VoidSpace Aims To Let Gamers Mine Dogecoin - With Lasers
Nikolas Gauvreau has his fingers crossed this month. The founder of Universal Projects is halfway through his Kickstarter campaign, although he has only raised a little over 5% of his $275,000 target. Gauvreau is developing a game that will let players 'mine' dogecoin, without a hardware mining rig in sight. He has been working on his brainchild for 17 years. Called VoidSpace, it is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), set in a massive space universe, that is almost entirely empty when the user first arrives. Players proceed to jet around the universe, mining raw....
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VoidSpace is a new MMORPG game, made by Universe Projects, that looks to bring a whole new life to digital currency. While other MMORPGs have their own economies, VoidSpace wants to implement crypto, specifically Dogecoin and Bitcoin, into their economy and allow players to earn, steal and create currencies in the environment. Recently I was able to speak with VoidSpace's lead developer, Nikolas Gauvreau, about a few of the key elements of VoidSpace along with the digital currency implementation. CCN. What are a few of your favorite features of the game? My favorite feature has to be the....
At the beginning of June, Universe Projects announced their new game Voidspace on Kickstarter and introduced a concept to the gaming and digital currency world that looks to shape the way gamers play. The sandbox MMORPG looks to take the world from its very base and allow players to control every aspect of its evolution: all while using digital currency like Bitcoin and Dogecoin. CCN. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39FnANxkzqs&w=854&h=510]. At the beginning of the game, characters are given no skills of significance as they enter The Void. In the raw world, Voidspace seems to....
The VoidSpace is a new MMORPG that takes place in a zone in space called the Void. Here, all characters live and survive among each other, searching for new resources and travelling through wormholes in space, performing research and unlocking the secrets of the Void. But in this MMORPG, your character is not going to be a human or even an animal like in similar games – here the player will be operating an entire spaceship. When you start the game, you will receive a random spaceship. You are then responsible for upgrading your ship and honing your space flying skills to give you an edge....
Since a month from out Kickstarter project interview with Voidspace, they have been making bounds when it comes to making the game an actual game, with the game currently in beta. If you don’t know what Voidspace is, here is a refresher. I’d say things are better than ever. We finally have some solid gameplay video footage of the prototype, we’re finally getting some (though minor) media traction. Donations are at an all time high. The game itself is “more fun than a game at this stage of development should be” according to our players. It is all very exciting. I was also given a very good....
Man my job sure is awesome. First I got to talk Chris Higgins, a major person behind Coined as well as an author for Mental Floss. Today I talk to Nikolas Gauvreau, creator of the project and Kickstarter. Taken from the Kickstarter, VoidSpace is a twitch-based MMORPG set in a sandboxed world called The Void that you can play on any modern computing device. The top-down style is similar to Escape Velocity Nova except you are not on your own, you are playing with thousands of other players worldwide. However, it is the invention system that really sets the game apart from all others. Another....