Kingdom 0.2 is live 🚀
by Julian RenardI am so excited to introduce you Kingdom 0.2.
In October, I launched Kingdom: a fun weekend project.
A few hours after the launch, the CEO of Flickr paid $700 to buy some lands...
Then I made $1500 in few days 🤯.
I gave $1000 to WeForest to plant 565 trees.
And I disappear to work non-stop on a stable and long-term version (on the side of my freelance gigs).
Today, it's finally ready! It's not perfect, but you can already signup and build your very own kingdom on https://kingdom.so (only on desktop for now).
I am now working on the social features;
But this time, I won't disappear. 😂
I can't wait to have your feedback.
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Hi Julian, this is such a fun and cool idea! I also love your initiative on getting more trees planted :). Also something weird I ran into... when I first opened it up on Chrome 88.0.4324.182, the loading bar gets stuck at 100%. Here's the error I get in the Chrome console:
Uncaught (in promise) Error: WebGL unsupported in this browser, use "pixi.js-legacy" for fallback canvas2d support.. I did some quick research, and this was what fixed it for me in Chrome. Hardware acceleration in Chrome was disabled, so a quick enable fixed it! Hope this helps you and other users as well :). Looking forward to seeing the future of your project!! I don't have a site (yet) atm but I will be sure to join soon! Good luck!-
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Awesome! Thanks so much; It's the type of bug hard to fix without external help ;-)
I will probably make the link not mandatory so people can start to promote early stage, which can be interesting when the social features will be here.
Don't hesitate to join before; you don't have to build a kingdom to join ;-)
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That's really cool! Why not making it with a dedicated cryptocurrency?
THis also guarantees that every block is unique and a market can be created.
You could make millions!
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Hey! Yes and it's even in my plan, I am thinking about to use the ERC-20 standard... I prefered to start with the "normal way" to test the market first. I have some technical knowledge about Ethereum and smart contract development but it will take time to implement and I don't have any clue about the legal side and it's probably not so easy :-/
So definitely in the road map ;-)
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Cool project Julian, This is very creative.
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Thanks!
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I love the Kingdom :D! What stack did you use to build this project?
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Hello VLVD thanks, I use vuejs/nuxtjs and pixijs for the 2d map rendering for the frontend and nodejs, pusher and mongodb for the backend.
The map is fully live but nobody notice as there are not enough interactions yet haha
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I remember Kingdom v0.1. It's a pretty interesting concept with a geeky-vibe too it.
If you could gamify it a bit more I think you have a fun alternative to promotions.
Though I don't see the part about donating to plant trees anymore. Was that ever a thing or just remembering the concept incorrectly?
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Hey! So nice that you remember the 0.1!
About the trees, I decided to give 10% of the revenue and not 50% anymore as I want to develop Kingdom as a long term project and it's too risky to give 50%. It's probably not sustainable.
We have a official page on WeForest now 🎉, but it's still not updated: https://www.weforest.org/partner/kingdom
Gamification is a big part of the concept and I will develop it a lot, social features will come also pretty soon :-)
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I really like your project, and I signed up with my website. One thing that I think you could improve is the scrolling in the tile shop. My scroll wheel will go for ages, and there's very little movement which is a slight pain.
I love all the different tile choices, and being able to pay for more. I also love the fact you're donating money to plant trees too, this world definitely needs more of them.
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Thanks a lot! Well noted for the scroll, I will improve it!
About trees planting, it's a big part of the project and I will talk more about it soon.So happy to have you on Kingdom, a lot of things are coming soon :-)
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Hey @MichaelBrooks I fixed the Firefox scroll issue, it should work well now :-)
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Awesome, the scroll works so much better now. 😀
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I forgot! may ask you the browser that you used? It'll help me to debug the scroll thing
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Wow, so awesome idea!!! Good luck with it.
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Hey! thanks a lot, Why not build a kingdom for Morflax? :-p
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