Town Hall Summary
- Speakers:
- Aggroed (Co-Founder)
- Yabapmatt (Chief Product Officer)
- Nateaguila (Creative Director)
- WeirdBeard (ESports Manager)
- Breeze (Technical Writer)
- Kamelot (QA Engineer)
- Mancio92 (Developer)
- Main Topics:
- Development Updates 💥
- Land & SPS Updates ⚡️
- New Legendary Life Summoner Concept Art 👀
- Recording:
Timestamps:
- 01:30 - General Intro
- 04:05 - Yabapmatt Updates (Development)
- 28:15 - Nateaguila Updates (Creative)
- 43:35 - WeirdBeard Updates (Tournaments/ESports)
- 45:45 - Breeze Intro (Technical Writer)
- 53:40 - Kamelot Intro (QA Engineer)
- 58:15 - Mancio92 Intro (Developer)
- 1:06:00 - Land Update/Overview (Yabapmatt)
- 1:11:50 - SPS Update/Overview (Yabapmatt)
- 1:27:25 - Q&A
- 1:52:50 - Closing Remarks
💥 Company Updates 💥
Development Updates:
- Yabapmatt has never been more bullish on Splinterlands and the future
- Multiple projects being worked on simultaneously
- Splinterlands teams continue to grow and increase bandwidth
- Current projects are improving the infrastrucutre of the game and economy
- Current/Upcoming Developments
- Modern/Wild (~April)
- New Reward Structure/Economy (~April)
- SPS Private Distributions Ending
- Non-Card Market
- Riftwatchers
- SPS Validators
- Land
- Modern/Wild Recap
- Modern - Allows Untamed, Dice, & Chaos Legion
- Power requirements will probably be half the CP requirements
- Wild - Allows all cards
- Power requirements will most likely not be changed
- Reward pool will be doubled due to having two different formats
- Modern - Allows Untamed, Dice, & Chaos Legion
- Reward Changes
- Solution is to build the economy in a way to incentivize active players and encourage card ownership
- Starter cards will begin to reduce the amount of rewards you earn
- Using all starter cards will earn 0 rewards
- Using a few starter cards will still earn rewards, but a reduced amount
- This will encourage players to start buying cards and/or renting more frequently to earn
- Team may adjust spellbook purchases to include credits so new players can buy/rent right away and earn without only having starter cards
- New reward system will have different tiers of reward chests
- All leagues can earn you a significant number of chests
- However, lower tiers will see lower quality of rewards
- Higher leagues will have better chances for better rewards
- Will keep the incentive for climbing to higher leagues
- Gold Foil Legendaries are still possible to be earned in Bronze rewards, just very rare
- Plan on releasing 10 new Reward cards into the mix as well
- Should include a new ability that may also be seen in the Riftwatchers set
- Expanding In-Game Market
- Team is developing an entire new framework for the in-game market
- Will be more mobile friendly, user friendly, and improve UX/UI
- Will allow for non-card assets to be bought/sold (land, titles, totems, etc..)
- Team is developing an entire new framework for the in-game market
Land Updates (From Yabapmatt - The Wizard Himself):
- Been laying the groundwork for all the pieces to come together
- Release dates are still TBD until groundwork is more finalized
- Phase 1
- Redeem claims to reveal your land type and rarity
- Market will support land claims and land plots
- Map will be introduced to view all the land, tracts, and regions
- Future developments:
- Harvesting resources and crafting items/spells
- Potential automated marketing pools, LP providers, lending platforms
SPS Updates (From Yabapmatt - The Wizard Himself):
- "I think people are underestimating SPS" - Yabapmatt
- Riftwatchers will be sold purely for SPS only
- Will probably be 10x the supply of Dice
- SPS Validators is basically building their own blockchain platform
- Currently in the internal testing phase
- Planning to allow people to buy licenses to run nodes
- Two ways to earn rewards (split reward pools):
- Be voted to be a top SPS Validator
- Purchase licenses to run nodes
- SPS will be burned and will require vouchers as well
- There will be a pre-sale for license purchases
- Licenses will be NFTs and will be tradeable
- Will be created to be as easiest as possible for anyone to run a node
- New and interesting SPS features will come after the SPS airdrop is complete
- Teaser: Splinterlands wants to be its own DeFi platform
Creative Team Updates:
- New Tome of Chaos Story - Change
- Main character may show up in Riftwatchers or in the new Reward set
- Creative team has been churning out assets for all the current projects and upcoming ones as well
Tournament/ESports Updates:
- $10k Community Gaming tournament went smoothly over the weekend
- Saw over 60k viewers on Twitch streams
- Overall tournament participation has increased by more than 30%
⚡️ Q&A Summary ⚡️
Splinterfest:
- Currently looking into the HyperX Arena at the Luxor as a potential venue
- Would allow for live tournaments on an actual ESport-style stage and maybe even an AMA/Townhall
- Other venues that will allow the same setup are being looked at as well
SPS/DEC:
- Another ongoing project is to make SPS and DEC easier to buy
- Looking into third-party services to provide new gateways
Guilds:
- Team is already discussing how to enhance Guild gameplay and Brawls
- Guilds will be an important part of the Land expansion
- Higher level buildings will most likely benefit Land more
Imagine Dragons - Splinterlands Trailer:
Earnings Dashboard:
- Has been discussed within the team to create a dashboard for all earnings within Splinterlands
- SPS, DEC, tournament rewards, market listings/rentals, etc...
- Not as high of a priority though currently
Acquisition Attempts:
- Splinterlands has been approached twice to be acquired, and both were turned down
Gaming Guilds/Scholarships:
- Yabapmatt thinks getting gaming guilds into the game is one of the best ways to grow the ecoystem
- If guilds can raise money and buy a ton of assets and build a scholarship model from them to earn, then it will encourage them to raise more money or encourage other guilds to do the same thing
- Team is actively speaking with multiple guilds to build tools to make it easier to get them in the game
🔥 EYE CANDY 🔥
New Legendary Life Summoner Concept Art
Jared Scar Animation
Cursed Slime Character Development
Past AMA Summaries
- Wednesday, March 16th, 2022
- Community Gaming & Balthazar Intros/Updates 👀
- DYGYCON Update 💥
- Q&A ⚡️
- Wednesday, March 9th, 2022
- Company Updates 💥
- NFTy Arcade & PeakMonsters ⚡️
- Eye Candy 👀
- Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022
- Team Updates 👀
- Warner Music Group Representative 💥
- Q&A ⚡️