The problem Brain Worms by Del Complex solves

About
Brain Worms, a fully onchain generative brain parasite system built on ERC-404, with resource harvesting, pvp, and more.

3D Organisms
Each Brain Worm is a unique, fully 3D synthetic organism generated onchain. They can be viewed in the browser, or in augmented reality on an iPhone or Vision Pro.

Stats and Resources
Each Brain Worm has its own strengths and weaknesses, and can be adapted by harvesting resources from various areas of the synthetic brain they live in.

Combat System
Because resources in the brain are limited, Brain Worms can be pitted against each other in PVP battles to determine the strongest. PVP titles are powered by an Elo rating system and global leaderboard.

Evolution
Powered by ERC-404, Brain Worms can be reborn with new traits and abilities as they are traded and fractionalized. They're a hybrid between ERC-20's and ERC-721's, the best of both worlds.

Mobile Friendly
Fun responsive design with CoinBase Wallet support.

The simulator is available at
https://delcomplex.com/login-brainworms-simulator

Launch Date
Launching July 10th

Learn more
https://delcomplex.com/brainworms

Human Testing
Call +1(775) 330-WORM for an access code and visit https://delcomplex.com/humansubject

Vision
The long term goal for Brain Worms is to genetically engineer parasitic worms to secrete cognitive enhancing biomolecules. Thus increasing the intelligence of the host human. With Brain Worms, we will accelerate the human species in order to compete with AGI.
Del Complex
Del Complex is an Alternate Reality Corporation, part fictional and part real. It exists as a large narrative web spun across the internet and physical goods. There are dozens of phone numbers to call that lead to a labrynth of riddles, corporate intranet sites, confidential NFT mints, redacted documents, and physical merch. All of these elements build a world adjacent to ours as a way to both comment on and manifest potential futures.

Challenges I ran into

Alpha Test and Onchain Summer
I've built the Brain Worms Simulation System as a one man army and launched the Alpha Test on the last week of May. Over 5,800 battles have been fought by over 70 play testers since then. And I've done dozens of 1-on-1 play test sessions in order to gather feedback and adapt the UI, game design, and overall experience. Hundreds of people contributed to the dev fund and the community is growing daily.

During Onchain Summer 'Guest Mode' was developed so anyone with a wallet can interact with the system for free, even if they don't own a Brain Worm token. Enabling Guest Mode creates a generative worm via the onchain contracts which is then stored locally for each user. Players can fight these worms onchain, however they don't earn PVP points or resources. This gives holders a clear benefit while allowing for free play.

All of the smart contracts will be released under MIT Licenses to support the community.

Challenges
Brain Worms has beeen a multifaceted challenge. It's an onchain long form generative art system like ArtBlocks, an onchain generative SVG system like Terraforms, that also has onchain combat, resource harvesting, and evolving tokens using ERC-404.

The combat system was a large effort. It was important to balance the need for rapid battles, while allowing for interesting and complex game mechanics. Fitting all of the branching logic and operations into a single transaction was tricky and required a lot of iterative development.

The front end website itself was also a huge effort. Both in terms of creating all of the art assets, making it interactive, handling states, and interacting with the smart contracts involved.

Between the smart contracts, the generative ThreeJS art for the worms and onchain html, the onchain generative SVG art for the thumbnails, the 2D art on the simulator website, a MySQL leaderboard database, event handling, and the complexities of putting it all together, it's been an enormous effort