My Crypto journey started a month ago when my teenage son asked me to buy some Doge with him. He didn’t know how and neither did I. I’ll post more on that later, but once I got into investigating I quickly decided I wanted to get into some of the technical aspects and understand how to use miners to mine a currency. I made some progress and learned some things. I’ll post on that as well. I now have a laundry list of crypto projects and topics I want to explore. And I’ll do that eventually.
But not now – because this darn game has a hold of me and won’t let go!
I stumbled across RollerCoin on some pay-to-click site I was rummaging through and I really dug the cute retro graphics hamster and the idea I could perhaps make some crypto playing games.
I made an account and quickly got stumped. I think their biggest weakness in their game is a lack of a clear tutorial. If there are any detailed instructions in their game they are hidden well. At any rate, after some clicks, I began to figure things out.
I created my avatar and he is now sitting behind a desk. He never moves away from it (similar to how I currently am with this game) and sadly I can’t move him around to explore the room he is in. Essentially the goal of this game is to gain Network power so that when the faucet triggers every 5 minutes you get a larger and larger percentage of the reward. The more power you have, the more your share is.
You can do this the quick way by going into their store and purchasing various powerful miners using their in-game RollerToken. Or you can do it the way I am and play mini casual games for hours and hours and hours and hours ...
There are currently 10 games that are their versions of mainstream games such as Galaga, Flappy Bird, Breakout, and Memory. The games increase in difficulty the more you play with larger power payouts when you win, but if you don’t keep playing them they end up going back down in levels after some unknown amount of time. Some of the games are more fun than others. I like the memory game where you flip two items to try to make a match. I wish they had more memory-type games, but most are fast-click games. I found that I really suck at their version of Galaga which they call Token Blaster, but then again for my entire life, I was never good at Space Invaders or Galaga-type games. I guess it’s not surprising I keep coming back for more punishment in RollerCoin – I can’t tell you how many quarters I gave the local pizza joint when I was a kid stubbornly trying to conquer Galaga!
Eventually, you can withdraw your earnings. For Bitcoin, the minimum is 0.0001 and for Doge it is 360. Ethereum minimum is 0.008 with a warning that network fees are higher than usual at the moment. Tether is only an option to deposit. And all the above are options to purchase their Rollertokens in their store.
There is a sort of ranking system (I think). At least I assume that is what it is. In the upper-right, there is a number that increases and decreases as I play. Is it my ranking against other players? What happens if I get to first? Are there any other players even playing this?
I can’t tell if they are mining using my browser, but they likely are making money off selling their RollerTokens and there is advertising displayed in a non-intrusive manner.
So why do I continue playing this? It’s partly the retro feel, the games are fun, and they have a cute hamster mascot, but I think mainly it is because I feel like I am earning Doge quicker each day! I am making more Doge playing these games than I am through my mining attempts. It has taken me 5 days to get to 50 Doge – only 300 more to go! My goal is to try to get this game generating me a Doge an hour. Ok – enough typing – I need to get clicking so I can defeat Token Blaster!
If you have some casual crypto games that seem to be fun and worth the time please let me know. Sooner or later I’ll lose interest in this game and will need to broaden out. Or maybe I will get back to my original crypto goals and projects …
Try out RollerCoin and see if you can beat my ranking!
