Oh the funding part.
I think the funding and development should be decentralized as well. The game starts out as an empty shell but gets developed by the community through a bounty system.
but you'd still need someone to own it to call the shots and make sure it's not a crazy random mess
Do Bitcoin or Ethereum need someone to call the shots so it's not a crazy random mess? That's just the way decentralization is. It's hard to get consensus, but it's worth it.
No, I guess not. They both had someone design the system, but I guess Satoshi or Vitalik don't really own their respective systems.
I wonder if something like Towerfall could work like this... someone designs the overall rules, and then the crowd creates characters, mobs and levels that get included if they get enough votes or whatever... I'm going to think more on this...
That's my vision. I want to create skeletons and have them filled in by the community.
The future of decentralization in one comment.
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