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Re: A game that educates people about Bitcoin
by
Eugenar
on 04/03/2020, 02:08:21 UTC
Hi all,

I recently started working on an educational game that informs the player about some of the important concepts about bitcoin and am looking for some feedback.

The target player is not an engineer or an economist, but a person on the street that still believes fiat is good and that we are fine with money controlled by the state.

The game is designed as a series of conversations between two people, one asks questions and the other responds. The responses almost always include a mini game where the player solves a simple task to understand the concept.

For example, the first game is a simple "scratch the screen" game to reveal the bitcoin emission schedule.

Here's a list topics for which I am currently developing mini games:

  • Inflation hedge. Digital Gold.
  • How to pay using Bitcoin. No need for Credit Cards or banks.
  • How payments work - mining intro.
  • Double spending is almost impossible.
  • Censorship resistance.
  • Fleeing a war zone with bitcoin.
  • Keeping it safe. Secret sharing.
  • Purity of bitcoin vis a vis gold purity tests.
  • Address the fear of losing coins.
  • Anonymity and privacy.
  • No banks or state or single miner or developer regulates Bitcoin. Essentially, "no one" regulates Bitcoin.

Would love to get any input on the list if topics. Is there something I am missing as the first introduction to someone new to bitcoin? Is there something I should take out?

Thanks in advance for any thoughts.

That is a good thing. If I am a game developer in the future, I will choose to create games that are related in cryptocurrency or a game that gives knowledge about cryptocurrency, well, that is good especially for the children or to adults. I think that they will become motivated to learn cryptocurrency if they see some animated characters and places on the background. Still, I think a game that teaches cryptocurrency has a disadvantage as well because for sure some of the players won't focus on learning but rather on the game, actually based on my experienced, it is so hard to learn something when you are playing, you will become distracted on reading, analyzing and understanding the message if you are playing.