Igor Plusa on Game Lounge's upcoming metaverse platform

0:00i'm ashton addison from block west capital for investmentpitch media in the Crypto Coin Show and today i'm blocking interviews with igor plusa the cmo and co-founder of game lounge igor welcome to the show and thank you so much for taking the time to come here today hello ashton pleasure to meet you pleasure to be here thank you for inviting me and having me here

0:23today it's a real pleasure to meet you're very welcome let's dive into the world of metaverses the virtual worlds customizable to whichever way you would like and game lounge is specifically customizing a metaverse virtual reality that is in particularly interesting because you really can customize it to however you like from what i understand but let's start our

0:49conversation off igor with just talking a little bit about game lounge a high level overview of the platform and what your team is working on and then we'll dive into the details okay sure that sounds good to me so basically what is game launch game launch is another metaverse but as i say it's not yet another metaverse because we

1:18have a slightly different focus than most of the people working in the metaverse industry because we are focusing strongly on the personality of the player his hobbies his likings instead of providing another open world sandbox type

1:44experience so we are doing this by introducing two core ideas that sum up into those lounges that are included in the name of the project with two types of the lounges coming private and public ones the private ones will be of the most interest the players i think because basically they will serve as a kind of

2:12Let's say gaming cave inside the metaverse like a starting point for all metaverse inhabitants and then the public ones once you are feeling social and what to meet some people then the public lounges will be the place to be for you since they will be open to anyone in most of the cases so that

2:39you can go there anytime you want and just meet with your friends there or meet with the new people this is like the core concept i guess we can sum it up by saying that we are focusing strongly on the social aspects of the of the metaverse the in future this is going to turn into a kind of

3:08Social social media gaming platform inside the metaverse great thank you for the intro igor and so there's the public metaverses and then there's the private and you mentioned a focus on social i feel like because metaverse is in the way that your team is developing it that really can be customized to infinite possibilities you know

3:35anti-gravity underwater who knows but when i first think of you know game lounge or like a lounge i'm thinking like an airport lounge or like a just a building where you can just go chill and talk to people maybe you can elaborate on the features and the functionalities of the private and the public metaverse and is it just chilling or is there a lot of fun and cool and

3:59interesting things that you can potentially do inside of the metaverse there's actually quite a lot of stuff that we have in our minds for that but let's start with the basics so once the player gets his hands on his first launch and ft because all of the lounges will be minted as nfps they will come in all different shapes and sizes

4:27and the rarity will depend on those features but each of those lounges private lounges will offer a set amount of activities or features that will be available to anyone of course the first and one of the most important ones is simply gaming but gaming is

4:54is not the only focus in the game launch although the name suggests so but we are creating a bunch of let's say bar bar games or board games that can be played with your friends once they come into your launch and once they come into your lunch you can

5:22boast your nft collection which is also one of the important aspects because you can display the nfts that you own on the walls of your room you can arrange it any way you want those can be like simple pictures jpg pictures hanging like paintings on the walls but also if you happen to own any 3d object from some games maybe there will be also special

5:51stands for that and if you'll if you're more into music nfps we also have a cool feature of this music player so that you can upload music you own and play played as well to your friends of course all the games that i mentioned before will be most liking was like the king kicking off with the pool

6:17darts and chest for the players to start they will be all created in a play to earn model so that you can not only chill with your friends but while doing so you can also earn money so imagine going to a pub with your friends and instead of paying for everything you actually are being paid so this is also a quite cool feature of that

6:43And on top of that we also have this meta ad spot basically as the name suggests it's a space where you can display advertisement each of the rooms will have a set amount of such meta ad spots and what is cool about that they will be generating a passive income for the owner which is

7:10also an important aspect to many people into blockchain gaming and then we move on to the public launches and with the public lounges this is this is where the magic happens let's say this is one of the most important aspects most important and interesting features will be available because instead of

7:40giving you a sandbox in which you can on your own build everything we of course we can do that but we are planning to clear create like bespoke lounges for different projects companies kl's influencers and they have a multitude of ways that they can become useful

8:06Basically those will become like a place for community engagement of specific for a specific project or a company i will give you an example one of our partners one of our partners our signups network and moonstarter the launchpad and for them we are going to create a special

8:35launchpad lounge it kills me to say launchpad lounge but yeah that's the idea and for this for this type of lounges we'll create a very special features not available in the other lounges you can think about a huge calendar huge ideal calendar hanging on the wall in which you will be able to see what

9:03events are going to happen on the launch pad in the coming days you will have different news feeds on the walls with information about the performance of the projects that have already been launched on the platform and like the endgame idea for that is that the players will be able to actually sign up for the whitelist or for an airdrop

9:32through the game so while being in the public launch of moonstarter you will be able to participate and sign up for all the launches happening in the coming weeks there is so much more to this and we have so many ideas that if i were to speak about all of them i guess this would take around two hours so please so maybe let me stop here and for more

9:59information you can always visit our channel we're always there and happy to chat with you and explain everything thank you igor yeah there's a lot going on and from what i understand reading the documentation the metaverse is built with unreal engine technology to help build the 3d world can you talk exactly about where the platform's at right now are

10:26the private and the public lounges live or are you in test mode of course we are one of the few projects that is using the unreal engine 5 attack which is like the cutting edge of game design at this moment we are very proud of that because being one of the few projects i we are also the one that has already a working

10:56demo a working product it's not much it's a very simple demo yet we were able to introduce it to open it for the public and in the coming weeks actually this week we are going to have first in-game events happening on the platform so stay tuned for the announcement on our

11:23channel and as for the further development in q2 we would like to introduce like a better version of the first beta version let's say maybe alpha version i am not really good with this with all those names but like a first version that will allow you to actually invite all your friends into the launch because right now it's more like a single player

11:49Mode but then by by q2 we want to roll out the first version that will be usable for multiplayer as well and what's important and i would like to say that is that the game as of now is available on a website you can play it through your website but the end product is going to be released as a desktop app and then

12:17on the roadmap we also have this vr implementation as well very cool looking forward to the multiplayer version and great to hear that the single player is already out and testable as well igor thank you for that and now you mentioned at the beginning that the lounges and the properties are like nfts can people already buy these nfts or how do they get access to that and how does

12:45that work we are working on this right now we already have some contests going on our discord so that people can win the first set of lounges they are not yet minted so it's like a winning let's say a whitely spot for them but yeah we already have some people won the lounges

13:11and i encourage you to join our discord server because basically almost every day of the week there is a chance to win something which is also really cool for us as for the let's say public mint it's most likely going to happen around mid or second half of march there will be a first set of lounges made available for the public sale

13:40they will be called the og lounges and they will have some unique features compared to the any future ones that will appear on the market because they will have like a non-standard amount of for example meta ad spots and gaming stations inside so they will be able to provide more profit actually for the owner also we have

14:07some cool unique energies coming for the early supporters but i won't say much more about this at this point cool thank you for that and definitely yeah check out the socials to get access to the og lounges there i will definitely do that igor and one other thing i wanted to ask you about as well is the native token that's integrated into the platform i saw that there's a glt token

14:34for the game lounge how does that provide value in the ecosystem and does it is it sustainable for the long term for game launch you know when we thought about game launch one of the first problems that we tackled is the very common problem with blockchain gaming that

15:00many projects can't really figure out because like their only source of income comes from the token itself so you know all of us basically the whole team comes from real business and we understand the importance of revenue yeah everyone is doing this for the profit obviously and we are going to share this profit

15:28with the communities via different revenue streams as well but we have designed the whole ecosystem of game lounge having that in mind that this is important to have this revenue streams and how to generate this added value so that it's worth it to hold the token so like one of the main because

15:54the glt will be the very foundation of the ecosystem it will be used basically for all the transactions transactions inside of the game etc but what is important is that any partner any company or project that is going to have a public launch inside our metaverse to actually make this lounge open they will have to

16:23take a specified amount of glt so once we create the launch for them and they take this amount of token it will become available to the public and then once they for example if they are happy and they are happy with what is happening inside their lounge that they get this feeling that it really helps the community engagement

16:51they are going to of course take the token first what happens if they decide not to continue if they don't take the token you know it becomes closed for a time we are not going to delete it's still going to be there on the game servers but to make it open again they will have to restake the token so basically the more partnerships

17:21we will be able to get and we are working hard on this because this is like the main part of our game plan of our business plan the more partners you get the more value that token will have and this is very important for us from the business perspective definitely thank you for explaining the token and how that ties into the lounges as well i think it's very important to

17:45know for the viewers that are looking to follow along with the lead up to the multiplayer alpha and for the nft drops and for everything what is the best way for them to stay on top of the news as your team is releasing it and to get involved with the game launch communities the best place to be is our discord server is the most active

18:13place basically all of the cool stuff is happening there most of the competitions we have some like discord exclusive competitions everything that happens around the game launch is also heavily discussed on the on the discord server we have a dev diary with all the updates coming from our dev team on a

18:41regular basis we have a medium channel covering all the important stuff that we want to explain better to the community and beside that we are always almost always on discord sometimes we are sleeping i have to admit but beside that we are almost always there happy to answer all the questions

19:09Coming from the community because i know that we don't want to let's say over promise in the docs that we are publishing we have a lot of ideas coming we are talking about them in a podcast like this in amas but this is not like something specifically said on the on the website so if you have more questions about our ideas

19:40for the lounge for the future of the lounge this court is the place to be great thank you so much igor i will leave those links in the description box as well for the viewers all the best with everything moving forward with game lounge and let's follow up in the near future cool thank you so much for your time thank you for the questions and i hope we can meet again in future

20:05once the product full product is released