Grab Your Best Guitar and Get to Work!
It's a long road to stardom and fame!
Game: Rising Stars
Hive Blog: @risingstargame
Discord: Rising Star Game
Blockchain: Hive
Release: April 2020
Rising Star is at its core a gamified music career simulation game utilizing blockchain technology and featuring NFT crypto collectibles.
Budding musicians start the game with nothing but a guitar, no fans in sight, and not even a proper busking license. Ever wondered how many musicians get their start, at the bottom, play Rising Stars and you'll quickly find out.
Start at the bottom and work your way up, it's called paying your dues!
Players start their music careers and play missions to aquire new fans, gaining XP to level up, earning STARBITS along the way. STARBITS is a layer 2 coin built on Hive-Engine, once earned in game can be traded on a DEX for other coins or turned in through the games website to buy collectible cards.
NFT Collectible Cards
Cards that can be purchased include Fans, which help unlock more advanced missions (Gigs), and Pizza to give you more energy and allow you to complete additional missions.
In addition to Fans, and Pizza, also available is Guitars, Drums, and a Rusty Mic plus a series of Musicians. Adding gear to your collection will again unlock more advanced missions, as will adding members to form a band.
NFT Collectible Punk Musician - Rising Star Game
Inspiration and Direction
I was curious about the game and it's background so I reached out to one of the founders through their Discord server and @atomcollector was kind enough to answer a couple quick questions for us.
Where did the inspiration to build Rising Star come from?
The inspiration came from other games on Steem at the time such as DrugWars, Holy Bread and probably the biggest influence and the game that really motivated me was dCity. Without Gerber's help I would not have been able to create this game. Please give him a massive shout out in the posts!!
I am actually a retired programmer but blockchain hooked me again! I am getting the same buzz I got when I first connected to the internet in the 1990's and I just had to get stuck in again! So for me this game is a labour of love and a way to keep my brain active!
Looking at the bigger picture, overall what direction do you want to take this game in the future?
I am not one for making detailed plans but I have tons of ideas of where this could go. Expect a full world experience and special events to coincide with real life events such as festivals (when they are allowed again!). There will also be mini games to play while you wait for missions to complete. Things like "battle of the bands" where your cards are used to battle other players.
Ultimately the plan is to have as much fun as possible and also give us independent musicians another platform to share our creations!
Thanks again for answering a couple questions for us, always appreciated!
That's where we will leave things for now. Overall this is a neat project that is still in VERY early days so we can expect that more polish will be added down the road.
It's great to see more and more games utilize NFT collectibles in game. These are digital assets that you own in your wallet. Play the game, have your fun, and if you ever decide to put the game down you can always trade your assets on the open market. This is the future of gaming right here!
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Thank you very much for the awesome write up!!
We are really excited about all the new ideas we have for this game and look forward to welcoming early adopters who don't mind a few wrinkles (in the game, not me!!).
By the way once you have set up your account using Hive Keychain you can now get a unique link that allows you to carry on playing on a mobile!
Rock on! \m/
That is a really feature, worth mentioning!