I built a free Bitcoin-powered arcade shooter — Bitcoin Block Wars

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share something I’ve been working on: Bitcoin Block Wars, a free browser-based arcade shooter

You can play it here: https://bitcoinblockwars.com (works best on a controller)

The basic idea is simple: it’s an arcade shooter where live Bitcoin blockchain data helps shape what happens during each run.

To be clear, this is not:
Play-to-Earn
an NFT project
staking-related
a token launch
a wallet-connection game
pay-to-win

It’s just a game. Dodge, shoot, survive, and challenge the Bitcoin blockchain.

I wanted to use Bitcoin data as a gameplay input, not as a speculative reward layer. There are already enough “crypto games” that are really just token mechanics with a game wrapped around them. I wanted to go the other way and make something playable first.

A bit of background: I’ve spent a long time around games and publishing. I worked for over a decade in the Irish games industry on the publishing side, was Operations Manager of the first Xbox venue in Europe in the mid-2000s, taught business to game developers for several years at Dublin Institute of Technology, now TU Dublin, and published research on the Irish games industry in the early 2010s.

I’ve also been a lifelong gamer, from the Commodore 64 days through the console generations to PS5, Switch, and modern browser/mobile games.

I’d really appreciate feedback on:
browser performance
mobile controls
difficulty balance
whether the Bitcoin-driven events make sense while playing
whether the arcade loop feels fun enough to replay

Disclosure: I’m involved with the project.