BomberCoin - fun time based game I made

[chickun.arise]

I had this bitcoin game idea back in 2012 and it took me 4 years to finally decide to develop it.

http://www.bombercoin.com

The game has a simple rule:

1. Buy the bomb for 0.01 BTC
you buy the bomb by sending 0.01 BTC to the specified address and with that you start to own the bomb.

2. Hodl on the bomb for 4 hours
After the transaction is confirmed the bomb timer is restarted to 4 hours.

3. Get the award
if you manage to hold it for 4 hours without anyone else buying it from you, you receive buy in amounts from anyone else that failed holding it.

http://imgur.com/a/IvfdY

If you have any further suggestions to the game I would love to hear them or if you have any concerns I did not address.
Thank you.

[rico666]

3. Get the award
if you manage to hold it for 4 hours without anyone else buying it from you, you receive buy in amounts from anyone else that failed holding it.

Where is the documentation so I can play as that "anyone else".
Where do I see a list of these "ticking bombs"?

Also: Do you have an API, it would spare me some hassle of adapting my sniper-bot to this.


RIco

[iram3130]

I must say, A good idea for a bomb ticking game, made me think like Pacman.. 

Will try it soon and post the results. also want to see the ticking bombs.

[Kprawn]

So you lose your money, that you invested by buying the bomb ...when someone else buy the bomb within 4 hours? Do I understand the

concept correctly? Does all this money from the different bombs go into a single pot? Interesting concept, but you need some nice graphics

to attract people to your site... It looks a bit dull. Get a good graphic designer to create some nice animations of exploding bombs. 

[tiggytomb]

Cool idea, I agree it would be a nice touch to have some kind of graphic on the site, making it a bit more inviting.

[klaaas]

I like the idea of this game, straight and simple.
A history overvieuw for the played games could be added.

[avatar_kiyoshi]

if you are the only player, you will receive back double your buy-in
amount, if you keep the bomb without anyone else buying it for 4 hours.

It's means the profit will earn is 0.02 if we send minimum amount?
Where we know if someone buy back?
Is there a chatbox or something for notifying if I'm not play alone?
And how if someone who buy back is come from your team?

[BuySomeBitcoins]

I suggest you reduce the minimum price, having lots of participants will generate more profit.

[Herbet Fry]

I suggest you reduce the minimum price, having lots of participants will generate more profit.

Yes lower the prineoin favour of more traffic. Also I would like to play a few games and I am not read to lose 0.01btc for just one game. That is too much.

[Emerge]

What if no one actually buys in all the time.. where do you get the money to double their buy in?

[ethereumhunter]

i don't really understand about the games. is it we should hold the bomb for 4 hours and wait for other player that have failed to hold it? after that we can get another bomb from other player? i think the price is too high like other members said, maybe you should reduce the price.

[Vod]

What stops the admin from buying each bomb back before it expires?

[Emerge]

What stops the admin from buying each bomb back before it expires?

I don't think there is any.. But if someone snipes it from him then he loses as well right?
So I guess the system will still treat him as a player..

[viziano]

This is good..Like TheBomb on Reddit.

But I think,0.01 is too much..
You should lower the cost.

[Daffadile]

o.o1btc sounds scam to me. Why would anyone in their right mind risk that amount for no reason ? Nothing here is proved or even an attempt been made to shou us this is legit.

[BuySomeBitcoins]

What stops the admin from buying each bomb back before it expires?

Exactly.

unless this game is fully transparent and bullet proof to inside jobs and manipulations, nobody would risk his money.

[jay8291]

This game doesnt make any sense. If someone did buy a Bomb, Admin can buy bomb from him resulting in a loss of player everytime. Nobody will win until OP is not a scammer.

[HostFat]

The admin always takes the fee from the winning player:
"We take 1% from the game prize and have 1% spam protection on bouncing transactions."

You aren't playing against the house, so there isn't really an incentive on cheating the game from the admin, on the long run he makes more money just by making the game working right.

On the common dice instead, you are playing against the house, this is the reason that they show the proof that they are playing fair.

There is still the possibility that the admin close the website at any time, but this is the same with any other bitcoin gambling website.

Anyway, I also think that 0.01 is too much, maybe 0.001 would be better.

[chickun.arise]

Great to see all the feedback and I am sorry I was unable to write back sooner. I will reduce the price and make a promotional video showing the game play in the following days/week, so stay tuned for updates and again if you have any other questions or feedback feel free to say. Game history and proof of previous games being fair can be always found on blockchain and link to that is found in the right corner of the screen.

[BuySomeBitcoins]

Great to see all the feedback and I am sorry I was unable to write back sooner. I will reduce the price and make a promotional video showing the game play in the following days/week, so stay tuned for updates and again if you have any other questions or feedback feel free to say. Game history and proof of previous games being fair can be always found on blockchain and link to that is found in the right corner of the screen.

make it transparent and figure out how to convince people the game can not be cheated