So you say you’re ready for an adventure in Blankos, eh? Well, let’s see how ready you really are. I have an adventure for you, but it’s a hard and dusty path and a rocky road ahead, and there’s lava down below.
First of all, we’ll explore the basics of Blankos.
If you go to youtube or to the blankos.com website for answers, you won’t find them there. In fact, if you text them and ask how to start building, they’ll tell you wrong, because they have outdated information.
The fact is, you can’t get there from here.
I guess the best bet would be to go ahead and get the FREE blankos account. Set it all up, then try to figure out how to build.
You won’t be able to, and in fact, you’d never guess in a zillion years.
What you do is, you go to the JUNCTION — that’s a squiggly little snip in the lower left corner of the social pages — you CAN miss it, but I’m hoping you find it.
Now go into the JUNCTION to see all your building friends, and you’ll be looking at a stairway, up which you shall go.
Then there’s a snow slide, and you’re almost there.
Over to the right, you’ll just barely see a dimly darkly blue-lit building, which is your destination, and within which you’ll find — after a gruelling jumping staggering blip upward to the aforementioned “blue building” — a personagge with question marks all over him.
Ask. Receive his blessings and some instruction on how to do stuff.
Perform the simple tasks but once. Then you’re ready to build.
Go ahead and hit the NEW button to make a new “block”. I think of it as a Monopoly block, but with individual stores rather than entire streets as a stopping point, but that’s how I would approach it, and I don’t necessarily recommend my procedure for anyone else.
Okay, now go ahead and hop into the block by hitting the “PLAY” button.
Once in there, hit the “1” button and you’ll see a menu on the left of your choices, and from there on, you’re on your own as far as building is concerned, although we do have classes and workshops and such if you get into trouble there.
One thing you’ll notice about blankos is that they have a definite connection with money, meaning that they’ve incorporated actual NFT items within the game, making it a crypto game, which some would call a blockchain game, but it’s a lighter weight crypto than ETH.
The idea the makers have in mind is that you’ll buy a RARE doll and dress it up with RARE items, and resell it for a lot more money than you paid.
You can even level these guys up and sell the higher level doll as a straight bot, no alterations, no mashups.
Then there’s SKINS. If you can make skins or vinyl avatars, you have a future in blankos and other related outlets.
Oh, keep in mind that you can use USD dollars, and that’s working out in other places, too, so you don’t have to maintain a crypto wallet.
Of course, you’ll need the crypto wallet to store your cryptocurrency — there is no better way — and your NFTs, which are NOT currency and for which there is no guaranteed market.
If you’re the only one that likes that NFT, you’ll have it a long time.
So I wouldn’t tend to sucker into the “build up your avatar” game, and I surely wouldn’t recommend you do it, either.
There are some definite rewards to writing a popular “block” or game, and that’s where I’d concentrate my attention, resources and time.
Just as in Second Life, there’s plenty of opportunity to upgrade your doll, but it has the same effect, which is net zero, like getting all dressed up for a date in the dark.
The idea of dressing up a doll and reselling it after having used it as a personal avatar … well, it’s kind of like renting out your recently deceased body by the hour. Tacky.
Now, exactly how you make money by making a popular game block in blankos block party, I really don’t know, and haven’t enough data to even speculate, but this much I do know — someone is making money off those popular games.
The chances of originating a NFT is mighty slim, but within reach. The chance of making a fantastically popular game on blankos is about 100%, especially if everyone cooperates and goes into the game every day without fail for at least fourteen days.
It will go faster if you promote it on every social media you have available to you, and even more will happen if you drag some friends into the gameplay.
I’d do everything possible to make the game fun, but also profitable for players in terms of rewards, of which I would have as much and as many as inhumanly possible.
Basically, you’re building Another Roadside Attraction, more or less a circus or side-show. I just thought of a way to create a golf course block party in blankos, but I won’t tell you here — I’ll give the secret away at our morning meeting today at about 6:45 am Pacific Time.
I have a game up. It’s not completed, not by a long shot — it’s just a sketch of what’s coming, but you’re free, if you have downloaded their gaming engine and browser, to sneak a peek at “Silicone Estates”, by calling it up with the GAME BUS button, and in case you can’t find the damn game bus button, you’re not alone, and that’s what I was trying to tell you in the first place — they don’t present well at the moment to noobs, and I’ll tell you why:
They’re not ready for them.
As a matter of fact, they’re not really ready for prime-time. They’ve only just got their website going well enough to support a few nibbling inquiries, but they’re just not prepared for an onslaught of millions of dedicated fans.
Not to worry, that’s not happening yet, but it will.
What gives this game some chance at longevity and popularity is the fact that you can plunk something down squat dab in the middle of town, and lo & behold! It’s for sale!
You can’t beat that, and if your game is very popular and you get a lot of hits on that item, you’re going to win this deal hands-down, which is the only way to fly.
So don’t waddle into the duckpond of despair by taking a chance on a $300.00 Avatar and then adding $1,600.00 worth of accessories and then selling it for $2000.00 and thinking you’ve made something on the deal.
Now, if you can SELL and DEED that particular popular game to someone, as if you’re executing a land deal, THAT would be something worth writing home about!
Calm down, that isn’t going to happen in Blankos — that is, I don’t think so, but I could easily be wrong. I know only a little about Blankos Block Parties and Blankos Sales Items at the moment, and am learning as fast as I am able.
You can safely avoid the whole issue by, as I mentioned earlier, just leaving your Avatar as he came to you, with just the barest suggestion of humanoid form, and a cute dancing move, which reminds me — does anyone know why he occasionally picks up one foot and gestures toward it, or am I imagining things again?
One suggestion I have is to look in the game bus area to select some games to look at and experience.
You can sort them by game type. I recommend the “VIBES” games, although you might prefer the SHOOTERS or the RACES. Those are it, for the moment, as far as I know, other than “FFA”, which is an analog for FREE FOR ALL, a common format that you’ll find at the moment.
I’m waiting to see SHARED ADVENTURE and DUNGEON PARTY and CAPTURE THE FLAG additions, which would take only a few BOTS and two ACTIVE GOALS.
Nothing to it, except perhaps the scoreboard, but even that’s no big deal in any game.
Well, that’s the really big great and terrible secret of the day. Build Spaces, Not Faces.
See You At The Top!!!
gorby