Description

The Sandstorm platform has 4 main live features actively used by 15+ Virtual world platforms: - Contests - Proposals - Analytics - Server hosting service Website: app.sandstorm.co This project will be concentrated around using Contests & Proposals Here is how it works: - 1 "project round" has 1 theme and lasts a month - On launch of the project round, 1 proposal with a budget of 18000$ (total budget of the project round) is initiated. - Creators & Studios will be able to apply for the project round with IDEAS & PROJECT CONCEPTS, as well as the amount they want to be compensated for the work. It is expected that creators provide in depth descriptions as to why they should be funded. - Each Creator / Studio will be able to do 1 request, and each funding request can be of a maximum of 2000$ to help them realize their idea. - Simultaneously, an open contest will be launched for people who want to participate without requesting funding OR creators who want to produce more than 1 project. That contest will last over the course of a month and only grant extra visibility. Note: Sandstorm being a US company, following US regulations & laws, we are required to KYC users in order to issue monetary compensations. This means that per round, a minimum of 9 projects will be produced. Each project having its own scope & being able to consist of 1 more extensive scene OR a full suite of wearables OR a full suite of emotes OR a full suite of assets, it is to be expected that more than 500 individual assets will be produced by over 45 unique designers / studios over the timeline of this campaign. Each project will be individually marketed on release by the creators & Sandstorm. Sandstorm will additionally leverage their network to put creators in touch with event hosts & production teams - this will help further content production down the line, outside of the scope of this initiative. Within the proposal description, there will be included: - The overall THEME of the project round - Technical expectations (Decentraland guidelines) - Description of the above - An expected Delivery Deadline Through our management infrastructure, we will handle oversight of projects & make sure all creators deliver on time. Example of a Virtual World successfully leveraging Sandstorm as production & creative partner: https://twitter.com/OfficialTCGCoin In the Budget rundown, we added example themes that could be tied to a Round of initiatives. In addendum: If this goes through, we will provide our Streaming hosting infrastructure for free to the DCL Facilitation Squad for them to host their Townhalls, workshops & events in world. We @ the Sandstorm team hope that you are as excited about this initiative as we are. Time to get creative in Decentraland!