Getting some JOY in Joystick.club

EDIT: from Jan 1rst 2022 the rewards halved to 12.5 JOY. So the balance investment/reward is changed. I will leave the post as was initially written. Just take this change into consideration. My son decided to play just casually under these new numbers. Still fun games.

I was looking around the farms and saw, again, the one with JOY-BCH in Ben, Mist Muesli and Tango. Pretty impressive to have farms in 4 of the 6 DEXes.

I had payed a visit to the site before smart.joystick.club but my brain-hand coordination is not that great, so I'd never tried it.

Now this time, I gathered some help. My son was kind and humored me, giving it a try. He played Smart Blaster in my computer and got 17 JOY, when the max per game is 25. Pretty impressive for a first time. You pay 25 cents in BCH to enter, which is more or less 6 JOY.

So we setup his computer. Yes, it meant installing Metamask, adding the Smart BCH network, and sending some coin his way.

He played one time and got perfect score. The 25 JOY entered his wallet pretty fast.

He played a second time. more or less same level. There was a message saying the reward was in its way, but nothing.

Ok, lets way. We said.

But, just in case I jumped into the telegram group. There was a lot of activity and some contest. People were happy. It's a great community.

I asked about the reward. They told me they had a rather loooong queue, and they were working both in processing it and solving it.

Next day my son decided to play again even when nothing had arrived. Again silence. I went again to the telegram group and this time the developer answered. Very nice guy. He took the time to answer in detail and even gave me 10K PTS tokens. I wasn't expecting any of that, so it's highly appreciated. I imagine myself in his situation, having to fix the script because it was not managing the volume right, and people nagging: "hey, where are my tokens!" Yes... chapeau. I would have probably been a lot less nice.

Day 3. We still waited.

Day 4: Today 20 tokens arrived. I don't know if this is for the 4 games or just one.

But... today he decided to play again and earned 41 more tokens.

The final numbers in BCH are around 0.015 BCH so far, starting with 0.01 BCH. Not bad for a play to earn game in beta.

I asked my son to write down his impressions, and he even recorded a game. I will be adding that in a different post. Otherwise it will be too long.

Rounding up

After going through the procedure and seeing my son play, I think joystick is a really fun way to engage people from outside the space. Once the person setup Metamask, and has some coin in, going to the DEXes to change it, find the farms, etc, is only natural.

Yes, it's in beta. Yes, there are some problems. But the developers respond and the community is great.

Also, these are real games based on classics. Can't beat that.

They have plans setup to encourage people into keeping their tokens. There will possibly be NFTs down the line, which is great because, otherwise, I don't see why people won't just go ahead and change the tokens right away.

Also the number of JOY per game will go down in time. This is a good moment to jump in.