Decentral Games Weekly Newsletter #122

GM Decentral Games community 👋

This week, we shipped an exciting new feature: custom emotes. That’s right, now you can choose what emote plays whenever you win at the tables. We also announced a partnership with IndiGG and are pushing full steam ahead on our Metaverse cash poker game.

Let’s get into the highlights.

Table of Contents

Custom Emotes
Banked ICE Cash Games
Diamond Hands Poker Night
Other Highlights
Development Focus
Ecosystem
Governance
Tournaments
Metaverse Events
Community Spotlight

💪 Custom Emotes

Flex at the tables with custom emotes every time you win: dance, dab, or even t-bag your opponents.

You're playing ICE Poker and a guy T-Bag emotes you CoD-style after taking a big pot.

What's your move? pic.twitter.com/BKe3ZEppJe
— Miles (@0xMiles) May 16, 2023

You can get emotes by:

Opening chests
Buying them from the DCL Marketplace
Buying them from OpenSea

All emotes you’ve previously earned from chests will now show in Your Closet.

🎮 Banked ICE Cash Games

Our Metaverse team has been heads down building the Banked ICE cash poker games.

Want a sneak peek? Peep this short clip that Miles posted from an internal test.

Metaverse Cash Poker (currently tested w Banked ICE in our test env) now supports a rake!

Rake is key as it drives defensible revenue generation and $ICE burn for the DG Ecosystem upon the launch of Malta-compliant, $ICE gameplay. pic.twitter.com/sxzD9VfY08
— Miles (@0xMiles) May 17, 2023

💎 Diamond Hands City Poker Nights

Our favorite day of the week: Diamond Hands Thursdays.

Check out this aftermovie from one of our recent poker nights. Can you spot yourself?

🗞 Other Highlights

We partnered with IndiGG, a gaming DAO dedicated to onboarding the 500M+ gamers of India into web3. Learn more about IndiGG.
Attention Crown and Scepter owners! Did you claim your free Planet IX Starter Pack from our partnership yet? If not, you should. They’re holding a gaming competition with 5,000,000 $IXT up for grabs. Check out this thread to learn how to win.

💻 Development Focus

Our focus for this upcoming week:

ICE Poker Metaverse

Polishing Arcade Mode, roulette, and blackjack experience.
Continue development for Banked ICE cash poker.
Completing documentation and requirements for Malta Gaming Authority.

ICE Poker Arcade

Begin development for private tables.
Making onboarding improvements.

Marketing

Onboarding TikTok agency.
Optimizing influencer campaigns.
Continuing partnerships with various communities.
Continue optimizing blog and adding educational poker content to increase organic traffic.

💎 Ecosystem

Treasury: $14.5M
Weekly Revenue: $24K
85.3K $DG purchased from Polygon validator node rewards
667K $ICE purchased from secondary sale royalties and USDC from LP

View treasury dashboard.

🏛 Governance

Active

None

Passed

None

To submit or vote on proposals, visit Snapshot.

🏆 Tournaments

Metaverse Tournament Schedule

Wed: 6-8pm UTC, Colosseum
Fri: 8-10pm UTC, Chateau Satoshi
Sun: 2-3pm UTC, Colosseum

All Metaverse tournaments have a 3 Shine entry and you earn 2x points while playing. At each event, 5 random participants will get a chest airdrop.

Arcade Tournament Schedule

Mon: 60 Shine
Tues: 15 Shine Hyper Turbo
Wed: 30 Shine
Thurs: 9 Shine
Fri: 99 Shine Deepstack (1,000 Shine from 9pm to midnight UTC)
Sat: 9 Shine
Sun: 30 Shine

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

To see details of each format, check out the tournament schedule.

📆 Metaverse Events

For all upcoming events, check out our events calendar and follow @DGLiveEvents.

first day at diamond hands city @DecentralGames #icepoker pic.twitter.com/i9jwBJqEzf
— Paul Dc (@PaulD_C) May 19, 2023

Mon, May 22

🎲 Free Game Night w/ $150 USD+ in prizes
9pm UTC/5pm EST, Tominoya

📺 Hustler Casino Live: Max Pain Monday
12am UTC (Tues)/8pm EST, Stronghold

Fri, May 26

📺 DG TV Live Stream
4pm UTC/12pm EST, Kick

💎 Get Lucky with the Babydolls — A Banked ICE Event
6pm UTC/2pm EST, Tominoya

🏆 Satoshi’s Tournament Night w/ PopRoXxX
8pm UTC/4pm EST, Chateau Satoshi

📺 Hustler Casino Live: High Stakes Friday
12am UTC (Sat)/8pm EST, Stronghold

Sun, May 28

🏆 Wassies’ Tournament Night
2pm UTC/10am EST, Colosseum

👥 Community Spotlight

MikeyZee Spotlight

This week, we highlighted MikeyZee: He loves watching sports, is a huge Arsenal fan, and is a beast at the SNG tables.

Read MikeyZee’s Community Spotlight to learn more about him.

Raffle Winners

Congrats to today's raffle winners 🎟️@SirDropBearTV won the Rank 5 Smoking Pants

NUT won the Mythic F1 Jacket, Puffer, and Robe with 690 Shine each

And congrats to @Murphjestic for winning today's SNG tournament

If you missed it, you can tune into the recording below: pic.twitter.com/18hHmt9QE3
— Decentral Games (@DecentralGames) May 19, 2023

Community Tweets

Yo thankyou to @DecentralGames
Woke up to find out I won the raffle for these bad boys 🥰🥰🥰🥰
Our journey is fastly going forward. We now have 2x Level 5 wearables. This time last month I didn't have any.

Just shows you actually have to be in it to win it 🥰🥰🥰 pic.twitter.com/U2iJuQn76r
— SirDropBear (@SirDropBearTV) May 20, 2023

Been grinding on @DecentralGames #Ice #Poker

Finally got to 200 1st place tourney wins. It seemed like those last few were extra hard to win.

Come get some!!#texasholdem #WSOP #poker #metaverse #web3 #gaming #cryptocasino pic.twitter.com/EWUIFGHtUU
— Wan Aye Wassie (3,3) wassie, verse (@Syclops421) May 16, 2023

I am still in shock but today I won a ICE Poker Wearable (Lvl 1), thanks to @0xRyanDG and @DecentralGames!🔥 You made my night!

Time to revisit my notes with @iceyyy_gaming and learn some decent poker to upgrade this wearable 🙂

Also, shoutout to @GoldGuyDCL for always… pic.twitter.com/u90amQjcbO
— Maryana.eth🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@maryanaDCL) May 18, 2023

🎉🙌 I can't contain my excitement!

Just won a fabulous wearable, courtesy of @0xRyanDG and @DecentralGames! 🥳💫

Huge thanks you for making my day extra special.

Best web3game & Community EVER. pic.twitter.com/nHnJTd2sAW
— pepeneur (@pepeneur) May 18, 2023

Pepe pinch me i must be dreaming! 😳

We have stumbled upon Bird Cane All Access Ice Poker Wearable thanks to @0xRyanDG x @DecentralGames 💎🎁

It's clear DG devs are marking their territory within the future of web 3 gaming. New users shall catch the drift eventually. 🚀 pic.twitter.com/0TimWSYhXc
— TwoTone𓂀 (@twotoneDCL) May 18, 2023