RevenantScholar - Loot Reforged

[RevenantScholar]

RevenantScholar - Loot Reforged

Introduction

Name or social handle of proposer: RevenantScholar

Starknet Mainnet Address: 0x00309817D636cB5a373277D7063DF8AcC2e5Bfd82369bBA01ccdC09520CF1957

Twitter handle: @ScholarRevenant

TLDR

• Unbundle your inventory from completed Loot Survivor 1.5 games into Loot Item ERC-721 tokens, which can be used as a new ecosystem primitive.
• Kick off a play-to-earn race to collect the canonical items needed to reforge and mint the Loot Bags of yore on Starknet.
• No minting fees, so this project will primarily benefit Loot Survivor, making it a more alluring token sink and solidifying it as a play-to-earn game even for those who don't achieve a high score.

Project Detail

Loot Item NFT Contract

• Standard ERC-721 token
• Metadata will include:
  • full name
  • breakdown of all name parts
  • item slot
  • material
  • greatness and xp
  • adventurer ID it was minted from
• Permissionless, community-driven renderer (like the LS NFT Renderer)
• Stock renderer in the classic white-text-on-black-background style
• Allowlist of approved minters
  • The scope of this grant only includes the Loot Survivor minter
  • However, this functionality allows for integrating other NFTs in the future. For example, minting Loot items held by Bloberts, crafting named items from Beasts, etc.)
  • Permission for adding new approved minting contracts will be handed over to the DAO to ensure no rugging
• No minting fee

Loot Survivor Minter Contract

• Mints all the items in an adventurer's inventory
• Tracks which adventurer has been used--you keep the adventurer
• No minting fee

Loot Reforged NFT Contract

• Standard ERC-721 token
• Metadata and render will duplicate original Loot contract
• Mint by trading in 8 items that 100% match (including greatness) an unminted bag
  • Traded in items will either be burned, or be available in exchange for the minted Loot Bag--TBD based on design input
• No minting fee beyond the 8 Loot Items

Inspiration

• Loot and Loot Survivor - no explanation needed
• RPGs broadly - adventurers discover, wield, trade, and buy discrete items
• Neopets - treasure maps are an iconic example of collection as a game where players combine parts into a prized item
• The Lord of the Rings - Anduril is the archetypal reforged blade trope, which is a theme that strongly reforging Loot Bags
• Lootmart - the original Loot unbundler
• Genesis Adventurers - NFT scavenger hunt to resurrect NFTs of adventurers from an earlier time
• Loot Survivor NFT renderer - permissionless, community-driven image rendering

Target Audience

• Loot Survivor players - adds a boon to playing a game they already love
• Play-to-earn gamers - attracts them by giving them NFTs after every Loot Survivor run
• Realms ecosystem builders - opens up endless possibilities with item primitives

Lore

• At this point, the original Loot NFTs feel like artifacts from an earlier age, so they should be treated as such
• Loot Survivor represents a mythic underworld that dredges up the contents of these lost bags
• The Realms in this age hunger after the legends of these bags of yore, and yearn for them to be forged anew on Starknet
• Loot might one day be bridged to Starknet, but even then it is unlikely that all bags will be brought over
• The adventure and competition of reforging the bags with items recovered from Loot Survivor is a lore-friendly way to get 8,000 bags of Loot into our ecosystem for builders to build on without feeling like a cheap knockoff and while keeping the playing field level among the most established Lords, the newest visitor from AMMA, and everyone in between.

Philosophy

• Neopets is an excellent example of a "macrogame" that encompasses a world, lore, and a large collection of "microgames"
• These terms are not a comment on the size or effort of the games, merely that you can play Neopets just as much as you can play Meerca Chase or Faerie Bubbles--and that the microgames exist within the context of the macrogame
• The DAO is funding the production of many microgames--some very ambitious, clever, and innovative--but our Realms.World macrogame needs more fun, more excitement, and more actionable points of interest, just like the overworld of Neopia
• This proposal adds one such activity to our macrogame that elegantly ties into the world, lore, and what is currently foremost microgame our ecosystem: Loot Survivor

Character

Please give a brief outline of who you are, what you have built before or what makes you specifically right to tackle the challenge you propose.
I'm RevenantScholar

• Member of the Realms discord server since Sep 29, 2021
• Software Engineer with 5 years of profession experience
• Mainly worked in Java and Python
• Previously worked for a health-tech unicorn startup
• Currently work for a Fortune 500 bank
• Don't want to dox myself publicly, but am willing to verify the above points privately with a trusted community member
• This will be my first real foray into Dojo and Cairo, but I'm excited to get building
• The proposed project is elegant in design and limited in scope, so I believe it is realistic and manageable given my skillset

Timeline

1. Sept 2024 - secure FH grant
2. Dec 2024 - release to testnet
3. Jan 2025 - release to mainnet