Town Hall Summary
- Speakers:
- Aggroed (Co-Founder)
- Hardpoint (Chief Technology Officer)
- Chatter (Director of Growth)
- Nateaguila (Creative Director)
- WeirdBeard (ESports Manager)
- JaiaJaguar (Warner Music Group)
- WafflesKitty (DYGYCON)
- InvestYGator (Rapid Team Developer)
- Robbie (Event Manager)
- Main Topics:
- Team Updates 👀
- Warner Music Group Representative 💥
- Q&A ⚡️
- Recording:
Timestamps:
- 00:50 - General Intro
- 03:20 - Hardpoint Update (Overall Team)
- 19:10 - Nateaguila Update (Creative)
- 26:50 - Chatter Update (Marketing)
- 37:55 - JaiaJaguar Intro (Warner Music Group Representative)
- 54:45 - Weirdbeard Update (Tournaments)
- 59:30 - WafflesKitty Update (DYGYCON)
- 1:01:50 - InvestYGator Intro (Rapid Team Developer)
- 1:07:55 - Robbie Intro (Event Manager)
- 1:14:30 - Q&A
- 1:54:05 - Closing Remarks
💥 Company Updates 💥
Warner Music Group Partnership:
- New Business Adventures Team - Jillian (JaiaJaguar)
- Goal is to integrate music and artists into new media
- Previos partnerships consisted of Facebook/Instagram (Meta), Musicly (TikTok), Snap, Triller
- WMG team wants to increase their ability to connect more directly with audiences and fans
- WMG games want to build their own community, ecosystem, and enjoyable gameplay
Waka Spiritblade Phase 1 Sale:
- Sale sold out in ~40 seconds
- 414 unique buyers for the 500 total cards sold
Creative Updates:
- Creative team is constantly onboarding new members just like the other teams
- Waka promo page will be updated soon to reference the second sale (See Recent Announcements)
- Newly released background story for Waka
- Creative team is mainly focused on designing the new assets for Modern/Wild format
Marketing Updates:
- Stream team should be kicked off in the next few weeks
- Team is creating a new video series to fully explain how to get into the game
- How to create an account, battle, buy SPS/DEC, etc...
- Hardpoint will be speaking at Game Developers Conference (GDC)
- "Super Bowl for all game devs" - Hardpoint
- Chatter will be speaking at NFT|LA
- Zipmex partnership should be launching Friday, March 4th
Tournaments:
- Next round of tournaments will be created very soon
- CP changes have increased participation in all the tournaments
- Keeping an eye on:
- Prize distributions
- Deck Competitivity
- Rank Inflation
- Development team is working on the new tournament modes
- Want to create a tournament streaming mode for streamers
Team Updates:
- Team Member Counts:
- 12 current Developers
- 7 Devs going through collaborative evaluations
- 31 total Creative team members
- 9 hired just this year
- 26 total Support team members
- 10 Other (PO, PM, other departments, admins, etc)
- 12 current Developers
- Team adopted an Agile approach and creating Agile teams across the board
- 4 different product teams
- Modern/Wild, Rapid Delivery, Land, SPS Validators
- 12 different specialty teams
- Creative Narrative
- Creative Art
- Creative Design
- Economy Design
- Security Team
- Analytics
- Data Service Team
- Zendesk Team
- Support
- Account Management
- Triage Live Agent
- Stream Team
- 4 different product teams
DYGYCON 8:
- DYGYCON is a gateway to crypto projects, talks, giveaways, and community networking
- Hosted by Splinterlands
- Live from March 18th - 20th
- Main Date: Mar 19th, 2022 | 2 PM - 5 PM EST / 7 PM - 10 PM UTC
- RSVP Now
- Giving out 25 Chaos Legion packs and 25 Vouchers
⚡️ Q&A Summary ⚡️
Reward System:
- Team has been building out data models of the reward system and analyzing them
- These models will drive how the team changes the reward system to incentivize players
- New ranked reward system will smooth out the rewards towards the end of season
- The longer you play over the season, the more you will be rewarded
Modern/Wild:
- Modern/Wild will be released first for Ranked play
- Tournament adjustments will be released as a second phase
Warner Music Group:
- Team's constant goal is to always add value to Splinterlands assets and the community
- That being said, the team is striving to integrate Splinterlands assets into WMG games and make them seamless
Land:
- For the past three weeks, there has been a dedicated team working on Land specifically
- Team wants to release a Land roadmap in the near-future for people to look forward too
Lore:
- Splinterlands Narrative Editor came from Marvel & DC
- Will leverage his network and experience for a Splinterlands comic book
- Narrative team is compiling all their stories together to possibly release a book or digital PDF
Waka Spiritblade:
- The second half of the Waka sale is being sold on Atomic Hub due to contract agreements
- Atomic Hub prices were gauged to be near the price sold within Splinterlands (~$1700)
🔥 EYE CANDY 🔥
Bronze Shields For Modern/Wild
Avatar For Opponent During Ranked/Tournaments
Recent Announcements
Announcing The Release Of The TeraBlock Bridge
- TeraBlock will be the new bridge service for all DEC/SPS token transfers over ETH and BSC
- Existing bridge will operate for 30 days once TeraBlock is live
Waka Spiritblade Atomic Hub Sale
- Live on Thursday, March 10th at 12:00 PM EST (17:00 UTC)
- Prices:
- Regular Foil - $1500 in WAX
- Gold Foil - $7000 in WAX
Past AMA Summaries
- Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022
- Warner Music Group Partnership 💥
- Unbound Nation & YGG Intros/Updates ⚡️
- Other Company Updates 👀
- Wednesday, February 16th, 2022
- Waka Flocka Collaboration Updates 👀
- Company Updates ⚡️
- Q&A Summary 💥
- Wednesday, February 9th, 2022
- Waka Flocka Partnership 💥
- Imagine Dragons Advertisement 👀
- Tournaments ⚡️