How to minute cryptocurrency in Play Market or the story of our cyberpan

You wake up in the shop window. All you remember is bright light before your eyes. You lower your head and see robotic prostheses instead of your hands. You turn slowly, and around there are the same people with a filling of microcircuits. What thoughts will appear in your head: “What is the year now? », » I got to Detroit? », Or maybe » how human rights « ?

Hello street samurai!

My name is Julia, and I am an assistant to the game designer in a small game development team. She is small, because there are seven of us: artist, animator, programmer, game designer, I, empty pockets and enthusiasm.

Team and idea

We all came at different times and under different circumstances to the call of love for Cyberpan and Games to build a business model and become cooler than near-Zars. They decided to start from the clker, because the project in such a genre is easier to implement, and his attractiveness is no less.

The concept of a future game – cyberpunk and clique, gathered in our heads, but we had to figure out how to combine these concepts in the game. The choice fell on such a popular type of activity as cryptocurrency mining. Therefore, throughout the game, the only way to earn Satoshi (local bitcoins) is to minute them!

The game, in our understanding, should also contain the plot component. There were several ideas on this subject:

Anti -utopia with class division, gangster seizures of areas and the desire for equality by revolution with the hands of cars.

The life and life of the criminal Betirocasino.co.uk of the future: the theft of Satoshi from the accounts of corporations, the shoots from the security services for cyberspace, and instead of the lead bullets of the DDOS Aatya.

Perhaps we used one of these ideas, maybe mixed both in the plot blender, or used a completely new. You can find out about this yourself if you go through this article before the final cat-scene 🙂

Technology and planning

As a platform for the development, we chose the Unity engine because it is easy to master and relatively analogues are inexpensive (because it is free). And of course it allows us to make our game cross -platform.

As a program for creating skeletal animation, they chose between Spine and DragonBones, in both work they are easily integrated into Unity. However, they preferred Spine, since it has more interesting functions of its interface more convenient.

We used JIRA and Confluence as platforms for tracking tasks, it is convenient and helps to observe progress. To visualize all time tasks, we wanted to use one of the services to build Roadmap. However, such services are quite expensive, so we have created a task card in Google Sheets (only TSSS, do not tell anyone).

Development on quarantine

Most of the development fell on the period of self -isolation, so I had to work remotely and resolve the emerging issues online. It was unusual, because at home not a working atmosphere at all. But I had to postpone the series and cookies aside and get down to business!

(Yes, I even interrupted watching the series about the development of the Games “Mystical Quest”)

Since we worked in the team, no one had the opportunity to stretch the tasks so as not to bring each other. Therefore, many were faced with situations when it was necessary to overpower themselves and show a good result in a short time.

Difficulties of implementation

In the game, the miner has a passive income, it is charged every second. There was a problem with eliminating the possibility of manipulating this income by changing the date and time on the phone. To avoid this, a binding was made to online time, but in this case it was impossible to play offline, which was quite sad. Then a telephone hybrid was made online, but even so the game was just deceiving enough. As a result, a way out was found: use the time counting deep in the device system.

The difficulty that arose in the process of working on animation is the creation of a character skins. New skins lay on the skeleton unevenly, and there were more shifts than it should. As a result of the character’s limbs, they rejected right during mining. A terrible future, agree. Now we have figured out these mistakes and work on the skins and optimization of character movements.

Getting together even before quarantine, we decided that we would make a game in two months, but as soon as buckwheat and toilet paper disappeared from the shelves of stores, everything has changed. With the beginning of the pandemic, it became impossible to get together, because the entire workflow went underground – into a discord. Oh, this distance … someone lost interest in our small project and constantly hung in Lol (I saw everything), someone could not stay with us for personal reasons. But one way or another, we found new people and for three months of work, all the functionality of the game was ready!

Game exit and your wishes

It doesn’t matter on a computer, on a phone, on a football field or small on asphalt – everyone plays games and always played. For the same reason, some and strive in Gamdev, he seems to be fascinating, mysterious, and at the same time familiar from childhood.

We realized that almost any person can find himself here, ranging from screenwriters and economists, ending with artists, sites developers and just enthusiasts who do not yet have skills, but are ready to study and comprehend new. But despite the friendliness of the industry, many teams from ambitious children break up because they do not believe in success or face difficulties.

We hope that our experience will become a motivation for someone not to quit our job and believe that the risk is always justified. But did we get a team and make a really interesting game, judge you. We hope for your reviews, for us this is the first experience, and therefore your opinion is very very important 🙂