Coins Invaders

Coins Invaders is a game about piloting a ship that carries Bitcoin through a fight against other cryptocurrencies. You destroy incoming altcoins and protect the ship with gold shields. The game presents this conflict as a tribute to Toshihiro Nishikado and his 1978 video game Space Invaders.

The cryptocurrency conflict

The game’s story begins with Bitcoin’s creation after the 2008 crisis. It describes Bitcoin as a decentralized digital currency that uses cryptography and blockchain, and recounts the first known Bitcoin exchange in 2010, when Laszlo Hanyecz bought two pizzas for 10,000 bitcoins.

As Bitcoin gains attention, other cryptocurrencies enter the story. Etherium appears in 2014, followed by Tether, Libra and Dogecoin, alongside many more currencies that compete with Bitcoin. The game frames these rivals as threats to Bitcoin and its supporters.

Fight the altcoins

You steer the ship and destroy the other cryptocurrencies as they try to defeat you and wreck your vessel. Gold shields protect the ship, representing physical currency, while the game also invokes the billions of dollars entering currency markets through the FED’s quantitative expansion.