Good Game Guild

GGG is a prize-escrow protocol on Stellar. Built by @artisamlabs

[Good Game Guild @playggguild]

Every tournament has a prize pool. The problem? You usually have to trust an organizer not to delay, skim, or vanish with it.

With GGG, no one holds the funds—the smart contract does:

1. Deploy an escrow contract in one transaction
2. Players join directly from their own wallet (no account needed)
3. Referee signs results once, and Soroban splits the payout instantly

No custodians. No withdraw functions. Just code.

Live on @StellarOrg testnet: https://t.co/ejxmYbMHSX

@BuildOnStellar @PHI_Stellar @riseinweb3

[Good Game Guild @playggguild]

Dictionary Day, gamer edition:

GG (interj.): respect, or sarcasm, depending on tone
Tilt (n.): when "one more game" becomes nine
Prize pool (n.): money that should sit where everyone can see it

Add your own.

#GamingCommunity

[Good Game Guild @playggguild]

It's World Food Day, so we need your official tournament snack tier list.

S-tier: ?
A-tier: ?
Not-near-the-controller tier: ?

We'll start: anything with cheese powder goes straight to the last one.

#WorldFoodDay #GamingCommunity

[Good Game Guild @playggguild]

Hot take: grassroots tournaments matter more to esports than any franchised league.

Every pro started in a bracket someone ran for free on a weekend.

Protect those brackets. Back those organizers. Show up to those events.

#Esports #GamingCommunity

[Good Game Guild @playggguild]

Free organizer tip: publish the payout split before registration opens, not after the bracket fills.

Changing it mid-event, even for good reasons, is how trust quietly leaks out of a community.

#TournamentOrganizers

[Good Game Guild @playggguild]

Things in a tournament that should be boring:
- The rules
- The referee
- The payout

Things that should be exciting:
- Literally everything else

#TournamentOrganizers #Esports

[Good Game Guild @playggguild]

Settle this: best esport for a total beginner to watch?

Fighting games: instantly readable
MOBAs: deep but busy
Shooters: easy to follow
Card games: calm chaos

Defend your pick in the replies.

#Esports

[Good Game Guild @playggguild]

Oct 14, 1947: Chuck Yeager flew faster than sound for the first time, with two broken ribs he barely told anyone about.

Some barriers just need the right engineering and a little stubbornness.

What's a "that can't be done" you've watched someone do?

#OnThisDay

[Good Game Guild @playggguild]

Lunch-break game: describe your main in three words. No character names allowed.

We'll go first: calm, neutral, always pays out.

#GamingCommunity

[Good Game Guild @playggguild]

Cybersecurity Awareness Month, tip 2:

Your seed phrase is not a password you share with support. Not with admins, not with "verification bots," not with a tournament, not with us.

Anyone asking for it is trying to empty your wallet.

#CybersecurityAwarenessMonth

[Good Game Guild @playggguild]

It's Ada Lovelace Day.

In 1843 she wrote that a machine might one day compose music. She saw computers as more than calculators a century before one was built.

Who's a woman in gaming or tech you'd celebrate today? Tag them.

#AdaLovelaceDay

[Good Game Guild @playggguild]

Bracket says 2:00 PM.
Discord says 2:00 PM.
First match starts at 3:47 PM.

Tournament time is its own time zone and we've all just accepted it.

#GamingCommunity

[Good Game Guild @playggguild]

Hot take: most web3 games failed because they led with a token instead of a game.

Players don't wake up wanting a token. They wake up wanting to win.

Use the chain where it removes friction, not where it adds homework.

#Web3Gaming

[Good Game Guild @playggguild]

What "the contract pays the winners" actually means:

Nobody clicks send on your prize. Once the final standings are in, the split agreed before anyone joined is applied automatically.

No reminders. No follow-ups. No "sorry, busy week."

#Soroban #Stellar

[Good Game Guild @playggguild]

Petsa de peligro is real. We get it.

But "borrowing" from the tournament prize pool "just until payday" is never the move.

If you've ever heard that line from an organizer, you already know why we exist.

#EsportsPH

[Good Game Guild @playggguild]

Debate time. Is a 1v1 tournament with a $5 entry fee gambling?

We say no: it's a skill contest with rules known upfront. Luck doesn't win a fighting game set.

But people feel strongly here. Where do you land, and why?

#Esports

[Good Game Guild @playggguild]

@lumenloop @stellar_experts @axis_dex Non-upgradeable contracts where tokens stay in user wallets until fill is the exact right design philosophy. Huge milestone bringing a native smart contract orderbook to Soroban from the StellarExpert team!

[Good Game Guild @playggguild]

"Transparent" and "verifiable" are not the same thing.

Transparent: someone shows you a screenshot.
Verifiable: you can check it yourself without asking anyone.

Prize pools deserve the second one.

#Web3Gaming #Stellar

[Good Game Guild @playggguild]

Choose your tournament organizer:

The Spreadsheet Sage: 14 tabs, color-coded, terrifying
The Hype Machine: "BIGGEST PRIZE POOL EVER" (it is not)
The Ghost: posts the bracket, vanishes

Which one have you met?

#GamingCommunity #TournamentOrganizers

[Good Game Guild @playggguild]

Expectation: win the bracket, get paid.

Reality: win the bracket, get added to a group chat called "payout updates" that goes quiet for 11 days.

#Esports #GamingCommunity

[Good Game Guild @playggguild]

One design rule we won't bend: your wallet signs, our server never holds your keys.

If any gaming platform, ours included, ever asks for your secret key or seed phrase, close the tab. That's not support. That's a robbery with good UX.

#Stellar #PlayerSafety