City States: Medieval We are working on the first game on Stellar utilizing the SDEX where players can earn Stellar based cryptocurrency. There is no need to own or know about crypto to play the game, so we expect to introduce thousands or ten-thousands of new users to the Stellar ecosystem. If this sounds interesting to you, please 'Like' this post. Please join us on social media: Twitter | Reddit | Discord | Instagram | Facebook

‘City States: Medieval’ is a slimmed down version of the ' stratemacy concept ’. Some text has been taken over from the thread on reddit since they are still valid for this proposal, some have been rewritten and some are completely new. This is a long read and there is a TL;DR at the end but if you are interested in supporting this proposal, please read the following in full. Contents: Intro About the game Basics Resources The Economy Earning HEX/XLM playing the game What is HEX? Why would/should someone buy HEX? Why we think gaming will be THE entry point into crypto/Stellar Cross-platform support Slowly learning while playing Possible Playerbase Pay back the community fund Transparency and frequent updates Reception so far… And what about stratemacy? Intro After getting into cryptocurrencies, I developed several theoretical concepts for projects that would get the average person into crypto with the lowest adoption barrier possible. The truth is that a lot of people are in crypto not for the tech but for the money they gain by trading or simply holding a coin. Combining making money online, cryptocurrencies and gaming is a logic conclusion. But this can also be used to get new people into crypto without them even knowing or thinking about it in the first place. Gaming connects, gets the player attached and is the optimal platform to educate in a playful way. From the start, it was clear that this has to be a strategy game. Not only because it’s my own favorite genre, but because it’s something you want to invest time into and can play for weeks, months, or even years. To add competition it needs to be multiplayer and to have an economy it needs resources that players can trade. Since we also want to get ‘the average Joe’ into cryptocurrencies, the barrier needs to be as low as possible. The choice for Stellar was easy, not only because I’ve been a supporter for well over a year myself but because ethereum wouldn’t be suitable for what I want to achieve anyway. This is not about NFTs but a complete game-economy with a shared global market on the SDEX. About the game: ‘City States: Medieval’ is a HEX-based, massive multiplayer, empire building and resource management strategy game. Supporting cross-platform distribution (Mobile, Web, Desktop) to reach as many players as possible. Basics: The base game is similar to other mobile MMORTS where you need to harvest different resources to craft goods, tools and other resources. The multiplayer aspects are: Trading resources on a global market utilizing the Stellar DEX. Diplomatic actions and interactions Raiding other players bases Defending against and conquering/dominating other players Working together to beat global dangers Domination of other players replace any known clan-mechanics of other games till date. The game is set to be played over a long time frame like most mass multiplayer games, slowly building up, expanding and improving your settlement into a flourishing city. Resources: We are starting with five base resources (Wood, Stone, Iron Ore, Gold Ore, Food) that can be used to build and level up structures, enhance (Coal, Beer, Gold/Iron bars) and craft (Weapons, Armor, Tools). All resources and goods can be obtained in the game by playing it. Either through harvesting, mining or manufacturing. The Economy: Game-mechanics like upkeep for buildings and units, ever increasing cost for advanced buildings, leveling up of existing ones and special events will force players to trade resources they have an abundance of for resources they need. Accessing the Market opens a SDEX interface where players can trade WOOD, STONE, COAL etc instead of BTC, ETH, XLM. The price for every resource is found naturally through demand and supply. Earning HEX/XLM playing the game: The big incentive to get many people interested outside the Crypto- or Stellar-sphere is the fact that players can earn crypto by selling/trading their resources. IAPs, IAAs, survey completions, literally anything some players do to obtain more resources will benefit the whole market and all players instead of the developers only as it is in other games. Trading smart or producing resources with high demand among other players can yield a profit the player can withdraw to their personal Stellar account. This is another step of learning about Stellar-usage and encouraging to do their first transactions in crypto. The experience should also have a positive effect for the players perception of crypto as a whole. What is HEX? HEX is a token issued on Stellar. No worries, this is not an ICO, crowdsale or a future token dump. HEX is used inside the game as the gameworlds currency every resource is traded against. This is mainly to prevent cheating and to decouple the game-economy from the volatility of XLM. HEX will be more like a stablecoin whose worth is defined by the success of the game itself. Why would/should someone buy HEX? The main purpose is obviously for players to advance faster in the game. Skip production wait time, buy protection when on vacation etc. Since HEX represents the economy of the game, the value rises the more people use or buy it. People that are not playing the game themselves can buy the token to speculate on the future success of the games economy itself. Why we think gaming will be THE entry point into crypto/Stellar: Wallets, exchanges, payment processors etc are the infrastructure of a cryptocurrency. But they don't speak to the average Joe. There is no incentive for the masses to try something new when they can't immediately see how it will benefit them. Although we agree that one day people will use blockchain and crypto without even realizing it, we see much more benefit in actually educating people to use it on their own. To know what crypto is and when they are using it. To build a base of actual active users of Stellar that spread the word. What is holding back games on other platforms is the prerequisite to even start playing the game. You need to own ethereum. You need to have metamask installed. You need to pay for every transaction/in-game action. These games are targeting people like you and me that already own crypto. They don't bring new users on board but cater to a small audience. Cross-platform support Players will be able to use the same login on mobile, browser and desktop continuing their game state on their device of choice. This is important to reach as many people as possible with the tools they have access to. The game will be released for Android, iOS and Windows. It is planned to additionally release the game on our own website as download and browser based as well as on Steam and kongregate. Slowly learning while playing: The game starts with a tutorial, explaining the game-mechanics and ultimately lead to building the marketplace which opens access to the SDEX where resources are traded. At this point, a Stellar account is created for the player with a short explanation and links with further information for those interested. The SDEX-interface will support market orders for casual players (sell/buy disregarding the price) and placing orders as we are used to from standard-exchanges by setting a desired price. Of course this will also be explained in simple terms for those that never faced an exchange before. Just like the amount of resources are displayed in the game, the amount of crypto the user owns will be displayed too. The history of all trades and transactions can be accessed inside the game similar to a blockchain-explorer like stellar.expert explaining what the user is looking at while also linking to the public equivalent on stellar.expert to demonstrate the public ledger. When accessing the crypto in the game, the user will get explained how to set up their own Stellar account, how to send assets to the account and security measures to take. We will be able to promote noteworthy projects inside the Stellar ecosystem what for and where the crypto can be used, how to cash out but also how to cash in via AnchorUSD, WhiteWallet etc suggest mobile wallets, maybe stores accepting XLM or what else will be developed in the coming months and years. All this won't be thrown at them at once but gradually over time. A slow learning curve instead of overwhelming with information. Possible Playerbase: Since we don't have any prerequisites, the game will be free of charge and by supporting different systems (browser, windows, android, iOS), target every gamer not only those that already own crypto. The possibility to actually earn money/crypto playing the game is a major incentive that will draw a lot of attention and will make it easy to market it to a broad audience. While predictions are always hard to make, we are confident to reach 250-500,000 players within a year after full release which would be a major milestone not only for Stellar but crypto in general. This is based on similar games that don’t even have the option to earn anything while playing. Pay back the community fund We pledge to either pay back the community fund for redistribution to other projects or open an independent fund specifically for games developed for the Stellar Network utilizing the SDEX and/or issuing NFTs. To pay back the funds, after development expenses, 20% of the profit generated will be set aside until at least doubling the amount received from the community fund. Transparency and frequent updates Most if not all crypto-projects severely lack transparency. We want to change this by opening the books for everyone to see, explaining transactions (memo has a use-case) and answering questions if there are any. We will update on the development progress via reddit, youtube, twitter and release early builds for those that want to test. Input from the community will be highly appreciated regarding features to add and balancing the gameplay. Reception so far… The initial thread for stratemacy was very well received by the community on /r/Stellar with the most ever awards of any thread in the subs history (2x Gold, 2x Silver), 95% upvoted (69 upvotes) and a lot of encouraging comments. To gather some insights from possible future players, we posted a short thread in /r/AndroidGaming hinting at what’s to come and posting the very early first build. Although a self-promoting thread with only little information, the thread was top-post of the day receiving only positive (mostly even enthusiastic) comments. To update several communities over the course of development is part of our marketing strategy to have an initial player base on launch. And what about stratemacy? We made good progress on stratemacy as well and will continue to develop it after a successful launch of City States. For now the development has been paused not abandoned. 3D models created for City States may also be used for stratemacy. Internally we see City States as the lite (mobile first) version of stratemacy (desktop focus). TL;DR: Free to play multiplayer strategy game targeting everyone not just crypto-holders. Incentive to earn crypto(money) while playing the game. SDEX integration to trade in-game resources globally. Introducing to and educating the player about Stellar slowly over time. Development of “City States: Medieval” started on April 12,2019. Feel free to post your thoughts and suggestions in the comments. We are aiming to be open and transparent during the development process, trying to take as much input from the community as possible. We will continue development throughout the SCF, update here as well as on /r/Stellar about the progress and release an early playable build before the SCF concludes. To vote for us, please scroll up to the first post. Thanks a ton! Follow development on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/citystates Twitter: https://twitter.com/addirktive Trello: https://trello.com/b/AfnwyLRu/city-states-medieval-public

To finance development of our game City States: Medieval, we decided to sell shares in the game. The supply is limited to 1,000,000 tokens total. Only 100,000 of these are sold in the initial offering. Orders are staggered as follows: 30,000 CSM at $0.15 ($4,500 total) 30,000 CSM at $0.30 ($9,000 total) 30,000 CSM at $0.50 ($15,000 total) 10,000 CSM at $0.75 ($7,500 total) If sold out, we will raise $36,000 total. Additional rounds will only be held if more liquidity is needed to finish the games development and only at higher valuations. Buy CSM on StellarPort with AnchorUSD . Eligibility of dividends: Stellar accounts that hold at least $50 worth of CSM ( 334 CSM) Dividends will be paid monthly after the game has been released. Dividends will be calculated from earnings after tax. Shares don't hold any other rights (voting, decision process etc). Requirements may be adjusted in the future. Only $36,000? Judging by the work accomplished so far, we are positive to get a good deed if not the whole game done under this budget. Since the team is confident in the success of the game, only little will be used to support individuals and most of us are compensated with CSM shares as well. We wanted to emphasize that this is not a grab for money but a sincere effort to financially secure development of the game. What are the funds raised used for? Besides partial financial support of team-members, there are some tasks we want to hire professionals to assist us. Especially the database structure and server set up which is a different kind of beast for server side multiplayer games. What if $36,000 is not enough to finish the game? In this case we have two options: Fundraiser/Kickstarter Even if not completely finished, the game development will be far enough to have at least a playable beta version. There are several platforms to raise funds without giving away equity to polish a game (indiegogo, kickstarter). Second CSM Equity Token Sale Since we are only offering 10% of equity at this stage, there is a possibility to raise more funding in later rounds. However, we would rather do this after release of the game at a much higher valuation and with a partner like smartlands.io or fig.co Why no CSM <-> XLM pairing? We don’t want to speculate with the money raised, and with the recent downtrend of XLM we might end up with less than we need. To not be victim of possible price fluctuations, we decided to raise in AnchorUSD instead. If token holders decide to trade the token against XLM or other pairings, they are free to do so. For more information and updates visit stratemacy.com and subscribe to our social channels.

May I ask, out of curiosity: how many members do you have on your team? Anyway, it sounds like a great and ambitious project! I really hope it will be feasible within your means, to see how it plays. Since you are interested in gaming as well, maybe someday we'll end up collaborating. Moreover, your concept is not so far from what I've been picturing in my mind for years for "the future of gaming". (remember my SBC7 entry "Brutos Online"?) Got myself a little of CSM to show my support. Too bad I can't get more now. Mainly because I've invested heavily in MOBIs (if I exit now it would be disastrous 😅 ) But who really knows what the future value of MOBI's gonna be? Wishing you the best of luck in your creative process Dirk. I'll keep an eye on City States: medieval. Tom

Hey wkta / Tom, we are three team members right now. I just saw your email as well and will answer soon to discuss those points and possible collaboration. Best regards Dirk

Do you have an official webpage?

bitcoingold1234 Yes, you can check https://www.stratemacy.com for more information. It's still a work in progress though. We also added a few social channels to follow up on development: twitter: https://www.twitter.com/addirktive reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/citystates discord: https://www.discord.gg/vMW52wF instagram: https://www.instagram.com/addirktiveg facebook: https://www.facebook.com/citystatesm trello: https://www.trello.com/b/AfnwyLRu/city-states-medieval-public

GameDev update has been posted on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Stellar/comments/br3ics/city_states_medieval_gamedev_progress_may_21/

bitcoingold1234 You are welcome. If you have any further questions, don't hesitate to ask. If you think our project should be supported please vote for it by 'Liking' the Original Post at the top. You can vote for more than one project in this round. Thank you.

City States: Medieval - First Real Game on Stellar utilizing the SDEX

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A comparison of the first build (3 days in development) and the actual build. Considering the team took a three week hiatus, we are more than satisfied with the progress so far:

bkolobara

Hi citystates,

that's some nice progress on the art. Did you implement any gameplay mechanics yet?
Having a small playable demo until the end of the competition would be great.

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bkolobara Yes there are already several game mechanics since the very first build.

A little list:

Build UI to build any of the buildings, sorted by type, showing cost to build
terrain restrictions on where buildings can be built
level up of buildings
max level restriction by castle level
destroy buildings
move buildings

Each building has several and sometimes differing mechanics implemented already:

get new villagers (unemployed Pops) in Village House
hire Pops to jobs/buildings in production buildings if unemployed are available
fired Pops from jobs/buildings in production buildings turn back into unemployed Pops

Handling of Pops can also be done from the Population UI as a central point, firing Pops in the Pop UI removes from the building with highest count first, hiring adds to the building with lowest count

Farm: the player has to plant crops which have different timers until ready for harvest
Other: most raw resource buildings have local storage and gather X amount per hour until local storage is full, can then be collected and sent to global storage

We are still working with some placeholders and add models/icons on the go as they are finished. GUI is still just useful not pretty 😅 There will definitely be a playable demo released before end of the SCF.

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Thought it's time for another visual update. Still a work in progress of course. 'on-building' icons will change size depending on screen size and distance from building and camera. Two icons will be changed (Move and Info/Enter).

The resources shown in the top right will be placed new, show only the top 4 (on mobile) with option to open an interface listing all resources.

Icons at the bottom will be re-ordered, also now shows as 'selected' as default, will change to 'unselected' and 'selected' only when GUI is active/open.

Example:

Bug fixes (copied from internal trello):

(Bug) Buildings can only produce 1 item, cannot produce anything at all
(Bug) Adding a worker inside the buildings screen does not asks for the confirmation windows
(Bug) Population window does not appears for other professions but Farmers only
(Bug) Adding a new pop increases pops by 3 bars instead of 1
(Bug) Mess starts to appear if we update a value in the screen, but when we close and re-open everything appears fine again
(Bug) Top message sometimes is not rendered
And a bunch of smaller ones.

Game-play/game-mechanics:

Mines no longer can be placed on any mine rock
Multiple Option Window. (there was only Error Window and Confirmation Window)
Tools and Food detection for new pop
In the building screen, each building has a toggle that allows the building to get ignored from the population tab, allowing for further management and a reason to have managed buildings inside the castle gates.
Each category of each tab auto fills depending on the amount of buildings + the amount of pops each building requires
Fully replace dropdown menu to building buttons
Level up graphic that appears somewhere in a corner of the building
Level up graphic only appears if the building is available to have a level up
Top message above the building

And more I might have forgotten if it was already in the last build.

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[unknown]

They can trade inside the game. There will be an SDEX interface accessible through the Market building. The player can not move resources out of the game to prevent cheating and manipulation of the market. Players are storage restricted as part of the game balancing. If a user could simply send resources between accounts avoiding the market, they could circumvent this restricting. There is no use for the resources other than in the game.

However the player can sell resources for HEX and move those to their own account. HEX will be freely tradeable for everyone.

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[unknown] Exactly.

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It's a live orderbook on the SDEX, they can only buy as low or as high as the next offer prevents them to. We expect a lot of players when releasing the full version and the game encourages and sometimes even forces the player to trade.
Please keep thinking about other ways players may be able to circumvent the restrictions set. It may help to secure it better. Thanks.

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As mentioned in the last update, we've re-done the on-building icons that appear when you click/tap on a building:

We are still working on the windows that open when you enter the building:

I posted these screenshots straight from the designer so you can see how the process goes sometimes. For example this was a previous attempt at the same window:

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Latest dev-build can be downloaded here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tN6-EmQPR7_VFRVyyYC--gOQ3gTHqUHN/view

Controls (some only in debug mode):
WASD: as usual
Zoom: Z+C
Move Up: E
Move Down: Q
Screenshot: H
Hide all UI: LeftShit + U

Please remember this is a developers build and generally not meant for the public. It's a work in progress.
A more stable version with more features and bugfixes will be released later this week.

bkolobara

citystates Would it be possible to get a Mac build?

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bkolobara

In the future that's absolutely a possibility but this early in the dev-cycle we only support one system that most potential testers use. We are planning to support iOS/Android (it's mainly developed for mobile use), Windows and browser based. Mac and Linux depends on the success of the game if it's feasible to maintain another build.

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Most recent screenshot:

We also have background music in the game now. Public build will drop in 2-3 days. I'm excited 🙂

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Thank you for the like @jGlastetter
Unfortunately it was on the second post - if you meant to vote for City States, please leave the 'Like' on the very first post.

citystates

The latest build can be downloaded here. We also have music in the game now 🙂

bnogal

Just knowing you used unity to do this gets my approbation, i have to suffer to program on it like 10% of my time, not the most stable and well designed api free of bugs out there, a pain when you spend other 70% of the time programming in Qt

I know it is a very early version, but i would comment what i see in the last version i tried

EQ keys doesn't work, neither ZX
On systems with mouse you should try to implement a movement with the mouse like in RTS games, it feels more natural. Move mouse to the sides to move camera slowly
Resources list, if it is only to check them, they icons could be smaller, fill the top or group them by origin in two or three lines.
To build things, i would do like in the settlers II , go into build mode, then you click the hex and the options for that tile appear, while on build mode, tooltips appear to recognize what type of building you can build in each hex.

I know you aim mobiles, but i miss movement on the screen, like a bit of wind effect or time passing. Where are the rabbits running around the trees? Yeees i know it is early state and it is not settlers II 😛

GUIs in unity is a pain^{lines describing what you want}. Basic interface for debug is fine, to get something as someone wants is horrible. I suggest to investigate alternatives.

Good luck

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