MooCoin beta. 500 invites available. Looking for feedback on this new project.

[moocoin]

Hi BitCoinTalk,
I'm getting ready to launch a new btc project, MooCoin, and I'd love some help stress testing the system and getting some early feedback.  I've opened up accounts for the first 500 people who visit https://www.moocoin.com

What is it?
MooCoin is a different kind of game site.  You play against other people instead of playing against the house.  Choose your game and your wager.  We match you up with an opponent, and the winner takes all!  We also have a .000001 faucet so you can play for free.

What restrictions are there in the beta?
   - We're not accepting deposits so the only way to get money to play with is via the faucet.  We've tested the deposit system extensively and it works great.  In an abundance of caution during our initial launch, we've decided that we don't want anyone else's money in the system except for our own.  While this essentially prevents you from making large wagers with your own money, we want to make sure that we've had the system online for a while before accepting any of your hard-won bitcoins.
   - Realize that with head-to-head play, you need an opponent and we're intentionally keeping the number of players small.  There may not be a game available when you show up.  That's ok, though.  Just create one and hang out for a while.  If no opponents show up, you can cancel your game and try again later.
   - We only have one game running at the moment:  Paper-Rock-Scissors, best 2 out of 3.  We've created a pluggable game architecture that lets us add more games quickly, and will eventually let third party developers create games as well.

How can you help?
Just go to https://www.moocoin.com and poke around.  Use the faucet.  Play some games.  Try to break it.  Hack it.  Attack it.  Most of all, though, hit the "feedback" button and let us know how we can make it better.  Also feel free to leave feedback here or email us at the address below.

Many thanks for your help,
The MooCoin Team
admin@moocoin.com

[BitcoinFr34k]

Does this come from the creators of Moobot (CoinChat)?

[lerelerele]

Needing invitation

[kuverty]

Needing invitation

No need for invitation as of now.

This is paper, cloud, scissors?

[moocoin]

This is paper, cloud, scissors?

Fair bit of feedback, that.

We'll make it look more like a rock 

[moocoin]

Does this come from the creators of Moobot (CoinChat)?

Nope.  This is our first public bitcoin project.

[moocoin]

Hey Developers,
A question for you:  Would you be interested in developing pluggable games for the site in an app-store model? 
You would provide a package of javascript for the backend logic, and html/javascript for the front end.   We would plug it in to the site and you would collect 80% of any fees associated with people playing your game. 
It would be limited to head-to-head games at first, but eventually extend to single player games against the house.  We developed MooCoin with this extensibility in mind, but want to see if anyone is interested.  This would be a pretty cool way to develop that game you have in mind without having to worry about bitcoin network integration, hosting, security, user accounts, etc.  All you have to worry about is the game logic.

Let us know,
The MooCoin Team
admin@moocoin.com

[sprinkle]

Love this, just talked about it in the Morning Bit today -- http://youtu.be/Of35Ia1YeZU

Also, played and won some BTC

A bit of feedback -- could you make this into a Facebook game? 
I see some awesome promotion and virality for Bitcoin if you integrated this w/ a massive social platform like that.

[kuverty]

I can't get it working. It tells me to make my move but none of the buttons do anything, also I seem to be already matched with an opponent and "Create new game" is disabled.

[moocoin]

Can you take a quick screenshot and email it to me along with your uid from the url?  You can send it to admin@moocoin.com .
We will look through the logs and see what happened.

Thanks!

[rammy2k2]

Game aint working from Microsoft Surface

[moocoin]

Game aint working from Microsoft Surface

That's actually really good to know.  We tested on Android phones, iPhone5, Android tablets and iPads.  We don't have a surface laying around, though.  We'll add that to our device matrix for testing.

What was it doing that didn't work?

[bbit]

cool, I'll check it out.... if you need people to get small amounts of Bitcoins check out http://www.btcinstant.com

[moocoin]

Thank you for all of the feedback on our launch day!

We've made a couple of changes and we'll roll them after our test cycle is complete.  We did update the site today with one important feature that a number of beta folks asked for:  The site will now give you an audio cue when someone joins your game.  Now you can create a game and put it in the background until someone joins.

Thank you again for all of the help today,
The MooCoin Team

[axilla]

i'm interested in creating games.. does it have to be paper, rock, scissors esque?  I was thinking about making multiplayer games using impact.js, node.js, socket.io, and HTML5 to create real time multiplayer games that would be cross-device compatible.  Would this be doable on your platform?

[tubbyjr]

I'd love the development feature, however, you may want to reconsider the profit split.

[TheUntitled]

Game doesn't seem to be working:



It's stuck on that page and I can't even make a wager.

[gorgorom]

Very nice. Twitter bootstrap? I'll try and break it for you and submit my feedback

[gorgorom]

Hmm, I am using OSX 10.9 with firefox and can't seem to make a move on either of the paper, rock or scissors. I have BTC there for the free captchas. I'm not sure if anyone else is having this problem?

[moocoin]

i'm interested in creating games.. does it have to be paper, rock, scissors esque?  I was thinking about making multiplayer games using impact.js, node.js, socket.io, and HTML5 to create real time multiplayer games that would be cross-device compatible.  Would this be doable on your platform?

At first, we're targeting games that are:
- Quick:  We don't want people to be playing chess for 10 minutes and risk having to leave halfway through, etc.  At lest not at first...
- Mostly luck with an element of strategy:  Low barrier of entry for beginners, but a strategic "hook" that lets people feel in control of the outcome.


You're perfect on the tech stack, though.  MooCoin is built on node.js, html5, and socket.io.