Video Games and the First Steps to the Blockchain
8 Circuit Studios Developer Journal — Dec 1, 2017
This week we want to showcase for you the first steps of moving gamers to ownership of their game objects by demonstrating the progress we’ve made of getting gamers a Crypto Wallet and their first usable crypto currency.
The following demo video will walk you through the initial integration of the blockchain into our game D-PARC. (Transcript follows for your enjoyment)
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Transcript (Approximately)
I’m Mike Jones of 8 Circuit Studios. And we are creating some of the first video games utilizing the blockchain. Today I’m going to walk you through the blockchain integrations we’ve made into our game D-PARC.
Currently, there are clear barriers to entry into crypto currency and blockchains at the most basic level. For instance, just obtaining a wallet and tokens, two of the most basic elements, require substantial education, trust and financial risk.
With the system that we’ve integrated into D-PARC, we’ve eliminated these barriers, making the process easy, understandable, and risk free to our players. I’ll demonstrate this as well as showing the transactions as they take place on the blockchain. On to the demo…
This is the intro screen to our game D-PARC. From here we’ll select a new game and a new user.
We take the player through the typical authorization seen in many online games. For our demo, we’ve only included google and email authorization, but we are able to implement Facebook, Twitter and a number options at the flip of a switch. This step will create a way for us to identify the user and allows us to help them manage their wallet, if they need it.
Here we are letting the user know the next step, that we will create a wallet for them at the click of the button. Once we click the button…
…the game sends the transaction to the blockchain. At this screen we are waiting for at least one confirmation to come back that indicates the transaction has been mined and is completed. We are using Ethereum at this time so the average wait is no more than 15 seconds.
We see that the wallet has been created and the address is returned to us. In the finished version of any of our games we will explain to the user what this address is for, how they can access it in the future, etc., but for our demo we just kept it simple.
You’ll also notice that we gave them 10 8 Bit Tokens after we created the wallet for them. After all, who wants an empty wallet? What is truly amazing at this point is that we have simply and easily, created a wallet and given tokens to this user. Those two steps have put this player ahead of 99% of the world when it comes to crypto currencies. So, with ease, simplicity, and no risk, we have introduced this person to the world of the blockchain.
Let’s take a look at how this worked on the blockchain.
This is Etherscan. It’s a website where you can search for any transaction on the Ethereum blockchain. We are currently running on the test network Ropsten. This is where we can trace the creation of the wallet we just made in our game DPARC.
Notice that the most recent transaction was 42 seconds ago, that was the creation of our wallet and token transfer.
Clicking on this transaction shows us the wallet address that was created, as well as the transfer of 8 Bit Tokens.
Following the address we can see the actual deposit of 8 Bit Tokens, and if we look directly at the wallet in Etherscan we can see the Blocky that is associated with it.
Notice that the blocky in DPARC is identical to the blocky on Etherscan. Just another verification on the transaction.
This is the transaction where the wallet was created further you can see where the contract added the tokens to the account.
When we take a closer look at the wallet you can see the blocky that was created to represent the wallet. Looking back over at D-PARC you can see that the blocky matches, just another way to confirm that it’s the same wallet.
I hope you’ve enjoyed our quick demonstration on how a player can be introduced to the world of blockchain, by simply starting a video game. All done with no barriers to entry. These are the actions that are taken millions of times a day as people try new games. Only now, the result is, they have a cryptocurrency wallet, and tokens.
By itself, that is something to get excited, but we’ve taken it even further. And I’m looking forward to showing you how … in our next video.
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I’m Mike Jones with 8 Circuit Studios and I’m looking forward to hearing what you think.
