thanks, I think we have a good offer for advertisers,
http://battlecoin.org/referus

you get 100 satoshi per person (but this is just a way to get some dust to play with if you are missing some)
more importantly, you get 10% of our earnings from each user you bring for forever.

but as the site didn't take off and has earned like 50$ total since the launch haha, this is not profitable, we'd need a 1000 active users for it to be sustaining I think.

for some reason most people don't stick around

oh shit I might have missed this or thought it might have been a mass email, sorry! if this is still an option, I'm around.

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to reply to other stuff.

Yeah, like people have been saying, this was a looooot of work, everything is custom made as what was available from technology wasn't good enough.
I actually started working on 3D & mobile http://battlecoin.org/webgl

but it never got popular enough to sustain the development, on the contrary. and after a year of part time work and a year of full time work I ended up too poor to continue and got a full time job. I think this needed a year more of work/research/advertising/changing stuff, to figure out how to get players interested but I was in an annoying place and needed a change. Tried to get a silicon valley investment (Boost VC) but didn't manage to. https://www.leet.gg/ got serious money so I was hoping they'd be keen. this also needed some more work, but didn't have time.

People that do come and stay are really really enthusiastic (like you people, thanks!) but for some reason most people don't stick around couldn't figure it out.
Hoped tournaments/3d/lag fixes would help. I don't know.

Pools would actually be way easier to implement!

I won't turn this site off, it will keep running as that's cheap.

yeah I feel like it should be popular too, yeah the site will keep running, and I hope to get back to it when I have some cash to spare

Hey ppl, a sad anouncement today, I decided to halt the development of battlecoin and get a dayjob, I'm too poor and website is not earning enough yet, and searching for investors seems like a very slow route. (will keep looking so something might change in the following months, we'll see)

will get back to it, and work on it when I catch time, but won't have the time to work on it full time even though I really love this project.

when did you play last time?
there was a lag update yesterday, player movement should be totally smooth and instantaneous now, is it still happening?

incredibly weird this is definetely not normal behaviour. I think it might be a cache issue (even though the site reports the files changed to browsers and your browser should get the new version automatically) maybe your browser is using old code to interact with the new changed game. try clearing the cache? try changing browsers?

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just tested it on ff, works ok on my side

very strange, didn't see anything like this and no one reported anything similar, maybe try again and see if its still there, let us know on the site (refering to the exact game so I can check it out)

in any case, tnx for the info, and working on it

ok, pushed the first lag fix update, things are a bit glitchy, but was excited to share ASAP, replays are broken now, but game plays waaay better, check it out!

Yes, that's one of the plans, I'd also love to see 10 vs 10 battles on larger maps and such. this is what we are working towards.

yes, tournaments will be something like that, they are under development, and rewards will be much much bigger then on the faucet websites.

I offered 100 satoshi for each free game win for a month but people started exploiting it and starting many games against themselves, so I turned it off for now, until I implement some checks against this.

some people earned around 100$
http://battlecoin.org/leaderboards

yup, not that many players yet so not so easy to find higher bets quickly, but there are often people around that will take you on a 10-20$ bet easily. we had offers for 1BTC bets but no one wanted to accept them at the time.

In the future I'd like to make an unusual bet offer/reply system with which you can say something like "I offer a 100BTC match @ EU" and someone can accept the offer, and you an arrange the time. something like that.

70 was peak, but it lasted almost the whole 24 hours.

yup, I absolutely agree with you, working hard, the service is complex, we had a lot of things to sort out in the backend and a lot of small stability fixes / bugs. But now that's done, and my next task is to solve the lag. Its also not a very large task, will be fixed soon. but I hate to promise dates.

after the lag fix I will feel like we have a minimal viable service. will work on webgl then as that wil make the graphics run way smoother and will be able to make mobile clients and such.

me too for now, I want to do a lot with bomberman still.

like, 3d, level editor, 10vs10 team games on large fields, tons of stuff

but if this succeeds, we'll implement more games, and let people vote for the ones they'd like to see


update

big update got pushed in today

games will properly run and finish even if the main server is restarted while they are running. - this was a feature I really wanted to have, should help with reliability a lot.

a few small ui fixes are in
a fix for powerups from dead players not showing up
a fix for invisible walls

I messed up shadows though this got in the update by accident, will be reverted

we are out of a designer for a moment and this is the only thing we have (a part of the logo)


http://imgur.com/2BucXJB

728x90 and 468x60 are the sizes I've often seen requested

if you feel like making a banner that's awesome, do you mind if I put it on the website in the refer us window as something people can use?

we've made a landing page too that quickly explains what the site is about (you have to be logged out to see it) and it opens the site in new tab if its opened from within an iframe.

http://battlecoin.org/landing

this thing
http://battlecoin.org/landing#YOUR_REFERAL_ID
doesn't work yet, but will soon.

I think the banner could also say something like
"Kill players
Take their bitcoin"

so people get the idea before they click..

sorry, there was a bug with this, fixed now, pls contact me via support form so I can pay you out

you should have gotten it, if this work IP hasn't been seen before by the server. will verify that everything is ok.
btw you can also ask anyone on the server for some satoshi to play with

just a minute, update went wrong, will be up soon

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ugh, a bit more complicated then I thought, sry, didn't test enough. working on it..

will PM you

a lot of bugfixes are up, some of you have been made moderators! you can kick people. it doesn't do much for now, just redirects them to a random funny website.

please use this only for kicking spammers/ultra annoying rude people/people blocking games from starting


lag has been fixed, but the code is not up yet, will be soon.

this would be very hard for you to use.

multiplayer games and games in general are not an easy software to write, check out https://unity3d.com/ framework, should make it much simpler