Let's see a snippet of what I've been up to these past few days...
I have been playing around with several bApps, one of which is on the EOS chain (nudge to those that have it but still haven't played with it).
Musing
One of the ones I enjoy a lot is Musing, which is a Quora-like question/answer platform. Best of all, it interacts in parallel with Steemit, meaning that it won't clutter your blog feed, unless you want it to (it's an option when you answer a question).
As with other bApps that have received a hefty delegation, you see a lot of activity that tries to milk it with spammy questions and terrible answers. They have a curation team that has a set of guidelines for rewarding activity, which is good to see.
I think enjoyment of the platform really boils down to being genuine. I ask questions that I generally am curious about, and often times when in conversation a question crops up in mind and I'll go "hey I wonder what musing thinks?", which I then post to musing not long after :). And finding questions that are interesting of course. And questions that are relevant, for example people that ask about how various parts of Steem work.
Actifit
The first of these is 
To be eligible for a vote, the activity tracker needs to exceed 5000, and higher step counts will give higher rewards, up to 10k.
The posts need to be 30 words long, which seems a little silly if you just want to record data anyway. It's the usual awkward integration and having to account for the catch-all interface of Steemit.
One downside is also you have up to midnight of that day to post, or you lose the steps for the day. I've definitely had that happen a few times already :).
In any case, my SMT thought exercise for viability would likely be in line with how Sweatcoin has partnerships with various companies to offer fitness products to redeem points with. Curious to see how else they will provide value to their fit tokens.
Partiko
Another one I've been using a bit is 
But the app is fast. And not only that, it is gaining more and more notification capabilities by the day, which is very useful and chips away at use cases Ginabot covers. That includes:
- Replies to you.
- Replies to any comment on your main post (Ginabot lacks this)
- Mentions of you.
- Votes on your posts and comments
- Follows and unfollows.
- Resteems of your posts.
- Transfers to you.
What's more is every action you take on partiko accumulates points, which can be redeemed for a partiko vote on a post you make (at posting time, probably with delay now with hf20 timings?). That's a good way to establish a base line value for the points.
And is just a fun scoreboard otherwise. But it's an enjoyable app. If I were to suggest one thing though... Make it force you to put in a tag before it posts. I've got the post button prematurely so many times already because of it.
Vimm
Vimm is a live streaming platform, like dLive before it, that posts to Steem to allow for monetization. One feature of it is that it does not post immediately after a stream disconnects, allowing better control over posting times and allowing to reconnect to a stream without having to post duplicates.
I accidentally made a post on Vimm while toying around with the stream. I think it is possible for it never to make a post and show your stream which is cool. I didn't turn off the setting it that posted, as it turns out. But it was a fun time. And it's got a smooth experience as far as chatting goes. And it has tipping. Maybe will do more of it in the future.
EOS Knights
(Not Steem related). And there's EOS Knights, which I've talked about before here.
I've been just letting this game keep going. I've gotten to floor 106, and this is with coming out ahead with item sales. The scale matters a lot, as the prices of the rarer materials and items goes way up as you get to the higher levels (where such materials drop). Now I've got a material that would sell for 2.84 EOS (a bit less than 15 USD as of this posting).
A few new things were added since last time:
- Mobile version: works with mobile version of Scatter. Tested with my named account
eonwarpedeos. Mobile scatter, and same with the other mobile wallets, is a little bit of a jarring experience though. - Pet expeditions: Basically a way to get more drops and more magic water.
- Referral program: in settings, you can go to referral bonus section and input one name. Then both you and the referee gets 1000 magic waters. (So feel free to add me :))
- Edit: As of 10/2, they shifted their thresholds for rare drops.... from floors 40 / 90 ---> floors 100 / 200. OUCH!
Is this game fun? Well, it's an idle game. You farm material, you craft gear, and it's an endless cycle. With the usual exponential progression curve. Addicting when you can collect and make better gear. At least it isn't too much of a time sink though. Unless maybe you are active in trading and trying to time the material and gear markets.
.... And so that's some of what I've been doing in recent times. Give them a spin! Any others I should poke at? What do you all think about these ones?