Soulcops Working on NFT Game with Play-to-Earn Concept

The NFT game with the play-to-earn (P2E) concept has recently been getting more attention because it has introduced the use of crypto to a completely different sector. Blockchain technology allows players to buy and sell digital assets in the form of games.

Soulcops wants to be one of the local startups that wants to work on this segment in Indonesia. Soulcops is a P2E NFT gaming startup that was founded in Jakarta last year by eight co-founders.

They are Aji Pratomo (CEO), Hasby Ristama (Soulcops IP Creator), Robby Wahyudi (Head of Commercial), Mochtar Sarman (Head of Retail & Merchandising), Chris Lie (Head of Creative), Sunny Gho (Project Manager), Irzan Raditya (Tech Advisor), and NovrizalPratama (Lead Marketing).

Each of these Co-founders come from backgrounds that support each other, thus creating a strong milestone in realizing Soulcops’ vision and mission. Hasby for example, he is an active police officer and IP Police maker.

Then Sunny Gho started his career as a colorist at Marvel and DC Comics since 2009 until now. Dan Chris Lie with his work as one of the illustrators and designing comics GI Joe, Spider-Man, Iron Man, and Transformer.

Soulcops takes the story from the good and bad cops in a universe. The honest police want to rebel from the domination of the evil police, consisting of criminals and mercenaries, who are creating chaos through a multinational organization called Hexagon Technologies.

Providing 3 Thousand Digital Cards

There are 3,000 digital cards in the NFT game that can be purchased by collectors before the official Soulcop mobile game is released next year.

Collectors can later play with their NFT collections as each has a rarety that can be used to achieve objectives while playing the game, and can be upgraded with other weapons and utilities to create stronger characters. Another thing is to get tokens that can be exchanged for real money as an implementation of P2E.

In the global market, several NFT crypto-money-generating games give prizes in the form of crypto coins and P2E tokens, including Axie Infinity with AXS tokens, Gods Unchained with ERC tokens (GODS), Alien Worlds with TLM tokens, and The Sandbox with SAND tokens.

“We have released 3,000 digital cards which are sold through OpenSea. It turned out that the enthusiasm was good [during the pre-sale], 2,300 NFT had already been sold, around 50%-60% were bought by collectors outside Indonesia. We also see that Soulcops has the potential to be played not only in Indonesia, but also in the global market.”

With this achievement, he is optimistic that NFT games such as Soulcops will be able to attract the attention of gamers from both local and foreign countries.

In Indonesia itself, citing Statista as of October 2021, revenue from the mobile game business is predicted to reach $1.4 million in 2017 and reach $1.96 million in 2025 assuming a CAGR growth of 8.7%. In terms of users, it is predicted to reach 65.6 million in 2025.

Build A More Complete Universe

The Soulcops mobile game application itself is planned to release an Alpha demo version in the first quarter of 2022, then a Beta version in the second quarter. 

Currently, digital card minting is still hosted through OpenSea. This app is also open to general gamers who have not purchased Soulcops NFT.

Novrizal said the company will continue to improve its IP so that it can continue to provide high value to its collectors. In the long-term plan, Soulcops plans to create merchandising, films, animation, comics, and so on from Soulcops characters.

“We see we have a great chance to increase the Soulcops universe to a bigger scoop, to enter the metaverse.”

Regarding education strategies, according to him, with the right educational approach, it will really help grow the ecosystem so that it becomes more mature. This will certainly get better because it has a positive impact on the industry.