The project
So this past week I built out my second dApp with the current cohort in the Buildspace community. This time round, the project was to create an NFT based game. The goal was to make a game where you could attack a big boss via a transaction on the blockchain that would use a game smart contract.
So like the previous dApp, this required some knowledge of Solidity to build out our smart contact, Hardhat to help us develop our dApp with ETH, and some frontend skills (React and JavaScript).
The project provides a template for the frontend part, but once again I used my web3 starter project. The benefit of building out with the web3 starter is I'm improving the starter project. 😎
Going off script
Like the first dApp I built, I made it my own. Here's some fun screenshots from the game I made.
Select your player
Mint your player
When your player is dead
If you're interested in how it's all built, I've open sourced it. I’m sure there’s some refactoring to do, but I’m really happy hour it turned out.
nickytonline
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terrible-characters
Terrible Characters is a fun NFT based game that I built as part of a Buildspace cohort. Try it out and have some fun!
Terrible Characters
Terrible Characters is a fun NFT based game that I built as part of a Buildspace cohort. Try it out and have some fun!
Select your player
Mint your player
Attack the big boss
When your player is dead
Contributing
If you are interested in contributing to the project, first read our contributing guidelines. Take a look at our existing issues, or if you come across an issue, create an issue. For feature requests, start a discussion first.
Getting Started (Local Development)
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Install the dependencies
npm install # or yarn -
Start the project
npm run dev # or yarn dev
Open http://localhost:3000 with your browser to see the result.
Getting Started (Gitpod)
The project can be run in Gitpod. Navigate to https://gitpod.io/#https://github.com/nickytonline/hello-edge-and-node. If you wish to load it in Gitpod as an external contributor, you will need to fork the project first, then open…
If you want to just check out the game, head on over to nftgame.iamdeveloper.com. Note that it's only on the Rinkeby test network so no real coin will be used.
Until next time!
Top comments (6)
Pretty much every single post I see about blockchain/NFTs just strengthens my belief that they are still solutions looking for problems. I'm always reminded of this...
It's interesting tech for sure (I actually do freelance work for a blockchain-based startup), but I've yet to see a really compelling use case other than cryptocurrency. I understand all the 'trust' oriented applications of the tech, but every one I've seen still has the fatal flaw of trusting a human somewhere along the line - rendering the whole (resource hungry, complex) thing essentially meaningless.
Also, selling digital art (or any digital artefact) as an NFT is just bizarre. You have 'ownership' of something that can be freely copied by anyone?? That makes very little, if no sense at all. Guess it all boils down to the question:
The answer being:
Thanks for chiming in Jon.
Yeah, I'm still exploring the space and find the tech interesting. At the moment, the only real difference in what I'm currently doing with these projects is using an API that hits the blockchain, the rest for what I'm doing is pure web dev. You do learn about building out smart contracts with Solidity which I found interesting as well.
From what I know, NFTs seem a little silly on the surface, but it's no different than collecting other things aside from yes, it's digital. I don't really play video games, but people pay for stuff all the time in video games. I could see someone wanting to own a prized character with tonnes of experience etc.
Longer term, NFTs could be a deed to phyisical property, like a house. Not saying that's going to happen, but those are some ideas. @dabit3 is really knowledgeable in this space. I imagine if you're doing some contract work in that space, you're probably following him, but if not he's a great follow here and on Twitter.
We had him on the DEV Twitch stream a while back to talk about a lot of this. Check it out if you want.
He's also hosting a Twitter Space today that might interest you.
Like I said, I'm just enjoying exploring the space at the moment. 😎
This is cool!
Awesome stuff, Nick!
I hope you liked the NFT(I made it haha)
Here's what I built:
greek-gods-nft-game.vercel.app/
Love it! I went a round as Apollo.
Dope choice!!