𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐚𝐥!
After playing Blockhunters for 30 minutes and keeping your private key (character) secret from all the others, it's time for the big reveal!
Who owns which keys, collected the most #bitcoin and is the ultimate Blockhunter?
https://video.nostr.build/1f519cdca6c5af838e8c4d9cf7c226db3d545a3de3f9f73e026c58d16e580add.mp4
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Board 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦
Characters 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦
Rulebook 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦
Gameplay 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦
Let's have fun and test it with family and friends!
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🤮 fiat central bankers game
🔥 bitcoin noderunners game
𝐑𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤
But before we actually could start the playtesting, you need to know that we also changed a lot in the gameplay. And more importantly: wrote down all the rules in a rulebook, or manual.
Oh, btw: welcome to our Blockhunters logo font. Do you like it? 🖌
𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞!
With the new board, new characters and also an improvement with the keys and the nonces, it was time to playtest v2!
Not once, not twice but dozens of times. Get ready for people "having fun being educated" 🤓
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𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧!
We came up with 10 characters with all different nationalities, ages and reasons to use bitcoin.
Which is your favorite?
𝘕𝘰𝘵𝘦: 𝘸𝘦'𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘰𝘪𝘯 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥.
Characters!
After improving the board, we moved on to optimizing the transaction cards. v1 was quite boring with just "colors and numbers".
After consulting board game experts, we improved this SO MUCH with personas!
🇻🇪 Meet the Garcia family from Venezuela, who use bitcoin to escape hyperinflation.
🇨🇳 Or Li from China, who faces mass surveillance and uses bitcoin as an alternative for CBDC's.
🇸🇻 Or one of the other eight personas!
Print, print, print
Making this prototype was fun! All ideas and iterations are coming together!
Did you notice The Times in the Genesis Block? 👀
Concept approved, improvements pending
After some tests with the new version of the board, it was time to make it more playable, colorful and testable.
Let's call it the "design for maximum utility" 🙂
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐮𝐳𝐳𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐝.
On the left you see v1, on the right v2.
The same amount of cards, same amount of blocks, but Blockhunters is now officially a 𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝 game.
Without decreasing the size of the cards, we managed to optimize the game play a lot!
This is going to be awesome!
Bitcoin, education, gamification and El Salvador!
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See you at @npub17cyatz6z2dzcw6xehtcm9z45m76lde5smxdmyasvs00r4pqv863qrs4ml3 's Unconference to talk about universal, visual and tactile bitcoin education, through things like Blockhunters!
Translating ideas and improvements into a playable prototype!
With the optimized board and new ideas about private keys, we had some creative sessions and starting working on the very first version of something that eventually became Blockhunters v2!
Blockhunters is hot! 🔥 Three donations/preorders in a couple of days. Thanks to everyone for supporting our work! 🙏
Bear markets are for building; the next bull market for educating.
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𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩 𝟏: 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝.
Back in March, we started to iterate on v1 of Blockhunters. v2 of the board is so much smaller!
Expect v3 to be even better and more compact. We're working on this AS WE SPEAK! ⚡️
We're going back in time! In the next weeks we'll take you on a journey from Blockhunters v1 to the current prototype (v2).
Step one: redesign the components of the board.
The size of v1 (with lots of individual pieces of cardboard) was unnecessarily big. In v2 we made Blockhunters simpler: one single board, smaller dimensions and more efficient use of the space and materials. But also: rethink every single component and optimize it!
We know you haven't been hearing much about Blockhunters over the past few months... but that doesn't mean that nothing happened! We went stealth and have many updates to share with all of you a new entry on @npub1kmwdmhuxvafg05dyap3qmy42jpwztrv9p0uvey3a8803ahlwtmnsnhxqk9.
A rare one from the vault! One of the first Blockhunters prototypes being set up to play by a younger Arnold, circa 2020
Friends testing one of the earliest Blockhunters prototypes, three years ago - it looks so different now!
Running nostr!