Superhero Trading Cards | Grant Proposal
Application Status
Status: Approved on the 25.11.2021, submitted on the 24.08.2021
Last updated: 13/09/2021
Submited by Techtek, Genievot (possible space for 2 more)
Team: Techtek, Genievot
Approved Budget (in h):
Used Budget (in h):
Planned Delivery: 3/3/2022
Specify the funding category
Open Source Development, Community Growth, Culture and Art, NFT Trading
Application Title
Superhero Trading Cards
Applicant
Value Application
Short summary:
- NFT collecting and trading on æternity, and for Superhero
- Scarcity of the NFT’s creates valuable NFT’s.
- Smart contract interactions improve the Superhero trading cards ranking on Dapp ranking websites.
- Prevision rewards help with long-term user commitment and stimulate card trading.
- Free set of more common cards to onboard users.
- Cards display æternity and æternity ecosystem-related data inside the cards, to make them functional and informative to look at.*
- User-generated card designs could bring exciting results and gives the artist a way to get rewarded for their awesome card designs.- Possibility of printed cards links the analog with the digital world
Definition of Terms
Tradable NFT cards on the æternity blockchain to supplement and visualize the whole ecosystem inside collectible cards, to stimulate AE users interactions in the form of NFT trading and collecting.
Status Quo
At this moment we have worked out the project details in the Devpost article, and have made several info graphics and flow charts to describe and visualize the project details, and to find all involved segments of the project.
There are mockups made for the first series of card designs, Boosterpacks and some first promotional images are made.
Started with “corporate” branding. Discord consultation, and collaboration.
NFT card minting contract is worked on that will make the previously mentioned features possible.
Required Work
Strategy
Make flow charts / infographics of all scenarios related to boosterpacks, cards, and chests and every related actions, to find issues and opportunities, and to come up with the best experience for the users.
Flow charts:
- Project overview.
- Smart contract interaction
- Possible cards paths.
- Prevision reward.
- Formula for giving out cards.
- Find more strategies that will give a card an immediate market value and make flow charts for them.
Design
- Interview several people about the currently designed mockups and get improvement suggestions on them
- Design Superhero trading cards logo based on the feedback from the interviews.
- Website Design
- Design first series of 30 +/- card designs, with 3 different booster pack designs. and 3 different chests designs. put extra design and coding effort in the most hard-to-find cards. (3d effects or animated backgrounds)
- Names and text that fit the character designs of each card
- Design banners and promotional materials for the website and social media.
Programming
- NFT Smart contract, which makes trading and minting of Superhero boosterpacks and cards possible.
- Display data in the data layer of the card from æternity and projects from æternity’s ecosystem.
- Boosterpack opening animation with sound and celebrational elements when a hard-to-find card is found.
- Card Gallery “My Superhero Card Gallery”
- Make it possible for every superhero.com visitor and æternity wallet owner to get a free boosterpack.
- Make it possible for users to buy Booster packs and chests that included several boosterpacks and with the most exclusive chest comes the most exclusive card.
- Marketplace / Exchange with sell and trade functionality for boosterpacks, chests, single/multiple, and even complete series of cards.
Social
- Social media accounts to get as many people from inside and outside of the æterrnity ecosystem familiar with Superhero Trading Cards project.
- Interaction, integration, and collaboration with other æternity projects.
Estimate
V0.1 | Proof of Concept 2021/ Q1 2022
- Superhero trading cards and (free) Boosterpack and chest minting, testnet 100h+
- Boosterpack & chest opening 100h+
- Superhero Trading cards, corporate branding, logo design 100h+
- Superhero Trading cards first series of 30 cards designs with card names and text. 100h+
- Design strategies for collecting, trading and rewards 100h+
Total hours: 500h+
Known Limitations
Time could be a limitation, this would push the release date further into the future.Development approach can chance according to technical needs and limitations.
Outlook
When the Proof of concept V0.01 is created it will be evaluated with our own team as well as with the Superhero and æternity team members, on Discord and in the Jaem Sessions. A new grant proposal will be made accordingly for the next version.
When this v0.1 is ready, parts of it can be considered to be converted into early promotional material to attract early adopters, testers, artists, collectors and investors to the project’s Discord Server
Do you plan to populate your project? (For example creating a micro-web-page, social media updates, blog-posts, video-materials.) Yes website, and socials
Publishment
- Open Source development
- Development on Github - Before release, each new version will be tested and shown for feedback.
Maintainance
- At least one year after completion of the full project (v1.0).
Superhero Trading Cards
Grant proposal
My introductions:
Proposal:
Application Status
Value Application
Superhero Trading Cards
Booster Packs and Chests
Card functionality, this is under active consultation on Discord
Card Layers
Definition of Terms
Required Work
Estimate
Know limitations, Publishment, Maintainance and Outlook
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Looking forward to collect those cards 
