It's in the lake I'm missing the draws again
Forest too late. Can I speak my mind?
Forest too late. I've been moving bad
Can I say my piece girl know what you mean to me you just keep the real in me
I've been moving bad was rolling up the bad was every time I'm bad step
Draws again a hell of pain. I got a lot of deal with in my mind. It's kind of slipping away
What's on the line? I made him a monster shit. I'll just take to the grave. Whatever it is. Whatever it was
It's never gonna be the same
So then again, I'm on in the map
They say the best defense is just to attack. I've been through too much. It's off to attach. All is going on
It's been on to relax gotta get up gotta get it again. They ain't get the message. We spinning again. I fit my back
I'm just leaving it in get what they want then they leave in a game
I cannot act like this ain't up in new big and smaller with all I've been through nowadays
I borrow more than a tooth tired of keeping it just a little let it allow when I step in the booth with that for
Someone's now it's time to recruit met the investments. It's time to recall. It's time to recall
But how do I explain what's been going on with me? You say that I change but you didn't know to hold me
I think that I saved you tell me who gonna save me. I'm way too fucked up in this club
I'm ashamed. Maybe you say that I change
Inner me, I swear the winners come from they try to sentence me
Okay, the winners come from me at him 10 a.m. Key. I swear that pussy toe
She's been on the pole. I won't let it get the best of me. I got it
Like a remedy Spanish bitch
She'd be blessing me. She's like paparazzi. They ain't catching me. I'm riding in a fucking mosque
I'm pushing hella keys. I made it to the top flow now. They try to lock
They try to pull up until she got so now she said she wants a
Let's go welcome. I want to
Another episode of the world show with just me today shift us out in Paris. I guess partying all all day. So I'm here
Doing the work. That's that's how we do it. I hope you can hear me. I got a new audio audio setup
I hope you can hear me and I hope you heard the music
Trying to feel this is first space with the new setup. So I
Hope the audio is audio is good, but I'm not alone. We got the sappy seals team and Charles from nifty island
Joining us today. Wapu. I think is in Paris too. At least I saw your picture with white guys
So I guess you you're both in Paris. Yeah, it's fucking cold
Unbelievably cold. Wait, wait, where you coming from that from UK, right? It's
Okay, it's even colder here somehow. I don't know how it is. Yeah, that's insane
Yeah, you know we we did an announcement post announcement post yesterday
Talking of a big announcement. We will get into that it blew up a little bit
I tweeted yesterday before I before went to bed and I woke up to like 500 likes
150 and a 50 likes enough
So yeah without a long long monologue I read a lot of the replies this morning
And you guessed it, right seppy seals is acquiring you go you collapse. So that's what we're that's what we're talking about
No, I'm kidding. So I guess it doesn't work these days. I don't know. I don't know why well
I know you you count it too and people thought you're like it's a gigantic and also which it is
But it's a little bit different. It kind of relates more to more to nifty island
So yeah, let's let's throw it over to to Charles because you your post and you pinned it already in the show
So yeah, how are you doing Charles and feel free to give us a brief intro kind of into into the
Yeah, the contest and yeah, we'll take it from there. Hell. Yeah, good to be here. Good to be here
Yeah, I appreciate the sappy seals team hopping on to and whale. I know wobs in Paris. So appreciate you taking the time
It's great. So yeah, basically what we're here to discuss
Obviously has been the number one most active community and nifty and I think by some measure is the most active gaming community in web
3 right now and then we are, you know currently I would say the most played
web 3 game by NFT enthusiasts, which is great and so basically we want to deepen this this alliance and
And we really see user-generated content as the future of web 3 gaming
It's one of the superpowers of this space is that people make amazing stuff and can get rewarded for it and our corner of the internet
Although it's small makes a lot of awesome stuff and seals are a great example of that
So what we're doing is we're taking some steps. We've got I think three
two kind of fun bonus little surprise things that I think you guys will like and then the first thing that's the most tangible is
We want to be investing in the library of assets and experiences that sappy seals can enjoy a nifty island
So we're put we're putting up prizes and we really see this as the first of many things we can do together to ensure that seals
Have the best possible experiencing game the best library of 3d assets one day potentially their own custom games and experiences beyond that
That's the kind of stuff that's on my mind
And so with this quest it's a starting point if you're a 3d artist if you make awesome stuff
You can come now and submit your work and receive really significant prizes for doing it the best submissions of 3d art
Whether those are structures
what have you the best submissions will get added to the seal 3d library that all holders have access to and
And the best submissions will also receive pretty substantial prizes. We've got in first place a sappy seals
Which as you guys know are worth two of italics?
Atheriums right now I believe and then we've got a silver palm as well up up for grabs
And then there are pixel pets and other palms as well in the top three spots with consolation prizes as well for
Other people who submit but maybe don't make it in the top three. So if you're a 3d artist, it's a no-brainer
You get to contribute right now to the most active web 3 native game
Active web 3 community the sappy seals. So that's what we're here to discuss
Amazing amazing stuff and just to just to clarify Charles because I already saw a few few questions
This contest is open for everyone, right? It's not just gated to to sappy seal solace
You got it open to everyone
Really the goal here is not to gate who gets to participate
The goal is to enhance the experience that sappy seals can have in game
By harnessing the creativity of anyone out there who is excited about web 3 excited about nifty excited about sappy
So it's it's an open initiative and I think the first of more to come
sappy seals because I guess sappy seals has been a really really active active community, but what's the kind of deep?
Yeah, deeper delay relationship with with the sappy seals team and maybe WAP or a storm you can you can answer this
Was it like a collaboration before nifty island if the island started or was it really grounded in sappy seals being such an active?
Community on nifty island and kind of the relationship building from there
Yeah, I think there's no like
Back-end deal, you know, like back-back room deal. It's just um, I think a
Recognition from you know our end that nifty islands great platform and Charles is obviously someone that is a very hard worker
And and obviously I think vice versa
Recognizing that seals have a lot of presence and they just love making shit and just fucking around and that's ultimately what nifty island
Is about right and it's a it's a good combination. It's a good duo
I think a lot of seals are very bullish on just when if the island can go and and and obviously the
Like the airdrop and winning as a community is is something that I think the seals love doing just in general
Charles any additional or storm? Yeah, please go ahead. So yeah, I'm just gonna say yeah
It's been a it's been a ton of fun
And I think a lot of the seals like what I've said really recognize that this platform is kind of what a lot of people
Have been wanting in terms of like a quote-unquote metaverse, you know running around is your NFT and stuff
Especially when you can run these death matches and cook these people that you know
Maybe you're mad at one of the community members you can challenge them a little duel. It's hilarious
But yeah, and yes seals number one gaming community on there. So it's been a lot of fun
It's really funny when I'm going around doing my quests literally at every single island on the foot races. It's always a seal
That's first place. It's this guy a caretak and the other guy beehoes. They're always first
It's absolutely hilarious seeing their little seal up there. So
yeah, no, I know well you've questions to wait for things to run through here and I think you know something that's on my
mind with all this too is just like
it's it's funny like the I
Think people have been on in web 3 gaming kind of focused on an imaginary user
That's often like it's unclear who they are
And so you've got a lot of games that are sort of like inflating metrics with you know bots
It's like a little less clear like where the substance is and and so it's what's kind of cool
I think about the sappy seals presence and nifty is you can verify it's a hundred percent real because every single user
We can see verifiably has a sappy seal. So that's now what a six thousand dollar hard to fake signal
and so anyway, I just I think it's a I think there's something really cool about that and I think like
Part of the fun of what we can talk about today is like kind of this new meta where like I think the very best
NFT communities and games are gonna come together
I think not so long ago people thought those were gonna be separate narratives, but they're really not
Yeah, I don't think people have really um
I mean and that narrative kind of existed where it's like
You know the NFT people aren't gonna play games existed because there was nothing that really had a fit for what you know
The average NFT participant would really want to tolerate from a game like they're a specific type of gamer
and there's obviously things that
satisfy like what people would like to do in their spare time anyway, like we're already fucking around on Twitter and
You know being able to do that like that that sort of like interaction
But just in like a virtual space is obviously very valuable to people whereas like, you know
If you're trying to shove them into I don't even know like a like an FPS
You're probably not gonna get the same sort of turnout
Although I mean it's saying that nifty does have deathmatch
But it's it's all part of like the wider wider scheme of just things going on that you can do with each other
Yeah, love it, and I actually agree with your point. Sorry, like
Sepuseals look actually really really amazing in in nifty island. We ran a competition a few few weeks ago
I'm shipping I on on Royal Island and the leaderboard was like I think we have in the top 10 to
To seppy seals and actually watching them kind of completing the quest was really really really fun to see
So yeah, I think that's like really a good a good starting point and Charles you already mentioned something interesting kind of
The shift on of kind of how people perceive NFT communities or NFT projects
Of course seppy seals and Rob and and strong you notice in last last week
I think so really a pummy floor price too, but I think seppy seals always even when floor press was at
Point three point four. It always had like a really really strong community, right?
So maybe Charles from your your point of view and what you kind of try to accomplish with nifty island
Do you think we will see kind of shift there in how people perceive?
Value NFT projects from a community side even more than they already do because as you mentioned Bob on Twitter
We already interacting a lot
But I think nifty island and kind of this metaverse aspect is still a little bit different from that
So love to hear thoughts of thoughts on this chart
Yeah, yeah, I think we're really gonna see
Like a major shift in what's considered a blue chip NFT project
I think it's already been happening over the bear market and I'll just say like my broad perspective on it is that
During 2021 and this is what always happens
There's some new asset class that gets issued and nobody really knows how to think about it
And that's actually what makes us so fun to trade there's nobody even knows what it should be worth, right?
And I think a big story that kind of got cooked up in 2021 was that you know
Basically these things are like, you know, it basically became that they were like altcoins with pictures, right?
Where you know, a lot of people are holding NFTs passively waiting for the team to do stuff
Maybe there's this vision that you know
The the PFP has to become this like massive vertically integrated corporation or it's not worth doing
And then I think over the bear market you saw a lot of these like heavier attempts of like, you know
Building your own, you know metaverse if that's other side or whatever else running into problems and seeing
NFT projects that tripled down on being fun online and building a really compelling
Movement that tends to spread instead tends to do. Well, I think
Sappy seals and pudgy penguins are kind of both the like, you know
to me at least the best example of this new meta where it's really about having the best community and
And that doesn't mean they don't build products they do but it's more about
Being the most compelling online community and brand that that brings benefits to any product they touch whether they build it or someone else
And this kind of vision of the heavy vertical integrated
PFP collection I think has run into more problems
And so I think what you're gonna see is the blue chips of the future are the most active communities and platforms like nifty
Just expose which ones are active and which ones are kind of more in a bag holder position where they don't really do anything together
So yeah, that's kind of my view is I think you're gonna see a real flip in what's considered a blue chip and
Sappy seals are in my opinion poised to be to really benefit from that that flip
Being as a way. Can you can you guys hear that the music in the background? No, you're good. No, okay cool
I just want to make sure has just loud. Okay. Yeah the being like
active and communities showing out and winning together is I think gonna be really really important because
You know if you aren't winning together, then what really are you doing as Charles is saying
It's just like almost monolithic sort of situation or not monolithic
but like this this situation where you have the team that's just trying to deliver for people that aren't really
Contributing and then this you know, like as Charles said the nifty island leaderboard shows like really, you know
If how these communities are showing out and how they're you know
Investing time with you know into things that they could you know gain value from so, you know, even just participating nifty
Let's say you don't even like the game just you being part of the most active community and you contributing towards that
Will actually net the entire community rewards in terms of island token and you know
Play to air drop stuff that they've got going on
So, you know if you if your community can't necessarily or can't be bothered to even attempt that then you know
That says a lot about what the coordination will look like if there was like other opportunities or you know
potentially even bigger opportunities that came around and you know, the community is not in the position to really
You know win and and and bat for
Super interesting. Well, I want to want to double down a little bit on on what you what you mentioned
Because we saw the timeline last week when sappi seals
I guess what it was this week and when sappi seals started to to pump and I still think like a lot of people still think
Primarily kind of memes and and culture but you of course have a lot more more going on
But I think it's an important part and I want to double down a little bit on the on the community
community part right on the one hand how
Maybe a few you don't have to dive into the whole the whole history of sappi seals
But maybe when it comes to community building which of course you did a really great job at as I as I wrote like a few
Days ago sappi seals. I think it's one of the only like og
communities that really remained relevant and active and
Yeah, supportive and dominating the timeline over a long period of time. So
Bosses on the came naturally or
Did you build like really towards that and at the same time when we kind of see now the the meta that we are in
You're mentioned air drops
Not just projects air dropping tokens to the holders, but also
Projects getting allocations from other from other protocols. Do you think kind of having an
Active community is an asset to that like when
Projects or did you see an uptick?
Did you see an uptick in kind of protocols meant the mid yamming you or messaging you?
to give kind of allocations to to sappi seals because of the
Kind of social power that he that he said sappi seals community has
Yeah, so to your first question
I think the the reason why seals have managed to just stay on top and constantly stay relevant and stay as like one of the
most active communities if not the most active community
Would be because ultimately like the people here are just having fun and making friends and that's what it is
like what if you had if you were going to do anything with your spare time, what would you want to do?
you probably want to have fun right and
That's exactly what you get as being part of this ecosystem and that spans so many different
Domains in which like it could be gaming. It could just be memes
It could be just you know
Learning how to draw and and participating in art and participating in everything else that goes on in the ecosystem
It really is your oyster and the seal community kind of offers it all and you know
That means that anything you do here is productive to or anything you do within the community is productive to yourself
It's just like growth as a human
I think and also you have fun while doing and you know ultimately that is what makes a past time
That's what makes something, you know enjoyable and something that becomes a hobby
and I think a lot of people in seal community just you know, it is their hobby and being able to also
You know make friends and and and grow and build something together with other people and and be cohesive as like a team
It is something that like really, you know runs deep within the community in a sentiment that really runs
Yeah deep within every single holder
So that's kind of why I think seals have managed to stay the way that they are and continuing to just
kind of be like a black hole just absorbing like really talented people really smart creators and
Expanding that bubble of just entertainment and just having fun
Like protocols and stuff. Yeah, like ever since the nifty island turn out and like people seeing how active seals are and you know
Through the bad market we advise so many NFT fire protocols and more like constantly trying things out and pushing them towards the community
and now all these guys want to reciprocate and they're you know giving I'm getting so many DMS from just protocols and
Even games like some of the games that you see in the headlines right now
Like the biggest games in web 3 have actually hit me up and said like let's chat like, you know
Specifically after my tweet last night, which is referring to you know using like if you're a web 3 game
There's absolutely zero reason why you shouldn't be targeting the seal community
specifically to try and test out your game and incentivize them to do so because you know, it's the
proven fruit nifty island it's the most active in terms of gaming and
Also content creation when it comes to making memes about the game spreading it on social media
You know trialing out new features
Making we have we even have like people in the community that make almost like YouTube videos of them
you know winning in team deathmatch or doing you know winning this race or like PvP and other people and we have a bunch of
seals that are doing that and that is just getting more eyes on to these protocols in these games and
Yeah, I've seen a huge uptick in the demand there and a bunch of DMS
So I still need to go through all of them. But yeah, it's good to see and I think that's definitely
great value to be had as you know, if you're part of a community just participating with everyone else because it's that network effect that
Provides the 99% of the value proposition of NFTs
I think nifty island is a really good example that Charles because you're like really with your per focus on kind of the core
Web 3 community and I just pinned your tweet up from from yesterday
Shows a kind of a screenshot of the the top or most active condition if the island's happy seals on top even before nifty islands
Then a kid called beast forgotten runes
Zuki in the top top five so we love to love to see that but Charles
Maybe bringing it back kind of to to nifty islands abroad on all this
You had a really quest routes kind of kind of movement, right?
you didn't you start with the game and kind of trying to build along with the community and
Along that it kind of resonated with with a lot of people right you I think maybe you can take us a little bit
Through the last few last few weeks, but you're not only on board it like NFT projects
You had open sea kind of doing their their ships and assets in nifty island
So from the maybe from the partnerships that are kind of funny onboarding onboarding side
communities kind of like like what was mentioning bringing them in kind of getting attention through through that way or there was
Was there another way that you approach kind of the onboarding off of the core with three space in the core and the active
Active community members within web 3 to turn if the island
Yeah, good question. So I think you know, I I view it as we've tried to understand deeply
The creator and attention economy around crypto because it's a pretty unique ecosystem and from day one
We wanted to build the game such that it harmonizes with that in a really deep way
I think you're gonna see lots of
Games and stuff kind of try to ape this strategy over the coming months where they'll sort of be like aha
Like there's a single NFT character in the game like we've done it
But it really goes so much deeper than that
And and and what you're gonna see from us over the coming
You know weeks and months is just efforts to give as many superpowers and as much value as possible to the best communities
And this initiative today is just an example of that
Yeah, so in terms of the strategy really it's it's been you know
Under we have this like one pager that I post all the time in our internal server
And it's basically that we're like hey like NFT communities are like and especially in the bear market
We're just the most underrated thing like it's the first time cryptos had a really cool
Product and a lot of people in the bear market wrote it off and we were like we thought like no
And so what we looked at was let's make it easier to operate cool NFT communities by allowing
By allowing you know founders and teams to empower their holders to do more and be louder on the timeline and create cool content
And play with each other and earn rewards in fun ways right like let's make it easier
Let's give an FT project founders new superpowers and then on the other side of it. It's the holders
So it's saying if you are in a community
How can we make that more active more rewarding?
More viral more more share worthy
How can we have it be that you know holders that want to support their community have a new venue for doing that?
So that was really how we thought about it
And we really view it as the communities the NFT communities are the most core thing in crypto right now
They get the most engagement. They're the most important. They're the most exciting things in our opinion
and we think that a lot of creators and
You know community members basically align themselves around these communities
And so by building tools that work well as an individual to use everyone can share their island link as an individual
But that also harmonize with the collective view that people have that they're making content and doing stuff
You know as part of a community that was the play so it's really about building stuff that works on a community level and works
on an individual creator level
And yeah, that's a that's sort of how we thought about it in general
Amazing yeah, and you mentioned like it was really the first time even for me
It was the first time that I kind of with my zuki avatar was within a game
And so other other people with their with a kind of NFT NFT avatars really like a metaverse metaverse experience
Right how you would how you think about it?
Competitors in in the space right now in the future. I know
And you don't have to talk about competitors like of course and in detail
But maybe on a broader on a broader scale
We saw I think other side doing an announcement that many people understood in a way that they're kind of pivoting to
Yeah, more more grassroots
Abroad to instead of their kind of initial initial plan so without going into detail about specific
People let me know if you
Sorry guys, we're having some technical yeah, I gotta I got a call and I don't know. I don't know what
Anyway, well my question Charles before I forgot cut off
Competitors, do you see competitors or do you think and if the island is positioned in a way that you you don't have to worry about them?
It's a good question. I mean, I think since we started the project
In theory, there's been like tons of competition like when we in theory, right?
Like you look at it and you look at all these twitter accounts of projects that are doing stuff building the metaverse etc
Like in theory when we started there were so many
what it really what what defines whether the competition is real and whether it matters is
Are they actually seriously looking at the right things like focused on the correct things and are they shipping?
Or are they playing kind of more of an optics game where there's some token
They have out before the launch of the game and they're sort of more concerned about like managing expectations around that than shipping
And I think so so many, you know projects in crypto fall into that optics trap, right where they're not
You know focused on the right things. They're playing a short term
Like how can I be hyped on the timeline this week? How can I make sure no one's mad at me this week?
And and we've just done our best at least i'm sure we'll make a mistake at some point for sure if we haven't already but
But in general we've really tried to do something where you know
We're in a position to ship and and where we also
You know focus on things that make sense from first principles
Like we've been talking to the sappy seals team for a long time and we've always thought they were really good
And I think the market's now reflecting it and so I think so long as as we
you know, keep focusing on things that just make sense from first principles like focus on the best communities and
And empower them in a way that's like radically new and interesting not just like a light little nft integration
But like something deep if we just keep doing that
And we keep shipping. I think for the most part the competition is like so focused on
Other things that they're like kind of not even in the in the field. You know what I mean?
So we'll see what happens, but we don't we're not complacent on any level but
Uh, but you know, I I feel we're focusing on the right things and and working with the right people
Yeah, and I and I think what we need that makes makes nifty islands
In in the space right now is kind of the the mix of of course you're building
Nifty island as a as a platform and getting it to run really really smoothly
But at the same time a lot of people are kind of creating their own islands for the saut dingaling
Um posting like his island yesterday i'm yet to visit
His island, but it looks like really really insane
Kind of even bringing it back to the the competition that we announced a few a few minutes ago or 30 minutes ago
What role does this kind of user generated content and really community members or players?
Building their own islands building their own assets within the space. What do you think?
What role does this does this playing your in your strategy?
And at the same time other ways you you kind of want to incentivize building outside of our
Uh our competition that we announced 30 minutes ago
Yeah, um, well, I guess i'll say one other incentive, uh,
Uh a storm should I let him know on our item one? Let's do it. Let's do it
Yeah, cool. So one thing we'll just say it's it's you know
I think it's a good thing. I can get to overdo
Just so people know pixel pets are now, uh airdrop eligible
within uh for island token, um, so
That that has been that that was overdue had to be done. That is now the case
It's based on the retroactive snapshot for wave for wave one. Uh, they will be eligible for all future waves as well. So
Uh, really I think it's uh overdue and and i'll say just the key thing
Incentive wise is recognizing the best assets the best
You know nfts people care about and ensuring that people can earn rewards around them
So really excited to get pixel pets in there overdue
Yeah, and then think in terms of broader ugc stuff. I mean you're gonna see a hell of a lot of stuff like
In the short term you're gonna see a lot of projects and artists start dropping wild open editions through nifty island
Uh, that's gonna be really cool to see you're gonna see the caliber of ugc go up and this is really just like
What this thing we're doing today is like a step in the right direction of like getting it there where people see that web3 can
Produce really great ugc. Uh
So you're gonna see that higher caliber ugc through the marketplace and then our kind of north star is very much
Eventually people are making their own games and doing initial game offerings on top of nifty
So, you know a dream of mine would definitely be if one day there was like a sappy seals, you know
That only sappy seals holders can play and and that holders can monetize as well through wagering mechanics and the like
That's definitely my north star. And I just say that the ugc competition we're doing today
I hope is a strong show that we we take sappy seals, you know, very seriously as like a important partner for us and
And so when we roll out things like custom games
For holders of different communities seals are definitely, you know in pole position there for more
just on your point about like the the experiences and stuff like if you can make
that a really simple process for people to get into it there's going to be like a
Cambrian cambrian explosion in in like the nft space in my opinion
Especially because the incentives are going to be there to build something that is going to be uh, you know entertaining and attract users
Which might actually will probably will attract people that aren't um crypto native, um, especially since you know
There's a disproportionate amount of capital that lays around as incentives, right?
Because obviously the valuation is very I wouldn't say bloated because there's a there's a reason why they're that high
But they are very high compared to the traditional gaming market
And so I think we're actually going to see an extreme amount of users come from that
um and also within our communities and finding like
Unearthing a new set of creators that we haven't really seen
Um, you know in nfts we see uh memers we see, you know content creators like videos
We see people that make like, you know edits and and like it's sort of like comedic sort of, you know
30-second clips, um, and sometimes like animators as well. We haven't really seen many like
game devs that are like super indie like very uh,
Like recently in the seal community. I think I think phantom
Actually made like an endless runner using the 3d savvy seal model and it was it was really dope and I played it today
And um, we're seeing I think seeing some people creep up around like making small game experiences and trialing it out
But this will probably unlock a new set of users that or like just people like like contributors that I don't think previously have
Have existed so i'm really looking forward to that personally and also i've always wanted to have
Game devs and people like that within our community. So i'd love to see that
Yeah, I just wanted to shout out steven as well real quick
He's gone from never touching a 3d software program probably what a couple weeks ago, maybe a month ago now and he's starting to make
Exclusively because of nifty island he started making 3d assets
He's been making these his own versions of seals and he's been making all sorts of things
He wants to make swords and stuff next so uh just last night
Actually, he made my seal character in game with my golden robe and everything. It's just hilarious
He like texted me real late. It's like yo you want come to my island real quick
And I was like about to get into bed. I was like fine
What does he need and then I hopped on and very glad I did obviously because it was my my actual seal
Which was sick to see um, but yeah, i'm sure i'll be super excited about this announcement because he's been cooking
Yeah, I've gone from zero to 103d land. So
Um and excited i'm sure there's going to be quite a few more seals that get activated because of this
I know there's more 3d artists in the community. So
Pretty pumped to see what they come up with
And even just the wider community as well, right like for example the competition here. Um
Like the competition here actually invites anyone. So if you're part of any community you can still participate of course
Three assets and you know, you're still welcome to be part of the community in this there's loads of different access points
So become a part of that even if you don't win
Um, so yeah, we're just looking I think on our end on the seal end
We're looking for like, you know as many awesome content creators as possible and artists to contribute towards towards the ecosystem
And obviously to benefit nifty island as well. So, um, yeah, i'm i'm looking forward to that as well
Charles on your end i'm sure you've probably done this but
resources to help people like
like very simply get into 3d art and like designing and
that sort of stuff because I think that you know, there are some like
Small courses you can take like a couple hours and you can really pick it up quite quickly
I think 3d as well because of all the assets that already exist out there
You can mix and match a little bit and and squash stuff together
Which I think as a beginner is a lot easier than trying to design something
From from the ground up and so, you know
If there's content like that that people can absorb and really get into this
I think um, it's gonna we're gonna accelerate like the amount of content that comes to
To nifty island and therefore the amount of people that we can reach with the platform
Dude, yeah, I think you're totally right. There's two two things in the pipeline on that front. Uh, one that's pretty simple
We're gonna have a sort of learn from a legend
We have a lot of people in the community who just like really love helping other people which is great and are very skilled and
So we will be having 3d workshops
In our discord for anyone who wants to like get more skilled and be able to do more gaming ugc
And then if you want to give one if you're like, hey i'm actually I know what i'm doing and I want to do one
Let me know because we do have some prizes and incentives for people who want to educate other people. So
Feel free to reach out on that
And then the other thing that's been pretty cool is we've had a bunch of ai
Startups reach out and taken a real interest in nifty because currently I as far as I know
It's the easiest place to upload ai generated assets and get them in game like right away
I'm sure there's some other decent ones too, but uh, we've had a few
ai startups reach out and I think what you'll see from the create function on the web app eventually is
The ability to just generate ugc with ai based on prompts
Will be really cool. And so
Not to dissuade everyone here from learning 3d, you know, but uh
But you know one day technology is going to make it a lot easier and and already today there's a good amount you can do
Stone first of all, I would love to see your in-game seal if you if you can't free to plus it in the replies
Rob you made an interesting point kind of a new
Creator outside of what we kind of know from from the timeline thread writers video creators meme
Meme makers and and everything I think could really really be interesting especially if we really move towards more of a metaverse
Kind of way of interacting with each other or if we spend more time
In kind of metaverse setting being a creator that builds dope islands or dope experiences dope items
I think that could be really an interesting
And I think this this competition that we're that we're doing together with sappi seals and nifty island
Might even be a good way to kind of onboard
onboard these those creators to to the sappi seals community
So we're really interesting to to watch that
maybe bring it to to all three of you when it comes to competition other specific items or
specific kind of user generated content you you would like to see as part of the part of the
Competition that may not exist yet that you maybe saw on
In other kind of communities on nifty island
Or even outside of nifty island that you think would be fun to see them in
In nifty island either on a kind of sappi seals level maybe something from
I don't know inside jokes from within the sappi seal community
Or even broader like when it comes to comes to rep three or sappi seals related for three content
I'm going to throw it to you because that's a that's a tough question
I'm gonna put charles on the spot here and then we go up
And storm because he has to look for for a sappi seal in game sappi seals. So charles, please go ahead
So the question is if people are spending more time in these spaces like
We can like, you know communities that might be cool to kind of collab together or overlap in some ways that might be understanding it, right?
Yeah, and at the same time kind of as part of our competition if there are specific items or specific
um stuff you would like to see or
Yeah, when you when you're the judge of paying the winners
Which had a good shot at at winning if it's done if it's in a good way
Yeah for sure for sure. That's a good question. So yeah on the first one
I mean, I think you're going to see lots of cross pollination. I mean i've seen
A bunch of cool stuff. I mean i've seen I think alien friends and a kid called beast
I've seen a good amount of like crossover there. Just some of the 3d communities seem to have
Shared affinity for them. So you've seen that that's been really cool
And I don't doubt especially when you look at a kid called beast which has a lot of 3d talent
Like if they want to contribute to this happy seals contest, I think that's a great idea
And I think it's a mall for it. Like I think you you've got a lot of you know, it's a small
It's a small space we're in right now
I think for 3d creators playing and building around these different communities is smart and I think it's wise to do too because
People are going to realize that you're a vital resource, right? Like there's only so many 3d creators in web 3 and
Building out a brand for yourself and becoming known in that way is going to make you an an asset to projects
So, you know, I think you will see especially the 3d communities kind of overlap some between between projects
Uh, and then yeah in terms of assets that will win
So I think it's going to be basically the people up here judging it. So, uh, you know
All of you feel free to chip in i'll say stuff i'd like to see
I think really cool structures are awesome platforms things people can build with placeable structures are really fun
You know and make them fun like, you know appeal to the lore of the project and you know
Try to make something unique that just think what what's the community going to get hyped about?
What's going to make a funny video on twitter? Like what are people going to want to share go for it?
Uh other stuff. I think it's overdue that we have more drone skins b skins themed around sappy seals
I think would be great i'm all for that
And then I don't doubt that there's some avatars that people could make that are kind of like, you know different versions of
The kind of like of the seals and how they've been rendered that'd be super dope
So those are ones on my mind
But if you guys have ideas or things you'd want to see people submit definitely throw it out there
Well, i'm gonna throw it to to you and then so by the way, I pinned
Um storms in game in game seal in the shell looks really really amazing. So so love to see that
Well, I I think uh, so this wouldn't probably wouldn't get you first place, but probably would get you a runner up
Um, because i'm gonna do a pilk glass if anyone remembers the
If anyone remembers pilk, you know, that's an ancient meme in seal law
So i'd love to see that and also again, this isn't super related, but it's kind of funny
Can someone make an nrn desk as well?
It's an inside joke with the seals
But if anyone remembers, yeah nrn then it needs to be an nrn desk
But that's that those are probably aren't gonna get you make you win
But I think you'll make a bunch of people happy if you if you did that
Love it. Yeah, the nrn desk is needed. I still remember listening to that podcast while going on a hike through the forest
It's pretty funny. That's like a
Very vivid memory. Um, but yeah, like uh, like charles said I think more drone skins would be awesome
I've seen a couple guys model some like miniature seals that fly around as drones
I think a lot of people don't really realize that you can reskin the drone and that's um
It's really fun to see just like this little floating seal above people's heads. It's pretty funny. Um
Yeah, I don't know. I think uh any type of like seal themed or even pixel themed
structures like death matches maybe like
Boundaries or walls to hide behind or things like that
Um stuff to build a deathmatch map can be pretty cool. We can make like a another brand new
All seal themed deathmatch could be fun. Um
I think what's really cool is how uh nifty has a ton of
um pre-made models that kind of work together like uh legos where you can
Um put as many as you want together like types of walls and things like that. That's kind of like, uh
I'm, not sure what the word for it is. Um, it's like modular where you can build
You know lego blocks on top of each other to build all kinds of cool designs
Um feel like a sappy kit any type of seal theme like that would definitely do incredibly well, I think
Um, but yeah, um also like he said avatars where you can make I don't know
either some one-of-one seals like I know there's already a web seal, but maybe some
Uh community member seals or even some original seals
Uh, I think we'd be happy to share the base model if you guys want to build on top of that seal model
Um, I think that'd be cool with us and uh, yeah
Amazing yeah when it comes to me, that's probably how I will how I will judge the the entries too
Of course like good good quality, but at the same time some references to uh, when it's kind of sappy seals culture or
Brought over three or three culture would be fun. So we will watch closely to
Mention the contest again for the people who who just joined us. You can check out the pin tweet in in the space basically
Um nifty island and sappy seals together with kind of the whale the world show we're running a
Competition for all 3d artists that kind of want to create original sappy seals themed 3d art for nifty island
To entry you will have to quote retweet the the pin post the announcement by nifty island
With a link to to the in-game marketplace of of nifty island where we will we'll see your
Your in-game asset which is kind of themed around or has to be themed around
sappy seals to be to be a valid entry here
And yeah, we will pick pick the winners. Charles. How long are we running it? Is there is there a deadline?
So we got uh till march 1st, so we're doing a week and uh from today
I I set it at 10 30 so that we could get them in. Uh, I think it was
Such that we could get them all judged and ready for another space around the same time next week. So
That's the plan right now. Uh, you'll definitely have at least that amount of time
Amazing as for the prices the first winner will get a sappy seal. So we're
Gonna do pick the winners in a week
If sappy seals continue to run the way they did this week, they're probably 10 eth by now
So that's a quite a huge quite a huge price and first one also will get a silver. So nifty island silver palm
Second winner will receive as nifty island bronze palm and two pixel pet x
And the third winner will receive an iron palm and one pixel pet egg
Of course at the same time you will receive massive shout out on on our next show whenever we we decide to announce the announce the winners
Yeah, if you're also an active like participant
In this side of side of the community like on on x
We would love to would love to win us to to join us or even like all the multi participants
That that did their that yeah submitted entries. So yeah, really looking forward to to seeing all your all your entries
Any additional remarks charles before we before we have to wrap it up
You know, yeah, i'll say i've one last uh fun announcement for you guys, too
So, you know as I think something that makes what we're doing here
This is a little different than some other things seen in crypto is you know
There's a lot of things out there where projects want to kind of like dominate and own the in quotes metaverse alone, right?
And really the intent behind nifty island is for it to be a public good for all communities to plan and
The communities that are the most active the most early should just have the biggest kind of stake and uh presence
In that in that public good, that's the idea. And so we are going to do something fun
Just so, you know, uh the most we've taken a snapshot of the most active seals in game
And uh, there will be palms coming to the most active seals who have been playing there will be details coming out on that soon
You'll see it it's coming
But yeah, I just want to say to the seals we've been wrapping for it
Like we want you guys to be leaders in the game world and uh, and really feel like it's your game world
So, you know wanted to wanted to do that. Those are pretty pretty damn considerable prizes. So, uh, you know
They're the floor is pretty strong right now
Uh, but yeah, I hope you enjoy them and yeah, thanks a lot, uh for everyone who's been playing and thanks for the warm reception
Of the game greatly appreciate it
Amazing stuff. We're looking forward to to the competition looking forward to to see your entries. Thank you charles for for joining us and
For yeah creating this this competition. I think will be a lot of fun
Thank you also to to bob. I know you're you're in paris
So thank you for for taking the time today shift is in paris too
And this is basically his show too, but he decided to to leave so I appreciate you
You're joining storm. I don't know if you're in paris too
But thank you for for joining us as well
Participate in competition guys. I pin it in the the show and also retweet it if if you if you want to go to my profile
or to nifty islands profile
Um and and see it there one week. We'll pick the winners on march 1st
And yeah, great prices great communities. So we'll be a lot of fun
Thanks everyone for for tuning in and excited to to see your entries. See you next week
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