Influence Grant Program: Round #1
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The Influence grant program was set up to empower community members to think creatively and help build out the ecosystem to support the growing player base. In the first grant round, we allocated $20,000 dollars and decided on six projects that we felt added the most value to the community to help fund. We are extremely grateful to all who submitted their proposals and we look forward to doing more rounds of grants in the future.
We are extremely excited to publicly announce our Grantees! They have all been working hard for quite some time on some incredible projects, and today we are finally pulling the curtain back.
In the below article you will find all details about these projects, their creators, and what they have in store! Additionally, as these projects develop we will be updating and posting all information here: https://wiki.influenceth.io/en/community/grant-program
The Grantees:
- Adalia.id
- Adalia Departures and Arrivals
- Albion Hub
- Influence Sales
- Blackrock Industries: THUNDERDOME
- Tyrell-Yutani Industrial HUB
Adalia.id
- Creators: @Myrhea , Gareth Stonebraker
- Team/Project: GameChaingers.io
- Tool: Adalia.id
Description
Adalia.id is toolset for players and alliance. It allows them to manage their members, organize their data, and plan around their assets and gameplay (currently in private alpha).
About the Creators
@Myrhea and @strwrsfrk have worked together in the software development field for 6 years, and have over 18 years’ combined experience between them. Our goal with Adalia.id is to give every member of the Influence community a place to analyze their asset data, manage their relationships and organizations, and connect the tools they find most useful from all creators.
Adalia Departures and Arrivals
- Creator: Admiral
- Team/Project: Mercury Heavy Industries [MHI]
- Tool: ADAR (Adalia Departures and Arrivals)
Description
ADAR is a free-to-use tool that provides information about spacecraft flight departure and arrivals in the Adalia system including:
- Departure location
- Departure date and time
- Destination
- Ship type and details (if available)
- Cargo type and details (if available)
The early version of this tool is expected to provide a text-based running log of this information hosted on the Mercury Heavy Industries website. The second version of this tool will likely add Discord notifications of spaceflight-related events.
The new functionality will be added iteratively to ADAR. Subsequent versions will add other features such as searching and sorting, reporting, alerting based on explicit conditions, and other functionality as needed by the community. Ultimately ADAR will provide a graphical view of space traffic in the Adalia system.
The initial version of ADAR is expected shortly after the production release of Exploitation.
About Mercury Heavy Industries
Mercury Heavy Industries (MHI) is an Adalian corporation that is involved in mining and refining, energy production, manufacturing and assembly, research and development, and various other key industries throughout the Adalia system. Anyone can join, contribute to, and potentially profit from non-exclusive membership in MHI. MHI hosts a series of tools on its website, including ADAR, which is used for tracking spaceflight information throughout the Adalia system.
About the creator
Admiral is the founder and current leader of MHI. In the real world, Admiral has worked in various roles in the information technology industry for 30+ years, including operations and network support, development work in support of operational activities, program and project management, process design and simulation, and best practices and standards adoption, consulting, and education. Admiral has been an active computer gamer since the late 1970s (Pong!)/early 1980s.
Albion Hub
- Creator: PartiallyZen
- Team Name: PartiallyZen Corp.Team
- Tool/Project: Albion Hub
Description
The Albion Hub is a Multi-User Dungeon (MUD) based on the Adalian Asteroid UN-5166, “Albion”. Founded by partiallyZen Corp. in 3,438.36 SA, by a Citizen Merchant and Specialist Engineer to serve as the cultural location for the mid belt, and you can be part of the story as it unfolds!
Connect your Crew NFT, land on Albion, or load in as a stealth ‘ghost’ of any of the 5 classes to explore the history of Adalia, partiallyZen Corp., and have a drink with other crew mates, or explore the hidden depths of the station. The Future of the Albion Hub is in your hands! Community events directly impact the development of the Albion Hub and special items can be found by helping out where you can!
Foundational Expedition once approved for flight off AP…
About the creator
Currently a team of one, a mid-west system administrator, game master, and python enthusiast
Influence Sales
- Creator: Trevis, Dirac
- Team Name: Teandy
- Tool/Project: Influence Sales
Description
Influence Sales is a web application providing a broader perspective on the secondary market for Influence assets, allowing users to make better-informed trading decisions. The website aggregates and presents NFTs characteristics and market data visually (interactive charts), including:
- Past trades, in a timeline or aggregated form
- Current listings for sale
- Plots analysis of any Ethereum address
- Community-derived evaluations of rarity and in-game utility
Influence Sales helps its users answer questions such as:
- “I’d like to own an asteroid, but there are so many available. Is this offer a good deal compared to the others available or past ones? Is there a reason for this one to be so expensive?”
- “I’d like to add a solid engineer to my crew. How many Propulsion Engineers are there? Are they often traded? How much are they worth? Is the current market price fair or should I wait? How does that compare with the tier below?”
- “How do my different asteroids work together? Is their total surface balanced in terms of spectral types?”
When viewing listings for sale, users can also immediately see information at-sync with Influence’s servers (“Can Mint Crew”), we check for them in real-time thanks to the integration with the game’s API.
The Discord bot ‘Data’ is also available on multiple servers to answer community members’ commands for asset information on the spot.
Developments are under way to:
- Improve the user interface / user experience
- Provide more frequent data updates
- Extend the features of the app to
- StarkNet and new marketplaces
- The many new types of in-game assets such as extractable resources, ships, and skins
About the creator(s)
Software developer, Blockchain enthusiast, and day one Influence adopter Trevis soon started applying Data Science methods to understand the secondary market for Influence NFTs and share this perspective with the community.
Long-time friend and tech enthusiast Dirac joined him in this adventure at the end of 2021. Teandy was formally born in March to enable the growth of Influence Sales and other blockchain projects.
Trevis now also writes learning material and contributes to open source projects for building on StarkNet.
Blackrock Industries: THUNDERDOME
- Creators: Bored Certified, Kilgore Troutlaw, Max Rockatansky
- Team: Black Rock Industries
- Tool/Project: THUNDERDOME
Description
“This is the truth of it: fighting leads to killing, and killing gets to warring, and that was damn near the death of us all…Now,when men get to fighting, it happens here…and it FINISHES here.”
Coming soon to Bartertown, THUNDERDOME is a 2-player PvP autobattler game where contestants pit their Adalians against each other until only one is standing! Play anytime, no matter where your crew is located in the belt. Or fly to Bartertown “in person” for tournaments and prizes! Fight for bragging rights, or use the in-game betting system to wager on fights and win SWAY!
Using RNG “dice-roll” mechanics, stats, buffs and debuffs are created at the start of the battle based on your Adalian’s class, tier and (in the future) skills. For stat balancing and to avoid anyone being too OP, contestants spin the “Deal Wheel” before each fight which randomly assigns them a weapon (buff) or malady (debuff). It doesn’t matter if you’re a mining scrub or the High Commander herself, ANYONE can win in the Thunderdome!
TWO MEN ENTER — ONE MAN LEAVES
About the Creators
Black Rock Industries (BRI) is an Adalian corporation founded by three nerds who are also RL friends. Each one brings their unique talents to the table as BRI builds in anticipation of exploitation.
- BORED CERTIFIED: Shaman. Supplies whiskey. Proficient in talking to strangers.
- KILGORE TROUTLAW: Counsel. Idea man. Purveyor of rubber chickens.
- MAX ROCKATANSKY: Keyboard monkey. Subsists on energy drinks and insults. Brings cigarettes.
Tyrell-Yutani Industrial HUB
- Creator: DrJones
- Team/Project: Tyrell-Yutani Industries
- Tool: Tyrell-Yutani.app
Description
Tyrell-Yutani Industries is a Corporate & Industrial Logistics HUB for the blockchain game INFLUENCE. Our goal is to provide sophisticated tools and services to explore, compare, manage, and maximize the potential of player-owned assets. Support via discord link on Associates page.
Current services include crew and asteroid rarity/ratings, complex filtering on assets, department breakdown, crew avatar download, and sunburst Adalia explorer. Optimization, System viewer, and Team composer are planned for Q3 2022. https://tyrell-yutani.app/
About Tyrell-Yutani.app
DrJones began exploring web3 development around Sept 2021 and used the assets from Influence as the test data for tutorials and small development tests. After many backend trials and tribulations these stabilised into the current platform. The desire is to keep expanding the service into 3D analysis (routes / markets) and contract services.
About the creator
DrJones is a media profession, sci-fi lover and crypto enthusiast who started the Tyrell-Yutani site as a hobby/passion piece to explore web3 development. Influence was his first NFT experience and he’s excited to contribute such an exciting player driven experience.
Up Next: The Adalian Creators Collective
Influence will be announcing the “Adalian Creators Collective” in the coming days. This program will allow all creators, builders, and artists, including the current grantees to participate in submitting projects to our monthly friendly competition.
The goal of the ACC is to reward developers, creatives, and content creators who help educate, grow, and share Influence. Owners of Influence assets will be able to vote each month through the utilization of snapshot.org on their favorite community projects. From third party applications built by community developers, to Discord emojis and concept art, all submissions will be considered.
