1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,360 Hello everyone, Sandow Podcast number 47. 2 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:17,440 Today we'll be doing a text based interview with Biversonart.eth, spelled B-I-V-E-R-S-E-N-A-R-T.ETH 3 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:24,080 if you're looking at the Sandbox Dow delegation page. 4 00:00:24,080 --> 00:00:32,440 Biversonart is from Turkey, also called Turkiye, and today we are going to be doing a text 5 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:35,200 based meet and greet with Biversonart. 6 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:43,360 And also serves as a learning opportunity to get to know who Biversonart is and what 7 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:45,000 their approach to voting is. 8 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:46,640 That's the scope of the talk for today. 9 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:51,920 Disclaimer, I do not represent the Sandbox game or the Sandbox Dow Foundation. 10 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:55,720 I am not your financial or legal advisor and nothing I say is to be taken as financial 11 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:56,720 or legal advice. 12 00:00:56,720 --> 00:00:59,800 When I say the word SIP, I mean Sandbox Improvement Proposal. 13 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:05,000 When I say the word Dow, I mean Decentralized Autonomous Organization. 14 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:10,840 And when I say SanFam, I mean the Sandbox community who participate in the people, product, 15 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:13,320 and purpose of the Sandbox ecosystem. 16 00:01:13,320 --> 00:01:21,400 That ecosystem is made up of the people, which is everyone from gamers to Sandbox team, product, 17 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:26,840 everything from the game client to the Dow, and the purpose, which was originally written 18 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:34,680 into the white paper in 2020 and also expound upon by the Sandbox co-founders and leadership 19 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:40,660 team about being the cultural capital of the metaverse to empower creators. 20 00:01:40,660 --> 00:01:47,440 All that comes together to create the ecosystem of which today's podcast is about the Dow 21 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:50,400 delegates portion in the people sector. 22 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:55,280 The scorecard and the checkbook have not moved because the Dow team has been hard at work 23 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:59,080 at implementing the delegation process. 24 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:05,560 So we are still at 2.3 million San spent over a 15.5 million budget. 25 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:12,280 The road to the Dow began May 28th, 2024 when it was announced via a medium article. 26 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:17,520 Then in September 10th, the Sandbox Dow admin team opened up delegation applications. 27 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:29,280 On November 13th, 12 delegates were announced for the Sandbox Dow as approved official delegates. 28 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:36,920 Today one such delegate that we interviewed via text is Vyversinart from Turkey and the 29 00:02:36,920 --> 00:02:41,160 description on the delegation page reads, stay free, stay true. 30 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:44,960 I train the community and Vox editing and game maker on live stream. 31 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:48,320 We organize events and distribute prizes through our studio. 32 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:52,080 In short, we get support from the community and we are pioneers in many areas. 33 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:54,880 I think I can be the voice of the community for Dow. 34 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:57,160 So let's go with question number one. 35 00:02:57,160 --> 00:02:59,160 Byversinart, what is your background? 36 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:03,960 Byversinart wrote, I used to do graphic design and post-production work. 37 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:10,640 In 2015, I entered the cryptocurrency industry realizing I realized that blockchain technology 38 00:03:10,640 --> 00:03:14,360 was the future and discovered Sandbox about four years ago. 39 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:21,120 After spending some time with the game making tools, we founded Get Some Jam Studio with 40 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:22,120 Pure Tiger. 41 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:27,680 So when I go to Get Some Jam, you can see right away that there's a in the banner, there's 42 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:31,760 some familiar experiences like Color Catch, which is currently in Alpha season four and 43 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:34,960 zero zero and Sivaoke dream. 44 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:37,500 So that's pretty cool. 45 00:03:37,500 --> 00:03:46,240 You click the trusted partner website or a sandbox profile and you can see in the experiences 46 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:49,240 of Yes, and Jam Game Studio is a landowner. 47 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:56,040 They have assets and in the experiences, it looks like there are eight, eight different 48 00:03:56,040 --> 00:04:04,760 experiences, one of which is Color Catch, which most people know and have played, love 49 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:05,760 it or hate it. 50 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:10,080 It's a fun, it's a good game. 51 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:16,360 Here you can see the game itself is you're running across up and up and up platforms 52 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:22,120 and there is a color that it announces you have five or so seconds to jump to the next 53 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:26,840 platform and get all the way to whatever color it is, is all the other platforms disappear. 54 00:04:26,840 --> 00:04:33,560 So you have to make your way all the way up to whether you are super frustrated because 55 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:41,160 you can't get up like me, I keep falling or if you are just a pro at it, it's still a 56 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:43,880 really, really unique and interesting game. 57 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:51,320 Okay, Byversonart wrote further, I am now a game maker at Yes, and Jam Game Studio. 58 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:53,440 I am an Alpha season four ambassador. 59 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:55,640 I've been a game maker since version nine. 60 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:58,500 I prepared sandbox Turkey training sets. 61 00:04:58,500 --> 00:05:04,440 I gave game maker and Vox edit training on sandbox Turkey Twitch channel. 62 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:11,880 I was instructor in sandbox Turkey hack, lethons and a juror in game competitions. 63 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:17,200 I placed first two times in the sandbox hashtag Saturday screenshot event. 64 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:21,720 I have various degrees in 12 game jam competitions under the name of studio. 65 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:26,200 Two of our games were selected for Alpha season first being color catch, which we showed the 66 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:30,000 second one being newborn retribution. 67 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:41,040 When you go there, if you go there, you'll see looks like it is a looks like it's a it's 68 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:47,480 an arena fighter. 69 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:49,440 Try not to die. 70 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:53,360 So you you survive waves of this that come at you. 71 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:57,600 Kind of almost looks like the old guitar hero. 72 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:04,000 But instead of hitting the chords, you're trying to avoid the little chords from hitting 73 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:05,000 you. 74 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:07,880 So cool. 75 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:12,920 Those are two games that were selected for Alpha season from the at some game jam studio 76 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:16,640 of which by version art is a game maker. 77 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:21,560 I first not for the for the road about his background, his or her background. 78 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:25,000 I also try to help people in the community with game maker and boxed it as much as I 79 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:26,000 can. 80 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:33,440 And then by first start gave me their sandstorm profile, which had a lot of assets and I mean 81 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:36,120 a ton of voxel art. 82 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:43,580 It looks really cool to buy our start looks like a very talented box or voxel artist. 83 00:06:43,580 --> 00:06:48,320 Looks like also I see a variant there the blue alpha dragon looks like a like a sand 84 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:51,600 dragon called dragon Kingu. 85 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:56,000 Okay, second question is when did you become San Fam? 86 00:06:56,000 --> 00:07:01,720 Our verse not wrote February 2020 I knew old 2D mobile sandbox since 2015. 87 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:06,600 When they enter the crypto sector in 2018, my interest increased. 88 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:09,840 Question three, what has been your involvement in the sandbox community? 89 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:12,720 I've ever start wrote, I've been in the industry. 90 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:14,100 I've always wanted to make games. 91 00:07:14,100 --> 00:07:16,880 I don't have the skills like unity and unreal. 92 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:20,840 When I saw sandbox tools, I discovered that I could fulfill this desire. 93 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:22,720 People started to like what I was building. 94 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:25,300 That's how I met the community and got involved. 95 00:07:25,300 --> 00:07:32,160 And then linked me the sandstorm profile, which I just went over and showed color catch. 96 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:40,820 But also there was a tweet sent out last year about a game called Flappy Coffee and looks 97 00:07:40,820 --> 00:07:52,460 like a like a site where you're jumping up across obstacles. 98 00:07:52,460 --> 00:07:53,460 So pretty cool. 99 00:07:53,460 --> 00:07:58,040 Clearly by Berserker is a gifted game maker and voxel artist. 100 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:00,920 To question four, what was your motivation for applying to be a delegate? 101 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:06,240 I've ever sent wrote to do something for the Turkish community and to increase the productivity 102 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:09,360 of the sandbox ecosystem. 103 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:12,080 Question five snapshot shows no voting history. 104 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:15,160 Have you voted in a Dow before? 105 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:27,280 And when you look at the Biverson's Biverson Arts snapshot profile, you'll see that there's 106 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:29,660 there's no activity yet. 107 00:08:29,660 --> 00:08:32,440 So Barverson wrote an answer to that question. 108 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:33,680 Yes, I have. 109 00:08:33,680 --> 00:08:36,920 I voted in other Dow systems before like slingshot. 110 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:42,840 I am very active as a sandbox ecosystem as a builder, preparing for Builders Challenge, 111 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:44,960 Mochaverse and Alpha Season 4 events. 112 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:47,280 I haven't enough time for the sandbox Dow. 113 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:50,520 I will start exploring the sandbox Dow. 114 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:52,120 So that kind of makes sense. 115 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:57,560 As MetaWorlds, the president of MetaWorlds, we were in Builders Challenge one, and I know 116 00:08:57,560 --> 00:09:00,000 just how much that is. 117 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:01,240 That's tough. 118 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:04,120 That's really tough to try and manage all those things at once. 119 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:08,680 So I completely understand where Biverson Art is coming from. 120 00:09:08,680 --> 00:09:13,640 Makes sense that it's hard to do both. 121 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:16,840 And question six, how do you intend to approach voting? 122 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:18,240 Yes, no, or abstain? 123 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:22,280 Barverson Art wrote, it depends on what the issue is about and its importance. 124 00:09:22,280 --> 00:09:24,160 I respect everyone's decision. 125 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:30,680 And I've heard this from quite a number of delegates where they chose to say that their 126 00:09:30,680 --> 00:09:32,740 intended approach is to keep an open mind. 127 00:09:32,740 --> 00:09:37,080 And that's what I hear Barverson Art speaking to right here, is respecting everyone's decision, 128 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:42,380 respecting their proposal and hearing them out. 129 00:09:42,380 --> 00:09:44,520 Question seven, are you involved in any of the Dows? 130 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:48,680 Barverson Art wrote, yes, I've been involved in blockchain technologies for a long time. 131 00:09:48,680 --> 00:09:54,160 It's not without minting NFTs, using swap or bridge, voting in Dows, paying high gas 132 00:09:54,160 --> 00:10:00,400 fees, trading and getting hacked, or losing wallets a few times. 133 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:03,720 And Barverson Art gave me a smiley emoji there. 134 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:08,840 Question eight, from your delegation description, what is the significance of stay free, stay 135 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:09,840 true? 136 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:14,160 Barverson Art wrote, the two things a person should have, freedom and being true. 137 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:17,540 So look the way you are, live the way you want. 138 00:10:17,540 --> 00:10:21,760 Question nine, from your delegate description, how many events have you organized and who 139 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:22,760 through? 140 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:29,200 Barverson Art wrote, as at Simjan Gan's studio, we organized events related to our sandbox 141 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:31,600 experiences and distributed prizes. 142 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:37,240 We also get involved in sandbox Turkey as events or become a participant to help organize 143 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:38,240 the event. 144 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:43,440 For example, in the hackathon, I was both an instructor and a jury. 145 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:47,880 I trained more than 60 people for three days almost nonstop. 146 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:52,960 We currently have a sandbox training camp project for Turkey, but we are working on 147 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:55,560 the details. 148 00:10:55,560 --> 00:11:00,880 Question 10, from your delegate description, what kind of voice do you want to be? 149 00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:04,880 Barverson Art jokingly wrote, baritone. 150 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:10,360 As well as suggestions that make sense and improve the ecosystem against others. 151 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:12,880 Question 11, what kind of delegate do you want to be known as? 152 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:17,200 Barverson Art wrote, we will learn together in time. 153 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:20,120 Question 12, what sort of sips do you not support? 154 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:24,160 Barverson Art wrote, I do not support all sips that will contribute nothing to the sandbox 155 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:25,160 ecosystem. 156 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:30,960 Question 13, what type of SanFam voter best fits your delegation style? 157 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:36,760 Barverson Art wrote, everyone who contributes to the ecosystem in some way and wants to 158 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:39,920 improve it because that's what I do. 159 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:43,560 Question 14, what was the delegate process like for you? 160 00:11:43,560 --> 00:11:45,480 Barverson Art wrote, I applied. 161 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:49,320 A short interview afterwards and then one day I got an email in my mailbox saying I 162 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:52,320 became a delegate. 163 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:57,800 Question 15, does the 2 million gifted voting power change your voting perspective or process? 164 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:00,800 Barverson Art wrote, do I have such a gift? 165 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:03,280 Good opportunity to become a dictator. 166 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:08,040 Joking of course, gave me the smiley face with the tongue stick out emoji. 167 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:10,360 Clearly joking on that. 168 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:12,940 Barverson Art wrote further, I really don't know. 169 00:12:12,940 --> 00:12:16,760 As I said I couldn't look because I was very busy, but even if it's 100 million it doesn't 170 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:17,920 change much for me. 171 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:21,200 That's pretty much in line with what I've heard elsewhere that none of the delegates 172 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:22,560 knew this was coming. 173 00:12:22,560 --> 00:12:27,120 And so Barverson Art who's been focusing a lot on Build to Challenge 1 and 2, Build 174 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:30,500 to Challenge 2 happened while the Dow was announced. 175 00:12:30,500 --> 00:12:35,880 It makes sense that Barverson Art didn't know that the 2 million was gifted, especially 176 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:38,160 when announced. 177 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:43,120 So the last question, question 16, have you had to sign any agreements to be a delegate? 178 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:46,400 Barverson Art wrote, no. 179 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:49,060 I don't have any community questions or open topics. 180 00:12:49,060 --> 00:12:51,960 So that brings us to SandboxBases. 181 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:57,120 So if you're listening to this, Barverson Art and others, the places that Sandbox gathers 182 00:12:57,120 --> 00:13:03,080 is in the Discord, the Sandbox Game Discord, hashtag Dow Discussion Channel. 183 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:05,680 There's also the SandboxDow forums. 184 00:13:05,680 --> 00:13:13,540 And on Twitter we use hashtags Sandfam, hashtag the SandboxDow, hashtag the SandboxGame. 185 00:13:13,540 --> 00:13:18,720 Also follow the SandboxDow Twitter feed, Twitter page, next page. 186 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:26,400 On YouTube there's the at SandboxDow, or at the SandboxDow official YouTube, which is 187 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:29,560 where the official podcast is for the SandboxDow. 188 00:13:29,560 --> 00:13:36,440 There's also at Lanza YT, which is the podcast you're listening to right now, which is SandDow. 189 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:42,140 And then there's at Sandfam Cafe, which is a weekly, excuse me, a monthly panel of different 190 00:13:42,140 --> 00:13:47,960 community voices hosted by Bruno, otherwise known as Pickaxe Master. 191 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:55,280 On Twitter and X, on Mondays there's Mochaverse Hall, on Tuesdays there is Bowls on the, excuse 192 00:13:55,280 --> 00:14:01,920 me, on Saturdays there's Bowls on the Block, on Monday through Friday is Coffee with Captain, 193 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:05,960 and on Tuesdays is Natively Digital with Whale Members. 194 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:13,040 I highly recommend visiting these if you can, because that is where you'll find many Sandfam 195 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:20,320 members and you'll be able to introduce yourself further and ask for more delegation, more 196 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:21,900 delegates. 197 00:14:21,900 --> 00:14:24,200 And that's all I have this episode. 198 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:31,000 This was Sandow Podcast 47, our text-based interview with Biversonart.Eth from Turkey. 199 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:43,160 The motto is, Stay Free, Stay True, and has a big background and experience in game making, 200 00:14:43,160 --> 00:14:49,640 voxel, editing, and is with one of the Game Jam Studios who has not one, but two experiences 201 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:51,160 in Alpha Season 4. 202 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:54,800 You can find that in 00 on the map. 203 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:55,800 Thank you all for your time. 204 00:14:55,800 --> 00:15:02,800 Have a great day.