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rdixon22 commented 6 years ago

Purpose: To set up a central open-air marketplace where vendors can actively sell in-app goods

Description: It is assumed that there will be some kind of general asset store feature in Decentraland for land owners to buy pre-built 3D models or behaviors (scripts) from other users in order to enhance their lands. (Depending on the eventual player/user model, it's possible that non-land-owners will be allowed to purchase goods as well, such as avatars, costumes, equipment and so on).

One of the best examples to emulate for the overall content market will be the Asset Store for Unity3D -- but that is a flat, web-based, 2D user interface.

This proposal suggests setting up a 3d open-air marketplace in Decentraland to let players browse and purchase products, and interact with vendors. This would be a much more fun experience than just scrolling through 2D lists of products. Plus it would give vendors a way to actively promote their products, and help players discover products they might not know existed.

I'd like to propose a large Market Square area be built near the center of the seed area. A 30m x 30m area would probably be large enough to contain about 18 separate booths, depending on their size and placement.

palmyra-market-3d-model-low-poly-obj-3ds-fbx-stl-blend-mtl png (One possible style of marketplace that could be used.)

Vendors can rent booths or tables in this area, much like they would at traditional street markets or farmers markets. Each vendor would select one or more of their products to display at their booth or table. Their entire product list would then be accessible by players through a simple interface (for example, gazing at a designated sign at the booth to open the full product list).

The market could be open 24 hours a day for a given period, say a week or a month at a time. After that the booths would be available to rent by someone else for the next period.

Vendors could be present at their booths now and then, but at other times players could just purchase assets directly from the booths.

Of course, this could also be done as a private enterprise by a land owner, as opposed to it being a public service set up by Decentraland.

Rob (rdixon)

ancient-market-3d-model-max-fbx (I hope our vendors will sell more interesting products than these.)