Well, all the "official" stuff has been done, there is an official post, its officially pinged and pinned in the Pizza Discord, and officially everybody should know by now - "an amazing game was built and we didn't tell you until it was ready".
Here is the official promo/gameplay trailer - I just recorded it this morning:
So is this "my game"? Well, in a way - ogame was my favorite game back in highschool. This is not ogame, its a fork of a fork of an open source attempt at a clone of ogame.
But really, this is @hivetrending's baby - it was his idea to fork the SteemNova repo - I just synergized! I tested, I did math, I clicked more than a few buttons along the way that's for sure; But I am as much of a player in this game as I am an "admin". It's just that much fun.
Here are some fun words to describe it:
Real Time
Strategy
Resource Management
Player Vs Player
Cooperative and Collaborative
Free (yes free to play)
NO WALLET NEEDED
Wait, how did you make a game "on HIVE" with no wallet needed?
This is so brilliant guys, you don't need a HIVE account to play! I think this might be an amazing opportunity to invite and onboard a whole bunch of normies, and I will be working on doing just that. If they are having fun, they might be incentivized to jump through a few hoops to get access to "on-chain rewardification". What does that mean? Something like "upvoting their comments", we will be doing missions, quests and bounties - so they can comment on chain and get an upvote.
It's that simple!
Well, its probably a little more complicated, if we want to dig a little deeper. But not for the user. NO HIVE WALLET REQUIRED.
But in fact, I helped write an entire litepaper on the tokenomics of the game and its effect on the PIZZA token and the community, which will surely be affected by this game even though PIZZA is much wider and more interesting token than just this game - (and shout out to @gerber, whose doctoral thesis on reward pool tokenomics was very helpful).
Based on the amazing plan we came up with, I made my recommendations to the PIZZA community, and the most active members approved the vote in discord - this is a way to capture excess exuberance from our FREE and fun game into long term benefits to the community.
Because the game is FREE, we don't really feel pressured to explain everything about rewards or tokens right now, there is nothing to buy (except PIZZA tokens), and along the way you can be assured - all will be revealed. But let me just say, its the most amazing economic gameplan I have ever participated in, and I think its super fair for all, generating long term value for everyone involved, even HIVE.
I did spill a few beans in the above post:
And it seems the "market has responded, jamming the price of PIZZA right up against that community approved sell wall. The game starts tomorrow, by the way.
I'm ready to play, although - it seems I will be "on the bus", heading towards the airport when it launches, and will spend most of the first 24 hours of launch making my way towards talent land Guadalajara - where I will spend 8 days shilling Moon HIVE and all it has to offer in both English and Spanish languages.
Good thing this game is extremely MOBILE-FRIENDLY.
So.... ARE YOU READY TO GET MOONED??
Log in tomorrow at 16:00 UTC (11am central standard time), join the universe of eager and active players in this FREE TO PLAY - no wallet required - game; invite your friends - this could be the game that finally convinces your "normie" friends to make a HIVE wallet "eventually".
I'll be on the road with only my posting key, but you know I will be building up my ore extractors and silicon refineries whenever I find the wifi. Until next time -