Topic: [ANN][C2.1] Coin2 | Pow/PoS | ChainOfConflict[FPS] The Future of Gaming is Now - page 17. (Read 499704 times)

Awesome update. OldandGrey

thanks for the progress you have done.

I can't wait to see what you put together,.

That would be fantastic if declensions was agreeable.

Old and gray I know declentions has thrown up auote a few sounds mixes that he/she composed. They were really good. Declentions if your out there can you help old and grey with a soundtrack to his game?

[Thank you very much for such a detailed information!

I would like to help, unfortunately I don't have a good programming skills except the fact I learned HTML, CSS, MySQL for a short period of time. My knowledge of mentioned languages is only at basic-"understanding" level.
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Hi Brightlight, no problem. Just because it is basic doesn't mean to say you can't help. I'm happy to work with anyone who would like to get involved and help you to learn if it is something you want to do. Remember I knew nothing about JSON, Crypto, Construct 2 or games when I started. My CSS is probably more basic than yours as the internet was only being invented as I left uni . In fact I  remember a friend coming to me a year or two after I left Uni to show me a new thing that he was working on with some others called a web page and something called email. At that time it was all text and no graphics never mind media. I also remember the first colour tv in our neighbourhood but thats another story lol. I built my first computer which I bought with one of my first wages over Christmas (proper soldering iron job - UK101). It had a massive 8K of ram

Alternatively what are you good at? What are your interests? How can we do something within the wallet to add value. How about getting a piece of software to make html5 crosswords and allowing us to use those? or creating some puzzles for folk to play. Christmas/ Birthday cards - again software out there and tutorials on www.udemy.com and other places for these and many other things also (tip look for vouchers online as you can usually get 60-85% off on most courses).

Again there are html5 games out there that you can legitimately buy, modify and repackage (eg. www.codecanyon.net) so why not buy one of these and put it on the website. You can then get any C2 that it generates. At this stage probably less than what you had paid but as time goes on then hopefully that will change. If everyone bought/ sponsored a game then that would be a fantastic start to any game store. Just need to coordinate so that multiple people don't buy the same one and that we are sure it can be incorporated.

Just a few ideas, now discuss amongst yourselves and share what you find with others and lets see what folk can come up with. :-)

oldandgrey

Thank you very much for such a detailed information!

I would like to help, unfortunately I don't have a good programming skills except the fact I learned HTML, CSS, MySQL for a short period of time. My knowledge of mentioned languages is only at basic-"understanding" level.

Ok just a quick update, although very little happens in programming in two or three days. (I have seen me spending several days just to resolve some small bug or issue that irritated)

Game although not perfect by any means, now accepts coin2 tokens (may change the naming to vouchers) for :-

1    Additional lives
2    Additional power boosts
3    Upload Hi Score to leader board

These vouchers are limited within the game and these limits seem to be, being correctly honored.

The game is now reasonably playable and has now got a simple sound track. Perhaps once it has been released someone can produce a better sound track for me

I am now starting to write the game code and API code to allow the scores to be uploaded to the C2 server. This is proving a bit of a pain as every communication with the server requires the following :-

1    Request a Two factor token from a server
2    Wait until it is received
3    Send my message to the C2 server
4    Wait until I receive the servers response

Sometimes within Construct2 this is easy, but sometimes a little less so. However once I work it out it is easier the next time

Still to be done :-

1    Finish the score upload (obviously)
2    Write the Top 10 retrieval API and game code
3    A few bits and pieces for the user interface (extra tab on the screen, ability to set your leaderboard nickname etc.)
4    Ability to pay out for best Hi Score after a set period of time.

Disappointed with the offers of help (thanks to those who have). If you want the coin to succeed, then this is how you can make a difference.

You have pm.

Also looking for anyone good with css 😉

@ old and grey. Do you need help installing a leaderboard in your game? Let me know

No worries. We're here

Ok people, sorry for the last week of no updates.
I will see what else I can get you this week.

Apologies - long post.

Hi Brightlight, understand your frustration, but Chad has promised regular updates so I would suggest you give him a chance this week to see what he has in the pipeline.

Fwiw, I am working on a game API for the online wallet. In order to do this, I had to, with the help of a friend, create the online wallet (PHP) and an initial API (which was published in the wallet) to allow others to start and write their own applications (as originally requested by gts476). Unfortunately as yet I don't think anyone has taken up the challenge.

I have also bought a copy of construct2 and created a "proof of concept" game using one of the construct2 tutorials, to allow me to see what the issues are with such an interface. As a result the interface has now gone through a number of iterations due to technical issues not least of which is security and will continue to do so for some time I suspect. I have been learning that some basic functionality that I would have expected to have found in the game development software is not there and so I have had to "dumb down" what I was trying to do. I have also learnt that JSON AJAX is completely insecure and that it is extremely easy for anyone to see userids and passwords transmitted from a game to a webserver. Accordingly I have had to build in additional security to make the transmission more secure. The real answer would be to encrypt everything but this appears to be either not possible/ difficult or development platform dependent so at the moment I have left this for stage 2 I have had to learn this all from trial and error since I have had no experience in crypto before this, interfaced into crypto, written a game or even played one for 30+ years. I have thankfully also been able to bounce ideas off nickquest, wheelz and a few others and benefit from their experience and wisdom.

As you will appreciate this has taken time and when a lot of what you are doing is "feeling the way" it is difficult to give even ballpark estimates for what you are doing.

It is also difficult to provide details of progress on things like this for a number of reasons.

1    I have a full time job that must always take priority over any work I do.
2    I have a family that also must take priority, including a wife who actually expects me to occasionally have time to talk to her. (Usually means she talks and I nod at appropriate times), children that expect me to provide an endless supply of money and taxi rides, and lastly a dog that wants love, attention and exercise.
3    I also have other commitments, that were there long before I started this.
4    In programming it is often the smallest of details that takes the longest time and the most straight forward things that ends up taking the longest.

I had hoped to have been able to release the concept game last weekend but unfortunately lack of time, commitments and a bug that took several days to find and quash put paid to that. In addition I had servers I needed to patch

So where am I now?

1    Wallet is in place, but will need additional functionality to provide access to any games. Some of this is there, but the rest of it needs to be written.
2    There are no management screens for Game developers - this is all manual (by me) at the moment.
3    It is possible to buy a variety of tokens from your wallet using some hidden pages.
4    These tokens may be pasted into my game and redeemed against the server. (Not completely happy with the functionallity offered to the game developer but will suffice for now)
5    The game needs finished to an extent that it is playable even if it has a few minor bugs still to be ironed out.
6    API to allow High scores to be stored to the server needs written and tested.
7    API to allow retrieval of the top 10 High scores to be written and tested.
8    Program to automatically pay out High score prizes to be written and tested.

Once this is done I can release the game interface as V1.0, and Nickquest, and any others including yourself, will be able to interface into it. The most difficult and slowest part I believe is complete and the rest should progress quickly. How quickly, I don't know as this depends on how much time I have available to work on it after I get home from work each night, how many bugs there are, and how quickly I can find and kill them.

Bear in mind that I have not played any games in the last 30 years or so, never mind written any. So don't expect a world shattering game when it is released. However it will be a game that demonstrates how to interface with C2 and how to allow users to buy tokens for the game, store game scores and perhaps have payouts for the highest score.

I have also spoken to a few puzzle/ game web sites about purchasing content to provide some content and playable games (for a fee) but have not yet found anything that at the moment would be even close to affordable.

Now the question you really wanted to ask but forgot. How can you help?

1    If you have any experience in php, ajax, java, or game development then contact me or the devs, and I will be grateful for the help.
2    Download a free copy of construct2/ Game maker or any of a number of game development platforms and try your hand at game writing. Lots of tutorials out there. I've started from zero so anyone can.
3    Start looking on the internet for games that we could use/ adapt etc. to provide legally chargeable content.
4    Start visiting game developer websites to recruit game developers to interface their games into the online wallet.
5    This is not just about games, what about creating some online Christmas cards etc. to sell using the interface?
6    Help increase the interest in C2.

Appreciate that a lot of this is chicken and egg. We need the numbers to make some content affordable and we need content to increase numbers.

I will leave the others to comment on what they are doing.

rgds

O&G :-)

Coin2 starts to look as joke from the project management and public presence point of view.
Mintpal trade volume is reached zero value, price droped to 86 sats. Frozen moment, countless promises about updates.

open the wallet and just wait for it..... go to Help----Debug and you see the block number to catch up

windows wallet will not sync

Just delete it, just to be sure make a copy of it.

Condolences to you Chad and nice hear that you are feeling better!

need some help here,i have this error message 'fail to dl blkindex.dat'  when try to open my wallet..how to fix it please?

We got something really huge coming. Kalisto is working hard on it. I can't say what it is yet.  I'm feeling better myself.
I will be back shortly with more info. Preparing to do a video.

 It's been a hard week. 

Stay tuned, and don't forget. Follow me @chadcrypto on the twitter.

Thanks

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