Hash Rush - The Game Of Hash Mining Power (For Real)
The crypto landscape is booming these days with more and more projects, and I'm happy to see that it quickly extended from bare fintech to the gaming area (where I see it actually more fit to create disruption). There are quite a few gaming project (some of which I'm closely watching, in silence for now) and some of which are starting to get traction.
Today it was brought to my attention by @badastroza a new game, called Hash Rush (he is actually the marketing guy for the team, so it kinda make sense). The game is based on real hashing power and it rewards with real crypto tokens, like Ethereum, Ethereum Classic and Monero. It does that by using its own proxy token, though, called RushCoin (RC) for which there is currently an ICO - which will end on October 20th.
The site is a little bit rough around the edges and the gaming visuals are not quite on par with what you see on an EA game, for instance, but the mere fact that the game is developed is something quite interesting.
The gaming industry is already using in-game tokens to reward its users for various activities, so the adoption of crypto in this area should be faster and with less friction.
But, as in any other business, it all boils down, in the end, to execution.
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Wow that looks pretty cool! So many tokens but not enough fiat ..aaah.
Thanks for the mention @dragosroua! Really appreciate you taking the time to give this project some exposure.
The game is still in very early development, with a closed but playable pre-alpha scheduled for December, and actual game launch in Q3 of 2018.
We're hard at work adding to the website as well as building our community, and if anyone wants to drop in and say hi, they can come join us on Discord at https://discordapp.com/invite/ecTsYsc
Cheers!
I'm eager to see what it's like when it's ready!
Cool - we'll be posting many more updates as we go along. You can check out the official Hash Rush blog by following @nume right here on Steemit!
You're welcome, good luck! :)
It's not really clear how what you do in the game world correlates with the real world hash power. It's an interesting concept but the details seem a bit up in the air.
Yes, they did, but probably joining their chat channel, as per @badastroza comment will clear up some confusion
Their site didn't make that clear, is what I meant.
Thanks for the feedback @calatorulmiop - we will definitely add more info to the FAQ and the site itself to make this clearer.
The way it will work is that your units and structures will each be worth a certain amount of hashing power. For example, let's say you have 10 units worth 100 kh/sec each. You will then have a full 1MH/sec of hashing power from the Hash Rush mining farm allocated to you. This number will grow along with your colony as you expand your base, gain bonuses from completing single-player objectives and faction goals, and more that we have in development. You will then be paid out your mining proceeds (currently, this is set to be weekly) to your ETH wallet.
Not all details are final as the game is still very early in development, scheduled for release in Q3 2018 - we're going to be releasing much more detailed information in the coming days.
Please have a look at the white paper for more info:
https://www.hashrush.com/ico/Hash-Rush-Whitepaper-2.0.pdf
And check out the FAQ for more:
https://www.hashrush.com/faq
The thing that is not clear is how virtual units in the game correlate to actual hardware in the real world that provides that hash power. Do people buy the game's token and with that money you support physical hardware or does the game use the player's hardware for that hash power? and ETH is moving to proof of stake sometime in the future.
Hey - the Hash Rush team run a mining farm, of which certain amounts of hashing power will be attributed to players based upon the hashing power they control in-game. The players are not using their own hardware for hashing while playing - however, the mining farm will have its own mining pool which players can use to mine through as well.
Yes, players can buy the game's token and use this for in-game purchases, however they can also trade items and collectibles on the in-game market and get coins that way. We will take a small percentage as a tax to fund the upkeep and upgrading of the mining farm, cover development costs of the additional game content (our goal is to offer additional DLC and updates for free) and standard operating expenses.
If ETH does move to proof of stake, we will use the mining farm's hashing power for other cryptocurrencies.
Please also bear in mind that the game is in the very early stages of development, and we are looking to launch in around a year from now, so a lot of these exact details still need to be worked out carefully by the team. However, as soon as we know more we will be posting publicly
Transparency and openness are important values to the Hash Rush team and we're going to bring more information once we are settled on it.
As for how else we will generate revenue, here's an extract from the white paper:
Hash Rush will generate revenue in four key methods:
Ok, thank you for making those points clear for me.
this is really cool - I've been waiting for something like this. I have had a few ideas of my own about some ways to incorporate crypto into gaming and there are a lot concept projects right that I would really love to see come to light. I would like to see this continue to develop into really high quality games -
Great to hear - thanks a lot @jorlauski. We'd love to have you come by our Discord and join the community at https://discord.gg/ecTsYsc
@dragosroua,
Seems to be an interesting concept! Yeah most of games are issuing tokens, so combined technology with crypto is a great idea!
Cheers~
Interesting idea, I think strategy genre is suitable for this.
If the game is fun to play with decent graphics (I like the theme), it will go big.
This will give a "pay to win" whole new meaning :D
I'm not an ICO guy, but I'll keep watching the progress and eventually hop in later, when the game/economy/environment is more developed.
I wish you luck with your project.
looks cool but will check it out later
Sorry for ruining a perfectly good 69 votes...
If I was paid in crypto currency to play games, life wouldn't be so bad. Think I need to check this game out.
You got my vote and a resteem :]
Will be keeping an eye on this project for sure.