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Show HN: CardanoCubes – Pokemon Red on the Cardano Blockchain

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22 pointsPungsnigel15 comments

If I understand it correctly, you play by putting your moves on the blockchain here.

That’s the play by Twitch Chat concept ported to a blockchain?

What advantage does this have besides the moves being recorded on the blockchain? It’s more expensive and it’s slower (Cardano has 20 seconds block time IIRC).

Nothing is running ON the blockchain. Cardano doesn’t have smart contracts yet. You could exchange the blockchain part with any component that allows people to comment. For example Twitter.

Yes, you're correct, and yes, it's the same concept as Twitch plays Pokemon.

Does there have to be an advantage? :) I thought it was a fun project, and a fun way of playing around with and learning about Cardano. It's basically not a project to convince people that blockchains are cool it's a project for people who already think so. If that makes sense?

I'm hoping to do more interactive (and cheaper) stuff once smart contracts are live. Would love to build something with chess at that point.

Don't know how many here have an interest in Cardano, but hopefully at least a few. Spent a few weekends building this, where we hook a gameboy emulator to the Cardano blockchain. Main idea is to allow for a community playthrough. Had there not been random elements in the game, you'd be able to re-play the entire playthrough locally by just applying the same rules we've done.

》To make a move you need to send $1 to this address.

This is very expensive and not very scalable.

1 ADA is the lowest amount on the Cardano chain. I'd prefer it to be much lower for this game. I'm releasing an update soon where you'll be able to make multiple moves with one transaction (still 1 ADA), but that's the only way I've found to lower the cost of playing.

What? You can send 0.01 ADA or less, can't you? + maybe .12 for gas.

Nope, lowest amount is 1 ADA, transaction fees are usually around 0.17. I'd expect this to be lowered in the future. 1 ADA wasn't much until a few months ago really.

Make it sidechain. And find some use case, turn based game is lame on blockchain. Maybe tournament with multiple parties and validation of winners.

This seems to be a Cardano staking company who are trying to market themselves. I doubt they’d want to go with a sidechain since their entire business is to have people stake in the main chain.

They could go with a layer 2 network, but Cardano hasn’t implemented smart contracts or their Hydra state channels system yet.

It's not, but on the other hand; not sure if Cardano fans are like eth/btc people; the 'non investor' fans of the latter that I know (some with millions $ in them, some with a more modest amounts) or read about online have no 'feeling' for the relation with the $. For them spending $100 in eth/btc is not the same as spending actual $100. I helped some friends add crypto payments for their services/products (because of covid) and they all say that crypto people/fans are far easier to deal with; they don't care about fees/rate, they round up and they don't ask for refunds under $100.

This is a super neat idea. Hopefully Nintendo's lawyers don't show up to the party and pour out everyone's drinks.

This is awesome, I’ll try it this weekend.

Cool! I’d love any feedback you have!

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