web3 dev + artist building onchain games.
currently building A51. it's a game. it's a token. it's an NFT it's a digital scarcity experiment with an alien face. the council opened their files; the rest manifests onchain.
live on @base@baseapp
https://t.co/O27QnTRS3y @A51Aliens
@jessepollak@base Building @A51Aliens an onchain alien arena on @base
this week: balancing combat so fights stay fair but unpredictable, adding staking for the aliens, and finishing OpenSea integration so they're tradeable.
provably fair pvp with real stakes is the hard part. getting there π½
I ate some crayons and hallucinated this clearly wrong prediction for bitcoin:native ...
20 EMA weekly values:
Current Cycle Bottom, June 2026, 70k.
Uptrend start, July 2026.
Next Cycle Top, March 2029, 210k.
@jessepollak feels like you guys are swinging too far in the other direction now.
Why should I build apps for @base app if the only way they can get visibility is via a token?
Someone could have an app that does 1000s in daily txns and be buried because it's not tokenized...
balancing combat in the aliens arena today.
with real stakes, fair isn't optional, but perfectly fair is perfectly predictable, and predictable is boring. the trick is a little mystery without ever crossing into feeling rigged.
how do other game devs thread this?
@GoingParabolic You probably won't see this π€·ββοΈ but just wanted to say, I want it to do something and be worth something it looks too damn cool to not have value π