Bitcoin Block Wars - A free Bitcoin-powered arcade shooter by SegWit Games

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Bitcoin Block Wars
A free Bitcoin-powered arcade shooter by Irish game developer SegWit Games

Introducing Bitcoin Block Wars

We’ve launched Bitcoin Block Wars, a free browser-based arcade shooter built around live Bitcoin blockchain data.

Play it here:
https://bitcoinblockwars.com

Bitcoin Block Wars is not Play-to-Earn, not an NFT project, and not a staking product. There are no token rewards, no wallet connection requirement, and no financial mechanics hidden behind the gameplay.

It is an arcade shooter first: dodge, shoot, survive, fight through escalating encounters, and challenge the Bitcoin blockchain as live chain data helps shape each run.

Click the image above to watch the gameplay video.

Core features

• Free to play in desktop and mobile browsers
• Arcade-inspired shooting, dodging, survival, and boss encounters
• Live Bitcoin blockchain data influences gameplay events
• Every run is shaped by the chain
• No Play-to-Earn
• No NFTs
• No staking
• No wallet connection required
• No pay-to-win mechanics

About SegWit Games

Bitcoin Block Wars is by Irish game developer SegWit Games, the internal skunkworks studio launched by Bitcoin Marketing Team.

The project is built from a background in games publishing, Bitcoin marketing, and arcade gameplay. The founder spent more than a decade in the Irish games industry on the publishing side, worked as Operations Manager of the first Xbox venue in Europe in the mid-2000s, taught business to game developers for several years at Dublin Institute of Technology, now TU Dublin, and published extensive research on the Irish games industry in the early 2010s.

That background is part of the reason Bitcoin Block Wars is focused on being playable first, rather than being another speculative crypto game.

Why Bitcoin?

Bitcoin already produces a constant stream of live, public, unpredictable data. Bitcoin Block Wars uses that data as a creative input for gameplay instead of turning it into a token reward system.

The aim is simple: make a replayable arcade shooter where Bitcoin shapes the action, without requiring financial mechanics, NFTs, staking, or wallet connections.

What we’re looking for feedback on

• Browser and device performance
• Difficulty balance
• Mobile controls
• Whether the Bitcoin-triggered gameplay events feel clear
• Whether the arcade loop feels replayable

Feedback is welcome. There's a wiki going into a fair bit of detail on how we're using bitcoin at https://wiki.bitcoinblockwars.com

[Exitoral]

Welcome. Good actually.

So I played the game and I noticed all the monsters coming from all directions. Shooting them is kinda difficult. Kinda shooting in one direction. The movement is smooth. But the one direction shooting is not good. Because the monsters are coming in all directions. Not like you can actually turn around. You can't. That's just my take.

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Thanks

So yes the enemies do come from different locations around the screen , and while your ship can rotate pretty quickly, as you level up your enemies you’ll get more directions, level 1 is a single cannon, then double cannon, then triple cannon, then two additional 45 degree angled guns, and finally a rear shot as well

So once you get the hang of the controls, and kill enemies without taking hits, it becomes considerably easier

It’s twin stick control, so using them both together , means you’ll be able to weave your way through the field