Guide to the Trail: play > review > join community > share > archetypaltech.itch.io/orugg… > discord.gg/aEN5qkKaTh and don’t die #gamer #gaming #indiegames #textadventure #newgame

Happy to share that I’ve been selected to lead the Gaming Area at @EFDevcon. It's my second time curating gaming at Devcon, bringing together the folks pushing Ethereum gaming forward. My mission? To showcase worthy Ethereum games. cya + glhf at the Gaming Area. 🎮

New #generativeart collection out! Initially inspired by the Bauhaus art movement, it took on a life of its own. But we can still find the source material within it... BAUHASH 🟨🟦🟥 100% on-chain on @Starknet Made with @ohayo_dojo mint: collect-code.com/bauhash 🧵...

🧵 in association with @StarkWareLtd, you are hereby invited to a night of @Starknet trivia & celebrations at The Fool & Flintlock Tavern 🍻 Launching @underware_gg's onchain pub quiz alongside updates from your favourite protocols + prizes in $strk, $wBTC, $eth, merch & more!

Early start getting up to the massive National Exhibition Centre to show @OrugginTrail to gamers and Comicon goers today!

We are #OnTheTrail showing @OrugginTrail off to players at #EGX #Comicon at the National Exhibition Centre in the UK.

Onchain games getting a lot of love at @Starknet #Starkconnect - with lots of shoutouts and stats highlighting just how much of Starknet’s total transactions and traffic are dominated by games, and how much bigger this will get.

Tomorrow, it’s happening.

LOOT DAY at @EFDevcon Culture. Gaming. cc0 art. Worlds we’re shaping together. Builders who keep the vision alive. Today we build. Tomorrow we celebrate. The Loot story unveiled for adventurers... old and new. 📌Gaming District, Devconnect 🕒Wed 19 Nov — 1 PM GMT-3

Introing the Lords of @LootRealms, the builders of @playcambria, the stewards of @ohayo_dojo and much much more!

Sunday Funday vibes TONIGHT @LoadingBar in Stoke Newington, 5PM start. Fun, weird, & just a little bit different #indiegames await, #londongamedevs & #gamers! luma.com/acedim4s

#LondonGamers we will be on hand to guide you through @OrugginTrail on Sunday from 5-9pm @LoadingBar along with a bunch of other fun #indiegames. Let us know if you want to come! luma.com/acedim4s

The best crypto UX is no crypto UX. Onchain gaming is going to change the perception of crypto. @bankless just covered how @LootSurvivor 2, built with @ohayo_dojo and powered by Cartridge Controller, delivers a truly accessible and deep onchain RPG experience on @Starknet.

“If you miss when games made you imagine, not consume” > play @OrugginTrail Thanks @heyshadowfax!

live with @awtnmy !

Privacy, privacy, privacy: Everyone now is a Privacy expert. Great! So... Let me explain a few things, as someone who's spent quite a lot of time thinking about privacy, and building stuff that's actually used in the world (not just in tweets or academic papers 🙂). There are all kinds of privacy, and they don't all look the same, feel the same, or work the same. Here's an explanation on what's easy, what's hard, and what's the right way to get privacy done. What's easy: Creating ZK proofs for various transactions is easy (thank you StarkWare). You can't yet create ZK proofs on standard hardware wallets, but you can create them on phones and laptops and desktops. Important: Generating a ZK proof, or a bunch of them, doesn't mean yet you have *real* privacy. For that, you need more, and you need everyone to use what you've built, because if you're the only one using it, you get no privacy. What's (really really really) hard: UX. Achieving privacy with UX that will be smooth and intuitive enough to make it easy for you, me, your mom, and your friends to use is really really really hard . In the tradfi world that's really easy, because the model is different: Your tradfi buddy (the bank, typically) opens an encrypted channel with you, and you tell it privately everything, and the bank keeps that stuff secret. But in the decentralized world you don't have a buddy you can whisper secrets to. So if you want privacy, you need everything to be built for that. And here's the problem: The existing infra of blockchain is not privacy-compatible. Starting with Bitcoin, it's all out there in the open. This means that the standards and the tools and the wallets and the exchanges are all built for stuff that everyone sees. If you're building something that's private, it means that all the existing infrastructure stops working. No hardware wallets, with hard time getting exchanges to work with it, no block explorers, etc. It becomes really hard for your mom and friends to use it. So no one uses it, and the few who do use it, don't get much privacy. You've made it this far! You get a prize: The solution 🗝️ So what can be done? The truth is that the best path forward on privacy is to compromise a bit. Meaning, that in order to offer good UX, the privacy you'll get won't be airtight. So you'll get a certain level of privacy, it won't be airtight, but it'll be easier to use for your mom and friends. There are quite a few solutions that offer tradeoffs between privacy and usability, and many of them exist today, first and best on Starknet/StarkWare. I'll give a few examples: * Validium - is a way to build things that are 100% smooth and standard from the users point of view, but the stuff that goes on the blockchain is known only to your buddy (the operator, like the bank). As opposed to the bank, your buddy -- the operator -- in this case, cannot steal your money because ZK STARK proofs bind him to operate with integrity. * shielded ERC20s - these are account based, not UTXO based, and only blind the amounts being sent around, not the payer and payee. So folks can see who you're sending to and receiving from, but no one knows how much you're sending. It's not as airtight as a Zcash transaction, but it allows for smoother UX, and even allows you easy composability with a lot of DeFi apps. Summarizing: Privacy is needed. Creating ZK is by now not the hard part. The hard part is getting your mom and friends to be able to transact privately and smoothly on the blockchain. We're not there yet. But stay tuned. The END

Livestream in 1 hour. Come and play along on the @OrugginTrail with us!

this will be fun - I throughly enjoyed!!