Splinterlands Town Hall Summary - April 13th, 2022 - 10AM Eastern!

Town Hall Summary

• Speakers:
  • Aggroed (Co-Founder)
  • Chatter (Director of Growth)
  • WeirdBeard (ESports Manager)
  • Nateaguila (Creative Director)
  • Gavin (EarnKeeper Founder)
  • InvestYGator (Developer)
  • Doogie (VP of Project Management)
  • Alonso (Support)
• Main Topics:
  • Company Updates ⚡️
  • Eye Candy 👀
  • Q&A 💥
• Recording:

• Timestamps:

  • 00:15 - General Intro
  • 03:30 - Gavin Intro (EarnKeeper Founder)
  • 17:00 - InvestYGator Intro/Update (Development)
  • 28:15 - Chatter Update (Marketing)
  • 35:00 - WeirdBeard Update (Tournaments)
  • 41:25 - Doogie Update (Project Management)
  • 47:15 - Nateaguila Update (Creative)
  • 1:17:05 - Alonso (Support)
  • 1:23:50 - Q&A
  • 1:52:45 - Closing Remarks

💥 Company Updates 💥

Development Updates:

• Ranked Rewards
  • Goal is to have this released early next month
  • Want to motivate players to play more
    • Daily quests are going away and will be replaced with Focus Points
    • The more you play and win, the more chests you will be able to achieve
    • There will be diminishing returns so players can't farm new rewards
  • Will include 10-12 new reward cards with the launch
• SPS Validators
  • Should have a post released around end of this week with information on SPS Validators
• Next Release is scheduled for April 19th
• Still new developers being onboarded and being ramped up

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Marketing Updates:

• Looking to kick-off partnerships with a few companies soon
  • One company is an AI company
• Still helping onboard and guilds
• Snapchat ads should be starting soon
  • Google & Facebook have been causing painpoints due to crypto regulations
  • In process of these companies manually approving ads
• Security team is working on completely removing all the fake ads you may see on Google
• Stream TV has officially kicked off
  • Bulldog is doing the Learn To Play stream every Friday
  • Goal is to have a 24/7 stream going
• Looking to test influencer/streamers in the coming weeks
  • In talks with multiple talent management companies

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Creative Team Updates:

• Highest priority for Creative team is Ranked Rewards
  • Will have phase releases meaning that MVP will be Phase 1
  • Team will continue to build on top of Phase 1 and enhance with additional phases
  • Phase 1 will probably have as few of UI/UX changes as possible
  • Phase 2+ will be new animations and graphics

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Tournament/ESports Updates:

• Team is trying to leverage tournaments to target new communities and streamers
• New tournaments will have a new naming convention that will coorelate with the Lore
• Looking to create one-off big tournaments to bring in new partners
  • Would be same partners as what you see in other ESport platforms

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General Team Updates:

• Next weeks Townhall will probably be heavy on SPS Validators
• Please be patient with the team as they are aware of all current issues but it takes time to put out new enhancements and features
  • There are a ton of things being worked on in the background
  • Team does use community feedback to know what needs to be worked on, it just can't be done instantly

⚡️ Q&A Summary ⚡️

SPS Validators:

• Will most likely need a VPS or physical rig to host the server
• Hybrid model between Bitcoin & Hive model
  • Bitcoin model allows anyone with a license to run a Node
  • Hive model allows a certain number of top "witnesses/validators" to run Nodes

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Chaos Legion Legendary Summoners:

• Team has been making good progress on the Chaos Legion Legendary Summoners
• May have some leaks in the next Townhall or next one after that

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Land:

• Nate wants hundreds of different designs for Land assets to choose from
• The initial land developments that are being made are with the platform modernizations
  • Also the non-card market is a pre-cursor to the Land release and being worked on currently as well

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Lore:

• Narrative team is designing a Wiki to aggregate all the Lore
• Also want to release a Lore book eventually

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Rift Watchers / Rebellion:

• Early enough in the process to be months down the road
• Only the designing stages are being started on
  • No development resources are being used on these projects
• Rift Watchers will be released during the Chaos Legion sale
• Rebellion won't be released until after Chaos Legion sells out

🔥 EYE CANDY 🔥

Modern League Badges

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Lava Launcher Attack Animation

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Dhampir Infiltrator

Recent Announcements

Daughter - Tome of Chaos Story

• Extra long story this week as Joaken and Kiara Lightbringer continue their journey

Past AMA Summaries

• Wednesday, April 6th, 2022
  • Official Roadmap 💥
  • Company Updates ⚡️
  • Eye Candy 👀

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• Wednesday, March 30th, 2022
  • Company Updates 💥
  • Splinterlands TV 👀
  • Q&A ⚡️

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• Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022
  • Development Updates 💥
  • Land & SPS Updates ⚡️
  • New Legendary Life Summoner Concept Art 👀

Next AMA - Monday, April 18th, 1PM Eastern (6PM UTC)