Hive Millionaire - A Trivia Game Concept For The Hive Community
Hi and welcome to one of my #showerthoughts-x series where I put down conceptual theories on applications to build or how to advance an existing app or technology for free.
Today I was thinking about a Trivia game concept that is tokenized and built on the Hive blockchain, creating a competitive atmosphere for book smart individuals to compete amongst themselves on random topics. Now I'd like to put out that these are just theories(shower thoughts) and may require more deep thinking and adjustments. I have limited programming knowledge to build any of this and also lack the resources, however, maybe you, my reader don't and I'd be glad to see something of this nature built on Hive blockchain.
To kick start, let's name our game shall we?
So what do you want us to call it?, I was thinking after having a cold bath:
Hive Millionaire
How did the name come about? Well, there's this show that we previously had way back in the days in Nigeria called "who wants to be a millionaire" where different people come to be tested with questions from different topics for a chance to win up to a million naira.
It was always intense and fun and did put money in a couple if not many people's pockets. So with "Hive Millionaire" we're effectively telling the Hive Community "who wants to be a Hive Millionaire?" : )
What Is Hive Millionaire?
Hive Millionaire is basically a trivia game concept that allows individuals to challenge themselves on questionnaires of different topics, effectively exercising their minds and earning crypto rewards in the process.
Hive Millionaire not only allows you to earn crypto for answering questions, it also enables you to build more knowledge around specific topics as it refreshes your mind on things you're already conversant with while also exposing you to topics you're not informed about. Hive Millionaire is still a theory that could be built on the Hive blockchain for anyone to leverage.
Game Modes Explained
Considering that beyond blockchain technology and the models that govern it is a world with different approaches to things, we have to look to capture as many people as possible so that means the game has to be fit for anyone, anywhere.
Here are the different game modes I drafted:
- Free To Play
- Incentivized Solo Play
- Incentivized Peer-to-peer Challenge
- Free Peer-to-peer Challenge
- Incentivized Public challenge
Free to play
This is obviously the base layer of everything, here's where there are zero entry barriers where literally anybody can access the game and test his/her abilities with the trivia questions.
Some may use this as a testing phase to really understand the game, how technical it can get, what the questions look like, you know, just basically enjoying the process of playing a new game, although with discord trivia bots it doesn't seem quite new, but considering that we're dealing with a blockchain-based application, there are bound to be some advancements and uniqueness.
Incentivized Solo Play
The free to play can also be called a solo play, only that there are no rewards for playing, just you having fun. That said, to earn is to choose the incentivized solo play and this basically involves acquiring an asset to begin - to be explained under rewards system.
So incentivized solo play allows individuals to play and earn
Unlike free to play, on incentivized solo play, users earn reward points and also tokens at the end of the game.
Incentivized Peer-to-peer Challenge and Free Peer-to-peer Challenge
P2P games are fun, the ability to challenge anyone to a game for some fun time or maybe rewards is rather cool. Now imagine logging into your Hive account and then stumble on an encrypted transaction that says 
The thing about this is that the players can either choose to place bets or play for free. So user A can choose to say OK, I'm staking 100 hive millionaire tokens and you cannot stake anything less than 80% of that. If user B accepts and stakes 80 perhaps, the game begins and the winner gets to keep both stakes or they play without any incentives. If a bet is placed and nobody wins, the game earns the tokens. However, by design, the game should have fee structures that enable it to earn from all value flow.
Incentivized Public challenge
This is where a lot of things happen as more people play the game at once. More token inflation is pushed towards this game mode, NFTs, token rewards, points rewards, experience points and maybe lots more?
Rewards System Explained
A token with a stake and delegate functionality is created and a percentage is sold in the open market, the funds from market purchase are constantly moved into HBD savings perhaps to regenerate income for the game.
With this token now available for purchase, users can actually move in and start playing. What happens is, the game developers can actually create as many tokens, depending on the demand until there are other sellers to widen the market but the truth is that it wouldn't matter much because the game is built to eliminate the tokens created, how?
Every game mode has its restrictions, free to play has no rewards but enjoys no entry barrier. Incentivized solo play has little rewards(rewards points and token inflation) and low entry barrier. Incentivized peer-to-peer has very little game-side rewards(rewards points but with user agreed bets), the entry barrier is determined by the players. Free peer-to-peer mode has no incentives and enjoys no entry barrier. Then incentivized public challenge has a larger entry barrier but with more rewards including rewards points, experience points, token inflation and NFTs.
Utility Of The Rewards
Experience points - every user starts with an experience level set to 100%, the more they play, the more the experience level drops, it is a weird concept yes, but you see, the system believes a user is becoming too experienced so it is reducing his experience level as he plays so this makes the user's rewards drop and also decreasing his given time to give answers to questions, effectively adding a layer of difficult to the game.
That said, experience points can be bought with a hive millionaire token. However, in order to ensure that users don't rob the system, a user can only boost his experience three times a day and the amount of tokens needed will be determined by the game. Something else that would make it rather great would be to make the experience level drop faster with users getting more accurate answers and frequently burning tokens to boost the experience back up.
A percentage of the tokens used to boost experience may be set aside to reward incentivized solo game mode players as the challenge mode would often eat up the token inflation.
Reward points - reward points are basically used to get second attempts at answering a question and there are a max 2 attempts with the second attempt requiring the elimination of more rewards points than before. That said, users who stake more Hive Millionaire tokens will usually earn more rewards points and experience points. These rewards reduce as more users join the game, but the value of the token may increase which makes it somewhat balanced.
Token Inflation - this is basically the hive millionaire token created on the blockchain and allocated to gamers as rewards. With more of it going to public challenge gamers than others.
NFTs - your NFTs naturally contain a value in the hive millionaire token and they can also be used to earn competitive advantage in the game by locking up the NFT for a period of time to gain answer hints in the game. So the NFTs can either be burnt to earn their value in millionaire tokens which a user can only find out when burned, basically the game contract randomly chooses how much hive millionaire token an NFT should be worth based on different factors.
Lock ups become a valuable use case as the value of the NFTs are effectively hive millionaire tokens and locking them up is similar to locking up the game's native token. The NFTs can however be drained as they are being utilized but powering up the Hive millionaire token effectively recharges it given that under the sheets, they are both just hive millionaire tokens.
All in-game assets could be transferable, meaning that a secondary value system can be built on top of them.
The game basically involves users tasking their brains to answer trivia questions in a system pre-defined time frame and earn numerous rewards.
What are the drawbacks?
First of all, building a game with a great economic model isn't as easy as writing theories, so it will require a lot of deep evaluation.
Secondly, a game like this requires access to a huge chunk of data to make it widely efficient and practical self sovereign as its broad knowledge will enable it to deploy more complex questions. What this means would be that we're effectively dealing with Artificial Intelligence.
Now I know that this may sound rather rough, but that's the thing, ideas all begin with a rough draft, dealing more on them could result in some powerful trivia game that rewards users to exercise their brains and learn being developed.
Do leave a comment if any.
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