we're aiming to build the biggest game around crypto twitter on Solana
7 months ago we started building a fantasy game. a reimagined @fantasy_top_, more dynamic, funnier. took "slavery" as the core theme. called it Slaverse.
months of dev. lots of problems. a lot of money burned.
5 months in we did a zoom out and realized we fucked up. the economy didn't work. the model was broken at the core, not something you fix with tweaks. on top of that X sends an email saying the account violates community guidelines.
honestly, it was painful to admit.
sat down to rethink everything. analyzed a bunch of web3 games and landed on a simple thing: players don't care about gameplay or mechanics if there are no strong financial incentives. the goal is always earning.
that gave us an idea of what a web3 economy should look like. but we couldn't fit it into Slaverse. we'd have to redo so much that starting from scratch was easier. tough call. 5 months of work down the drain is no joke.
so we built Pimpire (@pimpiredotfun)
you play as a pimp, build your empire of crypto influencers and earn from their performance on X. no card battles like in classic fantasy. all mechanics built for the web3 user.
cards have rarities. gacha mechanics inside. influencers represented as cards also earn revenue. fair reward distribution is something we care about.
7 months in and we're basically starting over. but this time we know exactly what we're building. and who we're building it for.
soon.
@themax@pimpiredotfun been thinking about this all morning.
fantasy showed me what a live market on people could feel like. once you feel that, nothing else really scratches the same itch.
that's what we're building toward.