FindTruman - Create a STEAM-like Story-gameplay Co-creation Platform in Web3

Dora Grant DAO
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Abstract

Our team is from a Web2 online story-gameplay application with 30 million users and thousands of professional content creators. We propose FindTruman platform, which use Web3 thinking to solve the current issues in Web2 (i.e. the profit distribution problem, the piracy problem, …).

“Story-gameplay” (also known as “Script-Murder”) is a new popular gaming form which is characterized by the strong immersion with first perspective, content-based, social networking attributes, etc. FindTruman try to build a STEAM-like co-creation story-gameplay platform in Web3. It aims to provide infrastructure and focus on the User-Generated Content to produce stories and other interesting content in the form of story-gameplay.

FindTruman platform contains UGC Editor platform and Story-gameplay platform. Currently, we have implemented the first version of story-gameplay platform and the demo of UGC Co-creation Editor Platform. In this grant, we will further improve the UGC Co-creation Editor Platform with multi-chain support and AIGC(Artificial Intelligence in Generated Content) engine. Therefore, the creators’ efficiency will be greatly improved, and more high-quality contents will be injected story-gameplay platform, which will forms positive cycle.

Cofounders of FindTruman

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. Our team is located in Singapore and Shanghai. Here are the co-founders:

  • Will(Co-Founder, CEO): founder of a Web2 online story-gameplay application with 30 million users and thousands of professional content creators.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Background and Motivation

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:

  1. The piracy problems;
  2. The story price cannot be correlated with actual popularity;
  3. The creators only get a small part of the story selling;
  4. 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.

A brand new blockchain gaming form

In the story-gameplay, the players act as one of the story roles, and interact with each other from the first perspective to experience a new piece of life. The story-gameplay is not just a game, it belongs to the content entertainment industry which could be equivalent to the film industry. Its life cycle is much longer than gaming. The story-gameplay uses GAME as the carrier and allows users to obtain CONTENT by acting as the story role from the first perspective. This experience will bring a strong sense of immersion to players to experience different lives. The story-gameplay, integrating “CONTENT”, “Games”, “IP”, “Social networking”, is deeply favored by Gen Z. Currently, the story-gameplay is the Social King of Gen Z.

FindTruman is devoted to build the first STEAM-like story-gameplay co-creation platform in Web3. In Web2, we have more than 30 Million registered users on our APP, 1,500 authors in contract, 20 thousand story copyrights. However, we encountered several issues like the profit distribution problem, the piracy problem… We found that the blockchain technology is very suitable to solve these current issues in Web2 story-gameplay industry. With blockchain technology, we further clarify the proof-of-rights-and-interests and incentive mechanism to make the creators and players more profitable, which can give an explosive growth for the production of high quality contents and forms a positive cycle.

What do we build?

Our project is at the stage of MVP(Minimum Viable Product). We are building our first version of FindTruman platform containing the UGC co-creation Editor platfrom and story-gameplay platform. Currently, we are developing the first version of UGC co-creation Editor Platform which integrates the idea of co-creation tokenomics.

Based on the co-creation tokenomics we designed, the proof-of-rights-and-interests and the incentive mechanism of story-gamplay 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 proof-of-rights-and-interests which will make them profitable.

More details about UGC Co-creation Editor platform and Story-gameplay platform are shown as following:

(1) UGC Co-creation Editor Platform

In UGC Co-creation Editor Platform, the creators could co-create their contents and release their story NFT, including:

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) Release Story NFT

The creator could release story NFT on the corresponding chain according to the community ecosystem they want to attract. For players, they could purchase their interested story NFT to become the early adopter. Story NFT holders will be deeply bound with this story, enjoy the whole plot and even 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.

3) Co-creation with Story NFT

Based on story NFT, the co-creation will happen in two situations:

  1. The creator could invite the story NFT holders to decide the plot development by voting, and the holders could put forward new plot proposals for the author’s reference.
  2. The creators could set the co-creation tasks, like translation, illustration design or 3D construction, and incentive others with story NFT to join the co-creation procedure.

By this way, the community with good adhesion can be created. At the end of this procedure, the story will have a high quality content or IP with their first fans.

4) IPFS Storage

We use IPFS technology to effectively protect the story content and encourage content creation.

In UGC Editor platform, all the descriptive contents (i.e. the story title, content, cover) will be stored in IPFS system, while the user’s ownership of the corresponding content(i.e. the author name, the Hash ID of the story content, the status of story NFT, etc.) will be recorded on blockchain.

Moreover, during the co-creation process, all the task description published by the creator, the work submitted by the applicants will be stored in IPFS, while the relevant ownership like the publisher’s name, the task status will be recorded on blockchain.

(2) Story-gameplay Platform

1) Enjoy the unprecedented gaming experience

The completed story on UGC Editor platform 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 collect the scattered information, unlock the hidden clues, make reasoning and reveal the truth, just like playing a movie. The story-gameplay, which combines the strong sense of immersion, various story contents, thrilling reasoning experience and social networking, will bring the players unprecedent gaming experience.

2) Obtain incentives

With our designed tokenomics mechanism, 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. During the early stage of the construction, we will encourage creators and players by ejecting more rewards with FindTruman Eco Funds.

Accomplishments that we’re proud of

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.

  1. Construct the Demo of FindTruman Story-gameplay Platform (https://findtruman.io/co-creation).

  2. We have built the early community of our project in Web3. We have successfully attracted nearly 22K followers in our Twitter and 16K followers in our discord. Furthermore, we cooperate with Loot in content creation.

  3. 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 in this part. Here are the 3D scenes we have built:

  1. 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: https://twitter.com/search?q=(%23FT_Alpha_Test)%20(from%3AThomas26670%20OR%20from%3AAngelic25314540%20OR%20from%3AAxe509%20OR%20from%3AVincent10679122%20OR%20from%3AFindTruman)&src=typed_query&f=live

  2. We have won several hackathon prizes:

  • 3rd place in GRAND PRIZE of “Buidl it Summer 2022 - Polygon’s global hackathon”,
  • CHAMPION of 2022 Wanxiang Blockchain Fall Hackathon,
  • Bronze Winner of ABGA & Klaytn Blockchain gaming hackathon.
  • CHAMPION of 2022 MEGA Hackathon by KEN Labs.
  • Ecellence Award Winnder of NEO Polaris Launchpad Hackathon

Grant Milestone

Milestone 1 - Develop the STORY RELEASING functions of UGC Editor Platform on multi-chain

Date of completion: +6 weeks

Estimated budget: 25K USD

Deliverables:

  • [Design] Design the UI/UX co-creation functions compatible to multi-chain.
  • [Development] Develop the STORY RELEASING functions of UGC Editor Platform compatible to multi-chain. The creators can freely release their own stories, and update their stories according to the readers’ feedbacks.
  • [Development] The platform will support the issue of story NFT on multi-chain according to the community ecosystem they want to attract. 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 multi-chain. The story’s future profits will be shared to its Story NFT holders.

Milestone 2 - Develop the CO-CREATION functions and AIGC(Artificial Intelligence in Generated Content) of UGC Editor Platform compatible to multi-chain. Launch & support.

Date of completion: +8 weeks

Estimated budget: 25K USD

Deliverables:

  • [Development] 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 multi-chain according to the ecosystem they want to attract. 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.
  • [Development] Develop an AIGC tool, which could help creators to generate a wonderful image just by inputting text. The users just need describe his ideas by words, and AI help them to transform the words to image, and they could add these images to their story chapters which could make their stories more vivid.
  • [Release 1.0] Official launch: Users could join the co-creation process through the multi-chain.
  • [Planning] Gathering ideas based on users’ feedback
  • [Marketing] Collaborate with other projects in Dora ecology, e.g. co-host AMA, games and other events.

Funding Ask

50K USD

Funding Breakdown

The funds on Milestone will mainly be spent to the labor cost of our developers and hardware resource.
Here are the detailed costing:

  • Contract engineer (16K USD in total): develop the contract of story content and story NFT on Polygon, including: create and update new story content, publish and buy story NFT.
  • Frontend engineer (11K USD in total): develop the related webpages of the current UGC Editor Platform.
  • Backend engineer(11K USD in total): design and develop the interaction logic of UGC Editor Platform, and implement the IPFS storage.
  • Hardware and data resource (6K USD): Purchase computing equipment, storage, cloud servers.
  • Marketing (6K USD): Promote the platform, including participating in exhibitions, advertising, etc.
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