Angela Brasington discusses Starchi’s play to earn NFT game

0:01i'm ashton addison from block west capital for investmentpitch media in the crypto coin show and today on blockchain interviews we have angela brazington the cmo of starchy angela welcome to the show and thank you so much for coming on today hi thanks for having me happy to be here yeah i'm excited to dive into the fun world of starchy uh i know your team's

0:22been working on this game for quite a while and i would love to just start off by hearing a little bit about the game and all the functionalities and how it integrates into the blockchain world and brings innovative solutions yeah absolutely it's super exciting we've been working on it for a little while now so starchy is a tamagotchi inspired game 5 saga for the play to

0:46earn generation it's a rewarding game about the power of love and care and bringing humanity back to a positive place so players must nurture their starchy help avoid extinction and prepare them for friendly battle leagues so very similar to the tamagotchi the original tamagotchi of the 90s where you had this little handheld egg pet that you had to keep alive it's like that but of course

1:09with amazing generous player and rewards on top of that definitely and yeah those tamagotchis were addictive back in the 90s and i i do see the similarities and i'm curious obviously there's a lot has changed and we're digitizing a lot of this tamagotchis were back when there was like very little technology how is your team looking at the virality of

1:33starchy making it popular for long periods of time to not lose its effect and make it as viral as tamagotchis were back then yeah that's a great question so everything that we're doing is with a long-term um mindset involved we actually are looking to bring work to underprivileged countries to gamers all over the world by this play to earn gains this fighter and

1:59revolution has been shifting i think in general the space um but with star 2 we did we went kind of above and beyond just your typical play to earn with this tremendous taking program that we just launched lots of opportunity to stake in multiple different scenarios to gain super rewards and i'm talking major rewards especially when you do some of the lp

2:19staking that we've got out there um and then on top of that we're taking a step further by doing something new that we're calling play to allocate play for allocation and you can actually stake your your in-game rewards to participate in ideos on starters platform that's starter.xyz and starter actually incubated starchy the entire game so it's our first game by game in this

2:46space right now very cool and yeah i have used starter as a launch pad i know that they launch quality projects and obviously um there's a reason that you're partnered with them so that's great to hear about the staking as well i think that's a major factor in having a community is having all of these launch pads launch uh different projects that are uniting together

3:09and so that's really great to hear about starter can you talk a little bit about how your team's been developing the game where the game's at right now i know that there's still more to come out yeah that's right so we just had our ido on monday the 22nd we had a dual ideo on binance smart chain and polygon both sold out very quickly exciting times and like i said we just

3:31launched the staking platform the mvp will be coming out just around the corner we haven't announced the date yet but if everyone follows starkey announcements on telegram that's where we drop all the latest news so as soon as the mvp is ready we'll be getting beta testers on testers on board and rolling this out to the masses amazing and uh you mentioned the staking there i

3:52did look at it it looks uh very appealing right now i'm guessing that with more volume as well it might the apys could change can you talk a little bit about um just how early on that is and the success or how it's been going so far with just the launch of staking in a short while and then moving into the game is there other ways besides sticking the

4:16coins that you're able to earn uh through your uh through your avatars yeah definitely so with the first part the faking we just lost it yesterday and it's been really quite fascinating to see how quickly the entire startup community has been staking and in multiple different of the platforms if you go on to the faking platform on starchy it's really user friendly you

4:39can see all of the staking pools clearly defined you can click on a details button which breaks out and gives you everything that you need to know for your staking including api um the very interesting part too on stage sorry starkey staking is that we have liquids or lots taking so liquid rewards are subject to a five percent currency when claimed whereas loft

5:01rewards are up to ten times the multiple of liquid stakers um it's on the length of the lock because you can last for up to 12 months um and then the longer locks obviously produce higher multiples and there's no burn fee in a five when rewards are claimed so really a nice interesting kind of change in the game here with this opportunity to do both it it allows us

5:25to connect with all of the investors all of the community to adapt to whatever they might like to do which is different for everybody amazing and i'm curious about the starchy token a little bit more as you launch the game and have more functionalities and financial products in the game uh how else will the starchy token be integrated in yeah so the starchy token you can also

5:49um you level up your characters by nurturing them and taking care of them you prepare them for these friendly battle leagues so you get your star 2 ready you decide which one you're going to battle against and then you pay a small fee and start at starter start token to put up the battle and then the winner of that battle gets eighty-five percent of the start feedback

6:10um five percent are burned and ten percent uh are go elsewhere so there's that as well as leaderboard so most active start sheet collector um best taken care of starts at least taken care of there's a lot of different ways that you can top leaderboards to be able to earn more selector in-game rewards very exciting yeah i'm excited to see how that plays out when the game

6:36launches i'll definitely try it out um and you know with the starchies as well are they nfts or are they is there a way to extract value from the game and have other marketplaces or is it all built into inside of the starchy ecosystem so yes every single starchy is an nft so the better you take care of it the more valuable it is and then you can trade

7:01and exchange that in the local marketplace um at something at starchy and starter we're constantly innovating we listen to our community to take into their their feedback into what we do and how we develop so down the line whether it could be tradable in other games or potentially partnerships with other nft games definitely something that is uh will be considered

7:26very cool and um where do you see uh the adoption of these kind of games going and in terms of blockchain and nft related games of this type moving into the mainstream and being adopted by uh you know teens and children that don't necessarily know anything about finance but it intrigued them i think it's um it's almost like an on-ramp honestly the

7:55development of nfps the connection with gaming and gamify because you have to understand people understand gaming i i have young nieces and nephews that play all these games all the time but they're not earning money for it so they've got the concept of the game and how to interact with on-the-go games even you know on mobile and on the ipad um so i think as far as um nfts being valuable

8:22when they play their games there are skins they can buy it's left there in the game not worth anything once they spend their money on it it's done with an nft and explaining the concept of how now your skin is valuable and can be traded when you're done with it and you want that next new skin your body might want yours and you can trade it exchange it get

8:45something else for it so it's not a very difficult concept to comprehend i think even for a child because a lot of them are already playing similar games that are not on uh you know that are not in with cryptocurrencies in the blockchain so i think it'll be a great way for children people of all ages um to get into it to understand that now these digital assets

9:12are actually valuable they're not just going to go away when i shut my game off they're still earning me money or they're still worth something yeah i think there's that tipping point when you've played the game and you have those assets and all of a sudden it turns into real money and you're like wow i actually that seemed like it was a lot more worth

9:32my time than the video games that i've been playing for the last 20 years right exactly exactly you still you still have something of value when it's all done and you decide how you want to use it instead of some corporation gaining all the profits from you having already paid for it for sure and obviously that's a huge incentive to continue playing these play to earn

9:55games because you're earning uh but in terms of starchy and i know you mentioned that your team has a long term vision if you're looking you know five to ten years down the road uh there's probably gonna have to be some reinventing that's going on as the uh nft and blockchain gaming space evolves really quickly but what do you see as one of those key factors to success and

10:18retention of the starchy community and the players a big part we have secured quite a few major partnerships that are helping us reach gamers in the biggest game in regions like asia philippines malaysia um so i think staying connected with most important regions is one continuing to evolve as i mentioned before adapting and iterating our products making sure that we're

10:43listening to our community and giving them what they want and not everything that we want you know it's not all about the developers and the team it's not it's about everybody that's playing the game everything we do is with our players and gamers experience in mind we want them to be able to get the most that they can out of this and not just financially financially huge of course

11:05but also as the experience of playing and enjoying the playtime bringing nostalgia back from tamagotchi error and then also active within the community itself on telegram and uh we've got so much going on in there we've got 24 7 moderator coverage so everybody is constantly asking questions as soon as we announce a new announcement they're feeding into that

11:27and it's exciting it's it's more to it than just you know you playing your game there's this whole community of people that are talking about it playing with it and and sharing their experience together and i think that's a big part of how we will keep this as a long-term game and continue to be relevant because there's so much more to it and it doesn't end here what you see today

11:48in the game is different from what you'll see in a year in this game there's a lot of developments going on behind the scenes that will only continue to evolve at the time definitely well said angela and i completely agree i've played online games where you have strong communities and those communities if you play the game enough it feels like a family and so when they get

12:10excited about something so that's really great to hear for the viewers that are interested in following along for the launch of the game what's the best way to find out exactly when that's going to happen when it does the very best way is jumping on telegram and following official starchy it's t dot me slash official starchy all of the announcements are going to hit first on

12:36our announcement channel so that's starchy announcement t dot me slash starchy announcements and everything we release you'll hear it there first so definitely follow along very cool well i will look into the staking because i know that's already live right now and uh the elixir token and i'll be following along for the upcoming launch of the game all the best

12:58for that and until then let's follow up in the near future thank you so much follow along let us know if you need anything and feel free to contact me thank you thanks for having me