☭ attention, comrades: krasnograd ‘93 opens its gates (closed beta) ☭

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By order of the Central Committee

It is 1993. The Union is gone, the state is bankrupt, the kiosks are full and the militia is asleep. In five forgotten cities in the wild east, a new generation of entrepreneurs has discovered free-market capitalism, mostly by taking other people’s free markets.

Krasnograd '93 is a mafia game you play in your browser, set in a living 3D Soviet city, running fully on-chain on the Internet Computer. The Party is now recruiting comrades for the closed beta, and has graciously decided that you may apply. (Applications are voluntary. Refusals will be noted.)

:globe_with_meridians: https://citxg-6iaaa-aaaai-aya2q-cai.icp0.io

:ticket: How to enlist

The beta is invite-only. Reply to this thread or send me a DM and you will receive an invite code. No queue, no bribes. Well, small bribes.

Then:

  1. Go to https://citxg-6iaaa-aaaai-aya2q-cai.icp0.io/play/ and press Report for duty, comrade.
  2. Log in with Internet Identity.
  3. Enter your code, build your comrade in the dressing room and take the oath.
  4. The Party assigns you a city. Try not to get arrested on the first day.

Tip: put the game on your phone’s home screen. It runs like an app, and it can send you a notification when someone robs you or your energy is full again.

:scroll: The rules (simplified for the proletariat)

  • Climb from Gopnik to Pakhan. Ten ranks, from street punk to godfather. Every job earns experience.
  • Energy is your currency of labour. Rob kiosks, steal cars, forge papers or raid a coal train. Every job costs energy, and the militia does wake up sometimes.
  • Steal from each other. Pick pockets and burgle flats. Your mattress is not as safe as you think; the Party bank is.
  • Smuggle. Buy vodka, jeans and VCRs cheap in one city and sell them dear in another. Take the train or buy a jet. Customs may take an interest in your luggage.
  • Join a family. Build a family house, invite comrades, and carry a crest.
  • Shoot, if you must. Bullets come from the factory. The hospital is clean, mostly.
  • Get thrown in jail, get broken out. Comrades break each other out of the cell. Good comrades do, anyway.
  • Each city has its own job that you can only do there: a potato still in Novo-Potatovsk, a fishing boat in Port Sardinsk, and so on.
  • A round lasts 8 weeks. At the end, the best comrades are paid in Baksy, after a review week in which the Party checks for cheating.

:open_book: The full rulebook, with every number, price and waiting time: https://citxg-6iaaa-aaaai-aya2q-cai.icp0.io/play/#/rules
:kitchen_knife: Who can rob whom, and what is safe where: https://citxg-6iaaa-aaaai-aya2q-cai.icp0.io/how-it-works/

:money_bag: Rubles and Baksy: know the difference, comrade

  • Rubles (₽) are the street money of a round. You rob, smuggle and gamble for them, and spend them on train tickets, bullets, a better flat, a factory or a night at the casino. Rubles in your pocket or under your mattress can be stolen; the Party bank keeps them safe. When the round ends, the rubles go with everything else, and every comrade starts again from zero. Rubles never leave the game and cannot be bought.
  • Baksy are the lasting reward: a real token on the Internet Computer. You can’t steal them, win them at the casino or buy them. You earn them only with the rank you reach and your places on the boards when a round ends. The Party checks the results in a review week before it pays out. Your Baksy stay yours when the world starts over.

In short: rubles are how you play, Baksy are what you keep. And Baksy are a reward, not an investment: the Party promises glory, not a price

:balance_scale: Fair play

One person, one comrade. Bots and multi-accounts are caught and sent to the salt mines (banned). Report anyone who sends you unacceptable telegrams.

:lady_beetle: It’s a beta

Things will break, numbers will change and the Party may revise the five-year plan without notice.

:building_construction: What comes next is up to you

If enough comrades sign up, Krasnograd grows: more cities, more jobs, more ways to ruin your neighbour. Ideas, tips and complaints are very welcome. Post them here, or throw them into the wishing fountain in town square, where the Party reads every coin.

:fuel_pump: Keep the lights on

Krasnograd runs on cycles, and cycles don’t grow on birch trees. If you enjoy the game and want to keep it running, send ICP to the Party’s treasury or top up the game’s canisters with cycles directly: https://citxg-6iaaa-aaaai-aya2q-cai.icp0.io/support/ . Every ruble goes to the canisters, not to the commissar’s dacha. Probably.

For the curious, the world lives in cpsrs-tqaaa-aaaai-aya2a-cai and the accounts in cuxnx-jiaaa-aaaai-ayayq-cai.

As we say in Krasnograd: “Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under our system, it is exactly the other way around.”

See you in the queue, comrade. ☭

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If possible, please give me an invitation code.

Thank you.

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“Everything belongs to the people. Please do not touch it.”

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Thanks for the interest, I send the code in a DM,

Also a general note; We are still waiting for a few more players to open the first round. After the round is started other players will still be able to join, they will just have a little less time to play the (8 week) round

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Your game bombed my game!!

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The game is way too colorful right now.
It should have a more muted, grayscale look

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You can drop your wishes in the wishing well in the town square

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Nice project ! Is it still possible to get a code ?

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Awesome stuff! I’d love an invite code please. This sounds fantastic

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This had me in stitches!

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☭ ATTENTION, TOVARISHCHI! ROUND ONE BEGINS ☭

Official communiqué of Central Committee, Krasnograd branch. Read carefully. Is not optional.

Comrades! Is time. Five-year plan is approved, kiosks are restocked, militia has had coffee. Round One of Krasnograd '93 is now open. From today you rob, you smuggle, you climb from Gopnik to Pakhan, and in eight weeks the Party counts who is best comrade. Best comrades receive Baksy. Worst comrades receive experience, which in Soviet Union is also a kind of payment.

:globe_with_meridians: https://citxg-6iaaa-aaaai-aya2q-cai.icp0.io/play/

:door: Late to the party? Is no problem.

The doors of Krasnograd stay open for the whole round. Join today, join next week, join in week seven with one hour of sleep. Any comrade may enlist at any time. There is only one rule at the gate: you need an invite code. No code, no papers. No papers, no city.

Reply here or send DM, and the Party sends you a code. Party is generous today. Tomorrow, who knows.

:police_car_light: Behave yourself, comrade. The Party is watching.

In Krasnograd we have freedom. Freedom to follow the rules.

  • One person, one comrade. You think you are clever with second account? Party also thinks this. Party finds twins. Twins lose their Baksy. Both of them.
  • No bots, no scripts. Sometimes Party shows you picture and asks you to point. Human sees potato. Script sees nothing and goes to salt mine.
  • Telegrams with manners. You may threaten to rob a comrade. You may not insult his mother. Bad telegram gets reported, Party office reads it, sender gets muted. Is very quiet in Siberia.
  • Cheaters are banned, their rewards are voided, and their name is said only in whispers.

Before Baksy is paid, every result goes through review week. Party checks everything. Twice. Then once more, for luck.

:detective: How to recognise a Commissar

Members of Central Committee walk among you. Is better you know them. They:

  • :star: wear a ruby Kremlin star with golden rim, floating over the head;
  • :flying_saucer: do not walk, they fly. Commissar is above the street, like the Party is above everything;
  • :red_circle: leave a red glow on the pavement underneath;
  • :label: carry a red name tag with gold border, and where your rank is, theirs says ☭ Commissar.

Commissars count on no board, earn no Baksy and take nobody’s place. They cannot rob you and you cannot rob them. No pickpocketing, no burglary, no shooting, no breakouts across the line. If you see one, smile and continue your honest crime. If you see one before your wallet is empty, you are lucky.

:scroll: Need the rules?

Old Krasnograd saying: “Trust, but verify.” New Krasnograd saying: “Don’t trust. Commissar already verified.”

Good luck, comrades. Round One starts now. ☭

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Okay I just joined. First 5 minutes, and I’m super impressed, and this is really fun! On my laptop at the mo. Going to switch to mobile and set alerts on and keep playing and exploring over the next few days.

I really like how things are probability based, and the game spins a really cool narrative on top of it. I think that works really well.

Looking forward to exploring more! It’s a shame the forum doesn’t support screenshots anymore. The game is visually very nice - definitely feels like a game I could get addicted to.

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The game just gets better!

Out of interest what’s the burn rate roughly at the moment, and how many canisters are there?

I’d love to set up some perpetual cycles endowments for this game via Jupiter Faucet, assuming the canister IDs won’t change?

Also what are your future plans for this? Feels like something that has lots of potential

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Hi! I want to try it out. Can i get an invite code please

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Awesome, if you get thrown in jail I promise to bail you out. I just checked and nobody’s in prison at the mo in Uglegorsk. I’ve stolen a few things and got lucky each time, but I’m guessing my lucky streak won’t last for long. If you see me in jail please break me out!

I’m about to buy some vodka and I’d be happy to share

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These are the canister ids; (i hid the candid via the explorer to prevent misuse of the game)

{
  "accounts": "cuxnx-jiaaa-aaaai-ayayq-cai",
  "baksy_index": "c2va7-syaaa-aaaai-ayazq-cai",
  "baksy_ledger": "c5ugl-7aaaa-aaaai-ayaza-cai",
  "frontend": "citxg-6iaaa-aaaai-aya2q-cai",
  "world": "cpsrs-tqaaa-aaaai-aya2a-cai"
}

at a projection with 2000 players it would approximatly have a burn rate of about 75 usd per month according to my intern. But only time will tell

And as far as the plans go, after this test i need to do some rewiring of the core storage logic to use icydb and canic as it makes things much easier to maintain and if there would be a player base etc i would add more functionality, and build it out a bit, not sure about opensourcing yet

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Note that if you install the webapp on your phone and turn on notifications you will also be notified when you get released from prison, arrived at a different city, your energy bar is full, receive a telegram, etc

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I bought it too, and cigarettes. Arrests 2x for robbing a kiosk

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I’ve not been arrested yet. How did you get out of jail?