HUGE Blotto update:
- Buy multiple tickets at once
- Nostr Bot with enthusiastic AI announcer (Powered by https://ppq.ai)
- Many bug fixes & improvements!
Starting with a 40K prize pool donated from the last game that was unclaimed and 5 hours to go!
I didn’t expect so many tickets purchased in the previous game (198 tickets purchased). The game was made with a 1-shot prompt on https://lnfly.albylabs.com - Alby’s experimental lightning vibe prototyping tool, and this has motivated me to make a better version.
This follow up version is also made with a single 1-shot prompt, but much refined to fix a lot of bugs and issues in the original game. Both versions were made with Claude Sonnet 4.
Let's see how big the prize pool will get and how long the game lasts!
Wait, unclaimed prizes? I thought that stuff just auto-sent to the LN address...
It could have been done that way. But then Blotto would need to store all LN addresses and increases friction to buy tickets
Yeah, the addresses would have to be stored. When people buy tickets, you could just ask them for an LN address to send the prize to. Might be a good upgrade for your next version.
The way it works now, how do we even know if we won? Do we have to keep checking the site all the time? How do I know I won?
Follow it on nostr?
I don’t even have a smartphone to get notifications! Hahaha.
I use nostrudel.ninja ’cause it doesn’t send push notifications, I just go there whenever I feel like it!
What does one-shot mean here? Does it mean you only took one-shot or you only accepted the output of one-shot that gave you the results you wanted?
I had to refine the prompt quite a few times. But LNFly generates an application from a single prompt.
What I think is interesting is the prompt is all game rules and almost has no references to things that only programmers would know. I think this is super powerful!
I'd attach it here but I think it's too long - I can't seem to send the reply.
All good. I think at some point we’ll have open source projects where the source “code” are just these one-shot prompts, kind of like db migrations, and the rest of the repo is generated code.
Is it open source?
When I click on 'previous games,' it says the last game sold 10 tickets
Blotto is not open source. It's prompt is open source (You can find Blotto V2 on https://lnfly.albylabs.com/ and click the "Fork" button), and LNFly is 100% open source (https://github.com/getAlby/lnfly). I didn't make the app backends open source yet - but I probably can do that.
The old version with 198 tickets purchased was here: https://lnfly.albylabs.com/api/apps/60/view
prize pool looking fat
only nitpick i have is that i preferred the warm orangey colours of the earlier version
Thanks for putting that unclaimed prize back in for another chance!
I like how simple it is.
The Blotto game is over! Winning Ticket: #13876
Winnings: 239812 sats ($262 USD)
Total tickets purchased: 10023
Claim your prize within 24 hours at https://lnfly.albylabs.com/api/apps/199/view and click “view previous games”
It a good but the address