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Our banner!
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Play chess now at http://trxmini.games
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8ball will be available soon at http://trxmini.games, aswell as Drawades
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Home page sneak peak
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What trxmini.games aims to provide!
Inspiration
I've been a chess player for quite some time now, and on several occasions I have wanted to stake and wager against my friends in chess. After looking for a while, I found there aren't really any platforms that provide a service, to allow you to wager against your friends in chess. That left me scratching my head; In my opinion, this functionality is essential for competitive events and tournaments! After further research, I found there's not many services for players, entities, and companies to coordinate, share, and create their own esports events!
Wow! For many players like myself, it's difficult to create their own e-sporting events without adequate large-scale intermediaries, funding, trust, and many other inconvenient ordeals; whether or not they're casual or competitive! Some players may want to have a wagered experience but have it casual; whether it be chess, 8 ball, golf, etc. Some other players want to have truly immersive, competitive experience, and our goal is to bridge both of these demands to TRON and it's ecosystem.
GameFi is a unique and interesting paradigm that has huge potential, but I believe there's still a significant obstacle to overcome: Attracting and onboarding new users from outside the Web3 sphere. Without direct initiative to provide value to outside communities for GameFi, whether they be providing solutions or creating a new game that they enjoy, GameFi won't grow to the full potential it can!
My goal with trxmini.games to scale such a platform that will face and SOLVE all of these important challenges mentioned above that we as an ecosystem face - provide an interoperable GameFi protocol, that allows players to wager their games they love against their friends (or opponents!) on their favorite games, and provide an essential service to potential users and players outside of Web3, introducing and bringing new communities into TRON, creating a much more vibrant, and expansive ecosystem!
I am proud and extremely passionate to present you trxmini.games!
What it does
Users will be able to play our catalog of different games with staking/wagering available! This will allow them to create their own competitive or esports events! - Currently, I have finished chess and now am working on implementing a version of 8ball, and Drawades, our implementation of Skribbl.io, which will be available in multiplayer, and 8 ball.
Let's say Bob wants to create a staked or wagered game of Chess. They will choose the selected amount of TRX they wish to stake, and then sign a transaction to send their funds to our escrow contract via TronLink.
Now, Bob has told Alice about his game and she has decided to join, they will also sign a transaction with the same amount and join their game.
After 20 minutes, Alice has won the game by Checkmate! Alice can withdraw the entire wagered amount of the game, and has a win on their address account. She can now play another game if she likes.
Soon as possible, I must emphasize this will be available existing casual, esports, and miscellaneous games, such as Rocket League, Minecraft, Counter Strike, Fortnite; millions of players globally play these games everyday, and we want to tap into this market with your help!
How we built it
I've created the MVP with a chess implementation that I've created here. I then implemented our protocol into the game! Our GitHub link for trxmini.games can be found here: http://github.com/nickmura/trxmini.games An organizational github account will be available soon for trxmini.games!
We use Redis, to store game state persistently, and the client fetches the key if the player is ever to disconnect/reconnect from the socket.
I also created a postgres relational database for personalization of users - so users can get domain usernames (e.g nickmura.trx, bobby.trx). Users in the near future will have additional features and economic systems in place - such as a leveling system, badges and more!
After creating a basic draft of the game, I decided to work on the Solidity contract infrastructure deployed on TRON currently.
https://shasta.tronscan.org/#/contract/TMGBGionnPs1TFRHxNrZRiGneZaDi6zkBh https://shasta.tronscan.org/#/contract/TQyY41mqbHVWWHWt5Zq1pPL5rYd7HgM2kE/
I then implemented our game and protocol into our main site, at http://trxmini.games, and have been working on creating new features and games since!
I have a link to a presentation in video format of what trxmini.games provides! (Not the demonstration, it will be linked further)
** Currently, I have been working on implementing game logic for my next game, 8 Ball, and soon, Drawades, which will be based off a open source rendition of scribbl.io. I will have to implement the game in Svelte and our GameFi protocol.**
Challenges we ran into
Securing design - I implemented and created a Figma design I was authorized to use with Svelte and Tailwind. It took longer than expected to get working, but it looks pretty good now! http://trxmini.games
Implementing smart contracts - Creating an escrow service contract specific to our games took some research. I have been a Solidity Developer for a year and went through various challenges with implementing solutions to the mechanisms that needed to be created. A significant percentage of the winnings will go towards auditing contracts and coming up with cryptographically secure business logic.
Securing database logic - personalization was a bit of a problem and I think in the near future I will focus my efforts implementing and optimizing the user end experience for optimization.
Implementing other games into the protocol - Unfortunately, there was some difficulty trouble implementing the other games into the protocol before the judging period effectively, and personally, aswell as professionally I deeply apologize. My priority is providing a quality, worthwhile experience for all our players, and I cannot provide a product that I am truly not proud to present! and I believe long term our project will be considered an outlier of success and quality in GameFi, when we offer our full catalog, and when we deploy the protocol on existing games. I will continue to showcase updates of my progress scaling these apps, aswell as new features as the judging and voting period continues here.
Getting the support and guidance from the community - Getting people as many people to be aware, and possibly use our platform will always be a priority. Expanding our project to as many eyes as possible is the key to our success.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Created one of the best ideas for GameFi with the best potential for growth in the entire ecosystem
Developed a fully functioning chess game, with staking/wagering and personalized activity for our users
Ensured the platform has inherent intrinsic value
Developing multiple games and providing a full catalog of games in the near future.
Have created many strides in development of this project
Created an amazing MVP that has a high value proposition for the community and ecosystem
My TronDAO submission post has one of the most activity for a post for season 3 https://forum.trondao.org/t/trxmini-games-a-wagering-staking-multiplayer-arcade-games-platform/10155
Supported our fellow community and ecosystem
Gained the support of the fellow TRON community
What we learned
Have learned extensively of the development environment that TRON uses (Tronlink, Tronweb, how TRON processes the EVM, whitepaper)
Learned more extensively about the relationship between servers and clients, and improving game functionality from developing games
Learned about end user experience for a soon-to-be commercial project
Looking forward to a great ongoing experience in learning more backend infrastructure
How to develop a great product
– Learning about various potential business models that could be implemented.
How to scale a project effectively and fast as possible, with quality
Providing a high value proposition for the TRON community and ecosystem.
What's next for trxmini.games - A staking/wagering arcade games platform
In the coming weeks of the judging period, I will mainly be focusing my efforts on social media and community presence. I believe people participating in the project, and giving back feedback, whether it’s positive or negative, feedback is very important to the development and evolution of this project short or long term.
Once we win this hackathon, I will deploy the features I have created throughout the judging period, inquire about an audit, and deploy on mainnet! Security integrity and transparency of this project are essential, for the community acknowledging trxmini.games for what it is worth.
A governance system will be deployed to allow for the community to determine what the focus of our efforts should be in early Q1, in addition to the browser games mentioned. The governance system will have an various game economics in place - so users, teams and entities, can receive badges, levels, and exclusive cosmetics and benefits!
Long term development plans include the development and deployment of a desktop client and mobile client, which we hope will increase exposure and ease of access to the protocol for existing games, which will exponentially increase the number of new users and players coming into our platform!
From a desktop/mobile client, we will be able to gain and attract a much larger mass of players and daily users - providing greater exposure and value, for both for trxmini.games and TRON, allowing us to sponsor and coordinate eSports events funded via a community owned treasury. This is a difficult feat to accomplish, but we believe that, given enough initiative, time, and community participation, we can make this vision a reality. We're excited about the potential value such a protocol could provide to the TRON ecosystem!
I am extremely confident that this project will go the whole 9 yards, and I hope TRON, and the TRONDao community can be a key participant in contributing to the vision our platform is going to make a reality.
A list of more specific goals can be found below:
Deploy on BTTC testnet.
Optimize and release new features that we've developed over the course of the judging period
Provide exclusive badges for players who participated during the beta :)
Develop a crypto system in our contract and infrastructure, that ensures valid digital signatures for transactions can only be issued by the server, providing full confidence that a players funds are safe when they wish to play or wager a game!
Obtain an audit for our smart contract that handles the business logic of our protocol.
Deploy on main-net for both TRX AND BTTC, and provide support for several other tokens and currencies.
Expand/recruit to the team
Create a forum for our players to connect and discuss future events and further ways they can participate.
Provide a leveling system and badge system for players, aswell as stats, etc various game economics / features to make the experience more exciting, aswell as further personalization features for users profiles :slight_smile:
Increase and develop more games on our catalog, specifically creating real-time, multiplayer, stakable games for players in WebAssembly or JavaScript
Build our presence further on social media platforms
Release and deploy governance token. Release exclusive airdrop and features for contributors and participants of the beta.
Provide sustainable reward system for wagerers.
Create a custody management system for mobile integration.
Create a custody management system.
Implement interoperability and support of our protocol between existing casual, sandbox, and competitive games (e.g Counter Strike, Rocket League, Garry's Mod, Fortnite, Minecraft etc). This is the most important goal in our roadmap! This will expand the amount of new users within the TRON network and our platform to exponential new heights, giving it even more of a high value proposition. Deploying on multiple existing games will give us value and a community unlike any other GameFi project out there.
Create desktop/mobile client in Electron / React Native for our users above.
Collaborate, and coordinate tournaments and contests for our users via community owned and governed treasury.
Sponsor and coordinate tournaments with esports teams.
Become one of the most significant platforms in GameFi, representing TRON.
Provide exclusive features and rewards for our participants and community members :) (Announcements to be made when our community, and team expands further)
Lots more to announce!
Judges, and users, thank you so much for reading and supporting our project. It means a lot! Please comment if you have any questions or feedback of what could be done or what you think. Please help us create the vision we think is possible, with your support, we believe we can scale our project to heights unprecedented! <3
Built With
- ambition
- api
- chessground
- escrow
- express.js
- javascript
- passion
- postgresql
- redis
- socket.io
- solidity
- svelte
- tailwind
- three.js
- tronlink
- tronweb
- typescript
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