Introducing Steemgar. Most fun way to get Steem? Play against others, win upvotes. Now in beta.steemCreated with Sketch.

in #steemgar7 years ago (edited)

Hello Steemers. I'd like to introduce to you a new way everyone can start winning some Steem, probably the most fun way also if you are a gamer - Steemgar.

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There's also chat ingame

What is Steemgar?

For those who are familiar already with Agar, the hugely popular website based game, you already know Steemagar.
In Steemgar, instead of winning glory for yourself, that you cannot eat, trust me, you actually get upvotes that have monetary value.
Yes, that's right. Even the enemies you crushed in the match could reward you as a worthy opponent, all thanks to Steem blockchain with no fees and fast transactions!
Let me tell you more.

What is needed to play?

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@steemplayroom announces new match every hour - to play you log in using Steemconnect V2

After logging in

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After announcement post and logging in, the match can be joined after 6 min and 30 seconds

When match can be joined


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Just click on Join the match! and you're in the game. That's all!

The objective in the game

As you enter the game your main goal is to survive. To ensure that you need to grow bigger and to grow, you need to eat. Start by eating food, you can move yourself using the mouse.
As you grow, you can start hunting other, smaller players. Use whatever tactic you find the best, just remember that you can use space to split yourself to half.
Doing so will shoot the other half in front of you, eating any smaller player who happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. But be careful, you're a bigger, or should I say smaller, target for other players now.
It takes a while for your two pieces to get back together, so avoid danger at any cost is my advice. The match will have a timer, and end will be reached after 420 seconds. Whoever is the biggest at that point in time, will be the winner.

How reward system works?

Winner of each match will make automatically a comment to the match post. This way anyone could reward him for being the best. And I hope others will choose to do, no matter how much losing hurts!
The winner will always be rewarded by @steemplayroom account and the only two places @steemplayroom will use its voting power are each match post for little visibility (2% voting power) and the winners with 28%. The creator of the Steemgar service: @igster, will also vote the winner with voting weight that takes into account the number of players in the match.
The values might have to change, but the aim will always be to reward winners as much as possible while keeping voting power close to 100%.

How can you support Steemgar?

There are multiple ways:

You can upvote winners yourself, this will attract more players to Steem ecosystem. Or you could delegate SP to @steemplayroom - as mentioned earlier, votes will be only used for bringing a little visibility for each match post and to reward winners. As the voting power of @Steemplayroom grows, the match frequency can be upped from one every hour to match every 30 minutes and 2th and 3th places could also be rewarded. Currently this however is not feasible with low SP.

If delegation isn't for you, you can always vote the match posts for yourself. Your help and support is appreciated!

What features to expect in future?

First one to arrive will probably be chat in lobby, where players wait for the match to start. After that, I will be looking into various ways to embed more interesting interactions with steem blockchain itself like special food that bring your rewards up and so on.

What else do you need to know?

There's a new match announcement every hour so follow @steemplayroom if you want to win some Steem in the future. The automatic process of new announcement posts will start soon after this introduction post.
But remember, this is still in beta and there can be small bugs here and there. If you find any, you can share them by reply. Thank you for reading!

Start playing here : Steemgar - Have fun!

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This is a great idea. Why only once an hour, and for such a short period of time? It might be nice to have it always going, so maybe having something like a game every 10 to 15 mins that lasts for 7 or 8 mins

The frequency of matches can be increased once @steemplayroom has the ability to support meaningful rewards for the winners of them. No voting is done by the players, only if they choose so. I will keep eye on how the people behave and rewards vary as time goes on.

The end goal could be new match every 10 minutes with 7-8 minutes match time.

Simple and best game for day traders and artists, however gues for new gamers it will be difficult because of old top players can easily manipulate the game by teaming up to avoid this, top players should be allowed to play for 5 games or limit on the same day after winning 5 games they cant for the day .

good idea i will check it out thanks i like steemit every day more and more

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It looks cool. I haven't played this game before but it looks interesting so I am going to give it a try.
By the time next match starts, I am going to play it online somewhere before we actually play it.

Good to see steem is having fun by itself.
Earn reward while playing will enhance the user experience in a different level.
Keep on steemin'

Very cool! Can't wait to get started!

Steem could give birth to thousands of new and innovative games that PAY you to play! Amazing!

I love playing AGAR! Now there is AGAR with rewards? I hate you! lol There goes any free time I ever had!

Haha, well it is your luck that there is limited amount of matches per day then. As the voting power increases though, there will be more matches and rewards for 2nd and 3rd places also! I know, you can't wait! :)

I enjoyed the game and won some money. Such a great idea!

I'm happy to hear that!

Good one! I was thinking about Steem-agar last time. Good to hear someone have managed to do that!
Is the game opensourced? Is there any possibility to contribute at github? I want to help grow this project from code perspective. Like bugfixing, adding new features etc.

Not currently opensourced but perhaps in the near future. I will look into this as I've never done it before and I know Utopian can be used for this purpose.

Amazing. Keep it up.

I'm always impressed by the people who use the Steem blockchain to do awesome things. When I have enough Steem to delegate, I'll do my best to remember to come back and help you.

This is just the start, Steem can be used in so many ways. I'd like to try and implement Steem in more interesting ways also.

Every bit of delegation helps this service to grow. I will make sponsors section for those who have delegated and it will be shown in every match announcement post. I will be looking into other ways to incentivize delegation.

Have you posted about this in MSP? I bet there are people there that would help out...

I'll do that once the system is up again and has been proven to work over time.