Proposal details
Project Name
FindTruman
Project Type
New DApp
Proposal Description
1.Background and Motivation
FindTruman Deck: FindTruman Deck.pdf - Google Drive
The story-gameplay (also known as Script-Murder) is becoming popular in recent years. Based on story, the player act as one of the story roles, and interact with others to achieve the ultimate goal from the first perspective. It is characterized by the strong immersion, content-based, social networking attributes, etc.
Our team starts story-gameplay Web2 project from 2017 and became one of the TOP brand in this category. We have accumulated 30 million Web2 online users, nearly 100 offline studios which can give story-gameplay offline play service to customers in different cities.
The story-gameplay has its own ecosystem roles, including creator, publisher, service provider, player, pirate and Info platform. With the rapid growing, this industry encounters several issues which need to be solved urgently, for example:
- The piracy problems;
- The story price cannot be correlated with actual popularity;
- The creators only get a small part of the story selling;
- The players have no way to be profitable.
These issues limit the development of the whole industry. We believe that the content creators and players need to receive more incentives in the whole economic system as they contribute their innovative ideas and active participation to the whole system. We found that the Web3 and blockchain technology is very suitable to solve the problem and can give an explosive growth for the production of high quality contents through adequate incentive for the creators and players. This is the main motivation of our team to build this project.
2.What do we build?
Our vision is to create a STEAM-like story-gameplay co-creation platform in Web3. To solve the current issues in story-gameplay industry, e.g. the copyright problems, the profit sharing problems, etc., we designed the FindTruman platform. Based on the co-creation economic system we designed, the rights-and-interests and the incentive mechanism of story-gameplay could be clarified. For creators, their income is directly correlated to the story’s popularity. Depending on the content quality, the creator’s income can be increased significantly. For players, they could hold the story rights-and-interests which will make them profitable.
We design our FindTruman platform containing UGC Editor platform and Story-gameplay platform. The details are as follows
2.1. UGC Editor Platform
2.1.1 Story content on chain
The creators can freely create their stories, and update the stories according to the feedbacks, and also invite the players to decide the plot development by voting. All the story contents, updates and votes will be recorded on chain.
2.1.2 Issue Story NFT
The creator could issue Story-NFT for public to purchase. Story-NFT holders will be deeply bound with this story, enjoy the whole plots and obtain future rewards from the Story-NFT. For creators, their income will directly be linked to the story popularity which will incentivize the production of higher quality content.
2.1.3 Co-creation with Story-NFT
The creators could invite the story NFT holders to decide the plot development by voting. Moreover, the creators could set the co-creation tasks, like translation, 3D construction, etc., and incentive others with Story-NFT to join the co-creation procedure together. By this way, the community with good adhesion can be created.
2.1.4 AIGC(Artificial Intelligence Generated Content) tools
With AI technology, our platform will assist the creators to expand the inspiration of story creation, automatically improve the story logic and polish the story, intelligently generate story covers and illustrations. It will not only improve content creation efficiency, but also lower the threshold for content creation, which will definitely empower more users to quickly create high-quality contents with AIGC technologies.
At the end of this procedure, the story will have a high quality content or IP with their first fans.
2.2. Story-gameplay platform
2.2.1 Enjoy the unprecedented gaming experience
For the completed stories on UGC Editor platform, they will be released on the story-gameplay platform for public to experience. The players will be immersed in 3D scenes, act as one of the story roles, interact with other players to unlock the hidden clues, make reasoning and reveal the truth. The story-gameplay, which combines the strong sense of immersion, various story contents, thrilling reasoning experience and social networking, will bring the players unprecedented gaming experience.
2.2.2 Obtain incentives
Players need to pay for the tickets of story-gameplay, and they could get more rewards if they have an excellent performance. The ticket sales of story-gameplay will be shared to its Story NFT holders.
3. Pervious works
For testing the Web3 users’ interest in this new gaming form, we have completed the several story-gameplays with the combination of the 3D scenes and NFT badge incentives in the past few months.
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Construct the demo of FindTruman story-gameplay platform (https://findtruman.io/#/stories).
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We have built the early community of our project in Web3. We have successfully attracted nearly 22K followers in our Twitter, 16K followers in our Discord and 25K participation badges. Furthermore, we cooperate with Loot in content creation.
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Develop several stories with 3D scenes to let people understand and interact better with the story and give users some basic idea about how it will be the story game be demonstrated in 3D. We co-host with several TOP NFT communities. Here are the 3D scenes we have built:
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Black-water Lake: Click to Experience
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Scarlet Church: Click to Experience
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Metaverse Carnival: Click to Eperience
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We have successfully launched our story co-creation gameplay(Alpha test version) in Twitter, in which some basic interactions like voting using NFT to demonstrate our basic idea about the user participation model. Here are the replay of Alpha test: Replay of Alpha Test
- Click to review the AlphaTest: Video Reivew
3. How will FindTruman benefit the IoTeX ecosystem
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To catalyze adoption of IoTeX ecosystem growth, we will further build our UGC co-creation platform and build more story-gameplays on IoTeX. The story contents and Story-NFT will be recorded on IoTeX. The profits generated by story-gameplay will be shared to the Story-NFT holders on IoTeX.
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Introduce players from our Web2 platform. Our team starts story-gameplay Web2 project from 2017 and became one of the TOP brand in this category. We have accumulated more than 30 million Web2 online users. We will attract users from Web2 by our incentive mechanisms and promotions to IoTeX.
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We will build the story-gameplay content with the theme of IoTeX to attract more creators and players to participate in the co-creation procedure, which will have a better promotion effect of IoTeX. We will make promotions to make more players come to enjoy our story-gameplay on IoTeX. During the early stage of story construction, we will put some incentives to the story pools by using our project’s Eco Funds. Players can also gain our incentives when playing the story games. Therefore, the story pool will grow dynamically to produce the high-quality contents and attract more users to join IoTeX.
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The development codes, including front-end, back-end, smart contract of the UGC Editor Platform on IoTeX will be open source. Moreover, aiming to making IoTeX accessible and approachable to more developers around the world, we will open the customized discussion zone on our community, and communicate and gather suggestions from other global developers, and encourage more developers to participate in the platform co-creation process.
4. Go-To-Market
Step 1. Accumulate early fans
At the “cold start” phase, we will select some stories from our existing story libraries and develop them to 3D story-gameplays. We will translate these story-gameplays to English for global players to experience our new gaming form, which will attract our early seed users.
Step 2. Cooperate with blue-chip NFT communities
We will co-host story competitions with some blue-chip NFT communities. The theme of the story competition can be customized based on the blue-chip communities’ culture or background. Through the influence of blue-chip NFT communities, we will attract more players and creators.
- For creators: We will set the prize pool to incentivize them to join the creation process.
- For investors: Every story will have its own Story NFT, and the Story NFT will be linked to the prize pool and long-term potential income, which will attract more NFT investors to participate in Story NFT trading.
- For players: The most popular story of story competition will be developed into new 3D story-gameplays to attract more players to enjoy.
Step 3. Cooperate with NFT marketplace platforms
Numerous projects are gathered at the NFT marketplace platform. Through the cooperation with the marketplace platform, all projects of the platform will be access to our new gaming form and further co-create their own stories. We will provide our APIs (e.g. API of story co-creation, API of story-gameplay design, etc) to the projects of the marketplace platform, which will enable them to host the story co-creation competitions or story-gameplays on their own communities, empower their NFT IP with more various forms, and expand more functions for their projects.
Milestones
[ Split your project into milestones: each one must have its own verifiable deliverables]
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Milestone 1:
- Duration (weeks): 7 weeks
- Deliverables:
- Design UI/UX of story releasing functions on IoTeX.
- Develop the function of issuing story content on IoTeX: The creators can freely release their own stories, and update their stories according to the readers’ feedbacks.
- Develop the function of Story NFT on IoTeX. The creator could specify the related NFT information( i.e. the total number, the price and the number of author-retained NFT), and issue the Story NFT on IoTeX. The story’s future profits will be shared to its Story NFT holders. - Funds request (USD): 12,000 USD
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Milestone 2:
- Duration (weeks): 5 weeks
- Deliverables:
- Design the UI/UX of co-creation functions on IoTeX
- Develop the co-creation functions. The creators could set the co-creation tasks, like translation, illustration design or 3D construction, and incentivize others to join the co-creation procedure with the rewards of story NFT on IoTeX. The users could submit their own works for the creators to review. Finally, the user of the best work will be rewarded as the corresponding NFT after the creator’s review. The review of the submitted works will be judged manually by the creators, while the rest of the business logic (i.e. sending NFT rewards) will be automatically executed on IoTeX.
- Gather ideas based on users’ feedback - Funds request (USD): 8,000 USD
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Milestone 3:
- Duration (weeks): 5 weeks
- Deliverables:
- Design the UI/UX of 3D scene story-gameplay on IoTeX.
- Develop the customized 3D scene story-gameplay for IoTeX. The players will be immersed in 3D scenes, act as one of the story roles, interact with other players to collect the scattered information, unlock the hidden clues, make reasoning and reveal the truth. Players could get more rewards if they have an excellent performance.
- The story-gameplay will be opened to the IoTeX network members to experience and play. Collaborate with other projects in IoTeX, e.g. co-host AMA, games and other events.
- Official launch: Release 1.0. Users could join the co-creation process through IoTeX. - Funds request (USD): 6,000 USD
Total funds requested
26,000 USD
About your Team
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Will(Co-Founder, CEO): founder of a Web2 online story-gameplay application with 30 million users and thousands of professional content creators. FindTruman CEO on CGTN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCr6poFPxfE
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Lyon (Co-Founder, CTO): got his PhD in France in data science, and enter the blockchain industry in 2017 to do some technical research and development. He is also the founder of an AI-engine company. Github: taase00
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Bing(Co-founder, CMO): got her PhD in France in CS, and is invited as academic scholar by National University of Singapore during 2022-2023 in Blockchain Innovation Lab. LinkedIn: Bingxue ZHANG - FindTruman | LinkedIn
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In addition, our team also has 1 contract engineer, 1 front-end engineer, 1 back-end engineer, 1 AI engineer and 1 testing engineer.
Metrics
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We will build the first version of UGC Editor Platform on IoTeX to enhance the creation efficiency, and open to the public to experience. The creators can co-create their story contents and issue their Story-NFTs to attract their first fans, and get the initial start-up funds, which will make creators and players more profitable. Expected metric: Closed beta of UGC Editor on IoTeX.
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Based on the UGC Editor Platform, we will create a new story and build the relevant 3D scene story-gameplay and will launch on IoTeX chain. The story-gameplay will be opened to the public to experience and play. We will co-host the story-gameplay with IoTeX chain ecosystem. Expected metric: Development finished and promotion.
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We will develop the AIGC(Artificial Intelligence in Generated Content) tools. We will develop an AIGC tool with Text-to-Image, Text-to-3D and more AI functions to lower the creation barriers for users to attract more users to join the co-creation process. Expected metric: Development finished and promotion.
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We will collaborate with other projects in IoTeX ecology, e.g. co-host AMA, games and other events to attract more users.
Links
- Twitter: x.com
- Website: https://findtruman.io
- Discord: http://discord.gg/TkNaeMJa2C
- E-mail: findtruman.io@gmail.com
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