Splinterlands Town Hall Summary - March 2nd, 2022 - 4PM Eastern!

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

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Waka Spiritblade Phase 1 Sale:

• Sale sold out in ~40 seconds
• 414 unique buyers for the 500 total cards sold

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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
  • Waka's Army - Tome of Chaos Story
• Creative team is mainly focused on designing the new assets for Modern/Wild format

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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

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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

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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)
• 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

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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

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Modern/Wild:

• Modern/Wild will be released first for Ranked play
• Tournament adjustments will be released as a second phase

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Avatar For Opponent During Ranked/Tournaments

For when your opponent's name and info is hidden

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

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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 👀

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• Wednesday, February 16th, 2022
  • Waka Flocka Collaboration Updates 👀
  • Company Updates ⚡️
  • Q&A Summary 💥

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• Wednesday, February 9th, 2022
  • Waka Flocka Partnership 💥
  • Imagine Dragons Advertisement 👀
  • Tournaments ⚡️

Next AMA - Wednesday, March 9th, 8PM Eastern (1AM UTC)