Galactic Gridlock

Why

• We started out wanting to build an onchain game
• However in the process we ran into multiple challenges
  • Packaging
  • Game engine compatibility with signing libraries
  • Secure storage of private keys
  • Cant get it accepted on a store, if it had any transfer functionality
• Building a game is complex in itself
  • Artwork
  • Mechanics
  • Packaging
• As an indie game dev who is trying target the largest userbase they can get, you dont want a stack that is more complex
• Thus we decided to create a platform, which would help game devs create games which can be linked onchain, instead of transmitting every action onto a chain How
• For any milestone a user achieves, create an unverified(can be later changed to a signed component) packet
• Send this packet to a trusted entity, which stores it
• At regular intervals creates snapshots, which is posted for anyone to verify
• A proof of which is stored on the chain
• This proof then becomes the root, ontop of which multiple systems can be built on chain
• For instance Bounties (this is the primary application we set out to build), token gate keeping, nft trading

Packaging

• Faced a lot of weird compilation issue with android packaging
• None of the web3 signing sdks worked on android

Testnet token

Directly test on L2 as it was almost impossible to obtain testnet tokens

Verification

• Source code verification is still aproblem in 2023 if you havent gotten your contracts flattened