[ANN] Macroverse - An Entire Universe on the Ethereum Blockchain

[interfect]

Hello, everyone,

I'm Adam Novak from Novak Distributed, and I wanted to announce here a project I have been working on, combining procedural world generation and blockchain-based smart contract technology.

Macroverse
Macroverse is a procedurally generated universe, available to be used by blockchain-based games. Rather than paying expensive gas costs to store environment and level data on the blockchain, or spending large amounts of developer effort on custom world generation algorithms, game developers will be able to use Macroverse as a piece of game development middleware, and to find settings for their games by exploring the single, shared Macroverse universe.

The Macroverse world is generated by the Macroverse Generator (MG), a system of smart contracts. The Macroverse Star Generator, which produces a galaxy of over 200 billion stars of various classes, is deployed at address 0x56D96b6a5F33E2efE5BE66065D5b9C230B1f4e0e using this source code. Addresses with a balance of (currently) 100 MRV or more may query the generator's various constant functions and receive information about the Macroverse world.

Virtual Real Estate
Players exploring the Macroverse world will be able to discover, claim, and trade virtual real estate. If you find a particularly compelling star, planet, or geographical feature, you will be able to purchase it and make it yours. Ownership of real estate may confer beneficial effects or advantages in supported games.

Virtual real estate claims are manged by the Macroverse Registry, a system of smart contracts. Currently, the only contract is the Macroverse Star Registry, at address 0x6C00556F471cbe518007D62bc4ACEd6d8e537c9D using this source code, which allows players to claim (transferable, releasable) ownership of star systems, by putting up a deposit of (currently) 1000 MRV.

MRV Token
The Macroverse token, MRV, is an ERC20-compatible token on the Ethereum blockchain. Players must hold a minimum balance in the MRV token to query the Macroverse system, and deposits denominated in MRV must be put up in order to claim virtual real estate. The MRV token will be distributed in a crowdsale beginning July 1st at approximately 10 AM PST.

Token Facts
Name: Macroverse Token
Symbol: MRV
Decimals: 18
Token Contract: 0xAB6CF87a50F17d7F5E1FEaf81B6fE9FfBe8EBF84
Total Supply: Up to 100,005,000 MRV
Available for Sale: 100,000,000 MRV
Crowdsale Price: 5,000 MRV per ETH
Crowdsale Start Scheduled: 10:02 AM PST on July 1
Crowdsale Duration: 90 days
Crowdsale Contract (same as token contract): 0xAB6CF87a50F17d7F5E1FEaf81B6fE9FfBe8EBF84
Crowdsale/Token Contract Source: Here
More details are available here.

The MRV token is intended to function like a software license, enabling people to use the Macroverse system. It is not indented to represent a stake in the Macroverse project, and is not designed to increase in value over time.

In addition to trying to sell tokens, I'm posting here to gauge developer interest in building atop a platform like this, and to gather suggestions as to what features would be good to have when extending the system from just generating stars down to generating planets, terrain, weather, and other world features described in the whitepaper. Feedback is appreciated!

Additional Resources
Code on Github
Official Website including e-mail list signup
Whitepaper
Twitter: @MacroverseMRV
E-mail: macroverse@protonmail.com

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[rijaljun]

Well, I think people should know more details and prospect about your project. And are you planning to run the crowdsale without any bounty campaign?

[markasoftware]

Cool concept, but without a working prototype I'm not buying any. Too much like No Man's Sky, and we know how that went 

[interfect]

Well, I think people should know more details and prospect about your project. And are you planning to run the crowdsale without any bounty campaign?

Yeah, there are no plans for a bounty campaign, to pay people in tokens to post on social media. I know they're very popular, and presumably they're effective or people wouldn't do them, but they frankly offend my sensibilities. A bunch of people being paid to tweet about something is to me a good indication that I shouldn't spend my money on that thing.

[interfect]

Cool concept, but without a working prototype I'm not buying any. Too much like No Man's Sky, and we know how that went 

What kind of prototype are you looking for? There is this prototype deployed on the Ethereum chain right now, and it works.

Here's a listing of the stars in the (0,0,0) sector, from the test suite:

Code:

Stars in origin sector:  39
Star 0 at 0.1613819681097084,18.118419187521795,12.41629295113853 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.13280483893322526 solar masses with planets
Star 1 at 8.352765291169817,21.521832496023308,14.70794403992386 ly is a WhiteDwarf NotApplicable of 0.7937905001253966 solar masses
Star 2 at 23.628362261683833,9.4487003893164,12.631785201278944 ly is a MainSequence TypeF of 1.2172339029093564 solar masses
Star 3 at 17.68796647581894,10.921977819566564,6.6272957395312915 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.09394641004018922 solar masses with planets
Star 4 at 16.616928126040875,16.187588339312242,7.377445674637784 ly is a MainSequence TypeG of 0.9865067396913219 solar masses with planets
Star 5 at 15.74362464036767,6.600803068454297,5.968998394905611 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.26636417300778703 solar masses with planets
Star 6 at 20.268543146312368,14.805240031569156,1.4016471760442073 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.21663218672347284 solar masses with planets
Star 7 at 14.131425873461012,0.8248838812733084,3.87367203904887 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.18189346254075645 solar masses with planets
Star 8 at 4.610691752213825,0.0428331247803726,2.050549116984257 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.181107219693331 solar masses with planets
Star 9 at 21.586779849758386,11.544582400892978,6.165219546960543 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.28534585097804666 solar masses with planets
Star 10 at 13.852605343299729,10.204806822025603,15.587450106386314 ly is a Giant TypeK of 48.90808705718882 solar masses
Star 11 at 13.788190521222532,11.125623866701062,13.996714425388745 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.10444396197726746 solar masses
Star 12 at 21.489885124219654,24.826315800282828,20.456860429499102 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.1178465775492441 solar masses with planets
Star 13 at 4.173886921512349,15.812307129067449,3.7542753055731737 ly is a MainSequence TypeK of 0.7818698770197443 solar masses with planets
Star 14 at 13.27533083747312,16.966044178025186,20.48390676800409 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.2437850927153704 solar masses
Star 15 at 8.736244370561508,1.0378403535241887,9.831296771335474 ly is a MainSequence TypeG of 1.0004645705039366 solar masses with planets
Star 16 at 16.115172616264317,10.567678005190828,10.027809768303086 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.18262802364279196 solar masses with planets
Star 17 at 11.294209219568074,4.3196126885050035,21.229172114317407 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.40833418943748256 solar masses with planets
Star 18 at 5.21207560827861,11.492471201813714,10.38719548073459 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.2684721985224314 solar masses with planets
Star 19 at 18.553889885993158,0.45091477743426367,20.74156241453693 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.4140062171327372 solar masses with planets
Star 20 at 20.23379753577501,17.341250630147442,23.527256473835223 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.26013500826411473 solar masses with planets
Star 21 at 12.66052347978075,8.060563405160792,9.884962858495783 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.2598429443214627 solar masses with planets
Star 22 at 17.307068168952355,20.73634026628497,2.954285925170552 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.27194352844162495 solar masses
Star 23 at 6.862001460854117,20.34844719587454,17.04913473281522 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.33822736503407214 solar masses with planets
Star 24 at 23.699176378659104,14.75463548067637,16.861710910188776 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.21391858288279764 solar masses with planets
Star 25 at 11.07977198385015,4.693625674917712,12.777176997678907 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.4201501412098878 solar masses with planets
Star 26 at 7.363040540849397,10.01761340748999,23.565806943042844 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.3293303501450282 solar masses with planets
Star 27 at 12.371446089809979,8.087426029533162,4.251143996225437 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.11277296043499518 solar masses with planets
Star 28 at 3.1524554843599617,24.93803733898403,10.563421923507121 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.09525545870928909 solar masses with planets
Star 29 at 18.922999667984186,4.089151687594494,21.297638903865845 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.4318041607057239 solar masses with planets
Star 30 at 5.617614002699156,9.960647307684667,22.83705705324337 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.3462359881841621 solar masses
Star 31 at 8.866873133320041,21.352436725965163,9.70895904245026 ly is a MainSequence TypeK of 0.4651559596059087 solar masses with planets
Star 32 at 17.616013039014433,22.401921771574962,24.705373676601994 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.10785482486699038 solar masses with planets
Star 33 at 23.072090780783583,8.107381122158586,0.6762747884749842 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.34945126173624885 solar masses with planets
Star 34 at 16.74501128911743,20.138443240966808,16.374172900964368 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.25525278968689236 solar masses with planets
Star 35 at 12.373427700413231,1.8376803255023333,18.080980920171896 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.44613618154562573 solar masses with planets
Star 36 at 22.86719418109442,18.51714929296122,11.419720619846885 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.4148228889407619 solar masses
Star 37 at 11.30238699226993,12.042864324212132,8.762299942554819 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.20170117294674128 solar masses
Star 38 at 19.951106185339995,14.261220537559893,10.751655614421907 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.3570075996558444 solar masses with planets

There's a nice G-type star (number 4) that might eventually have some habitable planets, and a relatively rare giant K-type star, and a white dwarf. There's all sorts of gameplay possibilities there; even something as simple as a Noctis clone, where you fly around refueling at white dwarfs, would be pretty fun.

Reading console dumps is not a particularly slick way to explore the universe, so I'm planning to develop a nice front end to let people explore the generated world in a web3-enabled browser, to hopefully be completed before the crowdsale is over. Is that the sort of prototype you're looking for?

[timmyzhl]

You can customize some bounty activities to attract partners to help you promote, add some popularity, it is necessary

[overlordcoin]

the idea is to be used in another games? or the macroverse will have a "base" game?

[markasoftware]

Cool concept, but without a working prototype I'm not buying any. Too much like No Man's Sky, and we know how that went 

What kind of prototype are you looking for? There is this prototype deployed on the Ethereum chain right now, and it works.

Here's a listing of the stars in the (0,0,0) sector, from the test suite:

Code:

Stars in origin sector:  39
Star 0 at 0.1613819681097084,18.118419187521795,12.41629295113853 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.13280483893322526 solar masses with planets
Star 1 at 8.352765291169817,21.521832496023308,14.70794403992386 ly is a WhiteDwarf NotApplicable of 0.7937905001253966 solar masses
Star 2 at 23.628362261683833,9.4487003893164,12.631785201278944 ly is a MainSequence TypeF of 1.2172339029093564 solar masses
Star 3 at 17.68796647581894,10.921977819566564,6.6272957395312915 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.09394641004018922 solar masses with planets
Star 4 at 16.616928126040875,16.187588339312242,7.377445674637784 ly is a MainSequence TypeG of 0.9865067396913219 solar masses with planets
Star 5 at 15.74362464036767,6.600803068454297,5.968998394905611 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.26636417300778703 solar masses with planets
Star 6 at 20.268543146312368,14.805240031569156,1.4016471760442073 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.21663218672347284 solar masses with planets
Star 7 at 14.131425873461012,0.8248838812733084,3.87367203904887 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.18189346254075645 solar masses with planets
Star 8 at 4.610691752213825,0.0428331247803726,2.050549116984257 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.181107219693331 solar masses with planets
Star 9 at 21.586779849758386,11.544582400892978,6.165219546960543 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.28534585097804666 solar masses with planets
Star 10 at 13.852605343299729,10.204806822025603,15.587450106386314 ly is a Giant TypeK of 48.90808705718882 solar masses
Star 11 at 13.788190521222532,11.125623866701062,13.996714425388745 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.10444396197726746 solar masses
Star 12 at 21.489885124219654,24.826315800282828,20.456860429499102 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.1178465775492441 solar masses with planets
Star 13 at 4.173886921512349,15.812307129067449,3.7542753055731737 ly is a MainSequence TypeK of 0.7818698770197443 solar masses with planets
Star 14 at 13.27533083747312,16.966044178025186,20.48390676800409 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.2437850927153704 solar masses
Star 15 at 8.736244370561508,1.0378403535241887,9.831296771335474 ly is a MainSequence TypeG of 1.0004645705039366 solar masses with planets
Star 16 at 16.115172616264317,10.567678005190828,10.027809768303086 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.18262802364279196 solar masses with planets
Star 17 at 11.294209219568074,4.3196126885050035,21.229172114317407 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.40833418943748256 solar masses with planets
Star 18 at 5.21207560827861,11.492471201813714,10.38719548073459 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.2684721985224314 solar masses with planets
Star 19 at 18.553889885993158,0.45091477743426367,20.74156241453693 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.4140062171327372 solar masses with planets
Star 20 at 20.23379753577501,17.341250630147442,23.527256473835223 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.26013500826411473 solar masses with planets
Star 21 at 12.66052347978075,8.060563405160792,9.884962858495783 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.2598429443214627 solar masses with planets
Star 22 at 17.307068168952355,20.73634026628497,2.954285925170552 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.27194352844162495 solar masses
Star 23 at 6.862001460854117,20.34844719587454,17.04913473281522 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.33822736503407214 solar masses with planets
Star 24 at 23.699176378659104,14.75463548067637,16.861710910188776 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.21391858288279764 solar masses with planets
Star 25 at 11.07977198385015,4.693625674917712,12.777176997678907 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.4201501412098878 solar masses with planets
Star 26 at 7.363040540849397,10.01761340748999,23.565806943042844 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.3293303501450282 solar masses with planets
Star 27 at 12.371446089809979,8.087426029533162,4.251143996225437 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.11277296043499518 solar masses with planets
Star 28 at 3.1524554843599617,24.93803733898403,10.563421923507121 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.09525545870928909 solar masses with planets
Star 29 at 18.922999667984186,4.089151687594494,21.297638903865845 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.4318041607057239 solar masses with planets
Star 30 at 5.617614002699156,9.960647307684667,22.83705705324337 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.3462359881841621 solar masses
Star 31 at 8.866873133320041,21.352436725965163,9.70895904245026 ly is a MainSequence TypeK of 0.4651559596059087 solar masses with planets
Star 32 at 17.616013039014433,22.401921771574962,24.705373676601994 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.10785482486699038 solar masses with planets
Star 33 at 23.072090780783583,8.107381122158586,0.6762747884749842 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.34945126173624885 solar masses with planets
Star 34 at 16.74501128911743,20.138443240966808,16.374172900964368 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.25525278968689236 solar masses with planets
Star 35 at 12.373427700413231,1.8376803255023333,18.080980920171896 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.44613618154562573 solar masses with planets
Star 36 at 22.86719418109442,18.51714929296122,11.419720619846885 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.4148228889407619 solar masses
Star 37 at 11.30238699226993,12.042864324212132,8.762299942554819 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.20170117294674128 solar masses
Star 38 at 19.951106185339995,14.261220537559893,10.751655614421907 ly is a MainSequence TypeM of 0.3570075996558444 solar masses with planets

There's a nice G-type star (number 4) that might eventually have some habitable planets, and a relatively rare giant K-type star, and a white dwarf. There's all sorts of gameplay possibilities there; even something as simple as a Noctis clone, where you fly around refueling at white dwarfs, would be pretty fun.

Reading console dumps is not a particularly slick way to explore the universe, so I'm planning to develop a nice front end to let people explore the generated world in a web3-enabled browser, to hopefully be completed before the crowdsale is over. Is that the sort of prototype you're looking for?

Cool, didn't see that. Looking forward to seeing this coin mature. But yeah, some sort of fancy thing is gonna be needed for this to go big, i think most people don't want to buy meaningless coordinates. Also, there should be some super-rare types of things.

[interfect]

the idea is to be used in another games? or the macroverse will have a "base" game?

Yes, the idea is to be a shared world that can be used in other games. Especially for games that just need some outdoor terrain, it could be easier to find a place of the right shape to set your game in than to hire environment artists to design terrain and then spend the money to store it all on-chain for verifiability.

Of course, I'm already thinking of cool game ideas to build on top of it, so if nobody else bites, at least I'll have something to work with.

[Islapdonkey]

Well, I think people should know more details and prospect about your project. And are you planning to run the crowdsale without any bounty campaign?

Yeah, there are no plans for a bounty campaign, to pay people in tokens to post on social media. I know they're very popular, and presumably they're effective or people wouldn't do them, but they frankly offend my sensibilities. A bunch of people being paid to tweet about something is to me a good indication that I shouldn't spend my money on that thing.

 Good for you. I never understood it, cos most ppl who participate could careless about the project. Your thread is one of the few projects not cog up with translation reservation/ social media request. This way participation is limited to those that actually believe in the project.

[Islapdonkey]

 By the way, am really impressed that you only keeping 5000 units for yourself. Talk about been fair.
 Anyway, what's the plan for the unsold units? I did see that number of sold units determine the ultimate supply. Also, i know the token is utilized for claiming virtual real estate, but do you have any plans on listing it on an exchange or would you even be interested in doing so?

[pingu39]

There is no bounty program, it seems to be not very attractive to people who want money

[alamin99]

Buy MRV from HitBTC exchange directly: https://hitbtc.com/exchange/MRV-to-ETH

[LainL1]

is there any bounty sir? like airdrop or social media bounty?

[Saichoukyushin]

There are no bounty promotions for this and why is it too long for this ICO , 90 days duration is too much for the ico . 30-40days is enough to prove if it will become successful or not. The duration will be based on its project then this Ico will be finished early.

[uwatere]

How many 100 MRV to USD?

[alamin99]

How many 100 MRV to USD?

0.02 ETH; calculate this to USD...

[allahabadi]

Hello, everyone,

I'm Adam Novak from Novak Distributed, and I wanted to announce here a project I have been working on, combining procedural world generation and blockchain-based smart contract technology.

Macroverse
Macroverse is a procedurally generated universe, available to be used by blockchain-based games. Rather than paying expensive gas costs to store environment and level data on the blockchain, or spending large amounts of developer effort on custom world generation algorithms, game developers will be able to use Macroverse as a piece of game development middleware, and to find settings for their games by exploring the single, shared Macroverse universe.

The Macroverse world is generated by the Macroverse Generator (MG), a system of smart contracts. The Macroverse Star Generator, which produces a galaxy of over 200 billion stars of various classes, is deployed at address 0x56D96b6a5F33E2efE5BE66065D5b9C230B1f4e0e using this source code. Addresses with a balance of (currently) 100 MRV or more may query the generator's various constant functions and receive information about the Macroverse world.

Virtual Real Estate
Players exploring the Macroverse world will be able to discover, claim, and trade virtual real estate. If you find a particularly compelling star, planet, or geographical feature, you will be able to purchase it and make it yours. Ownership of real estate may confer beneficial effects or advantages in supported games.

Virtual real estate claims are manged by the Macroverse Registry, a system of smart contracts. Currently, the only contract is the Macroverse Star Registry, at address 0x6C00556F471cbe518007D62bc4ACEd6d8e537c9D using this source code, which allows players to claim (transferable, releasable) ownership of star systems, by putting up a deposit of (currently) 1000 MRV.

MRV Token
The Macroverse token, MRV, is an ERC20-compatible token on the Ethereum blockchain. Players must hold a minimum balance in the MRV token to query the Macroverse system, and deposits denominated in MRV must be put up in order to claim virtual real estate. The MRV token will be distributed in a crowdsale beginning July 1st at approximately 10 AM PST.

Token Facts
Name: Macroverse Token
Symbol: MRV
Decimals: 18
Token Contract: 0xAB6CF87a50F17d7F5E1FEaf81B6fE9FfBe8EBF84
Total Supply: Up to 100,005,000 MRV
Available for Sale: 100,000,000 MRV
Crowdsale Price: 5,000 MRV per ETH
Crowdsale Start Scheduled: 10:02 AM PST on July 1
Crowdsale Duration: 90 days
Crowdsale Contract (same as token contract): 0xAB6CF87a50F17d7F5E1FEaf81B6fE9FfBe8EBF84
Crowdsale/Token Contract Source: Here
More details are available here.

The MRV token is intended to function like a software license, enabling people to use the Macroverse system. It is not indented to represent a stake in the Macroverse project, and is not designed to increase in value over time.

In addition to trying to sell tokens, I'm posting here to gauge developer interest in building atop a platform like this, and to gather suggestions as to what features would be good to have when extending the system from just generating stars down to generating planets, terrain, weather, and other world features described in the whitepaper. Feedback is appreciated!

Additional Resources
Code on Github
Official Website including e-mail list signup
Whitepaper
Twitter: @MacroverseMRV
E-mail: macroverse@protonmail.com

Any updates on your project?

[cryptomafiajp]

I’m also waiting for updates, but is there any update that can be checked somewhere?

[cryptofutureis]

I seen some activity on GitHub and Reddit. But anyway some details could really help. Please, give some updates on the project.