MonteCrypto: 1 BTC prize for the winner of this video game!

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Quote from: cengsuwuei on May 16, 2018, 04:16:49 PM

what is game
lottery or what. and how much must pay or how much register in youre game

It's $2.99 the first week, and $4.99 thereafter. The first person to solve each puzzle wins its prize. Here are a list of the prizes: http://moonshadowgames.com/paradoxofthecryptomancers/bitcoinaddresses/#bitcoin

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Quote from: msgames on May 16, 2018, 03:17:07 PM

Congratulations to the ARG Solving Station team for solving Montecrypto - Luigy, en, JTobcat, ziot, motive, Askin, lucifers_cat!

There is a new opportunity to win bitcoin. There will be 20 winners this time - a portion of the 0.5 BTC prize pool will be hidden in each of 20 puzzles.

The game is Paradox of the Cryptomancers. We were inspired by this community to build an epic treasure hunt.

http://moonshadowgames.com/paradoxofthecryptomancers/

If you want to relive the excitement, this new challenge starts soon - on the 25th.

Good Luck

what is game
lottery or what. and how much must pay or how much register in youre game

msgames

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Congratulations to the ARG Solving Station team for solving Montecrypto - Luigy, en, JTobcat, ziot, motive, Askin, lucifers_cat!

There is a new opportunity to win bitcoin. There will be 20 winners this time - a portion of the 0.5 BTC prize pool will be hidden in each of 20 puzzles.

The game is Paradox of the Cryptomancers. We were inspired by this community to build an epic treasure hunt.

http://moonshadowgames.com/paradoxofthecryptomancers/

If you want to relive the excitement, this new challenge starts soon - on the 25th.

Good Luck

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Thought about playing for a while but decided not to because I don't have much free time and this would reflect badly on it

Didn't even think about all the possible security implications mentioned in the thread. While we are at it I will mention one more that I haven't seen mentioned yet. After reading "The wallet.dat is protected by a 24 word-long password. There are 24 enigmas to solve, each one of them revealing one word. Dead simple! Of course, enigmas get harder and harder…" I would assume that last few enigmas will be very hard and last one will be almost impossible to solve. Isn't it easier to just try to brute force the last word, or several?

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Quote from: sweeesh on February 23, 2018, 12:06:27 AM

has anyone beet the game and won the one BTC?

Likely None.
The address 19mb9mZ1w953zBd7viHwWK2ZhPmcbMQh4Q still holds the 1btc reward.

There are couple of suspicious points in this game, the most obvious were:

The address that holds the 1btc price isn't signed for confirmation of ownership.
OP author is a newbie and he can't provide any information about the developers nor the team:
Quote from: gemroseaccent on February 15, 2018, 08:29:31 AM
We are trying to keep our identities secret for now, but we can say we are a group of game developers and that we had a crazy idea for this game.
The game is for sale (not free to play) indicates that the reward is for them to earn more sales than to earn game population and activities.
-Edit- It's all over their youtube video's comment section. A single-reward game sounds fishy if you think about it, someone (a player or themselves) got the reward and the game's done!

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has anyone beet the game and won the one BTC?

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Quote from: maarx on February 22, 2018, 12:43:46 PM

Quote from: tabas on February 20, 2018, 07:19:39 AM

Quote from: Joel_Jantsen on February 18, 2018, 03:08:04 PM

That and I don't think community is taking the game seriously.Check out the comments on their YouTube video you can see how everybody is finding them shady and relating it to a 'scam' or a gimmick to run some mining script in the background.
I doubt anyone is interested in actually buying the game..Even if they escrow the money,they might as well ask one of their team members to solve it...

I'm in the middle of thinking about purchasing and trying out the game although I'm not hoping to win that reward after finishing the game but upon reading what you said Joel it made me think again. But there are many crypto folks who are interested of purchasing the game itself as its attached as "monteCRPYTO" that makes them think that they are supporting the crypto market. They can earn more than 1 BTC as the game is ready on steam + mining script = $ for them.

Went though the link and watched the video. Games is really interesting and eating up my mind. Tried playing once. Almost an hour of my time was totally taken up ending the game in middle as could not go further. Best luck to guys play this game. Hope a legal escrow comes in between and a serious guy wins this 1 bitcoin.

The price of the game is cheap but I haven't purchased it yet. When it goes to legal escrow, their devs should unveil their team first before asking for someone or legal entity to handle the funds for the game. I've been watching youtube videos of trying the game out and it looks exciting.

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Quote from: tabas on February 20, 2018, 07:19:39 AM

Quote from: Joel_Jantsen on February 18, 2018, 03:08:04 PM

That and I don't think community is taking the game seriously.Check out the comments on their YouTube video you can see how everybody is finding them shady and relating it to a 'scam' or a gimmick to run some mining script in the background.
I doubt anyone is interested in actually buying the game..Even if they escrow the money,they might as well ask one of their team members to solve it...

I'm in the middle of thinking about purchasing and trying out the game although I'm not hoping to win that reward after finishing the game but upon reading what you said Joel it made me think again. But there are many crypto folks who are interested of purchasing the game itself as its attached as "monteCRPYTO" that makes them think that they are supporting the crypto market. They can earn more than 1 BTC as the game is ready on steam + mining script = $ for them.

Went though the link and watched the video. Games is really interesting and eating up my mind. Tried playing once. Almost an hour of my time was totally taken up ending the game in middle as could not go further. Best luck to guys play this game. Hope a legal escrow comes in between and a serious guy wins this 1 bitcoin.

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The problem I have with this is trust. What prevents the creators of this game to simply share the "secrets" with some of

their friends and to get them to solve the "enigmas" and with the bitcoin? They could just share the spoils with the people

who helped them. {Money from people who paid for the game} Roll Eyes

....Still, it looks like a lot of fun, and for that kind of

money, you cannot buy a McDonald's Burger and fries... so it's not the end of the world. Huh

Just SUCKS if it is another

scam. Angry

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Reminds me so much of this little thread and game last year: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.19563484

Even uses the term enigma. Plain plagiarism or the same guys? That game was pretty cool, managed to solve a handful of the enigmas myself but the owners never proved the 50btc prize.

Difference is that was free (clues could be purchased) but too many similarities and shady aspects. Suggest not to waste time or spend any money here.

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MonteCrypto - love that name man Cheesy

But these enigma games are nothing for me.

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Quote from: SirArthur on February 21, 2018, 02:42:45 PM

For what end does your game include the whole OpenSSL library, including functions more keen to mine bitcoins than to play a maze game?
And why my GPU never goes down from 100% even with the game in background?

Some of fhe functions found at the main exe:

Code:

i2d_ECParameters
i2d_ECPKParameters
i2d_ECPrivateKey
i2o_ECPublicKey
...

Code:

EC_KEY_check_key
EC_KEY_copy
EC_KEY_generate_key
EC_KEY_new
EC_KEY_print
EC_KEY_print_fp
EC_KEY_set_public_key_affine_coordinates
EC_POINTs_make_affine
...

I don't have the proof yet but too many things with this game do not add up.

The game is selling for less than 2$. They need to sell at least 5,000 copies to break even to just recover the cost of the BTC they are giving away. That doesn't cover any of the development costs to create the game.

I think this game was build to hijack high end GPU resources from gaming computers. This is only a theory right now I do not have the proof yet. Let me know if you find anything SirArthur.

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For what end does your game include the whole OpenSSL library, including functions more keen to mine bitcoins than to play a maze game?
And why my GPU never goes down from 100% even with the game in background?

Some of fhe functions found at the main exe:

Code:

i2d_ECParameters
i2d_ECPKParameters
i2d_ECPrivateKey
i2o_ECPublicKey
...

Code:

EC_KEY_check_key
EC_KEY_copy
EC_KEY_generate_key
EC_KEY_new
EC_KEY_print
EC_KEY_print_fp
EC_KEY_set_public_key_affine_coordinates
EC_POINTs_make_affine
...

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I noticed the game is only available for windows Sad

Is there any chance releasing it on Linux/SteamOS? I don't have Windows instaled.

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Quote from: Joel_Jantsen on February 18, 2018, 03:08:04 PM

That and I don't think community is taking the game seriously.Check out the comments on their YouTube video you can see how everybody is finding them shady and relating it to a 'scam' or a gimmick to run some mining script in the background.
I doubt anyone is interested in actually buying the game..Even if they escrow the money,they might as well ask one of their team members to solve it...

I'm in the middle of thinking about purchasing and trying out the game although I'm not hoping to win that reward after finishing the game but upon reading what you said Joel it made me think again. But there are many crypto folks who are interested of purchasing the game itself as its attached as "monteCRPYTO" that makes them think that they are supporting the crypto market. They can earn more than 1 BTC as the game is ready on steam + mining script = $ for them.

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i am thinking about to try it Cheesy

but i think for 1 week we will have winner. I think they are some psycho gamers and they are just counting seconds to start play Cheesy

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Every game I see that tries to do something like seems to just trying to get their business in the spotlight.

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Quote from: Vod on February 18, 2018, 01:20:15 PM

Quote from: gemroseaccent on February 15, 2018, 08:29:31 AM

We are trying to keep our identities secret for now, but we can say we are a group of game developers and that we had a crazy idea for this game.
edit: address of the wallet to claim: 19mb9mZ1w953zBd7viHwWK2ZhPmcbMQh4Q

You do realize that because you are new and wearing masks, you will need to transfer that 1btc to a legal service before anyone takes you seriously.

That and I don't think community is taking the game seriously.Check out the comments on their YouTube video you can see how everybody is finding them shady and relating it to a 'scam' or a gimmick to run some mining script in the background.
I doubt anyone is interested in actually buying the game..Even if they escrow the money,they might as well ask one of their team members to solve it...

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Quote from: gemroseaccent on February 15, 2018, 08:29:31 AM

We are trying to keep our identities secret for now, but we can say we are a group of game developers and that we had a crazy idea for this game.
edit: address of the wallet to claim: 19mb9mZ1w953zBd7viHwWK2ZhPmcbMQh4Q

You do realize that because you are new and wearing masks, you will need to transfer that 1btc to a legal service before anyone takes you seriously.

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