Soulcops Working on NFT Game with "Play-to-Earn" Concept

NFT games that concept play-to-earn (P2E) Recently, it has become increasingly popular because it has introduced the use of crypto to a completely different sector. Technology blockchain allows players to buy and sell digital assets in the form of games. Soulcops wants to be one of the local startups that wants to work on this segment in Indonesia.

Soulcops is a P2E NFT startup Gaming which was founded in Jakarta last year by eight people co-founder. They are Aji Pratomo (CEO), Hasby Ristama (Soulcops IP Creator), Robby Wahyudi (Head of Commercial), Mochtar Sarman (Head of Retail & Merchandising), Chris Lie (Head of Creative), Sunny Gho (Project Manager), Irzan Raditya (Tech Advisor), and Novrizal Pratama (Lead Marketing).

Each of these Co-founders come from backgrounds that support each other, thus creating a strong milestone in realizing Soulcops' vision and mission. Hasby for example, he is an active police officer and IP Police maker. Then Sunny Gho started his career as colourist in Marvel and DC Comics since 2009 until now. And Chris Lie with his work as one of the illustrators and designing comics GI Joe, Spider-Man, Iron Man, and Transformer.

Soulcops takes the story from the side of the good and bad cops in a Universe. The honest police want to rebel from the domination of the evil police, consisting of criminals and mercenaries, who are creating chaos through a multinational organization called Hexagon Technologies.

“We focus on Universe for police characters. In any part of the world the police are very underrated, many do not like it. This is natural, but let's look at it in terms of Universe with context metaverse, draft bad cop good cop it's in very. Especially in this day and age, fine online nor offline, the crime still exists, the role of the police is needed," said Novrizal when contacted DailySocial.id.

There are 3 thousand digital cards in the game NFT which can be purchased by collectors before mobile game Soulcop is officially released next year. Collectors can later play their NFT collections because each one has a rarity that can be used to achieve goals while playing games, and can beupgrade with weapons and other utilities in making a more powerful character. Another thing is to get tokens that can be exchanged for real money as an implementation of P2E.

In the global market, several cryptocurrency gaming NFTs provide prizes in the form of crypto coins and P2E tokens, including Axie Infinity with AXS tokens, Gods Unchained with ERC tokens (GODS), Alien Worlds with TLM tokens, and The Sandbox with SAND tokens.

“We have released 3 digital cards which are sold through OpenSea. It turned out that the enthusiasm was good [when pre-sale], 2.300 NFT have been sold, about 50%-60% purchased by collectors outside Indonesia. We also see that Soulcops has the potential to be played not only in Indonesia, but also in the global market.”

With this achievement, he is optimistic that NFT games such as Soulcops will be able to attract the attention of gamers from both local and foreign countries. In Indonesia itself, quoting from Statista as of October 2021, revenue from the mobile game business is predicted to reach $1,4 million in 1,96 and reach $2025 million in 8,7 assuming a CAGR growth of 65,6%. In terms of users, it is predicted to reach 2025 million in XNUMX.

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Application mobile game Soulcops itself is planned to release an Alpha demo version in the first quarter of 2022, then a Beta version in the second quarter. Currently, digital card minting is still hosted through OpenSea. This application is also open to gamer general who did not buy Soulcops NFT.

Novrizal said the company will continue to improve its IP so that it can continue to provide services value high collectors. In the long-term plan, Soulcops plans to create merchandising, films, animations, comics, and so on from Soulcops characters. "We'll see we have chance great to improve Universe Soulcops to scoop which is bigger, until it goes into metaverse. "

Regarding education strategies, according to him, with the right educational approach, it will really help grow the ecosystem to be more mature. This will certainly get better because it has a positive impact on the industry.

The reason, he continued, is that the art world is currently undergoing a revolution since the presence of NFT. Which creators or artists can create their work and can be directly enjoyed by everyone without a third intermediary. Also, royalties are very transparent because creators can receive them directly, as well as when their work is sold on the secondary market.

“NFT also legitimizes digital possession, this is about Smart contract. The NFT image is just a representation, but it's inside Smart contract. This concept will change a lot of things. For that we need a lot of education proper, the founders of Soulcops are very serious about this," he concluded.

For Soulcops funding status, it is currently still bootstrapping. However, management is currently in discussions with investors about the possibility of an initial funding round being held.