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Hey people, we are launching a multiplayer game platform called battlecoin, first game implemented is bomberman.
http://battlecoin.org

gameplay video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=optM40duBF0 (thanks EZ-Tech)
explanation video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9Gv8DA5xmk (thanks EZ-Tech)

The idea is to do skill based competition, and winner takes everyones BTC :)

https://i.imgur.com/B9I2xFO.png

https://i.imgur.com/r8hxnjJ.png

new games will be built on top of this. the platform supports multiple game servers (regions) so that everyone can have a low ping.

thanks!

Well what can i say, i love it haha, the pixel art is great man, i can guarantee you this site is going to be big, what other games are you planning on add? Are you open for suggestions? Or you already started making them

haha, nice idea.... but i think some country will have lag... and it'll be not fair...

thanks! yeah, I'm happy with the way it looks like, and want to keep the pixel artish style behind it. there obviously isn't a pro designer behind this though, might be in the future, depending on how much people like it.

I'm totally open to suggestions! on anything. I'll be very much directed by the community.

I really like bomberman so made that one first, I think a stupid simple thing like multiplayer snake will be super fun too.
I'd like to make a bomberman with infinite arena at some point, into which you can just join in and play until you die. after that, didn't think much. I'll have a lot of work making this run smoothly I think.




hey, so, I was a bit too eager. fixed the last bug and quickly published. now I'm noticing that you can only play singleplayer works and end game dialog doesn't show, will fix these things in the following hours.

yes! that's why it supports multiple servers so you can pick the one that's closest to you, for now there is only one server, in Berlin, but in the following weeks I'll buy additional servers depending on where the players are from.

oh, i see... actually my ping is almost 300ms =p

hope it reach brazil haha

haha yeah, you can't play with ping 300... there will be a server closer to you in a few days!


ok obvious bugs are fixed, pls people let me know if you notice something broken, no deposits/withdrawals atm until everything is sorted

my lag is like 5 times smaller as im in europe, also pretty cool game cant wait to try it out with real bitcoin

spawned a north american server. when you create the game it will autoselect the one closest to you.

Able to play on mobile? I created a game but can't move

yeah didn't work on this yet. but its planned

I think the game itself should work very well as long as Bots are not there. But I get a lot of lags, its not moving in a smooth motion and is rather blinking while moving. Might be good if you can take an already built flash game, and perhaps play with the coding to have it integrated.

EDIT: The smoothness was fixed, and runs good now. However the player is able to  come out of the boundary and also able to move on the blue background part for me. Looks like a bug there.

yup, there are some bugs. they are minor and things will run more smooth within a next few days. I published a bit early.
(blinking happens because your browser didn't load all the images, images should be preloaded when starting a game. this will be implemented)

lagging I  can't help much with, I'll just spawn a lot of game servers so they are close to people.. and maybe player character should move without waiting for server feedback, so that it runs smoother, will play with that.

and I'll try to reproduce running out of boundaries thing you mentioned, it used to happen if characters go very fast.


thank you for the feedback.


about bots, yeah, its a real issue long term, I think keeping highscores (and win/lose/earnings ratios) will help players decide who to play with,
and maybe optional registration with facebook acc/sms/something + kicking users that are using bots will help, this will be an ongoing arms race.
I don't mind bot vs bot play or bot vs people if the fact that it is a bot is not hidden, but I'm guessing that in most scenarios bots will be used for cheating and not for nerdy programming contests :)
and in the end, people capable of programming good bots that win but are not easy to detect can probably earn more bitcoin some other better way.

I remember Bomberman on the old Nintendo 64, playing with 4 others was intense hahaha

You should add Asian Server  ;) Because my ping is about 250 ms

yeah, I've seen a lot of screaming and jumping out of chairs with bomberman :)

bomberman blast on wii is my favorite one because it has this game mode in which you fight to own a crown by the time the time runs out.. they call it "countdown" I'll implement it here.

I'll add one now.

- edit - oops, issues with my server provider, will add it within a day.

asian server online (in tokyo)

Great, looking forward to see many other games :D

Two that I'd like to see:
- Battleship
- Dicewars (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=986539.0)

It looks amazing. Unfortunately I am now in SE Asia with a crappy internet. Ping to all the 3 servers are well over 200 ms. :(
It would be great if there are some round-based PvP games for me.

If more people start using this game it will be a lot more fun even if it is in Alpha stage, right now it's hard to find a game with players & all 3 servers have pings over 200 I also noticed the movement glitch but yeah I know the Dev will fix it, anyway great job so far.

You loged in with 5BTC wow great site. Alpha is looking nice and very professional and friendly user interface . working fine for me on european ping. Great work so far.

How about a race car game? pixel art of course, for 2,3,4 players i think it would be cool and easy to make, right?

battleship is a game of luck which I wanted to avoid, but seems like it might be fun still, will implement it, it should be super easy.
dice wars seems maybe too complex for people to figure out initially, I think there might be more interesting strategy games to implement.


yup! great idea. cars could (optionally) have weapons, there is a really good game from the 90ties from 3d realms: death rally. will work on this.
I'd like to also implement a pvp 2d shooter at some point. both games will need some kind of physics so they will be done in succession


yeah, I should do pvp turn based games, you are right, will think about it.

I really like hex http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex_(board_game)
but these are computers, not pen and paper. so probably I should do something more interesting.

I'll create some site with bugs reports / suggestions to aggregate things there.



and yes, a game is a bit glitchy atm, and not enough players. I have some good ideas on how to make it popular. will work on getting more people to play when deposits are enabled & glitches fixed.

thanks for the feedback people!

did some changes,

server ping is now displayed when playing the game
support requests from the website work now
last 10 games that have ended are now displayed in lobby
a bunch of minor visual fixes


working on glitchy player movement

Overall the game is good as the original.
How about put some sfx or audio for next development...

And I have problem when I pressed down scroll, the bomberman indeed go down but my view also get down to so it disturb my gameplay

oh, which browser are you using?


also, yeah, sound is planned. it has to be good, I'll take time on that. but I need to fix some more important things first.

I am looking forward to the future of this site. I thought it could use some exposure and wrote an article about it. Check it out here:
http://btcfeed.net/news/play-bomberman-bet-bitcoin/

Skill based games are extremely lacking in Bitcoin.  Sounds awesome.

Looking forward also to those other interesting strategy games you're planning to implement.  I'm a big fan of Euro board games.

One thing is that while some people are playing just to make money you'll also attract people who'll be playing with people they know.  (Still betting)

some people seem to be having issues, I'd super appreciate if you let me know what the problems are. working hard on fixing everything

characters are blinking a bit now, its a stupid issue with the web server, will be fixed soon.

- edit -
blinking characters have been fixed, movement is still a bit funny, this is the next thing I'm fixing

thanks! I'll let you know how much traffic comes from your site if you are curious.

all movement glitches have been resolved I believe, let me know if you notice any issues. will enable deposits soon.

preloading implemented, no more blinking characters or low ping when starting to play

 - edit -

some players are having issues with the preloader. will fix, disabled for now..



.. will enable bitcoin payments soon.

I'm not sure it's intentional or a small lag.
To me it seems that the bomb is always placed on the next square, even if I strongly feel that I clicked "space" before.

It isn't a big problem, I can try to get used on this, but I even think that it will be easy to make mistakes on situations with high stress :)

Maybe I'm the only one with this feeling ???
Is there anyone else with the same opinion?

when running, right? the square you were on moment before? that's possible.

do you feel lag when moving? what's your ping?
I find pings below 50ms bearable, higher then that sucks

the thing is, right now, server moves your player and you just send keypresses to the server.
I think I will have to move player character movement to client, but I need to think about the consequences and possibility of cheating first.

interesting concept, but the game needs to run a little more responsive before it gets to the point of betting coins on it

I think you just played with me now, on european servers, if you are somewhere else, your ping might be bad. so that was the issue for you.
but yeah, I will work on moving parts of player movement to clientside to make it play nicer.

Yes

No, the next one.

no

I read betwean 27 and 40 ms

It's easy to see it if you press the movement button and "just after it" the space button (nearly contemporary, but first movement button), I think that the bomb should stay on the square before, where the character was before moving.
The character is just few pixel on the next square, the majority of its image is still on the initial square, so it's here that I think that the bomb should drop.

Also, I see that if I maintain pushed the space button, the bomb doesn't drop, I have to release it to drop the bomb. Maybe it's better to drop the bomb just by pressing the space button.
Anyway, this is just my opinion ...

makes sense then, I am in the US, ill give it another shot then.

How can I tell if the games were against you?

the servers went back up
Getting the server is down message now.

you can't, the scenario is a bit rare, it would be that I (admin) play against you and fix the board powerups up, I'll do a traditional thing, a hash of the whole field, and show it during a game.

yeah, even if you are one pixel in the next "block", the game considers you being in that block, I'll play with it, see if I feel the way you do and fix it up

- edit -

OH! you know what's the problem? the game waits for key up to drop a bomb, it should drop it on key down.
great feedback, thanks!



you are totally right, will implement this

@Hostfat, I implemented both things you mentioned, feels much better now.

oh yes! Now I think that it's perfect :D

Congrats on the site and game :) I like the idea of gambling p2p via skill games and the house just take a rake, so similar to poker where you can actually be making +ev bets if your skill level is high, if this your end goal?

The biggest problem is having games people will flock to play, looking at gambit.com the traffic is low.  I've been trying to think of a system to match player vs player in any online multiplayer game they wish so they can gamble on any p2p multiplayer game.  I'd love to play on that exact type of system myself as i like various games all over the web.  Currently me and a few other fourm members are doing this system manually and using our word alone to make good on bets - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=962358.0  - Im interested in working to make some of our system automated but dont know how.

Man, this is a shitload of fun. Just played a few rounds as Digital ray 189 and I just changed my name to Mitchell. If anyone wants to play, I'll be here for a few minutes. ;)

EDIT: I love the avatars by the way.

Yeah, that's the idea, I think all games of luck are too banal. I really like a thought of someone earning by being good at bomberman for example :D



Yeah, I thought about this. It can be done, but not in a general sense, you'd need to be able to verify who won, so I guess you'd have to hook into each individual game.
or you could actually pay people to spectate and decide on the winner, which is super ugly.

which games are people into?
I'm up for a work on something like that. this could be a platform for it.

haha this is a perfect response, this is what I hoped to get from people.

Thanks for playing with me holorga. That was intense! Will be back for more, that's something I know for sure!

Well done!
You did it!

See these threads: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=791922.0
                           https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=775550.0

I abandoned these ideas because they are illegal

Care to tell us why they are illegal? As you don't say anything about it being illegal in your topics and there are a shitload of bomberman games available online.

why you don't have good domain?

I flippin love it.

HaHa!
They are illegal in my country.
Now i am working on something big :D

Good idea and totally agree, poker for instance you have to become a robot to earn, and it gets very boring.  I like hand eye coordinated web browser multiplayer games, anyone can play and some take a great deal of skill.





I know it cant be done and run 100% automated for sure, the verification of winner process could mostly work via honestly reporting.  Disputes could be resolved on the same logic as how ebay feedback system works + low betting limits for newbies.  For the safe and paranoid screen record is possible (but ugly) as some proof.  Pretty sure observation is super ugly like you say.

I've gambled with people here mostly at miniclip 8ball pool and royalgames 9ball pool, other games have been suggested.  Pool is a great idea for a btc gambling game, very popular if the game plays good.

I'd like to work on this system, i cant code but could run it, if when you have some spare time would you be interested? no worries if busy or you think it cant work. :)

haha I think bitcoinlab.org is a pretty good domain, no?

Agreed. I mean, if it ever gets active it should have it's own domain, but for now? Why not. ;D

you are right, feedback + disputes + honest reporting is good enough, lets keep in touch. will work on this for now, but feel free to email me and we can talk, contact@bitcoinlab.org

bought battlecoin.org & battlecoin.net, will be online later today. open for better suggestions (maybe pm, because people like to steal & resell domains)

Both awesome names imo, short and easy to remember will be keeping an eye out for this!

http://battlecoin.org online. working on match replays and I'm enabling deposits when this is done.

Message to bitcointalkers...

You need to check out this game its really good - cant wait until playing for bitcoins is added.

Seriously just go and check it out!

just battle with him but I'm lose  :'(
WhatTheGox is the PRO BOMBER 8)  8)

The game is really really fun and really original. Waiting for all feature fully well operated  :)

Haha it was a good game, there are some errors but once they are cleared it will be sweet.

One thing i mentioned in chat was in 3-4 player games for bitcoin you could get cheating, teaming up or same player using different IP.  There are a few options on what to do i guess.

Due to things like this I will implement kind of a rating and trust system, and you can play with long term known players. already you can check how much someone won and how much the person played

there is a big issue with the server super slowing down for no reason. games work fine but server is very slow to respond when joining, etc. will investigate

had a great exchange recently

<Euclid Supersize Package 218> Who wants to run a game with me?
<WhatTheGox> me
<Euclid Supersize Package 218> ok
<Euclid Supersize Package 218> damn it how do i change my username
<Admin> haha go to register
<Euclid Supersize Package 218> kk
<WhatTheGox> whats wrong with current one lol
<Euclid Supersize Package 218> it sounds g@y
<Admin> hahaha
<WhatTheGox> lol
<Euclid Supersize Package 218> come on, seriously? a supersized package? maybe my mind is just sick?
<WhatTheGox> what if there are ladies in the chat, they might be impressed with a username like that
<Maximum Kitty 211> i am very impressed for example ;)

I will to come on and see if i can't get me a game with WhatTheGox then  :-X

I log in and find 5btc balance i instantly go to withdraw and try to withdraw 1 btc am i bad? lol! :D

That aside, i love the game op a little addictive but a good game and i am sure it will do well when you enable bets for real.

thanks, a lot of work to be done popped up today, will work hard to enable payments asap.

haha that was really funny, the usernames are quite random, poor guy. 

My bombs are loaded, be nice to get a few more 3-4 player games.

@holorga
I hope that you don't be hacked in few days ;D

Can you add the possibility to play even with 1 satoshi?
Players will still need to have a higher amount to ask for a withdraw, but this will make possible to users to play even for small tests.

a system is designed in such a way that a lot of funds can never be stolen, I'm not scared of having bugs in the server, and they will be fixed as they get discovered.


I will enable deposits tomorrow per your request, with a huge huge warning that this crashes like half of the time, and do it only if you'd really really like to, but consider it a gamble, I won't spend time debugging individual games and giving people money back yet as that would take too much time away from development at the moment.

GL on your skill based game, what programming language are you using?

thanks. nodejs, coffee. most things on top of it are custom written

This is the bug ive been finding happens occasionally

https://youtu.be/g5gDIy46MyQ

oh yeah, me too. your bomberman doesn't actuallly go through the wall. your browser thinks he did. try placing a bomb after passing through the wall, you'll see. its a bug with server not informing the browser with 'oh oh you can't go there'

Ah ok, is there a suggested browser? im currently on firefox what would you suggest as the optimal browser for this game?

pls make this so we can play with bitcoins and alt coins it is so funny :)

Well done OP. Can't wait to play a real bitcoin bomberman game.

My only suggestion is to add sound effect to the game, and that will make it perfect.

Great idea^ anything to increase what already is a fun game.  Looking forward to betting on games myself :)

btw anyone want to play now im around for next 30 mins

oh oh, its not a browsers fault, its my fault :) I'll fix it,

but.. yeah, there is, chrome has the fastest javascript interpreter, try the chrome out, you might notice a difference.



great to see people interested like this, working hard on polishing everything up!

Ok great will try out chrome! think enough people are sold on it just looking forward to it being ready.

For 3 & 4 player games to begin - as regards gambling you could have a disclaimer saying people might team up etc.

How about adding new single player mode (just for upcoming feature after fully develop)

Single player mode makes a lesser bitcoin reward (as the faucet), provide many level or stage against computer (maybe defeating a boss)

no, I don't like this. This rewards persistence and not skill. There will be a faucet mode, but you will fight other players for a reward.
a simple singleplayer, entirely offline, might be implemented as a practice though.

getting connection issues on both browsers now, https://youtu.be/aScuvU9ZPOc

first was just firefox.

super weird, reloading should trigger a reconnect, try that?

everything works ok on my side, I'll test it out and see what's up, tnx.

totally occupied with this next big update that enables payments, a lot of changes in it, will make sure everything is ok after the publish

Still got it atm when i close and reopen browsers. maybe someone else can comment?


awesome man looking forward to the games :)

lets wait a bit and see if this issue persists in the next few hours. might be network.

Its possible it could be my internet service provider BT, every 6 months or so BT seems to have problems connecting to pokerstars, its a well known issue, maybe something like that if its not your end.

Found a small problem on your site.
I am able to create as many games as I want at the same time, and since the lobby can only shows 10 games, I can fill the lobby with all my new games, hide the other games and block people from joining them. I think you should add a limit to it.

haha yeah I know, I  figured people have better things to do then to be dicks, so it wasn't high on the priority list, but I will fix this in the future. like I can hide canceled games.

Great project.

Is nice to found some creative and fun ways to gamble with bitcoin. Bomberman is a great oldschool game and this project have future.

Congrats again and thx for this nice game.

Found another tiny issue with the "shitty ping" warning.

I really appreciate such warning, but I think the recommended ping should be consistent.
I mean, it is kind of strange to see it first telling me 69 ms is bad and then suggesting me to play on servers with <75 ms ping.



BTW, I found it accidentally and I was not planning to be a jerk lol. :)

oh, a mistake on my side, I'll sort it out.
-edit-
fixed!

hahaha yeah yeah I know, didn't call you a jerk.





thank you!

Got in today no problem so if nobody esle has reported my problem its probably my ISP doing something strange.

If the delay (ms) issue could be worked around
would be fucking awsome, as a it stay it's hard for people far from servers
to bet and play on same level.
But indeed a great ideia, full support ^^

yeah, it can be worked around with more servers, closer to players. I'm collecting statistics on pings from different places to deal with this

I have tested it in solo but I can't understand the objective, do I have to destroy all the blocks?
besides there are no users to play  :-\

oh, no point in solo play, that's just for a test, you should play against someone..

yeah, not many players yet, still under heavy development, so I'm not working on making it popular yet

ok, enabled deposits/withdrawals, you can play for btc!
transactions are registered within 30 seconds.
you can withdraw after 3 confirmations (on both incoming and outgoing transactions (outgoing because this gives me some initial throttling just so someone doesn't make 1000 1 satoshi withdrawals for fun :) ))

transactions can be as small as you'd like, server will pay transaction fees

server edge is 10%, just initial test, this will be tweaked


pls don't send btc you aren't ready to lose due to some stupid bug, lets save time for you and for me restoring balances, this is just a test.



PS try clicking on btc amounts anywhere on the site - this changes a currency display, satoshi (サ), mBtc or USD

That great news and it get more getting serious and challenging !
I'm also want to see more various bomb like P-bomb ( explode on full line) , satay bomb ( summon multiple bomb at once) , bomb controll ( place a bomb , trigger at the right time ) :D

im really like this game, bomberman is fun game and now can earn bitcoin too :)

You da man! thanks!

Im ready for the games, looking forward to some traffic later in the day, sendng a test deposit.  Something that might be handy is a p2p tipping feature but understand this is no way priority :)

good idea! on todo list

I love how that random name  generator works on your site holorga. I logged in and first thing I saw was the name of the game: "Digital Final Satan" owned by "Celebrity Hell 379" and that combination made my day. :D Really nice idea you have there.

hahaha yeah me too. when I first wrote it, I stopped working and was just giggling and saving names into good_names.txt

here is an excerpt:
Turbo Nudist Potato
Mister Burrito
Sadness Potato

lol they are class names, Euclid Supersize Package 218 is already a legendary bomberman

btw I'm aware that there are not that many players on the site to play with atm and I'm ok with low traffic for now.

long term plan is to fix obvious bugs, and then implement game replays and spectating in order to debug individual game sessions.

when I'm sure everything works smoothly I can start working on getting more people to the site, including faucet mode with tournaments (winner of the tournament takes the faucet prize) which should bring you more players.

thanks everyone for your feedback and support.

Well, I located in HK and get a very high network delays in Asian server... But this game is quiet interesting. I'll try another server.

When it runs smooth i will be helping getting you in traffic also, im sure a few others wont mind spreading the word.  The good thing is even if you had only say 10 active players in the games/lobby these players could play game after game consistently for hours.   It can then build from there.   

Unless someone will only play for 0.5 BTC per game or something lol its a very quick game to log in and get going.

oh. ok. I'm collecting this data from users and will move servers or create new ones if nessesary.

I was testing it again today , I also get a few delays while playing it.
Also I got the same problem of going out of the walls , that I reported in the starting of the month .
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1010288.msg10964912#msg10964912

This is such a fun game. :)
Some feedback for now: The game some times lags and if its at a crucial time it can cost you to lose. It has the classic feel of bomberman and its quite fun to play.
Keep it up and man. :)

sry for late replies I was away for a bit.


Yup, I'm aware of that issue, I've been working on other things, but now this has been resolved.


thanks!

about lags, I feel that if my ping is around 50ms, game is totally ok to play, how much is your ping?

game lags due to a network, can't help much with that, it happens with all online multiplayer games. bomberman is super sensitive lagging because its so fast paced, I know.

make sure you are not torrenting or straining your network connection in some other way when playing the game.

also, chrome works the best, on my machine I don't see a difference between ff and chrome, but maybe try chrome if your machine is slowish and see if it that helps at all

one more time, wall passing bug has been resolved

removed an asian server for now, very little games were played on it.


quick high level todo list,

- spectating and game replays (for debugging potential in-game issues)

- tournaments

- faucet mode

with these things done, I will consider this a beta release, do some marketing, and I will be ready to refund bets due to any in-game issues at this point. here we will see if this site will actually work and if people will use it.

- lagging fix experiments - there are a few things I can do to hide the lag and compensate, (moving more parts of the engine to the clientside) these things are complex but I will definitely try them out.



after this, and if people actually play the game, I will work on bomberman with infinite field and many players, new games, bring in more people to work on development, and such

thanks for the update, looking forward to seeinng faucet mode to keep a steady flow of traffic, even if its very low the whores will come :)

Good! ;D

why u removed asian server? so we from asian cant play ?

Unless you pick up the jesus token. ;D

as I said, almost no one played on it, I will add asian server a bit later

Ok, preliminary spectating has been implemented, you can now watch games other people are playing live (games you didn't join)

Some work has been done on preloading images before starting a game, seems like ff is having issues with this (still requests images from the server) will work on this further.


working on replays now.

Definitely much better, but not sure what kind of fix was implemented. It doesn't happen that often, but still does, and instead of walking on the wall or the bricks, it comes back with a small lag from the place it went off the normal path.
The lag is still an issue for me, I get around 150 for that.

I believe that bug with passing through walls is totally resolved now, you can never actually go through a wall and for example place a bomb on the other side. if it shows on your computer that you passed through, it is due to a connection loss or very low ping.

thing with slightly going over the obstacle is clearly visible with bad pings (150 is I think too high for playing I think, you should probably wait for me to start a server closer to you) It's still slightly visible with ok pings, but it doesn't affect gameplay, I will work on tweaks that will deal with this a bit later, its not a priority atm.

what was implemented now is that you can watch someone else playing the game, if you click on an already running game.
and this a step towards the ability to watch replays of games that have ended. I need this debug individual games.

Yeah, I did feel it was due to bad ping this time, unlike last time, when it used to happen if I use to press opposite keys too quickly. Would wait for a server near me then. Thanks for the update . Nice to see the site progressing well.

we just played a bit, and this thing with passing through a wall for a bit is pretty annoying :) I'll make it a high priority.

proper previous game summary has been implemented,
and initial implementation of game replays

small update, now all the images for a game will be preloaded and characters won't flicker and will render properly in game (some versions of ff had an issue with this)

also experimenting with audio. you should hear a sound when someone joins your game, it won't work on my ff on linux but its fine in chrome. will fix

this is a small quick update, a big update that I'm working on are tournaments & faucet mode

Pretty much have some tournament, thats great idea for faucet and tournament. When you fix it?

I don't know, I'll need to do a lot of testing for this, tournaments will show up in a few days, and real faucet tournaments within a week, I hope.

I remember that you said you would work on different games? Is that still the case? Will we see different multiplayer games, dont get me wrong i know its hard to develop them by yourself i was just curious.

Yes, I will get more people on board and work on more games once bomberman is working totally smoothly and if people show interest in this whole idea.

feel free to let me know about which games you'd like to see

how to claim a faucet on this game? i was searching for button though i ant find it

Pretty sure faucet mode is a working progress, we are waiting on the battlecoin CEO to announce this and then the press will be all over it.

no faucet yet

its nice to see such type of a gambling sites, it would have bunch of players

How is this going with development ?

When I test play it ....all look better and better. My childhood favorite game come true into bitcoin games.
Really awesome


Yeah sure it will especially from a brand where many people around the world ever played bomberman game

I slowed down these days a bit (needed a break), but picking up speed again, was working on internal things, like logging and such,
tournaments + faucet are the next feature that will be visible on the outside.

and I think most important thing then (after another round of bugfixing) will be moving movement simulation to clientside to avoid lag with your own character entirely, I find it annoying



thanks for all the great feedback!

I'm a bit worried though, this site needs a lot of visitors in order to function as you play against other people, and I only had 600 unique visitors total.
I'm hoping faucet mode tournaments + reddit or something will make it more popular.

we'll see!

I was trying out your website on my mobile and I wasn't able to get past the login screen. Here is a screenshot:

https://i.imgur.com/Asrbi8w.png


Is the game supported on mobile? Even if its not then is the site supposed to behave like this?  ::)

Mobile is not supported yet, but the game runs fine on my android, but you cannot move :) I need to make it react to touch events, definitely planned for a near future.

This is some javascript error. didn't make a proper error message about this yet, will do that now.
which phone are you on? didn't test it on apple products. your resolution seems huge btw.


mobile chrome should work

I am using Lumia 1320 (Windows 8.1, using IE, and it supports JavaScript and all) , yeah, it has a huge 6 inch screen.
Wishing you best of luck for your further mobile and touch development :)

Is this still a thing? I had high hopes for a bomberman clone with betting capabilities, but with no activity in three months, it looks like this is a dead project. I also can't log into the site. Has anyone logged in here recently, or is this project abandoned?

I guess it's dead,but let's wait for OP to answer if he still wants to continue the project

i guess too, cant be access from here.. look fun games. too late for me maybe, by the way is there any out there have this kind game, ( bitcoin earning ) but like this one.

Wow that is a legendary game I remember playing with my friends when younger!
I find the idea quite unique, however I can't access the site,
I get

Not very surprised to see it getting abandoned.
I have checked the site a few times in April, and it worked well. Unfortunately I have never been able to play a PvP game as I was the only one there at the time.

OP here


ooops, I missed all the replies! site died and I didn't notice, restarted it.

the project is not abandoned, but its not popular, there have been about 500 total visitors in a few months, which is awful. I hoped that just publishing the url will be enough to get enough people to actually play pvp.

I'm chugging tons of coffee and working on this every day still, I'm doing one last push hoping to change the popularity.
a lot of code changed and this is the old version that's public now. will verify that payments and everything works ok still.


working on two big things,

tournaments - I will create faucet like free to join tournaments with bitcoin rewards, hoping this will introduce more people to the site. rewards will be few orders of magnitude larger then typical faucets (thinking 0.1 or 0.01 btc per tourny) this will go out of my pocket initially but afterwards I'm planning to create automatic tournaments from the percentage of last hour/day earnings.

ui redesign - the geeky design of the site confused people that are not accustomed to multiplayer game lobbies, so I got a designer and I'm super happy with how the redesign is going, it's looking great.

the site also has a referal system, it gives 10% of the earnings from a visitor to the person that refered this visitor.

we'll see. I will keep the site running even if these things don't change the popularity, as that's cheap, but will work on something else if these changes don't help either.

if it does become popular, I'd like to polish up the bomberman (player movement is laggy, and it should be done on the clientside) work on maybe infinite field infinite player bomberman, and start working on other games. this is supposed to be a platfrom and an engine, not just bomberman.

btw I'm super open for advice.


maybe a link from a more popular website would help. will think about these things after I publish the new version

maybe I should somehow gear it towards ppl inviting friends for a start. I had a great time playing with friends a few times.

Good to see you and your site back.
hmm 500 total visitors since April? No wonder I didn't see any player in my previous visits. :(


Sounds like a good plan.

i just registered and not much players online actually it says 1 player online, not sure if that's me or another lol
so i need to make a deposit first?

i played solo mode.
it's a great idea and i enjoy playing.
only need to be more actif i was alone online in the site.
so you need to make a offre to bring player to your game ;).

yeah, working on getting more players, until then, you can play with friends!

Just enjoyed the game. Maybe you can start make some promotion to gain more popularity for this game.
But IMO it might be easy because many people have known bomberman game very well but with bitcoin as betting currency will be a different case

Enjoyable game, nostalgia all around :)
Used to play this a lot when I was a kid.

yup, working on tournaments and redesign, it's looking really good! I'm excited about this next version.

This is really nice, especially since it's skilled based. I believe more adoption would render the game more fun though, since you can't really find a match.

Man I love bomberman. I tried the game for a while but I did found it a little laggy :/
So I don't know if I would risk any btc in it, since it's a skill game, and the internet connection could give the other player a huge advantage. But if you manage to solve that, I would definitely gamble with it.

I think if your ping is less then 50ms it feels fine, but above that it gets annoying.
as with all network games, there will always be some kind of lag, but right now, you can feel your own characters movement to be laggy which is annoying, I can fix this, and this is a high priority for me.

Until then, I can temporarily mitigate this by adding new network servers closer to people, we'll see

I really like the game.
Do yo advertise it? Because such a game need a lot of players online

thank you!
not yet, working on a tournament faucet mode. and a redesign to be more newbie friendly. I'm hoping this feature will be enough to popularize the game.

Once you're ready to promote it, you can try advertise through signature and social media campaign to increase more exposure

tnx for the advice, I'll check it out. don't know anything about advertising so this is useful

Sorry OP i have question. Basically this game is pvp challenge because i didn't see player online so i'm not registered account to trying this game

The best way would be to just buy a banner somewhere. Signatures are quite expensive.

I have this (imho) awesome thing with referals, you get 10% of earnings from a user you refered - forever.
just, the sites popularity needs to pass some critical mass for all this to start rolling..

I'm ok with low popularity atm, (play with friends :D? report bugs:)? ) until I go out of alpha.

Tried it again because I really love this but the ping was still to high :/ (around 300ms)
I really hope you can solve this, because the idea is great, and the overall graphics layout looks nice.

oh, you seem to be far away, our US server is down atm, will be up tomorrow, lost the password :D

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north america is online now

Are there any news?

yup, new site is done, I really like it. finishing tournaments, will be online very soon.

Wondered where it had gone, good to hear we can be blowing up fellow humans soon :)

Almost forgot about this one. I tried it again but it is still laggy for me :/

allright, after a huge wait and tons of work, clientside rewrite is done, got a designer and I'm really happy how it turned out.

few updates, if you visit from a unique IP you get 100 satoshi, if you refer anyone, you get 100 satoshi for the referal and also 10% of our profits from that person for forever (I think this is a really good offer, on our other sites some people earned a lot this way)
(hoping to avoid explicit advertising from our side with these things)

next step, cleaning up potential bugs and finishing tournaments (they work, just writing the interface now)
US and EU servers are online.

hope you ppl like it!

PS
automatic nickname and game name generator got updated and I think its hilarious, we've spent tons of time laughing at names

I think this game will go down (The bitcoin betting part)  cause yh Bots...  But hey i wish u good luck  :)

there are tons of very diverse strategies to deal with bots if the issue ever arrises.
It will be an arms race, and I think people with enough skills to stay in the arms race for any relevant amount of time could earn way more and risk less by applying those skills in a different way.

this, in combination with a trust system and matching players with similar skills if it becomes nessesary I think would make things stable.

"tons of ways to deal with bots"  You made my day :) but like i said good luck.

blah, yeah. I'd like to avoid discussing concrete ideas for countermeasures for obvious reasons. this is a multiplayer game like any other (web is just a transport mechanism) things like aimbots obviously didn't make anyone go out of business. but yeah, we'll see how it goes.

Just tried and really liked it EU ping 30, all good

great!

had an issue, fixed now, site kept restarting.

added sound & desktop notifications for when someone joins to your game (toggle on top right corner of the page)

so no need to watch the page when waiting for someone to join!

epic games! i like the pixel concept and idea on bomberman feel like in 90's!. i just registered and played quick match to test how it works unfortunately it's very hard to play since the game is not responsive. it's like laggy move , would be better if you add onscreen pad or whatever thing that can make it faster respond/responsive. Goodluck!

Just tried it now, why haven't I seen this one before. Really liked the interface, no lag issues, and I just love this game.
I think I will probably give it a go. I don't have much time now, just tried to solo mode, I really hope there is a decent player base, so I can play vs others.

thanks! about game being slow - this is a ping issue. (check that small number on the left side of the screen, under your server name. if ping is under 50, should work ok) to help mitigate this for more people I added US and Asian servers.

I will add an onscreen pad for touch devices yes, the game works really well on android, just need to make the controls.



also, getting some good info from people playing in the last few days, thanks everyone!
a lot of bugs have been fixed and a lot of small features implemented (faq added, server display next to nicknames, and some such)

thanks! polishing things up in the next few days, and getting ready to start getting more players with advertising and tournaments for bigger bitcoin rewards, we'll anounce it on our fb (https://www.facebook.com/btclab) or twitter (https://twitter.com/BitcoinLab) if you'd like to be notified.

hmm I wonder how you will do this. Like point and click? Or trace a path for it. I'm so used to play it on keyboard, that I don't know how it will go on a touch screen. "I like" when I get stuck because I pressed the wrong key, it's part of the skill, and I think that will go away with a touch device.
Need to try it though. Playing it on my phone/tablet would be great.

yeah, I won't do path tracing (like wherever you move the finger the player goes) it would change the playing experience too much.

I think I'll do a hovering semi-transparent gamepad, but also you can just drag the finger in the direction you want the player to go. I think. I'll experiment, need to get a tablet :)

(this won't help with the responsiveness though, players just need to be close to the game servers and have good interent connectons / not download anything)

Your game looks great and its a simple game that kids can do it play.. But for now you need to put bot as enemy in vs game mode While waiting for real human enemy..
Is just my suggestion..

I think the main thing is to play for bitcoin, and you can't do that with a bot..
also, work on a bot would I think take longer then work to get more players in :), I count on tournaments to bring more people.

Is just for a selection if there is no other player that you can fight you can choose Player vs computer mode (bitcoin involve) while waiting to another player that want to fight to another player...

can't really find a way to make it balanced, a good player could come and take 1000 bitcoin, or it would be unbeateable.

It seems that there is a bug where sometime the player can't leave the game. (in the waiting room)

yeah, noticed it, will restart the server to clear this
pls let me know if you find out how to reproduce this.

wow, this game is pretty cool. keep up the good work!  8)

Just checked out the new site update, very slick look couldn't be much better.

When people join a game if they dont click ready within a certain time does the system boot them out?

i have tried it long time ago but then suddenly i havent seen any notice untill now :D
glad to see game is now getting working up with deposits :D
ill try to find someone to play with :D
regards.
-Katerniko1

it doesn't kick them, but yes, that's totally required :) I'm working on a 'vote kick' feature today, together with some other small things.

then rematch and 'join next match' buttons and some kind of persistent chat with ppl you play with

very very happy to see people on the site!
submit bug reports/feature requests!

Absolutely awesome! Some games have crashed a few times on my but awesome game!

You need any servers in the UK, let me know I've got 2 UK data centres (One is under development), speed from EU server side is good tho

Is there any sound effects in the game itself?

cool idea. games and bitcoin are a natural fit.

sound would be nice  :)

good luck with that project!

I really like the new layout but even with US and EU servers it is horrible lag for me, any chance of a Australasia server ?

definetely, there is a server in Tokyo now, its not good for you?
should probably start one in australia and see if it gets any players

Just seen someone post this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1259098

http://bitcoinist.net/battlecoin-org-new-bitcoin-bomberman-experience/

Still in the 200's Ping Range :(

yup, tnx, watching already

yeah, that's useless, will start an australia server in the following days

Thanks holgora, your going worldwide ! :P

i just found out about it lets hope everything will be fixed soon and i will be able to try it out im a huge fan of bomberman

you are having issues?

I just restarted the server for the update, but other then that you should be able to play

(yes gameplay and ui needs to be polished still:)

You made something great, impressive work!

I'd be interested about coding tutorial and ressources you used :)

well everything seems to work just fine for me never had any problems with it maybe he has to try another browser

For now I have no problems with lag, at least in the pc, so I think I will do fine on the phone/tablet.
The semi-transparent gamepad seems like a nice idea.

(this won't help with the responsiveness though, players just need to be close to the game servers and have good interent connectons / not download anything)

Had a go on this game for the first time today. Really enjoyed it, I was always a bomberman fan though. Congratulations to the OP/owner of the site or whatever, great work.

allright people, it was a long day. need to go to sleep.

I got TONS of traffic suddenly, things held up ok, but there is some kind of a memory leak on the server, so the service will restart every once in a while :) I know - awful, everything is being logged though so I will be able to refund if anyone gets any btc issues.

errors are to be expected with a new service as complex as this, Nothing I can't handle, I'll polish everything up in the following days and weeks to come.

most of the feature requests, and more are already on a todo list and will also be implemented.

Great work. This is how great services develop, good luck and remember you need any UK based servers let me know I host a wide range of cryptocurrency projects across my centres.

thank you!

Most people are understanding, you don't need to apologise buddy. Keep going :)

I think its brilliant how you can be a spectator!

:)

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/play-for-real-bitcoin-in-this-bomberman-clone

This is f***in awsome!!! I hate how all bitcoin-related "games" are about gambling. This one is a skill based PVP! Trying it out right now.

this is awesome project  :o

thank you OP for making this possible  :)

I have played Bomberman when i was kid on my first computer and it was one of my first games ever. This is just awesome, thank you mate for this great project.

Didn't tried that yet, but seem nice. I'm still only playing in solo mode for now.


By the way holorga, any idea on the time for the release of the tournament mode? Or at least for the prize structure?
Will it be like a poker tournament, we all pay a buy plus fee, and prizes are paid according to the number of participants and the place they rank?

It would b great if it was something like that!

Playing right now. It is an awsome idea, thanks man!

I just made a thread on this on the main Bitcoin subforum, didn't realize this had a thread here for years. Glad to see that progress is being made and Bitcoin gaming is now a reality! please continue to improve game. I played my first games and lost all of the 100 satoshi that I had, it seems people is really good already lol.

tournament release - not sure, still polishing everything up, a month or two unfortunately? I want the core gameplay and UI to be super smooth. tournaments were supposed to be something to get the game popular, but it got popular by itself already :)

the basic idea was to repeat game rounds until everyone but one player died, and then give btc rewards to top few players. 
the idea was for the initial tournament prize to come out of my pocket, but later to be automatic, something like some percentage of that days (hours?) earnings.

but we could also do pay to participate tournaments, that way prize could get larger the more people joins, will play with it, see how it goes.

things are way smoother and much more stable now, a lot of fixes got pushed out in the last two days.

clicking on user gives you statistics for that user (preparation for a vote-kick menu for people that join but never press ready)
you can switch servers now, (even though that's probably a bad idea due to ping)
tons of small features and bugfixes, can't remember them all.

Have you done any testing via iOS, sometimes I use a iPad with Safari browser but can't interact with the game via the browser. I understand this isn't priority and the game works good for me via Chrome on my laptop.

There's a few bug that i observe. i click the quick match then waiting for enemy and then after click ready from enemy the match will start and it will drop down after drop down the you can only see haft of the screen horizontally and i cant see my player and lost...
I will provide screen shot if it will happen again..

I got the same bug again here the screen shot
Did you see the game is on aboveand i dont see my player when its start.. http://i63.tinypic.com/255otvc.jpg
And after that i its automatically reconnect and its stuck on loading until now...
I will try it again and check if there's another bug to your game...
 Updated:
I think my server looks down thats why i having this issues...

yup touch support is planned and is very easy to implement, will come soon

server is not down, was up for a while, I think you might be having troubles with your internet connection?

the bug you screenshoted is related to typing in chat while game is starting on firefox. will fix it soon,
try chrome! chrome works the best

Sir still having this issue always connecting even my internet is stable...
My internet speed is 10mbps..
Also tried on chrome its work perfectly and play it is smooth but few sec. i wiil receive "OH NOSE"
then connecting...

Well, I remember commenting on your site quite a long time ago. Congratz on all the visibility.

hm, I'm pretty sure its the connection problem. try later from a different network maybe? let me know if that doesn't help

yeah, it took a while to finish up. tnx!

Rules (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3629.0) are for everyone. Including you.

http://s6.postimg.org/v21tres5d/holo.png

and

http://s6.postimg.org/945cxmd4x/holo1.png

and

http://s6.postimg.org/9uy33efi9/holo2.png

In OP's defense, he was replying to questions, so I think that all of the posts are acceptable except the last one, as the last one didn't really need a reply and was a compliment.

However, some of the replies should be combined; you can reply to multiple questions in one post. Forum rules do apply.

In my defense, if I read the rules, rule number 4 by BadBear clearly says:


so even if answering to questions, he could have edited his last posts instead of creating new ones.
There is no need to double-post in that way. And he has been doing it all over this thread.

Edit:
Two more images added (look, i didnt even have to create a new reply for that.)

From page 1:

http://s6.postimg.org/xolxm38qp/page1.png

And from page 3:

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there is no need to discuss interpretations of the rules, will not post twice in the future if anyone minds, that's enough. I don't care much.

wasn't very careful, sorry, missed those rules. Sometimes I did this to keep website related updates & answers to questions seperate as I felt things are more clear this way. My intention was never to be spammy if that's what you are supposing.

There is no need for screenshots as "EVIDENCE", judge dred like approach, (or (imho) being this annoyed)

I hope to stop this irrelevant conversation asap, won't do this ever again.

Any timeline for setting up an Australian Server ?
This lag is not even worth it for me even the Asian Server is 200-235 ping & the others are worse, I see everyone enjoying themselves and here I am having to deal with input lag and flashing bomberman when he walks :(

Sorry for the rant but I want to be part of this too :)

haha I don't see it as a rant but a request, ok, I'll create an Australian server within 24 hours!

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actually, doing it now, give me a few minutes

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sydney is online!

Thanks OP !! for making this game which gives me an instant remembrance of my past  when i used to play Video games and Packman/packmania/bombermania was something which was famous those days.
I liked your concept of taking away all coins of the players by the winner. Pure Fun !! :)

And about Pixel , its all legacy of games of those time , its not a disadvantage but the advantage. +1

Wow very good, 24 ping ;D

Thank you holorga !

Great program.  Interesting how having a few (free) satoshi on the line still makes the game more exciting...

I took me forever to find this game, reminiscence of my childhood, I love this game!

I'd love to be able to see like, a winnings history. 

 e.g. click on my total amount of munni and see oh ok u won this much from this game with these people at this time, sorted chronologically.  Kinda a tiny thing but would be interesting, as you could get more of a long term feel for who's whooping your arse. Plus then u could maybe also see user names for people who you referred?

I gave this a shot yesterday as I saw it in another thread, a really cool idea and I know it is in Beta phase so there are bugs but for me it was really laggy so i gave up for now.
At some point incorporating this into a mobile app would see it reach a huge audience if that is something that is possible.

just started a san francisco server
hopefully it doesn't split the crowd too much. with a central chat and server hopping, I think it should be fine.


yup! I agree on both things, they are already on a TODO list, just not that high of a priority atm



mobile works really well through the browser, will do touch support soon.
but also yeah, mobile app is possible, long term.

about being laggy: your ping should be below 50 for game to work ok, and also, there is a big fix for lag coming in the following days (that's probably the most anticipated fix)

I am really like this game , bomberman its very good game

me too liked this game like a hell ,whenever i play this game it take me to 2001 when i used to play them on my tv.
I wonder OP should put some jack for the won who will win maximum tournament this week :)

I loss my all money pls give again 100 satoshi :)
battle nick : jamieebotwin

Again here  :


You will lose your money 100% once you start playing for real money.


Simply because of TD AND BOTS witch can be made in more/less than 1 hour to cheat and bypass everything in the game.


The Owner is not protecting his players or telling them the truth so i've created this thread for this reason.


Im sure some devs from this forum will support this, if BOTS can be controlled than trust me LOTS of online business owners will be making GREAT multiplayer games and google wont even need a captcha .

Simple rule : Anything on the client side can and will be hacked.

So yh its a good game if NO real money included .... Becarefull!


I'm done & You decide .


A simple cheat will be posted here : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1260823.0  (if i have enough time  ;) )

can you please stop spreading fear? do you own a gambling site? This is getting a bit annoying.

This will be my last comment on bots/cheating and I will link to this post if it gets mentioned again:

1 All multiplayer games have a potential problem with cheaters (aimbots in FPS and such) this game is no different. Web is just a transport mecahnism.
Multiplayer games rarely die or fail or get destroyed due to this issue.

With this game, everyone has all the information, so the only way to cheat would be to make a very good bomberman AI. If you actually do this, (which you probably won't) please share it! a singleplayer mode for practice or addable bot players would be awesome :D

2 There are many very varied and subtile approaches to detecting bots. A few of the top of my head would be client fingerprinting, polymorphic api, statistical analysis. I will not go into details.
I'm prepared for an arms race in this context but would really like to postpone this, as I (and everyone else) would prefer me to work on cool new features then on bot detection.

3 If playing for money you'd usually play a few games with a person, introduce BTC if you have a similar skill and is fun, you also chat together. it would be tons of manual labor together with technical knowledge to scam people.

4 Anyone able to keep from being detected for any significant amount of time would be highly skilled, and could profit waaay more from spending time on something else, like a well paying job.

5, and most importantly
If needed we can implement some kind of trust/registration/ban/similar skill matching system.
visible win/lose statistics for all players are already implemented.
I'm nerdy so I'd actually love to see bots playing against each other once matched together by simmilar skill matching system.


and now to reply to the only concrete things that you did say:


All multiplayer games have client side of course. In this case, the gameplay itself is simulated on the serverside, server decides who wins. you can't hack your way to victory.
You'd have to implement a great bomberman AI for this. (again plz share it if you do, a singleplayer mode would be great to have)


tell me exactly where I lied about something and of course provide evidence for your accusations.


lastly, let's stop with talking, your next reply, instead of spreading this vague fear, should be your first place on the leaderboards :)

You put lots of effort on this game that you became so blind but ... OK my last words get ready to be called a scammer soon  :P . (I pomise)

It is nice to see your game has improved a lot since the last time I checked. I like the addition of new servers, affiliate system and replays to the ended games. It would be even better if we can throw bombs and kick bombs, like in the original bomberman game.

It is not as simple as you are trying to imply here. Writing a competent AI for bomberman would require far more than 1h as you said.
Is it doable ? Yes. The probability of it happening is very low and as mentioned by the admin, it can be countered with anti cheat mechanics. The reward simply isnt there, anyone with that knowledge and skillset has far more profitable things to do than scam a few satoshis.

wow surely gonna test. I love bomberman :D

Pretty fun, played a few games with the guys at work, really enjoyable gameplay!

yup, didn't sleep much in the last few days, a lot of small changes have been introduced which together, make the whole exprience much better. (try clicking on avatars:)) its still early and rough though, and I have a lot of fixes and features to still finish.

I'm fixing critical UI stuff now, and then will get back to the most important thing: gameplay itself. its a bit rough around the edges atm and I'd like to make it way smoother.

I like how when you select a different server, a ping is sent showing you the reply ! Good idea.

You ever need some sponsoring or have any ideas shoot them my way, I work with an awesome PHP dev and would love to help but you look like you have all in order.

Most people who post cr*p (Sorry for my language) about your service are normally just jealous they can't do better!

there is very little cr*p :) I'm actually surprised at how well this has been receieved and how awesome and enthusiastic the small community around the game is. thanks everyone.

yes, I am considering looking for investors and getting more people on board with the development (not php though, this is written on top of nodejs), (I do have everything under control, but this is a job for more people. there is a lot of work to do and a lot of new stuff I'd still like to see)

not sure how to proceed with investors atm, didn't have time to do research. will consider things like btc based crowdfunding, selling stock (again - btc), or asking for a more standard (more serious?) sillicon valley style investor. I will meet some ppl to talk about this soon.
 

And also the admin can always look through the different games played of someone to see if they are cheating or not, it would simply be impossible, a simple report button for cheating would be enough to stop any cheater.

Just had an awesome 4 player game, but lost :( - 2nd to last to die

having some issues, this happened once before when we launched, I'm investigating. might be some kind of an attack, but who knows.

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not at home right now, will work on it soon

I just played my first game and this is absolutely fantastic. I can see the potential games like this has thanks to the new paradigm BTC brings, we can make tiny bets, or insanely big bets instantly. I would love a way to keep up with updates, to see what's being improved. From what I gathered, the first priority should be to make the controls feel more responsive due lag issues.

thanks! yup, totally agree with everything.
player controls are crucial.
still polishing up some small (but important) things about joining games/kicking inactive people and such, and then I'll get to core gameplay.

also, yes, I'd like to publish version history and development plan, will implement some kind of a small light forum within the website I think,



the server is down atm, not sure what's going on, the service started eating memory like crazy, should be back up in a few hours

You are dump sir but keep watching ....

let me check the leaderboards.....

oops you are still not there :)

 :) ..... keep making multiplayer games  8)

well let the arcade games begin... ! put pac man .. maybe tanks

 wow tanks would be amazing  :)

lol true this is the only unique concept so far in bnitcoin gambling that hanst been copied so I would want more ! loll

Yeah we need more games like this i mean wow no company ever thought to make something like this this guy must be a genius ...

Tank could be really cool! I really enjoyed it back in the day, it could be interesting i think.


Why are you so sour about the game ? Did OP take your business idea or don't you really have anything else to do with your life. If you wanted to warn everyone, consider it done, we all know the risks of MP games have especially if money is involved. 

I lost last 8 game , bored  :o :D

just found a youtube video with example gamplay, thanks EZ-Tech!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=optM40duBF0

if anyone wants to compare, to see how the game should ideally run (low ping, good machine)

That's good! Nice smooth gameplay, Mine plays like that sometimes (Of course I'm UK based so EU server) but even it if delays a little, it doesn't stop me playing it!

Will you be adding a way to see all the games you've played (Lost / Won / Drawn etc)?

yes definetely, together with balance logs for the games

I'll create some kind of a forum or something, to talk to ppl, and publish the changelog and our development plan, most of the things ppl would like to see are already planned

btw there was a denial of service attack going on occasionally during the the last few days.
(whoever is doing that - whyyyyyyyy whyyyyyyyy are you doing that? lets be friends)

its been averted for now,
we don't have mechanisms to deal with ddos yet, but they are simple to put in, for the more basic attacks. will do that later today.


we were getting attacked from two servers in russia, (opening websocket connections)

176.65.127.130 130-127-65-176.vologda.comstar-r.ru
79.175.42.136 mx3.kontinent.ru

probably owned machines, seems like they are running the same software

Great thanks, I know its not a really an important update just a useful one.

Why in the world are people ddosing your system, who the bonkers has a grudge against an awesome game and set up like this.

It is fun to play hahahha

Not really, a lot of people thought about making multiplayer games and in fact there are a few multiplayer games with bitcoins. Nr.1 Problem: Players, if you can't make people play your game you are screwed, it's a multiplyer afterall so you obviously need more than just 1 player. Nr.2 Problem: Depending on what game, of course, but many games can be cheated easily, I would love to have chess pvp with bitcoins, unfortunately a lot of people would use engines so it wouldn't be fair.

Russian hackers... typical. My steam account was hacked not long ago by some russians, but I managed to get it back.
I heard those guys are a plague, stealing accounts and trading them just to get a few bucks. They were probably hired to hit you.

the attack was too simple for a payed attack, I think its a private person :D



btw, awesome news!
another dev joined in. he will be working on improving the gameplay itself (removing lag) while I'm polishing up the lobby and working on tournaments

Instant adiicted to the game. It´s Genial!.

Yeah, You will love it even more soon  8)

ddos again, bigger this time, averted.

about ddos-es in general, they are a minor annoyance and completely managable, hate to waste my time on this though.

I fear this is one of the biggest annoyances in the bitcoin gambling scene at this moment. You are right about it just being an annoyance tho it just needs work to fight against it. The same is happening on pretty much every other gambling site for the longest time (usually followed by someone asking for a ransom). The sad thing is that it is pretty hard to defend against big attacks, just hope the one with the grudge will stop soon.

oh wow, so its for ransom. I was wondering why, tnx
I'll rather turn off the website and become a fisherman then give 1 satoshi to bullies. sites that payed are responsible for the problem existing in the first place.

they are doing websocket connection flood, for now I'm automatically firewalling if I get tons of connections from the same IP.
to block large ddos I can allow websockets only after a successful login and as a last resort, move to cloudflare or a similar provider. we'll see how it goes.

Some of the attacks are for ransom for sure, but some could also be the "competition" or someone who is very pissed off at bitcoin or gambling. I know sites like Bitdice are constantly under attack (i heard prc, pd and some others also). Sometimes the admin there bans like 40k IPs at once (usually less tho). But from the looks of it, just banning the IP's helps a lot.
Word of advice, if all the attacks originate from one country, and it does not let up after a longer period. Temporarily ban/block the country.

added preliminary sounds, and volume depends on the distance from the player, I really like it!

Awesooooooooooooooooome! Man you are awesome, sounds go perfect and I just won :)

Can I ask what's your name on the game :) - Mines Bates Ninja Knight Beefcake be good to know when I'm paying the Guru :)

Just played this game right now and the latency somewhat kills it for me (SEA region). Anyhow, I enjoyed playing the bomberman! Brings up cool memories from my childhood. 8) Will try to play again if more games are added. Keep it up man!

yup, we have a new dev working on lag, will be better soon.


I'm battlecat in game :) I'm good, but there are better or equally good players around :)

I'm totally happy about sounds yeah! (added more sounds just reload for an update.)
the distance measuring adds so much to the game. adding those small modern tech features to old games is awesome.

When I have time I'll try playing with an even better sound engine, with stereo and taking into account the walls blocking the sound :D

One of the coolest games I've seen, the sound is great. A real shame about the frequent DDoS attacks and lag issues although with that extra Dev I hope they will all get resolved in the near future. Best of luck!

Good game but sometimes lagg.

oh that lag isn't too bad  lol  and it will get better over time as the devs nurture the game  :)

Anyway...lol

TY @ the Mod  ;)

I should have said :

Hello and welcome to the BattleCoin.org website discussion group! :P

Please be kind to eachother and make like this is a calm discussion group that has worldly ideals in mind.
Thank you.

:)

mokka you play awesome games!  :)

Good job, person!    ;D

amazing loving this site, but lags a bit, please fix it as it is a big issue, other than that everything is great. if more people try this , it will be awesome

can you tell me what is the minimum deposit /?

You can play for free and make friends with us since we are here to talk alot lol  :P

Nice game I really enjoying playing bomberman which reminds me of my past experience as a child. Kudos to the creator I guess many more people will be hooked up to this game.

It's been a while since I played, loving the new sounds and music, it really adds to the atmosphere and now it feels more like playing an arcade game in a cabinet or at least in my old super Nintendo. It's really cool that in 2015 now we can play games of childhood again and bet internet currency with people from different countries. I would have never guessed this in a million years back then.

They have sounds now? thats awesome, will be trying some games later.  Looking forward to that pool game added :p

I just tried too and indeed they added sounds, the sounds where disabled by default by some strange reason tho... i had to click on the icon, its at the upper right, when you click you hear a sound of a bomb. The music was on by default but not the sound effects. Also the music stops playing after the first game I play, it's probably a bug.

the music icon was added the other day. almost like going back in time.

there were some bugs with turning the sound off/on, fixed now.
music stops after a few games, I think its a bug in the sound library we use, will fix this soon.


also, we added touch controls!

touching the right side of the field creates a joystick you can use to control the player
touching the left side drops a bomb

these are preliminary controls and will be improved, we need at least to add an option to switch sides for left handed players

Hi.

I can't load battlecoin.org

What's wrong ?

Thanks.

hm, I think the problem is on your side

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/battlecoin.org

I can't believe it! Why ? I was playing (I'm EURIONIX) and now I can't access to your website. I don't know the reason why.

Any ideas ?

Thanks in advance.

You mean you can't log in to your account or for you site is down? Because Battlecoin's site appears to be running fine for everyone else as I just checked it.
It must be problem with your internet connection, try some basic fixes first: access it from different machine, different browser, reset you internet connection, check other sites if they are working etc.

oh! I think our security system might have banned you by accident! try now.

Ok, now I can access normally.

Thank you Admin.

It is took a bit of time to start a match because players are joining and quitting. Apart from that, this is really cool!

had alot of vietnamese people tonight.

Still playing this, seems smoother not many playing in EU but very good game.

it gets better daily  :)

The music is my favourite part, it's like a trip back in time. #Nostalgia ;D

Guyz do you have any problem on x64 Firefox (a.k.a Nightly)?
It doesn't work well on my browser. (On chrome it works well though, but my main browser is Firefox x64).

what kind of problem are you having?
I'm on Firefox/40.0.3, works fine

I love this game , but i can hardly find a player to play with , i had previously played this game since the day it was launched and i loved the music.
I will place the game under arcade , looking forward for more games like this to remember my childhood.

Most people are on the eu and ny server, check those out. We don't have that many users ATM, and we are ok with that for now as we are in alpha, we are improving things still.

Peak times will always be best for any traffic for gaming, 7:30 - 8:30 GMT i've found no matter what.  Asking people in chat to play also works.

i try to ask Sunset Gangsta Tomatoz, Advent, mokka, and the others know who they are   ;D

Good game, good people. get your referral links out  :)

This game I always played this when I was young. Nice game.
Look more a arcade to me than a gambling think but that is is oke.
Good that you have a toturial video how you can play it.

New people can always ask us in the game chat or do a quick click on the pink bar below that says what is this to get information on how to earn bitcoins or learn the basics  :)

started working on a webgl renderer which should be faster and work better on mobile
here is a small preliminary experiment: http://battlecoin.org/webgl

another dev is fixing networking code and lag issues

I have recommended this game to my friends and the only issue is the game lags to much so maybe we will be waiting until it gets fixed before we can finally enjoy playing this game. Also will keep notified for the mobile touch support. I am mostly online on my phone so it'll be much convinient for me if it gets implemented already. Keep up the good work OP!

Lol... funny game. I even felt nostalgic playng this bomberman styled game!

Nice work ! It's great to see that the project is an ongoing development and by all means you are more than capable! Maybe we can work together on some other projects in 2016

initial touch controls are implemented! you can try them out. (touching the left side spawns a joystick, and touching the right side drops a bomb) but in my experience, its a bit laggy on the phones.
new webgl graphics together with network fixes should make it totally playable on mobile. soon!


yup, totally open for cooperation and profit sharing, this is more of a platform then a bomberman game, we have a lot planned and new people are welcome

Hello sir i have a little problem about your site... I can't access to your site, always say "The connection has timed out"
Check it sir i think my ip is block listed..  yesterday i can play it with no problem but now i got this issue...
Please fix it...
Update:
i also tried it in opera mini browser and firefox browser still getting this issue

should be fixed now, sorry, our anti ddos system is a bit paranoid, I should tweak it

I love this game but seems it's losing players quick? I remember the first couple of days I say this game it had around 60 connected players, I just checked now and there were only 6 players online, it's unfortunate because it's the best BTC related game I have ever seen. I hope that once the lag on the controls get fixed we can have a lot more people playing and for higher amounts.

yup, I'm not worried, with faucet/tournaments/webgl/lag fix I think we'll get players.
taking it easy atm, fixing and improving from what we've learned after the launch.

Nice! I love the pixel art.

You should spend more time marketing this game. I am pretty sure it will get pretty popular as when i played it it was quite cute. The gameplay is pretty smooth and exciting. With more players you will get more income. Also try and improve lag as sometimes it is slow, you could have competitions and giveaways to attract more players. Good luck

Do you have more games like this being developed? I mean retro arcade type of games where a multiplayer setting would work? as a kid there was a lot of games I loved played with friends that would work greatly to bet BTC against other people. Pretty much a lot of the mame collection games would be great. What are the risks of copyright infringement problems tho? Did you create the sprites yourself are they directly ripped from the original game?

yes, these are my thoughts exactly, I think gameplay needs some fixes first though (lag)


I think there are some risks of copyright infringement, textures are taken from random places or drawn by hand, character is obviously not our property,
we consider the graphics placeholders and will make our own.

We would like to work on more games like this in the future and long term yes, bomberman I think is a great game and a good initial experiment to see if people like it, we'll be super happy to work on new features and games if it turns out profitable.

Hello admin.

I'm EURIONIX on your game. We played together today (EURIONIX vs BATTLECAT) You won and earned 500000 sats. I can't log in to your website. When I write my username and password the response is: "USER NOT FOUND"

What is happening ? Can you help me please ?

Thanks.

Don't worry admin. I can finally log in.

Thank you anyway.

I'm stucked on the login page where I can't create a new account here on my mobile. Also the games seems not to be loading even when I click there is no response. My internet is not a problem since I can play any other online game on my mobile. I hope this gets fixed soon.

which phone? works on android for me, but not very well, we'll improve mobile gamplay a lot when webgl views are finished. (http://battlecoin.org/webgl)

btw I pushed a bunch of small updates today
among the bugfixes, you can now send btc to other users (hover on the avatar)

I would like to have a list on the side that lets you add friends, like some sort of steam type of friend list where you can see if people you know are online, also the possibility to create passworded rooms so you can bet with your friends only.

yup, both are planned



btw we are under ddos attack again, service seems to be working fine, but let me know if the site is suddently unreacheable for you, our system might have banned you by mistake

I just want to say that this is awesome!

Is the source code somewhere? I would like to make a game like this but i have no idea how to code, I would like to learn to implement bitcoin gaming in a multiplayer simple game like this.

this would be very hard for you to use.

multiplayer games and games in general are not an easy software to write, check out https://unity3d.com/ framework, should make it much simpler

a lot of bugfixes are up, some of you have been made moderators! you can kick people. it doesn't do much for now, just redirects them to a random funny website.

please use this only for kicking spammers/ultra annoying rude people/people blocking games from starting


lag has been fixed, but the code is not up yet, will be soon.

Unable to get to your site from any of my devices or locations (Home or office), (I'm UK Based) but when I pop on the VPN (Germany) site works fine but (2nd issue) I can't login says invalid password (I registered my email on my account)

will PM you

just a minute, update went wrong, will be up soon

 - edit -

ugh, a bit more complicated then I thought, sry, didn't test enough. working on it..

You don't get 100 free sat anymore when creating an account? I tried to play a game at work (using a different computer, username and other connection) but my randomly new generated character didn't have the free 100 sat so I wasn't able to play for money (I don't want to have access to my BTC at work to be honest)

you should have gotten it, if this work IP hasn't been seen before by the server. will verify that everything is ok.
btw you can also ask anyone on the server for some satoshi to play with :)

i have Refer They play some game but i don't receive commission from them

why ??

sorry, there was a bug with this, fixed now, pls contact me via support form so I can pay you out :)

Do you guys have a ref banner I can steal? :P 
If not I still got a bannersnack account. You want me to make one for you?  Bomberman/bitcoin theme of some kind.

we are out of a designer for a moment and this is the only thing we have (a part of the logo)

https://i.imgur.com/2BucXJB.png
http://imgur.com/2BucXJB

728x90 and 468x60 are the sizes I've often seen requested

if you feel like making a banner that's awesome, do you mind if I put it on the website in the refer us window as something people can use?

we've made a landing page too that quickly explains what the site is about (you have to be logged out to see it) and it opens the site in new tab if its opened from within an iframe.

http://battlecoin.org/landing

this thing
http://battlecoin.org/landing#YOUR_REFERAL_ID
doesn't work yet, but will soon.

I think the banner could also say something like
"Kill players
Take their bitcoin"

so people get the idea before they click..

I'll cook something up, leaderboards and full banners is popular yes. But most sites have squares also (200x200). Which in my opinion atleast on mellowads could be cheaper when you pick a click or view campaign.
Sure, you can share my banner if you chose to use it. =)

I would love to see this implemented in a fighting arcade game like street fighter, that would be rad, 1v1 and people can spect the fight. And some other 4 player based arcade games like the micro-machine games were great fun as a kid, it would be nice to play online betting real money.

me too :) for now, I want to do a lot with bomberman still.

like, 3d, level editor, 10vs10 team games on large fields, tons of stuff :)

but if this succeeds, we'll implement more games, and let people vote for the ones they'd like to see


update

big update got pushed in today

games will properly run and finish even if the main server is restarted while they are running. - this was a feature I really wanted to have, should help with reliability a lot.

a few small ui fixes are in
a fix for powerups from dead players not showing up
a fix for invisible walls

I messed up shadows though :) this got in the update by accident, will be reverted

I have played Street Fighter type of games online and it requires super snappy controls and a really good netcode for a good experience, otherwise it can be a bit frustrating to play. I remember there was a client to play it that was really good at dealing with lag, thats if you want competitive level. For casual play, a decent performance as seen in mame or zsnes would do.

listen to this while you play battlecoin  :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKM2lu4OstY

Happy holidays and many bitcoins to you all :)

Just checked the site and I really like it, although the lag is a bit much sometimes, maybe a simple mode or something could be added to help relieve some of the lag? otherwise really great idea! I've already referred 16 players within the first 2-3 hours of finding this site! (thanks to an ad posted on chopcoin)

Will have to check this out loved play bomerman great idea for a gambling game

I love bomberman and I will definitely give this a try! :)

Still loving this game but I see the lag hasn't been fixed yet. I would like to know when a proper update for lag will happen. Only then we can expect more people to start playing imo. When i've logged in I always see around 10-15 people but back in the day I saw like 70.

70 was peak, but it lasted almost the whole 24 hours.

yup, I absolutely agree with you, working hard, the service is complex, we had a lot of things to sort out in the backend and a lot of small stability fixes / bugs. But now that's done, and my next task is to solve the lag. Its also not a very large task, will be fixed soon. but I hate to promise dates.

after the lag fix I will feel like we have a minimal viable service. will work on webgl then as that wil make the graphics run way smoother and will be able to make mobile clients and such.

Looks nice. :) but it for only small bets. there is no big bets. not big... normal bets. like 0.005 - 0.01.

so. thisis for "funny spending time"  ;D

Pretty hard to get regular big games going unless you know someone who wants to play vs you or the market has a bigger following.  These concepts are new maybe we'll see bigger bets in the future.

You can't expect the big bets to come until the lag is fixed, but holorga said that it will be fixed soon. I can't wait until some crazy whales start doing ridiculous bets. It happens already in dice sites where some guy out of nowhere bets 100 BTC at <49.5 dice games or something, so im sure we will start seeing this kind of stuff in this game too in the future.

I quite liked this game, but why when I play a very slow movement? so that I die by my own bomb lol

I didn't play the game for a while and now that i gave it another shot i have to say it feels overall a lot better than it used to. There are more players (but there could always be more, especially on the bigger amounts), there is certainly less lag in the game and overall it somehow feels more responsive. Well done!

a really interesting game its nice to see that such an old and great game was brought back to life with bitcoins, i think if you will keep making it better the game will surely attract a lot of players who will want to try it out with their money

some people earned around 100$
http://battlecoin.org/leaderboards

yup, not that many players yet so not so easy to find higher bets quickly, but there are often people around that will take you on a 10-20$ bet easily. we had offers for 1BTC bets but no one wanted to accept them at the time.

In the future I'd like to make an unusual bet offer/reply system with which you can say something like "I offer a 100BTC match @ EU" and someone can accept the offer, and you an arrange the time. something like that.

Well its good to see new games based into bitcoins,but why dont you offer a faucet game?I mean let players join and win some free satoshis,make a round of 10 minutes or even 5 minutes where the last players alive would win something,otherwise i guess you will not have a big ammount of players having fun inloved for bomberman returns.

yes, tournaments will be something like that, they are under development, and rewards will be much much bigger then on the faucet websites.

I offered 100 satoshi for each free game win for a month but people started exploiting it and starting many games against themselves, so I turned it off for now, until I implement some checks against this.

Could bigger matches happen? Like with more people. Imagine an huge map with 16 players playing last man standing, it would be pretty fun and the winner would win a lot more money than when you have 4 people involved, with less risk as you would still not need to bet more, but win more as you take 15 people's BTC's.

very interesting, it's like nostalgia with past games, and more interesting because bitcoin reward, already very old classic games such as this do not arise, I hope to soon understand the rules and how to play :)

Yes, that's one of the plans, I'd also love to see 10 vs 10 battles on larger maps and such. this is what we are working towards.

I love games and always searching for good games i liked yours but for me is confusing me where i have to play and looks i need to wait someone to enter my chat room and pay the fee,well sure tournaments will atract more players.

You can setup Free Games too & yes if you want to challenge people you have to wait for them to join.

In quick match, you can run 'solo test' to play against yourself )

Well i love games and i hope you have more games in mind to reborn,bomberman belongs to when i were a child some years ago just but whow time has passed fast.As soon i get tired play the others games i will try to understand and get the knowhow of the game thanks.

the game is very eye appealing to be honest i think its one of the best player versus player games that are out there, i hope that you will keep on updating the game and that i will manage to win a lot of money in ti

Well its an epic game it has a good image,for me it remembers when i were a child,soo being able to play and able to earn money doing that is just amazing connection that people are doing.People always plays games to chill out soo ,earn and chill out its already a sucess.

ok, pushed the first lag fix update, things are a bit glitchy, but was excited to share ASAP, replays are broken now, but game plays waaay better, check it out!

bomberman is one of my favorite games ever im very happy that i can experience this game once again and even more i can play it for bitcoins with the others, thank you

Good news for laggers out there i hope i can play better now than before.. im always lag play bomberman  before thats why im stop playing im always lose will try again if the ping is low for now...

I just played a game and lag glitches are still there, when I try to be snappy on the edges of the walls to turn in another direction my character appears in another place all of a sudden in the next place, I also died when I was still playing (I touched a frame of fire from an enemy bomb and nothing happened, then like 2 seconds later it said "you lost"). My ping was a decent 50ms.
 Looking forward to further updates.

very strange, didn't see anything like this and no one reported anything similar, maybe try again and see if its still there, let us know on the site (refering to the exact game so I can check it out)

in any case, tnx for the info, and working on it :)

I played again and it isn't any better. I think it's in fact worse than the last time I played (before the update you are talking about). There is something wrong going on. When I approach a wall, the sprite of the character appears 1 block away when I stop moving. Like I get right next to a wall, then I stop pressing the walking button and I go back 1 square. Im using Firefox. I could somehow record this in a .gif image to see what's exactly going on or something.

incredibly weird :D this is definetely not normal behaviour. I think it might be a cache issue (even though the site reports the files changed to browsers and your browser should get the new version automatically) maybe your browser is using old code to interact with the new changed game. try clearing the cache? try changing browsers?

- edit

just tested it on ff, works ok on my side

Sometimes the game becomes so laggy that I am unable to move my character in time resulting in either dying from opponent's bomb or getting smashed by the sudden approaching of boundary wall. :-\

Can you explain the reason behind such lagging behavior?

Also it will be great if you implement a bonus feature like for example, collecting some bitcoins by bursting some hidden walls. ;)

when did you play last time?
there was a lag update yesterday, player movement should be totally smooth and instantaneous now, is it still happening?

I played yesterday at 9pm IST. I do not know if you were updating at that time but I felt the lag tremendously. I will try it today since you have done updating I guess.

Btw what happened to your Bitcoin MineField game? (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28009)
Why did you close it down?

I really am missing it very much :(

Improvements in speed really noticeable, thx for the update.

Ps: did anyone notice a new node: South African node )

I have tried deleting history, cache, I even reinstalled firefox, disabled all plugins just in case some of the plugins were causing some sort of malfunction or incompatibility, double checked that I wasnt getting packet loss because steam was updating some game, or a windows update... I don't know what else to check. I will try Google Chrome once I get back home, apaprently it works better for this game.

i love this game, i think it has a lot of potential on becoming one of the best pvp games that has ever been created for bitcoin, it just needs some more popularity to attract other players

Okay so I tried again with Google Chrome, performance was better and I wasn't getting my character to make weird jumps as often, but the gameplay is still not properly smooth for bigger bets. I have noticed the "send BTC" thing in the players profiles, pretty cool.

The old classic bomberman is the favorite game of my childhood, I loved to play it and beat my friends and brothers. I hope those golden days come back, not sure if I will win some BTC via this though ;)

What a great looking site, reminds me to my childhood it was a very fun time. Playing games everyday

It is fun and addicting isn't it :)

Well the thing isnt to win only but have fun and challenging others i made some satoshis already playing games,and i believe this games will replace faucets in the medium time.

Wow this gambling game is very fun. Much better then dice, and it's skill based too! I would like to see more skill based gambling games in the future/

Yeah its good stuff we need more gambling options this good for sure.  Just checked in a minute ago and the site has some great improvements and graphics.  Would like to see a slight improvement in gameplay but sure it will come :)

its a really interesting game and i think that it will be very popular in the future, its a pity that it does not have a lot of players to play with at the moment

Hey ppl, a sad anouncement today, I decided to halt the development of battlecoin and get a dayjob, I'm too poor and website is not earning enough yet, and searching for investors seems like a very slow route. (will keep looking so something might change in the following months, we'll see)

will get back to it, and work on it when I catch time, but won't have the time to work on it full time even though I really love this project.

I haven't learned about your site until now, and I really like it a lot. It is a sad news that you don't get much profit from it and have to stop working on it full time, but I can totally understand and respect your decision. Good luck to you and your site.

Sad news to hear, i think you could have benefited from offering more skill games for bitcoin betting but i guess its difficult if you are trying to work on getting 1 finished and no investment.  Perhaps even more simple popular p2p games where people can play for bitcoin? Good luck in future.

But will the site at least remain active? I enjoy playing some games. Btw I tested in Google Chrome and it was smoother, definitely playable and I don't get the glitches mentioned before on Firefox.

I hope you can get the ball running in the future once Bitcoin is more mainstream, im sure this type of skill based game will be a massive hit eventually.

yeah I feel like it should be popular too, yeah the site will keep running, and I hope to get back to it when I have some cash to spare

You might really want to start an IPO for such an awesome game!
I guess many investors will turn up if you can manage the it properly.
It has a strong user-base and I strongly believe it will succeed in future :)
Or you can try contacting with MoneyPot and they can help you adding your site into their Global Bankroll so that you earn money when they earn it in overall.

Sad you see you go but you should not sell your site. You have the potential to make it better. You just need the ignition. :)

Nothing wrong with selling the site with the right offer why not? holding it and no devlopment ends up = worthless. Selling could mean it lives on and you might get hired for work.

Just played it out in Google Chrome - no glitches whatsoever.

Excellent Game.
Wish there were more multiplayer based games.

This site is sick, I love bomberman. There are loads of uber amazing graphics games now but I prefer retro games. Take me back to the Amiga with Street Fighter etc ;D

Looks nice and great concept! I like betting on myself! Haha. I assume mobile still doesn't work but will try with Chrome when I get the chance. I also think Battleship would be a great addition in the future as recommended on page 1. And you should seek crowdfunding!

Good luck in the real world as well. :P

Seems like I'm a little late to the party. :-\

Anyway, I tried playing this Bomberman game and, aside from the low number of players online, I had two issues with it:

First, the very high ping (> 300ms), which made it almost impossible for me to play; however, my net definitely sucks, so that's most likely my own fault. :)

Second, the game, as it is now, is just too basic: there are no abilities to manipulate the bombs, like you see in most Bomberman games (for example, the kick, punch and throw abilities) - without these, the game turns out to be very repetitive after a while (and easier to exploit with bots). I doubt this, by itself, helps explain the lack of players (most users who posted here, so far, seem to have liked the game as it is), but it does seem like a major flaw to me.

In relation to the lack of players, one thing that could perhaps help retain some of them a little longer would be to include some basic bots for users to play against, while waiting for others to join - just sitting in the lobby waiting doesn't work very well. :(

Cool game! i like it.
thanks bro! ;)

If you are having lag, I assume you are not using Google Chrome but Mozilla Firefox. Try playing again with Google Chrome and ensure that flash player is updated. I had the same problems with Firefox and after I tried it with Google Chrome the experience was much more smoother.

Ah, yes; I am using Firefox (in fact, I don't even have Chrome installed anymore - I tried it maybe a year ago, but its mandatory updates, that I didn't know how to turn off, were starting to annoy me, so I got rid of it :P).

But anyway, my net does legitimately suck: having a ping over 200 or 300 ms isn't unusual, unfortunately, so I may not be able to do anything about the lag. However, I suppose Chrome's javascript interpreter might, at least, make the experience a bit smoother (by the way, the game doesn't actually use flash, right? Isn't it all/mostly javascript on the client side?).

No game can replace faucets. (Well, in theory you can create some single player experience for idiots when game is so easy you will always win.)
The reason is simple when using faucets there is only one outcome - you will gain money. But while playing any kind of multiplayer game you can either win or lose.

Yes, the game doesn't seem to be using flash, it seems it's all JavaScript, in any case Google Chrome runs so much better. The game has great potential, and i can play it decently in Chrome + ping 65, ping 200 or 300 is overkill in ANY online game, good ping is 5-30, decent is 35- 65, playable is 65-95, 3 figures of ping and you start with the obvious delays.

It's been a while since I have checked in on this game.  It still seems like there aren't very many players (especially in Japan).  I hope this gets more popular.  Have you considered running a signature campaign?

yah the sad thing is that it is not getting a lot of opponents to play in the server. it is really a great concept and good gameplay but should try to reach out to more people.

A signature campaign would really help with that, but maybe they can't afford that right now.

Hopefully the evs come back soon and update it, we need more content and better performance to keep a more steady userbase. I think if the game was more control reponsible and the lag got solved it would be a massive hit. The fact that we are still in the early days of Bitcoin adoption don't help, but it's better to be a pioneer and be one of the first devs making this type of game before it all becomes trendy.

I think what he should of done is made it Pacman or Mario Bros or something else similar. Don't think too many people like the Bomberman game.

Actually I think Bomberman is one of the most loved games within the arcade community. Now, at a mainstream level, you are probably right and Pacman is the number 1 than most casual people would love to play, but I think a 4 player Pacman would be a bit of a mess, or maybe its actually fun im not sure.

But to get the approval of the arcade community the devs still need to get rid of all the lag.

I remember that they had mentioned that they hired someone and would be fixing the lag problem shortly, but I read about this a LONG time ago.  I wonder what ever happened with that.  I would play a lot more, but most of the players aren't near me and the lag isn't worth the bet.

Pool is probably number 1 check out the most simple type played games around the internet p2p, also with pool lag is less of an issue as you dont get an advantage by having a better connection.

We need pool ;D

Hey what happened to this game. I used to play a lot and I was hopping for further updates. Has the lag been improved since the last time I posted (which was about the last time I tested it). I remember it was decent in Google Chrome but definitely still needed a lot of work.


Yeah I would love to play some pool for BTC. I remember when I played Carom 3D, it was really really huge back in the day, everyone played it. If you add BTC to a game like that, it would become exciting to play again. Right now I couldn't be bothered, but playing for BTC would spice things up.

I love this idea and love bomberman bbut there never seems to be anyone online to ever play with so i have barely practiced. I can't even say if it's fun or not .  :'(

I completely agree.  It's a cool concept and could be a lot of fun if there were more people playing it.  If they could fix the lag issue, I bet more people would be willing to play.  I played for a few days, but I had to wait a long time in between games until someone would play with me.  It would also attract more players if they added more games instead of just bomberman.

The problem it seems to be that the developer was running out of time and funds so he had to stop working on it full time, please someone must fund this to push the development forward and make it more responsive and also make a marketing campaign to bring more people by advertising it, there must be a lot of people that dont even imagine there is a bitcoin game like this. Lets keep this thread alive at least.

I contacted the dev before my event in April to see if I could show this game at my event as I haven't seen such a well design / planned Bitcoin game before like this.

I've had no reply either from the PM or email sent. Hope we can keep this project alive.

Good thing someone replied to this thread and I'm really glad that I found this website. By the looks of it, this thread doesn't get that much replies and the website is officially dead. There's only 1 user online and I guess it was me.

https://i.imgur.com/gwXkdRA.png

Too bad because I really do love the UI and everything about the website. It's really really well designed and the concept is really great. I hope someone reads this thread and start funding this website. Having a signature ad campaign will really be good for advertising this website. I do believe that this website will become a hit someday because most of us loved playing bomberman before we all get addicted to the Internet.

oh shit I might have missed this or thought it might have been a mass email, sorry! if this is still an option, I'm around.

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to reply to other stuff.

Yeah, like people have been saying, this was a looooot of work, everything is custom made as what was available from technology wasn't good enough.
I actually started working on 3D & mobile http://battlecoin.org/webgl

but it never got popular enough to sustain the development, on the contrary. and after a year of part time work and a year of full time work I ended up too poor to continue and got a full time job. I think this needed a year more of work/research/advertising/changing stuff, to figure out how to get players interested but I was in an annoying place and needed a change. Tried to get a silicon valley investment (Boost VC) but didn't manage to. https://www.leet.gg/ got serious money so I was hoping they'd be keen. this also needed some more work, but didn't have time.

People that do come and stay are really really enthusiastic (like you people, thanks!) but for some reason most people don't stick around :( couldn't figure it out.
Hoped tournaments/3d/lag fixes would help. I don't know.

Pools would actually be way easier to implement!

I won't turn this site off, it will keep running as that's cheap.

It would help if you guys could do promotions or something. I have just came accross here and this is the only pvp game I came accross that pas bitcoin. This is an awesome project and if it will gain more supporters then this could really be a fun place for people who enjoys pvp gambling.

thanks, I think we have a good offer for advertisers,
http://battlecoin.org/referus

you get 100 satoshi per person (but this is just a way to get some dust to play with if you are missing some)
more importantly, you get 10% of our earnings from each user you bring for forever.

but as the site didn't take off and has earned like 50$ total since the launch haha, this is not profitable, we'd need a 1000 active users for it to be sustaining I think.

for some reason most people don't stick around

No problem bud, glad all is ok and your keeping it live :)

I do love the game and need to brainstorm how to promote it best as I know a lot of old school gamers who used to love this game! Could be a good way to get people interested in bitcoin

Yup, this could result in a growing shortage of people who want to use the game, because the game is very little being. And the lack of interest in this may occur because the Desaign less attractive and a bit of a classic. The shortage of players can result in a lack of opponents. I hope in the future of this game could be popular and many opponents.

I really enjoy this game as an alternative to chopcoin.io, and the faucet + chat is just great.

But please, fix the lag. It's getting on my nerves already :-\

you don't have to worry about it, surely the OP will give you the best service. I'm sure they're doing repairs on their site, so we'll just be patient to wait for they finished fixing it. I also hope they also embellish and beautify again desaign games and also template sites

I often battle to find an opponent. Is anyone else having the same problem ? Also is anyone here making constant winning ? If so how much ?

Yeah, I am having the same problem.  There is hardly ever anyone playing (that wants to bet) on the same server as me.  If I play on any of the other ones, I have terrible lag and don't want to risk betting anything.  If the lag problem gets fixed, this site would be pretty cool.

Same issue here. Even if I do find someone on another server the normally afk so I can't even play a laggy game, no game at all infact. I only once played and it was so laggy no I just couldn't.

It's great I always loved bomberman. But there is noone online, what can we do about this ? I want to play and if I do find a game it lags so much I may as will hand over my bet.

Look for a friend to play with. Advertise this to people that you know loved to play bomberman. Or you can also start a signature
campaign and fund it using your own money. All depends on you, the only thing that this site needs is players.



It's either you have a computer used in the World War I or you're using a dial-up connection for your Internet or both.

Lol no, I guess the serve is too far from my location or something.

We do need more players we need some advertising. Why don't we help tweet this for the owner for free ? I mean why not ? Help the guy out but he must also update it then if we help him out. Fair is fair :)

Anyone can join games? It's not working for me. When I open the webpage, nothing works. I see the chat is loading, and I see the servers are loading. In the center it says "Loading games .." and nothing happens. So I think that the servers are all off. Not even what's hosting the chat is online anymore. Is this game dead? I hope not since it was the best bitcoin game I have ever seen.

It's either you have an extremely slow internet connection or the server of the site is finally dead. Regardless of these situations, you wouldn't be able to play Battlecoin since there are no other players. The only way you would be able to play is if you contact people to play with you. Battlecoin has zero players for a long time now.

It looks like there are 13 users online right now, but that isn't very much for a game like this.  They used to have a number of servers that you could pick from and the lag wasn't too bad if you picked one near you.  It looks like now they only have one server and it has terrible lag for me.  I really wish they would improve this game, it was a lot of fun when it first started.  They just need more people and a better system to fight the lag.

Oh gosh guys ! The first time I played I bet quite alot but I just sat there and got killed by my enemy because it never ran well on my tablet. Then I tried PC but it lagged which was not the real problem the problem is finding anyone to play with for any betting amount.

I think it's not fully dead, there are still people playing some matches, or at least that's what I've heard. Of course the player base has gone down. I remember once I saw like 100 people in the chat...

It's unfortunate, the idea is great and i love the pixelated colorful layout of the site. I hope development can be continued soon. Someone should buy this project and continue it or something.

guys there is a new player in town that will be quite similar but more to battlecoin: https://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=817&p=7984#p7984

Thanks , battle coin looks like it has been abandoned. I will try this new game you talk about it shows much promise but I must ask one thing any idea on the launch  date or where about ?

I recommend you ask your self on the link I provided! I don't answer for the team behind the project! I just learned about it and decided to post here since i enjoyed a lot battlecoin!

Any news about this project? I miss playing some bomberman for bitcoins, it was the best way to gamble and have fun with BTC. All the other games lack the fun and nostalgic arcade vibes that this game had. It was a perfect mix, we need more old arcade and nintendo games to play for BTC.

Bomberman for bitcoin? is this true?! I'm an avid fan of Bomberman wayback 90's.  I would like to play this game and will gamble my money while having fun. Whoever did this was so genius. I feel nostalgic right now. Anyway, I need to catch up first with my bitcoin so I have something to bet against my opponents. Will bookmark this page and I'll play once I'm armed and loaded. For the who are playing, have fun guys!

Is this thing working okay?  I am going to check it out soon at work at the moment do they offer some small faucets?  Is it just head to head, how much does the site take per game?

Ehh..
Idea 10/10
Players 0/10
Waiting ~40h
Games: 0

But there is only less people attract into this kind of gamea to eaen bitcoin though. Although you like this game as same as some people but this is pvp games. With only less people play for it, I dont think this site will still have anything to do right here. This game being left by people long time and there is no update too

People love this game, the problem was that it had too much lag, and losing money because of lag is too annoying, also given that the developers stopped working on it and also stopped promoting it, we get 0 players.

If someone picks up this idea, continues it and promotes it with marketing, the success is guaranteed.

Is this site active at all?  I really really want to play and have checked over and over but I have yet to play a game with someone.  From my understanding, you need to have 4 people to start the game?  I haven't seen 4 people logged into the site at all ever.  Any plans on promoting this site more or anything, would love to play!

I cant play it either smoothly and it so lag thats the reason i already drop this site and play another one, but if they upgrade it surely they can get more player to play since bomber man are quitely known and be played by many people back in those days, and surely it is exiting to play on since we can play pvp wich is good and we can used our brains and skills to win on this match.

lol.. this is so funny, u must try it..

Lots of fun but not so many people to play against. I dont net very high since I'm scared I lag or something goes wrong. It sometimes does on small bets anyway.

I found a similar game https://tronman.app

hahaha, username checks out.

Obvious shill is obvious

i think its far from guaranteed. theres a bunch of problems with running a game like this. lag, as people mentioned. pairing up buy-ins. people understanding the rules. if players are too skilled they will win too often making it not fun for recreational players. bots.

i always like games like this but they are tough to create efficiently