AMA with $BDT
Indocrypto5
Hello and welcome to our AMA with Block Duelers $BDT. This is how the AMA will be done, first we will start with questions the admins prepared and than we will have time for community questions. The best question will be rewarded with 50$!
Indocrypto5
Are you guys ready?
Built2Last
10000%
Indocrypto5
Awesome!
Indocrypto5
First question: How did the idea of Block Duelers come about/born?
Built2Last
So basically, i notice4d that there were alot of NFT projects with alot of great artwork and solid community support.
I saw a lot initial of hype, but then things would die down.
I thought to myself, WHY?
Diving deeper, i realized that there was very little to NO UTILITY for these NFTs that would normally jsut sit there stagnant in an eth wallet or stuck on a platform like rarible or opensea.
So that is when i came up with the idea of fighting NFT’s, kinda of like a 1 on 1 battle
like pokemon or magic
I thought, hmm, maybe we can attach evolving stats to these nfts as they are fought and battles are won, OR lost for that mattter.
And here we are!
dutchcrypto5
that sounds really cool
Indocrypto5
That’s it amazing, I like how innovative it is, props +1
Built2Last
Its a simple idea, whith alot of weight behind it!
Built2Last
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Indocrypto5
Sometimes simple is better than complicated :)
Built2Last
Yup, and you can always expand on SIMPLE
Indocrypto5
Second question: Could you tell something more about the roadmap? What will be the next step and why do you think it will be successful for the project? Will there be any new features released soon?
Built2Last
So right now, we are heavily focusing on the UI design and portover of the blockduelers domain. Right now we have a few sneak peeks, to show the progress.
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Battle design
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Profile design
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leaderboards
Indocrypto5
Awesome, I like the cartoon style, really reminds me about my childhood!
Built2Last
Also one more!
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dutchcrypto5
Wow that artist does really have some talent!
Built2Last
YES!
Built2Last
That is the new landing page which will be a one stop shop for all things block duelers related
Built2Last
I love our designers. I gave them a simple idea and they took it to the stars!
they based it off of this
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to this
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dutchcrypto5
yeaah this is really cool!
Indocrypto5
Awesome! Really love the style
Built2Last
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haha
dutchcrypto5
Third question: Which other NFT projects are you looking to collaborate with?
Built2Last
Well if you follow our twitter, youll see a bunch of $ tags on the bottom of every tweet. Those are the projects that we have active communication open with. I cant get into much detail, but we are planning on uniting the NFT front.
Our platform gives use to ALL NFT’s
dutchcrypto5
ahh cool thanks :)
Built2Last
Ya I can say that, one of our advisors is from the loot team ;)
ⱣhiliⱣ Ꝟaℕ Ðer ŁiℕÐe
Would it be possible to elaborate a little bit on the developer team?
Built2Last
Sure, after a week or so of sifting through applicants on upwork, i found a gentleman by the name of Tyler. Him and his full stack team, including graphic designers and a smart contracting guru
We quickly started hashing out ideas and got into a very smooth groove almost immediately
They have been very professional and on point. They have made my job as CEO very easy. Tyler is also my project lead, which a fit more perfect than any pair of broken in levi jeans
ha
Any specifics youd like to know?
ⱣhiliⱣ Ꝟaℕ Ðer ŁiℕÐe
Seems like a nice group of people. It seems that your project heavily involves around artwork. Are there any plans to entice more artists to join your project?
Built2Last
YES!
There are
For right now we are focussed on our lead artist, Jorden Oliwa
I first came across Jorden Oliwa through Chonker.Finance. They were using him to create a few NFT’s for their up and coming project. They teased us with an Artist who had done work on Courage the Cowardly Dog, Ren and Stimpy and was one of the main digital artists for the Hip-Hop group “Gorillaz”.
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You can see the gorillaz artwork resemblance
For now we will be focusing on showcasing his work, but will move onto other artists of different styles and expertise! Each new series of NFT’s will have a different theme and we want to make sure our artists styles match with it!
We are currently conceptualizing our first 6 nft fighters!
Indocrypto5
Because the project is called “Block Duelers” we can assume that the project is about duel games. What kind of duel games are we talking about, could you explain?
Built2Last
So the basic idea for our MVP launch is a 1v1 aspect.
Have you played hearthstone?
How all the cards have different properties
Indocrypto5
Yess! Absolutely
amazing game!
Built2Last
So were not on that level, BUT we do employ some of the same stat values that help the game to be so popular.
And on top of it the NFT stats are always evolving, just like in an rpg. So everytime you win or even lose a battle you will gain experience to level your fighter up.
This will be done in a pre set rock paper scissor factor for now
to prove the game concepts and show the mechanics
going back to this screenshot
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you can see the 2 moves numbered, near the bottom middle
those are your three attacks.
Indocrypto5
In hearthstone you can buy better cards, this is of course an advantage for the player. Is this also possible with Block Duelers?
Built2Last
So here is the catch. As people build these amazing fighters up in experience.
They will potentially increase in value do to the stats, and time it took to build said NFT fighter
This brings value to an already existing NFT that might be a rare card from a special project.
Now you can sell these NFTS on opensea or rarible, not only for their art, but for their battle properties.
so YES, you will be able to buy them, but our focus is MINTING
MINTING will be done by staking BDT on our staking platform
So technically there are two ways to get the nfts
STAKE BDT or BUY NFTs
ⱣhiliⱣ Ꝟaℕ Ðer ŁiℕÐe
It’s good to see that users are incentivized to hold their tokens
Built2Last
Yes, and staking is only one way that we are actively developing token utility
which is one issue we see in alot of NFT projects
Indocrypto5
Okay last question!
than we will have some time for community questions
Indocrypto5
How is the marketing strategy, how are gaining traffic towards Block Duelers.
Built2Last
This is probably the trickiest question to answer.
We sold out 70 ETH in private sale in 5 days, OVER XMAS BREAK
We were very excited for this and wanted to continue the hype by starting presle right away.
Right now we are trying to sort through all of the AMA requests we get. It seems like alot of them dont do much for community growth.
So we are trying to keep it to the word of mouth aspect by hiring a few smaller groups to help us spread the word, organically.
We also hired a marketing consultant w3ho helped us raise over 70 eth so far
He has by far been the single biggest help to raising ETH so far.
We are still diving into possible marketing ideas. The thing is, its sometimes hard to tell what really works and what doesnt, until you try
Indocrypto5
Nice! That’s awesome, hopefully GemFever was able to contribute a bit in further succes of $BDT
Indocrypto5
That’s true, month to month advertisements are the best. We will do our best ;)
Built2Last
You guys are amazing, we had an investor from your group come in yesterday and really become a part of what is going on. He even invested a few eth, just on the basis of your word
Indocrypto5
Thank you so much!
dutchcrypto5
Amazing to hear this!
Indocrypto5
Okay, that were all the questions we had prepared. No its time for some community questions. Are you guys ready?
Indocrypto5
I will unmute the chat
Built2Last
HERE WE GO!!!
Indocrypto5
That chat has been muted!
Built2Last
WOW!!!
Ok im pretty quick
saw 3 i liked
Indocrypto5
@Built2Last408 @AnthonyBurks Pick out some questions ;)
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- How many artists does the Block Duelers team have dedicated to the creation of NFTs? Is all the design work in just 1 person?
Built2Last
As i stated earlier, we have 1 leading industry artist by the name of Jorden Oliwa. He will be creating the first series of nfts for blockduelers, while we work out partnerships with existing projects, to utilize their NFTs and even their artists. If you have any talent that you would like to recommend, we would love to hear it!
Abdullah
You have explained your competitive advantage but every project must face challenges at a point in time. what are the challenges facing Block Duelers and how do you plan to solve them?
Built2Last
User onboarding and retention is going to be our biggest push. In order to make the game successful, we need people to play it. This is where the wager side of the paltfrom will come in, by letting people bet on the outcome of duels on the platform. We hope that this will entice players to come and try it out, among a few other concepts that I cant mention quite yet ;)
Vinh Đi Máy Bay
🚀 Does this dueling or fighting platform you are creating require any special technology to be able to play? Any specific hardware? Or is a laptop sufficient?
Built2Last
I really like this one. The cool thing is, we dont rely on any special technology, except for blockchain :) Everything is pretty straight forward and simple to setup server side. We do have a special smart contract that will be used to store the metadata from all the NFTS and their evolving stats. The MVP launch will first support desktops and laptops. Mobile will come shortly after!
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How many slots are available on the $BDT token presale this time then is there a minimum transaction to participate in the $BDT presale and how do I make a payment during the pre-sale and where can I buy $BDT tokens?
Built2Last
last one!
We currently have about 23k tokens for sale. presale ends on the 3rd, so 24 hours! No minimum to participate!
Please send your Ethereum here: 0x31aEa794cAD4130A113430DDeF128Ddc6F81eACb https://etherscan.io/address/0x31aea794cad4130a113430ddef128ddc6f81eacb
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Indocrypto5
Every thank you for participating our AMA, its was AMAZING, thank you for being part of the GemFever community. We are going to announce the best question winner in the Block Duelers Telegram group https://t.me/BlockDuelers JOIN NOW TO SEE IF YOU HAVE WON :)
Indocrypto5
Thank you guys!
*for all the photos and gifs make sure to check the group chat!
