0xmons on Warpcast

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https://opensea.io/collection/evm-6

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a lot of existing onchain game design seems to favor automated players this seems especially true for games with resource harvesting (e.g. rts/idle style games) i think this often puts non-automated players (e.g. humans) at a disadvantage for people who can write bots, i'm sure the meta-game is fun. and you can provide tools to let most people interact with bots. b ut at that point, i think the game itself has changed--it's not about whatever underlying mechanics are interesting, but it's some optimization game on top ideally games made for human players have the scripting/automation happen somewhere upstream of the actual in-game mechanics (e.g. user generated content/worlds/npcs) rather than having them compete on the same field. excited to see more games explore along these veins

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I'm a strong believer that humans and bots can live in harmony in games designed with such a thing in mind - but I absolutely agree it's a careful balance. Empowering humans with similar tools to automate their own efforts if they desire is absolutely a part of it.

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The nice thing about bots in a properly designed onchain game is that they can end up being NPCs for players to battle, and with varying difficulties to keep players from beginner to advanced all entertained.

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Do we have economies working like this already ? Or is this idealism

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/structs is still in development but incentivized/decentralized NPCs are built into the infrastructure and economics of what we’re building. Mainnet launch is later this year, but our next testnet will start to introduce these elements in a more serious way

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i tried to give the game a play! but i'm not sure what to do next... are the contracts on a repo anywhere btw?

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As for source, our core layer of game consensus is a custom cosmos chain (link below), but we have a very multi-chain long term plan. https://github.com/playstructs/structsd

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Oh wow that's dope, so the engine is mostly in go? Did you consider evm?

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Absolutely we did! Been a fan of the evm since 2014 but we don’t need the general purpose nature of it as our core backend for Structs. We’ll still interface with evm chains for cosmetics and commerce though And yeah, our consensus code is all Go. The Cosmos SDK is a lot of fun too

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