5. Speech bubbles

Nimipets now speak! They share educational crypto quotes, and also interact with the players when changing the nimipet name or style.

Thanks to the community member Jeffrey Sanders for gathering speech text entities.

You can fork the speech repo to add new quotes.

6. Avatar generator

All users can now download their nimipet image as a PNG file. Unique nimipet style and face reactions are also reflected in the exported avatar.

7. Nimipet public pages

Probably the most exciting feature of this release is the public page for each individual nimipet which is accessible by going to https://nimipet.com/name where ‘name’ is the url friendly name of the nimipet, for example: https://nimipet.com/ts-richard-hendricks

Links to individual public pages are on the leaderboard — click on a nimipet name.

Amongst other stats, the new metric (age) shows how old is the nimipet. Some nimipets are already 200 days old.

The owner (manager) of the nimipet can set a text in the speech bubble and the price of the NIMI token in ETH. NIMI token? ETH? Yeah, right. This leads us to the next part.

What’s next?

Nimiq and Ethereum

After the release of the newly rewritten Nimipet, we are now concentrating on the tokenization of nimipets and the new marketplace to trade the NIMI tokens.

The foundation of the Nimipet game is based on the Nimiq browser mining technology, and this is what makes nimipets “alive”.

The new “tokenized” dimension will be based on the Ethereum ERC-721 token and will allow users to trade tokens associated with nimipets, similarly as in Crypto Kitties, but in our case, the nimipets are actually “alive” (because behind each nimipet, there is a real human being who helps to decentralize the blockchain by mining, and takes care of the pet), while kitties are just virtual collectibles.

You can already check out nimipet public pages (e.g. https://nimipet.com/tonig) where it will be possible to buy the token.

Managers and Investors

The two different roles for the users (Managers and Investors) are coming soon to the Nimipet game.

Managers are the players who take care of their nimipets. They get rewards in NIM and compete to rise on the leaderboard. This is the realm of Nimiq.

Investors are those who buy and trade NIMI tokens in the Nimipet marketplace. This is the Ethereum realm.

This distinction between users is also made because they will have different interfaces and the game will require two different mindsets.

Metaphorically speaking, this model can be compared to the corporate world, where some people (investors) invest in a company (nimipet) while other people (managers) run and manage it.

After the first sale of the NIMI token, the manager will receive the total amount (minus the 5% market fee) of the price. Because nimipets can be traded, the following sales will also reward the original manager, and this will motivate him or her to keep the nimipet alive, happy and to compete on the leaderboard.

Besides the position on the leaderboard, there will also be a “morale” rating. If the nimipet was in a “terrified” state or if the manager has left some nimipets to die, this will be reflected in the manager’s morale rating. Morale will be one of the core factors on which investors will base their decisions when picking nimipets to invest in.

This is a short briefing for the new era of the Nimipet.

Please keep in mind that this article is written in an optimistic tone of voice about the forthcoming Nimipet marketplace and the overall future, but it is not clear if things will be developed, and if it’s worth going forward. Still, it is a nice vision to have, and maybe we will make it a reality.

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