1. Who is your team?
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Team Name: AVL
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Main Contact (Name & Role): Gaurav / Gawiz, Co-founder
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Team Members & Roles: 2 (1 game designer & program manager, 1 voxel artist & game developer)
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Are you a known builder in The Sandbox community?
[x] Yes No (Approved partner - Pop Choc Studio)If yes, please list past projects and provide links: (7+ games, game jam recognitions, 1 alpha season game development)
Frosty Earth 2 (Link)
Global Fever (Link)
Whac - a - Math (Link) (Game Jam Winner)
- Are you an existing studio?
Yes No
If yes, please provide links to previous projects:
We specialise in building arcade games. We are also building on Telegram - Telegram: Launch @AvatarLifeGames_bot. This is the link to our community - Telegram: View @AvatarLife
Twitter - https://x.com/AvatarLifeGames
2. Project Overview
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Game Title: Whack-a-Sol
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Game Genre:
☐ Platformer x Arcade ☐ RPG ☐ Shooter ☐ Visual Novel ☐ Other: ___________ -
Short Description of the Game (2–4 sentences)
ArcadeMania is a 10-day event comprising of Whack-a-Doge. Whack-a-Doge is our web3 twist on the classic Whack-a-Mole arcade game where players have to hit moles that pop up randomly from holes. But in this game you will not be hitting moles but hitting Doge (inspired by Doge coin). -
Do you have previous experience building this type of game?
[ x] Yes No
Please share relevant links or examples:
We have already build this game mechanic earlier on Sandbox. Whac - a - Math (Link). We want to overhaul the design, simplify levels, improve the game and more importantly give it a web3 twist to cater to web3 gaming audience.
3. Motivation
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Why are you applying for support from The Sandbox?
We want to expand AvatarLife metaverse into Sandbox by bringing arcade games here. We have been developing on Sandbox for a while and now we want to set up a user facing studio & actively build a community here. Sandbox’s support will help us do that more efficiently and at scale. -
Why did you choose to build this project in The Sandbox?
We have been active in Sandbox since 2023 building games for others and participating in game jams but never promoted our games. We have also been building web3 arcade games for the past 3 years. Sandbox as a platform has been one of our key capability, and we feel it is the only logical extension for our user-facing games along with Telegram.
4. Timeline
- Planned Milestones (include estimated deadline):
Total Grant - $3100 + 8000 SAND
- Event Dates: 20-29th August 2025
Player rewards Budget- 5000 SAND
5. Team Location
- Country/Countries of Team Members: India
6. Future Plans & Sustainability
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What are your plans for maintaining or expanding the project after launch?
Our vision is to build a AVL Arcade Center like Atari Arcade Center for the digital world. We are already there on Telegram and Sandbox is key to our plan as a web3 platform. We will maintain the Discord community, and do more launches in the future. We have been building our community & games on Telegram for last 8 months. And now we want to set up Sandbox as well. We already have the technical skill set. We will build separate communities for each platform while cross promoting when needed. -
Do you have a monetization strategy?
Yes [x] No
If yes, describe it briefly: Not immediately, but we do plan to launch NFTs in the future once we have a good community. -
How do you plan to attract and retain players over time?
We believe we have a solid game mechanic here with a highly repeatable loop. The leaderboard will make it even more competitive. Additionally, we believe giving a web3 background to our game will further attract gaming audience such as Doge token holders. We will post about this game on Doge communities. We will also promote our games on our Telegram channel. We believe we can onboard new Sandbox users from the 17K+ users on our TG games. Once established we will do cross-events, new content drops, partnerships and monthly rewards across our gaming universe.
7. Milestone Deliverables
For each milestone, please confirm your understanding and ability to deliver:
Milestone 1 - Approval and concept finalisation
- Synopsis of game
- Concept art
Milestone 2 - Game Development
- Focused level including Gameplay, FTUE, Narrative, Fun, Art Direction, and Technical review
Milestone 3 - Alpha & Beta Check
- First pass review of user experience, narrative, level design
- Final gameplay feedback with detailed grading
- QA
Milestone 4 - Post Production & Event Launch
- Community channels active
- Social media marketing
- Leaderboard development
- Where did you hear about the grant program?
This forum
