A tiny, but growing project.

Hello there,

I am Steven, aka Emulord on Nano Discord and u/Emul0rd on Reddit, and I am the administrator of LuckyNano — referred to as “LN” from now on.

For those who never heard of LN — https://luckynano.com/ — , it is a small casino and faucet based on our beloved cryptocurrency. v0.6, the current version, offers Poker tables, American Roulette and a Dice game, as well as, of course, a faucet page which gained a bit of popularity lately.

LuckyNano v0.6 Homepage

A few stats around the service itself. Firstly, thank you so much to those who already trust LN, and support us by depositing and playing. Over the course of six months, 1,200 users have joined us, playing 5,000 Poker rounds, claiming 11,600 times from the faucet, and sitting through 50,000 Roulette spins and almost 2,000,000 (!) Dice rolls. These days, 40 to 50 players log in daily, mostly to use the faucet, or to play freeroll Poker tournaments.

As I write this, I am a lone dev. And although it is a choice not to have built a team yet, it thus means a lot to me to see all that hard work rewarded by adoption. I first pushed LN online in last January, and reached profitability despite Nano’s heavy downturn, which is a big thing.

This particular post will though focus on the next major update of the website: 1.0, that will be released in a few days from now.

So, what about 1.0?

A bit earlier stage of 1.0 development

With 1.0, the main goal is to perform a complete overhaul of the user interface. The aim is easier navigation, a seamless deposit/withdrawal process, and a more appealing design, rather than the dark theme that I originally opted for. Another thing is the compatibility with mobiles that used to be neglected a bit prior to this version.

I feel confident enough for LN to officially go out of Beta. There still is a lot of features that won’t make it to 1.0 release, but will in the minor updates that follow — such as documentation, English is not my mother tongue, so it does require a lot of effort to write it properly.

Although I’m sure that loads of tiny bugs still need to be plowed through, generally the active community is quick to send feedback as they notice them, allowing for quick over-the-air fixes.

Still a “faucet”. Except it’s not boring anymore.

A major update naturally calls for a new game: say “Hello” to Golden Slots! The name is self-explanatory I guess, but Slots will be the next activity to be added to LN. I know that a majority of players asks for BlackJack though, and of course, it’s next on the list.

There’s some decent combo here…

Golden Slots will replace the existing — boring — faucet, hence why they are released before BlackJack. A new system, close to energy in free mobile games, will grant you free spins regularly to win some Nano.

Of course, Slots also are playable as a Premium player. For the moment, free and Premium versions of the game are very close in terms of functionalities —the sole difference is that Premium players can win gold tickets / free spins, the value of which is equal to their current per-line bet — , but as LN updates, Premium players will enjoy Gambling on wins, expanding symbols for multiplied wins, eligibility for a Jackpot, etc.

Current payout of Slots is 95%, as tested on 5 million games, and is bound to increase gradually with updates to come. Any change on this will be the object of a written notification.

Still so much to do…

As I said earlier, there is loads of stuff that I wanted to add in 1.0, that in the end cannot be implemented just yet. 1.0 is already months late, and I bailed on marketing around the website, due to the fact that I just could not give up on finishing Slots before the release.

My long-term view is to build a community around LuckyNano, so 2.0 will focus on that aspect. I’ll work on the return of chat commands, and add tipping, colors for names, a rainmaster bot similar to what existed on faucetgame.com (RIP), and a few surprises to make people more motivated to converse with each other. Also, avatars will replace those sad grey standard faces in Poker.

See you later ♪

-Emulord