What the hell is PixelSwarm?
I talked a little about PixelSwam in my last post, and I want to share an update. PixelSwarm is the pinnacle of social, collaborative, gamified art. SocialGameArtFi.
For the proof of concept, the game works like this. There is a map of pixels. Players pay a fraction of a PIZZA token to paint a pixel. Those tokens are sent to null; they are burned. The player who painted the pixel has their name on that pixel until someone else burns and paints it.
What Happened During the Test Last Week
PixelSwarm had a successful test last week. Twelve players bought at least one pixel. @nastyforce, @willendorfia, and @cpol competed for the title of Corner Controller. After painting over 105 pixels, @cpol has an untouchable lead for the PixelBoss title.
Here is how the board looks after the test:
Current PixelSwarm Mechanics
The test version of the game features three notable mechanics: dynamic map size, corner controller, and pixel boss.
Dynamic Map Size
When a new player joins the game and paints a pixel, the board grows by 1 row and 1 column. It started as 1 pixel and now has 11 rows and 11 columns.
One player asked if the board size was capped. Currently, there is no cap. The board can grow indefinitely. If there are so many players joining that the game needs Zoom In / Zoom Out buttons, that will be an excellent problem to have.
Corner Controller
When a player controls a majority of the corners of the map, they are dubbed the corner controller. This
PixelBoss
When players control the most pixels on the map, they are dubbed the pixelboss.
Future Ideas
I have a few ideas that would make this more compelling. I guess the main thing that would add value is a lot more players and/or a lot more viewers. Drawings could be a kind of giant digital billboard. A community can promote itself with a detailed drawing.
I envision a board for each Hive on-chain community. Each community could have its own part of the board, like community-focused land. For example, the AlientArtHive could draw in its own space and set its own rules. And the WOO game community could govern its part of the map. Community rules could define parameters like which tokens are spent, the minimum prices, who can paint, etc.
Another exciting mechanic would be increasing prices. Each time a pixel is painted, the price to paint could increase. Then it costs more to paint over an existing painting. Contested land would rise higher and higher. Maybe the most visible space is the most valuable?
Hexagons—Drawing hexagonal pixels instead of squares would be exciting for the game. This adds a lot more complexity and could be done during the front end's rewrite. There are some other examples of hexagonal pixel art that look unique.
Future Work - Odds and Ends
The front end needs to be completely rebuilt. It was hacked together from HTML, JS, and CSS, and it’s difficult to build upon.
Better notifications are needed. The game should notify the discord channel whenever the Corner Controller or PixelBoss changes.
The system can publish a daily snapshot of the map on-chain via short-form content like PeakD Snaps.
Lite account support. VSC lite accounts could be used to play the game. The game backend can watch for VSC transfer operations and update the game state based on those actions.
Ability to paint faster and smoother. Fewer keychain popups? Maybe the user can preload their painting balance and do rapid painting.
What else? What do you think we should add?
Is the game fun? What would make it more fun?
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I've heard of something like this before. Cool to have a Hive version. I'll check it out later.
Let me know what you think!
Maybe even boards for each specific community but walled behind certain roles to edit? So the communities could plan and work together to get stuff created for their own map rather than the all-in-one one
The idea is interesting. I’m just concerned about fracturing the attention. It’s already difficult to get some eyeballs on a new app. I think it could make sense to partition the world at some point if the project thrives.
yeah probably something to consider later instead!
maybe too early for this idea just something that came to mind
The theming looks great to me, and if more tokens could be involved it would be a real battle royale on pixel terrain 😅 😎.
Thanks for the feedback and the follow. I think it’s important that it’s fun and social, so that people want to play!
Exactly 👍🤓 and with respect to that, it would be something that even from a cell phone could be played? 🤔
It might already work in the HiveKeychain browser. Want to try it?
Yeah 😎 l would like to try it 👍
I tried a few times, but without success 😭
Having 0.01 !PIZZA in my wallet is enough to paint a square? Or do I need to have more?
It looks like the transfer didn't go through.
https://he.dtools.dev/@arc7icwolf?symbol=PIZZA
https://hivehub.dev/tx/d3a76094e8f5bba567553c2613e871d0e28f66bb
Is it something on my end? Maybe I need to have more liquid PIZZA?
Yes, you can only send liquid. Staked tokens must be unstaked before they can be transferred.
I have 0.11 available but still unable to paint my pixel 😭
Check your transactions. You sent 0.000
I see it, but I don't get how... I have liquid PIZZA available, I chose a pixel, a color and confirm the transaction through KeyChain... I have no idea where something goes wrong :/
It was pretty cool to play! I think this game has the potential to grow on HIVE. It could be added several modes with different tokens, like some with PIZZA, some with WOO, or even with LEO. It could be a more competitive mode with a time deadline and everything.
I don't know if it's possible, or even recommended, but each paint pixel could be delayed once every 5 seconds or so, in that way you can't paint into oblivion the whole map. However, that could bring down some of the game's competitiveness, I guess. Just a couple of ideas for the game! Thank you for the mention! This is an awesome project! !PIZZA !BBH !HUESO
Interesting idea. I'll think about having a "cool down" for each pixel.
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Nothing. It just let out a little wine.
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Bonus points for this descriptor: "PixelSwarm is the pinnacle of social, collaborative, gamified art."
I read somewhere that exaggerated statements can help to bring attention.
I wanted to try the pixel game, but somehow keychain is acting up on me right now (says "network error", although things are fine at my end).
Looks like it went through!
Welcome to the pixel swarm.
Yes, I tried again later and it worked. Looks like the earlier transaction went through too after a while.
Yooo this is amazing, it's like reddit had with r/place.
I love these types of community projects!
I'll send some pixels from myself onto the board too :)
Thanks for trying out the game!
wow how cool is that, And one thing, I'm a junior front end, if you need it, send me a pm or call me on discord so we can talk about it
Sure! Connect with me on Discord (same username).
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thanks!
Soumds like fun. I don't know if I understand Pixel Swarm completely yet but it will probably all make sense when I actually try it 👍
Pretty interesting idea.
Look forward to what people will create with this. Interesting concept.
@hivetrending, I paid out 0.671 HIVE and 0.000 HBD to reward 12 comments in this discussion thread.
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