Topic: [ANN] Chrono Kings - a game/world Within the Block Chain (Read 20676 times)

Would CoffeeMUD suffice?

See Galactic Milieu, https://www.devtome.com/galactic_milieu

-MarkM-

I was a huge fan of a MMO (Text based) RPG game called BatMud (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BatMUD) which was created in 1990. I was absolutely obsessed with this game and I would have been a full blown addict, IF it was linked to some kind of Crypto coin back then.

The day when they release a game like https://www.bat.org/ (BatMUD) with Crypto currency as a in-game currency... I will go nuts. If you ever want to design something like that, please notify me when it is done. (I will be your #1 Fan/Player/Promoter) 

I'm bumping because of the discovery of property titles on NMC and Emblem Vault resizing in these anceint NFT and being wrapped up good to ERC-721 with all data intent over selling these vintage pioneer NFL into' the mainstream before eth, others. They've more fun too! I wish the apps came back. Doge Reboot is doing quite well competition. It's 7 years old fast settlement and Emblem Vault away from being a UTXO, ancient NFT, only to have an ERC-721 "wallet" to protect its wrapped travels. Just in time for dinner Emblem.Vault FTW!

Hi, I just wanted to bump this very old thread with an update on the first post.

First of all we have been working on this project on and off for quite some time... albeit in a bit of a stealth mode.

In the time since we had started we have added multiple upstream fixes and updates to Bitcoin Core by working on this project.
We've also carried on the function of merged mining thus giving more incentive to mine Bitcoin itself.

That out of the way, Chronokings is now almost a reality for those that are still interested in this tech and project.

https://taurion.io




Fully decentralised, autonomous, trustless - following the true crypto path.

A Trailer here > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlLDIHWFSuo&feature=youtu.be

and some of the game information here > https://taurion.io/game-information/

Some of the pre-alpha gameplay > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPLBKPYn1LI

Definitely happy to discuss

Hi snailbrain ,

Do you have some rough timeline for chronokings, shall we expect anything for the next 6 months ?
Also, You did run a meaningful experiment on Huntercoin but do you intent to switch your dev mojo back on the original plan  ?

Sounds awesome I can't wait I am currently trying out huntercoin.

I want 1BUC for tart game...THX! HS7aowYzUppvSK7dTiE4xjWxn5xU8hmRCJ

thanks for the suggestions..

you won't be able to log off though ://

Invis:
they won't be able to hack client to see.. ..

there will be no safe zones, but people can build walls and barricade (Fort?) themselves in.. (around harvest areas.. like castles)
crossing chronoking world can take a week or more.. maybe 1 month.

Chronokings will be more of a game, were as huntercoin is more specifically human mining crypto currency

It will be a while before we start REAL development.. we will also need funding/investors.. but for now we will concentrate on Huntercoin

Its great I like the idea and the game too.

The Chono game, if its good, and the minecraft/runescape crowd gets to know about this game, millions would play.

I have some ideas for it... I have played alot of MMOs so I know what people love.

- Make your chars not die in one shot, armor items could help with this. I see you already plan a healer, this will probably be done.
- 2 equipment item slots, 1 defensive, 1 weapon. If you die you drop 1 of them. (Effective item sink, so not all ppl will have full items after 1 week.)
- Marketplace to sell and buy items.
- Random generated stats(with some limits) like diablo games for items could keep it interesting for much, much longer.
- Item enchantments (+1, +2, +3, +... -ing them) with some cost and and probability for failing would make for a simple, but addictive alchemy, the higher the +, the bigger chance of fail. Each + raises base stats. (Effective money sink, so not all ppl have 1000s of coins after a week.)
- Have a safe zone, no attacks in faction bases, or main base. So you CAN logoff with peace.
- Dead body stays on ground for 2-3 rounds and healers can revive dead characters while they are there, for other players too(so alliances make sense). Their gold/items don't stay with them when that happens.

Also, I would be careful with the invisibility, if you still send the movement info to all network, they might be hacked clients that ignore invisibility flag.

Huntercoin > Released > https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-chrono-kings-a-gameworld-within-the-block-chain-262599
Source: https://github.com/chronokings/huntercoin
Binaries: http://www.mediafire.com/folder/h5f96sw56c196/HunterCoin

Chronokings

1. Top Down - probably - if we can find some investors or professionals looking to contribute, it could be 1st or 3rd person (3d) - although it would probably play more like HeroQuest/SpaceHulk instead of realtime movement -- although Free Look without time/blocks flowing could still work.

2. PermaDeath = yes, it will be perma death if you die.

3. A New Player and a vet player will probably be on the same "level", unless the Vet has some ultra rare item. - Chronokings Map will be very big, and may take days or weeks to cross the map. 1 square (move) per block (1min) will take a long time to move anywhere.

4. Time in Chronokings (and huntercoin) is in blocks. aka Chronon, 1 Quantum of Time. It's impossible to do anything else in between the blocks, except maybe "queue" some moves.

5. Yep the more the merrier

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Huntercoin Release Thread >> https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/annhuc-huntercoin-worlds-first-decentralized-gameworld-on-the-blockchain-435170

This sounds pretty legit, i can offer a couple of tips or two as i am an avid gamer, and i'm also helping one of my friends develop something as well.

1. How are you planning to do the layout of the game? Is it gonna be a top down rts style, or more of a 3rd person mmo sorta feel.

2. Did you ever think about trying something new with the concept. Like having a "PermaDeath" feature, something like "Realm of the Mad God", or "Day Z". It's just an idea, but you can run with it. You can set it up in a way, that your coins won't be affected by your death, but it does make the pace overall faster if your looking to go on that approach.

3. I see you put "Receive a coin when you kill a player (this is taken from the cost of the “dead” character.. e.g. 1 coin)". You can make it so that you get a coin taken away from you if you kill a player that is "off limits" (ex. have been killed to frequently). It would help new players who just start out to actually have fun with the game, instead of having that snowball effect where more experienced players are farming them for coin, xD.

4. "Characters can make one action per block. For example, move one square and/or cast an ability (or speak)". I didn't understand what you meant by this (sorry for my idiocy, ). I'm not to sure if it has something to do with blocks dealing with BTC, or that there is literally "blocks" that there going to be moving on, something like final fantasy tactics.

5. I love your ideas on the classes (i'm a sucker for diversity ) If you can, Try adding more classes.

(i would add more, but i dont want to bore you with so much reading, xD)

Also if you need help with anything dude, I'm more of a gamer than i am a BTC guru. So if you need help or need some new ideas. Feel free to contact me whenever, I always love seeing people try new things. And since BTC is pretty dam new, the potential is unlimited (depending on how much work your trying to put in)  

Huntercoin Client is complete - Release Date scheduled soon

Huntercoin will be Dual Algo - SHA256 AND Scrypt - both support Merge Mining

See Wiki for more information

http://wiki.chronokings.com/index.php?title=Mining

This would be great if it were a merge mined game. 1000 florin to anyone that can make this happen.

Is this still being developed?

Pixel of this is killer

Any mining pool yet? Either that or a guide of howto solo mine would be great.

New Huntercoin Video no2

Mapsize Increase -- 502x502 (4x bigger) - (half a day to get to the centre and back)
Pathfinding with Obstacle Avoidance.
Added Sprites
Customized Map Visualizer (much faster.. video does not do it justice)
and more

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhB7wGX1CSk

excuse grammatical errors

thanks, very nice

VERY COOL! /\LOVE THIS!!!   *KEEP IT UPPP!!!*

Great work snailbrain


an image for you




http://postimg.org/image/nbnbx1dxd/

Added new information to the wiki

Huntercoin
http://wiki.chronokings.com/index.php?title=Huntercoin

Technical Information:
http://wiki.chronokings.com/index.php?title=Introduction
http://wiki.chronokings.com/index.php?title=Transactions

New Update on Huntercoin

please check possible maps and more news (point and click movement, pathing, multi-select) :

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.3345394

Video Demo of HunterCoin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx_zKQR1brU

This is the zork of cryto... great work...

updated OP (roadmap)..

HunterCoin
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/annhuc-huntercoin-human-mine-able-crypto-currency-gameworld-300538


Possible new ability for Chronokings:

Invisibility

Thanks all for the confidence booster ..

it will be a fresh start.. i doubt this version will survive so i guess all coins will be pretty much useless/worthless..
it's just a proof of concept

We will create a new thread in the altcoin section when we have something "ready", pre-release

Yeah, I'm looking forward to this, once it gets developed further it will be great. So, when you say this is a prototype, do you mean proof-of-concept, pre-alpha, or something else entirely? Will the CHR we've already made carry on into future developments (doing so would help attract more users, especially while mining is so easy!) or will you start fresh after more people take interest?

I'm having issue mining this... It's a hoot to play. Interface needs to be easier to use to move around easier.

I'm enjoying this! I just hope this goes the way of the successful emonies, I just have to resist the temptation to buy a 10kCHR pizza and I'll be (relatively) rich! 

Hehe, I mean blocks are getting hit too fast. Since turns are based on the blocks, there are times where I don't have time to make another turn before the block changes. I'm expecting the difficulty change in another hundred blocks or so then.

Anyway, I'm thoroughly enjoying myself. Cant wait to see what the game will become. For now I'm just calling it autism blocks.

i left it on about block 400 for a few days un-mined (or just with cpu)

i stopped mining (with my nvidia gpu).. maybe it will make it a bit better for you

its 2076 at block now though, and no retarget? The 5 second turns are killing me lol.

at the moment it's the same as bitcoin - re-target every 2016 blocks.. we will be changing this though

Does the difficulty change? It has been 1 for a long while.

looks like a bug...

will find out asap.. hopefully you got a small taste for now

seems to be going again.. (security will be weak in this state)...

Yeah, is the chain stuck?

oh god this block has taken more than like 10 seconds...

yes, 1 attack = death... I think strategies will evolve as it is (it will have to if they want to get coins efficiently)...
People will probably need to have many characters and sacrifice them to cause diversions to get to a coin...

The mechanics will change some with the next one ..

This will possibly be the map of a finite size (250x250? we haven't decided yet) :



Each colour spawns in their own area...
You cannot attack your own colour.
The Map Reward Coins spawn around the middle of the map (light blue squares)..
To Cash your coins in you will need to bring them back to your spawn area.. you can be killed and someone can steal your looted coins..
Miners will probably only receive 10-20% of what is going into the game each block, but may receive tax when coins are brought back to the spawn area (note: this may not work, maybe miners will only process none attack moves)

the names and game window will be split (names tab + game tab), with arrows for movement, attack button, and chat should hold the last 5 blocks or so..


the Full Chronokings characters will (hopefully) have health points and different types of attacks :
Damage over time (DoTs aka poisons), Direct Damage (DD) and Heals (direct heals and heals over time [HoTs]), maybe root (unable to move)..


Pathfinding: Yes we will definitely need point and click

this is fun.

Imagine lua scripting your players to move while you are away...
edit - do you want art done for this? Here's some of my work - www.mushbuh.com / most recent http://gamejolt.com/games/arcade/taquito-tower/17651/
edit edit: for the love of god PLEASE add pathfinding to points so i dotn have to click each time

Very neat concept, I'm amused as the game is now, can't wait for the finished/more detailed versions.

edit* My only discrepency is the fighting. If two people attack each other, they both automatically die?

it's best not to encrypt your wallet.. so u don't keep getting "hassled" for your pw

nice start !~ we need to get Eric \/. to help on the dice aspect would'nt it be awesome to have a dungeons and dragons bitnet type game/coin???;-)easyyyy rolling!

a very early version of "a" prototype is running atm.. on main net

you can add these nodes...

addnode=192.241.222.65
addnode=146.185.131.175

you will need to mine it to get the blocks going (sha256).. it's only a proof of concept but it is virtually fully working.. there are a few issues and we won't be supporting this version... this early prototype isn't very fun, but you can see that the game mechanics are fully possible within this "coin/world"...

we will be improving controls and other things in the next couple of weeks.. removing the infinitely expanding map, and probably adding 2 more colours with different spawn locations..

the finished prototype will have a different name, and it will be a "coin" and basic "game" in itself.. VERY basic game, but "different" than every other "clone coin" out there.. (it will be different than "this" version)..

Windows Binaries (or compile from github) http://www.mediafire.com/folder/zc2kmacth1e1t/Chronokings

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to mine, something like this in your conf file.. (using your own user/pass)


post an address if you want some coins to play with (no ones mining at this time, so unless someone else is,  it may be a bit useless)

remember this is a very early prototype so there are some bugs and also it is not very "fun"...

to see the game window properly, you really need a full hd monitor..

MOO, is that an acronym for something? 

Great project, I will give it a try for sure

Wellcome to the new era of crypto{everything}currencies

Wiki added:

http://wiki.chronokings.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

•   Players can specify an address to receive rewards to.. this will be like a guildbank/pool (in a way).. this will allow for better co-operation with other players.
•   Harvesters may have to "transport" their harvests to a "bank" (a tile on the map)... this may/will be dangerous..

Give it time, at least you can see that work is being done.

be patient.. maybe it won't work

I don't code and can't read code

https://github.com/chronokings/chronokings/commits/master

updates?

Hopefully you will achieve what you want with the project, good luck!

~Lauda

I share your enthusiasm greatly and I admire the philosophy regardless of how fancy the graphics/gameplay will be. this is a milestone that will lure in entertainment-based crypto for game developers in the future

yes sir

Imagine mining coins with expensive hardware (not many of us have this).. and imagine mining coins manually avoiding death.. man hours will be needed to mine the coins.. of course people may/will make bots.. but from experience, bots are never as good as human players (not including FPS aim type bots).. this may change though.. (obviously it should be FUN)

probably the crown/throne of fortune may receive 10 or 15% each of the block reward.. miners 20% of block reward.. the rest into harvesting  (50%)..

not sure what you mean by visuals of the game site though...

it will be a basic style map.. maybe starting 300 x 300 squares (at the start)... possibly a river (obstacle) running through the centre, with a bridge in the middle...

you click a character(s) and move him/her to the next square.. you (hopefully) will be able to click a square far a way so the client
paths to this square so you can go afk (if the journey takes hours)

The Harvest areas will regenerate every block...

there's a few problems, like : what happens when no more coins are generated (if we did this)... what happens if a miner doesn't process your moves and only his (you will probably die or never catch the crown without a coordinated effort))..

but this is an experiment.. if it explodes, is hacked/exploited on release, don't be angry.. (we will try our best to prevent this of course)

I'd like to see some visuals of the game site where the transactions translate onto before naming it, so as to name it appropriately and in a way that is distinctive to what the coin does.

This will be interesting.

Changed name - for now... what do you think? (had a mixed reaction so far)

Chrono Kings

We envision the game evolving into a sort of Ruler style world.. i.e. Kings.. over time (hopefully) people will attack/rebel against the king(s)... the Kings will be the owners of the Crown of Fortune and/or Throne of Fortune.

development has started on a basic prototype...

https://github.com/chronokings/chronokings

as for the name of the coins : Chrons? Chronos? Crowns?

May Add: Throne of Fortune - A square of which if a player is on, he will receive X% of Block reward..

My opinion:
http://dot-bit.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1042
 

good idea

we won't add it... but we could have a treasure chest on the map which spawns a random item in the chest every X blocks..

Anti-scammer idea: Reward miners with game items instead of currency. Then they have to play the game to sell them at all

Credit to k9quaint for inspiring this idea.

nice/\BTC/\robot game coin? ha you got a faucet running yet? when do you list on cryptsushi? lol

start a bounty thread asking for game dev's of all sorts, I'm sure they'd love to make a game that directly incorporates an innovative coin

anyone can play with the coins.. you will create your character (same way you create a namecoin name)..
no screenshots as we have not started...
a 2 Man Band is involved in the creation of the game at the moment.. (namecoin-qt coder and myself)

graphics will probably be very simple...
imagine 2d RPG style.. but may only even be squares and a grid.. or even text based..
maybe the community will add better graphics

if you want better graphics or a better game .. donate ... we will create a prototype to show it's possible and go from there..

So only those with coins making "special" transactions are able to play?

Do you have any screenshots? Who is developing this game? What will the graphics be like?

maybe

it is Massively Multiple Player Online - Role Playing (race/chat/Artefacts/Social) Game..
but not like others..


we are hoping to create a prototype without spells and some other limitations soon..


EDIT: One of the things what we are trying to do with this game is demonstrate the possibilities.. such as:

Spells with X Block Recast
Movement
Harvest Areas
Killing
Picking Up Items
Health Points
Leveling (we think we can do, but we might not)
Moving more than 1 square or attacking someone who is more than 1 square away
Obstacles on the Map (river)
Player Made Obstacle (walls/buildings)


our original idea was much more simple..

Red Vs Blue (you are just a square)
3 Classes, no spells.... players dmg/heal   enemies/allies in adjacent squares every block.
A Map that Restarts when 1 team wins.

Fight to the death.. if you are alive at the end and your team wins then you get 1 "point"..
you then go back to character select and you queue again for the next game..
 the size of the map is based on the amount of players.

If you player has survived 20 matches in a row then you receive x% of block reward... these characters aka "20+" will be hunted down in the game..
20+ only get the block reward when inside a map

BUT.. we decided a persistent world map would be a better game..

I would say MMORPG is COMPLETELY the wrong description.  If there is no real character development, it is not an RPG.  Full stop.

That's not necessarily a bad thing.  But it's definitely not an RPG in any sense I know.

We need to start somewhere..

the limits of what we believe we can do are endless.. (but our pockets are not
although - the game is supposed to be simple (edit.. not as simple as possible)

if it became popular, and we got around some issues.. we can expect an android/ios version...

It may be that the game is completely text based, or you are just red and blue squares when it is released...

you could probably wrap anything around the game, from Fantasy to Space (if this is what you mean by classic RPG setting)...
example.. instead of a Wizard he is a Space Marine with a Gun...
i think Fantasy is ok...... but open to suggestions

The letters MMORPG is bordering almost incorrect for this game..
one of the points of the game is competition against other players to get as much of the block reward as possible.. almost like "being able to mine without expensive hardware".. getting money is Fun... if no one plays, it will be easy to get coins ( aka lower difficulty)

Content:
will be almost none... it will be player vs player.. there will be no NPCs...

I envision (simulated in my own mind ;d):

Chaos at first, people attacking everyone...
A player will get the Crown of Fortune and be chased to the ends of map until he needs to sleep or dies...
People will realize they need to make friends (or bring friends) and protect each others farms (harvest areas)..
Guilds may form (which will have the same effects as pools) - Websites can be created which will monitor all the guilds "income" (by monitoring block chain).. and maybe they have to pay a fee to the guilds "Fighters/Guards" for protecting the guild hall building which has been created as a place people can leave their characters..
Friends may backstab you to steal the crown of fortune, or to kill everyone in your guild hall (player made building) who are in fact all AFK (at work)

One group/guild may start dominating, and own the crown of fortune and a large harvest area.. eventually other people will join forces to attack them to stop them monopolyzing..

Mining Pools / Block Explorer can show the Map of the world... and maybe you can even play the game in a webbrowser of an exchange/pool.


just random thoughts :d

"scrypt is a complete failure as POW"

Would you please elaborate?

Is there a general or vague prototype or is this in the brainstorming phase? I will be watching this closely as I believe this is the next stage of crypto, joining utility of entertainment as a base value for the coin itself.

edit: understand what you mean now.

in "this coin" you can transfer characters to other players... but the purpose might only be for something like:

"i'm going to work, who wants my team of 4 miners at the other side of the map ?"... maybe for free or maybe for a fee...
to get to the other side of the map may take 2 hours (or more) from starting location...

just an example

There probably will be no levels (although not set in stone).. each character class will be even in terms of strength, unless you have an Artefact .. also.. you will probably control a couple of characters at once... maybe you will have 3 harvesters (civilians) and 4 Rogues and 2 healers.. assuming you can control them all..
to dominate in the game you will need to "possibly/probably" work as a team, and "pool" your spoils..

You would not be able to have a group of max leveled terminators that can one shot you (well.. if you are attacked by 6 rogues you may be one shotted).... if we do integrate any sort of leveling it will not be a massive improvement over starting from scratch.
You will also never be able to log out of the game... once you are in the game, if you need to go to work, then your characters will probably die.. UNLESS, you are in some sort of group/guild of which there is round the clock support/guards, maybe protecting the entrance to your player made building at the far end of the map...


Some notes of how this will work.. (not set in stone, and we have a few options)..

You create a player exactly like you create a name in Namecoin. The player name becomes attached to a certain address (public key). You must send a specific coin amount to this address, which becomes locked (i.e. it's still yours, but you cannot spend it). You use tx-out of this locked coin to prove that you are the owner of the player.

You do moves (one per block) like you update names (in nmc). The move is encoded in the JSON string, attached to the name. E.g. {delta_x:1, delta_y:0} moves your player to the right.

The game state can at any moment be obtained by scanning through all moves since the genesis block. It will be cached in the database, just like nameindex.dat caches the state of registered names in Namecoin.

Moves need to be announced one block ahead in form of hash, otherwise players may cheat by seeing opponents' moves in the transaction pool. This still gives a little cheating possibility: you can announce move, but if it turns out unprofitable, you refuse to reveal it (i.e. you cancel the move). In this case you lose the ability to make a move in this block and maybe the ability to announce the next move till next block (so you skip 2 moves). We hope that losing 2 moves will compensate the ability to cancel a move. (this is not set in stone )

I like the idea > next kickstarter.com 

Special transactions . . . Does this imply that specific amounts of coins are required to be spent, received, or both? Is this based on quantitative transactions, i.e. the "significance" of a player move depends on the amount sent and/or received, or qualitative in some way? If it is the former, is this "innate utility" for linking crypto perceptual value in practical value (gaming), redundant if based on spending/transactions that can be simply transacted between one's own wallet(s)? The game will be full of maxed-out level/experienced people from this exploitation, which in turn lowers the quality of gaming and practical value.

Not related to games, but I'm trying out this concept for OpenID login (but the code for both client and server can be used if you want to integrate it directly into your own server side to allow logins):  https://nameid.org/

I precisely think that namecoin names with private key signatures are a cool and useful way to log into services without having to remember passwords and such (but of course you have to keep your private keys secure).

Hilarious how this was an idea of mine once, except that I did not think to make it within the block chain itself. That's ingenious, 'innate utility' if you will.

A very simple but possibly interesting way to attach an RPG to namecoin or a similar blockchain would be to use signed messages for logins.

Allow people to trade logins aka usernames or player-accounts or individual character accounts the same way they trade domains in namecoin, and have logging in to the account require proving you have the private key of the address that currently owns that domain / nation / character / login.

people could put accounts up for possibly being won by conquest or whatever to putting them under control of an address whose private key they then give to the game-server so the game can assign ownership based on in game events...

-MarkM-

If you use Namecoin's merged mining, yes.
But since it was created (over a year ago now), various flaws have been found with it, and ideas for improvement.
For something new, it would make sense to learn from this and use a newer system based on this background - hence my suggestion to discuss with Freicoin (who are doing this).

Before thinking about other currencies, you have to think about something. Is the seperate currency just to be used in game? Or do you want it traded on exchanges. I mean, it will probably make its way to an exchange some way or another, but if your main goal is to facilitate an in game currency, accepting other coins may or may not be a good idea. I've seen many Bitcoin/Litecoin based games, where the dev had a good idea, implemented it well, but as soon as the coin takes off, no one wants to use it in game. I played a few different game servers that managed to integrate Litecoins as ingame currency when they were $.02-.03 each, and it wasn't a problem, but as soon as they hit $.20 each, everything siezed up, and no one played the game anymore, because they didn't want to pay $100 for in game services. Being able to make money in your game by playing could be a huge selling feature, but you want to make sure that the coin value isn't too high, or people will stop using it as the game currency. Of course, you can't say how much the coin is going to be worth, but there are a few things you can do to keep the game's economy fluid.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/mmocoin-idea-for-an-all-in-one-coin-based-on-litecoin-195717

just found this... similar idea (we had talked about it months ago though )




we aren't sure yet, and are open to suggestions ...

Merge Mining with "this coin" as a secondary chain should work almost out of the box if we kept as sha256.. (i believe)

BTW, note that while SHA256d has been a great success for POW, none of the other contenders have worked out so far (scrypt is a complete failure as POW).

Other players? But I guess if you want the game mechanics to "print money", this would mean you need its own currency, yes.

thanks for comments

one of the points of the game is you can play the game at a low cost, but have the chance to get lots of coins (hopefully, who knows what will happen )

where would the other coins come from?

It would, but I think it'd help your project a lot.

I can't guarantee it, but I would definitely work to get Eligius mining it.
Be sure to check out what Freicoin's merged mining plans are.

This is also solved (better) by using external cryptocurrencies.

thanks...

this would be more difficult (your first part)...

2nd part:
getting a pool to merge mine this coin from the start will be "hard work?", or do you know if it wouldn't (if we used sha256)..

also, we want to get the coins spread out as much as possible at release (a giveaway will have to be done instantly on launch also).. otherwise only certain players/miners will be in the game (the ones with all the coins), and they will then be able to monopoly even more coins from inside the game..

Oh hell yes.

I'd love to see this working. Count me in as a beta tester.

Would be neat if you could make the game use other cryptocurrencies as currency, instead of having its own (this will prevent the usual pump-and-dump scammers from ruining it)..
Should definitely make it support merged mining so pools can support it.

I wonder if there'd be any way to make this MOO-like?
eg, have the virtual world be user-programmable rather than hardcoding the game in the rules.

Neat idea, I'd be happy to have you in the Alt Currencies section should you decide its worth doing.

edit* The biggest issue people have with new coins is the lack of innovation. Its just lazy if people copy others. Your idea on the otherhand is a new idea, and I'd say a cool one if you had the dev team / knowhow to do it.

Road map:

ChronoKings v0.1 - proof-of-concept - done (won't be supported) -
https://github.com/chronokings/chronokings
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/zc2kmacth1e1t/Chronokings

HunterCoin - based on the proof-of-concept - RELEASED
RELEASE THREAD https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/annhuc-huntercoin-worlds-first-decentralized-gameworld-on-the-blockchain-435170
Source: https://github.com/chronokings/huntercoin
Binaries: www.huntercoin.org

Wiki: http://wiki.huntercoin.org/

Chronokings v0.2 - a more advanced MMO-RTS/RPG

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Chrono Kings

This will be a decentralized currency/game (mmorpg? mmorts? a new genre?), using Bitcoin-style internal currency. The whole game/world will take place within the block chain using special transactions to denote player moves.

To achieve this, a modified fork of Namecoin will be used (algo currently sha256, but may change later, merge mining may be an option). This coin cannot and will not be used as an alternative to Namecoin. Names will be used as characters/players within the virtual world.

Miners will receive 1 to 40% (TBD) of the Block reward, the rest goes into the game... miners will generate more coins from "taxes"

One of the advantages of Chronokings, is that expensive hardware is not required to receive a decentralized cryptographic secure currency.. teamwork, strategy and time will be the main ways to receive coins.

Notes on basic game details (these are subject to change):

•   The game will be a decentralised tile based MMO game, rpg/rts
•   It will be FFA PVP ruleset (Free For All, Player Vs Player)(or factions)
•   Sandbox, Persistent World.
•   Multiple Races (Orc, Elf, Human etc. will be no advantage, or may be just 1 race but different colours)
•   4 Classes (for now)

• Warrior
• Rogue
• Healer
• Civilian

•   Built in Messaging System, you can message once per block with your character, all message will (at first) be public.. Global Chat and Local(personal chat) of which the client will display local messages if the player is within x amount of squares distance.
•   Spells/Attacks (probably limited to 3 each). (which will have x block recast)
•   Characters can make one action per block. For example, move one square and/or cast an ability (or speak)
•   Between 30-60 second block time (move time).
•   There will be Harvest areas on the map which grow over time (this will be taken from block reward and/or character cost). These areas will need to be protected from rivals and raiding parties.
•   A single item which gives the player approximately 15% of the block reward per block - The Crown of Fortune (the Ultimate Item)…
•   Create walls (buildings), and destroy them.
•   Control as many characters as you wish (at a cost).
•   Receive a coin when you kill a player (this is taken from the cost of the “dead” character.. e.g. 1 coin).
•   The Map can expand infinitely based on the number of players alive in game.
•   Artefacts – These are rare items (only a few exist, and are never respawned). An example being the Ring of Regeneration, which will regenerate X health points per block.
•   Possibly  Add - Throne of Fortune - 1 Square on the Map of which whomever is on the square receives 15% of Block Reward.. The Ultimate task would be to control both the Crown of Fortune on the Throne of Fortune square.
•   Players can specify an address to receive rewards to.. this will be like a guildbank/pool (in a way).. this will allow for better co-operation with other players.
•   Harvesters may have to "bank" their harvests in a bank (a tile on the map)... this may be dangerous..
•   Rogues may have Invisibility ability (lasts x blocks).. cannot attack while invis
•   Alliances

Why? Fun, Experiment, Different.. Problems? Yes

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