Scribble Party

Minting now Mint on Plottables

Is it a bull market or a bear market? It doesn't matter, it's always time to party!

Scribble Party continues my exploration of plottable scribbles building upon Scribbled Daydreams and Scribble Together. The figures introduced in this collection interweave with each other and with the scribbles to create playful, dance-like movements. These figures may be drawn at a variety of sizes and shapes, often repeating or contained within one another to create diverse scenes. The project aims to create a sense of joy and celebration, and viewers are encouraged to create their own narratives in each piece.

As a plottable piece, color choices were made with an eye towards accessibility. Each piece contains pen colors from one of two popular brands and light paper colors. The digital piece aims to reproduce the tactile feel and organic imperfections of physical plotting with paper and pen textures including a suble ink pooling effect often seen in the pen-ups when plotting.

In all markets, the art goes on. Scribble Party celebrates the joy of creating art independent of external conditions.

Featured in Art 1st, Episode 33, November 15th 2024.

The Game

In keeping with the party theme, Scribble Party includes a game similar to a "positive hot potato", where each mint prolongs the game in pursuit of a prize while also contributing to that prize. A countdown clock starts with the first mint, and subsequent mints reset the clock to a minimum time threshold if the remaining time is below this amount. As the game continues, each mint adds a smaller percentage to the prize, and the clock resets shorten, bringing the game closer to its conclusion. When the clock reaches zero, no more mints can occur, and whoever holds the last minted piece may withdraw the prize.

Before the game starts, 25 pieces will be minted, primarily to be distributed to the contributors of Scribble Together as a thank you. The remainder will be kept by minimizer.

At the start of the game, each mint will contribute 100% of its proceeds (after fees) to the prize. Every 50 mints, the contribution will be halvened: mints #25-74 contribute 100%, mints #75-124 contribute 50%, mints #125-174 contribute 25%, and so on.

The clock resets start at 24 hours, with the reset duration halvening every 200 mints. Mint #25 will start the clock with 24 hours and mints #26-224 will similarly reset the clock to have 24 hours on it. Mints #225-424 will only reset the clock to 12 hours, if it has less than 12 hours. Should the game reach #425, these mints will now only reset the clock to 6 hours if less remains. There is no minimum extension. After 13 halvenings (mint #2625), the extension will be only 10 seconds, which is less than one Ethereum block. The game will end on this block, if it hasn’t already.

Plots

The collection is designed to be plotted. Each piece's pens draw colors from one of two popular pen brands - Microns or G2s to help with matching colors.

Special thanks to Stephen of Generative Artworks and Raptornews for their help with testing.

Technicals

Scribble Party is written using JavaScript and SVG and deployed on the Art Blocks Engine.

The game's mechanics are implemented in a custom smart contract, available here: 0xE7C3Ecdee7eB8eBe5E671504dF6C9b9713D9570a