Tech Plans

Protocol Design

game client: holochain for an easy version of state channels, essentially

Organization functions

• Design the game and formats
  • rewards participants for contributing to valuable games and formats

questions:

• currency rules?

constant format (accepts new components by default)

— component list

constant client (accepts new components by default)

constant game (accepts new components by default)

— definition of valid clients (reference implementation - certain set of outputs, inputs)

— choose and fulfill component list format requirements

Modes (casual, ladder, proxy, keeper etc.)

— Defines meaning of game results and rejects results that don't meet requirements (like the players owning cards or games)

— May implement matchmaking rules

components market

— definition of valid component

The Set Match Games DAO

• defines each of the basic input/output of each module:
  • "mode"
    • input: game results
    • outputs: things like whether or not those two players were supposed to play each other and how the rankings should change (ladder)
  • "format"
    • list of components
  • "component"
    • fields: name, rules, optional: art...
  • "rules"
    • inputs: board state, action(components)
    • outputs: new board state
  • "client"
    • inputs: rules, accounts, player actions, optional: mode, format...
    • outputs: game results — accounts, rules, outcome state (eg. who won, who lost)
      • that prove which rules were used and have signatures from both accounts
  • "account"
    • inputs: private account info
    • outputs: permission to change account info (ie. play games as that account)
• regulates the links between the modules
  • to run a tournament, fees must be paid, the DAO controls those fees
    • state channels help scale the transactions

joe nobody comes in

• makes a format
  • chooses stuff from dropdown lists
• the format gets a curation system
  • which decides the rules of the format
• format can grant tournament organizing and broadcasting rights through harbinger taxes (or whatever method it would like)
  • tournaments are there own interface/code (anything that provides X,Y,Z is a tournament)
  • white list addresses that have those rights
• joe has all the reputation

sarah somebody comes in

• makes a card
  • the card goes into the master list of all cards
    • (part of this process checks repeats)
• people can include her card in their formats, which she gets rewarded for, etc.

same is true of rules

• rules = instructions for how your computer should play the game