All BASIC Game Jam

[SMcNeill]

At first opengameart.org looked like great resource, then I see this at top of Forum Page:

What is NFT? what is Fungible? What is "like cryptocurrencies" Why do I need a lawyer to post code?

What is NFT Art: All you Need to Know - NFTexplained -- Take a moment to read this.  It explains it about as well as anything I've ever found that could.

Let's say you write a program:

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PRINT "Hello World by Bplus!"

Now, if you put that program on the web (just like an image), everybody in the world can download it and steal it and share it.   NFT is a means where you'd first register your code, declare "THIS IS THE ORIGINAL", and then you could sell that original with it's certificate of authenticity.  That certificate of NFT proclaims what you have to be the rights to the ORIGINAL, and therefore it holds value to some people.  (Wouldn't an original Model T Ford be more valuable to you than some piece of crap 2020 model exact reproduction?  It's that same concept.)

Now, where does the warning comes in from the page you referenced?

Basically, some random hobo might download a screenshot from your game, or copy your image asset, and then they might try to go and register it and claim, "LOOK, I HAVE AN ORIGINAL HERE!"  Except... they don't.  They just have a copy which was uploaded to some random site out there, just like everyone else in the world.  They never created it, nor do they actually hold rights to it.  If they try to call it a NFT, they're committing fraud, and if you buy it, you're buying worthless junk (think counterfeit money!).

And that's Steve's quick lesson on NFTs.  The link above does a better job explaining it all than I did, however, so if you're truly interested, follow up and read it.  

[SMcNeill]

Quit addition to that explanation that I thought of as a nice example for you:

Let's say Stephen King writes a new novel. What is that manuscript worth that he just cranked out on his old typewriter? It's got value -- a lot more value than any sort of book which is ever published as a copy of that manuscript...

But now, let's say he decided to write his new novel using Google Docs. It's all digital. Does that mean that his original transcript is now worthless because he didn't print it out on paper, and folks are downloading exact copies in ebook/pdf format? Why was the paper version valuable, but the digital version worthless? Couldn't he just go to a copy machine and make copies of that original transcript and give them out? Even if he did, *would it change the value of the original*?? Original manuscript for a Stephen King novel vs. mass-copied manuscript which is one of thousands... Which do you think is going to sell for more at auction??

And that's basically all NFTs are, in a nutshell. They're proclamations that "This is the original, so it has value!" or "This is #3 of 10 limited-edition, official, versions." Which is why taking a screenshot or copying someone else's work/image/asset just isn't the same. Though they're easy to counterfeit (which is why the site has a warning against them), they're worthless unless they're the original NFT itself.

[dbox]

Well folks, all the submissions are in!  I encourage anyone interested to play and rate the games.  There is representation from across the BASIC family:  QB64/QBJS, PureBasic, BlitzPlus, VB6, FreeBasic, MS Small Basic... and even one built with "Visual Basic for Applications within Microsoft Excel"!

https://itch.io/jam/jam-for-all-basic-dialects-3