User:Andyoshmtp/sandbox/Dogamí (mobile AR Blockchain game)

DOGAMÍ is a mass-market NFT play-to-earn AR mobile game, where players adopt and raise a 3D dog to earn $DOGA in the Petaverse. It combines AAA NFT gaming, investing and web 3.0 pet ownership. A beta version of the game is set for release in Q2 2022.

Founders
DOGAMÍ was co-founded in France in mid-2021 by Max Stoeckl (CEO, previously BCG), Bilal El Alamy (CTO, Blockchain serial entrepreneur), Adrien Magdelaine (COO, previously Wamiz, pet industry serial entrepreneur), and Kristofer D. Penseyres (CBO, previously Sony Pictures UK, Branding & Partnership Expert). The company is backed by a European team of 30+ collaborators including Art Director Gregory Magadoux (previously Ubisoft).

Advisory board
The DOGAMÍ advisory board is composed of 5 members: Sebastien Borget (co-founder and COO of The Sandbox), Neville Brody (Moma New-York permanent artist), Josef Holm (Founding partner at Draper Goren Holm), Aly Madhavji (Managing Partner at Blockchain Founders Fund) and Yat Siu (Chairman of the board at Animoca Brands).

Funding
In December 2021, the company received $6M in pre-seed funding from Ubisoft, Animoca Brands, and The Sandbox co-founders (XAnge, Blockchain Founder Fund, Ghaf Capital and Draper Goren Holm) to develop the Petaverse on the Tezos Blockchain. The company equally received funding from private investors (amount undisclosed).

Background
Tamagotchi, Nintendogs, and PokemonGo are notable sources of inspiration for DOGAMÍ and the game itself sits at the intersection of three trends: dog ownership, NFTs, and mobile gaming. It appeals to an audience of all ages.

The overarching objective of the game is to develop the best and rarest Dogamí (blockchain-based virtual dog). Each Dogamí will go through different life-cycle phases: puppy, adult, and spirit. Players level up their Dogamí by nurturing (feeding and teaching tricks) through the aforementioned maturity stages, participating in casual mini-games that correspond to real-life activities and competing with other players.

First sale (SOLD OUT)
Similar to other NFT projects, participants were able to access the Generation Alpha NFTs in an initial minting phase on the Tezos blockchain between 22.2.2022 until 24.02.2022 through Private and Public sales.

This first sale comprised 8000 Dogamí with 10 breeds and sold out in just a few hours propelling them to #1 place in terms of volume traded on the major Tezos NFT platform 'Objkt'.

Whitelisted participants were able to take part in an optional reveal event on 4.3.2022, the first of its kind. The floorprice of unboxed Dogamí sits at 580 XTZ at time of writing.

Owners can trade their Dogamí on 3 secondary marketplaces:


 * DOGAMÍ's proprietary marketplace
 * OBJKT (an NFT marketplace on Tezos)
 * Rarible

Subsequent drops of different breeds will be announced in the future.

Dogamí (NFTs)
A total of 300 Dogamí will be released as NFTs, deployed on the Tezos blockchain. Dogamí NFTs come in four rarity tiers: Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Diamond and each individual Dogamí has unique characteristics that are both visual (Rarity Tier, eye color, fur color and breed) and non-visual (personality, body attributes, dog group, gender and statistics - vitality, robustness, intelligence, friendliness, obedience). Players can improve the statistics of their Dogamí through training, impacting their performance in future competitions.

Original Story
Players experience the universe of DOGAMÍ through an original narrative created by Kristofer D. Penseyres and Neville Brody with additional development by Bryan J.L. Glass, an alumnus of Marvel, Image and DC Comics who also worked on Thor, The Mice Templar, and Adventures Of Superman.

Players will interact with Dogamí in the Petaverse (the game’s metaverse) through an augmented reality mobile application (iOS/Android). This Petaverse breaks the digital fourth wall to give players total immersion in an augmented social universe bridging the physical realm and the virtual world.

Engaging with the Petaverse and completing tasks earns players the $DOGA tokens.

$DOGA token
DOGAMÍ is among the first projects to use the Tezos blockchain for both its in-game NFTs, but also it’s in-game utility token $DOGA. It uses the novel Tezos FA1.2 token standard. $DOGA’s total circulating supply is limited to 1,000,000,000. Players are required to hold $DOGA to access the Petaverse but it has various ecosystem uses.

$DOGA acts as a digital voucher allowing the purchase of virtual dogs, NFTs, accessories, consumables, and other in-game features and add-ons.

Holders use $DOGA to participate in decentralized governance enabling them to vote in DAO meetings and decide on the direction of the ecosystem.

$DOGA will also be used to provide liquidity for staking and farming, offering it's users the possibility to take part in DeFi features.

Tezos Blockchain
DOGAMÍ chose the Tezos blockchain for both its in-game NFTs and $DOGA token. Tezos has emerged as one of the growing blockchains for NFT artists and it’s environmentally friendly proof of stake consensus mechanism makes it an attractive and cost-effective ecosystem to deploy on with it’s low gas fees, fast transaction times and clean NFT minting.

The DOGAMÍ smart contracts are written in Ligo and the main DOGAMÍ smart contracts inherit from the FA2 standards for asset composability. A hybrid architecture (on-/off-chain) is used to accommodate the requirements. Dogamí avatars, their inherent features (traits, DNA, etc.) and accessories are stored on-chain whereas the 3D models and images are stored on IPFS to ensure that players are always able to access their NFTs.

Reception & Community
DOGAMÍ currently boasts a community of 160k active users on Discord and Twitter split almost equally between the two platforms. In 2021, DOGAMÍ was named as one of the 15 gaming startups to watch in according to top investors.