Decentralized Arcade Machine (DAM)

Building Good Games Is Hard. The average AAA game takes about four years to develop, with a minimum cost of over $80 million. It's just as hard to build a successful web3 application. In 2021, VCs invested ~$30 billion across 1,278 web3 deals. Making the average raise $23.5M with expectations of needing more.

DAM lets devs focus on making good games.

Connect your game's APIs to DAM to enable:

1. "win2earn" contracts that act as PVP lobbies for users. Put your money where your mouth is and test your skills against other players with your proof of victory stamped on-chain for a global leaderboard and bonus prizes.
2. Integration into DAM's homepage - a metaverse game marketplace (think Steam) where you can tap a community of gamers.
3. Enable onchain collectibles and currencies for your games through the DAM Marketplace.

The nitty gritty was focused on architecture and solutioning. The one thing we knew coming into this hackathon was that web3 gaming as it is today creates more problems for game developers than it solves. Our architecture and corresponding diagrams are complete. DAM's tech is very straightforward, and we're confident that with enough resources it could be built in a couple of months.

eSports Matches: Games connect their APIs to DAM's service, letting games create lobbies and handle matchmaking. Once a lobby is created the players pay in the currency of choice (Matic, ApeCoin, AlluoUSD) the game is then sent a signal to begin the match. A PUSH Chat is available to users in the pregame and postgame lobby.

Listing a Game For a game to be added developers must burn an amount of $DAM set by the DAMDAO. $DAM is used to secure the application to prevent spam and attacks by enforcing a small economic barrier. This token is deployed on Skale and Polygon.

Proof of Victory Victories are queried using DuneAPI and populated through Tellor. Victories are chain-agnostic data points that are trustlessly derived from the game itself each time a PvP contract is complete.

Metaverse DAM's metaverse acts as a visual marketplace whose look and feel change based on events and sponsors. The top 5 stakers have the ability to customize major rooms and experiences for players within the marketplace and connect those immersive experiences to real-world or digital products. For example, imagine CocaCola creating a soda fountain that when approached opens an UberEats link to order Coke.

Hacking What I'm most proud of with our small 2 man team is utilizing sponsor techs in our architecture to alleviate major dev lifts. Since only one of us codes, we couldn't integrate everything we wanted to, but got to a PoC and proved our idea is possible.