J3 FA 03 Matías Nisenson + Luciano Bertenasco Experimental Gaming on Ethereum

hello everyone some more people coming right here how is it going we are experimental my name is Matthias this is Luciano we are CEO and CTO let me see how this works all right all right thanks for coming it is not a morning to get out of bed so thanks for doing it well basically we're 25 years old we've been working to her for eight years now I know I personally look like and and order but anyways we founded a company called TMP which is that logo right there like four years ago and a year ago we sold it we sold it to to a European company your European competitor actually and when when that happened we started thinking on what to do like what to do next and it was a really really hard decision we started discussing Luciano here really wanted to work on theorem like to you know to like to dive into into theorem into the block chaining to cryptocurrencies and myself I was more you know I'm more business oriented so I see I saw how the market was super small at that time you know the only benchmark we have is meta mask and the number of users at that time was really low you know it's still really low it's around a million so you know for a whole market it's nothing so anyway solution I really wanted to do it I didn't want to do that and you know with this discussion I think we were like like a year just discussing and just talking about it so you know we were fearing what the we should do so we traveled a bit finally decided decided on this through route 3 rules we agreed on these three rules the first one was to do something in a theorem community you know in the theorem network the second one which was an agreement between both of us was to not raise the stupid amounts of money on an IC o---- we think it's not sustainable and we we saw many many projects race like millions and millions for products that didn't exist so we decided to do it you know in a sustainable way to create a real company we've been working for a while so we you know we knew how to build a company we wanted to do it the right way so these two rules and the third one was to build a profitable company that helps their market scale if you if we're gonna you know jump into the market we want it to be a good market so we can build a again a great company and this was the question we asked ourselves so how do we how do we get scale at first you probably think on rating or plus mound you know all this tech solutions we think it's more complicated than that it's not only infrastructure that we need so we think this is like what what a theorem really needs you know in its passionate teams that will build projects will build software will build solutions and you know the infrastructure you know the tech behind it will finally come if there are passionate teams and these are three you know three you know three things or three points we think are are key for the development of the market first is education most you know most of the appeal that people don't really know what a theorem is and you know I won't even talk about interacting with a with an up on the theorem Network which is much more complicated for not textile you know not tech savvy people then we need use of laps like usable by it and everyone like they shouldn't be they should be able to use it as any other up like not not knowing so much about the blockchain and cryptocurrencies and you know the rest and then as a third the third pillar let's say infrastructure and tech solutions like plasma and radium but but you know it's like a more holistic approach to scale that's what we that's the worse our agreement to sailing away so that's why we founded experimental right basically experimental tries to show the world what can be you know what can be done with the blockchain we cryptocurrencies and how do we do it through experiments we call them experiments basically an experiment is an app that is blockchain based in this case the theorem based and that can have basically basically like a massive yeah massive adoption you know from from an anyone and everyone we decided to you know we decided that if we're gonna do this we needed more than our team we are eight people you know in Argentina and in the States but we thought we would need some more people some more ideas and more approaches so we decided to create to create a community of 300 people and at the same time we needed to finance our first you know our first months of development of the first experiment so we decided to do a really small presale in which we only accept 300 people and let them invest only one ether at first then some of the you know some of the investors and collaborators as we call them as for more so now it's capped on ten ether you can invest from one ether to ten ether and the main idea is that token holders will help us in any possible way so we are only accepting people that can add value other than the ether they invest right so we need you to add ideas or you know whatever your field of expertise is we need you to to give us feedback and we need you to test the experiments whatever you can do we have like communicators marketing people devs designers we have everything even even like formal investors like Mike Mike Mike is the CEO at science we see which is a big crypto crypto we see he was also the CEO at myspace for example one other guy who joined is Jerome the guy organizing this whole thing and in the you know here in this room I see a couple more more of the community so yeah basically the community will help us build all the experiments test them and you know just try to comply with it you know took them to up like get to our vision sorry all right this is the token we created is the experimental token or as we call it 11 because it's AE plus plus 11 letters it's a new year C 20 and it will be you know a key part in all our experiments you will be able to use it in all our software in all our in all our apps and the main idea of this particular token is that it should be an easy access token as we call it you should be able to get it without knowing how to buy either we don't know in how to use an exchange without knowing you know basically without being tech-savvy just as you go and play any other game or use any other up you should be able to buy our token with a credit card or whatever so that's that's immunity of the token the token holders our community and our community will help us get to our goal well so to start with the first experiment it's a game called crypto Wars crypto Wars is a strategy game they're fully runs on the theory on blockchain so basically you will build your village you will I create some units and attack other players to steal part of the of their resources from part of this is that you can actually stake some tokens into your village to get like boost on like to boost your progress in game but that also makes you a kind of a target to other players to come and attack you and steal part of those tokens we decided to build a crypt or worse because well first it's a game it's fun and secondly secondly it's kind of blockchain and gaming are like really strongly related thanks so first of all like a game is suitable for like anyone so even from a child to like I don't can play a game I will enjoy it secondly it attracts attention so it's kind of like we received a lot of attention and a lot like good feedback from building the game it also has a lot of challenges we'll talk about them later most importantly it's fun so yeah for example like here one of the state of the apps of the apps conferences here like said okay yeah gaming is the number one topic everyone is searching when searching for adapt so it's really big and for example one of the well going to the current issues we are like facing now on idiom it's well it's really really expensive to run the game on chain for example there are some post bicycles that you like if you will run it on the through and blockchain with another to any way and price of eater of $700 it will be like for the a normal player pretty expensive to play the game it also like we kind of need the through network to be stable and have low that low latency for the user experience to be good this is not always the case for example with crypto kiddies or with another whatever comes along like the if your network is not ready yet to handle these kind of transactions so what we decided for the first alpha version it's basically to isolate the project so we created our own proven 3G network thanks to puppet and I agree yes but there are some issues with that like first it's really easy to develop to into like your own network I know it's like it's a more controlled environment so whatever you can do whatever we want you or don't have to worry so much about ghosts or security issues but also the issue is that users playing the game will be playing for fake money so it's not really what we want for them to really try it out and all the experience of the game it's also centralized since right now we are the ones controlling the network and it requires you to be a collaborator to play this first alpha so it's not ideal situation but it's the one we started with so for version 0.2 we are planning to start scaling it a bit so basically we are going to start to develop kind of plasma MVP on the or an hour just net we're also talking with some other companies that like app specific side chains for example loom right now they have a distributed proof of stake a chain but right now runs on go we are waiting for them to implement the chain to be able to running we lost power yeah only rights right yeah so we're waiting for them to implement the the ability to also put small contracts into the side chain and obviously we want to like upgrade from our like centralized solution of proved authority to a more decentralized solution that it's fair for the net at least but also there are issues with it but this version it's like it's still not like safe enough to handle your money and it's still like since it's fake money it's not like a really good user experience so for the first better version what we are hoping is that to like to have an some kind of solution that will allow us to go into the theorem a net for like security and all these reasons and that said we were we will be able to play for real money so a lot of the in-game economy adjustments welcome along too and since it will be kind of an open beta more open that it is right now we will be able to test it on a larger scale after the big one we are planning to do like a public access game and for this to work we need the people like Pokemon fork to be able to get the token get a dream to beta gas and to kind of know how to interact with the game so basically what we are looking here is one Mattias said we will need and easy access token and this is why we we want to create like a micro write like a micro exchange that will allow us like users with the credit card just to get like a little bit of ether and tokens they want and we are also working on a mobile app especially on a unity3d plugin I think well this is the the other slide so basically what we're working also it's on a unity 3d plugin right now it's in the asset store or it will be like in a week this will allow us to have like an native wallets the users the users can create on their phones and just like add the funds they they want to play with like to play around with and it will also like help other developers that are on the community to build their own games and to help grow the ecosystem so apart from that like as I said you could stake tokens right now the only token you can stake is the 11 token afterwards we're planning on like being able for you to like stake whatever you want so even like another joking like here C 20 or see yeah 20 or the extension and for example I don't know you could stake like a crypto key or whatever and also we were planning it were like in talks with teams to plan other integrations for example on the central and on all these other projects yeah well so today at lunch we're gonna meet you know for any theorem give me Meetup we're like in every conference we go we find really interesting people working on the field so if you guys want to join us we'll be in the gym Baptist on fifth year at lunch so if you want to grab a sandwich and come you're more than welcome that's pretty much it you know about future experiments we're still looking for these 300 people we have you know we have many but so for you to have an idea we are accepting around 4% of all applications we get into the pre sale this is mainly because I would say ninety say like ninety six people out 100 are basically like speculators that don't really understand what we're talking about or what the theorem is or you know anything else basically so we're only taking in those that can actually help you know add value other than money so if you are interested in joining us please go to e 1 1 dot IO you will be able to apply there and if you're just interested in the game you can also find a game there and you know subscribe so when it's out you can try it right now we have a we have like an alpha version online which is only for collaborators so you know all these people are invested in showing the pre-sale are testing the game right now but it's still a really raw version of it so all right that's male 8 thank you [Applause]