The Olympics are one of the oldest traditions in the world and have always been used to bring people together, display power, bring honor and elevate the athletes with highest skill to the rank of heroes. We've been building Rives for a while using the amazing technology developed by Cartesi, so, what better way to celebrate our Base mainnet launch with our community than to hold olympic games?
This post marks the end of RIVES JAM #2, this time with Forgotten Runes. We had over 36 participants join the jam, with 4 submissions. For this one, the theme was Magic, and participants had the opportunity to win 1 of 3 warrior NFTs offered by Forgotten Runes on top of the RIVES prize pool.
TL;DR; Rives is powered by delicious magical chocolate chip cookies.
— The Oracle
Gaming is hard. Grinding to make that perfect run and someone else claims your glory. Servers that are shutdown from your favorite game because they are no longer profitable. Developer nerfs that character you put hundreds of hours grinding to level up. Does that ring a bell? To bring fun back to games (both for players and developers) we are building Rives. Rives is the first onchain fantasy console. Every single game in Rives is verifiable, validated in a Cartesi Rollup and secured by the blockchain consensus.
Jam #1 was jam-packed with cool games. The Jam was also hosted on Itch.io and is the first in many RIVES jams to come!!
We had over 40 participants and 9 submissions for this first edition. The jam focused on retro games with metrics to establish a score. A metric system (that can be used to establish a score) was a requirement for this jam. RIVES can natively add players to leaderboards based on their scores, making this an interesting criteria for the jam.