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Tavern is an on-chain game engine for creating games without writing a line of code. playtavern.com Free, Permissionless, and open source. Build with us https://discord.gg/wagxvC434M

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It looks like we're a winner of the onchain summer hackathon! Thanks for coming along in this ride with us ❤️ I'm not done with tavern - I just started a new day job and need to focus my energy there. Once I'm more settled I'll find nights and weekends again for tavern!

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Tavern:Heroes is coming together. Similar to the OG Tavern, it provides systems that you can customize by submitting transactions (without writing code). These systems are quite opinionated. Systems include: 1. Hero classes (define base stats) 2. Rarity Gatcha (adds rarity and stat bonuses based on rarity) 3. Stat Resolver (maps stats to eachother with multipliers) 4. EnemyFarm (define enemies, and their stats) 5. Combat Actions (define actions players and enemies can perform in combat) 6. Combat Resolver (let the player and enemy take turns performing actions, with ordering based on their "speed" stat)

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trying to build an RPG game using tavern, using NFTs as heros - the biggest challenge I'm running into is that the engine only really supports 1 token. This works great for smaller games, but for deeper ones it dramatically limits the possibilities. Thinking this through, going to require some drastic changes to the data-storage model. Right now onchain data in tavern is accessed by a "key" - so like `I need a health stat, let me get the data for "health`. The problem is that both players and enemies will have "health". This means I need the data lookup approach to be much more flexible - and I don't want to overcomplicate it, because tavern is already sufficiently complicated.

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The onchainsummer hackathon ended but we're just getting started.

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Rock paper scissors is just the beginning. You can mix and match any components you want, and then customize them to fit your needs. All onchain, all without code.

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Shipped four new components tonight, they're live on prod

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I started adding some new components today, actually knocked out 3. Require 1155 will only let players play when they hold a given nft, this one will work well with Zora. Reward 1155 will distribute an NFT token - realizing this needs some work because it requires minting permission Daily Interaction will only let players call a function once within a configured time period - for example this will allow a daily claim or help prevent spam

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we're on devfolio, ready for onchainsummer! https://devfolio.co/projects/tavern-9f01

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new website is coming together!

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Components are the building blocks of your game. There will be a ton of em, and each component provides a piece of game functionality. Flows are how you string together component to create gameplay.

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I'm struggling with art for the frame - so I'm gonna make it ugly and knock it out so it's functional.

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When I'm thinking about a game I want to make, I always start at the end result - I want players with this character nft to be able to explore a world and fight monsters and collect upgrades for their nft. The first step to creating is to get a list of actions together. A player can join a game. A player can move. A player can fight. A player can equip their loot. These actions a player can perform are the flows in tavern. One for each of them.

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I'm starting to wonder if even components can be hidden from end users and game creators. Like instead of multiple components each having a handful of functions you can use, the UI would just be like "what do you want this flow to do" and it can load and register any component automatically...

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Been looking at other codeless game engines and all of them use some charting mechanism with nodes you can drag around. That's too complicated and I don't want to spend a month building it. Thinking about how to make flow creation intuitive in the application and it's difficult!

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A game on Tavern is basically a collection of flows. When you create your flows, you choose the components you want it to use. Your "login" flow might validate a user holds an nft, give them x,y coords and then set them up with 100 hit points. (Validate721 component, XYLocation Component, PlayerStats Component)

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