🎙️WEB3 +C.O.C ft Hangry Animals - Chet Chewsday ➕

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That's just how it is. That's just how XP and that's totally cool tonight is
specifically built around the hangry animals
Ecosystem where we will be speaking to Andrew minton the founder of hangry animals
To talk about some of the recent updates and the ecosystem because there's quite a few and it's really exciting
To talk about the check passes, but also to talk about the hangry animals
Ecosystem we are so in love with this project this ecosystem this brand this digital world
And we are super excited to talk about it in great detail and break down some of the things that Andy has got going on
The way that we normally conduct our spaces is we do these in a very professional manner
Because we really want to give people the opportunity to really learn about everything that we're talking about
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First of all we're just getting all the team up and on stage, and then we will introduce our co-hosts
Team and then we will introduce our guest for tonight who is also
Pretty much a member of the team, but also an iconic member of the community as well
So I will start with our first co-host of tonight. We have the bacon sandwich. How we doing bacon happy Tuesday, sir
My boys and girls again
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And I don't worry. I will just end this face. I'll call you up wake you up and we'll go yeah great reason
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I know it's Tuesday is Tuesday's a bit of a weird day
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But you know Wednesday's the middle of the week. So that's a good point to reach Monday's the start of the week
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It's just one of those but anyway nice and bacon. I'm glad you are good. We also have on the stage
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You have absolutely mastered that vocal craft you have just endeavored and well played sir. Love it
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30 minutes from now
So if you can't shout out to tricky who's always our co-host and all of our spaces
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So if you do miss him tonight and you are listening or listening back to this just know that that's the case
Also, we have miss Evie on stage. How are we doing? Even doing well doing? Well, thank you
Rev just coming from the health space, which is one of my favorite things for Tuesday
Throwing that up. Yeah, are you doing sir? I?
Am doing good. I probably should have factored that into everything. I just said for the last five minutes. I do
We can't forget that at 9 p.m
UK time every Tuesday in our telegram miss Evie hosts are very very loved mental health space
So yeah, shout out to you for that and thank you for coming here from there. I appreciate that
My friends spot on I love that
That's it. It was that good
I think if tricky listens back to this and he is that it may feel a little bit threatened by how well you delivered that
Yeah, we were definitely proud anyway, there's no denying that but yeah anyway without further ado
We also have our other co-host for tonight crypto. So how we doing Tony?
Hey rev. Yeah, I'm doing okay. Looking forward to any updates that hungry animals has got. Oh
Yeah, let's go. Welcome everyone
Then I just knew everybody
Don't know
Yeah, I think it is looking like what a way to enter a room I'm just gonna mute everyone
I'm gonna joke in but yeah on that note without was that was that cuz I was talking Andy
Bumbleweeds, yeah
That's it. Have I got any updates? Well, I've gotten those for you sunshine new
You know, how we doing and they welcome and thank you for giving us your time tonight. Of course. Good evening everybody. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you, bro
Yeah, I'm doing all right. All right, just just chill in this evening. Have a nice
like bit of food watch a bit of Star Trek and
Yeah, just looking forward to chatting
I don't know if it's Star Wars. I think it's Star Wars Star Trek
I haven't watched us what it's one of them
But I need to watch it because I do love that type of stuff
But that sounds like a good afternoon
But no, thank you for joining us and giving us this time every week and for anyone that's listening in or may listen back
We will be doing these every every Tuesday for their foreseeable Tuesday with a CH not a tea for hangry purposes
But yeah, super excited and I know you've got some updates
And I'm really looking forward to this because what you're working on is absolutely iconic. So yeah
I don't know if you want to give us an
Update first of what you're doing or whether you want to you know
Give it a little introduction to yourself in case anyone doesn't know who you are. I'll let you decide that one stuff. Sure
Yeah, I'm Andy angry Andy
founder of angry animals
The creator in terms of the illustration, you know
Just coordinating the whole thing really from from my attic studio
And you know, this is a this is a passion project that's evolving quite rapidly into something really interesting and
Everybody who has contributed and brought their efforts to to the to the forefront
You know have just turning it into something really awesome and meaningful. So, you know, my background is
I'm a creative through and through
I've run animation studios and teams of creatives in the sector for about 20 22 23 years now and
I've always had this passion about doing something where as a creator you do something from start to finish
So you come up with the idea you write the scripts you build the storyline you write the animation you do the animation and
You know you potentially
Lead on to other things and other pieces of IP and angry animals seems to be evolving into that thing
so yeah, it's a
it's a group of characters that are in a predicament of a
crash-landed alien spaceship that lands on on earth or a version of earth. Let's just say that and
morphed of
They're transformed through a DNA
radiation energy crystal that's been brought to earth by the aliens and
Therefore the closest human to the closest animal where the alien ship crash lands in the zoo is transformed into a angry animal
and the story
Arts continue from there really so, you know, we're taking these characters on an adventure through a 3d
person RPG game which we're building right now and
We've written five comments and one comic has been released as a digital version at the moment
No, thank you. And also we have
comic scripts have been adapted into animation series scripts and we're at the pros in the process at the moment of just
figuring out what we're gonna do from
animated series perspective and I have some good friends who are licensing agents who are
Looking to take the animating series to a couple of the larger broadcasting and commissioning conferences
across the globe
because they think it's got traction as well, so
Yeah, it's I don't know if anybody is knows of Todd McFarlane. So Todd McFarlane is
the guy who helps transform the spider-man franchise
Into what it is today with the big big over exaggerated eyes the new costume the slayed and the really stylistic
poses and stuff and Todd McFarlane
Was it is an amazing comic artist and entrepreneur and he defined those four pillars of a brand
You should be looking at in order to you know
Exploit them and grow them at the same time and that is your your comics your stories your animation
TV and film and animation your merchandise and
And your toys and those four things really is where I kind of see and I want angry animals to
evolve just having a cool set of vinyl toys on on the on your shelf and
comics the kids and you know adults alike will will enjoy reading and
Playing the games and enjoying the animated series. So really that ambition I think is
Within reach and that's what we're aiming for
Really kind of move the needle and enjoy
Enjoy creating with a great team and a community around us
to support and connect the dots with a lot of
A lot of ideas that we're bringing together
And the first thing that we are in the process of building is as I said, it's this 3d
RPG game of which I think we're about
40% through that the devs are wearing wearing away and building out some cool stuff
With the game and I think we'll have a level one alpha a playable level one alpha by the end of q1
So hopefully by the end of March to coincide with the NSP drop
So yeah, that's that's the kind of world. It's a very in-depth world of characters. I
Initially illustrated five so we have a hippo as them for a gorilla bear and a moose
there are
They're the core. They're the OGs. They're the five primary ones
But some within this collection there is an additional five
that may or may not be
public knowledge
Yet, but I just kept illustrating really in the evenings and just on the weekends
Just doodling new characters that I thought would be cool for the storyline and expand the universe as most of these pieces of ip do
so yeah, I
Kept on illustrating and now we have about 35 different characters, which will be released gradually over time
But the first five is what I want to get out the door first and that will coincide with the NFT drop
at the at the end of March
And that's where the check comes in really check Tuesday is
our opportunity to
You know raise a little bit of capital so that the dev team can continue building on the game
And that we've got a little bit of capital that we can play with to
You know support the mods and bring on more people
as a community
And it's also a great opportunity to incentivize folks to
You know buy into a project that has been around since 2021
and we've just been gradually building since then
A chet gives you a 50 discount on an NFT when it when it drops
So if you have if you own if you possess a chet 25 you're going to get a dropped a 50 angry animals
At the end of March, so I think that's a you know in the first instance. That's a pretty decent incentive
Jump in and all the little folks that come with it as well, which we can go through in time
Hi ramble someone else wants to
Yeah, no, I think you absolutely nailed that and that is incredible that you know
and I think that's the approach that I think every single brand and ecosystem should be taken because
If that doesn't showcase long longevity, then nothing will and I definitely think you're going the right way about it
And you know you've you've the approach that you've taken is so exciting because you really are building out the story
You're building out the characters and their backstory and there's purpose and meaning behind everything that you're building
And it's really exciting because it's also
Extremely engaging for people throughout the entire process, you know
The community can really get involved with you as you create they can ask questions
There's comics that they can read and you know the fact that these chet these chet passes
For me are the biggest highlight of how much you care about the community
Because there's such a low barrier to entry of such huge value is absolutely mind-blowing to me
You know because to get a pass for just 25 dollars, which is you know
Cheaper than pretty much all of the nfts. I I I come across and i'm surrounded by which
Isn't a good or bad or right or wrong thing
But the value that you're giving people for that when they can get the nfts that they purchased so they can get a hanger animal
They get a 3d avatar
Early access all the all the really exciting stuff that anyone would want from any brand that they see any value in at all
So I think the approach that you've taken around these chet passes and the way that you're building your ecosystem
Is absolutely commendable and I think many many people will look up to you
Now and especially in the future when people, you know really get to know who you are in the future when this is a complete success
Uh, thank you, dude. Yeah, I mean, you know you're looking at the landscape of 2021, right?
The height of the the ball in 2021 when all right, there was there was some
Jpegs going for extortion amounts of money, right and but it's you know
It's the value that sits behind those those images rather than the image themselves
but for a brand that is very visually
focused character focused for us, you know, I think it was really important that we
We do have a low barrier to entry because we want to onboard a web 2 audience into a web 3 experience
Or a web 2.5 and then eventually web 3 experience especially in gaming because there's a real
I suppose it's
It's not broken, but there's a little bit of a challenge between gamers
and the world of web 3
so the best way that we can think is to
Build something where the value of a $25 pass
Gets you early access to game demos to game play testing and you get to feedback with us and you you know
You're you're earning some rewarding tokens
Uh in the same breath as you play and as you give us that feedback as well. So
definitely the low barrier entry is important to me because most of our audience is going to be of that kind of younger youthful
generation and you know, we don't want to be
onboarding the entirety of that web 2 experience yet until we've got
Bullet connection behind the scenes so it feels a bit seamless
hence working with
You know the guys at
Kaizen finance and with scale to ensure that you know
We have options when it comes to onboarding folks into the game
experience itself
And uh, yeah, the the chat is the first port of call for that
Just so everybody knows that chet is a character in in the franchise. He's a character in the uh in the storylines
um, he's a
part of the senior team team of the military
Force that joins forces with angry animals to fend off
the invaders and
A multitude of aliens that come through the portals in the in the storyline. So
Not only is the first
kind of introduction I guess to uh a human character within the
the uh the storyline
will have
Future value and future introductions into the into the animated series and and the game as well
So, you know, it's not just a token gesture in terms of an nft is actually something that will
Be able to evolve further on down the line from uh from the gaming experience as well
So, you know holding on to the chat as well as your your angry animals will will yield
Uh some surprising results when we come to it
Yeah, and that's what I find really exciting about it is that
some things you can talk about and tell people about because how much is involved with it, you know, it's not just a
You know buy this digital piece of art because it might be collectible. It's check out this world. It's already
Partly built in the game aspects, you know, there's comics that people can read
There's a storyline as a backstory that you've got decades of experience. You've got obviously a connection a network a team
Um, you're fully docked you've been doing this for years people can reach you as easy as you can reach anyone
And it's a really exciting process to watch this unfold the way that it is
And I think that it's great that even the membership pass
Is a person with a backstory and a part to play in this story
And I think that that is something I think you've done so well at doing is creating
That people can get excited about in regards of their imagination, you know
You really are building out a world that people can really see unfold before their eyes. Um
Wild has got a handle amanda. Have you got a question fire away?
It was why I just wanted to hit on what you were saying and watching the development
I got to actually if you guys haven't had the opportunity to go over when he does his live views
It really is super cool. A lot of people talk about building the game
But you could actually go over to the chat and actually watch I got to watch the zabrina the zebra character getting created and really
It's super cool to actually watch it unfold
So I just wanted to encourage anyone if you haven't had the chance to go over there and check that out. It really is super awesome
Thank you manda. Yeah, I think yeah
It's an important point for me is you know
All right. I've been doing in the industry for
20 24 years, but there is still opportunities to learn so even as i'm doing it, right there's
Things there's new things about unity, which is the game
Engine that we're using to build out the game
So, you know when I get into an evening session and i'm thinking right the task for this evening is to
Make a four-legged character walk procedurally, which means like, you know, I don't need to touch it
It's all code and having things go wrong and happy accidents and stuff like that
I think it's great to just show
What actually happens in in in the development world when you are immersed in a game?
How how complex it is and how hard it is to get things right?
So I think showcasing the effort that goes into it is important
So people understand that you know when you see that finished game and you play five minutes and you're bored or you throw it away
I i've been a big advocate to say I have a have a real look at what it takes to put a game together and
How long it takes and then you think twice about putting it down
If I get into that though, then so be it that's good. That's it. You know
They didn't do it, right
That's what I love about the way you're doing it because it any like that's a very basically
Game is like a very complex piece of multiple layers and layers and layers of art
And if they they get to see the journey with it
It helps helps us like attach and get connected with it
Because a lot of people at the end you see the finished product you're like wow, that's amazing
And you think it just was like came like that
But like you're pointing out it really is a lot of trial
It's a whole journey there and i'm really glad that you're allowing people to go through that journey with you
I think it helps us like you said understand what really was put into it
Um, I do need i'm gonna jump off here. I just wanted to bring uh, you know, give some love and stuff
I have a 2.30 chat guys
But just uh everyone if you're not already following the rev and the coc and the hangry animals
Just some amazing communities to be in guys
So everybody have a blessed day and it was good to chat guys
I just want to give a little bit of love before I I did go for the day
Thank you, manda. Yeah. Well, thank you. We love you amanda
Love you guys too you guys if anybody's not following make sure to follow these all these amazing people up there
They truly do just brighten your day your week in your life. So it's very worth following
Everybody have a blessed day and we'll talk to you next time
Yeah, talk to you next time amanda. Thank you so much. Um, but yeah and a massive shout out to everyone
That's joining the space right now. We've got fm. We've got west and third labs shout out to you
Wes we've got silent dave in the building. No one will be able to hear him because he's silent
Thank you to amanda and we've got the coc team on the stage as well
So we appreciate you guys and uh, but yeah, no just diving back into what you were saying, um, and uh, you know
There is such a a lot of work that goes in the back end. Um
And you really are a humble human as well, you know with the skills that you've got and the way that you
Showcase it. I think it's
It's a great way to teach people how you're doing it and help people understand it and I think web3 has got such a need for that
Because we all want to understand and learn and develop and grow and you know
And people are getting to grow with you through this process as you really build this world out
So I think you've done an incredible job with that as well, you know, thank you
this you know, there's there's quite a few um
founders, you know project runners and um in web3 that are doing
Similar things, you know, they're providing educational tools to allow
community members new members just general public to
To embrace a different way of learning and you know, okay called beast
um with the 3d assets from
You know from raspy and that they
You have you have a login
You connect your wallet you're able to download the 3d
Avatar your your 3d characters as a you know as a poseable avatar
And then learn about how you do animation then you've got essentially you've got user-generated content with you
So really inspired by that and the way in which you can continue that creation process
With a group of people who love the idea love the brand love what you stand for
But then you give them the tools to help them build with you
you you end up with
An engaged community who want to continue to play and and build new things try out pieces of animation
You know, we we um, we managed to
Get a hold of emotion capture suit so that we can start doing
quick sequences animation loops and stuff for the games and for uh teaser
Content for the animated trailer as well. So, you know those tools
Less of a barrier for to entry now than than ever, you know, you can get a button capture suit for 1500 quid or less and
You can actually become a content creator and a content producer for the project
and I think that's a really cool incentive that i'm starting to
embrace is
You know where you've got a creator economy
You've got a creator economy for a brand and people want to get into that
There may be revenue streams available for folks like that where they have a rig. They have a character
We have a scene that needs to be animated for for part of the animated series and it totally becomes a
community
And you know, there's a mass it's a massive undertaking but it that excites me because it decentralizes the need for
You know big animation
teams and studios
and you could end up
building together
learning and
Skilling people together because for the love of what you're doing
Um, you know
That's a that's a path. I'd really like to explore
So, yeah, and do you just want to quickly explain for anyone that might not know what um a motion capture suit is
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so motion capture you you've got several different types of motion capture suit
But you know traditional animation is you have a character that's got an armature inside it on the screen on
In the computer and you're moving each bone of that armature
supposes you're kind of taking a snapshot if you like and then you're moving on frame by frame
um, and you you build up that
animated sequence
In the computer using key frames. So you're doing it that way what a motion capture suit does is
Allows you to record
A human that's wearing a full body suit with sensors on it
You can record that human movement and the facial rigging
You can take a snapshot of the facial movement as well
You can record those sequences into the computer
so that you've sped up the
Sped up the process. You don't have to animate frame by frame or key by key. You can record
tons and tons and tons of content
and capture
really intricate
Specific movements from from the human body
And then you can use that as your animated content
It is very complicated because you end up with a lot more data than what you actually need
Because with a motion capture suit, it takes a snapshot of every bone every frame and every movement rotation position scale
All all of that data is much much more complex than what you would do with a traditional pose to pose animation
But essentially yeah, it's a big old suit the sensors on it that captures a human movement
frame by frame
They use it a lot in um, you know
Those listening in who've seen avatar or avatar 2, you know, they've got these optical
Sensors all over the body on on all the actors and the facial rigs as well
Those that's what they're using is
Motion capture suits for cinematic performance, but they use quite a lot in
game development and you know cutscenes
Between the levels and games they use a lot for those
I know rockstar rockstar games up in edinburgh. They use them quite a lot
to build up layers of
animated content for the cutscenes
Because you know animation takes ages
I used to study
Stop motion animation which is clay pocket animation with armatures inside the clay wallace and chromat style
And then I was teaching stop motion animation
To university as well
Now that is the slowest of the slowest process
traditional stop motion and traditional 2d
So those folks who have embraced 3d cg animation and now motion capture combined motion capture sequences
Way easier
but you've just ended up with a
different set of complexities with with motion capture
Equally, it's fun to learn. It's fun to use the tools to you know produce
And uh, yeah, that's what we're going to do with angry
That is amazing and um, you know i've seen some of the the footage of the the suit in use
With the big screen and with someone using it in real time
And it's absolutely mind-blowing and it really does
It really is a place where both worlds collide
And it really does bring things to life and I think it's amazing that
You've got those tools to utilize but with you being such a
You know an educator whether intentionally or unintentionally
But I think it's great that not only have you got the experience to help showcase the people but you've got the tools as well which
Opens up a whole world of opportunity for people that they just would not normally have had
Which is really exciting. Um, and
On the topic of education, you know, um, I don't know if you want to dive into any recent updates or anything
You're doing at the moment, but I think it's really exciting and uh, you know, I can't wait for you to talk about it
So for me, uh, you know associations with um
University here in in south. Wales. Um
Funnily called the university of south. Wales
You know been doing a minor project with a couple of the students from the university of south. Wales
Because we wanted to give back because we wanted to
Mentor and and give give students some steerage in in terms of their
educational progress
So some of those students elected to work with angry animals to produce different elements. So we've got
fully rigged characters with
with with muscle deformation and
All the facial rigging stuff is now much more refined than what it was before
So a couple of the students were tasked with
You know producing over a period of eight weeks, I think or eight to twelve weeks
Um different elements of what they wanted to tackle some are modelers some are riggers some are animators
Some are character designers
So, you know, they they invited me in
On a friday to just do a catch-up
And see what they see what they're building and we've ended up with a really nice mixture of
props for the game
But they can also be used for the animated series because the quality is that good
We got two two alien characters two additional enemy alien characters
The big alien boss character, which has been developed
By one students as well and then equally these these three fully fully formed
main characters
We can now use for animated content with the motion capture suits
All the facial rigs are now done really well with the tongue and the eye squints and
everything
So yeah, it's been a really interesting journey
just showing them what we're up to and
The students themselves contributing and giving giving us feedback
What they've been producing I showed them the comic the other day and they were like really excited to see
Some of the characters that they've just seen in 2d form or they've seen clips of a mood board or a clip some things
Where they can see those characters actually fully fleshed out. It's really exciting to
You know, I can't I've forgotten
I've forgotten the age where you're still excited about everything and some of these guys were
Impressed with what we've done so far. So and that's gratifying, you know, because
You're back in the world of education back showing
Showing folks who for me i'm a few years ahead of them
How they still get excited about creativity creation?
Yeah, so it's been a great it's been a great couple of weeks
with them
Enjoying working on a live project typically with
universities what happens is you'll get a
You'll get a minor project or you'll get a
Industry brief as they call it and those industry briefs are sort of off the shelf default
You know pre-built
Briefs with a rig that doesn't have anything to do with an actual live project or wherever
But ours is a live project
It's it has anything the students create had an intrinsic or impact positive impact on the things we're building
And you know from that point on we will have some of their characters integrated into the game
We will make sure they get credit
On on all of that and they now have content that they can put on their show reel that they can feel proud of that
it's different from
run-of-the-mill
Lion walk cycle
For those who are familiar with animation showreels. You'll have a two-legged walk cycle
You'll have a four-legged walk cycle some birds flying and then some random character performance stuff. Whereas these guys have got
demonstration of models that they built characters that they will be able to perform with
And uh, yeah, and they're affecting the brand positively for what they're able to create
So that's what that was cool. I really enjoyed it
Yeah, that is really cool and there's a few things that you touched on that I just want to mention like because I did
Music at college, but I also did graphic design
And a couple of other things and one of the big problems that they had was
Everything was dated and he was always working on
Projects of either a dead brand or it wasn't you know live up-to-date experience
And it was even telling us that the things
They were learning like the programs and software that we were using and the you know
The hardware and interfaces that we were using were dated and would also be even more out
Outdated by the time we got to the industry ourselves. So the fact that you went back to your
University, which that's huge by the way. That's that's global adoption
Steve my son agrees that's global adoption in real time, you know
Um and so to give them that live experience with an actual brand working in the most
Up-to-date aspects of the industry. I think is phenomenal and you've given them an opportunity of a lifetime
You know the fact that you highlighted that they would get credit for their work
Will be make or break when they enter the industry because the biggest thing and the first thing people are asked
Is what experience do you have and they're going to get to say that well, actually I got to work with this ecosystem
That is you know, I played this part
I did this and they are doing this now and that that is absolutely revolutionary. So massive massive respect for that
Yeah, thank you
I think i've always felt it important really to you know, give opportunity
I equally had similar opportunities when I was in university and you know, the creative industries in the uk has been really
Um, I will say for the last couple of years has been in that really weird place
but you know for the most part it's been very buoyant and
the ability to come out of uni to
pursue a career in creative and still be in that space all this time, I think it's a testament to
just that drive to want to continue to create and
But then being able to
complete that cycle to go back into the
educational system and showcase if you stick to your guns and if you stick to your principles of
Just being that creative person
delivering
product and delivering quality, uh content for
For yourself and for clients, then you will get to this point where you will also be able to come to give back
incidentally the university that that I
Went to that I graduated from that I then went back and taught at the university is the university that produced some of
Some of the animators that are on the biggest projects across the globe right now
Um, you know, you've got guys that have worked on spider-man into the spider-verse across the spider-verse all the pixar movies
Or you know disney movies some pretty big
Productions in the uk walking with dinosaurs, you know lots of bfx
One of my best friends was the lead animator on panocchio the corpse bride coralline
um, all of these productions have come from
a university
Right in the heart of south wales and that that makes me so proud to be able to be an ambassador for something like that
And go back and give back to that to that space
It's such a warm and feeling really to
Be still in that space
enjoying creating content and
Trying to find an audience, you know
Yeah, and and now you can add hank animals to that list, you know alongside, you know, spider-man and all the other amazing animated
Series that people you was able to create from that university
but you know and I think that you know, you've always been giving back from day one and been trying to add value and
Just been so authentic. I think authenticity
is probably one of the first things I think about when I think about hank animals because it is also
Organic and authentic and you know, you create literally every single aspect of it
And people have only got to look at it for a couple of minutes just to see the world that in which you've created because there's so
characters with with so much character as well and they've all got such unique and
expressive personalities that
you know, I don't think people will ever truly be able to
realize the
The value that comes from them jet passes because you know
There's just so much in it that
It will take years for people to unpack it and I think that's one of the most exciting parts as well as that
you know now
now students and sorry, I apologize
Students and the younger generations are able to already take part in in the development, you know
And that must be great for them and for anyone that's listening in as well
at the top of the space i've pinned
paragraph.xyz forward slash hank animals is where you can see
All of the hanker animal articles that are written that give all the updates all the game development updates
All phenomenal reads by the way, which are all assets that you can collect
and you also
can earn specific collectibles for
Following and subscribing to hanker animals on there as well. Um, so I strongly advise doing that that's pinned at the top
Um, if anyone wants to check any of the artwork for the the check passes, um, that's pinned at the top as well
Um and also the website as well
Nice one, mate. Yeah, no problem. Fire away trey. You have a question, sir
No question. I just want to say it's good to hear that the baby feels better
Thank you is is definitely very much, um feeling better
Fair play
Yeah, five on his hands guys girls we've got five on his hands i'm i'm impressed
Is a hero man? What about?
Absolutely
No, we're here as we're capes, huh?
Yeah, I know they're only covered covered in nappies and baby wipes but no, thank you I appreciate that is your cape
It's a cape and baby wipes
I'll stick them all together. Maybe why it's such multi-purpose tools, you know talking about tools that can be effectively utilized on the battlefield
I will take them with me anywhere and everywhere always. So yeah
I mean you you'll know the problem before you like you go to grab one. You just end up putting out half the box, right?
Yeah, that is I get shouted out for that to this day. Why have you got that many?
It's like in clearly see it wasn't intentional. They were all stuck together and now i've got 15 baby wipes
I only needed like a third of one
The art of the one-handed baby wipe extraction
No, that's that's my wife's got that down to a t it's the flick of the wrist, you know, it's like a basketball player
It's that it's that flick where you just calculate it. Perfect. You know, I just i'm too heavy-handed
Fair play
That's me
But no, thank you guys. I appreciate that. But yeah, so, um, I just wanted to dive into the um
Paragraph.xyz as well if that's all right
So for anyone that doesn't know because um, he's called um the hanger animals magazine, isn't it? So it's ham for an abbreviation
Yeah, it's a hangry purposes as I like to put it
But yeah, um, they are phenomenal by the way, um, the way that you structure them
It's such a great read and i'm really not technical when it comes to the intricacies of
Development, but I don't you know, if I don't if you write them personally or if it's one of your team
But the way that it's it's such a great read
Um, and there's so much inside of these articles as well because there's videos there's links to the things that you're talking about
There's images that showcase the the artwork and I pinned the one at the top
In regards to the collaboration with the university of south wales
I suggest everyone go click on that and give it a read. It's amazing
um, and just the way that you're involving these students is
Amazing. It must have been great for you to see the excitement on people that aren't where you're at yet
You know that must have been you know, really inspiring for you. Yeah, it is
Thanks for that very kind words, you know from uh from the
The newsletter perspective right, you know, this is paragraph is a fantastic tool by the way, you know
You've got your mail chimps and all of these sort of
tools for
Efficiency I find paragraph to be amazing because you know, you can get a draft article
Uh, you you can write an outline for an article and then ai will flesh out
But it won't do it in a the chat gbt way that when it was you know
The early doors of chat gbt it'll actually help you craft the article
and so what I do is I use I write an outline I draft it on a sunday and
Give it the essence of what i'm trying to say and then I go in and I write back fill and I follow up with
Overwriting really and you know, right writing the crux of what i'm trying to explain especially when it comes to the game
asset updates where you do need to write stuff
um in a bit more detail and
Uh, yeah, I try to include as much as possible, you know any any image updates that I think are relevant
If there's if we're if we're talking about game
Accounts where things have gone wrong and stuff other than I try and include a little video like you like you mentioned
so yeah, I mean i'm using it like a communications tool and
I think the newsletter has
been quite successful because I think people are tired of
Sitting in discord or sitting on telegram or a mixture of those things
Waiting for updates or waiting for a piece of content the power of something arriving in your email still
has weight
um, and i've found that the you know sending a newsletter to
A subscriber's inbox they can
Get it sent to them on jane
you know, they can
Just sort of they can mint that
newsletter as an nft because the image assets I try and create the
The cover asset to be as interesting as possible as well
So yeah, i've really enjoyed writing content and providing
short form and medium form article updates to what we're doing because
It's just a legacy now. It's something that is a routine that I enjoy doing, you know on the weekends
And just giving everybody a update as to where we're at. So
Yeah, yeah, you can tell that you enjoy it because the whole experience from from you know
From my perspective is is on the you know, the enthusiastic collective collector side is really enjoyable
So you can tell that you enjoy it
Because you know you even down to the newsletters
Which should be the boring part because it's just the you know, the reading side
You've made it interactive enjoyable to read a collectible
And I think it's great that people can interact with this
The this stage of the project. I think is just massively underrated because you know people can collect parts of the development
You know, so once you know the majority of people are only going to see the completed
version of this where they can you know go and buy a hanger animals, um
Figurine in it in a shop or play the game once it's been built and interact with the hangryverse
You know, they won't see the other side that they're going to definitely do the research into
Once it reaches that, you know global stage and people realize just how incredible it is
And you know the people have been able to collect that experience because like your favorite part about comic reading
Is that you've got I imagine you've got your collection that you know
The ones that you collect them that mean something to you
So that you know, you've really made sure that people can collect each stage of the development of all of this
Yeah, no, I think there's there's still something to that right it is
You know people
Human beings human nature, you know the psychology of collecting things if you if you have the entirety of the collection there's a
Satisfaction to that, you know
Um, so folks who want to go and collect each and every one
There may be an opportunity to in the future and that's why the blockchain is really useful here is that we can
A specific nft or or a unique drop or token drop to those that have collected each and every
newsletter
Because it's on chain. So, you know, it it brings an added value down the track
for collecting a newsletter, so
that that's why I really i'm a massive advocate for paragraph because they've they've actually nailed it in terms of the
The toolset that they give you
um, you know, we've got a blog on the website, right, but I haven't really written a
a decent blog on the site for a while because the newsletter has become much more enjoyable to write and
Much more meaningful to roll out and send to people so the blog is probably going to be
Downgraded or i'll use it for just major updates and continue continue writing these new newsletters because you're right
I do enjoy them and they are fun to
share updates of where we're at
Yeah, I know they really are um and for anyone that may not know yet, you know
There's also comics that you can go and read and collect um digital ones on um cryptocomics.com
um, i've also pinned that at the top as well, so if anyone wants to check the
The comics that have been written. Um, you can go and do that as well, which I strongly advise
Um, there's people in this room that have gone and read them and purchased them and you know, don't tell andy
I said this but on cryptocomics.com
You can actually read the first seven pages for free
So if you want to have a taste of the storyline
You can go and do that and have a read of it and it won't cost you anything just to have a you know
Have a little taste of uh of the the storyline behind autis
Thank you, man. Yeah, it's um, it's interesting
I hear we we may feature cryptocomics.com on a community community space in the future. Hopefully that'd be amazing
It's on the cards very soon actually wicked. They're a really good bunch of people. They're very responsive
Um, and you know, obviously i'm a visual person
So when I noticed things that weren't quite working in the ui so in the user interface of the actual website itself
I just pointed them out and you know, they're very quickly fixed
Fix those things and you know making for a better user experience
So that feedback loop is really important for me and for them as well. I I hope
Um, you know as a brand who want to grow products
Yeah, cryptocomics.com was our preferred
Platform to roll it out on we did connect with cometh
Um, but um, they weren't they weren't as responsive
So I felt it was great to go on there and the tools that you have on cryptocomics.com
I think are fantastic. You can do audio backing tracks of audio for each page
Like you say you can read seven pages
before purchasing
Interestingly this app to the point of the seven pages is just a bit before otis changes into the purple hippo
So you're getting you know
The the background the blend the blandness of the background of otis before he changes and then it goes all colorful
And converts so if you do want to read it, then yeah, please back a copy
Um, but you know, yeah, and what a great way to support you and what you're doing, you know
and like I said, you know, you put your already in in the university and
Really helping people and and and you know that that that you've just said is just testament to everything that anger animals is about
You know you you're interacting with these platforms and you're you're still you know
Lifting each other up and helping each other and and growing and building together and that's the beauty of all of this is the way that we're
moving forward and the way that you're utilizing these different different platforms and it's all being factored into
The hanger animals journey, you know from where you started out of
a doodle on a piece of paper
And now you're interacting with all these ecosystems and all these people and everything's coming to life a storyline
You know the games developing and you know
There's people in universities getting to interact and build with it. And I just think it's absolutely amazing of
How how this is all unfolding, you know
Where else do you hear ecosystems that are being unpacked like this and moving forward and in this manner, you know
It's absolutely brilliant and it's something I think anyone would want to support, you know
And anyone who does support is rewarded, you know, even the hanger animals has a food token
So if you even support hanger animals on social media that you can upload images in the discord
And earn a food token which has got no monetary value behind it
But you can utilize that in the future predominantly even some in some stages now
acquire nfts
merchandise and other in-game
Assets as well, which I just think is brilliant that every step of the way is not only enjoyable
But rewarding in some way or another
Yeah, man. I think for us the social token was a really
Pivotal point, you know being able to create something that has a value within the ecosystem
Doesn't have an intrinsic value outside a monetary value outside of the ecosystem until further on down the track
that was the perfect kind of mechanism for us to
Allow folks to you know share their support of the project and
On socials and then for us to be able to reward them
Down the track so we we will eventually inject liquidity into the food token
So those that possess and hold food tokens will see it have a monetary value
Um, but it'll it'll appear further on down the track
Yeah, that's brilliant
That's really exciting actually but also shows where your mind is that it's always in you know
How can the community be rewarded for that for their time and their effort and their support?
And you know just even down to when people can join your telegram
Which for anyone that is that is wondering all of the hangry socials you can access through their website
Which is hangranimals.com which is also pinned at the top of the space as well. But even just watching your
Um watching you doing your development work in in telegram, you know people can enjoy that that
experience and ask you questions and you know you
You you you do these as if a thousand people is watching every single time
It doesn't matter how many people watching at the time
But you also make sure that any questions anyone have are answered and if you can't answer it you show them and people always
understand
Once a question has been asked what it is that they wanted to know and I think that it's brilliant that you
You do it in such a an entertaining way, you know
You some people just have that skill and you just have that skill
You can just educate in a way that isn't boring and you can interact with people that isn't
Patronizing and people don't feel silly for asking so any question is is there to be asked
um, and it's I don't know how you've managed to create your ecosystem this way to be so
educational and engaging and rewarding and
Layered on top of each other at the same time. So effortlessly it's it's phenomenal
Well, thank you much appreciated
you know, um
I think it I haven't
Haven't worked at it. I guess I've just
Been like that
since day one, you know, like you you mentioned the um
You know from a sketch to what it is today. I just i'm just thinking back right to
I did a live twitch
where I was illustrating the first ever
kind of concept for the hippo
And um, you know colored it and you know put it out there and people are like this is really cool
It's interesting, you know, we can do a collection from this
And then I've still got that image I've still got that asset and it will be minted as an nft
Someone has already
secured that that image because it was the first one so um,
you know, they they will be
in receipt of
the first
jpeg image of a full colored hangry animal at some point in the near future maybe at the same time as the mint
Uh, it may be included in the collection. I don't know yet. It depends how tricky that is for
For those that meant it but um
It will certainly be a very rare
Snapshot in time of something we created back in 2021
Yeah, how it all began, you know all all the sleepless nights and thousands of hours all that all that stress
But I wonder if you ever sat there and I should never have doodled that doodle
That doodle probably all this stress. No, but I know it sounds like i'm always just giving flowers
It's just because you built this in with with so much authenticity
And and I don't use that word lightly either and I think you know
I I touch on these things because I look at it from an outsider looking in
You know, what is it that people want to experience to feel comfortable interacting with?
An ecosystem especially with all the all the dark sides of web3 and all the times people have been caught out with
With different projects and with this, you know people just have so much
Time to learn and there's literally zero pressure to to purchase anything, you know, it's just
Everything that you're building out. There's it's just things that other
That are available for people to uh dive into if they wish to you know
There's so much to interact with and engage with and there's you know
By the time anyone even gets to a point of probably thinking about buying buying into anything or purchasing the assets
They've already earned food tokens learned about it got the information they need, you know
Been able to ask all the questions they want to ask
So I just think it's great that that that it's designed the way that it is, you know, and it's just authentic
You know, it's not structured in a way to trap anyone you're not trying to you know, press money out of people
It's it generally is just a passion
Unfolding in real time in the most organic authentic way possible
Yeah, I mean
I think for those that know me on on a personal level. I think um, and you know, most of
most of the community communities crew
Have you know we've been chatting for a while you just?
Come across me. I'm humble. I'm not gonna pressure anybody into buying anything. They don't want to buy if you enjoy
Seeing something evolve and you want to be part of that
You know in the future then so be it but if you don't that's cool then it's not for you and I'm
I think i've always been like that
That chilled to go
I'll buy it because I love it. I've you know, I really want
The whole series of comics or I can't wait for an animated series to get off the ground
but i'm patient and i'll and i'll wait for the moment and uh
Those that have been there and have backed backed us from from the the off
Will reap rope will reap those rewards because they can
see and they've been part of that journey, which means they can then be part of this success because
they've seen the struggles they've seen the you know
Spaces with one or two people and then you come out the other side
and that graph the hard graph
Will pay off. I'm absolutely
determined
To make something of it just because that's how passionate I am about
what this is
And it's happened by accident in a way it's happened by accident because when I first connected with the
with prime burn who?
We've been doing this with
almost three years
It was just
An opportunity to say hey, we let's let's work together and let's make a collection
That was it. It started off as something where you we just went we'd love to work with you
If you had good things about you
If there's an opportunity and you want to do a collection together. I'm an artist
You know, you've got dead skills
Let's make something happen
And it just from there just absolutely
snowballed
What it is today?
And that's through the collective efforts of a lot of people not just me I doodle I sketch something happens
I give it a name I put it on paper
People like it that that's literally it but then everything else this
sort of snowballed behind it has just happened organically where
my obsessive nature of
We you know, we can do a game we could do an m.a. series we could build a comic
Um, and i'm just recruiting people to do those things
for for us, you know
But equally the joy of seeing other people enjoy their craft
And then the outcome is something that we can all
really love so
I guess that's what hungry animals is about
for eating
Yeah, and it and it absolutely shows and you know, you've been like a
A father figure for the whole career you just always have you've just always had that
Curing nature about you and you know, you've really helped a lot of people around you through your your time
And I know you're too humble to ever speak on any of those things
But you have helped people on a personal level, you know
You've helped me personally you've helped people on the creative side on the educational side. Um,
It says a lot about who you are as a founder and I think that that is what is
really important and I think everyone feels the same when
When you really want to get involved in an ecosystem and I don't just mean just buy an fc
Now in the hope to sell it for more later, you know, you're not building for that
You're building for something that's going to be around for all of time extremely engaging from physical to personal to digital, you know
And that's different to what a lot of people are in the industry for
um, and I think that
You've really shown your character over the almost three years that i've known you and you've you've never changed
In who you are and it's always been the same, you know, just just that calm authentic
nature about you and
and it's it's important that
People get to see that side of who you are so that they can
Trust the things that you're creating, you know
And I think that's that's that that's the bit that I've really enjoyed is
Getting to know you getting to know the characters getting to know where they came from
Where they're going to fit in and being able to participate in any part of that
That I choose to do so, you know and anyone can do that
And that's what's made hanger animals really exciting from from my perspective is that you know people that want to do voice acting
Artwork or dev work or just enjoy the the
The game once it's built, you know, there's so many ways in which people can get involved
I just think that it's it's brilliant that there's so much choice for people from the educational down to the physical
Yeah, nice one, man. I think you you've just captured a lot really of the essence of what we
What we you know what we aim to what we aim to do, you know, um
I just want it to be something where
other creatives
Even other projects, you know want to they see an opportunity where
Team up we can team up they have characters. We have characters
Let's see if we can make an ecosystem which
Actually embraces other projects characters into something where maybe they don't have the resources to build a game
um just through the
kind of sheer resourcefulness of
Me and coin burn and the rest of the team
You know there may be opportunities where other projects have really cool characters or a really great little community
And then they want to team up they want to co-author and write a story together
And then we integrate that into a new level in the game at some point in the future
because that's the one thing that I think a lot of projects miss out on is
Once you release a game, that's not the end
You can iterate that game
You can roll out an additional couple of levels you can
You can add things to it and you know add new characters add new quests and new challenges
I think that's going to be part of the future of what we do with angry animals is we iterate that
and and incorporate
other project ideas
and their ip
into the project
Because it's that versatile
Yeah, bring it on I say
I think bring it on I think riv touched on something
Earlier about you know the young guys that want to get involved and and build something really cool
You know, he touched on something where he was saying about how you know in the future
They're you know, they'll get qualifications and stuff that they want and they're going to be looking for a job
And you know employers are like well, what sort of experience have you got?
Well, I did this
And my part of it was was this
Um, and I I think that's really powerful. Um being able to sort of showcase
uh your workings, um
You know what once they want to
You know take a direction of where they want to go next
Yeah, it's um, you know
It's a good opportunity really because you don't very rarely
The third year students on animation courses and modeling courses
Get the chance to do commercial briefs, you know industry briefs
And if they do it's just like a little you know done as part of my final my my minor project and something
But this is unique in a way that you know, they're getting an opportunity to work on a live active. It's it's out there
community driven, um
fashion project so
You know whichever way we spin this that we end up having
An opportunity to put the animated series on screen on a streaming platform
Then these students are going to be able to put the hungry animals logo on any shot that they have done
For the production on any model that they've built that makes it into the game or the animated series and
Be proud of that because they will have a credit, you know
It's important
Yeah, I think also what kind of comes with that is um, you know
The fact that they are working on such a showcase means that they're going to want it to be the best that it possibly can be
So, you know, you're that you you know that they're going to put 110 into what they're doing there because
of the showcase
Yeah, you know, I went when I went in and did the brief, you know, and I
basically
As part of like that of direction piece, you know, you show them different styles
You show them the look and feel of different animated series that you're inspired by that you want them to consider and think about when they're putting
Models and stuff together and they were they were smiles for miles because they could see oh my god
This is something, you know, this isn't just like some commercial
Barbie sims game. This is gritty. This has got a little bit of character to it
um, not not not this in barbie club is cool, but you know, this thing's got
a little bit of gritty off the wall earthworm gym kind of spacey sci-fi weird animal vibe and
They were they were just all like oh, this is cool
just their eyes lit up because they could see something was coming at them was a bit different and
I don't know whether I tapped into an audience that resonated with the type of content that I showed them but
Visually, they were all like yes. Love it. I want to do this one. So
That excites me
Yeah, well said and definitely well said bacon and but that's it, you know people at that stage in their career, um
people don't know what they're capable of and
Sometimes people just need to have their imagine imagination spiked and show them what's possible
um, and I think it's
So incredible that you went into a university and captured people's passion
because like bacon was saying, you know, like this is um a living
Project a living brand that is at the beginning of its life and
It will be a success or most people in this room will die trying, you know
So they're going to be able to talk about that and I worked at my local college
Um for seven years and I think three people worked on a living
Project that was in in motion at the time everything else was things from the past or just stuff that was in the curriculum
and they were the only three people that ever went on to be
hyper successful in the field of choice because
They had the experience that they had that taste for it and they were able to learn
What they could do in the moment in a real situation with a real product rather than you know, playing with something that's already been
been and gone if that makes sense and it I think it does a different vibe to it because
They know that it matters because it's your that's your that's your thing
You know that's in early stages so that you know
That they knew that they were contributing to something that mattered and it was
At the early stages of its life and I think it really does make the difference especially in their careers professionally because
You know when they go into a professional sitting they've been in a professional environment environment before working on something
That's at that stage where they never would have had that hadn't you had done that?
And so I just think that it's phenomenal that you're you and your brand can say that you
Participated in the development, you know, because it's not only where hang animals is going to be when they success or become qualified
But were they maybe you know, and and you and hang animals played a part on that side of it as well
Which I just think is even more incredible. Yeah
absolutely, it's funny actually because
When it comes to the critique day or the crit day where they present their final
uh pieces I was like
The I was in the mindset of going right good cop bad cop to the lecturer
I was like, right you be the good cop. I'm happy to be the nasty
Person who comes in now and goes why haven't you done this? Why haven't you done that? Why has done that? Right?
So it's fully prepared to go in there and be quite harsh
But then I got I got there and all of the work was amazing
Just I couldn't be half at all. I was like
Yes, this is really good. Well done. Um
nothing more to say
Madness but uh
That's the caliber of the course, you know, they do
They do industry level stuff have done for years
sing their praises and um, yeah, hopefully they'll be
There'd be some more opportunities that they have from a
You know animation perspective where they get to work on
um snippets of animation with us and
You know, uh up their skills there in the near future too
That'd be cool
Yeah, that's that's great and and people can have a look at the uh,
newsletter that you wrote about that as well, which is pinned at the top so people can
Some of the artwork that they did on there, isn't it? Yes
so I think the update number 10
if you go to update number 10, that uh, that's got a little bit of a clips from
Lewis, there's like a hippo bin
Giraffe lamppost and a zebra themed park bench that sits in the zoo level
of the rpg game so
Definitely some cool stuff produced by all of them really
That's brilliant. See people be inspired all over the all over the place. Um
But it's great that you know that there's that there's that side to it as well
You know that people can get involved like that and I think they'll remember they'll remember hanger animals forever now
Yeah, I didn't quite get to get around to giving them some t-shirts, but uh, they had some stickers so sorry we're good
Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah, they'll be stuck to the back of some some laptops for the foreseeable
Well, that's brilliant so, you know, um
So where would you say you're at in regards of?
Um, you know when when launch
I think we're we're in a good position. Obviously i'm just
From now till the end of march. I'm just tweaking the nfts. So, um, I think we're in a strong position for
end of q1 to pull the trigger and give a
phased phase launch of the collection
Following very swiftly after that will be the level one game
playable demo of the game, so
Um the guys who work until a little diligently on that on a weekly basis
You know, there's three of them working on it
We're gonna do like a spatial release so that folks can earn tokens and xp points
In that level and then we can get like a feedback loop from there
but I think both really will be end of q1 and then we'll just
gradually build up from there
where I you know, there are
There are a couple of conversations that conburns having with
Other chains, so, you know, we've got to keep our options open with um, some seriously speedy chains like scale
Who are the fastest blockchain for gaming at the moment?
So i'm looking at them to see what we can what we can do
Whether they like
What we've got
So hopefully that will
Be an announcement in the near future too
Yeah, I kind of feel like ronin chain is is taking over the the kind of the gaming corner
If there is if it's coming down to select something, um, that's kind of establishing itself
Is that a little niche?
I think ronin and scale are very close in terms of like speed. Um
What i'm seeing with scale is their dev support and their tech support in order to facilitate the games
being on chain
And transactional volume that are they're able to do
Seems to be just pipping the post with ronin and
scale reached out
we've had a
Really interesting talk with them. So we're going to do a follow-up and see where they think of everything we we showed them
Going and showed them so
We'll see we'll see what happens
But uh, I think eventually, you know, we're going to be on a bridge
Will be cross chain and all we need to be thinking about that web 2 to web 3 on ramp and the passport
immutable x style passports where you have a username and password that has a wallet associated or attached to it behind the scene in a
abstracted way
is going to be the way we have a massive option and surge and then eventually
be able to show them and say
Hey, you've been playing this game for a while. Guess what the asset that you've been playing with the character that you've preferred playing with
Actually has an intrinsic value out on the open market
So you could rent your nft or rent your character out to someone who wants to play it and earn the passive income of that
Uh and do all that seamlessly. I think you know with a chain by scale or ronin. We're going to be in a really good position
um, so i'm
Continually weighing up those we had polygon for a while for a long while we had polygon
and as our go-to
And there's it. They've got a hefty transactional volume on it, but unfortunately
I just haven't felt the support or the backing
From them the uh, the grant systems and the grant programs was a mess this year
In terms of the joke race stuff
They're just simply not up to scratch really and they've just culled
16 to 18 percent of their team. So, you know things are not
Running as efficiently as they could be over there
So we're just looking to work with builders who know how to build and how to support builders who want to build
and then yeah ronin and scale seem to be um
flavor of the month, but hopefully we'll continue to be you know in our
in our line of sights, so
Yeah, these these these people need to understand that we're we're always hangry so they have to uh, keep keep bringing the food
But it's it's bad, right? Yeah, this we've got this world of hangry animals and literally over the weekend or last weekend
I illustrated
what I think
hangryness
and for this for the entire two and a half years
I've just beyond the cusp of going I can't quite get the bit that is the hangry bit of the entire project
But now i've got it and i'm going to integrate this
Let's call it berserker mode into the characters in the game. So they end up
turning on this berserker mode, uh bacon you had it you said um
Hipposis, but hangrosis is probably going to be that where it they they suffer this
Overindulgence of food and it turns them into a berserker and then that's your power up
You know that that's your kind of speed run 60 seconds of total hangryness that you've got to uh, take down additional enemies
So yeah, I think I finally nailed it and i'm happy with that bit now so I can move on
That is brilliant
And they're gonna make with your t-shirts as well. I've tried them with uh different color backgrounds
For each of the five key characters and they look really cool
As um t-shirt prints. So once we're out the door, I think I'll have one two three four five
Yeah, and I'll have all five of those as uh available t-shirt prints on the website
I'll definitely be getting one of those
And I'll say that while i'm eating a wagon wheel as well mate, I ran out of wagon wheels
Oh, you know what?
Found it's a slip-in in this house
Oh, you need to check all your coat pockets
I know i've got a i've got a bin full of wagon wheel wrappers up here for just no wagon
And I think I saw a picture of you
If you're showing a red one. Yeah, I was like well, I thought I thought I thought he was on a blue team
Uh, no, no
So what about the red team? Come on
You gotta have a red one. What you as well
Just lost two friends in one minute
I do like the blue ones, but uh gotta go for a traditional, you know, traditional work
You need to make a hangry a hangry wagon wheel
Create a new a new a new strand of green ones
Hangry wheels. What's the perfect brand today to um team up with some kind of foodie like power bar or something, right?
You know what I mean? It would be
A wicked one
I'll do an ai generated wagon wheel cover of the scrap hangry on this
That's it, you know, you could even have the uh, the green jam in the middle, you know, it just it all makes sense
glow in the dark green jam
Absolutely. I love it. No, but just to get back just to get back serious, you know, I think
super excited, you know and for anyone that wants to uh get involved in the you know, the better stages of the
the game development in q1
Grab yourself a jet pass for for what you get for 25 dollars, you know, even if you just get it for the
For the nft, you know the fifty dollar nft. It's
It's it's crazy not to but i'm really excited for the uh
for the the chet
Nft the uh the avatar. I think that's going to be great to run around as it as a as a chet
and the fact that I can use it on other metaverses as well
because that's
You know, I think that's the next exciting stage of of the metaverse world, isn't it is, you know, the interoperability of jumping between worlds
um, I think
definitely where
You know epic games and their core they have a core building tool
And they they're thinking the same exactly the same where you can take an asset your avatar
varying game experiences of you know between
Challenges or quests or whatnot. So build something and then you can hop between them. That's fun
You know, that's really where gaming is going to take on a new leap of
entertainment
in that space so
Having the ability to take chet through a multitude of different experiences on spatial and you know, wherever I provide
that that's pretty cool and I think you know pick up some new weaponry along the way and
Yeah, enjoy
Enjoy life as as a chat and who knows there may be uh
There may be a metaverse that you stumble upon that allows you to
Morph that jet into a very unique angry animal that doesn't exist in the original collection at all
You know that that's the kind of vibe I I'm looking to
On march get shit get hangry
That's what i'm saying
Oh, yeah, but no definitely definitely exciting times ahead, especially
especially with um, you know
The launch potentials are being soon. I'm really excited and uh
Yeah, I think you've done a phenomenal job and you know for people that can acquire the uh, the food token as well
For just showing support to to the ecosystem. I think it's brilliant because
You know the fact that there'll be a monetary value later that people can engage with the ecosystem with it
I just think that that that was definitely a brilliant touch
so, you know from an outside person looking in I appreciate the uh,
the endless opportunities that you've created for for me to earn my way in and to add
To get value from it to learn from it and to just enjoy it and be excited about it
Yeah, thank you. Just you know trying to give as much value as possible on any on many fronts, you know
people have
patiently
stuck around since 2021
Have been gradually supporting different endeavors and community communities have been awesome for everyone to be really supportive. So
You know, it's important for me that we find ways to give back that allow you guys
a means to it. So
Has to be that way
So food token. Yes
it's those
those that don't know
You know if you if you want to retweet like share comment on content
We've got on on twitter on socials
Take a screen grab a bat and paste it in the food proof channel in our discord
And then we will tip you some some food tokens for for your efforts
And um, you know let that feedback loop continue
If you have ideas for story lines if you have ideas about characters you want to integrate
Ecosystem then there is also an ideas vault in the discord where you can share a narrative a story idea story arc that you'd like to explore
Um, we will give you food tokens for that
if any of those story ideas end up
In the actual animated series as a as a written narrative or written storyline then there's
Absolutely an opportunity for revenue share for that as well. So, you know producer credits writer credits
Um, you know be part of that experience
as we scale it
That is absolutely epic I mean what what is the not to love you know
What is the not to love I'm so excited and uh
Yeah, there's just there's just so there's just so much, you know, and I know it's taken
You know many years to get to this point, but you know, it's definitely appreciative that you've
You've stuck it out and you've kept adding value and you've you know
we've watched you overcome many different hurdles and you just kept building and
growing and drawing and adding value and
Creating the story and it's unfolded in just such a magnificent way. So
I'm definitely looking forward to launch i'm looking forward to seeing the game
You know i've seen where it's at so far through utelagram, you know
Anyone that wants to check it out can do so the discords full of goodies and juicy
videos and artworks and uh, there's loads of people now you can ask questions too, but also definitely telegram as well because uh
When is there a set schedule of when you when you go live in telegram or is it just as and when?
um, usually
Thursday's I do like a little live stream
on thursday evenings
Just you know in in our telegram on me trying to connect it up to youtube live
So that we have you know an externalized audience bit as well because sometimes telegram can be very captive
Discord is very exclusive
But you know having a an outward facing stream
So there may be a youtube live stream that I do
That links to telegram so people can see it
You know from telegram out to youtube
and uh, yeah, just just wearing away building things and uh
Integrating new elements into the game. So that's
That's literally my evenings
Awesome. Well, yeah, no, hopefully, uh, you do with the youtube. I look forward to that. That'd be great
Yeah, so much fun
I'm gonna put a little video clip in our telegram shortly of this weird
Tank-style
terrapins
that i've
managed to give some animated legs to so
That's wicked I can't wait to see that it's funny man
And just cold enough sounds it
It definitely sounds it but yeah, no, it's uh, it's been uh amazing tonight andy
I appreciate you. Uh, as always giving us the deep dive and uh, you know
taking angry to university and uh giving people the opportunity to to get involved with it and uh
Bring out the creative side
Yeah, it's been great, you know, um, it's also been great
to get a fresh perspective and fresh ideas
and uh, yeah folks
Really enjoy it. So and then I enjoyed sharing sharing the world of angry animals with them too. So
Onwards. Yeah, not
Yeah, it's great that it's a two-way thing as well, you know
um, and uh
So will will that be a regular thing or will that just happen as and when?
Go into the major project. So the major project is the final, you know, final showdown
of the year
then there's potential opportunity for me to
Do a bit more of that and you know, maybe some of them would want to do some animated scenes
trailer or
sequences for their show. So
Yes, there's definitely opportunities for for me to go back and
ask them to
You know consider angry animals as one of the briefs that they
that they take on so
That's awesome
That is epic
um, well, yeah, no definitely great job and uh, you know, thank you for the the multitude of outlets in which people can utilize to
interact with your ecosystem as well, you know, like I said, there's the
There's the ham newsletter that people can interact with on
paragraph.xyz there's the
Membership passes that people get involved with. Um, there's obviously all your socials that people can join which they can access to your
Website which is easiest thing in the world to remember which is this hangryanimals.com
Um, so yeah, thank you very much. Andy you've been phenomenal tonight as always
Thank you. Thanks everybody for your support and your continued support. It really means a lot. Um
Yeah, I appreciate everyone of you
Thank you
Absolutely legends, but yeah, no, thank you. So, uh, yeah, we'll bring tonight's space to a close we will absolutely be back
next tuesday for more cheque tuesday, um
Anyone who is in here if they want to ask any questions or want to get more involved then you can do that through
Through the website and access all the socials you can reach out to any of us
Um, but joining the discord and the telegram, I think is an absolute must at a minimum
Um, and if anyone wants to get more involved or get any cheque passes, um, i've done some posts today
Um, but it is pinned at the top of the space as well
So if anyone wants to get involved and get out themselves a cheque pass with all that utility they can do so and uh
Anyone who gets the page, you know, um nft book as well, um will automatically be a drop to a cheque pass as well
Which is super awesome because uh, yeah, we're fortunate enough to have uh
Andy working on our nft book like an absolute legend. So let's go
Nice one guys
Yeah, cheers. Thank you very much everyone. I will now end the space
But thank you everyone for joining and we will catch you in our next space which will be friday at 9 pm. UK time
Thank you very much andy as well and we will catch you soon, sir
All the best
Sweet nice one. Thanks. Everybody. Have a good evening
Thank you, sir. Cheers, mate. Always a pleasure
Nice at going to uh, chillin with you
Thank you, dude, appreciate it
Let's go stay hungry everyone. See you next time