SKALE Poland x OGM x Community AMA

11 min readFeb 23, 2023

Introduction

Let’s get started! Welcome to a special AMA with the team behind Of Gods and Men! I am pleased to introduce you to @tellotimothy, Co-Founder of PoQ and mastermind behind Of Gods and Men’s game

Speaker Introduction

SKALE Ambasador: Hi Tim, thank you for joining us today. Could you please introduce yourself to the community? What drives you and how did you get into crypto?

Tim Tello: Hey guys nice to meet everyone

I have been in games for over a decade working on titles like Narcos, Survios Boxing, NFL VR etc. I have always been someone who wanted to see what was next and created the first influencer based games. Then when blockchain came around I helped create the first blockchain gaming company as I really felt token consolidation, interoperability, and digital rights where very important to the scaling of free to play games.

I have since co authored the patent for the use of blockchain via custodial wallets in games ( we call it zero click ) as well as receiving the first and only SEC approval for an ERC 20 token.

Then worked with Jaynti Kunani (our first developer) in building the first layer 2 which became Matic/Polygon so been in the blockchain games space since the beginning and really set out as a path maker for others to follow.

SKALE Ambasador: Thank You Tim — this sounds quite a journey !

Tim Tello: its been a long time it feels like, this all started back in 2015/2016 and I like to say every year in blockchain is like a dog year

SKALE Ambasador: Wow indeed — veteran ! 🙂

Segment One | Main Intro: Project

SKALE Ambasador: Could you share a quick overview of your latest project, Of Gods and Men?

Tim Tello: Of Gods and Men is a nft based game that allows you to breed and train humans with gods and monsters from Greek Lore. Its really just the conversion of my passion in history and greek mythology and the evolution of nfts and their ability to regress, degress, and evolve

SKALE Ambasador: This seems like you built it on your passion. Can You tell us a bit more about the rules of the game?

Tim Tello: Players collect NFT cards of Gods, Demigods, and Mortals each featuring unique abilities and stats where players can take their cards to the arena and battle for ultimate glory.

How to Play:

Mint your NFT. You may acquire a human, demigod, or god

Determine your NFTs traits by viewing metadata on NFTrade or staked NFTs in your deck. Elements, affinities, and abilities.

Battle solo or form a team ideally complimenting each other’s traits for greatest success. Watch out for status ailments.

You can create new NFTs with the possibility of new abilities by connecting with other players.

SKALE Ambasador: Sounds like a great intro to the OGM world. Thanks Tim - BTW — below this is Tim

Tim Tello: Lol I didnt know that exsisted. I do love Poseidon.

SKALE Ambasador: You always learn new things about Yourself 🙂

Thank You for the Intro into the OGM reality!

SKALE Ambasador: Let’s jump right into the second segment of today’s AMA session. Here’s the first question for you Tim

Segment Two | Questions preselected from Community submissions

SKALE Ambasador: What exactly inspired you to create OGM? what was your aha moment?

Tim Tello:I’m a huge history buff! The first university I studied at was Texas State and I graduated with a bachelors in history with a minor in government. Greek mythology had always interested me and I found myself constantly reading books, watching movies, and researching to learn more.

It only felt right to me to actually build a game around it. It really seemed to me a true testament of the abilities of NFTs

SKALE Ambasador: Thanks for the answer NFTs are evolving. Game is great space to experiment iwth them. What is your favourite feature of OGM?

Tim Tello: The art from OGM is incredible. The artist we worked with is a well known comic book artist that has worked on many Disney projects in the past. In addition to this I love the fact that when you are paying you are able to recreate Greek Mythology. You can mate, breed, or train to learn different things or even create new NFT’s. Essentially, you can be the Demi God you always wanted too.

SKALE Ambasador: What is your favourite God available in OGM then?

Tim Tello: The best god available is Poseiden. He is the greatest god in Greek mythology! I have always loved Poseiden. Ever since reading the Odyssey in High School. I related so much to Oddseyus in his tribulations and trials. Poseidon is a constant reminder to me to continue to push and break down the walls. Poseidon will always be the best to me.

SKALE Ambasador: Are there any new NFT collections coming out for OGM after the initial release?

Tim Tello: Yes! We will have multiple player packs coming through the year. There are tons of different lines of mythology, monsters, and titans. Really excited to include gods and monsters from Eygptian, Chinese, Aztec, Nordic, and many other mythologies in history.

SKALE Ambasador: Thanks! What potential do you see in Web3 gaming? What problems blockchain is solving for Gaming (which CAN NOT be solved without blockchain)?

Tim Tello: Web3 has the ability to change the landscape of games today and where they are going. The idea of ownership and digital rights is unique to gaming at its core. The relationships players have with these digital items is profound. I still get excited to turn on my old gameboy and see the Pokemon I had on blue version as a kid. As we grow and evolve into the “metaverse” in my opinion this is just a personification of our digital selves and what we like and who we are. I look forward to the interoperability of one game to the next and how this will cultivate the ideas of the next generation of game developers.

SKALE Ambasador: What problems blockchain is solving for Gaming (which CAN NOT be solved without blockchain)?

Ok, in the mean time — I think after this warm-up we are ready to start with community questions in a while. There will be rewards for interesting and unique questions 🙂 Get ready

Segment Three | Live AMA

Paragon:How are you going to encourage players to play and stick to of Gods and Man? I assume that the game will be based on pvp model, so there is always someone else needed to actually play.

Tim Tello: Well there is also free to play models so you will be able play with out an NFT and if those humans live they have a chance to develop traits and be minted into NFTs

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Aleksandra: Polish mythology is also very interesting. Do you have any Slavic Gods in mind in the game?

Tim Tello: Slavic gods match very well to Nordic. Similar to Greek and Roman. We will absolutely be adding them in future collections

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MoonMoon: Hi Tim! What can I do with the NFTs other than playing in the game ? Is there a market place for these NFTs as well ?

Tim Tello: They will be available to sell in secondary markets. I do think the real value is trying to be a bit of alchemist by breeding and training with others to create new weapons traits armours and characters

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Piotr Komo: How many nft cards will there be? how much maximum?

Tim Tello: 10k in the first set and 3k monsters in the follow up set

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Crypto Zbieracz: I see in the game we have Gods, Demigods and Humans. Is it a user selection or is it a random process who you become?

Tim Tello: It will be random unless you use a free human (all though these will not be available at launch)

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Marcin: How the gameplay battle will look like? It will looks something like Heroes od Might and Magic battle scene? Do you have some preview videos?

Tim Tello: We do on the website ofgodsandmen.io but it is an autobattler set in different locations. We hope to add in other styles and 2d platformers where you can train and actually fight others more of a pokemon style of play

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MoonMoon: Do I need to buy or mint the NFT to start the game or maybe there is a cost-free way to start playing? And when launch? :)

Tim Tello: we will have free human players you can use to join that could develop traits and abilities and mint if they survive.

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Crypto Zbieracz: In The game can you evolve — upgrade from Human to God etc? If so — how is it possible to upgrade ur skills and character?

Tim Tello: sort of a human can be a demi god and create other demi gods and monsters. I have not thought about maybe creating the trials of hera in order to become a god. Maybe thats a new battle mode down the line

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Paragon: Will the game have progression system? Will fights have any RNG elements or more likely they will be based on skill and understanding of game mechanics?

Tim Tello: They are based on auto battling metrics with built in randomizers that lean on traits

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Marcin: What about earnings for gamers. How player can earn real money during playing of game? We get exp, make our characters stronger and then sell, create “child characters” it on market place, or we can earn some ingame coins that can be traded to outside USDC?

Tim Tello: yes you can breed create and sell. You can also charge for breeding and training

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Marcin: Can be some alliances in game to play few against other few? And what currency I will get/earn? Quaters token?

Tim Tello: Anything is possible. Any token you wish to sell it for they will be on skale but also eth and USDT will be allowed for selling and mint

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Adrian aj88: Hello,

congrats on the idea Tim. It’s fascinating when you can turn your hobby/passion into an interesting product and earn money on it.

I have a few questions:

1. What number of players do you expect in the first half of the year? Will the game fit in with the play to earn trend?

2. why exactly 10,000 nft?

3. How is the game different from other play and earn games?

4. How does the game encourage players like me? veterans of heroes III and diablo II :)

5. What directions do you see in the development of gaming?

Tim Tello:

Thats alot of questions.

I dont know to be honest I hope people enjoy it and the free to play style allows for any one to join as I think this is an issue in web3 games.
10k is the number people are use to (no other real reason to be honest.)
It has free to play metrics real evolutions breeding abilitys training abilities and will have scenarios and events (like Pokemon GO) such as the battle of thermoplyie that will encourage the community to engage together.
Well I am no Romero (creator of Diablo) he is a good friend tho. However, my hope is to build games people enjoy which I think have been missing in Web3.
Interopability is going to be big. Most publishers will use tokenomics to create publishing models that their games share in game currencies.

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Paragon: Are there plans to relase OG&M as an app for mobile phones?

Tim Tello: yes

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Piotr Komo: Will there be battles in the arena against players? What happens when there are no volunteers to fight?

Tim Tello: yes 1v1 2v2 3v3 5v5 and soon battle royale mode

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Marcin: How often will the state of the game be saved on the blockchain and will the user trigger it somehow? Only after battles or also during some other activities?

Tim Tello: in battle and any time a new item or trait is made all actions become minted.

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MoonMoon: Thank You Tim! And one more question from my side:

How is PoQ solution leveraged in the game? Are Quarters somehow used (or planned to be used) in the OGM ?

Tim Tello: Quarters have not been added to OGM at this time. But Quarters are used as a cross game token to replace FTP tokens in games like candy crush. That way you can play a different game when ever you like and not lose your funds

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SKALE Ambasador: Let me add to this interesting discussion one more question 🙂 I guess you are not on mainnet yet — right? Is there a playable testnet version available somewhere of the OGM? + When Mainnet! 🙂

Tim Tello: No it wont be released till the day of the mint tmrw

SKALE Ambasador:

🚨 === Mint tomorrow === 🚨 Feb 21 🚨

Aleksandra:

How can I communicate with other players? Is there a chat for players in the game?

Tim Tello: Discord for now but in game chat would be good as well there is a Discord SDK we ca add to bring it in to game play

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Piotr Komo: whether tournaments will be created to encourage intense play

Tim Tello: yes

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Aleksandra: Will it be possible to trade items with other players?

Tim Tello: yes of course

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Piotr Komo: What happens when there are a lot of items on the market and there are no buyers?

Marcin: the prices go lower 😊

Tim Tello: I would agree with Marcin but its our job to be able to keep the community engaged with events and challenges. So its our hope that doesnt happen

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Piotr Komo: Will there be battles in the arena against players? What happens when there are no volunteers to fight?

Tim Tello: it has an auto battler setting vs CPU

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Tim Tello: I think I got everyone? Did I miss any questions

I was typing as quickly as I could

SKALE Ambasador: OK, looks we got them all. Thank You Tim and tahnks everyone for fantasitc questions

SKALE Ambasador:

Thank you Tim for all the answers and introduction to this interesting world of gaming on SKALE. Before we wrap-up -> what is your final message to the community @tellotimothy ?

Tim Tello:

Thank you guys for coming and listening to me for the last hour. It really is greatly appreciated to have so many people interested in something I designed. The mint is tmrw and if you would like to join the community you are all welcome and would be honored to have you. The mint will be on the website ofgodsandmen.io

Thank you again