Building Satoshis Games #3
The third article of a monthly development blog series
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https://medium.com/satoshis-games/satoshis-games-devblog-2–6fb5809b1294
TL;DR
Open beta released to the public🔓
The Legend of Satoshi game ready to play🎮
Lightning-powered games are nearly here⚡️
Open Beta
Hurray! We believe we have a minimum viable platform where users can play with an attractive UI and a nice gaming experience. Our previous version was a simple prototype to test how the community reacts to lightning games, and it was such as great response and feedback. However, we are still very buggy…
https://t.me/joinchat/GjNywBKYnI93fnOXbLJUwQ
We are giving open access and we would love to receive any feedback about our progress. We have added a direct communication to our telegram group to report bugs, ideas, and feedback. We have also removed the friend’s section as we will delegate this to our discord server and we have added our new logo to this version.
Games
The Legend of Satoshi
We have completed the story of this games with many jokes related to the current crypto situation. We have added various characters in the game to create a bigger community engagement. We can find Hal Finney, Nick Szabo or Jameson Lopp as well as a few easter eggs. Those names are just a few but the list is endless.
We are still figuring out how to implement lightning in this game, in case lightning fits the nature of this gaming experience.
Bcraft
Game ready to play. No lightning yet but it is fun anyways. There is a lot of room for improvement that is why we would love to know your feedback.
Super-Bro
After an exhaustive test of using lightning under the simnet to buy new lives in super-bro, we are moving forward to create withdrawals in-game for winners opennode.co API. Also, we have created our first BTCPay Server for testing lightning payments. We are convinced this tool will be a seamless payment gateway for the user.
In terms of lightning games development, we feel we are very close to finishing the lightning integration on super bro and we hope to release it on the next update. Lightning games in satoshis.games are nearly here!
Competitions
We are working tirelessly on creating the team pools for the competition game mode. We came up with an impressive 3D style animation for entering in the tournament. However, due to our current development situation, we are taking more than we expected on having this functionality working stable.
FAQ section
We have implemented a simple FAQ section in which users can have a brief idea of what we intend to build, and how to use the platform for a better user experience. We plan to add more answered questions in this section according to our roadmap.
New UI buttons
We decided our buttons to play the game were too dull. So we created more excellent buttons for playing the game for free and to access the competition style.
Authentication via LN
Testing, Researching, Testing…
We are planning an onboarding promotion: Open a channel with our lightning Node. Get 100 satoshis for free (only for the first 200 channels). In satoshis.games website within the settings section, click to Connect Node ID. We have not implemented a fully functional authentication yet. But we are watching closely lightning joule to use as a seamless authentication method via digital signature
Submit a Game
We have achieved a basic form for users who might be interested in uploading games to satoshis.games. We love open sourced and blockchain related games. However, there is no restriction on games which are not open sourced or blockchain related. We want to facilitate the service of distributing games with no fees. We do not intend to charge game developers to list their games in our platform. We would also like to provide an API access for web games as well as provide assistance with the new unity API from BTCPayserver.
User Management — Admin panel
We have started to implement an admin panel to manage users easily from our website. This feature is only for admin users. This feature has no priority compared with other features such as lightning games or lightning authentication.
