Supercool STUFF and the quest for NFT interoperability

At Supercool, we are building a protocol and no-code engine on Polygon for people to create the NFTs that inhabit user-generated worlds and for game developers to interoperate those assets and creations across web3 games. We have two big goals:

1. Make it easy for someone to create NFT characters, items, monsters, and other objects without having any coding or artistic skills
2. Let you use those NFTs across a bunch of different games!

Traditionally, if you had an item or character in one game, that was the only place you could you use. You couldn’t take your Fortnite character and go play with it in Call of Duty. We think people should be able to bring the game assets they own with them as they change games.

So how do you achieve this? It’s a long road, but we have a plan. This requires that you’re able to represent the essence of a character or object. To do this, we break an NFT down into two components: what does it look like, and what can it do? We call these NFTs Supercool STUFF.

What is STUFF?

Each STUFF is a CC0 NFT that combines two other NFTs: user-drawn pixel art stored on-chain, and a collection of category-specific “traits”, which are used by game developers to guide the mechanics for how your creation should behave in games and digital worlds.

Supercool STUFF: a combination of pixel art and mechanical traits that can be brought into multiple game worlds

With STUFF, you’ll be able to battle monsters, embark on quests, manage resources, play with your STUFF in a dungeon-crawling RPG and then go and use the same STUFF in a real-time strategy game. STUFF is designed with interoperability at its core. This means it’s not confined to one particular digital world — STUFF doesn’t have to live in an island. Your STUFF can come with you wherever your adventures take you.

As you can see in the above graphic, a STUFF NFT is composed of two parts:

1. Pixly: an on-chain pixel art NFT that shows what your STUFF looks like
2. Trait Bag: a collection of traits that define the mechanics, abilities, and behaviors of your STUFF

You can draw Pixlies on our website: https://app.supercool.xyz. We also have a leaderboard of the most popular Pixlies. To get on the leaderboard, after drawing your Pixly share it to Twitter with the “Share your Pixly” button. Likes, retweets, and replies on your shared Pixly tweet will reward you with our ERC-20 token, SST, and a ranking on the leaderboard.

Trait Bags are user-created collections of traits. These traits define the powers, abilities, and mechanics of your Supercool STUFF. For example, you can create a Trait Bag for a mage and give your mage traits such as “Master of elemental magic”, “Guard of the Twisted Iron Tower”, and “Superhuman Intellect”. If you’re familiar with Loot Bags, you can think of Trait Bags as the user-generated equivalent, except that they are for more than gear and they we will continuously release new generations of traits in fantasy worlds, cyberpunk worlds, sci-fi worlds, and more!

What’s out now and what’s up next?

The Pixly editor is live at https://app.supercool.xyz, so you can go and draw pixel art there! We’re working on a 64x64 grid, so soon you will have more pixels to draw with.

We’re launching Trait Bags to mainnet very soon. See our Trait Bags generation 0 post for more info on the inaugural generation and how to get involved in creating community-defined traits that others can include in their Trait Bags. After we launch Trait Bags, we’ll give you the ability to combine your Pixlies and Trait Bags together to form STUFF NFTs.

We’re also working on setting up game partnerships. It’s early days, but we’ll keep you updated as we add worlds and games where you can bring your Supercool STUFF.