BitGuild Portal Overview

The first of many updates from BitGuild’s Platform Development Team

Hi there! I’m Mikhail, Chief Technology Officer of BitGuild. Welcome to the first post in a series of updates aimed at keeping you informed on the inner workings of the BitGuild Platform Development Team. You’ll get sneak peeks, progress reports, and insights into the world of blockchain platform development from the people building the future home of all Cryptogames.

Let’s dig in.

Portal vision

Our mission is to create an open gaming ecosystem based on free trade. The Portal is the key element of this ecosystem, being at the center of all related activities. You can think of it as a carnival where people come to play games, socialize, brag, and exchange.

We are building a place for both players and game developers in the blockchain space to call home — a place where we can foster positive growth in the space. While we’re generally open to all sorts of games to be available on the portal, we do reserve the right to curate the selection. Integrating with us doesn’t necessarily guarantee us putting your game up there. Email bizdev@bitguild.com to discuss getting your game on the portal. We do this because we believe interesting and high quality titles are the key to gaining the attention of the gamer audience at large.

Integrating with the portal

So this all sounds great, you might be thinking — but why would you want to integrate with the BitGuild Portal? Here’s what it gives you as a game developer:

An additional distribution channel for your game. Our main goal at that stage is to accumulate critical mass of users for the games on the portal. To bootstrap, we will do it via exclusive titles, partnerships and direct user acquisition. As a developer you will have some of that usage driven to your game.

for your game. Our main goal at that stage is to accumulate critical mass of users for the games on the portal. To bootstrap, we will do it via exclusive titles, partnerships and direct user acquisition. As a developer you will have some of that usage driven to your game. Additional game item pre-sale surface available to the larger audience to help you fundraise before launching the game. We cater to the developers on all the stages of development process, from early days through fundraising and onwards through to live game operation.

available to the larger audience to help you fundraise before launching the game. We cater to the developers on all the stages of development process, from early days through fundraising and onwards through to live game operation. Essential services available out of the box: item list, item exchange, transaction history, notifications, and more. It saves a lot of your time as a developer and allows you to focus on the pure game logic.

For these benefits, there is a price, but it’s trivial — all you need is to integrate PLAT as a payment method in all the places where you accept Ethereum, and support the display of PLAT prices in your UI.

See full documentation with code samples, links to SDK and code examples can be found at:

https://github.com/BitGuildPlatform/Documentation

Also join our developer community group to follow the progress and ask any questions: https://discord.gg/EJNgmD5

Portal v.1 and v.2 roadmap

Here’s a more detailed scope of the first few versions of the portal, to be launched in May and early summer respectively. The goal of the first version is to enable initial games to use the PLAT token as a payment method, provide some basic user info, as well as item inventory and chatroom support.

Portal v.1 scope: