Duelist King - Multichain and fairness-based NFT card game

Name of Project / DAO / Company

Duelist King

Application type

Partnership

Proposal overview

Description

Powered by in-house Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), Oracle and Random Number Generator, Duelist King is the first generational NFT card game that aims to transform the way people play, participate and earn in card games through top-notch game play, asset designs and advocacy for the sustainable future of Win2Earn.

As the first NFT game powered by PancakeSwap IFO with 640 million USD committed, Duelist King is built on BSC and supported by Fantom, Polygon and Cronos (powered by crypto.com) to provide a cross-chain supporting platform for NFTs and later Duelist King tokens.

Goals

We aim to democratize the card game industry by leveraging the power of blockchain and unleashing more values to the stakeholders of the game. Fairness is the core narrative of the game powered by:

  • In-house card distribution infrastructure with self-developed commit scheme and oracle that allows verifiable and randomized distribution on blockchain
  • Unique gameplay of using cards and rolling dice to offer luck-based excitement in the game
  • The DAO governing model is to be implemented in 2023 tentatively to engage stakeholders of the game i.e gamers, designers, creators, investors to participate in decision making of the game play and design

Development stage

The closed alpha version is to be released on March 3rd followed by public alpha in April 2022. The NFTs are now deployed on Fantom and Polygon and we are planning to integrate with Harmony.

Currently 23,000 registrants have applied to try the closed alpha version. We are aiming to gather 50,000 registrants for the public alpha version.

Upcoming milestones

  • June 2022: Player vs. Environment beta version
  • December 2022: Player vs. Player alpha version
  • 2023: the DAO and multiplay feature/e-sports tournament

Team

Dzung Tran - CEO & Founder

Dzung (Chiro Hiro) was the R&D Engineer of Cardano Labo Vietnam/Infinity Blockchain Labs, one of the first and leading blockchain startups in Vietnam. He is also the former Solution Architecture at HexTrust, a custodian firm based in Hong Kong with 6 years of experience in security, blockchain technology. Dzung has been involved with a variety of world-class research projects on tokenization, Random Number Generator. He has a strong passion for cryptography, decentralization and permissionless applications.

Nicole Nguyen - CMO, Co-founder

In her previous role as Head of Asia-Pacific for Asia Blockchain Review and Infinity Blockchain Ventures, Nicole was entrusted to leverage her industry insights and extensive network to develop the blockchain and emerging tech startup ecosystem in Vietnam and help transform the country into the leading blockchain hub in the region. Nicole has been the key organizer behind a series of community outreach initiatives in Vietnam including the first Vietnam Blockchain Hackathon, the first mass scale conference Vietnam Blockchain Week for 2,500 audience and ENIGMA - a blockchain business contest. She is also a co-author of the first Vietnam Blockchain Landscape Report and other landscape reports for Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines. She was interviewed by Forbes, the Business Times Singapore and South China Morning Post as a blockchain thought leader.

Nicole was the spokesperson for the company at over 50 local and international conferences including - World Bank/IFC event themed Blockchain transforms Global Supply Chain and Trade Finances, Blockshow Asia 2018 and a TEDx blockchain speaker. She has over 10 years of experience in managing operations and projects in MNCs, international donors, NGOs and startups.

Nam Nguyen - Product Designer & Co-founder

Nam has 7 years of experiences in design, UX/UI and product development through his tenure at numerous multinational companies and industry powerhousers such as NEC Corporation, Infinity Blockchain Labs, VinID and Binance - the largest crypto exchange in the world. He has been engaged with various roles in the blockchain space for the last 4 years.

Proposal ask

20K

Justification

Community activities, bounties and incentives for game feedback, scholarship for micro-guilds in SEA and South America to try the game

Metrics for success

PvE and PvP to be launched as per milestones with 50K registrants and 30% conversion rate into real gamers

External links

:white_check_mark:Twitter: https://twitter.com/duelistkingnft
:white_check_mark:Telegram group: Telegram: Contact @DuelistKingNFT
:white_check_mark: Game teaser Duelist King l Official Teaser - YouTube

This looks like an amazing game. Game mechanics are meant for shorter attention span for duels and the depth is not the emphasis here (though the roadmap and upcoming ideas may surprise us). Setting a Testnet and Mainnet milestone (see below)

Approved for $20K Launch grant. Congratulations! Looking forward to seeing this built out with the first milestone for a Testnet Launch built on Harmony :tada:

“Testnet Launch” means launching a feature-complete product on Harmony Testnet. We define feature complete to include a user interface, connection to a wallet (Metamask, Harmony ONE Chrome Extension, etc.) on Testnet, and can be tested end-to-end by at least 100 users.

Funds will be released upon completing these milestones

$10K after launching a feature-complete product on our testnet
$10K after launching on our mainnet with audit (with launch video, full PR promotion)

Meanwhile, to prepare receiving funds, email your identification documents to kyc@harmony.one and create a Gnosis Safe MultiSig wallet at https://multisig.harmony.one and using instructions below
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We’d love :blue_heart: to see weekly updates on this thread here, to keep the community posted on this proposal’s progress!

Hi @Nicole_Nguyen,

Following up on progress of this grant and progress of these milestones:

$10K after launching a feature-complete product on our testnet
$10K after launching on our mainnet with audit (with launch video, full PR promotion)

Looking forward to this project. Please continue to provide weekly updates on this thread to keep the community posted on progress!

Thank You

Hi Al,

We are still in the progress of realizing these milestones and will keep you and the community posted about upcoming progress.

Thank you very much.