Noun
ProposalsProposal 659

Tabletop v2 - Sponsor Boardgaming on Farcaster

Defeated
For
59
Against
64
Abstain
9
Quorum: 109
Proposed by
0x3eEF...9257
, sponsored by
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This is v2 of the Tabletop proposal, from incorporating round 1 feedback, the main changes are:

  • reduced events scope + timeline (finishing out OnGame Summer)
  • reduced budget ask
  • clarified dev work + proposed output
  • increased integration with Nouns

Total Ask: 64.4k USDC

A bit about us:

  • Passionate gamers based in North America pushing to 1000 humans playing board games together
  • Devs developing tooling to help tabletop gamers connect and play more games together
  • Community builders creating a distribution pipeline for board games like Nounish by @brennen.eth and board game content of all kinds on Farcaster
  • Excited gamers playing board games as part of NounsTown LA, OnGame Summer, and beyond!

DOCS

TLDR;

Hey Nouners! We are tabletop. We've been growing grassroots since last summer when channels launched and are now the 16th largest channel on Farcaster and the world's largest web3 community of board gamers!

  • For Nouns, the /tabletop channel functions as a marketing pipeline for board games by brennen.eth, Nounish. We are hosting IRL gameplay sessions at Nouns Town LA, and the channel is a space for Nounish game content to connect with the web3 board game audience
  • sponsorship presence on the tabletop website, like our current hypersub heroes
  • membership access
    • 3 months of tabletop hypersub membership for all nouns holders on app release
    • 1 month of membership to /yellow and /purple members on app release
  • brennen.eth is not doing a separate prop specific for the Nounish game, he prefers marketing the game via the /tabletop community so supporting /tabletop supports the Nounish game marketing funnel.
  • We are building data middleware to connect internet-native gamers with where games are played, including p2p attestations, game records, and onchain player skill rankings

Our Story

Hello Nouns! ⌐◨-◨

Originally started as a side project, /tabletop formed from my simple desire to talk about board games with all the cool folks I found on Farcaster! After months of community growth we know /tabletop could be much bigger than a single channel on Farcaster.

We played originally as side-events attached to ETHDenver and FarCon.

We continue to play and talk about board games digitally and in person for OnGame Summer!

As gamers desiring to build the open-data hub for board games online, Nounish community member and game designer brennen.eth connected us to Nouns Esports.

What

What We've Done So Far

Games and Game Content

Game tournaments: Hosted game tournaments sponsored by Nouns Esports through /tabletop and looking to continue creating a competitive scene for board gamers.

Game meetups:

  1. Organized and hosting OᑎGᗩᗰE ᔕᑌᗰᗰEᖇ, a series of gaming meetups across the US. Our goal is to get 1000 humans to have played board games because of /tabletop! Live stat tracking available on our website https://tabletop.xyz/community-stats
  2. Hosted an official side event at FarCon 2024
  3. Hosted an ETHDenver 2024 meetup

Game development:

  1. I worked with @brennen.eth to refine the rules for the upcoming game Nounish: Discovering the Noggles (live demo on Tabletopia) through live playtesting with folks from the /tabletop channel on Farcaster.

We will be playing early copies of brennen.eth's game Nounish as an official side-event of Nouns Town LA!

Web app POC

What We're Building

Middleware data keeping and scheduling tooling for board gamers across multiple platforms, and publishing their skill ratings (ELO) and achievements onchain!

Global Stats and ELO (Dev stuff)

  • frame games for low-effort engagement
    • trivia - working with @king on farcaster
    • framedl - working with @ds8 on farcaster
  • Frames for setting up game tables via @tabletop app + urls
  • ENS-like name records that users can record/publicize their accounts on sites that have public data
    • boardgamearena.com
    • tabletopia.com
    • yucata.de
  • HTML Data scraper for game records from each site, synthesis at https://tabletop.xyz
    • EAS attestations of game events for sites and apps that we cannot scrape (dominon.games)
  • Onchain ELO ratings
    • ELO earned only from games with others in the system
    • score rating for tracked games that users choose to publish onchain
      • e.g. my Catan rating = 1200 but my Istanbul rating is 1550
    • Seasonal + global ratings
    • NFT trophies can be claimed from others when ELO is greater
    • publish your seasonal snapshot onchain

Nounish Connections

With the support of Nouns Esports, we hosted a Dominion tournament in June including teaching a few players who now play with us at game nights!

We are not Nounish in name, but Nounish by nature. We create positive externalities, we embrace difference, and, above all, we have fun!

Inspired by Nouns Esports, and with their support, s/o Sasqwatch, we're writing a Nounish prop ourselves. We've been autonomous and submitting a prop to the DAO is a natural evolution to bring Nounish influence into Farcaster and to all the newcomers we're onboarding to play board games!

With funding we can continue to build the webapp while focusing on community growth and software development.

By onboarding non-crypto folks to Farcaster, we will be at the intersection of real humans and crypto social, bringing Nounish culture to the next generation of people in crypto. With votes from Nouns, we'll be able to push services out for the gamers in /tabletop, while strengthening the bonds between /tabletop, Nouns, and Farcaster as a whole.

We are meeting with real people spreading the meme ⌐◨-◨ and will encourage others to participate in discussion and bring their own ideas to Nouns. Keep it weird y'all!

We would love to include sponsored by Nouns on our website and event materials for 6 months.

Nouns Tooling

We have leveraged rounds.wtf for channel events before and will do so again with funding, driving more users to the tools.

I have been working with willywonka and realitycrafter at nounspace.com to build a cozy corner for /tabletop specific onboarding for the new folks brought in through board game events. Pinned frames for activation, event links, and better onboarding to Farcaster to improve our stickiness.

Who are we

gm nouns, I'm iSpeakNerd! 👋

I've been a past contributor to BanklessDAO, /purple on Farcaster, and recently given Nouns voting delegation from @brennen.eth.

I requested /tabletop as a place for board gamers to talk and find each other on Farcaster last summer, and have hosted numerous events to that end.

Things I do which you may not be aware of:

You can find me at:

Associated folks

Founder iSpeakNerd.eth

brennen.eth - tabletop game designer + Nouner

OᑎGᗩᗰE ᔕᑌᗰᗰEᖇ hosts:

Advisors:

How To Join Us

Revenue

We are growing a premium service from the Farcaster /tabletop channel. Users who subscribe receive status, voting rights, and stats tracking.

We plan to continue to grow the number of digital hypersub subscriptions supporting Tabletop by hosting fun events and creating a community that folks want to be part of. Events are simultaneously marketing, user acquisition, and distribution for Nouns culture.

The Nounish board game by brennen.eth will get visibility in /tabletop from irl play sessions and online as part of /tabletop's 2x/mo game nights.

Further monetization ideas:

  • merch
  • channel advertisement/sponsorship

Budget

For a detailed breakdown, check the budget tracker

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Total Ask: 64.4k USDC

Funding will go to our project 2/3 multisig SAFE on BASE via tabletop.ispeaknerd.eth =

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Budget Categories

  • Software Infrastructure - 1.7k USDC
  • IRL Events + Marketing - 4.7k USDC
  • Bounties + Rounds - 38k
    • Dev - 32k
      • player game records attestations (EAS)
      • onchain contracts for player ELO + NFT transfers
      • Farcaster frames for player data display
  • Content - 3k
  • rounds.wtf - 3k
  • Admin - 20k USDC
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