Sander Dijkens on DreamFuel Games' Infinity Skies metaverse

0:01i'm ashton addison from block west capital for investmentpitch media and today on the Crypto Coin Show we have saunder dykins the founder and cto of dream fuel games working on infinity skies saunder welcome to the show and thank you for taking the time yeah pleasure being here likewise i'm excited to hear all about the game and the metaverse and the

0:23nfts and the gameplay i'd love for you to just kick off our conversation by just a little bit in your words on you know what is infinity skies and the vision behind it yeah infinity skies is a blockchain based game on polygon where players build their own castle in on an island floating in the sky it's very similar in terms of the building to

0:49games like the sims except in infinity skies everything you build with is an nft so the force that you place down the walls that you place down a piece of furniture these are all nfts and as such can be traded with other players on the marketplace very cool and everyone does love sims but flying castles in the sky sounds like you're taking it to the next level

1:16so for sure and i've seen sort of the gameplay and the graphics and it looks really cool you know with metaverse's having this open world and collaboration i feel like the possibilities are sort of limitless you know besides building your castle maybe you can talk about sort of the game play and the scope of what's all possible within infinity skies

1:42yeah in infinity skies it's it's it's also possible to visit other people's castles and really get into the socializing aspect so that's also where it kind of differs from the sims it seems just a single player game however infinity skies is really a social mmo game so this means you can visit other people make friends join girls together and ultimately the goal of the game is

2:09to compete in this castle building competition that is game wide every month and end up in the top spots by achieving the most amount of votes on your castle from visitors and this makes you eligible for the most lucrative awards very cool and you know building a game especially at metaverse is a lot of work how long has your team been working on

2:35this so far at this point we've almost been working on the game for almost two years so we're right now slightly past one and a half very cool and the you mentioned building the castles like having every little piece as an nft i find that super fascinating how do you balance you know the integration and the focus on the

3:02blockchain and nft aspect with the gameplay and you know everything that comes with the traditional game as well yeah from from right from the start we wanted to make this game first for free to play meaning you can just hop in without having to go through any kind of paywall and start playing the game as intended and

3:29during this process you'll be able to earn as well and now from the beginning of the design we also also saw that some games that do this run into issues where things become inflationary so we tried to tackle this as well what we came up with is essentially that our token is not an inflationary token where it can be earned in game

3:56massively by a lot of players our nfts however can be earned in-game so you might think well those are inflationary then but then we thought of another solution for that as well and that is essentially seasons so every six months approximately there's gonna be a new season meaning the entire old collection of nfts becomes legacy still usable in-game but no longer obtainable

4:25in-game so essentially there can't be new ones of those minted only they can be bought on the marketplace from other players or even destroyed in crafting systems making them even more rare i really like that aspect you know that was one of the things i liked when i played mmos there was like annual rare items that like the people who

4:53played in the first season those items only get ever increasingly rare as as less of them are around and you know people who had them on their accounts quit playing or they get destroyed and there's barely any so i like that now i was looking at the world map which looks super cool and you know with metaverses they can just sort of be ever expandable

5:17how big is currently the world map and how big do you plan on growing the game at the moment the world map has well an infinite sky size it's called the infinity skies for a reason but we have a center of this whole world map and this center is where the valuable plots of land find themselves

5:44and this is divided up into four rings of the four top rarities so the most inner ring is the rarest one with the fewest amount of plots and most likely the most amount of visitors because they will be more easily able to find your castle and visit it so that one is that inner ring is the astral ring and i believe there's 250 plots in that one and then outside of

6:15that you have the divine rarity ring the legendary rarity ring and the epic rarity ring and all of these rings together they contain a total of fifty thousand and six thousand something plots of land that players can own and even multiples off in the game and earn votes off from other players

6:42very cool thanks for explaining that and from from what i understand the land plots are are called sky blocks and i'd love to know it sounds like there's still some available if there's 50 000 plots and beyond beyond those rings but with the rare ones and you know for people that are early on are those all sold out or is there an ongoing sale of the skyblocks and

7:04how does that work to purchase land in the game yeah at the moment nothing is so sold yet and we are actually this month working on getting the sale of that out there so definitely if you want to join into that i would say join us in our social social channels and definitely stay tuned for opportunities to get into that

7:33sale but yeah that's gonna kick off this month and then continue on for a while very cool that's great to hear that there's still time available for that and you know i was looking on the site that you're able to play the game obviously it's an ever expanding game but at what to what capacity are people able to play right now are they able to go in

7:59there but not purchase land or how far along is the gameplay for the players in the public yeah so in this end we have a very big update coming out on the 27th i can actually now for the first time say it will be announced shortly anyways but the 27th will have a new version of our demo live currently we have a

8:26version from i believe back in february live so there's quite a massive difference in terms of what you can do in that new update and that will be on 27th so definitely once that goes live jump on it and play around with it there's a lot of new things you can do such as multiple floors are now possible stairways fences there's clouds there's i believe at least 100

8:57more objects that you can play around with there's multiplayer actually also in that version which wasn't in the previous one so a lot of new things have been added in that big update currently the state of the assets in the game is that you have everything unlocked and this that will remain the same in this new demo so you can build around unlimited

9:23with everything unlocked in your inventory however of course once the game goes live this changes and you only will have the nfts that you actually have in your wallet also in your in-game inventory lastly however there is one pretty cool thing about this new demo update and that's that you are able to see the plots of land that you buy from the landsale

9:47already on the world map in-game as you being the owner of that specific plot that you bought so those are not placeholder in terms of ownership very cool that's great to hear and for people that you know they a lot of people want to play games and try it out can you play without making an initial investment in a plot

10:14of land or are the barriers to entry low and it's pretty cheap to get a plot of land that's you know in a faraway land or you know what are the entry costs to start playing yeah like i said we wanted to keep this game completely free to play so it's also possible to not own land and still play the game in this case you'll be placed outside of all of these

10:38rings in what we call deep sky which is essentially what makes the sky infinite because we can just keep on adding new plots of land to the infinite border but you can imagine that the more of those come into existence the harder it becomes for yours to be found by other visitors so you have to be creative in that case find other ways to market your castle to the rest of the

11:03community use external channels use the global chat use gold's in-game or perhaps even you burn some feast nfts to promote your castle on the world map okay great to know that's always great when people are able to just join and play and not have to invest in nfts as well but it does sound very exciting about the skyblock land sale i'm going to make

11:28sure there's a link to that in the description box below as well now i was also looking into you know like the players and the heroes of the game and not just the castles i saw that you can become a queen or a king and there's royalty status can you tell me more about the players that you're playing in the game yeah definitely so you have your

11:51your avatar in infinity skies and it's completely customizable as well with nfts so in season one you can imagine that you have a nice jacket for your avatar and that's an nft and then you combine it with a different pants and that's also an nft and you combine that with your face nft and you really customize it into your own

12:20character that way then there's titles as well that you can customize your character with so like you already mentioned there's the title of king and queen right now in the demo that's the only title being displayed so for right now everyone is a king or queen but that will change at the game launch and this is actually tied into our ranking system as well where as you

12:44level up your block new titles but the king and queen title are very exclusive and these are only for top three winners of these competitions each month so once you have won one of these competitions and ended up in the top three you have the bragging right to show off this title to everyone else very cool great to know and you know with everything being an nft i'm curious

13:11around the economics and the market of acquiring nfts or buying and selling them as a player working in the game are you able to do things that allow you to earn nfts or do you have to buy them all and is there an infinity skies marketplace exclusively for that or are they available on general nft marketplaces how does that work yeah so it's definitely possible to go

13:36to the marketplace and buy nfts there in that case you will always be buying from other players and you can also go there to sell your own nfts so how do do these other players get these nfts that's all through gameplay so i mentioned feast earlier really shortly so if someone has a feast active and is kind of promoting its own castle to the rest of the

14:03community in order to get visitors for votes you can go there and you're actually incentivized to go there because once you go there and complete some of the feast challenges which would take you probably approximate about 10 minutes then you are rewarded with a essentially a mystery crystal that will contain a nft of a random rarity and a random type

14:31so that's one way of earning nfts is through this social feasting mechanic then there's also the possibility to go into the mining depth on our website which is essentially a staking functionality where you if you hold eye sky tokens you can put them in those mines lock them away for a certain time period and you're awarded with

14:58quicksilver fragments and these fragments if you have a thousand of them you can turn them into one of these mystery crystals as well that yields you nfts so that's another way then there's the leaderboard that i was talking about as well so ending up high on that leaderboard will give you unique nfts that were specifically made for that month only and only available in that

15:24month only so these are right away the next month are instantaneously legacy nfts that you won't ever be able to obtain again and there's different rarities being handed out to different spots on the leaderboards and top to 2500 players are eligible for these rewards of various rarities and then lastly in 2023 we'll also have our exciting adventure mode coming out

15:54which is more of a hack and slash experience beating that you will also be rewarded with these mystery crystals very fun that sounds exciting and thank you for explaining that all that really helps paint a picture for the for the nfts and one thing i took note there is that you mentioned about sort of like a staking mechanism of eye sky tokens and

16:19mining which is cool and i'm curious on if there's anything else you didn't touch on in terms of the native token eye sky you know is that required to purchase the land or it's used as you're building your castle and how does it sort of create a sustainable economy for everyone that's in the game yeah so the economy really is driven on the nfts

16:44so the loop is there you grind for them in the game and you are able to use them by building or you are able to sell them all on the marketplace and where the token comes in is essentially it's the go-to medium for transferring these nfts back forth on our marketplace it's actually on the marketplace the exclusive token there

17:12and it will also have other use cases such as bidding on lots of land within the land that on the website which is a beautiful map as well so there you can place bits in high sky exclusively once again and then there are some smaller use cases such as crafting mechanisms requiring a small fee of high sky to use those crafting mechanisms for example very cool

17:41so much in these games you know it's a multi-multi-year project but it does sound very exciting what you and your team are building and i guess that part of the first step is the launch that's just happening now on the 27th as you mentioned about about the skyblock land plots for the viewers that want to learn more about the gameplay and owning land and

18:03the nfts what's the best way to find out more about that and make sure that they don't miss the skyblock land plug yeah the best thing you can do is join our discord follow us on twitter and maybe even subscribe to our newsletter that way you'll make be able to make sure that you won't miss any notification about this still going live and this demo going

18:30live sounds great sandra i will leave those links in the description box below as well to make it easy for the viewers thank you so much for explaining everything in infinity skies i'm gonna go check out the playable part again right now and i will follow along and put out a release about the skyblocks land plots as well because i'm interested in

18:51learning more about that so thank you for taking the time and all the best in the near future yeah thank you thank you for being here