SafePal x ArchLoot AMA recap
On August 2nd, 2022, the ArchLoot team excitingly met the SafePal community, with whom has enjoyed an informative conversation.
The session covered major updates on the project, and several big events upcoming:
- On August 8th, the 2nd wave of ArchLoot Mysterybox sales will be available on the Binance NFT platform.
- On August 15th, we’ll be rolling out the 2nd phase of the closed beta test. Application: https://forms.gle/kyrnzXzPPsWJrWCx5
- We just opened a Japanese community group: https://t.me/ArchLootJapan
Session 1 — Fireside Chat
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.
Dirk
Hi, everyone! I’m Dirk, CMO of ArchLoot. I can share my page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dirk-yuan-4017a0a5/ 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
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.
Q2: How do you differentiate ArchLoot from other Gamefi projects? In what ways do they plan to outperform the Gamefi competition?
Dirk
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
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 as it reached 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.
Host
You guys have been working in this industry from an early stage! So now
Q4: Do you guys have any partners?
Dirk
For starters, we have closed 3 rounds of investment raising very shortly and over 10 backers have voiced their support. The information is fully disclosed on our social media. Building on an expanding ecosystem, we have recently announced a series of partnerships, including Fight of the Ages, Karmaverse, and Gamic Guilds.
You can more names of who we’ve been working with here:
https://www.archloot.com/backers
It is our plan to collaborate with more guilds, games, gamer communities, and web3 infrastructures.
Q5: Could you update some hot news or big events of ArchLoot in the following weeks or months?
Jonathan
Wow, actually there is quite a bunch to say for that question.
August is a big month.
- On August 8th, the 2nd wave of ArchLoot mystery box sales will be available on the Binance NFT platform. This time we are opening 1,000 offerings. 1st wave was immediately sold out on the Binance NFT Platform — within 30s, with a floor price/volume climbing after since. So if you are interested in the second wave, stay close to us: https://twitter.com/archlootOS
- On August 15th, we’ll be rolling out the 2nd phase of the closed beta test. We prepared for more than a fun game, but also events & incentives. Last time we gave out thousands of dollars worth of prizes, this time would be more fun. Why not play while you enjoy the exclusive early birds’ perks? You can apply here: https://forms.gle/kyrnzXzPPsWJrWCx5
- We are still busy rolling out new patches for the game, we are currently polishing the iOS version of the game, we have no ETA right now but it will be ready for the Open Beta, and if no major issues are found during our Closed Beta, we will roll out the Open Beta very soon.
Q6: Can you give more details about the Mystery box sales?
Dirk
As said, the 2nd wave of ArchLoot mystery box sales will start on August 8, available only on the Binance NFT platform.
For those who don’t know about our first wave, it is my pleasure to share its amazing features:
1. They also have chances to enter the CBT II.
2. They are either epic or legendary parts (same as blindbox I), which give gaming advantages and stylistic advantages in the game.
3. Potentially additional utility in later patches of the game, at the discretion of the team.
For our previous holders, we can say that the price of 2nd wave is different from the first batch of 200 boxes. It is your time to see how correct your choices were, and a good chance to reap more benefits.
One more thing about the mystery box, it is going to be very different from your normal JPEG style of NFTs. that’s indeed all I can reveal for now.
Q7: Why should people invest in your NFTs?
Dirk
That’s a really good question.
In fact, the game itself is free-to-play. We will be dropping common parts for players to join the game. So why should people invest in NFTs?
Fairly speaking, the NFTs are significant in terms of 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 separate special skills, some look very badass.
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.
The mystery boxes you can buy on August 8 on the Binance NFT platform contain exactly 1 epic/legendary NFT body part plus 9 other common ones.
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.
Host
That was very informative for our community, thanks. Now here’s the last question from this segment.
Q8: What is your top priority for 2022? Can you and your team members share a bit about the strategy that ArchLoot will implement in the near future? What makes the team feel confident to win in the long run?
Jonathan
Nothing is valued more than the game itself. Our next focus would be the official launch of the game, which involves a series of technical and marketing efforts.
After having success in the key crypto market in Korea, ArchLoot is now seeking opportunities in more areas, such as Japan and SEA. There is simply nothing we could value more than real gamers, and we understand in these countries and regions, GameFi and crypto users are so well educated that a high-quality product can stand out.
We just opened a Japanese community group. https://t.me/ArchLootJapan
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
In fact, we are also organizing a Panel with several other projects tomorrow
https://twitter.com/archlootOS/status/1554346976309018624
Feel free to drop by
Host
Thanks for the sharing, I think we can now move on to live questions from the community.
Session 2 — Community AMA
Q1: I remember that the product of the 1st CBT promotion was the iPad. What is the bug bounty or prize for the 2nd CBT? How is the 2nd Binance Blind Box different from the 1st Binance Blind Box NFT? What is the plan for ALT to be listed on the exchange after OBT? Discord’s 1st carnival event has ended. When will the 2nd and 3rd carnival events be held?
Dirk
I’m going to address the listing plan for our token ALT. In fact, we are currently negotiating with some renowned centralized exchanges on listing. The process seems to be quite smooth at the moment. Success in our next NFT sale and CBT II and OBT will definitely aid as well.
Q2: Will we have a home of our own? Can we make our own NFTs in that house or combine existing NFTs to create custom NFTs?
Jonathan
If you’re talking like Minecraft or any game where you can build a Home or own a home, no, you are not able to own your home per se, but you will have your own ‘base’. Currently, it is not possible to create your own NFT buuuuut, it is planned for a future update, what you can do is actually customise your Character and the part aka NFT. Our customization settings are going very far.
Q3: If you look at the PvE game of archloot, you will eventually have a problem with the bot. I would like to know if you are prepared for the inflation of assets caused by the bot.
Dirk
This is a question about BOT. Which is really important to the survival of any blockchain game project. So I will try to comment on this.
First of all, we believe that no anti-bot system can prevent all bots. The fundamental solution is to create an economic system that is bot proof. This requires constant monitoring, constant revision, and adjustment to the system. Fortunately, our team is seasoned enough with numbers and inflations. We have designed the economics for many sustainable games. Also, being able to develop a bot ourselves will certainly help on the anti-bot front.
The game indeed requires some skills and manoeuvre, which is naturally against Botting.
Lastly, we have designed a line for casual players. The rewarding schemes for bots are carefully designed to prevent a major impact on the overall environment.
Q4: ArchLoot can customize its own monsters, but it doesn’t seem to have the ability to undo the customized monster options. Is there any function to partially change the monster’s options?
Jonathan
Well, it is obviously possible to undo your changes. You can change it the way you want and reverse it back before validation, we are currently working on a save where you can save what kind of custom design per part and apply it to other parts directly to not waste time during the character customization.
Q5: So as the name of the project is Archloot, so my question is how the team come up with the name and what are we looting here while interacting or involving in it?
Dirk
Indeed our name derives from Loot. As our innovated protocols EIP-4985 and BEP-129 is a major upgrade from the Loot protocol, vastly increase the scalability and interoperability of the original LOOT style NFTs.
