{"id":592,"date":"2022-02-28T22:30:57","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T21:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bellingo.de\/blog\/?p=592"},"modified":"2023-05-12T17:51:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T15:51:03","slug":"devblog-the-idea-behind-network-traders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bellingo.de\/blog\/devblog-the-idea-behind-network-traders\/","title":{"rendered":"DevBlog: The Idea behind Network Traders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you have followed my DevBlog<\/a>, you know that my current game project Network Traders<\/a><\/em> is about directly trading with your fellow players. „Directly“ as in „personally“ or „face-to-face“, i.e., being in the same room. This is achieved by using Bluetooth<\/a> to connect the players‘ mobile devices. But how does the core game loop actually look like? Read this story about agents, money, and the pandemic to learn more about the idea behind the game!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Have you ever heard of the „Where’s George?“<\/a> website? It’s a fascinating project that’s been online since 1998. You enter the serial number of a dollar bill and your location, and if you are lucky, you will see the places it has been before. It may even have travelled over a whole continent, being passed on from hand to hand. This makes you realise how far-flung and intricate the net of human interactions and relationships is. And even after more than 20 years, there are still thousands of people using the website every day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea behind „Where’s George?“ has intrigued me for a long time. But it was the development of contact tracing apps<\/a> during the Covid pandemic that provided the essential piece of my idea’s mosaic. By simply being close to someone else’s smartphone the Corona app logs a connection. In principal, you would thus get a network of people’s connections very quickly (but fortunately it’s forbidden to collect such data without consent for reasons of privacy protection).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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