Cardano NFT: Machiavellic – The Cryptonomist

This week’s guest on Cardano NFT column is a next generation NFT powered play and earn dungeon crawler MMO: Machiavellian.

Last week’s guest was one anime project with most team members from Japan that has been successful in the Ethereum NFT world.

This initiative is a reference point for NFTs on Cardano and every week or so we will invite someone to answer some questions and give us an update directly from the Cardano community.

Considering that many of our readers are new to the crypto space, we want one mix of simple and technical questions.

Cardano NFT Project: Machiavellic

Hi, thanks for your time. Introduce your team, where are you from, what is your background?

We are one diverse team from around the worldeach specializing in different skills that effectively solve critical problems in a game development project like this.

We have two senior marketing experts, two gaming industry veterans with over 15+ years of experience each, a Cardano specialist, an award-winning writer/director of game tutorials and animated films plus a 3D modeler.

What is Machiavellian? And why have you chosen the Cardano blockchain for your project?

Machiavellian is one next generation NFT powered Play and Earn (P&E) dungeon crawler MMOdesigned to solve two major problems in the gaming industry:

1. A game that does not depend on the growing trend of loot gacha/loot box mechanicsor aggressive microtransactions encourage irresponsible whaling behaviour.
2. ONE bridge for Web2 players to the Web3 community by abstracting the blockchain technology that powers Web3 allows non-crypto players to participate seamlessly In the game.

These two pillars are ultimately what will allow the Machiavellian to succeed. Many people do not believe that blockchain or crypto is useful in games, and that it is a solution in search of a problem. But Machiavellic is a strong example of a game that utilizes blockchain technology in a way that is essential for the game to exist.

Here’s a quick example:

When the game first starts, you and a small team of friends first time ever to defeat a major raid boss. The gear you’re wearing at that moment is now immortalized on the blockchain. If you were ever to sell the item, your username is attached to this unique NFT equipment. It is forever known as the gear used to beat that raid boss for the first time, and becomes part of the game’s culture and history.

While you can argue that you can do this in game now, when the game eventually closes, the story is lost with it. But once something is on the blockchain, it survives the project and exists with the players as long as they want them.

We chose Cardano because of that incredible community and because of the exciting changes planned for the blockchain’s future. Also its non-custodial character allows us to protect players by allowing them to keep their assets in their own wallet if they wish, makes hacks against a “traditional” central repository impossible.

Building an MMO game is very ambitious. How do you approach this challenge and what can you share about your strategy that might attract investors?

We understand that building any game, let alone an MMO, is an ambitious project. Our approach to reducing this risk is to create vertical parts of the game through smaller, less complicated and achievable mini-games which will encapsulate some of the main features of the overall game.

We call these minigames Core experiences. The first core experience we will release is a endless wave tower defense (TD) game. It will give us invaluable data on PvE ahead. While the different types of equipment and skill sets are not exhaustive, they will vary enough to give us a good idea of ​​how players will try to maximize their runand if we are ok with that.

We will scale the team as the complexity of the project expands and as Core Experiences incorporate more and more components into the final game. Gradually building the team in this way allows us to trade early hires to take on us mentoring roles to bring new team members up to speed and streamlined quickly into the production pipeline.

After all the core experiences are completed, the final part of the development journey comes where we tie it all together into one seamless experience. This also lays the foundation for the second most important part of this project, the idea of blockchain abstraction.

Ultimately, Machiavellic is a project that aims to bridge the gap between Web2 and Web3 players. Anyone will be able to play this game, regardless of their experience or knowledge of crypto and the blockchain technology that powers it.

Web3 natives can still do all the things they expect from a blockchain game: create characters or equipment, and transfer tokens to and from the project. Web2 natives will have a fiat ramp to allow them to buy in and we will guide them on how to withdraw tokens to cash out if they wish.

You mentioned that you support decentralization and work with single pool operators. What is the plan for your cooperation with them?

Part of our ethos is to encourage single pool operators to thrive. We plan to go through all the traditional routes that are already popular today: a ISPO for partner poolsthereafter Machiavellian stake app which will reward NFT players for wagering with partner pools, and will later be implemented in-game.

Although these are all effective means of lifting an SPO up, we also want to be careful integrate our partner groups into the marketing and social media strategy of Machiavellic. An example is assigning player factions to SPOs and creating engagement for these pools within our own community. This is how fans of our game will be constantly exposed to these pools, encouraging them to delegate their wallets to their ambitions.

We are always open to more suggestions from our SPO partners. If there is a sensible plan that can benefit both parties, we are always happy to explore the idea.

Awesome, good luck! Any closing remarks? Where can people follow the development of Machiavellian?

Thank you very much for letting us talk about our project! We will be very happy for anyone who wants to follow us to stop by our site where they can subscribe to our newsletter or join our various community channels: Website, Little paper, Twitter, Disagreement and Telegram.

Disclaimer: The opinions and views of the people interviewed are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Cardano Foundation or the IOG. Also, this content is for educational purposes, it does not constitute financial advice.