A Wintery Arcade Update!

Game Jam and Aviator Arcade Public Beta

You have been asking. Now we are here to deliver.

This year, we are upping our prize pool, bigly! 🥳 Compared to last year, our prize pool totals $5,000 USD in cash prizes, spread out across five different voting categories. That's five times the size of last year!

This year, all games submitted will be playable on the Arcade public beta using real AVI tokens on-chain on Base! That also means that public beta will go live for everyone at around the same time.

We heard you're looking for a date... 👀 how's this?

• Submissions will open on February 10, 2025.
• The deadline for submissions is March 2, 2025.
• Game voting will stay open through March 9, 2025.

All game devs submitting a game to the game jam must provide their email address. This is used to create a developer account for each game maker to publish it on the Aviator Arcade beta. The beta window may extend beyond the duration of the voting and prize delivery window.

You can check out our game jam page here:

Aviator Arcade Pioneers

You may recall the following from our original Flightpaper:

Developers who publish games on Aviator Arcade within 90 days of its launch will receive a permanent 5% bonus in passive income for hosting their games on the platform. This bonus, shared amongst so-called Aviator Pioneer Developers, is an additional bonus to the existing 45% and is deducted from the operations distribution.

Time sure flies by! It's time to get serious. And we have a couple of changes to make for our final design~

The Aviator Arcade Pioneer NFT token will have the following final details:

• Any developer who publishes a game on Aviator Arcade during the BETA will be minted this NFT directly to their developer wallet.
• We have decided to ALLOW secondary sales of this NFT to allow developers down the road to acquire their bonus in the decentralized secondary market.
  • A 25% royalty is enforced on all secondary sales to encourage developers to build for Aviator Arcade for a long time.
• The Aviator DAO will no longer have the authority to issue these NFTs.
• The Aviator DAO will have the ability to disable an NFT to ensure decentralized security and accountability to punish developers who engage in fraud.

Aviator Arcade - Revised Workflow

The Aviator Arcade platform is undergoing a significant change in how user registration, account funding, and game sessions operate. Below is an outline of the new functionality.

User Registration and Credits

1. On-chain Registration

• On Aviator Arcade, AVI tokens on Base are called credits.
• Users now register directly on-chain, creating a blockchain-based identity on Base.
• During registration, a user account is created that can hold credits.

2. Importing Credits

• Users who already have a blockchain wallet can acquire AVI tokens for use in the arcade by bridging from Ethereum to Base, trading tokens on Uniswap, or buying AVI token credits with a debit card through our partner, Flooz.

3. Adding New Credits

• Users without a blockchain wallet can choose to sign up for Aviator Arcade with their email and a password.
  • Users can choose to connect a wallet later to withdraw their credits in the form of AVI tokens on Base for personal use.
  • This approach will enable alternative payment methods (e.g., debit cards) for purchasing credits, as well as onboarding new users to Base who do not yet have a wallet.
• Admins can add credits directly to user accounts without requiring a wallet. This is funded by the backend wallet connected to the Arcade.
  • This allows users without a wallet to participate. Wallets can be linked later for withdrawing credits or other blockchain interactions.
  • Game Jam developers will be able to play all games on the platform for free during the full game jam calendar period.

Backend Wallet and Account Management

• A backend wallet manages account creation and score submissions on behalf of the user.
  • Game Jam participants will be flagged with a gamejam user flag.
  • All wallet and blockchain interactions are handled entirely by the backend wallet for flagged accounts.
  • This allows Game Jam users to focus on game development without needing a wallet or credits to get started.

Solidity Contract Adaptations

The Aviator Arcade Solidity contract is undergoing the following changes to accommodate these updates:

• User Struct Updates
  • Add a credits field to the User struct to track Game Jam user balances.
  • Include a linkedWallet field for wallet linkage functionality.
• Admin Credit Management
  • Create functions to allow admins to add or remove credits from a user's account.
• Backend Wallet Integration
  • Add functionality for the backend wallet to manage accounts and interact with blockchain transactions on behalf of users.

Benefits

• Enhanced Accessibility: Users without wallets can still engage with the platform.
  • Wallets can be linked later for withdrawals or advanced features.
• Developer-Friendly: Simplifies game jam participation by handling blockchain operations via the backend.
• Sustainable Model: Project fees create a sustainable revenue stream for platform longevity.

Roadmap Updates

Aviators, we heard you loud and clear! All of our roadmaps are now complete with planned quarters for delivery. Note these estimates are subject to change, and any changes will be properly communicated to the community.

Aviator Arcade Roadmap: https://docs.aviator.ac/arcade/roadmap

SkyBridge Roadmap: https://docs.aviator.ac/skybridge/roadmap

Compliance

We have been working closely with our attorneys to verify our SEC and OFAC compliance in the United States. To further decentralize Aviator, we will be making changes in the next few months to promote community engagement and highlight builders in the ecosystem. Keep an eye out for our next blog which will go over some exciting new changes to the DAO, token rewards, and much more.

Build for Aviator: get rewarded.

Onchain Winter

The weather outside might be frightful, but being an Aviator is highly delightful. We just recently launched our new Onchain Winter marketing campaign. Celebrate the holidays with us, we have so much planned! ☃️

What about SkyBridge?

Our upcoming major update for SkyBridge is coming along very nicely! We have many surprises in store to make SkyBridge cheaper, faster, more feature-rich, and more decentralized. Rest assured that our SkyBridge development team is working on taking things to the next level.

We are ready to change the world, are you?

Links

Website: https://aviator.ac/

Documentation: https://docs.aviator.ac/

X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/aviator_ac

Telegram: https://t.me/aviator_ac

Discord: https://aviator.ac/discord

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DecentralizedAviators/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@aviator_ac

Warpcast: https://warpcast.com/aviator-ac

Aviator DAO: https://snapshot.org/#/aviator-dao.eth

CoinMarketCap: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/aviator

CoinGecko: https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/aviator

Etherscan: https://etherscan.io/token/0xd2bdaaf2b9cc6981fd273dcb7c04023bfbe0a7fe

Basescan: https://basescan.org/token/0x3203856eac03d343f9d5245ba2f39861838a7b36

DEXTools: https://www.dextools.io/app/en/ether/pair-explorer/0x46077fccd46bc963d32456f931c13324786f8bab

Uniswap: https://app.uniswap.org/#/swap?outputCurrency=0xd2bdaaf2b9cc6981fd273dcb7c04023bfbe0a7fe

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