CRYPTOCOINOPOLY: A Real Time Online Multiplayer Board Game

ABSTRACT

With the insurgence of cryptocurrency and the thriving business of mobile games, games related to cryptocurrency have gained enormous interests in recent years. This paper presents a real time online multiplayer board game, Cryptocoinopoly, which is a hybrid of the existing Cryptocoinopoly board game and Monopoly. Unity (a cross-platform game engine) has been used in the development process together with Photon Unity Networking (PUN), which is a Unity package for creating online multiplayer games. At the level, Cryptocoinopoly is represented by Remote Database, Game Server, Network, Application (Game), Local Database and Client components. Notable functions such as allowing users to play the game with multiple people and for no matter how many rounds they desire;allowing users to invest into the cryptocurrency market at any time and allowing users to trade their assets with other players have been successfully implemented. Functionality testing and debugging have been conducted under constrained conditions with limited resources due to the on-going Covid-19 situation. Despite the challenges, all functional and non-functional requirements of the prototype have been fulfilled. © 2021 IEEE.