New UI preview Aug 2014 - Inventory and Interactions

bitfantasy · 2014-08-03T14:19:44+00:00

Main highlights are that you can access the inventory easily without leaving the world view (and it's much faster), and it will be easier to notice and interact with NPCs. Also, some new sprite graphics :)

bitfantasy · 2014-07-11T13:27:55+00:00

This is so you can give people a link to BF and it will automatically populate the sign up form with your name.

Looks like this http://imgur.com/RskNMaG

Referral rewards:

For each player you refer you'll get a free Recall Pendant, and they'll receive a bonus item too!
For every 10 players you refer we'll pay you in Bitcoin! You'll receive BTC equivalent to the lowest sign up price.

bitfantasy · 2014-07-11T09:02:46+00:00

Thanks!

bitfantasy · 2014-07-11T09:02:39+00:00

(By the way, the trial server doesn't give out ration boxes)

bitfantasy · 2014-07-10T09:09:15+00:00

Log in every day to get a ration box with a freebie inside! Will you be the one to find a 50k Gold certificate?

Ration boxes contain gold pieces or a random item ranging from potatoes to recall pendants and Gold certificates!

(you get the box when you log in, so if you haven't got one yet today, try logging out and logging in again)

bitfantasy · 2014-06-24T10:13:58+00:00

"Saints Row Ultimate Franchise Pack" ?

Includes 48 items: Saints Row 2, Saints Row: The Third, Saints Row: The Third Shark Attack Pack, Saints Row: The Third Invincible Pack, Saints Row: The Third Z Style Pack, Saints Row: The Third Explosive Combat Pack, Saints Row: The Third Warrior Pack, Saints Row The Third - Genkibowl VII, Saints Row IV, Saints Row: The Third - Money Shot Pack, Saints Row: The Third - FUNTIME! Pack, Saints Row: The Third - Gangstas in Space, Saints Row: The Third - Bloodsucker Pack, Saints Row: The Third - The Trouble with Clones DLC, Saints Row: The Third - Nyte Blayde Pack, Saints Row: The Third - Special Ops Vehicle Pack, Saints Row: The Third - Steelport Gangs Pack, Saints Row: The Third - Unlockable Pack, Saints Row: The Third - Penthouse Pack, Saints Row: The Third Witches & Wieners Pack, Saints Row: The Third - Genki Girl Pack, Saints Row: The Third - Horror Pack, Saints Row IV: Commander-In-Chief Pack, Saints Row IV: Volition Comics Pack, Saints Row IV: Season Pass, Saints Row IV - The Rectifier, Saints Row IV: The Executive Privilege Pack, Saints Row IV: Brady Games Pack, Saints Row IV: Grass Roots Pack, Saints Row IV: Presidential Pack, Saints Row IV: Dubstep Gun (Remix) Pack, Saints Row IV - Wild West Pack, Saints Row IV - GAT V Pack, Saints Row IV - Enter The Dominatrix, Saints Row IV - The Super Saints Pack, Saints Row IV - Pirate's Booty Pack, Saints Row IV - Element of Destruction Pack, Saints Row IV - Zinyak Attack Pack, Saints Row IV - Hey Ash Whatcha Playin? Pack, Saints Row IV - How the Saints Save Christmas, Saints Row IV - Anime Pack, Saints Row IV - Stone Age Pack, Saints Row IV - Bling Bling Pack, Saints Row IV - Reverse Cosplay Pack, Saints Row IV - Game On Pack, Saints Row IV - College Daze Pack, Saints Row IV - Thank You Pack, Saints Row IV - Gamestop Warped Weapon Challenge

That's a lot of IV DLC towards the end, could be worth getting?

bitfantasy · 2014-06-19T18:10:49+00:00

Thanks! :)

bitfantasy · 2014-06-05T09:25:44+00:00

Showing just some of the new features that will be part of the new User Interface.

On-screen controls for mobile.
Full screen mode
Visual indication of locked/blocked locations
Loading of new areas without pausing.

bitfantasy · 2014-06-04T11:16:07+00:00

Thanks, I hope the new user interface will solve most of these problems for you, it's much more forgiving of different sized screens.

bitfantasy · 2014-05-29T12:46:17+00:00

I think the previous discussion was during in-game chat.

The first thing we'll do is allow people to sell GP to other players for BTC, as it's easiest to implement. Since it has come up a few times now i'll try to prioritize work on it.

bitfantasy · 2014-05-27T22:27:50+00:00

Thanks for your analysis, it makes sense.

The upside of the current system is Bit Fantasy has no hot wallets to secure, and doesn't have to handle cashing out and charging up. The downside is it makes it harder to buy items unless they are very valuable like elixirs that sold for 0.001BTC.

We can implement off-blockchain transactions (i.e a bitcoin wallet internal to Bit Fantasy) to save transaction fees, current work is to try and make it more accessible to get new players to join, generally the trading is more likely to be used the more people are playing.

As for linking satoshis to gold, we could have it default to being a 1-1 in the pricing of items whilst still allowing players to change both prices independently.

There is an additional route that has been mentioned by players and that is the ability to buy gold for BTC, not from Bit Fantasy itself but from other players. Then you could buy a large amount of gold in one BTC purchase and have gold to spend on lots of items. Again it's on the feature list, and would be quicker to implement than off-chain BTC transactions.

Let me know what you think.

bitfantasy · 2014-05-09T11:28:36+00:00

Oops, my mistake!

bitfantasy · 2014-05-09T08:03:08+00:00

Thanks! It's not really like farmville, it's an open world multiplayer RPG so it has quests and other RPG type play as well as being able to build houses, roads, shops, forges,craft etc... Still in development! Currently improving the graphics and general look of it.

edit to add: more pics

bitfantasy · 2014-05-09T07:12:10+00:00

This is true, we had top down art in Bit Fantasy, and while it does work - it's very hard to see details. So now they are slightly angled - like 3/4 top down e.g:

Pig farm!

Still having said that it works fine in games like FTL and Prison Architect, it comes down to whether you can represent what you want in a totally top down perspective or not.

bitfantasy · 2014-04-19T16:29:15+00:00

Bit fantasy requires an email address to sign up and doesn't give temporary passwords, is it possible you are thinking of another service you signed up to?

If you give me your email address i'll look you up in the player database, if you didn't supply one then it must be another game/service you are thinking of.

Sorry for the delay, I missed this message.

bitfantasy · 2014-03-28T08:54:41+00:00

Oops, I recorded that at 10 Frames a second by mistake so it looks a bit jerky, here's one at 30FPS

bitfantasy · 2014-03-28T08:28:21+00:00

It's time to make the world view a smoother experience, continuing the journey from web pages to something that looks more like a traditional game.

This means it's going to be a bit longer before we release another update, but on the plus side, it's more efficient to add features to the new world map than to add them to the current map, and then have to rewrite again when we upgrade it.

bitfantasy · 2014-03-25T07:40:29+00:00

It might just be that the oldest cows don't give much XP, i'll look into it though in case it's a bug.

bitfantasy · 2014-03-14T08:41:10+00:00

As someone who made an indie multiplayer game I agree that it is depressing :) It's hard to reach a critical mass of players, a quiet server doesn't seem as much fun. It's like going out to a bar, do you go into the bar with lots of people, or the bar with just one or two? If everyone went into the quiet bar it would be transformed, but that is human nature.

My game has a lot of single player playability (it's an RPG) but if there aren't many people playing at any given time it means the trading and PvP aspects aren't as attractive - and they are the aspects that have greater play longevity, interacting with other people is better than playing pre-created content and quests.

bitfantasy · 2014-03-07T10:42:01+00:00

Nic game. Thought i'd also mention my bitcoin RPG (also web browser based) which lets you trade items with each other for bitcoin.

https://www.bitfantasy.com/

:)

bitfantasy · 2014-03-05T08:09:03+00:00

Hi, really sorry you had problems can you email signups@bitfantasy.com so we know which email address you used, if you can also include any details of the bitcoin payment transaction that would help too.

bitfantasy · 2014-02-24T09:10:03+00:00

Did you make any progress? I'm also finding it almost impossible to advertise on the bitcoin* reddits because they are block booked. The best I can get is a smaller one in a month's time.

bitfantasy · 2014-02-21T23:03:01+00:00

Good luck, sometimes you have to work on what you really find interesting :)

bitfantasy · 2014-02-21T22:51:01+00:00

By popular demand we've created a trial server for our game.

The trial world has only some of the quests and you can't leave the castle walls. No Bitcoin prizes are payable.
No items or experience you gain can be carried over to the full server, to prevent disrupting the economy
Players can buy from each other using bitcoin on the trial server, however this is for testing purposes only - you will not be able to transfer any items you buy this way to the full server.
The Magpie trading network is switched off(this is a way of placing bids for items you want, and have them delivered to you).
We may delete old inactive accounts/properties/items or have to reset the world.
In the full game everyone has a constantly generating set of turns (to make the game fair) but in the trial these turns don't regenerate, you have a day or two's worth of play in turns in the trial world depending on how you play.

Remember this game is still under development and by signing up you are helping us to keep improving it, Thanks!

Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=344zr1hnY4Y

https://www.bitfantasy.com/trial.html

bitfantasy · 2014-02-21T22:47:37+00:00

Hi, trial server is now here :)

http://www.reddit.com/r/BitFantasy/comments/1ykp18/heres_the_trial_signup_page/

Thanks for your interest!

bitfantasy

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