC = AXS, COSMIC = SLP but hardcapped). Additionally, we will have limited, but integrated, use of other partnered Harmony projects like RAVE for admission fees into raves, festivals, and events.
The key inspiration for this game is The Sandbox (except low poly instead of voxels and with predefined structures being able to be built rather than create-anything Minecraft style, at least for now), as well as Axie Infinity’s non-PVP mechanics of harvesting and mining, plus a little bit of Hash Rush. We also take inspiration from non blockchain games that include Aron’s Adventure, League of Kingdom, Elvenar, and Kenshin Impact. The key difference between all of these (minus Aron’s Adventure) is the 3D immersive low poly open-world design.
Hope that clarifies things!