TECHNICAL GRANT APPLICATION – FindTruman – Tier 3

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APPLICATION INTRODUCTION

1.Background and Motivation

FindTruman Deck: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jyQw5w2eorXc0j3ic4Vt12-iKspUkr3i/view?usp=sharing

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.

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.
Our platform contains UGC Editor platform and story-gameplay platform.

  1. UGC Editor Platform, the creators could co-create their contents and release their story NFT. For creators, their income will directly be linked to the story popularity which will incentivize the production of higher quality content.

  2. Story-gameplay Platform, users could enjoy the unprecedented gaming experience, and obtain incentives at the same time.

Currently, we are developing the first version of UGC Editor which integrates the idea of co-creation tokenomics. It could provide high-quality contents for the story-gameplay platform we built before.

Based on the co-creation tokenomics we designed, the rights&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-stake which will make them profitable.

TEAM
12 team members are working full time on this project. Our team is based on Singapore and Shanghai.

  • 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
  • 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. Github: taase00
  • 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: https://www.linkedin.com/in/xueer-bing-899194253/
  • ZZ (Contract Engineer): has 4 years of practical development experience in the blockchain industry, and is proficient in the development of smart contract language.
  • Fornia (3D Scene Engineer): has 5 years experience in 3D Scene construction. She has successfully build the 3D-Scene of Black-water Lake, Scarlet Church, etc.
  • Morax (Front-end Engineer): is proficient in front-end frameworks. He has 4 years experience in website construction. The front-end of FindTruman story-gameplay platform is built by him.
  • Eric (Front-end Engineer): has 3 years experience in web design. He is able to build front-end pages with high quality.
  • Carl (Back-end Engineer): has 3 years experience in website backend design. He has rich experience in network communications, multithread programming, server performance and load optimization, etc.
  • Simon(Test Engineer): has 4 years experience in software testing. He is specialized in finding and analyzing testing problems to ensure the good quality of the software.
  • Wilson(Test Engineer): has 3 years experience in software testing.
  • Moreover, our team has visual artist, marketing, product designer, community maintainer, etc.

TOTAL BUDGET AND FUNDING TIER
TOTAL BUDGET: $45,000
FUNDING TIER: 3

CURRENT FUNCTIONALITY
Current story-gamplay systems: for users of our Web2 story-gameplay APP with text-based contents & voice chat, users will 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. This new gaming form,integrating GAME, IP, SOCIAL NETWORKING, became social king of Gen Z.

With the rapid growing, the current story-gameplay systems encounters several issues which need to be solved urgently, for example:

1)The copyright problems;
2)The story-gameplay 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 found that the Web3 and blockchain technology is very suitable to solve the problem in Web2 story-gameplay industry and can give an explosive growth for the production of high quality contents through adequate incentive for the creators and players. With blockchain technology, we further clarify the rights & 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. 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. For our Web3 APP, we believe that they will be excited to enjoy our Web3 APP with 3D games and co-creation incentives, which can provide MORE contents to our story-gameplay platform. It will greatly improve the creation efficiency, and inject MORE various contents to our story-gameplay platform.

TECHNICAL PROPOSAL
Here are the function we have already developed in our Story-gameplay Platform:

  1. Enjoy the unprecedented gaming experience
    The players will be immersed in 3D scenes story-gamplays, 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 unprecedented 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.
    Currently, the story-gameplay are created by professional writers. In this grant, we are developing the UGC Editor. It could provide MORE contents to our story-gameplay platform. It will greatly improve the creation efficiency, and inject MORE various contents to our story-gameplay platform.

More details about the proposal of UGC Editor are shown as following:

In UGC 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:
    · 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.
    · 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.

SYSTEM MODEL

FindTruman Platform Architecture
The whole platform is based on blockchain. Above will be the FindTruman Co-creation Protocol, including NFT Voting Snapshot, staking pools, incentives, etc. The top layer is application layer, includinng the UGC Editor platform and story-gameplay platform.

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Economic system
Every Story content has its own Pool. This pool contains the $Finds and Story NFT. $Finds is FindTruman’s official token, and the Story NFT is the rights and interests of each story. Every story has its own Story NFT.
With this Pool, we will further improve the Story Game experience by constructing online platform, offline studios to make the Story Game more exciting. The profits generated by Story Game will be shared to the Story NFT holders.

  • For creators, they will create story contents and release story NFT to get the related supports.
  • For investors, they can buy the Story NFT to be deeply bound with the corresponding story, and get more profits with the development of the story.
  • For players, they can enjoy the corresponding story games in FindTruman Platform. They can buy the membership, props, etc., and get the Role NFT and others rewards.
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DEVELOPMENT ROADMAP

Milestone 1
Date of completion: +7 weeks
Estimated budget: $ 18k
Deliverables:

  • Design UI/UX of story releasing functions on Conflux.
  • Develop the function of issuing story content on Conflux: The creators can freely release their own stories, and update their stories according to the readers’ feedbacks.
  • Develop the function of Story NFT on Conflux. 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 Conflux. The story’s future profits will be shared to its Story NFT holders.

Milestone 2
Date of completion: +6 weeks
Estimated budget: $15k
Deliverables:

  • Design the UI/UX of co-creation functions on Conflux
  • 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 Conflux. 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 Conflux.
  • Gather ideas based on users’ feedback

Milestone 3
Date of completion: +7 weeks
Estimated budget: $12k
Deliverables:

  • Design the UI/UX of 3D scene story-gameplay on Conflux.
  • Develop the customized 3D scene story-gameplay for Conflux. 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. With our designed tokenomics mechanism, players could get more rewards if they have an excellent performance.
  • Promote: The story-gameplay will be opened to the Conflux network members to experience and play. Collaborate with other projects in Conflux network, e.g. co-host AMA, games and other events.
  • Official launch: Release 1.0. Users could join the co-creation process through Conflux.

MAINTENANCE CONSIDERATIONS
The development codes, including front-end, back-end, smart contract of the UGC Editor Platform on Conflux will be open source. Moreover, aiming to making Conflux accessible and approachable to more developers around the world, we will open the customized a 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 with FindTruman incentives.

Accomplishments we have achieved
For testing the Web3 users’ interest in this new gaming form, we have developed the several story-gameplays with the combination of the 3D scenes and NFT badge incentives in the past few months.

  1. We have built the early community of our project in Web3. We have successfully attracted nearly 22K followers in our Twitter and 16K members in our Discord. Furthermore, we cooperate with Loot in content creation.
  2. 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 form. We co-host with several TOP NFT communities. Here are the 3D scenes we have built:
    · Black-water Lake: https://findtruman.io/fcc/scenes/game-black-water/
    · Scarlet Church: https://findtruman.io/fcc/scenes/game-scarlet-church
    · Metaverse Carnival: https://findtruman.io/fcc/scenes/game-the-trip
  3. 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
  4. Construct the Demo of FindTruman Story-gameplay Platform (https://findtruman.io/#/stories).
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