Arcades At Home: Joystick Club and JoyBots smartBCH NFTs
SmartBCH is currently a hub for new Web3 developments, with gaming platforms becoming a priority for developers working with smart contracts, utilizing the smartBCH high throughput to their advantage.
Blockchain gaming is a rapidly growing field, especially with the recent rise of interest in NFT technology.
Joystick Club is a Bitcoin Cash-themed gaming platform offering a play-to-earn gaming experience.
Joystick Club is a platform that constantly evolves, and I revisited it recently to check progress with upgrades and developments.
The platform offers a user-friendly approach with arcade gaming and token rewards for gamers.
Joystick Club has also released an NFT collection (Joybots) offering extra incentives to the holders of NFTs. Joybots find a solid use case inside the Joystick Club gaming platform.
The concept of Joystick Club
Joystic Club delivers entertainment and a chance for everyone to earn JOY tokens depending on gaming skills, as precision and reflexes are the core of every arcade game.
The platform combines blockchain and Web3 elements with a coin-op arcade feeling presenting a unique platform for gamers.
Hardcore gamers can focus on high scores and leaderboards and achieve profit.
JoyBot NFTs & Joystick Club Games
The JoyBot NFT mint phase is active with 829 NFTs sold so far from a total pool of 10,000.
To mint a Joybot NFT, we require 500 JOY tokens, although there is no option with a fixed amount of BCH for the minting process.
Playing the games rewards users with Joystick tokens providing a clear utility case for the Joystick token, while there is also a staking option for NFTs available on the website.
Reward Multipliers
A restructure of the monetization of gaming rewards according to a new announcement on the project's telegram:
Max Reward with 2 Joybots: $0.60
Max Reward with 1 Joybot: $0.37
Max Reward without Joybot: $0.3125
Minimum Reward with Joybot: $0.1875
Minium Reward without Joybot: $0.125
Price of $JOY exploded while I was writing this review.
The $JOY token has a fixed supply of 4million tokens. JOY token was initially released in SLP, although the team migrated most of the tokens to smartBCH as SEP20.
The cost of minting a single Joybot is 500 JOY tokens.
In BCH terms minting one NFT currently costs 0.22BCH.
The cost of minting 2 Joybots is currently at 0.446 BCH, so I decided not to mint any NFT.
Although on OASIS, Joybot NFTs are trading at a discount, and collectors or gamers can still purchase at a BCH price that is ~50% lower than the mint.
Joystick Club offers staking on the platform with rewards in Points ($PTS) tokens.
The Joystick Club Games
Joystic Club currently offers nine arcade games.
I am interested in entertaining games. Joystick club succeeded in this, as most games on this platform contain exciting gameplay.
The platform hosts various arcade games, most are simple to understand and easy to begin, with no instructions needed.
I haven't calibrated my mouse for gaming precision and didn't try to beat these games, although I may try again later.
I proceeded with no Joybots and no multiplier for this review paying $0.25 in BCH for each game. Just like in the old arcade rooms!
Hoops
The first game I tried was Hoops. I paid $0.25 in BCH to start the game, scored a few points, and got rewarded with 1.3 JOY!
I was terrible in the game, lacked precision, and didn't make it to the high scores. Still, I received a reward equal to $0.18 in JOY tokens, so the loss wasn't significant but only a small portion of the initial $0.25 (in BCH)
SmartBlaster is a Blast!
I like scrolling shooter games, and SmartBlaster offers the same gaming experience as other similar top games.
I paid again $0.25 for the game and my reward for reaching level-2 of the game was 1.25 JOY which brings me a loss of $0.075.
With time anyone that remembers the patterns can become good at this game and reach higher stages with better rewards. Most arcade games have a learning curve, and users improve as they become experienced.
HoneyComb
HoneyComb is a truly addicting game that I will revisit during idle time.
Players score points as they fit the cubes and create lines in the comb.
I've tried more games, like "Block Breaker", an Arcanoid clone, but perhaps I will have to recalibrate my mouse for gaming, as it wasn't responding properly.
Considering play-to-earn I didn't earn, as I didn't play to earn this time, but I didn't lose anything significant either. I had some fun time and also think it is easy for gamers with enough time at their disposal to get accustomed to some games mechanics and manage to be profitable, and also have a fun time.
In Conclusion
The website feels like an arcade room, adding to the general experience.
Gamers that will utilize the platform's full potential will certainly find a meaningful approach.
The Joybot NFTs contain original art and combine well with the platform's feeling.
The project has a partnership with Bitcoin.com, which features Joystick Club on its mobile wallet.
Perhaps the recent rise of the price of JOY should have been expected, as we should be expecting the price of Bitcoin Cash to find support at a new level, way above the $350 range in the future.
With all these developments in Bitcoin Cash and smartBCH, the price will inevitably follow.
Joystic Club offers gaming entertainment and a play-to-earn system with an attractive approach.
Most questions newbies have are answered in the detailed FAQ on the website.
Joybot NFTs can still be minted in the Joystick platform for 1000 JOY or traded on OASIS. Players can test the games without a JoyBot NFT, although the rewards are better while holding two NFTs in the smartBCH wallet we use to log in. We can find the rarity of NFTs at NFTRarity.cash.
The project also offers an interesting roadmap with big plans ahead.
Overall, I had a good time playing arcade games and find Joystick Club a positive addition to Bitcoin Cash and smartBCH developments.
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It is beautiful project and owing one for staking purposes would be great, and I am looking forward to having a play to earn football game. Joystick 🕹️ becoming one of the successful tokens in smart BCH. Best of luck to you dear 🤗