Cheeze of Insight

ABSTRACT

As a team built from players of Satoshi’s Treasure, we’re uniquely aware of the role statistics can have on gameplay and player psychology. Enter Cheese of Insight. The Cheeze of Insight DApp is a web application and browser extension designed to enrich player psychology by providing methods for realistic and test battle predictions, and a module for doing deep analytics of battle history. More specifically, Cheese of Insight approaches player psychology using a three-pronged method that includes: an Analytics component, a Battle component, and a Prediction Market component.

• Analytics Component:

  1. The Analytics component and its UI, provides players with a frontend for analyzing individual Wizards and battle history during and throughout the tournament.

  2. The Analytics component provides methods for comparing, grouping and sorting Wizards, and for listing Wizards owned by the connected Metamask / Dapper wallet.

• Battle Component:

  1. This component is made possible by our modified battle contract that can import specific Mainnet Wizards and import into our own contract deployed on Rinkeby; this allows players to battle replicated versions of their Mainnet Wizards in a test environement against other replicated versions of Mainnet Wizards.

  2. When playing a test match, the human player invoking the Duel chooses whether they wish to dictate their opponent’s turn commitments, or have them instead dictated by our super smart (and super dumb) AI. The AI player we’ve created, analyzes a Wizard’s match history to find turn play patterns specific to that Wizard's battle history. Like a fine cheese, our AI matures with age, so our AI's predictions become more trustworthy as the tournament progresses.

  3. Since the reliability of our AI's match predictions is proportional to the quality of data available from a tournament’s and a Wizard's match history, we can say our AI begins a tournament “dumb” and ends the tournament “smart”.

• Prediction Market Component:

  1. Decentralized prediction markets can be used to generate sets of tokens that represent a financial stake in the outcomes of any event.

  2. By combining the 0x Protocol with an Augur prediction market and open source code from Veil, once phase Phase III of the tournament is reached, our platform automatically begins launching prediction markets that speculate on possible outcomes for the next Duel window.

  3. Each day, before the Dueling window begins, 2 categories of prediction markets will be launched, for a total of 10 prediction markets launched daily throughout Phase III of the tournament:

  • Market type #1) 5 separate markets will be created to bet on whether each of the 5 most powerful Wizards will either increase or decrease in power level. If the Wizard's power level does not change, the market is invalidated and all bets will be returned to betters at their original value.

  • Market type #2) 5 separate markets will be created to bet on whether each of the 5 most "volatile" Wizards from the previous day's Dueling window, will either increase or decrease in power level. If the Wizard's power level does not change, all bets will be returned at their original value. We consider the 5 most "volatile" Wizards to be the 5 Wizards whose power levels fluctuated by the greatest margin during the previous day's Duel history (this perhaps is one indication of the most active players).

  • Note: Another possible market category we could try is betting on the Wizards closest to being overtaken by the blue mold (either if they will remain or be eliminated from the tournament).

  4. Using 0x, the order book for our Prediction Markets are kept offline to limit gas transactions, and both LONG and SHORT tokens get merged into a single order book.

  5. As the Blue Mold begins to show its effects, this Prediction Market will become a place where players that no longer have Wizards in the tournament ("rind-in-the-game") can continue to follow along and remain engaged and emotionally invested in the outcomes of battles.