Norbertas Drazdauskas on Spellfire’s NFT card game and roadmap

0:00i am ashton addison from block west capital for investment pitch media and the crypto coin show and today on blockchain interviews we have norbert drozdowskis the community lead of spellfire norbert welcome to the show and thank you so much for taking the time i am very happy to be here likewise glad to have you on let's jump straight into it uh with spellfire your

0:21team has been working on an epic project that i've been following for a little while here and before we get into the details i would just love for you to explain in your words what spellfire is all about and what are you guys bringing into the blockchain and the gaming community and then we'll dive into the details sure let's dive straight in so so spellfire has a long history it was

0:43actually first launched in 1994 uh by a completely different team uh it was uh us-based uh the game was then abandoned by its owners at the end of the 90s and it was not supported for almost 20 years and long story short uh the current ceo uh unesco wallace uh played the game in his youth uh and he really liked the game he participated in many tournaments

1:07uh and well as a businessman as a business businessman he started wondering well what happened to spell fire um and turns out the rights were available available to purchase he went ahead and purchased the rights and gave spotify the second wife it so very much deserves very very cool and it's completely different now with the uh emergence of technology especially

1:30with d5 nfts uh you know all of the international transactions and globalization of of the game now with the help of the internet exactly a little bit about how exactly it's been reinvented and where it's at now so basically spellfire remastered the magic picks up where the original left job left off by inc incorporating modern gameplay technologies like blockchain

1:55augmented reality nfts and platon features uh the introduction of these elements really mean that our players will have a highly immersive experience while being able to own a part of the game that they love and they can profit from its success amazing and maybe you can give a little snapshot for people that uh there aren't familiar with the original

2:20spell fire and and what the game is sort of actually about maybe of any background or lore on you know what you do when you play spellfire exactly so spellfire is a player versus player card collectible game uh players build their decks uh which consists of many different variations uh basically there are decks there are booster packs and players build these decks to fight against each

2:44other the point of the game is to build enough realms to win once in the standard version once you build six rounds you win the game and well your opponent must not let you do that while you are not letting your opponent do that as well basically so uh the the game is fought with various champions spells abilities uh it's really quite similar to a fantasy world uh for example uh for

3:10example of world of warcraft there are various uh classes various for example psionicists thieves uh magicians uh things like that that really make the whole experience very immersive and uh very fun to play very cool i like it and how long in this new iteration with blockchain and nfts how long has your team now been working on on the platform all right so uh trademark re-registering

3:40took place uh about three years ago and that's when the development really started on the game that's when as you can imagine every single card is different uh every uh rule must be uh polished so that was basically the main focus for the first few years is to really get the game up from the ground to reinvent the whole idea of spellfire uh and then the blockchain aspects

4:05really started taking off last year so maybe from the middle of last year uh the the team was fully focused in getting uh the digital game started uh being developed uh in getting the uh the token ready and getting the nfts ready we launched the nfts just last year in october uh the current nfts for sale are actually the revenue generating nfcs that are

4:28an investment for uh the longevity of the game basically they earned you revenue uh from other players playing the game and using those cards wow very cool and yeah i was going to ask about that um in terms of the cards you know are all of the different types of cards whether it's heroes items uh those all nfts and then yeah let's just start with that

4:51so there are three types of cards in spellfire uh there can be non-nfc cards uh there can be nft cards and then there are original nfg cards so original nfc cards are the most limited cards in spellfire they're the most rare and the most valuable and they generate revenue from the sales of playing nft cards so as you can imagine when you uh open uh a

5:16booster pack let's say uh you get a bunch of cards and in spellfire they can be physical and digital so you'll be able to do this both online and at your home if you just have the booster back in your hands those cards are linked together the physical cards are linked by a qr code to the digital world and those cards can be upgraded to nfcs and basically the owner of the original

5:40cart let's say you have uh the uh suing uh card right you have the original nft card of suing which is just a character uh it's a magician and it represents our ceo actually um so it's a pretty cool car to have uh basically when players open booster packs and open uh and find suengu cards in those booster packs when they upgrade them to nfts the owner of the original earns 90

6:07of the transaction so it's actually quite a substantial part of what people earn uh since it's a community game we really wanted to give back to the community so that means that those nfc cards those funds aren't just going to the developers pockets those funds are actually shared between the community and that that is the way that the community can actually earn from the

6:26success of spellfire wow that's super cool and i like the the physical digital merge uh i am this fit fidgitle or digital what they're calling it like emerging exactly exactly digital it's pretty cool um to be able to hold something especially because so many people that aren't really uh in cryptocurrency yet or they've been gaming but not cryptocurrency they they just see it as

6:51all digital and they can't really hold it in your hands a tangible thing so i really do appreciate that uh with spellfire and with these nfts i'm curious are you able to buy them in in any cryptocurrency or any marketplace or how does that work in terms of transferring and trading the cards so currently uh they're available on openc which was just a temporary

7:14solution for us to get the nft sales off the ground basically uh but we're making our own dedicated marketplace uh which will be released well actually in the very near future hopefully in the next few years i mean weeks not years of course uh which uh will really uh help the process for us uh of actually making the nfts available to the public because uh we

7:36are planning to uh to add more uh purchase options uh currently the the only way to purchase them is to have a wrapped ethereum which is ethereum on polygon which really lowers the fees of the transactions uh and yeah the cards can be traded if you've purchased a card you can instantly sell it for a higher price if you desire so um they're just they're just able to be traded on openc

8:03and later on they'll be able to be traded on our market marketplace very cool norbert thanks for that and i was looking into in the game there's also like a spell fire uh fungible token like a cryptocurrency that's involved in the platform is that used for purchasing nfts or what's the main functionality of the spellfire token yeah so that's the plan uh it will also

8:26be uh possible to purchase nfts with the spellfire token but the spellfire token is basically the main utility token of the game so that meaning it will be used for card upgrades and like i just said uh once someone upgrades a card 90 of the transaction goes to the original owner so that's going to be in spellfire tokens um there's actually two currencies which

8:48is going to be gold which is an in-game currency it's not minted on any blockchain and then spell fire which is the uh cryptocurrency uh and basically it's done this way so that uh people who do not even have an interest in cryptocurrencies can still enjoy spellwork and still play the game and can still love the experience we're offering very cool i like that um and i also saw

9:10that you know i'm not sure how integrated it is into the game but there is you know defy and interest and lp staking things like that maybe you can talk about how that is being incorporated into the token and into the spellfire ecosystem exactly so we've recently launched our token uh it's uh been about uh two weeks i believe a little bit over two weeks and we've already implemented

9:37quite a few staking solutions uh for example just today we've made the spell for lp farm staking available on tokens tokensfarm.com uh it's on bsc there are are also uh e e rc networks taking solutions on hobie uh spell for token is listed on hobie on gate io on me xc uh it's also available on pancake swap uni swap so yeah we're really focused on uh decentralized

10:04finance and we're really trying to make the game as incorporated into those systems as possible that's incredible and i i know your team's constantly working on the development continually right now and you were mentioning uh before about how um there's a new version or the main net of it is coming out in the near future maybe you can talk about where you're at right now and

10:29where you're heading sure so um currently we're focused on developing the digital version of spellfire uh the physical cards are almost done they're ready for printing uh packaging into jackson boosters uh but we're really trying to focus on the alpha and beta versions of the digital game uh it will actually be showcased really soon uh even in our growth plan

10:53uh just a few days from now we should have we should be having some sneak peeks into the actual game how it's going to look so that's going to be really cool that's going to be like a first look at the actual digital spell for a game and we're uh really just constantly trying to follow our development roadmap we're making progress day by day um so it's really

11:12exciting what's going to be available in the very near future and well the full game release is planned to be somewhere at the end of this year um maybe a few months before the end of this year we'll see how it goes but we're hoping to get the alpha and the beta versions to the community as soon as possible basically that's gonna take us just a few months to really get

11:32things sorted and then people can start enjoying the fully digital spellfire experience amazing and norbert looking forward once you know in a multi-year vision of spellfire once the mainnet is launched at the end of this year tentatively as as it always is uh what do you see attracting gamers and crypto users to spellfire and to have them come back and make sure they're

11:58playing the game and there's not just a hype and then and then people sort of lose interest right away so spellfire is cross-generational uh we're making this game as accessible to everyone as possible players can be playing with physical cards one minute and then hop into a digital game on their tablet on their phone or their laptop the next minute

12:21in the future there may even be a possibility to put on a vr headset and see the world of spell fire in virtual reality making it appealing to younger and newer generations uh we're actually planning to do some uh well it's still a secret but we're planning to do an announcement we're integrating with another metaverse game uh so maybe you'll be able to uh hop into a

12:45different game and see a city of spell fire and put on a vr headset and see the magic of spell fire and virtual reality you know so that's basically the whole point um the ccg concept is known for decades and we're really trying to uh revolutionize the whole space by incorporating all of the generations and all of the realities together into one amazing yeah i know

13:09this style of card game has been very popular and i think in reinventing it with nfts and actual ownership and financial products where you can earn capital with your holdings is gonna be revolutionary so i am really actually excited personally to see the game come out later this year um for the viewers that are looking to like follow along right now get involved in

13:32the community look at the nfts what's the best way to get involved in the spellfire community so our social channels are at spellfireccg on twitter and telegram and then for our discord which is our most active community is just discard gg slash spellfire we share all of our news there well we obviously share them on all channels we also have a facebook and

13:56instagram linkedin we have pretty much every social channel there possibly is you know so you really cannot miss it just type spellfire into google and you really cannot miss it but at starfire ccg on twitter discord dot gg spell fire and uh hope to see you all there amazing thank you so much norbert for coming on to talk about spellfire all the best with the continued development

14:19of the game i'm going to check out the nfts thank you so much uh and i appreciate you coming on and let's follow up in the near future thank you so much yep take care guys see you see you on the europeans