Welcome to the Roviverse! We’re excited to introduce to you this new ambitious project that we think will take the auto generative NFT space to the next level. Visit Rovi.ai for more details and RSVP to the Decentraland Event where we will demonstrate the Rovi project LIVE! https://events.decentraland.org/event/?id=5b2f9e22-fa78-44b9-b15e-d254d38ccead
Current State of PFP Projects
We’ve seen avatar projects go completely bonkers over the last couple of months. Pirates, penguins, tigers, bears, zombies, punks, apes, and infinity and beyond! It seems there will be no end to the PFP spaces creativity and artistic contribution.
How each community plans to give utility to their own NFT universe is equally as diverse. Some want to make exclusive club houses, full blown fashion brands, virtual casinos, and even an animated television series. These are all killer ideas and paint the picture of how valuable building a community with generative content can be. The Rovi community will follow the spirit of this PFP movement but we want to apply it in a slightly different way with an emphasis on the metaverse.
We here at the Rovi headquarters have been developing in the metaverse space since 2019 and have always envisioned the virtual world to host a diverse set of life within it. Witnessing the wild variety of PFP creations helped us realize the potential that exists in bringing these characters to life and giving them a home in the metaverse, starting with Decentraland.
Why Bring PFPs into the Metaverse?
Alongside this PFP madness exists another breakthrough trend that is radically shifting the way we think of not only video games, but value economics alike, that is Play-to-Earn. Axie Infinity has proven what many have thought of to be the future of gaming by onboarding hundreds of thousands of players into their game ecosystem. The days where gaming is thought of this “waste of time” activity are soon to be behind us. Game universes lay the perfect foundational environments to create robust economic frameworks that allow the players participating in them to extract real tangible value for themselves.
We think this player first model is one of the biggest revolutions to come out of the blockchain space and believe the metaverse will become the largest playground for similar economic frameworks to exist. Decentraland has a unique set of development properties allowing for the facilitation of several Play-to-Earn economies within the same virtual space since there are no boundaries to what a LAND owner can create and deploy on their land. This is why we are introducing generative content into the metaverse to not only provide the citizens with new virtual companions to accompany them during their endeavors, but to also give them new earning abilities by participating in these micro-economies that will be built using MetaZones frameworks.
Why MetaZone?
MetaZone has always been focused on providing tools and frameworks for creators to contribute their talents to the metaverse. We believe strongly that the metaverse will be constructed by the community that supports it and not from a top down decision model. We’ve initiated this effort by introducing the MetaZone App store in February of 2020 giving 3D artists and developers the ability to sell their creations (METAs) to LAND owners in Decentraland. To get a better grasp on what MetaZone does and what METAs are, visit the post linked below for a detailed explanation. https://medium.com/metazoneio/introducing-metazone-unleashing-the-creative-potential-of-the-metaverse-14097774b09e
Now we are expanding the MZ creator tool set by allowing anyone to generate their own 3D modeled characters using MetaZone’s newly developed MetaGen feature. With this new feature, creators will be able to launch their own PFP projects using our auto generative process reducing the cost to produce 10k+ unique 3D characters by a huge margin. We will also provide these creators with META templates needed to implement the code needed to bring these characters to life and to be able to traverse the metaverse and function in a play-to-earn game model. This creator toolset is in it’s alpha stage and as we work out any kinks we will open it for creator use.
The Rovi project is a demonstration of how all of MetaZone’s features can offer a cohesive gaming experience and onboard legitimate Play-to-Earn users into the ecosystem. By owning and operating a Rovi you will be pioneering this new metaverse game economy 🚀 🚀 🚀
Unboxing a Rovi
Part of the Rovi experience is the unleashing process to bringing a Rovi to life! This is a 3 stage process which is good news for the Rovi Operator who proceeds through all 3 steps because at the end of it you will become the owner of 3 NFT collectibles all with game application and utility.
Stage 1 — Transporter
When purchasing a Rovi, Operators will receive a Transporter NFT in their MetaZone inventory. With this transporter you will have the option to either open it to unlock the supercharger that houses the Rovi from within it or keep it closed. We wanted to add a “collectors box” experience, so if one rather not unveil the Rovi within and instead harbor it and pass it down to the next generation of NFT degens, that’s entirely up to you.
Details about the Transporter
- 10101 Transporters in existence (there will never be any more even if the Rovi population grows)
- Unopened contains a Supercharger META and a Rovi NFT inside.
- Transporters can be installed on LAND and be used in-game to store your Rovi inventory.
- Any loot your Rovies collect in PvE arenas can be moved on chain via the Transporter
Stage 2 — Supercharger
Upon opening the Transporter, one of 5 variant Superchargers will be obtained. Just like the Transporter, this will also be a META that the Operator will be able to install on their LAND to provide essential game functionality.
Supercharger Details
- Visit a supercharger pod to quickly charge up your ROVI when it’s out of power after a long battle.
- The Rovi Supercharger is a META for land owners to install to earn passively from any energy starved Rovies that enters the chamber. The more on one land the faster the charge rate is.
- If all 5 Supercharger variants are collected and installed together in a single LAND location, the energy recharge rate will be massively increased, thus incentivizing Operators to visit your land.
Stage 3 — Rovi Reveal
And of course, the final stage of the unboxing process is the grand reveal of what Rovi lie inside of the Supercharger! Once opened a Rovi can never go back, they will only revisit a Supercharger to reboot their energy levels, but now they will need full time Operators to help them thrive and put their powerful abilities to good use. And speaking of abilities, each Rovi when released from their charger is randomly assigned a set of battle stats that will determine their gameplay competencies.
Along side this stat generation will occur the generative process to assembling and assigning the Operator one of the possible 10101 variants of the Origin generation of Rovi.
What are Future Plans for Rovies?
As we said before, we don’t want to end the PFP fun at just receiving your unique NFT procedurally generated character. Our desire is to build a functioning robust Play-to-Earn ecosystem in both Decentraland and in a separate but connected metaverse called The Rovimatrix. (Remember 100% sale of Rovies means all Rovi Operators will receive a LAND NFT parcel in the Rovimatrix)
We plan to do this by introducing more META content that land owners will be able to deploy and host on top of the ones they will receive from the Rovi unboxing process. Together these METAs will allow for Player vs Envrionment (PVE) and Player vs Player (PVP) game mechanics to exist in the metaverse allowing Rovies to battle and explore to gather valuable resources needed to grow the Rovi population to make room for future Operators.
More Rovies You Say?
That’s correct, we don’t just want the Rovi project to end up as a PFP project without much utility and purpose. The Rovi community is STRONG and passionate and we want to harness that energy and bring it into the metaverse at full force. We intend to push this into a massive Play-to-Earn game economy that can rival the likes of Axie Infinity which now has a player base in the millions! To be sure we don’t ruin that opportunity we will have to introduce a population expansion mechanic from the beginning to account for future growth of the ecosystem.
To do this will require multiple elements from within the game. One being the assets and materials that will be found from in-world gameplay and the other will be the native GEAR token that will be rewarded when winning battles in PVP and when completing major tasks in PvE. The combination of these assets along with two Rovies will be deposited into a Replicator META that will produce
We strongly believe as the population grows the value of these origin Rovies will continue to increase as they will always be regarded as the original release Rovies from the games inception.
GEAR TOKEN
And the final and perhaps most important detail is the addition of the GEAR (ERC20) token into the ecosystem which will provide the backbone to the metaverse economy. With the GEAR token the Rovi community will have all the tools needed to cement a truly community organized DAO infrastructure to influence future Rovi development through the collective voting power of the tokens in supply. The tokens will also have utility for purchasing future Rovimatrix LAND parcels and will be used in the replication process. All these feature developments kick in after the 60% sell target which will enable us to provide liquidity to kickstart this phase of the Rovi project and to accelerate development to rolling out the necessary game content METAs to bring this game universe to life!
Closing Thoughts
We will introduce more medium posts in the future to explain in detail how the MetaZone frameworks will allow for a PFP Play-to-Earn ecosystem to flourish in the metaverse. And to detail in more depth the game mechanics for PvE and PvP gameplay.
Also, we will upload many YouTube videos of the founders discussing these very topics along the next several weeks. Be sure to follow our YouTube channel called “The Block Runner” to view this content. We’ve already recorded our first community discussion with all 3 founders in the call along with an AMA back and forth with some early supporters. Watch it 👇
Thank you for joining the Rovi mission Operators! We’ll see you in the metaverse very soon! Reminder: August 19th we will livestream in the community discord to demonstrate to everyone the Rovi technology and how we are working to build out this game universe. Also we will conduct the first pre-sale of the Rovies at HALF PRICE (.0505 ETH) to all our loyal community members. Only 500 will be ready for new Operators, the full launch of Rovies will take place September 2nd.
About Rovi
Rovi is a PFP project of 10,101 unique battle bots that are playable in the metaverse running on the Polygon network. Each bot comes from MetaZone that has built a procedurally generated engine to make each bot random and unique. Rovies can battle each other to earn tokens in Decentraland and also play in the Polygon powered RoviMatrix! MetaZone is a platform that has enabled any creator to make their own 10,000 procedurally generated 3D NFT characters right from the platform and all characters will exist on the Polygon network
Become an Operator today and join our community channels to begin your path into the metaverse
