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So basically i`m not a gamer, but i have big respect for gamers, it's a 180 billion $ market, so I was wondering if there is any altcoin that can be obtained by gaming. It's a 180 billion $ market, so let's not be foolish, and let's make a crypto-currency/ or promote one, in order to get a share of that market cap.

So are there any altcoins that can be obtained simply by playing online games? If yes then post them below, and i`ll put them in the OP so that gamers can see the list and start getting them through playing games. I might even review them.

HOW ABOUT A BIG MMORPG/MMORTS GAME (Online: Like e-Republic but with cryptocurrencies?)

There are tons of private servers for any MMO game, why can't anyone create any MMO private server based on Bitcoin or other Crypto?

There are plenty of coins used in games. But in the cases I am thinking of they are used by the players, so you have to come up with some good reason why other players would give you coins.

Two apparently quite lucrative sources of in game income are the General Mining Corp and the General Retirement Corp, both of which regularly buy large quantities (lately typically about fifty million units in a shipment) of Deuterium; prices are shown here: http://galaxies.mygamesonline.org/deuterium.html

More data on the various assets they play with are linked from the main menu page here: http://galaxies.mygamesonline.org/digitalisassets.html

The game, or metagame, in which this all takes place has the top level of its wiki pages here: http://devtome.com/doku.php?id=galactic_milieu

The trick to getting players who have coins to give you some is usually to find some way that your characters or groups or nations or whatever scale you operate on in the game can be of use to them; or simply by doing trades between various factions, exchanging their various currencies for them for example, or organising procurement of things in a way that saves them bother such as by doing the small scale buying from small suppliers that is necessary to put together a large scale lot of something that players at a larger scale are interested in.

(For example a Freeciv-scale settler unit creates a city of population 10000 when it settles, but 10000 characters is a large number of characters at an individual-character scale, and not everyone interested in obtaining a freeciv-scale settler unit wants to deal with the details of grouping together 10000 MUD-characters, for example, to create such a unit from a smaller scale of play...)

-MarkM-

Huntercoin is a "game"/coin that emits 80% of its coins through a process referred to as human-mining.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=435170.0

Not so much a currency but a site, I'd personally recommend Dragon Knight 2 (http://dknight2.com/users.php?do=register&ref=Zyzx),

It offers 6 different coins being, HYPER, HTML5, GP, Flappycoin, Einsteinium, and Coin2.

there are a couple of games that pay you in bitcoin if you play them . but other than that i know about Hyper that has dedicated Counter Strike servers and pays you in Hyper.

never tried HYPER but from what i have understood you cant earn much from it and you have to spend it in game to buy for example guns and amos in game.

i didn't even think it was possible :D

Well, I know of two crypto that you could earn by playing games. Those are GoldPieces and Hyper. However, Hyper is increasing in price as well as it's getting more into games. There are several game servers that let you earn Hyper such as Minecraft, Counter Strike, Team Fortress and more.  :)

GEO is a coin anyone can get just by playing the geocashing game. All you need to do is visit a location on the surface of the earth  ;D

https://i.imgur.com/nqNKLAe.jpg?1

www.gamerholic.com  lets you play games for Bitcoin or Gamerholic coins, doesn't seem to be getting any traction though.

I know HYPER and Gridcoin, whereas Gridcoin is more a reward coin you get to provide computing power for the BOINC network for instance.

Hmm, still shallow, nothing playable by the masses.


Huntercoin looks pretty decent so far, the others are shallow.

I was thinking about something like e-Republic but with crypto currencies.

Or

There are alot of private servers for popular MMO games, why hasnt anybody made one yet based on cryptocurrencies?

Gcoin is something what was initially distributed by slots and as far as I know you can still get it by playing their games. Unfortunately it's worthless and traded only on some backyard exchanges (but I'm not sure if it's still traded).

MotoCoin is a game where you can earn coins directly on the blockchain. It's tough though and it needs new dev's to support and develop upon.

http://motocoin-dev.github.io/motocoin-site/

http://motocoin-dev.github.io/motocoin-site/screenshots/motogame0.jpg

We have been running for over a year, and run over 10 game servers that allow people to earn our currency.

You can see more information in the Bitcointalk link in my signature.

You can also read the HYPER goals and strategy document here: http://hypercrypto.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/HYPER-Goals-and-VIsion-Official.pdf

Unfortunately, our site was hacked at a very deep level on the weekend and we have lost over a years work on our wiki, forum and website (our forum had over 2 k members and our wiki had over 50 000 views). But we already have a new site coming sometime over the next week that will be an all inclusive gaming community with clans, gaming competitions and the HYPER forums all in one place. People will even be able to sign up on the new site with their steam account.

You can also see our intro video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMTt3zAJgpg

And follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/hypercrypto

HYPER is the gaming cryptocurrency with the most extensive ecosystem right now and is the most popular. It is a shame I can't show you the wiki (as it is gone from the hack) as it showed all our game servers and info in one place. We are working very hard to get our new website up ASAP after the hack.

We have also been mentioned on outlets like Bitcoin Magazine: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/21135/bitcoin-gaming-alternative-hyper-added-mmorpg-dragon-knights-valeria-hyper-roadmap-document-released/

CryptoCoinsNews: https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/hyper-cryptocurrency-gaming/

Bitcoinist (old interview): http://bitcoinist.net/hyper-coin-overview/

etc

We run a PR campaign every month about HYPER, funded by our project funds.

i dont think so that 30-40 yo guys will sit at front of their pc to play some games for cents.

Well this would be mostly for the 13-30 year age groups.

Alot of kids and young people play online games, kids can earn their purse money, while young people can earn some to pay the bills.

And it would not be cents, if a strong MMO game gets developed then obviously you can earn thousands.

I was just watching other day a chinese guy giving an interview saying that he makes 30-40,000$ /month by playing online games and selling the ingame currency for $$$


Now if they would just replace the ingame currency with bitcoin, then you dont even need to sell it, you just have it!

Also, if you look at the average player of Eve Online (~30 years old) for example, and how much time and money they spend on the game, the potential is there.

HYPER actually has funds set aside to develop an original MMO, we are still researching frameworks and need to have a higher market cap before we can start the development.

And yes, esports is huge and is a billion dollar industry.

We have over 4500 players on our most popular game servers (we also run other servers but these are the biggest) so the demand is definitely there: http://hyper.microngaming.com/hlstats.php

:)

pretty much this

gaming industry is way too high tech and people want games with awesome looking graphic. Unless YOU can create a VR game that people can play with bitcoin...VR is still in infant phase just like bitcoin and you'll get more users to adapt bitcoin.

We are actually looking at Oculus Rift.

And we have over 4500 players (please see above post) so I think actually, that a lot of people love the combo of crypto and gaming.

way to go! VR is the future..put some games up for android/iphone as well since google cardboard is something anone can buy and it works with cellphone.

I personally own oculus rift and cardboard myself. I would rather use them instead of my desktop or ps4.

Thanks for the kind words!

Google Cardboard is an awesome idea as it is more accessible than Oculus. We will have to look into that as well :)

it is so cool to be able to play a game and be paid for it :D

I imagine myself earning a living just from playing games. Maybe you could earn so much that would never need a job again..... ::)

I wouldn't mind getting paid to play games either.

Did you even look into Huntercoin? It is a MMORTS (it's turn-based, but each turn is one-block, so it is real time, kind of).
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=435170.0

I did but its not the same, and its not viable for million of people because of the blockchain.

I was thinking about either a strategy based browser game, with centralized server (no need for blockchain here), and as ingame currency bitcoin,litecoin, or others.

OR

A full MMORPG private server (or even a complete game, might require a few million bucks angel investors to develop this) that would integrate bitcoin in itself.

And not just 1 game, i would like to see this whole industry booming, gaming is a 180 billion $ market, crypto-currencies need to have a slice of that!

re: Huntercoin, they've developed a Unity client that can be run on Android devices. So, at the moment you still have to run your own node, but I believe it's planned in the very near future that they will offer a remote node(s), that you can log into using the Unity client as a kind of SPV wallet, so the blockchain won't need to be synced for individual users - it will be lightweight game you can play on your phone/pc/tablet/etc.

Despite all the tables and charts all you lot presumably look at all the time deciding which altcoins to pump and dump, I get the impression the figures on the tables linked from http://galaxies.mygamesonline.org/digitalisassets.html are just not somehow actually computing for you people.

Take another look at http://galaxies.mygamesonline.org/deuterium.html

See those labels across the top of the page?

Even if most of them are unfamiliar to you, surely you have heard of BiTCoin (BTC), or maybe DeVCoin (DVC), or maybe of I0Coin (I0C) or IXCoin (IXC) or LiTeCoin (LTC) ?

Or if not, then maybe of NaMeCoin (NMC) ?

If you think that fifty million units of Deuterium at those prices per thousand units is "cents" I have to wonder what kind of precious metals your cents are made of ?

-MarkM-

Cool thanks for sharing this info. I am looking it over now. Pretty good stuff. :)

that would be everybody's dream job ofcource

It would not be easy, as more and more people do it, but it is viable, there are a lot of spaces for that in the economy.

The gaming market is 180 billion $, some people made big fortunes with that, but mostly been the companies. Time to give a few of those money back to gamers -> and of course to bitcoin itself.

I propose to make many MMORPG's on the assembly line that would have Bitcoin (and other cryptos) as in-game currency!

CasinoCoin :)

This coin had lot of great potential. It could be used on gambling sites/games, casinos, etc. You would then deposit/withdraw Casinocoins into your favorite casino or gambling site. Too bad I haven't seen any development or news from this coin from quite some time.  :(

Not exatcly fitting the definition of gaming. Gambling =/= gaming in my vocabulary, but fair enough.

I`ll look into it.

HYPER is the true gaming coin, they run thier own servers and the value of HYPER has seen a substantial increase in value the past 45 days. Using a crypto coin in the gaming industry solidifies a true and real demand for your coin. This is something HYPER took to a whole new level. HYPER itself is a great coin in so many ways then to integrate it directly with the gaming industry...GENIUS. I mean for a true gamer with some up front money this is the coin you want, buy a few hundred thousand of them use 50% of those in the games you like and then stake the other 50% what more could you ask for. Its like earnings them in the games you like to play then also earning interest on the ones you hold in your wallet, a true win win situation for any gamer. If you lose a bit form a bad decision in a game no problem go take the staked coins you earned in your wallet and get right back up to the top.

I wish someone, some coin (@HYPER HINT HINT) would take over the void space project and take dogecoin out of the mix and put a coin like HYPER in there. that game would have been the real money maker for users and developers both. It was a space strategy game (and we all know every true gamer has a space strategy game account and most likely are in one of the top 10 clans) But this game went a stretch more where you literally could create something in the game no one else had, and in order for them to get it they would have to buy it from you (using crypto coins of course). For example you researched the blueprints for a new weapon, you now have 2 options spend some more HYPER and build a manufacturing plant and sell the weapons for HYPER, or sell the blueprints to another user for HYPER and cash out fast. It was the most innovative project out there when it comes to space strategy gaming and crypto coins. 

YOU CAN SUPPORT MY MAJOR BABY-PROJECT ::)
https://i.imgur.com/AcGfAF0.jpg
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1051731.0

That's a very interesting project you got there. Looks like a really fun game. Keep up the good work!  ;)

Thank you for the kind words cyberpino. We actually have a very similar game coming out for HYPER very soon ;) We are working on a partnership with another space strategy MMO game that will integrate HYPER in an MMO space strategy server. I can't reveal any more yet, but there is going to be some very big news over the next 1-2 months. We have over 4500 gamers earning HYPER on our servers, and a community of passionate gamers / crypto enthusiasts that are exploring so many options.

But we will also follow up with Void Space and see if we can make a partnership with them as well. The more games the better and great idea :)


If your game is ready and you can include HYPER support we can mention you in future PR that gets published on Yahoo Finance, Bitcoin Magazine, CryptoCoinsNews, etc. It is a win-win. HYPER will grow even more and your game gets an instant player base (our top 3 servers alone have over 4500 players).

You can learn more about what we can offer in our strategy document: http://hypercrypto.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/HYPER-Goals-and-VIsion-Official.pdf

Mark, apologies that our PM communication halted around 6 months ago. Any chance we can have HYPER integration in Galaxies Online?

Please check our strategy document: http://hypercrypto.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/HYPER-Goals-and-VIsion-Official.pdf

We could help raise the awareness of your project in a huge way (please check my post above).

We have similar goals and I would love to work together.

Roleplaying + cryptocurrency trading + space strategy basically keeps me up at night and is partly why I started HYPER.


We are the assembly line (myself and the HYPER and GP communities) and it is coming sooner than you might think :) We also already have our currencies integrated into over 15 online game servers including games like Counter-Strike and CSGO.

Have you heard of these guys? https://nxtforum.org/asset-exchange-general/freebieservers-com-75-000-users-and-growing!/

If not, I suggest getting in touch with them. They're already established players in the servers end of online gaming. From their business strategy whitepaper (https://docs.google.com/document/d/15buSmol7Fx1nVbI7wgK3UauX281DtSI_9GwWGfldxzY/edit):


https://docs.google.com/document/d/15buSmol7Fx1nVbI7wgK3UauX281DtSI_9GwWGfldxzY/edit

Worth checking them out, or at least keeping your eye on them. They're already involved in cryptocurrency (Nxt).

Could be an ingame gambling solution

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crevacoin is have public confidence because
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this is cool, but can you earn crypto from this game yet or are you working on it?

dat pump try :D

Win a coin with a market cap of over $440 000 USD playing CSGO, Counter-Strike, TF2, Poker, racing and much more!

Over a year old and still going strong, with many more games on the way including a space MMO using our currency.

http://hypercrypto.com

http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/hyper/

Just bumping for HYPER hope nobody minds ;)

Yeah! Hyper is the best gaming cryptocurrency ever! I hope it gets support for more games as I'm also looking forward to earning Hyper playing Call of Duty.  ::)

Dragon-Knights of Valeria (https://dknight2.com/users.php?do=register&ref=CryptoBackroom) pays out Hyper, GP, HTML5, FLAP, EMC, and C2.

It's pretty fun.

Keep an eye on Crypto Kingdom

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=819073

Casinocoin, just for the brand name alone.

http://www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency/coins/casinocoin

humm..... not nlg?

NLG can be used for all purchases. Gambling included. But this thread is about pure the gambling industry, that is why I suggested casinocoin  ;)

That game looks awesome I want to learn more about it. Looks similar to http://dknight.ml where you can win some coins like HYPER (over $400 000 USD market cap) by building villages, trading on the free market (free market has HYPER and GP integration), slaying monsters, completing quests, forming alliances and clans with other players, etc.

Ok it has been a time since somebody posted in this thread.

Any new currencies that have popped up since? I know HYPER has been making some advances since, and HUNTERCOIN is also getting developed heavily.

Anything else?

just 2?

There’s been another gaming crypto currency which you can obtain by gaming (just like Hyper) It’s called Gamecredits. This one is under constant development and its games look interesting. You should check it out! This one is not new but it sure is promising.  ::)

Official site:  http://gamecredits.net/  (http://gamecredits.net/)

Well i`m not a gamer and i havent been in the loop for some time.

I`m just looking for opportunities to invest in, and gaming based cryptos have a big opportunity in my view.

Don't forget the Galactic Milieu (http://devtome.com/doku.php?id=galactic_milieu), which is still heading toward using Open Transactions (http://devtome.com/doku.php?id=open_transactions) to enable players running civilisations to make the markets, banks and stock exchanges in the cities they build into actual functioning markets, banks and stock exchanges.

See http://galaxies.mygamesonline.org/digitalisassets.html for the assets so far enabled on the Digitalis Open Transactions Server (http://devtome.com/doku.php?id=digitalis_open_transactions_server) which is the prototype server where currently all the assets are processed until an "Open Transactions for Grandmas" is completed which will be easy enough to set up and use that it will become practical for players to set up servers representing the markets, banks and stock exchanges located within the cities they build in their civilisations.

The long term plan is, on the functional side, to eventually have such servers spawned automatically whenever markets, banks or cities are built, and on the costmetics side to use Open Simulator (http://devtome.com/doku.php?id=opensimulator) to generate three dimensional immersive virtual reality representations of the game, so eventually people will be able to walk their virtual reality avatar into a virtual market bank or stock exchange in a particular virtual reality city on a particular virtual reality planet and so on...

-MarkM-

I would definitely test out such a game, i always wanted a game like that since I was a kid, so i`ll become a nerd if that comes out.

It is really time to do such games, i dont like Second Life, it is too dull, but a game based on cryptocurrencies, could change the whole humanity.

Imagine playing the game and working inside the game, and then with the money you earn you would live your real life, it would be amazing :D

Forgot all the Gaming Scam Coins Clones there are only 1 Real Gaming Altcoin with a real Strong Team.

GameCredits is your anwser.
3x Major Exchanges
Real Games
GameCredits Game Dev Studio Coming Soon
China Markting
Indie Game Marking

http://gamecredits.net/
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1010745.0
https://twitter.com/GameCredit

In parentheses, as few month are past, development of CasinoCoin is now active and continues. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=616792

Splendid, now i have more coins to choose from. Keep up the good work :D

From the bottom of coincharts and forums I found coin that was created in coinboom and almost never developed. The name might be something You're interested in - GameCoin. Surprisingly it's still listed in Cryptsy (GME/LTC). https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=263600.640

http://www.digibytegaming.com

Play League of Legends get digibyte

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=408268.0

I'd never thought that you could earn Digibyte by playing League of Legends. This is new to me. I'll check it out. Thanks for sharing this, mate!  :D

Thats not specifically what I asked for, I didnt asked for promos/giveways/tournaments/festivals that give away X altcoin for a task or event.

I specifically want a list of altcoins that can be obtained by playing the game inherently. I mean as if the game is built on that cryptocurrency, not just as a giveaway promotion event or whatever.

For example as SecondLife uses it's own currency LDollars, just as it would be nice to see a crypto game using it's own cryptocurrency.

The problem is that the game would have to be good on its own, and use crypto to add to it, not to promote the currency. The games that now exists get no added value to the game from crypto, and the crypto gets none from the game, if I ever get the chance to create a game, this will be the first thing to consider. I think there is a lot of potential here, and maybe with indie devs getting more success we might even see something good.

Games such as Call of Duty, Titanfall, and other FPS ones should be included in the crypto world. Perhaps, one crypto (maybe Hyper) could be integrated with such games to increase popularity and awareness of people to get into cryptos (especially Bitcoin) That way, mainstream adoption would be faster than you could think of. There's been 3 gaming cryptos that I've been keeping my eye on and those are: Hyper, Gamecredits and GoldPieces.  :)

The problem is there you only get it as in-game currency that maybe improves payments to games, but games that require payments are lame, it would make adoption easier, but it wouldn't improve games much.
It would be better to use the game-theory aspects of crypto currencies in games, not just the economic function. For example Eve online could use crypto to sell their own PLEX (the currency that you need for subscription that is also an ingame currency) and enabling users to perhaps mine some on some rare places, making an economic interest points where wars would be more common, or you create your own currency when you make a corp and see it rise in value when your corp increases in power...
Things like that not, beat 3000 guys in bejewled and get 1 btc free with thousands of BTC commercials exploding in your head.

Currencies and corps are integral to the Galactic Milieu (http://devtome.com/doku.php?id=galactic_milieu), with the main place where "the rubber hits the road" being the corp known in the game as "General Holding Corp" and outside the game as "General Hosting Corp".

GHC is basically the fulcrum of the game's funding, functioning by charging civilisations hosting fees based on the eventual long term needs while currrently not having nearly as much in actual costs due to not yet actually hosting the full level of detail the long term plans call for. (Such as full 3D immersive representations using things like OpenSimulator.)

This may initially sound as if the civilisations are paying way more than cost for the hardware infrastructure upon which the game runs, but really it just motivates the civilisations to own shares of GHC, so that they actually like the fact that GHC makes a profit by charging fees in excess of its costs.

The currencies are also integral to the game, because the conversion rates shown at http://galaxies.mygamesonline.org/latestrates.inc are used by GHC to allow the civilisations to pay the fees in any of the listed assets.

The same conversion rates table is also used by the Deuterium depots that both General Mining Corp and General Retirement Funds maintain in the inner layer of defense galaxies surrounding the galaxies in which the civilised worlds reside, so the intergalactic mining corps can sell Deuterium, and sometimes also Metal and Crystal, against any of these assets, subject of course to availability of the asset (a depot cannot pay in an asset its mother Corp does not own, and mining corps who are still paying off their startup loans are of course credited in the currency their loan is denominated in, against their loan.)

So yeah, these currencies and assets are totally integral to the game, ultimately they are how the game development and hosting and bandwidth and so on are financed.

Also, conversion to and from fiat currencies tends to be handled within the clan / guild / etc (groups) systems within the game, so that for example Brits (members of Britclan) wanting to convert United Kingdom Britcoins to or from the British fiat of the planet known as Earth (http://devtome.com/doku.php?id=the_planet_known_as_earth) would do so through the clan officers of Britclan, Canucks wanting to convert Canadian Digital Notes to or from the CAD fiat of the planet known as Earth would do so through the clan officers of the Canuck clan and so on.

(A good motivation possibly to join a clan or guild or somesuch or to form one yourself?)

-MarkM-

Those are some great ideas, I hope you get some funding to develop the milieu in a stand-alone.

It is not intended to stand alone, it deliberately is created by making use of as many free open source software systems as possible, the intention is to alter their code as little as possible, and ideally even to have any code changes needed take place upstream so that it is not necessary to modify the existing software systems again and again each time we upgrade to a newer version of an upstream system.

Thus ideally it is mainly content that we need to develop, although sometimes maybe upstream developers might not approve of how we are using their system enough to incorporate needed changes.

An example of a desired change is the fact the Freeciv civilisation game only deals with one planet, thus has no facility for exporting units so they can move from one world to another.

For now we just shut down both worlds and run scripts on the savegame files to remove units from one world and insert them into another, but eventually it would be nice if the units could move from one running world to antoher without needing to shut down the worlds during the transit of the units.

Another thing that would be nice would be fixes to the "permadeath" system in Crossfire RPG, it has a permadeath config setting but that setting is not supported and maybe even deprecated, so it has some horrible holes in it such as the fact that when a character permadies any player can create a character of the same name, thus inheriting the character if someone casts ressurection on its corpse to bring it back to life.

Hopefully though the changes desired will remain small enough that eventually they can be accomplished right in the mainstream releases of the software systems we use, so that we can keep up with development of the upstream without getting bogged down in a whole mess of problems involving patching each new version over again and such.

-MarkM-