RE: 🎮 Text Based Games on Steemit
Not the Condenser based steemit.com interface nor the steemit API but how I can publish directly onto the blockchain. Is this possible?
The API has code for constructing transactions and broadcasting them to the blockchain. Is there a reason you wouldn't want to use that?
So before I get too deep into this, has anybody written a text based game on Steemit before - one that's interacted with solely through your blog and if so, can you point me to it please?
Well, they were done manually rather than with software and written on-the-fly in reaction to the chosen prompt rather than pre-written, but years ago I participated in some choose-your-own-adventure-esque acitivities that someone ran as a series of posts:
The Cave (an interactive rhyming adventure)
The Island: (interactive rhyming adventure)
(Unfortunately I think the user turned his account over to a spammer at some point after doing these)
As I was hunting through my old posts to try to find a link to that, I came across this old post of mine: Pick four sentences: a simple creative writing game and it occurred to me that somebody could turn that into a Steem activity (find some way to query public domain books to generate the four random sentences, provide a UI for writing the story around them). It's more of a creative writing exercise than what most people would consider a game, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
It's more curiosity about what the blockchain itself is capable of which might inspire a different idea of how I can interact with it (rather than as a blogging platform).
My current plan is to use the existing brodcast functionality with data stored in the meta data of a post which I'll retrieve, manipulate, save and then broadcast a response. No doubt with huge timing and scaling problems along the way.
You could probably get ChatGPT to generate that for you these days - it could probably also generate the story too but that would ruin the fun somewhat.