Decentral Games Weekly Newsletter #111

GM Decentral Games community 👋

Another week, another shipped feature.

This week, we released a major Metaverse update packed with improvements and bug fixes. We also welcomed a new ambassador, published a marketing update, and more. Let’s dive in.

Table of Contents

• Metaverse Updates
• Ambassador EmpressRaeon
• ICE Pirate and Chip
• Vroomway Airdrop
• Other Highlights
• Development Focus
• Ecosystem
• Governance
• Tournaments
• Metaverse Events
• Community Spotlight

🎮 Metaverse Updates

We released a major ICE Poker Metaverse update that includes:

• Assigned Seating V3
• Quality of life improvements
• Various bug fixes

Assigned Seating V3

Our goal with Stage 1 of Assigned Seating V3 is to keep venues as full as possible to keep the active tables filled and make colluding more difficult.

To kick things off, only servers DG, Artemis, and Baldr will be available for Challenge Mode gameplay. If you’re in a closed server, you’ll be prompted to go to an active server.

To see all the updates, check out the patch notes.

👑 Ambassador EmpressRaeon

Welcome our newest ICE Poker ambassador: EmpressRaeon!

Empress will be streaming on Kick on Thursdays at 2pm PST and Sundays at 11:30am PST. Be sure to check out her stream and give her a follow.

Drop her a welcome on Twitter 👋

🏴‍☠️ ICE Pirate & Chip

This week, we got a glimpse into how the ICE Pirate and Chip arrived in Decentraland.

Watch the video to get a peek into their backstory.

The ICE Pirate has always been drawn to the thrill of poker.

As a wee lass, washing the decks, she’d spend her nights playing with the crew—showing no mercy as she plundered all their loot.

After climbing the ranks and becoming the captain of her own ship, she yearned for a… pic.twitter.com/OnIjQOd69m

— Decentral Games (@DecentralGames) March 2, 2023

Thank you for giving Chip a warm welcome and showing him a good time around Decentraland. He appreciates the love.

Recently, he’s been going on adventures with MikeyZee at the Stronghold, Dollhouse, and other locations. Follow along below.

'The Adventures of Mikey & Chip' – Chapter 1 🤙🙈

Mikey was known as the most charismatic poker player in town. His charm and wit at the poker table were legendary, and he had a loyal sidekick monkey named Chip who accompanied him wherever he went. pic.twitter.com/QJu4AuMGIX

— MikeyZee💎✨ (@Mikeyzee22) March 2, 2023

🏎️ Vroomway Airdrop

Vroom, vroom.

On Thursday, we airdropped Vroomway Arcade skins and a racer.

• Crown owners + Vroomway participants received a Vroomway skin 
• Crown + Scepter owners also received a cool racer to use in Vroomway

Be sure to stop by our Metaverse SNG event with Vroomway next Tuesday (event details at the bottom of this newsletter).

And check out the sick promo video made by Nikki Fuego below.

Decentral Games 🤝 Vroomway

If you checked out @Vroomwayio or own a Crown/Scepter then be on the lookout for an exclusive skin and racer in your wallet soon

🏎️💎 pic.twitter.com/OXssdcPYhY

— Decentral Games (@DecentralGames) March 2, 2023

🗞 Other Highlights

• Victoria published a user acquisition report. In February, we successfully decreased our cost per new player by 84%. For the full report, check out this Twitter thread.
• Congrats to @Sixto241 for winning our ICE Poker Arcade giveaway for a DG prize bundle with a hoodie, hat, sticker pack, and $xDG.

💻 Development Focus

Our focus for this upcoming week:

ICE Poker Metaverse

• Integrate player leveling into Challenge Mode and Arcade Mode.
• Begin developing Stage 2 of Assigned Seating V3.
• Polishing Arcade Mode and blackjack experience.

ICE Poker Arcade

• Continuing designs for a Free Play Mode.
• Scoping out work for ICE Poker Chests.

Marketing

• Continuing development for a referral program.
• Optimizing blog and adding educational poker content.
• Setting up influencer campaigns.
• Continuing optimize user acquisition campaigns.
• Continuing partnerships with various communities.

💎 Ecosystem

• Treasury: $17.9M
• Weekly Revenue: $26.2K
• 60.1K $DG purchased from Polygon validator node rewards
• 1.7M $ICE purchased from secondary sale royalties, USDC from LP, and LAND sale

View treasury dashboard.

🏛 Governance

Active

• ICE Halving Adjustments (1/2)
• ICE Halving Adjustment (2/2)
• Adjust Challenge Mode Multipliers
• [DCL DAO] Add DRESSX Digital Fashion to the Linked Wearables Registry

Passed

• Develop Banked ICE & Shine based Blackjack, Roulette, and Cash Poker

To submit or vote on proposals, visit Snapshot.

🏆 Tournaments

• Mon: 60 Shine
• Tues: 15 Shine Hyper Turbo
• Wed: 30 Shine
• Thurs: 15 Shine Hyper Turbo
• Fri: 99 Shine Deepstack
• Sat: 30 Shine
• Sun: 30 Shine

All Arcade tournament events start at midnight UTC and last for 24 hours. 3 Shine tournaments are available 24/7.

📆 Metaverse Events

For all upcoming events, check out our events calendar.

#monkeebusiness @DecentralGames 🍌 pic.twitter.com/h9cpG7y8xN

— SpicyPrawn.eth (@SpicyPrawnDG) March 2, 2023

Mon, Mar 6

🎲 Free Game Night w/ $150 USD+ in prizes
10pm UTC/5pm EST, Tominoya

📺 Hustler Casino Live: Max Pain Monday
1am UTC (Tues)/8pm EST, Stronghold

Tues, Mar 7

🏎️ Vroomway Tournament Night
10pm UTC/5pm EST, Colosseum

💃 DCL Baby Dolls & DG: MVFW ’23 Designer Spotlight Series
11pm UTC/6pm EST, Stronghold

Wed, Mar 8

🦬 Buckwild on the Vinyls w/ DJ Bufalo
9pm UTC/4pm EST, Stronghold

Thurs, Mar 9

🏆 Colosseum Tournament Night
10pm UTC/5pm EST, Colosseum

💎 Diamond Hands City Poker Night w/ DJ TRAX & MC Dimo
12am UTC (Fri)/7pm EST, Diamond Hands City

Fri, Mar 10

🎧 Immerse w/ PopRoXxX
8pm UTC/3pm EST, Stronghold

📺 Hustler Casino Live: High Stakes Friday
1am UTC (Sat)/8pm EST, Stronghold

👥 Community Spotlight

ICE Poker Clips of the Week

This week’s winners are Morphbot and ben_01bc.

Submit your clips in our Discord each week to win Shine and get your clip featured.

Bonus Clip

Congrats to FriendlyPaisan for getting his first win! Love the raw energy. Watch the clip below with sound on.