After launch

Leaderboards: where your game's board shows up

Your game's leaderboard appears on your game's page and as its own tab in the Arena. It ranks your players, and once your game graduates it decides how your game's airdrop is shared among them.

The site is in English. Button and label names are quoted here exactly as they appear on screen.

Test version

Elixir Games is a test version on Solana devnet. Seasons, scores and airdrops here are rehearsals with test money that has no real value. More in the test version.

Two kinds of board

Your game's board ranks the players of your game. It is the one that matters for your players: the same ranking decides your game's airdrop. The season score, in the Arena, adds up each player's play across every game in the Arena. The site says it outright: that ranking pays nothing, because airdrops are paid game by game, from each game's own board.

How it works

  1. On your game's page

    Your game's page has a section called “Airdrop season” (“Season” before your game has a token), with the board under “Standings”. Before anyone has played it says “Nobody has ranked yet” and tells players what to do: play, then press “Stop” or leave the page, and their score appears there. A run joins the board when the player's session ends, not the moment it files its score.

    An empty Standings board on a game's page: faint placeholder rows numbered 1 to 4, the title Nobody has ranked yet and the line Play this game, then press Stop or leave the page, and your score appears here.
    An empty board, before anyone has ranked.

  2. Open the Arena

    The home page links to it (“open the arena →”, and “Arena” in its footer), or go to elixir.games/arena. A line under the title names the stretch of time the boards count, such as “Rolling window”, and how many games in the Arena can be played. “How scoring works” on the same line leads to the rules.

    Below, a row of tabs: one for the season score, then one per game, each with how many players it has ranked (“24 ranked”) or “Not playable yet” for a game that cannot be played yet. Games launched with a token come first, then published games still waiting for their token.

    Computer: the Arena: the title, the line Rolling window · 2 playable games in the Arena with How scoring works on the right, a stage showing the games, and a row of tabs: Season with 11 ranked, Pixel Racer with 11 ranked, Chill Toy not playable yet and Orb Chase with 9 ranked; then the start of Season standings.
    The Arena on a computer, with test games and demo players.
    Phone: the Arena: the title, the line under it, How scoring works, the stage, and the tabs, which run on sideways past the edge.
    On a phone, the tabs scroll sideways.

  3. Your game's tab

    Press your game's tab and the Arena shows “… standings” for your game, with a “Play …” button that takes players straight to it. It is the same board as on your game's page. Its caption gives the formula in one line: “Score = sessions × hours counted × placing × streak, plus goals. A player's best run sets their placing.”

    The Pixel Racer tab selected: Pixel Racer standings with the Play Pixel Racer button, the line Score = sessions × hours counted × placing × streak, plus goals. A player's best run sets their placing., and five ranked players, the top three highlighted, each with chips for sessions, hours counted, best run, placing, days running and goals, and a score on the right.
    A game's tab: its board, and a button to play it.

  4. The season score

    The “Season” tab shows “Season standings”: “Your play on every game in the Arena, added up.” Each player has a total, and under it the part that came from each game. Each game's part is its board score without goals. The top places show at once, and “Show the other … ranked” opens the rest.

    Season standings: the line Your play on every game in the Arena, added up. This ranking pays nothing, and five players, each with a total on the right and a chip for the part each game gave them.
    Each player's total, and the part each game gave.

  5. What it means for your players

    A player's place on your game's board decides their share of your game's airdrop once your game has graduated. A place earned without a wallet shows on the board but cannot be paid, because there is nowhere to send it. How a place is made, and how it turns into a share, is in Scoring and airdrops.

What it does not do (yet)