Hi guys,
Neil Haran here, and I confirm I am involved with the Peerplays team dealing with all of the game design related challenges.
A bit about my background:
I've been in video game development since 2002. Been in social gaming since practically its existence. I've been looking at bitcoin since when it was trading at a dollar (never bought any then though) and always believed in decentralization and blockchain.
Here's a talk I did back in 2011 for the bitcoin show (I didn't really know Bruce, he asked me to do a talk so I did because I fully believed in blockchain tech):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPKoRJ3vPZYToday I'm an activist, completely focused on the decentralization movement and technologies associated with it. I'm new on bitcointalk.org and the forums, but I'm not new to this space.
Here's a long talk I recently did for the SAFE network:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akWGc5b6iZcAnother project I am helping is FollowMyVote (also based on the bitshares blockchain), which is a project focused on bringing elections online in a provably fair way.
https://followmyvote.com/ambassadors/-------------
Now that that bit is out of the way, I truly believe that we're embarking upon a game changer in MMO gaming (for asynchronous games) in Peerplays. What we are building is not without its challenges, as we are attempting to connect a huge number of peers in a large mesh, all playing in a provably fair way and generating a very large number of transactions per second. That said, the blockchain consensus mechanism called Graphene is quite a feat of engineering in itself, and appears to be one of the best current options as a potential framework for such a system. To keep our goals manageable, development will be oriented towards simple on-chain games first, and progressing towards greater levels of feature complexity as the project unfolds.
Anyhow, that's a little of my background and qualifications. As I mentioned above, I am quite busy and I have little time to frequent online forums, but I wanted to come here to let everyone know am confident in our business development and communication team to continue to answer any of your questions at this stage. My involvement in this project will be ongoing, and you will definitely hear more from me in the weeks and months ahead!
Thank You,
Neil Haran