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Decentral Games Newsletter #50

Weekly Update - January 2, 2022

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Jan 2
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Welcome to the 50th edition of the Decentral Games Newsletter! Our objective is to keep our community informed of development progress, treasury performance, and upcoming events. Join our Discord and follow our Twitter for more frequent updates.


✅ Summary

  • 2022 Roadmap and Objectives

  • ICE Poker

  • Events Recap

  • DG Treasury

  • This Week’s Events

  • Development Focus

2022 Roadmap + Objectives

Gm and Happy New Year! 2021 was a great year for Decentral Games as we positioned ourselves at the convergence of play-to-earn, metaverse, yield-generating NFTs, and p2e guild management. Still, this is just the beginning. We covered Decentral Games’ 2021 achievements in last week’s newsletter, so this week we will outline the roadmap and objectives for 2022.

At a high level, it's focused on optimizing and scaling ICE Poker. Today, about 4k players play ICE Poker daily for 2-4 hours per day.

ICE Poker Daily Active Players

Two months since launching ICE Poker, the DG treasury has generated $5,476,336 in ICE Poker wearable sales and $282,039 in royalties. With this unprecedented product-market fit that has grown to represent 90% of the DG Treasury’s revenue, we are laser-focused on scaling ICE Poker 50x from here – to 200,000 daily active players by the end of 2022.

Here's how we'll do it:

New ICE Poker Wearables

We will release new lines of ICE Poker wearables at a rate that ensures that more demand than supply to ensure a healthy in-game economy. Minting will be held primarily in ETH with at least one monthly mint in ICE, which will allow players that have been playing with a delegated NFT the opportunity to use their ICE rewards to mint their own wearable.

Improved Gameplay and Features

Despite very positive feedback from the community, we have big plans to further improve the ICE Poker gameplay experience. Additional features we are excited to roll out include:

  • Assigned seating and cool-down periods to prevent collusion/check-only tables that hinder player experience

  • New themed ICE Poker Venues starting with Chateau Satoshi and Serenity

  • Exclusive Diamond Hands wearable-only venues with access to a higher tier leaderboard with bigger prizes

  • New added random daily ICE Challenges featuring incentives to win instead of getting certain hands

  • ICE Poker venue events with streamed entertainment to increase stickiness

  • Additional ways to burn ICE

    • Higher stakes ICE Poker competitions with access to a separate leaderboard via burning ICE

    • Non-ICE NFT cosmetic wearables

    • Custom NFT emotes

    • Reroll the bonus variable of a ICE Poker NFT

Native Guild Tools

Guilds are a natural response to play-to-earn economies as they allow NFT holders to maximize asset yield and give players looking to earn without buying assets the option to play-to-earn for free. In order to keep maximum value within the Decentral Games ecosystem, it’s essential to offer native guild management tools featuring a trustless revenue split between NFT owners and players, as well as key performance indicators so guild managers can efficiently assess their players.

Features we are most excited to roll out include:

  • Native player screening system with verification to prevent multi-accounting

  • Key performance indicators with history of check ins, challenges completed, ICE earned, leaderboard tier placement

  • Player ranking system

  • Variable revenue splits for NFT owner/player

Following the launch and subsequent community feedback from ICE Poker Delegation Dashboard V1, we will be focused on optimizing and adding even more community-requested features to deliver an even better guild management experience.

ICE Poker Mobile

Finally, we believe we can scale to six-figure daily active players in the metaverse focused on desktop, but our longer term plans to scale ICE Poker beyond 1M will require creating a parallel mobile experience that allows folks without access to a desktop or laptop computer to partake in the ICE Poker ecosystem. The initial ICE Poker Mobile experience we plan on rolling out includes:

  • Simplified 2D ICE Poker gameplay

  • ICE Poker NFT minting/trading/delegating support

  • Delegation dashboard view

  • Claiming ICE support

We plan to have a working version of this mobile client by end of Q1, and we plan on adding slightly lower ICE payouts for ICE Poker Mobile in order to incentivize folks to play in the Metaverse. The main objective with ICE Poker Mobile is greater accessibility.

We are excited to continue our mission of driving metaverse adoption through sustainable play-to-earn economics that provide opportunity for the DG community into 2022. This year, we are confident we can solidify Decentral Games as a leader in blockchain gaming and the open metaverse – and we are happy to have you all with us on this journey!

ICE Poker

NFT Drop #5 - Founding Fathers

Last week, we hosted the 5th ICE Poker NFT Mint featuring the Founding Fathers line.

The drop sold out in a record 3 minutes, and 10M ICE was burned following the drop:

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10M ICE Burn (2M USD) following ICE Poker Mint #5 in ICE

One minor issue was that some folks had issues with the ICE authorization step during minting due to the volume of requests to our gasless meta-transaction provider Biconomy. In order to mitigate issue this for future drops, we will allow folks to authorize before the mint goes live.

ICE Poker - Chateau Satoshi

We plan to launch the ICE Poker - Chateau Satoshi this week to support the influx of players from future ICE Poker NFT Drops. Our concurrent player count in ICE Poker is currently 700-800 with 4,500 ICE Poker NFTs in circulation, while our theoretical max concurrents given table seating is 1,080 players. With the introduction of ICE Poker - Chateau Satoshi, we will be able to accommodate over 2,000 concurrent players.

Delegation Dashboard V1

We are finalizing V1 of the ICE Poker delegation dashboard, which we play to deploy live to start receiving community feedback this week.

Events Recap

On Friday night, the Decentral Games community celebrated the transition into 2022 with an event in Tominoya featuring live music performances and fireworks.

Decentral Games NYE Party
Decentral Games NYE Party Musical Performance

DG Token Migration

91% of the original $DG tokens have been migrated to the new DG, which now has a supply of 354,141,126 DG. Read the full blog post here, and migrate your DG tokens using our seamless step-by-step process here on Ethereum mainnet and Polygon if you haven’t already.

Caution: Beware of Phishing

Scammers impersonating the DG Team have been targeting community members through Discord DMs. If you have any doubt, please reach out to a verified DG team member. DG team members will never request for you to connect your wallet to a non-DG site.

💰 DG Treasury Snapshot

DG Treasury Snapshot - Jan 2, 2022

The DG treasury now holds $55.63M USD.

ICE Poker NFT Royalties from OpenSea

The ICE Poker OpenSea collection has accumulated 1,518 ETH in total secondary market sales, generating 74.38 ETH ($282,039 USD) in royalties for the DG treasury. Visit the Treasury Dashboard to view it in real time.

🏛 Governance Proposals

There are currently no active DG Governance proposals. To make a proposal, visit the Decentral Games Snapshot dashboard.


📆 This Week’s Events

Virtual events bring the community together each week to play games, hang out, enjoy live music and win prizes! Make sure to swing by and claim your Decentral Games POAPs at the following events this week:

Monday, Jan 3

  • Crypto Casino Night with DJ performance, featuring $2,500 USD+ in prizes up for grabs @ 9pm UTC / 4pm EST 👉  RSVP | Hop in

Wednesday, Jan 5

  • Chateau Satoshi Crypto Casino Night competition, featuring $2,500 USD+ in prizes up for grabs @ 7:30pm UTC / 2:30pm EST 👉 RSVP | Hop in

Thursday, Jan 6

  • Asia & Australia Crypto Competition, featuring $2,500 USD+ in prizes up for grabs @ 1pm UTC / 8am EST 👉 RSVP | Hop in

  • $DG Hodlers Round Table w/ Miles Anthony, Co-Founder of Decentral Games, discussing biweekly updates, featuring $300 USD in $DG raffles@ 7pm UTC / 3pm EST 👉  RSVP | Hop in 

Friday, Jan 7

  • Crypto Casino Night featuring $2,500+ in prizes up for grabs, with DJ performance @ 9pm UTC / 4pm EST 👉 RSVP | Hop in

Saturday, Jan 8

  • DG & Comedy Decentral present Vancity Comedy Extravaganza LIVE w/ 6 comics performing, featuring $300 in $DG airdrops @ 11pm EST / 4am UTC
    👉 RSVP | Hop in

Sunday, Jan 9

  • SUNDAY FUNDAY Crypto Casino Night, featuring $2,500 USD+ in prizes up for grabs @ 11pm UTC / 6pm EST 👉 RSVP | Hop in

👉 Check our events page for easy access to upcoming events!

💻 Development Focus

This week, the Decentral Games team is working on:

  • Launch ICE Poker - Chateau Satoshi venue

  • Improved DG Governance/Staking dashboard

  • ICE Poker delegator dashboard V1

  • ICE Poker gameplay optimizations

  • FREE Play tournament optimizations


About Decentral Games

Decentral Games is a metaverse-native gaming DAO building play-to-earn poker. DG Hodlers vote on treasury management, economic policy, and development to grow and strengthen the Decentral Games ecosystem.

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