Hello /r/btc
I'm excited to finally announce the project which we've been working on in our evenings and weekends. We're aiming to make this project our full time job with the help of the community.
🕹Introducing Joystick.club — Pay to Play Games powered by Bitcoin Cash
Joystick.club is your virtual local arcade, located between the world wide web and the public blockchain. No sticky floors, lack of ventilation, no neighbors peering over your shoulder, and no impatient queue laying quarters down on your game saying “I’m next”. This is arcade style game play, brought to the blockchain. Joystick.club accepts micro-payments and in turn, provides players with fun, pick up and play style games.
👾Leaderboards & Loyalty Points
Joystick.club allows gamers to compete for the top position of each games’ leaderboard. As this project develops, gamers will be eligible to earn and acquire JOY by playing games. By holding JOY tokens, you are a member of Joystick.club and are eligible for reward payments at the end of each month, based on the total revenue generated by users paying-and-playing our game. These rewards will be distributed entirely in Bitcoin Cash, encouraging more gamers to play, and the community to grow by naturally realizing that holding more JOY means holding a greater % of the revenue.
Why pay to play gaming?
Gaming is a multi-billion dollar industry. Through its humble beginnings from the 70s onwards, gamers have been spending their hard earned money to enjoy some fun. Much of the growth in video games originated from Arcades. Dark rooms, cramped with electronic machines ranging from Pac-man, space invaders, to run of the mill pinball machines. While gaming evolved to home gaming consoles, online gaming, and the trend to purchase the “whole game” became the new norm. The need for game ownership has been reduced thanks to increased internet bandwidth, competing free-to-play games (League, PubG, etc) and the freemium model we’ve seen in games in mobile app stores.
Translating spending quarters (0.25c) to online free-to-play games couldn’t scale with traditional permissioned-based payment processors. High fees, along with countless middlemen and regulatory bodies, national laws, and don’t forget international copyright, completely killed any possibility of letting users drop in some money and compete to be the best at casual, pick up and play games.
We believe that a second Golden Age of Arcade Videos Games is just around the corner. Thanks to low-fee cryptocurrency and permissionless payment networks, we’re ready to help introduce a new (but vintage) style of casual gaming to gamers around the world, and create the tools necessary for more game developers to join in on this retro-revolution.
☁️Why not use Ethereum or Bitcoin?
This project was originally created around the idea of building on Ethereum (ETH). Unfortunately, due to the rising fees, and the EVM’s inability to handle micro-transactions on layer1, we had to go elsewhere. Nobody is going to spend over $5 to play a 0.25c game. When choosing a cryptocurrency to build around, it’s critical to choose one that not only has the tools available to accomplish your goals (tokens, apis, wallets, web3.js inspired tooling), but also the network effect of users. Truthfully we did not even consider BTC because the fees are just through the roof. You can't build on Bitcoin. Certainly not for small transactions that require instant processing. Layer 2 with Lightning is overly complicated, has almost 0 adoption, and has huge user experience issues (see funding channels, settling).
Bitcoin Cash is one of the most popular cryptocurrencies, and is the only cryptocurrency that has been built from the ground up to focus on micro-transactions and for layer1 scalability. While it may get the stink-face from the most depressed maximalists, for those who have used it, it’s impossible to say it’s not useful. I strongly believe more ETH projects, including those participating and building defi will begin to migrate to BCH as fees continue to rise and prevent sustained growth on their projects as people are priced out from participating. This is doubly true with the introduction of EVM compatible sidechain SmartBCH — which we will be monitoring closely.
Our small team remains indifferent to coin politics, we simply want to see a project with micro-transactions and gaming succeed in global adoption. At the current moment, BCH stands to fill this niche fastest.
🛣Roadmap:
Phase 1 — Launch website supporting 3 games playable with BCH via Badger Wallet for Chrome and Firefox
Phase 2 — Mobile Wallet partnerships. We’re focusing on partnering with Bitcoin.com Wallet app to allow their users to begin to pay to game, and will be exploring additional wallet integrations with Pokket, Zapit, and other multi-coin wallets which support crypto enabled sites.
Phase 3— Flipstarter and private donations. Supporters earn early JOY.
Phase 4— Launch one more game with input from our Joystick.club Telegram. Release JOY token details
Phase 5— Play and earn JOY tokens on Bitcoin Cash’s SLP protocol. Complete integration to more Bitcoin Cash wallets.
Phase 6— Begin airdrops. 50% of revenue generated from gameplay to be distributed via Monthly dividends (airdrops) to our (has no value) JOY token and its holders.
Phase 7— Launch additional game(s).
Phase 8 — Hire additional contractors for in game art, tooling assistance, and begin development on open source Unity and/or Construct plugin, enabling more game developers to add BCH and SLP into new games.
Phase 9 — Release open source game on Unity or Construct which supports Bitcoin Cash and/or SLP tokens.
Phase 10 — Grow game library, bring more game developers into Bitcoin Cash. Build support for NFT in-game items/skins. Grow library from partnered games releasing on our platform.
👋Who is behind Joystick.club?
Due to the nature of this project and the legally uncertain stance in our local government involving both cryptocurrency, and the risks associated with starting a project like this which also contains a (no value) reward token, we will remain anonymous and go simply by our handles. You may have seen me on reddit or telegram.
Amalektricity — Runner up for Devcon.cash 2020 for my game Block Breakers, which showcased BCH pay to play games. I have been a passionate Bitcoin Cash enthusiast since 2018. With 4 years of game development experience and 5 years project management experience. I’ve worked in two different gaming startups, and currently freelance as a game developer. My hope is to secure enough funding for this project to drop freelance work and my time on this project.
PangilFreeman — Full time developer, specializing in web games. New to Bitcoin Cash but very passionate about disrupting the gaming industry, along with high fees from Apple, Google, and other payment platforms. Low fee, microtransactions in game have not been fully explored, and I hope to showcase to the game developer industry that we are able to change faster than you might think.
Non-managing contributors — We have several people from our contacts within the industry, including gaming, business, and payments, who have agreed to help contribute and support us in our mission. In addition to several well known community members who we hope to bring on as advisors.
❤️Help flipstart our project
Help Joystick.club secure funding to develop, launch, and maintain the first Bitcoin Cash powered mobile and desktop arcade, enabling micro-payments across pick up and play gaming. We're trying to raise 75 BCH which will be used to allow our team to drop our client work and focus our attention on this project. A portion of the funds will also be used for marketing campaigns, contracted design work for in game art, game licenses, contractors and hosting to support scaling the project up, and any unforeseen expenses. Both founders are based in an affordable Asian country which will allow the funds to go much further than they might in western countries.
We already have a working demo that supports Badger Wallet for Chrome and Firefox. Visit Joystick.club with badger wallet installed to try it out!
A big thank you to folks who shared code for us to build off of and those who gave feedback and help to our team since we started building. A big thank you to James Cramer from the SLP Foundation, JT from the SLP Foundation, Stoyan from the BCH Devs & Builders, Tom Zander of Bitcoin Unlimited, Vin Armani and the people behind Badger Wallet, The Bitcoin.com Wallet team for their Link API and assistance debugging, and an extra special thanks to Chris Troutner from Permissionless Software Foundation who both encouraged us in the Hackathon, and offered continued support long afterwards while we went through trial and error on getting this project to work well. If we are not able to secure enough funding for any reason, I would hope you will support Chris Troutner's projects.
Lastly, please subscribe to /r/PinoyProgrammer/ - I would love to see more Bitcoin Cash discussion happening there to introduce more people in our region to BCH.
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