If you like video games and Bitcoin, there is a new proposal that will surely interest you. This is Hyper Bitcoin Delivery Adventure, a game for mobile phones that puts you in the shoes of a pizza delivery boy who must fulfill a special mission for none other than Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of the cryptocurrency.
The three characters in the game are a boy, a girl, and a robot. They are all friends of Satoshi Nakamoto, who asks them to take Bitcoin keys to the moon, where he is living. In this way, a new stage of “hyperbitcoinization” is approaching, a term from which the title of the video game derives.
The adventure begins with Finn, the initial character, touring the streets with his scooter. On the way, You must collect bitcoins (BTC) and pizza slices while dodging fences, bank trucks and police patrols. Why pizza? In honor of the first purchase made with the cryptoactive, in 2010, by Laszlo Hanyecz.
As units of the cryptocurrency are added, the other characters, Lucy and Bit Badger, can be unlocked; other game scenarios, which are space, the moon and Mars, in that order; and other vehicles to play with, such as a bicycle, a larger motorcycle, an ATV, an electric skateboard, and a skateboard. Likewise, bitcoins can be exchanged for new weapons.
By collecting eight slices of pizza, it’s time to face the final charactera banker riding a dinosaur that shoots dollar bills and throws bags of fiat money like bombs to finish off the player.
What happens when the criminals achieve their goal of stopping the delivery bitcoiner? The game can be restarted from the point reached by answering a short question about Bitcoin. If all three opportunities are missed, you will have to start over from scratch.
A fun proposal to educate about Bitcoin
Beyond how entertaining the game is (something that CriptoNoticias verified first-hand), the title developed by the Argentine company Delafia Studio, which is already available on the google app storerepresents a good introduction to basic concepts about Bitcoin.
The game, which is currently only available for Android, was presented to the public in 2021 during LaBitConf, a conference on Bitcoin that had a special edition in El Salvador. Rodolfo Andragnes, organizer of that event and president of the NGO Bitcoin Argentina, told CriptoNoticias that Hyper Bitcoin Delivery Adventure is “associated with our cultural heritage and, above all, with the world of pizza, since a delivery must carry the keys of Bitcoin to Satoshi to the moon and shoot pizzas at dinosaurs, bankers and state agents.
While it does not yet allow for true cryptocurrency earning or trading in real-world crypto assets, there is an intention that this will be added in the future. For this reason, the game developers work together with Zebedee, a company that incorporates bitcoin micropayments for video games from the Lightning Network.
In this way, in addition to knowing basic questions about Bitcoin through the theme, symbology and trivia of the game, the youngest users will be able to acquire their first sats (satoshis, minimum bitcoin account unit) by playing. This addition of value through the game can be the gateway to the ecosystem of children and adolescents, the creators of Hyper Bitcoin Delivery Adventure point out.