Interview
Dave Swinbank I had the pleasure of being introduced to Dave by the amazing creator behind Project 76, Amie Lew, and after talking to him via Twitter messegers Dave agreed to answer some questions:
NFT Creative Talents
Please introduce yourself to our readers and give them some background as to what brought you into the world of NFTs My name is Dave Swinbank, I’m 37 and British. I have worked in offices and retail. As a manager, in sales, managed renewal books and been an analyst between an Ops dept and a Dev team. My friend had been badgering me about crypto for about 6 months and then showed me NFT’s in July/Aug 2021. I have always collected things; football programmes, visitor/guide books, football stickers and more. The thing that made me excited was the unique end user ownership when I saw Sorare. I could own it, I could play with it, I could build a team with it and it was mine. As I delved deeper into NFT’s, I got missold on a couple of projects and lost a decent sum of money. Then I found CrypotGoonz, Friday Night Punks and Cartridge Punkz. Since then, everything has changed. I found them all in the early weeks of September 2022. Do you have any personal NFT projects that are running currently? Polygon Alliance, which is not an NFT project as such and I will give you more details after I have talked about the other projects. CryptoGoonz. We have just launched our own game, GoonzWarz in Beta, to our community. This is a playable battle simulator. Your DeadGoon or AstroGoon can be used to fight other DeadGoonz or AstroGoonz held by other Goonz Holderz. The launch was very successful with 500 battles in the first 4 hours. Our Beta launch is open until 30th June. We will be implementing the Weaponz into a new NFT collection which will give added playability to our Holderz, and add a tactical element. You can play via the Portal link on our website. I found CryptoGoonz in Sept. Just after ‘they’ dropped and I won a giveaway. The artist and founder, CryptoAbsolem (Chris) had seen some instant traction after reducing the price. He formed a team from the interested people shortly after. I did my first giveaway on Twitter on the 24th Sept 2021. I had 64 followers on Twitter before that giveaway, I am now at over 20,000. From early Sept the growth and our build has been exceptional. It has come from nothing. It is all organic and all of our reinvestment has gone into the build. We had to rejig our team in Nov/Dec 2021 due to personal circumstances and since then Absolem and I have pushed everything and I am now a Coowner of the project. CryptoGoonz has 10 Eth volume on our OpenSea storefront contract - our first 3000, Goonz, Femz and Zombz. We have seen success moving onto our own contracts with Deadz and Astroz. Astroz are currently minting now for 15 matic. The last part of this collection will be released in July, CyborgGoonz.
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