metadata: {"signature": "0xa8f892e7027284e9698c0b6f21597bccd60f52d70afece7b09e714d8638a4ac829d6299c52e94e807eaa0c86ab7b27d6b3ef010ef78dd31b456e61d2c3ddf6281c", "application": {"round": "0xb91b59c91b09d127d269e53019f2420e8c2c7ce7", "answers": [{"type": "email", "hidden": true, "question": "Email Address", "questionId": 0, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "QVL61AVUhj7gTdIbX0Ab4RIpstBmEABtM1f4miZhlIvLjZYSKGj5SYlBxfOO+KJy", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "938edd0f6edb48802fefa66dea2e254b81841b38cc645a0e4b9e91861225b59659a2238e5da248637767af8e372faf10cd1d922f9024699a3c3074198eb0cad573b6ba3e7831567108c9cd9477c31d747b7d84e0cad421cbe052a20ba54323951b5c922a683332bf1549a4e5fee0e5b9093a7a5cd3f65ffcf4efb0dced16c5d10000000000000020ee0c0404023f9aca11c8c543b508fcdb9b7f9fad46d2b1fbdc0a86fca062e788b11bfb0f9310d5eec90584d0e70e86ac"}}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "buchostan", "hidden": true, "question": "Telegram Handle", "questionId": 1}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "https://github.com/chaincraftgames", "hidden": true, "question": "Project GitHub Repo", "questionId": 2}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "https://discord.gg/72GuUnYxcE", "hidden": true, "question": "Link to your Public Group Chat", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "short-answer", "hidden": true, "question": "Have you participated in a previous Gitcoin Grants Round? If so, please name the rounds or link the builder profile associated with previous rounds.", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "## Contribution to the OSS Ecosystem (Project Goals and Current Progress)\n\n**ChainCraft** is in the early stages of developing a game-building platform aimed at enhancing the open-source software (OSS) ecosystem. Our project plans to democratize game development, foster collaboration, and ensure transparency and sustainability.\n\n[![ChainCraft Trailer](https://img.youtube.com/vi/M057HfGwG8g/0.jpg)](https://youtu.be/M057HfGwG8g)\n\n\n### Upcoming Open-Source Game Development Tools\n- **Future Releases**: Planning to release game development tools under an open-source license.\n- **Current Status**: Developing initial tools with a focus on user-friendly interfaces and robust backend systems.\n\n### Community-Driven Development and Engagement\n- **Main Platform**: Discord serves as the central hub for community engagement.\n- **AI Integration**: Hosting a game builder AI agent on Discord for community testing.\n- **Future Community Initiatives**: Planning hackathons and collaborative projects to engage the community.\n\n### Blockchain Integration for Enhanced OSS Transparency\n- **Implementation Strategy**: Incorporating blockchain to transparently log contributions.\n- **Future Developments**: Verifiable records of contributions will build trust and recognize efforts.\n\n### Educational Outreach and Resource Development\n- **Knowledge Dissemination**: Providing tutorials and educational content alongside development tools.\n- **Educational Initiatives**: Hosting webinars and workshops through our Discord platform.\n\n### Sustainability and Long-term Vision\n- **Support and Maintenance Plans**: Implementing a financial model to support ongoing development and maintenance.\n- **Revenue Allocation Strategy**: Allocating a portion of future revenues from NFT sales to fund development.\n\n### Emphasizing Current Community Engagement\nOur engagement on Discord and the availability of our AI game builder for testing exemplify our commitment to transparency and collaboration.\n\n### Conclusion\nThis proposal communicates our current progress and plans for future growth within the OSS ecosystem, demonstrating our commitment to community involvement and open-source principles.\n", "hidden": true, "question": "How does your project contribute to the growth of the OSS ecosystem? Please provide specific examples of how your application enhances or expands the current ecosystem.", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "## Features and Use Cases of ChainCraft\n\n**ChainCraft** offers a unique set of features designed to revolutionize game development through a decentralized platform. Below are the key features and use cases that highlight the capabilities and differentiation of our platform:\n\n### Key Features\n\n- **AI-Driven Game Development**: Utilizes artificial intelligence to assist users in generating game mechanics, rules, and content, simplifying the game development process and enabling faster iterations.\n- **Blockchain Integration**: Implements blockchain technology to ensure that all creations are stored securely and that creators retain ownership through NFTs.\n- **Modular Game Components**: Games are built using modular components that can be mixed and matched, allowing for high levels of customization and reusability. Components include artwork, sound design, and music, enabling diverse artists to apply their skills in creating immersive game environments.\n- **Community-Driven Marketplace**: Features a decentralized marketplace where users can buy, sell, or trade game components and complete games as NFTs, fostering a vibrant economy.\n- **Dynamic Content Generation**: The platform can generate dynamic game content based on user preferences and gameplay history, enhancing user engagement.\n- **Flexible Game Deployment**: Creators have the freedom to test, share, and play games within the platform or take them elsewhere for launch, ensuring that creators maintain ultimate control over where their games live and how they monetize their work.\n- **User-Friendly Onboarding**: Specifically designed to lower the entry barrier for those new to blockchain, ChainCraft offers a straightforward and intuitive user experience that minimizes friction and complexity.\n\n### Use Cases\n\n- **Independent Game Development**: Empowers indie developers with tools to create and monetize games without the need for large teams or budgets.\n- **Educational Tools**: Provides educational institutions with an engaging way to teach game design and programming, integrating these disciplines into their curriculums.\n- **Collaborative Projects**: Facilitates collaboration among developers, artists, and writers from around the world to co-create games.\n- **Prototype Testing**: Allows creators to test and refine game prototypes with real user feedback gathered through the platform.\n- **Community Engagement and Feedback**: Enables rapid testing and iteration of games based on community feedback, significantly speeding up the development cycle.\n\n### Differentiation\n\n- **AI Integration**: Unlike many traditional game development platforms, ChainCraft integrates AI to automate and simplify many aspects of game design, making it accessible to non-developers.\n- **Ownership and Monetization**: By utilizing blockchain technology, ChainCraft ensures that creators can own and monetize their work directly, a significant shift from platforms where the platform itself retains significant control and revenue.\n- **Community and Flexibility**: The focus on community-driven development and the modular nature of game components provide a level of flexibility and user engagement not typically seen in game development platforms. Our commitment to not being a walled garden allows creators ultimate control over their creations.\n- **Inclusive Artistic Participation**: By including diverse components like artwork, sound design, and music, ChainCraft enables a broad range of creatives to contribute their unique artistic skills to game development.\n\n### Conclusion\n\nChainCraft is differentiated by its blend of AI and blockchain technology, which not only makes game development more accessible but also more dynamic and community-focused. This approach not only caters to current trends in gaming and technology but sets a new standard for how games are created, shared, and monetized, with an emphasis on creator independence and control. The platform\u2019s design caters to both seasoned developers and newcomers to blockchain, ensuring everyone can contribute to and benefit from the ChainCraft ecosystem.\n", "hidden": true, "question": "What features or use cases does your dApp/App present? How is it differentiated?", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "## Plans for Further Development and Use of Grant Funds\n\n**ChainCraft** is dedicated to advancing its innovative game-building platform, leveraging blockchain and AI technologies to democratize game development. Our development plans are centered on enhancing technological capabilities, expanding community engagement, and improving user accessibility and education.\n\n### Areas of Focus for Development\n\n1. **Enhancement of AI Capabilities**: Our primary focus is on refining the AI tools that assist users in game design. This includes automating routine tasks and generating creative content to make game development more accessible and efficient.\n\n2. **Blockchain Integration**: We plan to expand blockchain functionalities to ensure a secure and transparent environment for creating, trading, and managing game assets as NFTs.\n\n3. **User Experience Improvements**: Enhancing the user interface is crucial to making our platform more intuitive and accessible, particularly for those new to blockchain technology.\n\n4. **Community Tools Expansion**: Developing additional tools that facilitate real-time collaboration and project management within the community will be a key focus area to foster innovation and collective development.\n\n5. **Educational Outreach**: Establishing educational programs that provide resources and learning opportunities for both developers and artists is essential to nurturing a knowledgeable and skilled user base.\n\n### Prioritization of Grant Funds\n\n- **Technology Enhancements (AI and Blockchain)**: The majority of the grant will support technological advancements, particularly in AI and blockchain, to solidify the foundation of our platform and ensure robust, secure, and innovative game development capabilities.\n\n- **User Experience and Accessibility**: A significant portion of the funds will be dedicated to improving the platform's usability, ensuring that it is accessible and easy to navigate for all users, regardless of their technical background.\n\n- **Community and Educational Initiatives**: We also prioritize funding towards community engagement tools and educational outreach to build a vibrant, collaborative, and skilled community of game developers and enthusiasts.\n\n### Expected Outcomes\n\nWith the support of the grant:\n\n- **Increased Adoption and User Engagement**: By enhancing the platform\u2019s user-friendliness and technological capabilities, we anticipate a growth in our user base and deeper engagement within the community.\n\n- **Innovative Game Development**: The improvements in AI and blockchain integration will enable more sophisticated and creative game development, pushing the boundaries of what is currently possible in the industry.\n\n- **Educational Impact**: Our educational initiatives will equip users with the necessary skills to effectively use our platform and innovate within the gaming and blockchain spaces.\n\n### Conclusion\n\nThe focus areas outlined for the grant funding are integral to achieving ChainCraft's mission to revolutionize game development. By prioritizing these key development areas, we ensure that the platform not only grows in functionality and reach but also remains at the forefront of technology, community engagement, and educational empowerment in the gaming industry.\n", "hidden": true, "question": "What are your plans for further development, and how will the grant funds be used to achieve these goals?", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "hidden": true, "question": "For any project deploying smart contracts on blockchain networks, please list all your deployer addresses and their corresponding blockchain networks. Use this format for each entry: [deployer_address], [chain_id]\u2014for example, 0x123abc..., 42161 (This represents a deployer address on the Arbitrum network). Please include a separate line for each unique deployer address and blockchain combination.", "questionId": 8}], "project": {"id": "0xa018fb58a9580407f1abd5c5ed6f43ad3f0c41b89eff7694d46d94082832516b", "title": "ChainCraft", "logoImg": "bafkreignm2l4cemaz5zd2symzewvxtb5iewg47tonprnsyx6xaud2aehky", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreiewb3gdnzcwiatwrjmsabxx57dvwmvziq3zgms27ufa3sj6gvmaku", "protocol": "undefined"}, "website": "https://chaincraft.games/", "bannerImg": "bafkreihb477jiifibrt75egrbxtpddikvujsug5tyw4n2mn6eyfwjf5pf4", "createdAt": 1728395762523, "userGithub": "ryanbeltran", "credentials": {"github": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..lRA2isrIqq8GMzSOyfajaW4EVP0Dlv-7r2IdTl3X0PwUEjK69r5hk-_MNw8RgZaSTsHOha2gojgQPx0p-xJpCg", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2024-10-09T14:11:41.832Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2024-10-09T14:11:41.832Z", "expirationDate": "2025-01-07T14:11:41.832Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0xc94DD5cAa29fb3681f08594668DB10bdb1eBf316", "hash": "v0.0.0:1FWlR5cU80mIOX3on7gw8GieE5DLOUbAv9bv72VlKEw=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextGithubOrg#chaincraftgames#12650052"}}, "twitter": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..7anGEINhErxO19CxaVNdALtUzPjB1Iao52M8KkFR3gaex6kQchlGCyE3OL_BiwdbGykajqHPXpSrs1hhQIeSDQ", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2024-10-08T13:54:54.125Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2024-10-08T13:54:54.124Z", "expirationDate": "2025-01-06T13:54:54.124Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0xc94DD5cAa29fb3681f08594668DB10bdb1eBf316", "hash": "v0.0.0:1Z8NKkD62KPiQqVcCTsO4AR5NWzfF5N8V/T/vFFdunA=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextTwitter#chaincraftgames"}}}, "description": "ChainCraft simplifies game creation by leveraging AI-powered development, which breaks games into modular components. Whether developers are building custom components, using AI assistance, or purchasing assets from the marketplace, our platform makes game development more efficient, cost-effective, and accessible to all. Blockchain technology ensures that creators can own, trade, and monetize their assets.\n", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "chaincraftgames", "projectTwitter": "chaincraftgames"}, "recipient": "0x8170135d9c8FE5dA6F997a4483de822904b21017"}}