Steempunk Hackathon -- Status update -- Steems MMORPG almost ready for closed beta (English/German)

[jedigeiss]

English version first, for german version please scroll down

Steempunk Hackathon, or the art of forming a team out of a bunch of individuals

10 people, one vision, loads of coffee and pizza :) This would for sure qualify as an alternative headline :)

As we announced in the last week, we turn our words into actions!

The motto was clear, we will create the first RPG based upon a blockchain and it was also clear that we will need one thing above all others to accomplish that task.

love is all you need

But let's start from the beginning. It all started on last Saturday at 9 o'clock, well almost started because @asperger-kids and @jedigeiss where still missing somewhere on the highways in NRW :)

The basics were all laid out in the Whitepaper and after a short readthrough @dehenne set the tasks and distributed in his own charming way the workload.

get lost with that camera of yours :)

This was the moment when the rest of the fellowship arrived at the location and directly started to dig into the topics at hand. The Dev team started almost immediately to write code, @aspgerger-kids and @bronkong did their art thing and I was trying the whole Saturday to wrap my head around the basic rules of the game.

@asperger-kids at work (at least that's what she said)

Every now and then thoughts were thrown around, via discord, or written down on a whiteboard. At the end, it was a real shared workload because everyone had his share in almost every important decision or rule.

Do not get me wrong, it was not all just happy singing and programming. Everyone who has ever worked in a project like this knows exactly the moment in time when frustration and desperation strikes. And it did strike us hard.

this is how desperation looks like...

In the end what did we achieve ?

• Icons --> done
• Story --> done
• Website --> done
• Steem Connect V2 Integration --> done
• Battle Algorithm --> done
• Battle Algorithm development --> done
• Item Interface --> done
• Item dropper / distributor --> done
• Interface for Browser Plugins --> done
• Interface to the Blockchain (not stable yet) --> done
• Own Blockchain (not stable yet) --> done
• Charakterclasses API and integration --> done

We made unbelievable progress, even a release package has been made already, here is a screenshot if this :)

iam more than just enthusiastic ..

Whats next?

Now we need YOU! In a short, while we want to start with a closed beta and test the game thoroughly together with some of you!
If you want to participate in that please either write a short comment under this post or try to get directly into contact with @dehenne or @jedigeiss(myself), for instance within the SteemitChat.

A crazy weekend really, and should we ever do such a thing again we might even rewrite steemit while we are at it :)

Thanks a lot for reading!
Yours
Jan

and a few additional pictures at the end, pay attention to the last picture with a secret message ;)

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Steempunk Hackathon, oder die Kunst aus Individuen ein Team zu formen

10 Leute, eine Vision, Unmengen Kaffee und natürlich Pizza. Das hätte eine alternative Zusammenfassung sein können :)

Wie in der letzen Woche angekündigt lassen wir unseren Worten jetzt Taten folgen.

Das Motto war klar, wir bauen als erste ein Rollenspiel auf Basis einer Blockchain und es war ebenso klar, dass wir dafür eins hauptsächlich brauchen werden, daher verwunderte es mich nicht direkt in den Büroräumen das folgende zu finden.

ohne Liebe geht nichts

Aber fangen wir von vorne an. Letzten Samstag um 9 ging es voller Elan an den Start, allerdings ohne @asperger-kids und @jedigeiss, die noch auf der Autobahn irgendwo in NRW unterwegs waren :)

Die Basics waren anhand des Whitepapers schnell erläutert und die Aufgaben ebenso schnell erstellt und verteilt, der Dank dafür geht ganz an @dehenne, der in gewohnt charmanter Art das Chaos zu bändigen vermochte.

geh weg mit der Kamera junge sonst klatscht es :)

In diesem Moment traf auch der Rest der Protagonisten ein und die Arbeit wurde direkt an Angriff genommen.
Das Entwicklerteam nahm sehr schnell Tempo auf, @asperger-kids und @bronkong künstlerten vor sich hin und meine Wenigkeit zerbrach sich quasi den ganzen Samstag lang den Schädel über die Spielmechaniken und die Basics des Regelwerks.

@asperger-kids bei der Arbeit (sagt sie immer)

Immer wieder wurden Gedanken und Ideen über den Tisch, über Discord oder über Notizen am Whiteboard ausgetauscht, so dass am Ende tatsächlich von einem gemeinsamen Arbeiten in allen Teilgebieten gesprochen werden kann.

Jeder der schonmal an einem solchen Projekt mitgearbeitet hat kennt die folgende Pose sehr genau, denn dieser Moment kommt quasi IMMER, wirklich 100% IMMER.

so sieht Verzweiflung aus...

Aber was kam faktisch am Ende dabei heraus ?

• Icons --> done
• Story --> done
• Webseite --> done
• Steem Connect V2 Integration --> done
• Battle Algorithmus --> done
• Battle Algorithmus Umsetzung --> done
• Item Schnittstelle --> done
• Item dropper / Verteiler --> done
• Interface für die Browser Plugins --> done
• Schnittstellen zu Blockchain (noch instabil) --> done
• Eigene Blockchain (noch instabil) --> done
• variable CHarakterklassen API und Umsetzung --> done

Wir haben unglaubliche Fortschritte gemacht, es existiert sogar ein Release Paket (ich habs installiert), von dem ich hier gleich einen Screenshot poste.

ich bin mehr als nur begeistert ..

Was kommt jetzt?

Jetzt brauchen wir EUCH! In Kürze wollen wir mit einer closed Beta an den Start gehen und das Spiel auf Herz und Nieren zusammen mit euch Testen.
Wenn ihr Lust habt daran teilzunehmen dann schreibt bitte einen entsprechenden Kommentar auf diesen Post oder schreibt @dehenne oder @jedigeiss(mich) direkt im SteemitChat an.

Ein irres Wochenende, wenn wir sowas nochmal machen schreiben wir gleich noch Steemit neu :)
Danke fürs Lesen!

Euer Jan

und noch ein paar Bilder weil es so schön war, achtet vorallem auf das letzte Bild mit einer geheimen Botschaft :)

Comments

[cobalus]

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Wie konnte ich bisher nur ohne diese Information leben!

Meinen vollsten Respekt für die geleistete Arbeit von euch allen und ich freue mich sehr auf das Ergebnis (:

[jedigeiss]

Mein lieber @cobalus, das lösen dieses extra nur für dich gestellten Rätsels sichert dir den 1. Platz auf unserer Liste!
und nen 100% Vote obendrauf :D

[asperger-kids]

Das war wirklich ein cooles Wochenende, hat mega Spass gemacht und ich bin so gespannt was wir die kommenden Tage und Wochen noch schaffen.

[dehenne]

Hat richtig spass gemacht mit euch allen. Stressig aber gut und das Spiel wird mega gut :-) ... also die jetzige Version ist schon echt toll geworden und für 2 Tage echt der Hammer

[dexter-on-cocain]

Hey, I am about to drop some really cool stuff. I am pretty sure you'd all like it. To stay tuned follow my blog.

Here are the samples of the shit I can drop, from poetries to stories to backstory behind things, I am gonna drop it all.

https://steemit.com/life/@dexter-on-cocain/the-burnt-diary

https://steemit.com/life/@dexter-on-cocain/from-a-highschool-dropout-to-hip-hop-sensation-know-the-backstory-of-drake

[jedigeiss]

ja da hast du recht ! Ich freu mich drauf !

[juicy-shark]

This is one of the first few things i saw when joining steemit and fell in love with the idea immediately . I'd love to be among the first to be able to try out this new game and be able to find any bugs/ feedback i may have if you do invite me into this closed beta

[jedigeiss]

Thanks alot ! Noted your name on my list :D

[dexter-on-cocain]

Hey, I am about to drop some really cool stuff. I am pretty sure you'd all like it. To stay tuned follow my blog.

Here are the samples of the shit I can drop, from poetries to stories to backstory behind things, I am gonna drop it all.

https://steemit.com/life/@dexter-on-cocain/the-burnt-diary

https://steemit.com/life/@dexter-on-cocain/from-a-highschool-dropout-to-hip-hop-sensation-know-the-backstory-of-drake

[havok777]

Sounds exciting! Have dreamed of a crypto rpg for a long time! Would love to give it a try and feedback! Sign me up and I'll give it a go!!

[kodieamos]

Would love to be apart of this! It sounds groundbreaking and disruptive to other RPGs and also would love to release lets plays and whatnots :P :D

[dehenne]

woah, lets play videos! ...every contribution is welcome. and every contribution helps Steemit, too.

[relationtrip]

Hammer, Hammer, Hammer! Wäre als Beta-Tester gerne am Start :)

[jedigeiss]

Wir freuen uns drauf !

[alanman]

Wow! Awesome job everyone! I'd love to beta test!

Also, I got inspired by all the steem weapons pics, so I doodled up a steem sword idea for you! :D

Edit: Shameless plug. here it is!

[shaka]

Würde mich gerne als Beta-Tester zur Verfügung stellen. Tolles Projekt!

[jedigeiss]

Ist uns eine Freude @shaka!

[dexter-on-cocain]

https://steemit.com/life/@dexter-on-cocain/from-a-highschool-dropout-to-hip-hop-sensation-know-the-backstory-of-drake

[rival]

This is indeed a nice project. Followed you.

[jamesbrown]

The motto was clear, we will create the first RPG based upon a blockchain

Very cool.

Is there any plans to reward player achievements with steem or SBD or perhaps an SMT made specifically for the game?

I've posted about this possibility in the past, but I'm not entirely sure if it could be made unfalsifiable. It should be easy enough to gather up the currency to payout, just have a single "rewards pool" post per day and divvy out a percentage of that payout to the gamers, proportionate to how one or more of the game metrics compare to each other.

It seems to me that it would be difficult to establish a way to prove that I achieved X on day Y in the game. I suppose you could set it up to pay out by high score like on an arcade game, but without a way to prove timestamp you'd still run into problems.

[juicy-shark]

Since all of this is based on a blockchain im pretty sure all actions you end up doing in the game like challenging another character will be stored on a block meaning you can bring everything back to a set transaction date
Also if you read the whit paper

Turnover splitting
50% is directly going back to the players.
30% of the turnover is for the developers and the team.
10% is reserved for bug bounties.
10% is reserved to finance upcoming in game events.
Players will directly have a stake in the turnover of STEEMPUNK-NET. Top players will
directly get a share of the total turnover, statistics will be posted weekly to show
developments.

• Who won most combats?
• Who found most items?
• Who is the best rookie of the week?
• The holy private Key

The white paper is here

[jedigeiss]

youre very good informed @juicy-shark :) i deem it very possible to actually reach exactly that state. To be honest first tests have already been very promising ;)
It wont be a super long time to wait :)
Kind regards
Jan

[jamesbrown]

Wow, this is really a cool concept. Thanks for bringing that up and sharing the link.

[chairil05]

Wow informasi yang keren......

[vladimir-simovic]

Ich hätte auf jeden Fall Interesse an der geschlossenen Beta teilzunehmen.

[jedigeiss]

Hab dich auf der Liste :)

[flurgx]

Ich biete mich natürlich auch als beta Tester an! Find ich klasse was ihr da gezaubert habt!

[jedigeiss]

Bist ebenfalls auf der Liste drauf @flurgx !

[davidcross]

Hört sich super an!
Und Nrw <3
Als Beta Tester lasse ich den anderen lieber den Vorzug, da es bei mir zurzeit an Zeit mangelt . Allen anderen wünsche ich bereits viel Spaß!
Freue mich schon mega auf die "Vollversion" :)

[jedigeiss]

wir uns auch ! sind tatsächlich extrem gespannt :D

[kranoras]

Echt ein verdammt cooles Projekt - bin gespannt drauf! :)
An der Beta hätte ich auch definitiv Interesse.

[jedigeiss]

hehe danke ! Ich schreib dich auf die Liste ! Wir freuen uns :D

[homeartpictures]

absolut super was ihr das leistet..... vollsten Respekt !!

[dehenne]

Dankeschön :-)

[homeartpictures]

gene mein lieber....

[stayoutoftherz]

WOW! Sehr spannend!
Ich würde gern beim Betatest mitmachen, falls noch nicht zu spät.

[jedigeiss]

hi @stayoutoftherz, zum glück haben die steem jungs die notifications wieder angeschaltet, das hätte ich sonst vermutlich übersehen. Klar sind noch ein paar Plätze offen, ich setz dich auf die Liste.
LG
Jan

[stayoutoftherz]

Supi!! Freu mich schon.

[dragoonkite]

This looks awesome!! Count me in, I love doing Beta test!!

[jedigeiss]

cool thing ! youre on the list :D

[millionairkhan]

this very informative and interesting. do what you love-- love what you do, love that pharase, thanks for sharing

[simonjay]

I would be interested in giving this a shot as I already write content for another steem related game called the Steemit Chronicles @jedigeiss

[tantrum]

Love what you guys are trying to achieve! just showing my support here

[freiheit50]

Also so ganz blicke ich nicht durch, was ihr da gezaubert habt. Aber es fühlt sich spannend an. Upvote 100%.

[dehenne]

Hmm, wo hackt es denn? Also im Prinzip ist es ganz einfach, wenn wir das go geben wird es ein Link zu unserem Browserplugin geben. Das installierst du dir, dann wird steemit.com dadurch erweitert (siehe Screenshot). Du findest mit dem Plugin in Posts nun Items, Gegenstände und andere Sachen. Zusätzlich kannst du andere bissl ärgern und angreifen.

Später sind dann Quests geplannt mit richtiger Story, Rätsel etc. :-)

[ahorn]

Habe mir gerade euer Whitepaper durchgelesen. Klingt wahnsinnig interessant! Bin sehr gespannt und würde mich gerne als Tester zur Verfügung stellen :-)

[danile666]

I am definately interested in helping you beta test this. I know I am like brand spanking new, but if you have a slot ill take it.

[exnerfelix]

Hey, ich hab die letzten 5 Jahre in der Spieleindustrie gearbeitet und würde mich sehr interessieren wie so ein Rollenspiel auf Basis einer Blockchain aussieht!
Wenn ihr also noch jemanden sucht, der "ein paar" Bugs und Edge-Cases ausfindig macht, sagt bescheid! ;)

[asimshahzad]

this is really amazing work.. i would love to do it.. i am new here and just learning.. and you guys r supporting us in this way.. this is really amazing.. i upvote

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[cmduncan94]

My boyfriend and I have been waiting sooooo long for this! We have been bouncing ideas around for blockchain-based gaming for months. So glad to see others interested in combing the technologies as well. Please keeps us in mind for the beta. We would love to assist with the process.

[aaronmcheong]

Will beta be open to the public? Will there be a release of limited beta keys??

I would love to try out the new game!!!! SIGN ME UP

[creativetruth]

I am an old school RPG junkie. Did anyone else ever play text based MUD games years ago? Please add me.

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[mys]

Wanna be a part of this. Let me know how to enter the game!

[dehenne]

in the next days we try to establish direct contact. For the beginning it is enough to just write a comment here and tell that you want to join and test. ;-)

[zombebyte]

I love MMORPG's, Steam Punk and Steem so, please let me give it ago.

[sabbir1430]

very good post

[mm39]

What a great idea! RPG in Blockchain sounds so much potential. Looking forward to the actual game!

[chuazm]

I'm really curious about the game. Sign me up please! Don't really know what its about, but I've got some experience as a bug tester

[schlees]

Freu mich riesig drauf, aber denke das wisst ihr alle schon und auf der Liste bin ich ja auch schon drauf :)
Wann gehts loooos :D?

[dehenne]

... hab das kaum mitbekommen. Zum Glück erwähnst du es noch einmal :D

[schlees]

Gell, ich dachte ich meld mich lieber nochmal xD
Frohes schaffen euch und viel Erfolg :)

[paolobeneforti]

I'd like to test the beta! is it possible?

[dehenne]

in a few days. Yes

[rahvin84]

This looks awesome! Sign me up!

[flamo]

Hey @jedigeiss!? Wie geil dieses Projekt doch ist! Da ärgert es mich, dass ich nicht mehr Vote-Power habe , um euch zu unterstützen :(
Ich wäre super gern ein beta-Tester, weil ich liebe Steampunk- und Endzeitszenarien!

[free999enigma]

i would love to try the beta !

[alcy]

DAYUM I'm looking forward to it !! It seems amazing ! If there's a way to be in for the beta I'll be glad to test it !

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[albaaaa]

I can't wait to try this out! The idea is solid and your team seems very well organized, I'm following

[dksart]

Looks interesting, I would like to participate, I could do some artwork if you need help with that, is this a turn based RPG or real time?

[princeshady5]

Very fascinating

[danno528]

That's so cool! Sign me up!

[steesam]

how can we help with testing?

[maple-thunder]

This seems like a really cool idea ! I'd love to get a chance at the beta to see what it's like :)

[bernsteinhaus]

Viele Erfolg

[nuster]

Loll