The Coin Republic’s Exclusive Interview With Turnt Gaming Founder Jeff Liboon

Turnt Gaming is a next level gaming platform which fuels next-gen interactive entertainment items as well as media with a prime focus on reimagining how the users grasps live content. The platform collaborates with media gaming, and wagering organizations to make new routes to play.

All the products offered by the organization are for community, as they say if the products are not developing strong communities, job’s isn’t finished.

Time Is Money, and Turnt gaming products offer value to the players. Organization is focusing on giving an immersive experience for their users.

Questionnaire

1. Exploring your incredible gaming platform, we have noted that you understand the value of time and provide value to gamers across the globe. How does Taunt Battleworld provide value to gamers?

Taunt Battleworld introduces gamers to a new way of playing through its Engage to Earn model. Engage to Earn allows players to engage with the game in different ways, including – Play-to-Earn: Players can own NFT fighters and enter their NFTs into simulated fights and the most skilled players have a higher chance of winning. Watch-to-Earn: Viewers earn in-game currency for watching fight streams and being a part of the Taunt community. Predict-to-Earn: Spectators can compete with other viewers to predict outcomes of the simulated fights and win in-game currency, for free. 

By offering different options for players to get involved with the game and the Taunt community, they can engage at their own pace. This gives them a comfort level to gain familiarity with the Taunt ecosystem as well as crypto and NFTs in general if they are not already familiar with them. The game also offers the excitement of esports for players and spectators alike by providing different levels of engagement. With Taunt Battleworld, we’re also offering a strong community that provides long-term value to players and has already drawn over 4,000 people on Discord.

2. Turnt Gaming aims to make players lose themselves in their experiences. Is the platform truly addictive, or do you seek to introduce some really entertaining games?

Turnt Gaming is creating new forms of entertainment through interactive virtual experiences that reimagine how live content is consumed. Taunt Battleworld combines the excitement of live prediction contests and NFTs to give users a novel form of entertainment. 

We are pioneering the Engage to Earn model explained above in Taunt Battleworld as well as in future games to offer players a new kind of gaming experience that provides long-term value. With this new gaming model, Turnt aims to pave the way for continued innovation in online gaming, entertainment, and community building in the metaverse and hopefully introduce millions of new gamers into the Engage to Earn space.

On the Play-to-Earn NFT front, we took inspiration from the traditional game world while trying to find a mechanic that is quick and easy to learn. We picked the fighting game genre because they are easy to understand for both players and viewers. We will be incorporating real world fighters like Floyd Mayweather and Cris Cyborg at launch. This is part of our long-term strategy of incorporating brands and IP into the game in a meaningful way. 

3. What makes Turnt gaming unique compared to other similar blockchain-based gaming platforms? And how is the medium delivering new experiences to sophisticated players?

Taunt Battleworld is the first game that Turnt Gaming has introduced that uses our Engage to Earn model. The game is designed to appeal to new players who are unfamiliar with crypto, as well as sophisticated players who can earn value in a new way through entering fighter NFTs into contests. It’s an opportunity for crypto-native gamers to earn value and for those who want to learn about crypto to get their foot in the door. 

The viewing and live entertainment aspects are for those who maybe don’t want to invest money upfront or who want to learn about the ecosystem and test the waters. They can still enjoy the competition element. In addition, NFTs provide long-term ownership and long-term value to more sophisticated players. 

Players at any level can engage with the robust community around the game – community is increasingly important in blockchain and NFTs because you’re asking people to invest into the project longer term, which is why Turnt takes a community-first approach to creating games – to provide an ecosystem that players enjoy being a part of.

4. Turnt Gaming has recently raised $4.3M in Funding from Polygon Studios, Shima Capital, and Other Top Blockchain Focused VC Funds. What is the team planning next following the funding round?

Turnt is planning to do a soft launch of V1 of Taunt Battleworld in April. After that debuts, we will absorb feedback and plan to offer $100,000 in free tournaments for our NFT holders during a three-month period. Over the next 3-4 months, we are also working on building out the V2 version of the game. V2 is the full vision of Taunt Battleworld, including the watch and earn components coming online. This will be our main focus leading up to the summer.

In the future, we’re planning to introduce additional Engage to Earn games that include the same key pillars: Combining NFTs with traditional gameplay and a live entertainment experience in a robust community with new NFT fighters being regularly added.

5. Gamers on Turnt Gaming can make passive income through the first-ever Engage-to-Earn model. Players have the opportunity to Play-to-Earn, Watch-to-Earn, and Predict-to-Earn. How did you make this new model possible? 

The Turnt team has deep expertise in gaming and esports across Amazon, EA, World Poker Tour, and Unity. We saw an opportunity to create a new kind of gaming experience for crypto-native gamers. Based on my traditional gamer background and knowing that user acquisition is the lifeblood of any game, whether PC, mobile, console or just in general, we were actively looking for ways to replace traditional user acquisition because it can be more difficult in blockchain gaming to onboard a new user. We came up with the idea of incorporating Watch-to-Earn as a way to bring people into the game and have them learn about the ecosystem quickly without having to ask them for a monetary investment upfront. We started to develop this platform where it’s very easy for someone to get on and acclimate themselves to the game while also making it fun. 

From there, based on our team’s esports and in-game wagering backgrounds, we took some of those mechanics and incorporated them to build a more robust experience for someone who doesn’t own an NFT or just wants to learn about our game or different aspects of the community.

6. Does the Turnt Gaming platform contain advertisements?

As of right now the game does not contain advertisements, that doesn’t mean we won’t ever have advertisements. Advertising done in a smart and thoughtful way can be additive to the gaming experience, whether it’s additional revenue to give things back to the players or being able to make experiences that benefit players sponsored by the advertisers. 

7. Why does the gaming firm opt for Polygon blockchain to bring its NFT-based game to life?

Polygon is a leader in the blockchain gaming space. We chose to partner with them because of the ease and speed of transactions on the Polygon blockchain. The partnership also enables us to onboard Ethereum users quickly and at scale. They are looking at the development of their blockchain from a game developers lens and how to make that easier and many trusted game developers in the world are using Polygon. It’s a good starting point for us as we think about technological partners we can build on for the long term.

8. Turnt Gaming has partnered with Esports Technologies. Can you please explain to our audience how this collaboration helps the gaming platform?

Taunt Battleword will combine live in-game data and events with the power of Esports Technologies’ unique predictive gaming platform to enrich the Watch-to-Earn and Predict-to-Earn elements of the game, using Esports Technologies’ quantitative analytics, modeling, and AI platforms to power licensed in-game wagering, free to play.

9. Turnt Gaming has recently partnered with Stardam Images. How does this collaboration enhance the game?

The partnership with Stardam Images allows Turnt to bring high-value IP fighters to the game, including boxing icon Floyd Mayweather and female MMA legend Cris Cyborg. The ability to own real fighters as NFTs and use their attributes to compete against original characters in Taunt Battleworld will add a level of excitement not yet seen in NFT gaming. These recognizable players bring with them their own fans and audiences to the game that will further enrich the game’s community.

10. How does your in-game currency fuel the ecosystem?

Our utility token will power all of our in-game items and rewards on the Watch-to-Earn side. You can use the tokens earned to buy in-game items and compete in tournaments. In Predict-to-Earn, spectators can compete with other viewers to predict outcomes of the simulated fights and win Taunt tokens for free.

11. Where do you see Taunt Gaming over the next five years? And are there any significant integrations that users will soon witness?

Over the next five years, the game will continue to evolve through the introduction of new features and NFT fighters. We’ll continue to layer on new features to develop the ecosystem with the NFT fight simulations and other pieces. We’re focused on continually investing in creating new experiences within the Taunt world. 

Although we’re starting as a traditional fighting game, that doesn’t always have to be the only use for our NFTs. The beauty of blockchain and NFTs in gaming spaces is that we’re not beholden to one type of game style with our fighters and our characters, we can expand that out. 

As we’re thinking about what our world will look like in 2 or 3 years, we want to develop a full ecosystem that builds many different types of games with our characters, although our first game is a traditional fighting game.

Adding Three Pillars To NFT Gaming

Play to Earn: Players can step into NFTs into simulated battles and we can say it as the survival of the fittest, as the most proficient player will have more windows to win.

Watch To Earn: Viewers can receive rewards in Turnt’s indigenous token TAUNT for watching battles and become a valued element of the community.

Predict To Earn: Spectators can contend with other viewers to forecast results of simulated battles and win TAUNT tokens for free.

Website – Turnt Gaming