Thread by @mdab121

Should you be worried about the 5-day delay in results announcement of #DookeyDash? Yes!
Should you be worried that in the decentralized web3 world, there’s someone (a single entity!) deciding about game results? Even more so!

Read 🧵 to understand the stripe and story behind.

It means @yugalabs is drowned in game results that they can’t verify, trying to distinguish honest players from cheaters! There is no guarantee they are making the correct decisions as they lack information on how games were actually played.

https://twitter.com/boredapeyc/status/1623842340866600960

The game was built in a client-authoritative way. It means that the gameplay horse is both the competitor and the judge, with no one else to verify his honesty. Once the race is over, the horse declaratively submits his score to the organizer (again, no validation!).

The horse is your web browser running the game. With a little bit of computer science, the player could freely overwrite the results and decide what they want to send to Yugalabs as their score!

Of course, Yugalabs are doing whatever they can, trying to distinguish valid, honest players from hackers. I do not envy them, as it’s next to impossible to do so! Despite best intentions, it’s going to hurt honest players!
enews.com.ng/2023/02/bored-…

This seems absurd that the transparent, fair, decentralized, blockchain-secured world of web3 even thinks to include something like a manual review process into the design! But that’s what we’re seeing, and that’s what’s happening!

So can games take inspiration from the spirit of web3? Can they become truly transparent, verifiable, and decentralized? Yes!
There are already projects like @elympicsgames trying a better approach, taking what’s best from esports and applying that to web3 games!

This different approach is called server-authoritative, which basically means that there would be an external robot arbiter 🤖, verifying the running horse during every single run, automatically and in real time.

In our stripe, this external, digital arbiter watches the horse’s movement down to each millisecond, analyzing gameplay, behavior, and honesty.

Even better – it computes proofs for every game played and secures them on the blockchain! Every gameplay can be reviewed and verified in the future – access to that data can be made public.

Let’s hope the future of games is competitive and uses well-established, secure solutions like @elympicsgames to provide fun and honesty without needing manual reviews! Web3 brings great new opportunities to gaming, and current problems are a great lesson for the future.