Metis Dialogue Tristan: How to Provide New Solutions for Gamification in Web3

Norbert (Metis): Hello everyone! We are excited to have Frank (Tristan) with us today.

Frank (Tristan): I'm glad to join the METIS ecosystem as the first investor of Genesi DAC and METIS.

Norbert (Metis): I believe my community is eager to learn that Tristan Metaverse is the first partner in our GENESI DAC ecosystem.

Q1: Yes, before we start, could you introduce yourself and your team?

Frank: Before founding Tristan, I built a DEX during the bear market of 2018-2019 and was the head of the blockchain department at one of Asia's largest financial groups from 2015 to 2016. Prior to that, I lived in France and Germany, working for over a decade at large tech companies.

My technical partner Harry was previously the CTO of a Hong Kong-listed company (1736.HK), and before launching Tristan in 2021, we co-founded several web2 projects in SEA.

We have an experienced team covering engineering, product, UI/artists, and operations across Southeast Asia, Europe, and South Asia in both web 2 and web 3.

Q2: What is Tristan Metaverse, and what do you do?

Tristan Metaverse is an open-world metaverse themed around planets, integrating social media to provide a unique gaming experience for Web 3.0 users.

Players can start the Tristan game simply by clicking on an Instant dApp link in the Telegram or Discord community, without going through a complicated Web 3.0 authentication process or even needing a crypto wallet.

This innovation significantly lowers the entry barrier for ordinary users into crypto gaming and paves the way for the mass adoption of Web 3.0.

Our main game, Tristan Survival, a sandbox RPG, will undergo community testing in Q1 2022, featuring simulation, PvE, PvP, and user-generated instances. The key game mechanics are as follows:

• Idle and build
• Explore and conquer
• Arena
• Cooperation
• Social connections
• User-generated content

In 2022, we will introduce more themed game planets around UGC, PGC, and 3rd party communities, connecting to the main game.

Tristan Metaverse is also funded by the NEAR Foundation and Polygon, and what we are building here with the Metis family can be easily ported to multi-chain and cover a larger ecosystem.

Tristan will collaborate with other blockchain projects, especially in interactions with social media and Web 3.0 accounts.

Q3: Let's talk about the ongoing collaboration with Metis. What are your main concerns?

For us, Metis is the answer that Layer 2 has been lacking. It is forming an ecosystem capable of filling the huge gap in the Layer 2 market we want to participate in. Tristan's focus is to make crypto gaming mainstream.

The goal is to lower the barrier to entry into the GameFi revolution and build an ecosystem where players and creators can be rewarded and ultimately have fun.

This mission ultimately led to the idea of establishing a strategic partnership with Metis.

In this collaboration, we aim to provide a lightweight cloud wallet for the Metis community and ecosystem projects through social media accounts like Discord, Telegram, and Twitter, offering a seamless gamified crypto experience.

With this system, players will be able to easily create their first METIS wallet based on their Discord or Telegram accounts via command line.

After that, players can start playing with FT or NFT crypto assets, such as transferring, swapping, or even minting. In addition to all these basic but very important functions, players can also play the Tristan Survival Game at any time in the social community via command line.

That’s why we believe this partnership will create tremendous value for both the Metis and Tristan Metaverse communities.

Q4: We can see that Tristan Metaverse has been innovating. But I want to know from your perspective, how are you different from similar metaverse projects?

Tristan's focus is to make the crypto metaverse mainstream.

The goal is to lower the barrier to entry into the metaverse revolution and build an ecosystem where players and creators can be rewarded and have fun.

Compared to our main competitors or projects in the metaverse space:

1. We have a broader coverage from web 3 to web 2

The team has taken a rather innovative approach by developing games as instant Dapps rather than pure web games, allowing anyone to play from anywhere, whether it's Discord, Telegram, or Twitter, making games more accessible than ever with just a "one-click" play.

2. Higher engagement from players to creators

In the Tristan ecosystem, players, creators, and investors are the three main actors at the center stage.

By playing the game, players can earn both passive and active rewards, from items and resources to the Tristan token itself. The above tokens can be used to convert items into NFTs. NFTs are freely tradable assets that can be sold for real money.

Creators: They will receive system-generated rewards based on the popularity of the content they generate!! Creator content can range from short stories to adventures to dungeons lasting several hours. The possibilities are endless, determined by how players choose to use it.

Thanks to the tokenomics model, we are confident in rewarding everyone's efforts through the survival game.

Investors: The Tristan token is essentially deflationary, with certain actions like minting NFTs and regular burns ensuring token scarcity. Revenue distribution is based on token holdings and also requires voting in DAO governance, such as introducing UGC dungeons. All of the above features can add value to TGO.

Q5: What is the current status of your project, and what major events or activities should we expect soon?

About game development:

We are fine-tuning our main game, Survival, for community testing before its official release in March. The first release of the survival game will feature game mechanics such as idle and build, explore and conquer, and cooperation. More gameplay, especially the UGC editor, will be launched before the end of Q2.

Meanwhile, players can start playing the survival game in our Discord channel (https://discord.com/invite/pE8FPFgF) to win a whitelist and update their T-Suit (a pre-version, but with the opportunity to start at a higher point when the competition officially begins).

About the account system:

We have begun building this social media wallet for Metis, which has integrated basic functions to directly handle Transfer, Swap, Mint, and other crypto assets. The social wallet will start in Q2 and will become richer based on the needs of each project's own interests.

About crypto assets:

Our goal is to hold a TGE event in early Q2, but this may also be adjusted based on the industry environment.

The NFT public offering will be held in March, and all major IGO platforms are welcome to participate.

Q6: Please share links to your community and social media.

Website: https://tristanclub.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/TristanClub_ (project account)

Twitter: https://twitter.com/PlaySurvival (Tristan Survival Game)

Discord: https://discord.com/invite/pE8FPFgF (Here you can play part of the survival game via command line, create your pre-T suit, fight monsters and other players, and have a chance to earn an NFT whitelist)

Telegram: https://t.me/TristanClubofficial (a simpler game bot experience with command line and several mini-games)

Community Questions: Q1: Many crypto projects are built to create wealth for themselves. Therefore, I want to know what value you intend to add to the crypto industry that will bring greater richness to the industry.

Our goal is to address these questions: How to create more crypto games for both crypto and non-crypto holders? How to attract a large audience that plays metaverse games using relatively low-end phones?

Q2: Ambassadors and sponsors have their own fame, so have you reached this stage, and do you already have ambassadors and sponsors?

We are collaborating with many people, and you are welcome to join.

Q3: Why did Tristan Metaverse choose to launch on the NEAR chain instead of other blockchains? Have you considered using other blockchains? If so, why?

We have received authorization from NEAD and Polygon, but we do prioritize our strategic partnership with METIS, which is our first priority for cloud deployment and should greatly facilitate both on-chain and off-chain usage of Andromeda.

Q4: Besides sharing your PVP mechanism, could you elaborate more on the gameplay? What are the most interesting features or characters you think of when playing the game?

This is definitely the most interesting feature: user-generated content.

a) We will develop an instance editor that users can use to edit map elements and draw events.

b) Plots will be placed on an online platform.

c) Players can browse all UGC instances on the platform and then choose to experience them.

d) The best UGC instances will be selected to be placed on the world map, where TGO rewards will be available.