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? Where would I start if I wanted to do this? Comments from people who understand this would be greatly appreciated!
I might be wrong, but my understanding is that the most common alternative to using the Steemit API would be to set up your own node and connect to the blockchain through your own API on your own node. The best reference I've seen for setting up a node is the series by @rexthetech. That link goes to the last post, which has links to the entire series near the end.
This isn't all bad 'cause you could also bring in revenue as a witness.
One other piece is that you'd probably want your own hivemind server, eventually, which you would interact with using standard SQL, but I don't know much else about that. AFAIK, there are no public hivemind servers (or if there are, I haven't learned of them).
steemd also comes with a cli_wallet, but I can't imagine that you'd want to use that for any sort of programmatic interface.
I've heard that for most people, the costs far exceed the revenue (until they reach the top 20). I've considered setting up a node but I don't trust myself to lose interest 😆
I heard about Hivemind in some of the old Steemit interview videos and it sounded like something worth looking into. When I tried to learn more about it though, I hit a dead end fairly quickly. It's as though it's a mythical thing that disappeared with the old Steemit team.
That's my understanding, too. For this scenario, the witness would definitely be secondary to having a local API.
Hivemind setup info is here - https://developers.steem.io/tutorials-recipes/using-hivemind. I've never done anything with it, though, because I assume the storage cost would be fairly high.
I think it's gonna take me a while to get my head around all of this and thanks for being my fount of all knowledge.