Welcome to the IBT Survival Island regular progress report/update post - these updates will be posted weekly if possible.
The above image is from the actual game being built - IBT Survival Island
This weeks update will be short and sharp but hopefully provide evidence of progress and gather more interest. These update posts are to get feed back and ideas from Steemians just as much as to provide a journal like insight of what it takes to make an off platform downloadable Steem rewards game, that uses SMT tokens as exclusive membership tickets.
While I believe this is an extremely bold project and it's pushing crypto games to new limits, this is not a professional built game by a team of payed programmers expecting to be paid. It doesn't have a massive team of expert programmers and it's not going to make lots of Steem or money - it's been built for the love of Steem and just as a fun project and as such I can't commit to how far this will go. Saying this, I think it's probably just a couple of months from having a playable single player demo and I'm trying to align this with the official release of SMT's in March.
Work continues on creating the environment, working on the tree's is hard work. Please remember these are being built from scratch, there is no copy cat stuff going on here, this is going to be as best as possible realistic survival game based on the Australian bush.
It wouldn't be the Australian bush with out an Eucalyptus tree, its all a bit technical but after allot of 'collision issues' in creating the object we believe we have finally nailed it.
What do you think, does it look like an Eucalyptus tree - Does it look ok?
The above image is under construction, from the actual game IBT Survival Island - it is exclusive to Steemians whom hold IBTB tokens - There will be no transfers required to play the game, this is not a pay to win game, but a pay to play game - admitting without some more support it won't pay much; but I will do what I can to spread the wealth and give away Steem to players as they learn and unlock things via delegations and other mechanisms.
Other work progresses in the area's of character creation and I'm hopeful people can make their own custom character to a certain extent. If connectivity to the Steem block chain works as hopes you might notice subtle bonus's to your in game character based on your Steemit reputation level for instance :)
How can you help?
- If you had a lucky week trading the crypto (I never do - I'm a hopeless investor), feel free to sponsor with some Steem (Those who know me, know I am trust worthy - and you can clearly see in previous IBT on the block chain I've ensured 100's in Steem prizes have gone out fairly). Anything received I will put it in my savings account ready to move to the soon to be created community account. Alternatively you can support via fundition here: https://steemit.com/en/@lordnigel/l6mjz3r5q
- This week people can help by telling me if you think it looks like an Australian Eucalyptus tree or how it can be improved. Let me know in a comment below and we will try to improve. There are many things of use in the Aussie bush environment, but right now we are just looking at our most famous Aussie tree
That's it for this weeks update, until next time take care and happy steeming!
Any liquid Steem raised from upvotes from this post will be transferred to my savings account, which will be used as part of future IBT Survival Island prizes (Either to power the community account or for direct transfer for Educational rewards in game). While I'm trying to setup a variety of sources to fund/build the reward system every upvote helps, but totally cool if you need it more then I do - keep it and just drop us a comment to show interest :)