So I had this crazy idea about creating a game in the style of the classic Elite space game (you have to be really old to remember it) and making it use Hive Blockchain. But I am no coding genius, so as I use Claude Code frequently to help with general Hive server issues, I thought maybe I could ask it to make me one. Turns out Claude Code is excellent at making Hive Blockchain Games - all I said was
"I want to create an elite style space game that uses the Hive Blockchain to store game progress and connects to Hive Blockchain with Hive Keychain, it should use the Hive Engine token BEE for in game purchases and rewards"
And after a bit of back and forth, I had game files to upload to one of my servers, tested and tweaked and after 5 hours or so I now have
So the requirements are, you need Hive Keychain to log in - and I would suggest it will work best on a browser - I have not even tried mobile but I think combat patrol might be quite tricky on mobile. The game account is @hive-elite-game if you wish to keep track of it's transactions.
Game progress is stored on the Hive Blockchain in the game account, in game credits are just for in game use - you can buy buffs with BEE so you need BEE on Hive-Engine - but you can also earn BEE rewards. The amount you can earn is limited daily and you can only claim to your Hive-Engine wallet once you have 1 BEE or more - which would take four days with the daily limit.
The main game is Combat Patrol - super simple use your mouse to move the ship around the play area - the ship auto fires so take out as many pirates as you can. On the way collect loot - but if you crash into too many pirates and loose your shield then you collect nothing. The patrol lasts 60 seconds - so shoot or avoid pirates and collect loot for the 60 seconds and claim all - including your BEE reward - which is 0.002 BEE per pirate shot down.
There is a leaderboard for bragging rights, and it has three separate panels you can choose to be either the top Pirate shooter, Bee Earner or Credit Collector.
In game credits are just for in game - but as you collect loot you can then sell it for more credits - so dodging pirates and collect loot to sell can build your credits score very quickly - but it's just for fun!
Look out for chain synch, some actions require you to confirm with hive keychain and the button will be available when they do, also after you claim BEE you need to synch.
"Sync sends your trades, jumps, refuels and BEE claims to Hive. Patrol results and BEE purchases are recorded automatically, so Sync stays grey when you have nothing of your own to send."
So if anybody would like to test it and provide some feedback that would be great, development now just needs new ideas and suggestions.
Small disclaimer as I am just testing the idea it is running on one of my home servers, so uptime is not guaranteed. If it proves popular I can move it to a more powerful rented server - something to think about in the future.
