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I was really hoping that I would be doing the practical aspect of this task on Splinterlands, because I’ve wanted to learn how to play it for a while but have never really gotten that push I needed to get serious about it and learn. Nonetheless, Rising Star is a super interesting game as well and I’m glad this week we had the opportunity to learn about it and explore it. 

![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmTQBmFcMmmZeZkidkBbRJcdBqJx7miySRTZYsZjh86ABZ/blockchain_games.jpg)

<center>screenshot taken from [splinterlands](https://splinterlands.com/) and edited by me in canva</center>

Much as this task was stressful, it was just as fun because this week’s task was on Blockchain games, a fun topic with the lecture delivered by @ksam. Great deliverance of the lecture, and on the detailed posts explaining the games by the way.

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Like I always do, my response to the task will be in an essay form. Let’s get into it now. 

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> # Features that makes blockchain game different from other games?

### They’re built on a blockchain

Many features are unique to blockchain games, and are the reason they’re different from other games. The most obvious being they’re built on a BLOCKCHAIN. This is no rocket science and comes from the name. There are many games like Rising Star (which I will be exploring later in this post) built on the Hive blockchain. 

### In-game currency is crypto or NFTs which you play to earn(P2E)
Of the several blockchain games on the Hive ecosystem, to each, there is a token or crypto they use to make in-game purchases or transactions. You also earn these tokens as you play and can trade them in the in-game marketplace. 

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> ### Games on Hive Ecosystem and including their in-game currencies
Hive is a big ecosystem, and there are many games built on top of the Hive blockchain, each with their in-game currenc(y)(ies). A few of them are:

* Splinterlands- slintershards
* Rising Star- starbits/starpro
* Dcity- sim
* Psyberx- Lvl 1 token

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> ### What are NFTs and mention 1 use case of NFTs on a Blockchain game
In my understanding, NFTs are digital assets that represent assets in real life and authenticates ownership and originality of the asset. An NFT can be a picture, art, even music. Owning an NFT means that even if someone else has a copy of it, you own the original.

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An example of an in-game NFT is splinterlands cards like summoners that give you special abilities 

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> # PRACTICAL EXERCISE

For the practical aspect of the task, I logged on to [Rising Star](https://www.risingstargame.com/game.asp) to have some fun and explore by playing the busking mission.

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On the homepage of risingstargame.com, there was a prompt to log in staring me right in the face on the top of the page. 
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Once I clicked the prompt, a dialogue popped up to enter my Hive username, and after that I signed my log in with my chrome keychain extension because I was working on my laptop.

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After logging in, I agreed to all rules, terms and conditions and proceeded to select the **Illegal Busking** Mission.

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At the end of mission, this was my dairy for my 5 minute Illegal Buskin mission.
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As always, I say a big thank you to my team leader, @nkemakonam89, and to @ksam for the great lecture and delivery, and for the LUV tokens and refund of transaction fees on our last assignment. Thanks, man.

**All screenshots in this post were taken from risingstargame.com and splinterlands.com on my laptop.**
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