Etherjump Founder Update — 8/20/2022

Originally Published 8/20/2022 on the Etherjump Discord

Update from the Founders

GM everyone! We've been working on a lot behind the scenes, and just wanted to give you all some insight on what's currently in the works:

New User Path

One thing that we've noticed for many newcomers to the project, is a general lack of knowledge, and a poor knowledge base for new users to learn about the project.

What we're doing to solve these issues:

- We've gotten rid of the previous "empty plot" design for unbuilt plots, and swapped it for a more illustrative "Demo Level" design instead, hoping to achieve 2 goals:
- Introduce new players to the gameplay and controls
- Inform users in a more clear way, that the plot requires building

- We are building out a new main website, to feed new users information about the project in a way that's basic and digestible

- We are currently in the process of testing our analytics infrastructure, which will pave the way for our upcoming Etherjump level explorer

Roadmap/Litepaper

Another thing that we've noticed, is a general lack of understanding, and lack of clarity in our current roadmap and vision.

We have a very large vision for the future of Etherjump, and we want to make that vision abundantly clear to both our players and investors.

What we are doing to solve this issue:

- Over the past few weeks, we have been actively crafting our token model, and conducting extensive research to model our game economy

- These ideas will all be listed in an upcoming revised litepaper, where we will describe the future of Etherjump, and our vision for growth

Gameplay/Anticheat

With the rise of tournaments being hosted on everyone's plots, we have noticed a few reports of cheating, with a few repeat offenders.

What we are doing to solve this issue:

- We currently have an automatic replay system in development, which will allow anyone to view a replay of the top leaderboard times, to manually verify those users' runs

- In the future, we will be adding more server-side verifications to authenticate player movements, and further prevent cheating

Partners/Exclusive Items

As for exclusive items and new content, we have started to develop the in-game exclusives for some of our early partners, so stay tuned as we provide teasers in the coming days/weeks!

Lots going on behind the scenes, so thank you all for your endless support, and we look forward to rolling out these updates soon!