Pearl Cove: an on-chain shellfish farming game with an ICRC-1 reward token $PEARL

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Hello ICP frens. I’m launching my earlystage/MVP game.

What it is: plant a shellfish, it grows over a species-specific window (hours to weeks), harvest it inside the harvest window before it expires, mint $PEARL. Visiting a friend’s cove and boosting/extending/salvaging their crop gives you plot-time back on your own cove.

Token design: $PEARL is a straightforward ICRC-1, 10M fixed supply, minted only through harvesting. Reward per harvest = remaining unharvested ÷ 10M, so it decays smoothly toward zero without ever fully running out. SandDollars (the in-game spend currency) are bought with PEARL at a price that also falls as more supply is minted, so late joiners aren’t priced out relative to early ones.

Live peek, no wallet needed: https://tlhqi-aqaaa-aaaaa-qhkga-cai.icp0.io/cove/e6agv-wen3n-4a4y3-4zpeu-47coa-kso4c-vvow5-p5fbv-2pjg4-bm53l-lqe
Canister: tlhqi-aqaaa-aaaaa-qhkga-cai.icp0.io

Telegram: t.me/pearl_icp
Twitter: x.com/pearlxicp

Would love feedback, especially on UX.

Also, is there a bridge from $SOL to $ICP? because some people from $SOL wanna try and I’m clueless on how to help him…

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Hm, why can’t I upload screenshots of my game? I got the error “You can’t embed media in a post”

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Media items are no longer allowed on the forum. I get around it by posting the images on X and link from there to here and here to there.

Your game sounds cool. Do you have plans to decentralise it? I gather it would require a lot of trust at the moment.

Regarding SOL integrations take a look at ckSOL

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This reminds me of a cross between those FB farming games and stardew valley.

We did something similar back in the day called Island Paradise where you had an island that you could expand. You could plant stuff that grows and you harvest and have animals that you could collect eggs/wool etc from to craft items that make your island look cooler. Wasn’t a revolutionary game by any means, but it was pretty popular and saved our behinds after the 2008 financial implosion.

One major takeaway from that was that virtual poop was our biggest seller (fertilizer) as it sped up the time it took for something to mature and be harvestable. Maybe you can incorporate something like that? Spend pearl to buy a special shellfish food that makes it insta harvestable?

Wishing you the best of luck with this!

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Yep. For the MVP I’m intentionally prioritizing UX and fast iteration (to prove the game is fun first) over full decentralization.

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thanks so much! FarmVille and Restaurant City were actually huge inspirations for this project. I remember so many of my friends creating Facebook accounts just to play those games, and I’m secretly hoping this game can do something similar for ICP (from web2 or ETH/SOL) by giving people a fun reason to create an account and stick around then explore other projects on ICP.

I really appreciate the suggestion too. Insta-harvest items are definitely something i’ll consider (virtual poop saving the company is an amazing story lmao).

And thanks again for the kind words and encouragement; I really appreciate it! Looking forward to Toko release :smiley:

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How long did the game remain playable after this hack was widely adopted?

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It wasnt a hack, it was the design of the game. Like Farmville etc. So years.

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I’m curious, as I’m also using Caffeine

Do you have any issues uploading audio files? Mine seem to get corrupted

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I don’t have any audio files yet. I’m actually learning music theory right now to create Farmville/RestaurantCity/PetSociety-esque music :sob: :folded_hands:

Also, i’m using Motoko, not Caffeine.

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Apologies, got you mixed up with a different thread

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The game is now free to start playing with

and free players can harvest the fixed-supply PEARL (ICRC-2) too.

todo list:

  • block archive canister factory
  • bgm, sfx, vfx, animations
  • opensource
  • decentralization
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hi guys

if any of you wanna try just login to https://loxja-3yaaa-aaaan-qz3ha-cai.icp0.io/balances

and give me your principal

I’ll airdrop 3 linker credits to you

then plant a clam & harvest PEARL tokens for FREE at https://tlhqi-aqaaa-aaaaa-qhkga-cai.icp0.io/

early players are already ahead

and we have harvested ~0.024% of 10M PEARL

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Aye do ye feel that mates? The wind on yer face and the spray of the sea…

They’re not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that’s what a ship needs. But what a ship is… what the $PEARL really is… is freedom.

I hear sea sounds! :slight_smile:

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