Submission Date: July 27, 2025

DAO: SandboxDAO

Project Lead: Samson Damian

🎮 Game Title

Build Enugu

Synopsis of the Game

Build Enugu is a collaborative multiplayer experience set in a reimagined version of Enugu, Nigeria’s historic coal city, through three themed zones — Ogbete Smart Market, Coal Valley Labs, and the UNN Innovation Loop. Players take on the role of community visionaries and rebuild key city zones through themed quests, dialogue with NPCs, and cooperation with others.

The game explores themes of urban restoration, civic choice, and African futurism, with influence from both Enugu’s real culture. Through gameplay, players co-create a new vision of the city—one where local knowledge, tradition, and technology meet.

Concept Art & Mood Board

• Atmosphere: A vibrant mix of colonial-era architecture, futuristic urban innovation, and Igbo cosmology.
• Visual Inspirations:
  • Ogbete Market — rich textiles, open stalls, loud traders
  • UNN Campus Loop — old trees, red earth roads, modernist dorm blocks
  • Coal Valley Labs — abandoned coal mines turned into underground hacker labs
• Mood Keywords: Urban rebirth, Red-earth futurism, Community hustle, Local spirit meets tech
• Concept references:
  • Nsude pyramids
  • Ogene musicians
  • 1990s Enugu films
  • Afro-cyberpunk tones (deep reds, emerald greens, golden dusk skies)
  • Concept Art & Mood Board images

Core Gameplay Loop

1. Explore one of the city zones.
2. Interact with NPCs who present local challenges.