BinanceNFT x ArchLoot AMA Recap
On August 11th, 2022, ArchLoot had an informative and interesting conversation with the Binance NFT community. The team highlighted its plan for the 2nd phase of the closed beta test that will start on August 18th, and updated relative upcoming events.
Here is the recap of the entire session.
Host
Hello Binancians! 🥳
Welcome to a new @Binancenfts #AMA series session (Ask me Anything). Today we give a warm welcome to Jonathon and Dirk, CEO and CMO of the Archloot team.
Hi Jonathan and Dirk! great to have you with us today.
Session 1 — INTRODUCTION QUESTIONS
Q1: Can you give us a self-introduction of yourself and the project?
Jonathan
Hi, I’m Jonathan, the CEO of ArchLoot, I am from Belgium, and have been a member of the game industry for a long time. I worked in game studios such as TapTap, Mars Game, Yostar, Aoshitang and
Dirk
Hi, everyone! I’m Dirk, CMO of ArchLoot. I was from the traditional finance industry. Directed one of the first fully-compliant crypto hedge funds in Asia, and co-founded an FoF.
Jonathan
I’ll introduce our project now. ArchLoot is an NFT-based UGC game built on BNB Chain, we can also say it’s an RPG game based on user-generated content, and for this reason, we want to place our users at the center of the project. Too many game companies have forgotten that they are making games because they liked games in the first place and you can feel it. We are creating the project for the user base, we want ArchLoot to be a fair and balanced project for all users.
Links: https://linktr.ee/archloot
Welcome to our next CBT: https://forms.gle/fis5uMbk2o2r7RQZA
Q2: How do you differentiate ArchLoot from other GameFi projects?
Dirk
This is indeed a really good and important question. The first difference would be our technology and UGC elements. As explained, ArchLoot provides the first interactive gameplay in the industry, which fully enables on-chain implementation of upgradeable characters/props NFTs.
UGC elements in ArchLoot come from user-designed avatars, and user-oriented community strategy and also come about from mainstream media outlets facilitating amateurs to publish content. Our technology ensures that all these parts are highly editable and renderable anytime.
We’d like to breeze some fresh air into the industry, by enabling the gamers to achieve what they want in the way they feel good.
Jonathan
I’d even add, that Web3 gaming is a space where everyone should be a winner. I do hope we achieve levels like Axie infinity, and in every spectrum of our project vision & design, I even hope more that with joint efforts of gamefi, we can make play-to-earn a better play-and-earn place.
Can see our work in this game preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W8LRSArALI
Q3: Who are the core members developing ArchLoot? What is your experience with the gaming industry?
Jonathan
As for me, I worked for years serving game publishers such as Yostar, Aoshitang,
Mars game, and Taptap and in projects such as Arknights, Ragnarok, Azur Lane, and Ulala: Idle Adventure.
And the team comes from different horizons. Our COO Gavin has been a c-level member and consultant in blockchain projects. https://www.linkedin.com/in/gavinnation/ Our advisor Duke co-founded Blockchaingame.com. It can be considered a success in 2017, reaching a $10m net profit.
Dirk
Our members have accumulated much gaming publishing experience during 2017–2019. A lot of research has been done to keep the game sustainable in the long run. We released an experimental game, mir1 on the iost chain, and made many enhancements based on community opinions. It was a good practice, which paved our way.
Q4: What’s different about ArchLoot NFTs? Why should gamers and investors care about your mystery boxes?
Dirk
We have just finished the 2nd wave of NFT sales on Binance. See: https://twitter.com/archlootOS/status/1556875461409787904 It is now a good time to further elaborate on our value.
In fact, the game itself is free-to-play. So why should people invest in NFTs?
Firstly, NFTs are significant for your playability and profitability. Avatars in ArchLoot are assembled and designed freely by gamers with NFT body parts. These parts are divided into four levels according to their rarity — common, rare, epic, and legendary — corresponding to 1, 2, 3, and 4 attributes respectively.
Some of these parts also have special skills, some look very badass.
Jonathan
Or both at the same time
Dirk
However, the most important thing about our NFT, which makes them unique, is our protocol, EIP 4985 and BEP 129. I’m not going to explain the technology in detail here. However, these two innovated protocols allowed smooth player/NFT interaction as well as interoperability.
Gamers have assets more than a static jpeg, but a ‘live’ part that its metadata can be changed and protected by a treasury contract.
So to sum up the reasons, 1. The NFT technology is like nothing else. 2. The NFT looks badass and has superior attributes. 3. increased playability. 4. collectability value.
Jonathan
I’d even add that this is a new type of NFT, unlike JPEG our NFTs are Core ingredients of the game, acting as gears.
Q5: Could you update some hot news or significant events of ArchLoot in the following weeks or months?
Jonathan
Great, I’ll reply to that one because we’ve had some exciting stuff happening these days and more to come.
The first nearing big thing would be: all of our mystery box holders can see what’s inside very soon! Whether you have purchased the 1st wave or 2nd wave NFTs, you can visit our official website https://www.archloot.com/ in the next few days to actually open the box. An official ‘open it’ notice will be dropped as soon as we’re ready. Stay tuned!
Our next phase of the Closed Beta Test is approaching. We are ready for the full version of the game, with better compatibility, graphics, and deeper maps. With heaps of events coming up, why don't you sign up for a seat in this test:
https://forms.gle/fis5uMbk2o2r7RQZA
Promise the game won’t let you down!
If we are talking about token incentives, there‘s a carnival event going on ArchLoot Discord Server that you cannot miss. It is currently the only way to earn $ALT. You might check: https://twitter.com/archlootOS/status/1555499059741204481
Q6: Why should community members participate in your Close Beta Test?
Dirk
Have you heard of Spore? It is our dream to build a Spore-like crypto game and we might just have done it! ArchLoot pursues playability and it has always been our top priority to build a good game.
You can experience a mature and ready game. Have a glimpse here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W8LRSArALI
Last CBT was a hit and the event’s top winner grabbed an iPad, as I remember. For the second phase, we‘ll be rolling out more excitement and surprises. Fill it in & start your journey with us. https://forms.gle/fis5uMbk2o2r7RQZA
Jonathan
For those interested I must say that places are limited, mainly to not overload our server.
Q7: Can you elaborate on more details of the upcoming official launch?
Jonathan
We have been efficient in delivering milestone objectives, including beta tests and NFT launching. The official launch of the game will be no exception. Belgian efficiency? ah, no we say German efficiency.
During the 1st CBT, we have successfully tested the game already, the phase 2 of the test is coming up this month on August 18. The open beta will follow up. The project has little to few bugs per se. It is a working product already. For the official launch, we’ll be providing better compatibility, including the iOS system, enhancing graphics and technical details, and pushing out an even more ready game that is definitely a top-tier product within the industry.
Feel free to fill out the form sent earlier to join our second phase of CBT and become an early birder. https://forms.gle/fis5uMbk2o2r7RQZA
And also if anyone is interested in helping us, you might be part of the team:
Ambassadors application- http://forms.gle/PM45ZytGfL314XDs5
Mod application- http://forms.gle/MDqYmmSyZcyyRBA18
Session 2 — LIVE QUESTIONS
Jonathan
We have a Japanese community and I think it's an important question, especially for Japanese speakers https://t.me/ArchLootJapan but most of the Japanese community is actually on our discord https://discord.gg/archloot, and anybody joining would be more than welcome, we all know that early birders on projects are the one banking.
Q: What kind of characters are there in the game?? Do we need to pay separately for character and skills in the game?
Dirk
In ArchLoot, players compose their own characters from NFT body parts. Even though all NFT body parts come from four categories (head, upper limb, lower limb, accessories), the number of combinations is infinite.
Moreover, since players can adjust the size, rotation, color, symmetry and other details of each part, every character is unique looking.
The game is free to play, and bosses drop lootbox which can produce rare NFTs. However, players require a lot of skills to defeat bosses if he/she has the common gear.
For NFT mystery box holders, they will be granted one scarce body part/box, which could have unique abilities that will aid them in the game.
Therefore I would say you don’t have to pay for NFTs, however, it will help.
Q: Most players want to in profitable games, so how will ArchLoot become a fun Metaverse and where players can make more profits every day? Tell us your plan to make sure the game is always profitable and keep your players’ assets safe !? 🤔
Jonathan
well I totally agree with you, the best would be that you talk to one of our first wave mystery box holders, which was sold for 100$ and had a floor price of $500+. We have daily quests like other games, our gameplay is not simple like other gamefi projects, we actually could be referenced as traditional games yet we decided to use our technology to move into Gamefi because we believe in this technology. Aside from this answer, we have gathered a team from all horizons, we have security engineers, people coming from AAA game titles, staff coming from DEFI, and some coming from traditional finance, its not always easy to make compromises with everybody but it’s been a couple of years we’re working together and now we’re used to it. the most important for us is always to think. Is this gonna please our users? is it gonna be for the better good?
Q: I see on your website only for mobile versions, so when will we have desktop ones? I think we are like playing on pc now
Dirk
Certainly. You can download an emulator on your desktop and install the pack. We will provide you with the link for download on our website. With an emulator, the game operates on PC just like on mobile.
Also, if you are interested, you can apply for our closed beta test, which can also be played on an android emulator. Please join our Discord and we will aid you with the process.
Q: ArchLoot, that name seems very interesting 😁 Why did you choose that name, any reason behind that name?
Jonathan
Coming from LOOT which is a protocol we overhauled. Actually, I like this question because it's a bit of a funny story, we used to be called ARCLOOT, and eventually, it switched to ARCHLOOT and even the team as well as me do not know why.
