Fast Break

[HouseOfHufflepuff]

Fast Break is a game built on the NBA Top Shot contract. Players of Fast Break submit moments in their Top Shot collection to play the game. Each Fast Break contains n FastBreakStatistic the wallet must match or exceed.

When a player submits a lineup to Fast Break, a game token is minted to their Fast Break collection. This game token contains their submission data and links to the game. As NBA games are played, the metadata of the token (points & win) are updated.

A Fast Break Run is a block of Fast Breaks. Winning a Fast Break puts you on the Fast Break Run leaderboard.

The resource FastBreakDaemon is reserved for the game oracle. The oracle is responsible for bringing trusted NBA data into its platform, computing points & wins, and updating the blockchain with the derived data. The FastBreakDaemon keeps the on-chain & off-chain games in sync.

Custodial submissions to Fast Break will be made by the game oracle in batch. Non-custodial submissions can be made by any wallet with Top Shots.

[HouseOfHufflepuff]

Please correct me if I am wrong, but it looks like the actual NFTs that you are defining here are just meant to only be used in a single game and are not used any time afterwards? If that is the case, it doesn't really make sense to make them the NFTs and it would make a lot more sense to make the NFT represent the player instead of the game, so it can be used indefinitely across multiple different games, can be moved to a new address if the player wants to for whatever reason, can be traded or sold on marketplaces, and can contain meaningful metadata about the player' history.

In addition, you'll also need to have this contract implement ViewResolver and use metadata views for the NFTs and the contract

Yes, the intention is to create a game token that represents a single play of Fast Break. I chose this design because it maximizes the flexibility other contracts can have building on-top of Fast Break.

Having said that, I really like the idea of having a FastBreakPlayer resource or NFT. I think it adds a ton to the game. I started off creating it as a resource over here, but I am thinking it might be better as an NFT in its own contract. Would appreciate advice or collaboration on this PR on the FastBreakPlayer concept.

I plan to implement ViewResolver when we have a visual design for this game token. Until then, would like to hide it. Am working with Julian on design but needs to be prio'd.

https://github.com/dapperlabs/nba-smart-contracts/pull/237

[HouseOfHufflepuff]

@joshuahannan, I want to make the Player an NFT in a new contract and started working on it in the PR mentioned in my comment. Having said that, I do think a game token adds more to the goals of the game, is more experimental, and more composable, and I am planning to stick with this concept. However, I do like the idea of a player NFT as well, but correct me if I am wrong, that would need to be in a different contract.

Either way, the core functionality I want in this contract is present in this PR. Have made all the suggestions Bastian made afaik. Thanks again for your time.

https://github.com/dapperlabs/nba-smart-contracts/pull/229#issuecomment-1871637570

[joshuahannan]

oh sorry, I think I missed that last part of your comment last week. I disagree that you are able to implement the player as a resource in a different contract. You're already tracking players by address in this contract, so if you were to try to graft a resource from a separate contract onto this as a player, it wouldn't work IMO because it can never be reconciled with the address tracking that you're doing here. It is a fundamental enough part of the game that you would need to track players by only their resource IDs and remove address tracking completely. That is also a more Cadence-best practices way to do it.

[HouseOfHufflepuff]

Hey @joshuahannan, sorry for the delay as I am working on this over weekends. I implemented the Player resource and removed wallet data in favor of a resourceId. I like the concept a lot and feel like this really improved the contract. Thanks for pushing me to do this. Would appreciate your re-review.