**📣ANNOUNCEMENT**📣

Hello, everyone! We have some exciting updates for Project A our creature collecting game! 🔥

🆕**New Creature Reveal**
Say hello to our newest creature addition! Although this animation test is a single creature, these squid inspired creatures always travel in groups of 3. The design and art teams are creating a 3 in 1 creature design kit that will work together to dominate battles in Project A. Once the final rig is complete we'll have a lot more fun animations to share as we get them in-game. 

 We've already started development on our fourth creature, bringing even more diversity and depth to Project A combat.


🏗️**First External Playtest**
We're working towards our next big milestone, which will be the first external playtest of Project A. We're targeting August to have 4 creatures, the MVP of the core game loop, called Journeys, and plenty of unique and swappable abilities for each creature. The focus of this test is on  "finding the fun" and testing the core combat mechanics.  Our goal is to ensure each creature has its unique identity and skills, adding strategic depth and tons of fun to Project A.

As always, thank you for your patience and support as Project A begins to take shape! 🚀💥

@everyone

Hey @everyone happy Friday!!! <a:party_blob:784146655678300211> 

🐟 **NEW CREATURE **🐟 
Check out the new 3d models of our second Project A creature from the Terror Essence. We're working on getting this guy rigged and animated into the game for next week and are beginning to create the third creature, which is of the bloom essence! 

<:bb:956628347822166046>** DEV PROMOTIONS **<:bb:956628347822166046> 
We're also super pumped to share that @​Slynejob and @​elebelly have been promoted to Game Designer and Senior Character Artist! These are the first promotions we've had as a studio as they approach their 1 year anniversaries. Slynejob has been doing an insane job on the game design of Project A and laying out a great core game loop that we're building towards now, referencing rogue-like, MOBA, and RPG genres into a new hybrid auto-battler format. Elebelly has been killing it on the 3d modeling front, knocking out these creatures. As Project A takes shape, we aim to have one of the best-looking (and playing) creature-collecting IPs on the market.


Have a great weekend!

Hey @everyone happy Friday!!! <a:party_blob:784146655678300211> 

🐟 **NEW CREATURE **🐟 
Check out the new 3d models of our second Project A creature from the Terror Essence. We're working on getting this guy rigged and animated into the game for next week and are beginning to create the third creature, which is of the bloom essence! 

<:bb:956628347822166046>** DEV PROMOTIONS **<:bb:956628347822166046> 
We're also super pumped to share that <@171055495765819392> and <@381304323490971648> have been promoted to Game Designer and Senior Character Artist! These are the first promotions we've had as a studio as they approach their 1 year anniversaries. Slynejob has been doing an insane job on the game design of Project A and laying out a great core game loop that we're building towards now, referencing rogue-like, MOBA, and RPG genres into a new hybrid auto-battler format. Elebelly has been killing it on the 3d modeling front, knocking out these creatures. As Project A takes shape, we aim to have one of the best-looking (and playing) creature-collecting IPs on the market.


Have a great weekend!

**<:bb:956628347822166046> PROJECT A UPDATE <:bb:956628347822166046>**
We have a video this week showcasing some updates to the combat prototype for Project A! We've added the following features which you'll see in the video below

o We've added new melee attack animations to the first fennec fox creature.
o Created the ability system to cast spells from the UI
o Created a ranged creature and the ability to cast projectiles and keep distance from opponents
o Added name plate UI to see the creatures names during combat.

We're working on finishing up the character model for the second variation of the fennec fox creature from the Terror Essence and will be getting that rigged and in-game next week along with more UI and combat animation polish. We're also starting to building out the weapon systems that will evolve over the course of a play session granting the players additional powers to choose from as they explore the world of Project A. 

Have a great weekend @everyone 🔥

Hey @everyone happy Friday!

We have another video update to share! The team has been working hard on getting feature parity in Unreal Engine as we move towards playtesting Project A internally. We had our first test of the back-end server architecture this week, and we'll be quickly moving toward combat testing. We've added a few new systems, including a  selectable creature UI, a combat camera, and a first-pass ability system. 

💎 **DESIGN / WEB 3 UPDATE:** 💎 
We also want to share some early game design direction for Project A, including the types of NFTs players will collect! When we began the pivot to Project A, we needed to know precisely the core game loop and what kind of rewards and items players would collect and earn within the game. We now have a strong direction we're building towards that includes a variety of on-chain assets, mainly Avatars, Creatures, Weapons, and Abilities. Here's a brief introduction to these systems within Project A.

🏆**CREATURES** 
Creatures are the primary type of collection in Project A. Each creature will have unique ability slots, passives, a unique array of types, and genetics, giving it power, rarity, and collectability. In Project A, you can mint creatures as NFTs, which will significantly augment your playstyles and cooperative combat strategies. Each creature will fight alongside your teammate's roster of creatures, summoned by your avatar. With creatures having vastly unique abilities and strengths, building a strong collection of creatures will be the key to success in the game.

🏆**WEAPONS**
Weapons NFTs will be used to summon your creature in battle. Throughout a single play session, your weapon will evolve, giving you choices to tailor your build, power curve, and playstyle to your choosing. As you collect weapons, you can upgrade and improve them to make them even more powerful. Each weapon will have unique DNA that dictates the types of evolutions it can undertake. You will be able to reroll the DNA of the weapons you collect. In-game battles will require strategy and skill, so having a good collection of weapons will be crucial.

🏆**ABILITIES**
Ability NFTs will give your creatures special powers that can be used in battle. These include healing abilities, speed boosts, or ranged attacks, tanks, executes, buffs, and debuffs. Like weapons, abilities will come in different rarities and can be upgraded over time. Players will collect abilities through the world of Project A and be able to dynamically equip them on creatures, swap them around, and augment them as battles progress. 

🏆**AVATARS**
Avatars NFTs are the playable characters that wield power to summon creatures at will in Project A. Every avatar can explore the world and collect creatures; the unique differentiators will be primarily cosmetic. This will allow players to collect and customize their character's appearance in the game. There will be various avatars to collect, each with its unique look and style. Collecting and upgrading Avatars will allow you to stand out in the game and show off your style.

We know these will be the 4 primary classes of NFTs within the game. As we develop, we'll create various entry points for our Evaverse holders to burn their NFTs in exchange for comparable rarity of Project A's NFTs. There are a lot more details and content to flesh out, and we're going to do much deeper dives into the game design in the future, but we're very excited about the direction and potential to create a brand new collectible experience in web3. 

Have a great weekend! <:bblove:966040364110721087>

<:bb:956628347822166046>**PROJECT A PROTOTYPE** <:bb:956628347822166046> 
This week, we have a brief update showing off some of our in-game prototype progress in Unreal Engine. We're learning much new tech and making significant headway getting the prototype up in Unreal. 

This video showcases creature spawning and basic combat mechanics are properly networked through Unreal's multiplayer development framework. 

The next steps are getting new placeholder creatures into the game, having the first multiplayer internal team playtests, and setting up the back-end server architecture that will ultimately scale to support the whole game. 

As we progress, we'll share more notable updates on the game development and investment round.

Have a great week @everyone

<:bb:956628347822166046> **PROJECT A UPDATE** <:bb:956628347822166046>
Hard to believe we're halfway through April already! Our dev team is currently in the middle of a RnD stage as we explore new technology to build Project A.  We're mainly focused on Unreal Engine and porting the prototype work over. It's not super flashy but we're leaning new tools that are important part of the game development process.  

Here's a snapshot of what the focus is across the dev disciplines.

🎨 Art team is focused on procedural modeling and texturing tools like SpeedTree and Substance Designer to build out foliage and environments at scale in Unreal.

🗺️ Design is building out core gameplay loop, progression models, abilities, stats systems, and monetization strategies across the product.

🧑‍💻 Engineering is learning Unreals C++ and scripting architecture and gameplay abilities system components to determine the best way to develop the foundational tech for Project A.

<:bb:956628347822166046> On the studio side we're actively meeting with investors discussing the mechanics and core vision of Project A. We have over 20 conversations in flight, and reception so far has been very positive! 💎 

<a:backhand_index_pointing_down:707216790052143154> We've also attached a video showing some of the stylized VFX explorations the team is working on.  Have a great week @everyone!

Happy Monday @everyone

<:bb:956628347822166046> **PROJECT A PROTOTYPE PREVIEW** <:bb:956628347822166046> 
We're excited to share with you a combat prototype video for Project A, which showcases high-level gameplay as a proof of concept. Please keep in mind that none of the assets are final and everything is still a work in progress. We're building out the core mechanical direction of the game and are still very early in the development cycle.  The Turtle and First Arrivals model are  still currently temporary until we're able to generate new assets for Project A. 

This is just a prototype, and we're currently investigating the possibility of porting it to Unreal Engine. We're continuing to explore new tech in this RnD phase while we work with investors on our next funding round.  In addition, we're also exploring generative AI and procedural world building techniques in Houdini and Unreal Engine. This will allow us to create expansive 3D spaces using smaller, high-quality game assets, resulting in more iterative and engaging gameplay.

We're grateful for your continued support, and we can't wait to share more updates with you as we continue to develop Project A. 

Thanks for being a part of the Battlebound community and sharing in this journey together! <:bblove:966040364110721087>

<:bb:956628347822166046>**GDC UPDATE **<:bb:956628347822166046> 
We're back from San Fran and an awesome week at GDC. We met with tons of our studio partners  like Magic Eden, Coinbase, a16z, Polygon, YGG, Dapper Labs, Play Ventures, Immutable X, and a long list of new potential investors as well. We shared our vision for Project A and what the team has been building this past quarter and the reception has been overwhelmingly positive and supportive.  We're going to these conversations as we look to raise our next funding round in Q2 of this 2023. The future is bright and we're incredibly excited to build a unique and innovative product that can redefine creature collecting as a genre.

We even spotted some Evaverse concept art hanging on the walls inside the Polygon offices!  👀 

✏️**NEXT STEPS** ✏️ 
With any new game it's important to setup a strong development pipeline. We're using the next month for RnD to explore new technologies that will help us build and scale the game on a strong foundation.  We're looking at Unreal Engine 5, procedural AI generation for art and AI NPC characters, and Houdini for procedural world building. Learning new tech is critical for staying a head of the curve and we're aiming to leverage the industry's latest tooling to build Project A into a massive mainstream hit.

We'll have more updates to share as we progress further into April. 

Thanks @everyone <:bblove:966040364110721087>

hey GM 

<:bb:956628347822166046> **PROJECT A UPDATES** <:bb:956628347822166046> 
We just released a brand new update to the Battlebound website highlighting Project A and our team's progress over the past couple of months. It's been a sprint, but we're very proud of the progress and immersive creature collecting IP Project A is shaping up to be. 

**NEW WEBSITE** 🔥  ▶️  https://www.battlebound.io

Check out the amazing video below showcasing the first glimpse into the world and creatures of the game! Most of the team is attending the Game Developer Conference this week, where we'll share the vision for Project A and meet with new potential investors. We'll have many more updates as we progress on the gameplay side and begin combat testing and building out the exploration game loop.

*You can help us spread the word with a RT / Comment below!*
https://twitter.com/battlebound/status/1638200845379706881

Thank you @everyone <:bblove:966040364110721087>

<:bb:956628347822166046> **STUDIO UPDATES** <:bb:956628347822166046>
Hey @everyone In effort to continue transparent communication with you all as we build project A I want to share some company side updates.  The past few days have been absolutely insane witnessing the unprecedented collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. Although we've spent time with amazing folks from SVB in person, we never established a banking relationship there. Fortunately the FDIC stepped into secure tech companies and their treasuries', but none of our studio's assets we ever jeopardized in this process. We're grateful to be strongly positioned for the future and opportunity to continue building Project A.

As we continue building Project A, we're entering a period of rapid iteration and testing. Our focus is on gameplay, specifically innovative combat mechanics and the fun factor. Since this is a new game it's starting small and we're going to scale it up over time. To do this responsibly we've restructured the dev team to a more lean and efficient size capable of moving quickly and efficiently to scale this game. As such, we ultimately chose to part ways with a few developers who have been with us over the past year. This was a challenging decision to make, but ultimately the right call for the long-term success of the studio and our community and the games we build.

We'll be sharing more gameplay updates soon as well as the relaunched company website towards the of this week.  We really appreciate your continued support and enthusiasm towards Project A and look forward to hearing your thoughts feedback and ideas on the product as it matures.

Happy Monday! <:bbgrind:966703209211125820>

<:bb:956628347822166046> **DEV UPDATES **<:bb:956628347822166046> 

Happy Friday @everyone! Here are some updates the art team has been working on with Project A. We're in the RnD phase exploring the visual fidelity and immersive feel for the world of the game. We're exploring the best ways to bring the concept art to life in a way that supports exploration, social play, and the creature combat game loop. The video speaks for itself, so it doesn't need much  explanation, and like everything else, this will continue to improve with time! 💎 

We're getting all our ducks in a row to highlight the overall potential and vision of Project A  and why Battlebound is perfectly positioned to create it. 

Have a wonderful weekend, everyone!

<:bb:956628347822166046> **DEV UPDATES** <:bb:956628347822166046> 

Happy Monday @everyone, we want to share on an update as we're sprinting towards the first Project A playable prototype. The team is heads down, building new combat features and abilities to support our first multiplayer playtest of Project A. In the meantime, we're putting the finishing touches on a website relaunch featuring the first glimpse into Project A's world with this incredible concept art. We're first building out the core gameplay pillars focusing on what makes this game fun. Combat, exploration, and social will be the key foundational pillars of this game.

There have been many questions about the web3 design, mint strategy, tokens and nft issuances for Project A. I want to reiterate our commitment to every First Arrival holder and badge earner. You will have a place in Project A, and the time spent playing Evaverse will make a difference in this game. Since Project A is starting from scratch, our priority is designing it from the ground up to be fun, innovative, and fresh. The greater the success of Project A, the greater the value of the stake we can create for all our community members. The most significant success metrics for games are retention and the number of players. Our goal for Project A is to build it a massively successful game that mixes genres and takes current creature collector IPs to new heights. The Evaverse game loop struggled because it was trying to simultaneously be so many different things instead of being good at one thing. We're applying these learnings and focusing on the core combat system for Project A and will continue to iterate on it until we're confident in the innovation and fun factor of the game. We're not aiming to compete with the web3 games, and our vision is for Project A to stand apart against all games.  

This is the first game we're building A to Z as a studio, and it has massive potential to disrupt the creature collecting genre. We will continue creating day in and day out to make that vision a reality. 

Have a great week! <:bblove:966040364110721087>

Hey @everyone

<:bblove:966040364110721087> **PROJECT A UPDATE** <:bblove:966040364110721087> 
We want to share some updated progress on Project A. The team is still working on the goals we've laid out over the past couple of weeks, so instead of rehashing them I want to share some new content we're working towards.  

We're planning to kick off fundraising this month and have been sprinting on Project A to get the combat prototype up and running. We're still working through the core systems required to battle but are making good progress.  We're recycling the Evaverse Turtle and character model so we can focus on building the new content. Since we need to build quickly the Turtles are the star of the prototype. You'll notice a lot of brand new animations and combat focused  mechanics coming down the pipe as we flesh out the battle system.

Our goal is validate our hypothesis for the Project A combat system and get to playtesting as quickly as possible. This means a lot of testing and feedback from those of you who want to participate in helping shape the moment to moment gameplay of Project A. The video below illustrates some progress on spawning creatures around the player as they freely move around the world moving from battle to battle. This prototype scene is meant to look visually pretty bland as the focus is on the game features.  

We'll have a lot more updates as we wrap up core combat features and art style explorations in the coming few weeks!

<:bbscream:966702843467796530>  **POLYGON GAMEON EVENT** <:bbscream:966702843467796530> 

We’ve received our final date and time from the Polygon team! We’re so excited to be a part of this event where over 10K users have registered. Having more eyes on Evaverse is good for our community and Battlebound’s overall success. We’ve created a Discord event including the important links below, click the bell to set yourself a reminder! 

We’ll be hanging out in their #GameOn voice channel of the IndiGG Discord on 3/1/23 at 9AM (PST) for one hour. It’s a good idea to start collecting those OATs as soon as possible to increase your chances of prizes! Here’s a few important links below to help you prepare and answer any questions you may have.

Event Reminder:
https://discord.gg/battlebound?event=1079810144575180830

Discord Invite:
https://discord.gg/igg

Official Website:
https://gameon.polygon.technology/

More OATs information:
https://medium.com/galxe-news/introducing-galaxy-oat-on-chain-achievement-token-7e89779242b4

GameOn Pass registration:
https://galxe.com/polygon/campaign/GCsZ9U4XCE

For each game you participate in, you can claim your OAT here:
https://galxe.com/polygon/campaign/GC19PU4mJ2

GLHF @everyone ! <:bbbest:966040164352815174> <:bbyes:966039180318756914> <:bblove:966040364110721087>

<:bb:956628347822166046>**DEV UPDATES **<:bb:956628347822166046>
Hey everyone here's this weeks snapshot of everything the team is working on currently. Most of our focus on Project A and preparing for an upcoming funding round using the combat prototype in Unity to highlight the unique core combat mechanics of the game. 

🌐 **WEB DEV**🌐  

We’re putting the finishing touches on the new Battlebound website and exploring some polish elements like 3d scenes and animated images. We’re also building a Project A splash image to help promote the game that will be completed in the next couple weeks!

🎨 **ART: ** 🎨 

We’re building out a library of prototype VFX to support the combat build. VFX like shields, stuns, heals, taunts, AOEs, and a number of other combat related mechanics. Check out the video below!

Our environment artist completed the first pass on trees and bushes for the vertical slice visual  scene. We’re building out a small test scene to experiment with the how to push the graphics of the world, creatures, and characters. As we get further along we’ll share more updates on this!

Animations for the prototype turtle and the fox are continuously being worked on for the Fennec Fox, which will include melee and ranged attacks. We still have about 3-4 Turtle animations left to work on which include taunts, spawn and despawns, victory poses, and deaths.

We’ve started concepting out what characters, weapons, and armor designs for players.

🚧**DESIGN:** 🚧 

Melee and ranged and AOE abilities have been built in the new networked multiplayer combat system.

Creatures can now select certain AI behavior patterns like of creatures like moving to a specified location. We’re working on behavior mechanics such as fleeing, following the leader, and defender behaviors, as well as more networking polish.

We’ve done a first pass on collecting Audio SFX and we’ll get them hooked up to the prototype abilities once design has got them far enough along.

🔨**CODE:** 🔨 

Engineering is hard at work building a multiplayer networked sync combat system. We’re working on three main components, the ability system, the AI brain, and the battle manager. The ability system allows designer to hand craft abilities, spawn vfx, and deal damage over the network. The AI Brain determines creature movement and positioning 

We’re also working on the Battlebound games launcher and are aiming to begin external testing in the next couple of weeks.

We're also preparing for the Polygon event and looking at Evaverse server stability to ensure we have smooth GameOn event.

@everyone

**POLYGON GAME ON**

We’re extremely excited to be joining Polygon for their virtual 30 day Game On event! Polygon will be featuring games they believe to be the best examples of web3 gaming within their ecosystem. From 2/23/23 - 3/20/23, each featured game will have an hour to participate and engage through their Discord. For each game you participate in, an OAT NFT will serve as a point toward entry into a larger prize pool at the end of the tournament.

We’ll share more information on Evaverse’s Game day. We’ve been planning this event for months and can’t wait to see how it turns out. Game On with Polygon!

Are you ready? Sign up below! @everyone 

https://twitter.com/evaverse/status/1625922258106728449

Hey @everyone 👋 

We're trying a new announcement format where we share a very clear snapshot of what the team is building towards week-to-week. This will help create more transparency and visibility into the progress we're making on a weekly basis.  We're still working towards the larger Q1 goals shared above, but on a more granular level here's what we're up to this week. If you like this format let us know or have some suggestions we're open to exploring the best way to communicate our progress with you all.


🎨**ART **🎨 
We now have almost 100 iniatial creature concepts to help flush out the world of Project A. We're refining these based on elements, we're dubbing as Essences, which will be the core DNA of your creature as it evolves. Our artists are refining the visual style for both creatures and the shadow silhoutted figure, the players of Project A. The Environment team is building a vertical slice, which represents the visual quality bar of the game in a single location. This will help sell the vision of Project A as Battlebound. The vertical slice scene features a tranquil sky with stylized clouds, sculpted rocks and foliage. We'll def share more as we progress!

We're creating the first creature, Fennec inspired Fox, and will be using it in the combat prototype alongside the Turtle Troop rig to prove out the core combat mechanics for the game.

🛠️ **DESIGN** 🛠️  

The design team is building AI behaviors to govern certain core combat principles, like hunting, fleeing, dodging, and hiding. They are also building abilities like taunts, heals, and attacks to begin testing the prototype. We're iterating on the narrative of the game and collecting SFX to support the combat mechanics. 

We've attached a short gif showing off some of the combat progress.  Please keep in mind this is so early that the combat, camera angle, mechanics, are entirely placeholder and hardly indicative of the game Project A will become. 

🧠 **ENGINEERS**🧠 

Engineers are building a multiplayer framework to support the combat prototype, so we can begin team wide playtests through the Battlebound launcher. We've also built an automated server patching tool for Evaverse that will allow us to finally deploy automated patches to the game including new game builds with the click of a single button. We're investigating some lag related bugs in Evaverse as we prepare for an event with Polygon next month. We're working on the UI for the Battlebound launcher, getting it built and tested for a public release. 

🕸️**WEB **🕸️  

We're working on an integrated minting/airdrop/token system for a WebGL version of Evaverse. This is a test to better understand how to integrate these features in the game once playable from the launcher. We're also experimenting with a character creator where players could choose the NFT they want to mint beforehand or make custom changes to their NFTs that are already minted. Similar to the Evaverse website redesign we're also giving the Battlebound website a much needed facelift which will share more info about Project A and the long term vision.  We have some special promotions in the works for Evaverse with Polygon we're working towards in relation to GDC in March.

**ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARIES**
We're also coming up on a couple 1 year anniversaries for the team and we want to thank each and every one of them for their hard work over the last year!

@​Eseye - Network and Web dev extraordinaire. He’s been hard at work fixing bugs, keeping the backend of players accounts, hatching purrtles, and driving the web3 + gameplay integrations efforts of the company!

@​TTang - Our Lead 3D Environment artist who left Riot to be a part of the Battlebound team, he’s responsible for everything scalable production art pipelines, creating 3d words, and managing the studio art team!

Hey @everyone 👋 

We're trying a new announcement format where we share a very clear snapshot of what the team is building towards week-to-week. This will help create more transparency and visibility into the progress we're making on a weekly basis.  We're still working towards the larger Q1 goals shared above, but on a more granular level here's what we're up to this week. If you like this format let us know or have some suggestions we're open to exploring the best way to communicate our progress with you all.


🎨**ART **🎨 
We now have almost 100 iniatial creature concepts to help flush out the world of Project A. We're refining these based on elements, we're dubbing as Essences, which will be the core DNA of your creature as it evolves. Our artists are refining the visual style for both creatures and the shadow silhoutted figure, the players of Project A. The Environment team is building a vertical slice, which represents the visual quality bar of the game in a single location. This will help sell the vision of Project A as Battlebound. The vertical slice scene features a tranquil sky with stylized clouds, sculpted rocks and foliage. We'll def share more as we progress!

We're creating the first creature, Fennec inspired Fox, and will be using it in the combat prototype alongside the Turtle Troop rig to prove out the core combat mechanics for the game.

🛠️ **DESIGN** 🛠️  

The design team is building AI behaviors to govern certain core combat principles, like hunting, fleeing, dodging, and hiding. They are also building abilities like taunts, heals, and attacks to begin testing the prototype. We're iterating on the narrative of the game and collecting SFX to support the combat mechanics. 

We've attached a short gif showing off some of the combat progress.  Please keep in mind this is so early that the combat, camera angle, mechanics, are entirely placeholder and hardly indicative of the game Project A will become. 

🧠 **ENGINEERS**🧠 

Engineers are building a multiplayer framework to support the combat prototype, so we can begin team wide playtests through the Battlebound launcher. We've also built an automated server patching tool for Evaverse that will allow us to finally deploy automated patches to the game including new game builds with the click of a single button. We're investigating some lag related bugs in Evaverse as we prepare for an event with Polygon next month. We're working on the UI for the Battlebound launcher, getting it built and tested for a public release. 

🕸️**WEB **🕸️  

We're working on an integrated minting/airdrop/token system for a WebGL version of Evaverse. This is a test to better understand how to integrate these features in the game once playable from the launcher. We're also experimenting with a character creator where players could choose the NFT they want to mint beforehand or make custom changes to their NFTs that are already minted. Similar to the Evaverse website redesign we're also giving the Battlebound website a much needed facelift which will share more info about Project A and the long term vision.  We have some special promotions in the works for Evaverse with Polygon we're working towards in relation to GDC in March.

**ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARIES**
We're also coming up on a couple 1 year anniversaries for the team and we want to thank each and every one of them for their hard work over the last year!

<@924922492169101313> - Network and Web dev extraordinaire. He’s been hard at work fixing bugs, keeping the backend of players accounts, hatching purrtles, and driving the web3 + gameplay integrations efforts of the company!

<@138867975082999808> - Our Lead 3D Environment artist who left Riot to be a part of the Battlebound team, he’s responsible for everything scalable production art pipelines, creating 3d words, and managing the studio art team!

I want to share some thoughts about what's next and the Project A roadmap.  We asked the community to trust us and come along with us for this journey and be participants in the development of Project A. Last year we were heads down building, and things took a long time. Deadlines slipped and we had to make pivots, but we didn't communicate as transparently as we should. Our goal is to change that this year. We're going to actively share the development of Project A and our goals and timelines. There may be smaller updates week to week, but you should know what we're building towards.  Eventually we will get to the point where we're actively playtesting together and getting your feedback to help shape the game along the way.

**PROJECT A - Q1 GOALS**
We're building a multiplayer combat prototype which highlights the unique combat mechanics of the game. The goal is to demonstrate what makes this game unique and different from every other auto battler on the market. The answer is that Project A is a hybrid auto battler. You will have the ability to control certain aspects of combat while its playing out. Unlike TFT, Dota Auto Chess, Illuvium, where you're a pure spectator, in Project A quick thinking, combos, creature synergy, and strategic planning + reactions will determine the fate of the battle. 

This prototype will play a large part in Battlebound's next funding round kicking off at GDC at the end of March.  This is a new kind of auto battler we're bringing to market, and we're going to continue expanding the combat prototype to prove out the core design and combat mechanics while building towards that elusive "fun factor" that makes games impossible to put down. 

**EVAVERSE - Q1 GOALS** 
We also have some updates in the Evaverse we're planning, like releasing the Battlebound games launcher, and upgrading our web3 tech stack and improving it's integrated into the game. We want to mint/airdrop directly from game with a seamless UX/UI. This tech is essential for all of our games. We're making the Evaverse less grindy and will be buffing XP, starting with Purrtle Packs, which now will hatch at 2K XP vs the original 10K. We also have a promotion in March with Polygon which will help bring new eyes on Evaverse and ultimately Battlebound. 

We'll continue to share more updates week to week as we progress on our goals for the quarter.

Thank you @everyone

.

**"What about Overpower"**
Overpower was a multiplayer medieval shooter game Antegar and I built and shipped in 2016. It was our first game together. We bootstrapped it entirely without funding and built it from the ground up. It was our first baby, and we loved that game. We used the Overpower characters as a starting place for First Arrivals character models. Although we reused the geo/textures, we did massive work to get them NFT-ready and create a new IP around them. Many projects outsource their NFT art to contractors and external dev studios. Reusing these allowed us to focus our efforts on the rest of the Evaverse game. We still own Overpower and could explore putting First Arrivals into the game and upgrading it, but we'll need more studio resources. Focusing on Project A will maximize our subsequent funding round and get Battlebound additional resources.

**"Project A is just an Illuvium Clone"**
We have yet to unveil the core design mechanics of Project A, so I understand at first glance that this might seem like we're picking a fight with Illuvium. We're not aiming to build a version of Illuvium, which looks like Teamfight Tactics. Over half of our founding team built TFT, and if we wanted to make that kind of game, we would have stayed at Riot. Project A aims to redefine the definition of an auto battler and evolve the genre in new and innovative ways. We're aiming for global appeal and a new type of creature collector that appeals visually to larger audiences with competitive fast-paced strategic combat wrapped in an immersive game loop. We'll have plenty to share on this soon. Our focus is the combat prototype which will be a key deliverable in this year's funding round.

**FINAL THOUGHTS:**
We’re going to continue to share updates and progress as we build towards a strong long term future together. Thank you to everyone whos started this journey with us. Being a games start-up requires the ability to be agile, quick, and flexible. When paired with new technology, capital markets, and the complexities of building a successful game, these pivots can be life and death. 2023 is going to be a challenging year for web3 games. You can read the forecast from Naavik’s own crypto research team:

https://naavik.co/deep-dives/the-great-reset-2023

As a studio we’re getting infront of these challenges to optimize for our long-term success, so we’ll be here building for the years to come. Our success will be your success. We sincerely hope you’ll join us. We will be here doing what we do best. Building Games.

Hey @everyone I know there's been a lot of strong reactions to our last update. We know this has been a challenging few days for our community. Thank you to those who have extended us good faith, and the benefit of the doubt. We’ve taking the past few days to read, listen, and process, so we can thoroughly and thoughtfully respond to some of the themes we’ve seen.

**OUR RESPONSE:**

**"Evaverse was a stepping stone to Project A"**
Our vision for Battlebound since the beginning was to be a multi-game studio with meaningful interoperability of game assets and NFTs. The Evaverse is the only metaverse-type product at the center of our portfolio that connects everything together. The goal was to develop Evaverse into a thriving, sustainable game while slowly ramping up Project A as Game #2. After the funding announcement, we realized we needed our complete focus to achieve the ambitious goals set out in Evaverse. 

We worked all year long to make Evaverse a success and told our investors we were putting Project A on ice. They supported us fully, and the team gave its total effort into making Evaverse successful in 2022. 

This pivot came in January after reflecting on the state of the Evaverse, the results of the Purrtles drop, and the Cosmic Cup and realizing our efforts in 2022 failed to move the needle. Pivoting to Project A now was not planned all along. We explored every alternative and angle we could think. As soon as we realized this was Battlebound's best long-term shot, we began preparations to update the community as openly and transparently as possible.

**"Evaverse is a Scam"**
We've only had one paid mint for Evaverse, followed by waves of free NFTs to engage and attract players. Despite this, we only have a few players. Evaverse needs a fundamental realignment to achieve long-term success. The Evaverse is not over. We still have the servers open, and are proud of the work we’ve done and the progress we’ve made. Some of our most significant events and promotions are still on the horizon. 

We ultimately have high hopes for Evaverse with a reimagined vision. Currently we have smaller scoped updates planned as focusing on Project A which will give us the greatest chances for long-term growth for the studio. Project A’s success will give us the resources to improve and update all our games in the future. 


**“What exact value will I get in Project A”**
We're creating games players love and own and doing it for everyone here. Our core values are not changing. As Battlebound grows and evolves, we are taking you all with us. Whether your Evaverse stake is in NFTs or badges, there's going to be a place for you in Project A.   We're not leaving anyone behind. 

We’ve learned some hard lessons developing Evaverse. Building a game around NFT collections is incredibly challenging, and in Project A our focus is on the game first. The mint strategy and economy will come after the core gameloop is built and tested successfully. 

We will work on a strong viable path to exchange your hard earned efforts and NFTs in Evaverse for value in Project A. We want to lay out a clear roadmap with full confidence in our delivery for everyone here.  This is why we’re electing to focus on the gameplay first to build Project A into a long-term success. 

However, we can promise rain or shine, bull or bear, day in and day out; we're going to be here building the best possible games and focusing on gameplay, mass adoption, and onboarding millions into web3 gaming.

<:bb:956628347822166046> **BATTLEBOUND ROADMAP UPDATE**<:bb:956628347822166046>

Hi everyone,  I know this is update has felt like a long time coming. We've spent the past month deeply reflecting on the state of the Evaverse, what we've shipped, what we haven't shipped, web3 gaming landscape, and ultimate direction of Battlebound. We asked very hard questions about where we want to be in 1, 3, and 5 years from now, and how do we as a small gaming start up maximize our opportunities to successfully navigate there in spite of headwinds in gaming, web3, and venture funding. As CEO of Battlebound its my job to steer the ship and lead the team and community though choppy waters and ultimately to our studio vision of getting millions of players real ownership, agency, and value over the time they spend playing games they love. To achieve this it means asking tough questions, reflection honestly on where we are, and making extremely difficult choices that defy emotions because ultimately they are the best path forward for all of us. 

Coming from AAA game studios we took a gameplay-first approach with the aim of building Evaverse into a game that resonates deeply with players. In order for Evaverse to be successful long term, people need to be playing it for fun. Although the team has worked incredibly hard to deliver updates above and beyond our original roadmap, the hard truth is that we have yet to significantly increase engagement and player retention in-game. Continuing to develop the Evaverse in its current direction is unsustainable, given the resources available to our team.  While we access the long-term direction and potential of the Evaverse, we're pivoting our primary development resources to Project A, an immersive open-world creature collecting game. 

Project A was the original game Antegar and I set out to build. The Evaverse was born from the foundational NFT tech we built initially for Project A.  Not knowing if we would ultimately secure funding for Project A we launched the Evaverse First Arrivals to see if there was market demand for NFT-based gaming.  The revenue from the Evaverse First Arrivals mint has been fully reinvested to build Evaverse into the product it is today.  We have worked relentlessly for years on Evaverse to achieve our vision, but despite our best efforts  working non-stop, we have yet to significantly move the needle on product market fit. 

Despite this, we remain committed to the Evaverse First Arrivals holders and our community. We will create a path from Evaverse to Project A, where every contributor to the Evaverse ecosystem, from players to holders will have the option to exchange their stake in Evaverse for Project A. We have strong convictions about the potential for Project A to achieve our vision of onboarding millions of players to web3.  The success of Project A will bring new opportunities to explore a reimagined vision of Evaverse in the future as Battlebound's open metaverse IP. While Evaverse won't be our primary focus, we’ll continue to explore smaller scope updates and events while keeping the servers fully operational. 

Thank you for believing in our mission to onboard millions of players into web3. I sincerely hope you will continue to support us as we build Project A into an incredibly fun and rewarding gaming experience.

Full context please read our blog  https://evaverse.medium.com/battlebound-2023-roadmap-update-3350b7d2ba47

**TLDR**
o We are transitioning primary development focus to Project A beginning with an auto battler combat prototype.
o First Arrivals holders will be given Early playtest access to Project A, Priority Minting, and the ability increase the rarity of Project A mints.
o Evaverse players will be given an option to exchange their stake in Evaverse for Project A
o Evaverse will remain playable with smaller scope updates/events
o $EVA token will transition to a game-agnostic token that can support any of our game(s) with product market fit
@everyone

🛣️ **ROADMAP UPDATE** 🛣️ 
Thanks for your patience with us as we've been working through Battlebound's priorities and studio roadmap for the year. This has been at the forefront of our minds for the past couple weeks and will have some updates to share very soon as we iron out the final details. I appreciate everyone's diligence and patience as we strive to get this right.

<:bb:956628347822166046>  **NEW BATTLEBOUND CREW** <:bb:956628347822166046> 
In the meantime, I want to introduce our newest Battlebound teammate and game producer @​bluefortytwo! He joins us with 10+ years of experience in various roles spanning project management and audio coordinator within the entertainment industry. With a background in interactive entertainment, he co-founded a mobile game startup and also worked for Sony Santa Monica on the God of War franchises. Some of his favorite games include Mario Kart 64, Shadow of the Colossus and Street Fighter 4.

❄️ **WONDERLAND DROP**❄️ 
We have not forgot the Wonderland NFTs and will be airdropping them at the end of this week!  Thank you for your patience and understanding.

@everyone

🛣️ **ROADMAP UPDATE** 🛣️ 
Thanks for your patience with us as we've been working through Battlebound's priorities and studio roadmap for the year. This has been at the forefront of our minds for the past couple weeks and will have some updates to share very soon as we iron out the final details. I appreciate everyone's diligence and patience as we strive to get this right.

<:bb:956628347822166046>  **NEW BATTLEBOUND CREW** <:bb:956628347822166046> 
In the meantime, I want to introduce our newest Battlebound teammate and game producer <@977284108461957221>! He joins us with 10+ years of experience in various roles spanning project management and audio coordinator within the entertainment industry. With a background in interactive entertainment, he co-founded a mobile game startup and also worked for Sony Santa Monica on the God of War franchises. Some of his favorite games include Mario Kart 64, Shadow of the Colossus and Street Fighter 4.

❄️ **WONDERLAND DROP**❄️ 
We have not forgot the Wonderland NFTs and will be airdropping them at the end of this week!  Thank you for your patience and understanding.

@everyone

🔥**HOT FIX ** 🔥 
o We just deployed a server-side hotfix for level 10 Turtles not getting stamina has been submitted. 
o Tickets are now split based on Evatar Prestige for both Hoverboarding *(nothing changed) * and Cosmic Cup *(changed from Turtles/Purrtles).*  This should prevent players from taking a proportionally larger share of tickets by using the free Turtle on a borrowed Evatar, and reward holders appropriately who are managing their Evaverse teams.

Thank you @​Eseye!!

🎮 **POLYGON STUDIOS TWITTER SPACE** 🎮 
Tomorrow we're joining Polygon Studios for a special gaming space entitled **Building the Web3 gaming culture #onPolygon**

12th January, Thursday / 10:30 AM EST / 3:30 PM GMT

You can set your twitter reminders and we'll see you tomorrow! 🔽 

https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1ynJOazOlBvKR

❄️ **WONDERLAND EVENT UPDATE**❄️ 
We've been researching web3 technology stacks for a while now, and beginning to construct a new pipeline for how we manage, mint and deliver NFTs. This web3 integration stack that will empower us with us to airdrop, mint, burn, and stake NFTs. Our plan is to use the Wonderland rewards airdrop as the first test of the technology. Once we've validated the pipeline is set up correctly we will distribute the Eva Loot NFTs to the players who completed the race criteria.  Our goal is to use this tech stack to ultimately read/write to the blockchain directly within the Evaverse.  We'll share more updates on our progress as we get closer to distribution!

Thank you @everyone

🔥**HOT FIX ** 🔥 
o We just deployed a server-side hotfix for level 10 Turtles not getting stamina has been submitted. 
o Tickets are now split based on Evatar Prestige for both Hoverboarding *(nothing changed) * and Cosmic Cup *(changed from Turtles/Purrtles).*  This should prevent players from taking a proportionally larger share of tickets by using the free Turtle on a borrowed Evatar, and reward holders appropriately who are managing their Evaverse teams.

Thank you <@924922492169101313>!!

🎮 **POLYGON STUDIOS TWITTER SPACE** 🎮 
Tomorrow we're joining Polygon Studios for a special gaming space entitled **Building the Web3 gaming culture #onPolygon**

12th January, Thursday / 10:30 AM EST / 3:30 PM GMT

You can set your twitter reminders and we'll see you tomorrow! 🔽 

https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1ynJOazOlBvKR

❄️ **WONDERLAND EVENT UPDATE**❄️ 
We've been researching web3 technology stacks for a while now, and beginning to construct a new pipeline for how we manage, mint and deliver NFTs. This web3 integration stack that will empower us with us to airdrop, mint, burn, and stake NFTs. Our plan is to use the Wonderland rewards airdrop as the first test of the technology. Once we've validated the pipeline is set up correctly we will distribute the Eva Loot NFTs to the players who completed the race criteria.  Our goal is to use this tech stack to ultimately read/write to the blockchain directly within the Evaverse.  We'll share more updates on our progress as we get closer to distribution!

Thank you @everyone

@everyone 
<a:catJAM:898687997984268298> **COINBASE PURRTLE PACKS AIRDROPPED** <a:catJAM:898687997984268298> 

Congrats and thank you to everyone who participated in the Coinbase Purrtle Pack premint over the holidays! The packs have just been airdropped to all qualifying participants. B.E.S.T. of luck hatching these into your Purrfect Purrtle!

Please make sure to check your hidden tab first if you believe you should have qualified. If it's not there, you can submit a ticket through #🎫┃ask-staff with the following information so we can further investigate:

1. Did you check your hidden tab?
2. What is your Evaverse account ID?
3. What is the Coinbase wallet address you used for the Premint?
4. Can you please send a screenshot with your total Coinbase Race Count from Evaverse.com.

@everyone 
<a:catJAM:898687997984268298> **COINBASE PURRTLE PACKS AIRDROPPED** <a:catJAM:898687997984268298> 

Congrats and thank you to everyone who participated in the Coinbase Purrtle Pack premint over the holidays! The packs have just been airdropped to all qualifying participants. B.E.S.T. of luck hatching these into your Purrfect Purrtle!

Please make sure to check your hidden tab first if you believe you should have qualified. If it's not there, you can submit a ticket through <#992151218640146592> with the following information so we can further investigate:

1. Did you check your hidden tab?
2. What is your Evaverse account ID?
3. What is the Coinbase wallet address you used for the Premint?
4. Can you please send a screenshot with your total Coinbase Race Count from Evaverse.com.

🔨 **PATCH UPDATE**🔨 
There is a new patch out, please make sure to update your game upon next login if you haven't already. Here are some of the fixes that went in.

o Fixed double placement in races bug
o Fixed finish line sometimes not registering a race as complete
o Fixed Purrtle Packs sometimes not getting XP
o Fixed Purrtle Pack sometimes showing as equipped when not equipped

o Increased Cosmic Cup Purrtle/Turtle XP by 200%
o Increased Stamina Rewards in Cosmic Cup by 200%


We are knocking these bugs out and adding features alongside the fixes, our goal is for Evaverse to feel less like a grind while still rewarding players and holders.  We will continue to iterate and make changes based on feedback.

 Please continue to use #🎮┃hoverboard-racing  and #🎮┃cosmic-cup for bug reports so that we may better track issues and #💡┃feedback for all other ideas you'd like to share with us.

<:polygon1:968521333740797962>**POLYGON TWITTER SPACE**   <:polygon1:968521333740797962> 
After the release of Cosmic Cup and Coinbase collaboration we've started to gather the attention of more eyes in web3, including Polygon. We're beginning to discuss large co-marketing beats to roll out in 2023. The polygon web3 gaming team sees Evaverse as one of the strong potential games building on the network and is ramping their engagement and support with Battlebound.  The first of which is inviting us to join  some top web3 games building on Polygon to a  Twitter Space hosted by Polygon Studios this Thursday, 1/12/23 at 7:30AM (PST). 

Follow them on Twitter for daily web3 news: https://twitter.com/PolygonStudios

We'll create a reminder and share an update later this week!


👀 **ROADMAP UPDATES**👀 
One of the most requested topics in the New Years Community Survey was an updated roadmap. We are actively working on this and rethinking the current state of the roadmap. We will be sharing updates within the next couple weeks followed by a discord AMA to discuss the action items for this quarter. The focus is on delivering measurable improvements to the Evaverse play experience and increasing engagement and holder value. 

Thank you for participating in the survey, it has been illuminating and we look forward to applying as much feedback as we can once quality of life issues in-game have been addressed. 

We will leave responses open until Thursday at 9AM (PST) as we continue to collect and categorize each response.

Thank you @everyone

🔨 **PATCH UPDATE**🔨 
There is a new patch out, please make sure to update your game upon next login if you haven't already. Here are some of the fixes that went in.

o Fixed double placement in races bug
o Fixed finish line sometimes not registering a race as complete
o Fixed Purrtle Packs sometimes not getting XP
o Fixed Purrtle Pack sometimes showing as equipped when not equipped

o Increased Cosmic Cup Purrtle/Turtle XP by 200%
o Increased Stamina Rewards in Cosmic Cup by 200%


We are knocking these bugs out and adding features alongside the fixes, our goal is for Evaverse to feel less like a grind while still rewarding players and holders.  We will continue to iterate and make changes based on feedback.

 Please continue to use <#1048276282045112361>  and <#1049331850943930448> for bug reports so that we may better track issues and <#992048377732812870> for all other ideas you'd like to share with us.

<:polygon1:968521333740797962>**POLYGON TWITTER SPACE**   <:polygon1:968521333740797962> 
After the release of Cosmic Cup and Coinbase collaboration we've started to gather the attention of more eyes in web3, including Polygon. We're beginning to discuss large co-marketing beats to roll out in 2023. The polygon web3 gaming team sees Evaverse as one of the strong potential games building on the network and is ramping their engagement and support with Battlebound.  The first of which is inviting us to join  some top web3 games building on Polygon to a  Twitter Space hosted by Polygon Studios this Thursday, 1/12/23 at 7:30AM (PST). 

Follow them on Twitter for daily web3 news: https://twitter.com/PolygonStudios

We'll create a reminder and share an update later this week!


👀 **ROADMAP UPDATES**👀 
One of the most requested topics in the New Years Community Survey was an updated roadmap. We are actively working on this and rethinking the current state of the roadmap. We will be sharing updates within the next couple weeks followed by a discord AMA to discuss the action items for this quarter. The focus is on delivering measurable improvements to the Evaverse play experience and increasing engagement and holder value. 

Thank you for participating in the survey, it has been illuminating and we look forward to applying as much feedback as we can once quality of life issues in-game have been addressed. 

We will leave responses open until Thursday at 9AM (PST) as we continue to collect and categorize each response.

Thank you @everyone

🐞 **BUG FIXES UPDATE**🐞 

We've just patched the server. Thank you @​Eseye , @​BitSmith , @​pogoli , @​Slynejob , @​damos , and @​Antegar  for your tireless efforts over this last week!

     - Ticket splitting is now available for Turtles AND Purrtles.
     - You can now loan Purrtle Packs out to your friends. (Although there is a ticket splitting mechanism when you loan it out, this will not take effect until the Purrtle has been hatched.)
     - Fixes to the Stamina system and rebalancing of the numbers.
     - Fixed a bug where stamina was being drained from active Cosmic Cup Players

There will be a lot more bug fixes soon! For more bug reports, please use the bug reporting channels in #hoverboard-racing and #cosmic-cup and follow the template we’ve provided. We want to thank the community for their patience and assistance in finding these bugs!

Happy Friday @everyone !! <:bblove:966040364110721087> <:bbyes:966039180318756914> <:bbbest:966040164352815174>

🐞 **BUG FIXES UPDATE**🐞 

We've just patched the server. Thank you <@924922492169101313> , <@811289885436149810> , <@205023999296667649> , <@171055495765819392> , <@589993480743419939> , and <@745034448013361163>  for your tireless efforts over this last week!

     - Ticket splitting is now available for Turtles AND Purrtles.
     - You can now loan Purrtle Packs out to your friends. (Although there is a ticket splitting mechanism when you loan it out, this will not take effect until the Purrtle has been hatched.)
     - Fixes to the Stamina system and rebalancing of the numbers.
     - Fixed a bug where stamina was being drained from active Cosmic Cup Players

There will be a lot more bug fixes soon! For more bug reports, please use the bug reporting channels in #hoverboard-racing and #cosmic-cup and follow the template we’ve provided. We want to thank the community for their patience and assistance in finding these bugs!

Happy Friday @everyone !! <:bblove:966040364110721087> <:bbyes:966039180318756914> <:bbbest:966040164352815174>

GM @everyone 

<:bblove:966040364110721087>  **NEW YEAR’S COMMUNITY SURVEY** <:bblove:966040364110721087> 

Happy New Year! We hope you all had a restful vacation. We know there were issues with game performance over the break, and we're committed to tackling them as a team as our top priority as we head into 2023. Let us know your thoughts on how we can better improve our community and events.

https://forms.gle/LeBNuf6PCX8eBVrf8

🗒️  **FEEDBACK CHANNEL** 🗒️ 

We incorporated our feedback channel into each game mode’s forums a while back, but regretfully did not make this clear enough. We’ve brought back the feedback channel. However, we’d still love it if you put game-mode specific feedback in the appropriate forum channels just so nothing gets lost.
If you’ll notice in the channels #🎮┃hoverboard-racing  and #🎮┃cosmic-cup , there is also a section for bug reporting. This will also help us keep better track of bugs and player issues.

🪲  **BUG REPORTING** 🪲 

Regarding bug reporting, we're making improvements to our QA pipeline to ensure we have adequate testing on all of our future game releases. We've created a template for the community for future bug reports. You can find it in the bugs section of both #🎮┃hoverboard-racing  and #🎮┃cosmic-cup  channels. Please use this template in the future to help us better understand the issues you are encountering so that we can help our engineers verify them.

Bug Template:

     1. Account ID.
     2. Description of bug.
     3. Steps to reproduce.
     4. Attach any images and videos that are relevant.

The more visuals with detailed explanations, the better! There will be an example attached in the above channels along with the template. Thank you so much for your understanding and cooperation. <:bbbest:966040164352815174>

GM @everyone 

<:bblove:966040364110721087>  **NEW YEAR’S COMMUNITY SURVEY** <:bblove:966040364110721087> 

Happy New Year! We hope you all had a restful vacation. We know there were issues with game performance over the break, and we're committed to tackling them as a team as our top priority as we head into 2023. Let us know your thoughts on how we can better improve our community and events.

https://forms.gle/LeBNuf6PCX8eBVrf8

🗒️  **FEEDBACK CHANNEL** 🗒️ 

We incorporated our feedback channel into each game mode’s forums a while back, but regretfully did not make this clear enough. We’ve brought back the feedback channel. However, we’d still love it if you put game-mode specific feedback in the appropriate forum channels just so nothing gets lost.
If you’ll notice in the channels <#1048276282045112361>  and <#1049331850943930448> , there is also a section for bug reporting. This will also help us keep better track of bugs and player issues.

🪲  **BUG REPORTING** 🪲 

Regarding bug reporting, we're making improvements to our QA pipeline to ensure we have adequate testing on all of our future game releases. We've created a template for the community for future bug reports. You can find it in the bugs section of both <#1048276282045112361>  and <#1049331850943930448>  channels. Please use this template in the future to help us better understand the issues you are encountering so that we can help our engineers verify them.

Bug Template:

     1. Account ID.
     2. Description of bug.
     3. Steps to reproduce.
     4. Attach any images and videos that are relevant.

The more visuals with detailed explanations, the better! There will be an example attached in the above channels along with the template. Thank you so much for your understanding and cooperation. <:bbbest:966040164352815174>

🎆**Happy New Year and welcome to 2023** 🎆 
I hope everyone's enjoyed spending the holidays with family and friends, and have hatched some wonderful Purrtles too! We're incredibly excited to enter a new year together and continuing building the web3 gaming sphere  together as a community.  The devs are coming back online tomorrow after taking a much needed holiday break, and we'll airdrop the Purrtle Packs to the Coinbase winners this week after verifying all the race data and account IDs are accurate. 

❄️**WONDERLAND **❄️ 
We're adding our first Purrtle meme emote and a wearable Holiday Wreath headpiece to the Eva Loot chest for this years drop! We know not everyone had the time to grind the required races over the holidays with friends and family in town, so we're going to extend the Wonderland event until this Friday, including the 2x tickets, to give players more time to claim the Eva Loot drops. 

<:bbyes:966039180318756914> **BATTLEBOUND** <:bbyes:966039180318756914>
I want to address some of the feedback on the Cosmic Cup release and the time off the team took. I think the best way to approach this is with full transparency and candor. The current state of the game has bugs and rightfully frustrating issues.  We will fix these issues with ticket splitting, loaning, performance, servers etc. Getting the Cosmic Cup mode, Purrtles Packs, Purrtle NFTs, Wonderland, net code upgrades, and a new camera rig released in time for both the PR articles and Coinbase gaming campaign was a huge effort, requiring some of our devs working 12+ hours days for months leading up to Christmas. We had to push back the audio updates too bc there wasn't enough time for testing (we'll be releasing those asap). By the time Wonderland released, the team had to take a break. Burnout has to be managed and compensated for, and this break was paramount for the future success of Battlebound. It also has given us fresh eyes and ears to grow as a studio and dev team in 2023 and learn from some of the choices we've made in 2022.

Your feedback is spot on, and we're listening, and I appreciate everyone sharing it and the community members that have been here a long time that give us the benefit of the doubt.  We're going to be sharing updated roadmap and priorities for this year later in January. One of key learnings is focusing on what's in front of us, doubling down on ***reasons to play the Evaverse.*** This means **bug fixing/stability**,** fun-factor**, and the** token launch**. We've recently have made staff changes which we'll announce in the coming weeks, that brings expertise in economy design and production to help distill our roadmap into tangible, deliverable milestones with time for thorough testing before release.  We'll share more details in the updated roadmap with another open AMA with the team. 

Thank you please continue to share feedback with the team! ❤️  @everyone

<a:christmas_tree:707216878275133462> 🎁 ❄️ **MERRY CHRISTMAS** <a:christmas_tree:707216878275133462> 🎁 ❄️
Hey @everyone Merry Christmas, happy holidays, and anything else people are celebrating this time of year! I hope everyone has a wonderful time with friends, loved ones, and Purrtles this  week, and ofc gaming! 🎅  

The Battlebound team is taking the rest of the year off and we'll be back at it rested and ready to go in the new year. In the meantime, please enjoy this original sketch from June that kicked off the entire Purrtles collection idea and journey! 

We're looking forward to an amazing year together in 2023. Thank you all for being on this journey with our team!! 💝

❄️ **WONDERLAND IS COMING** ❄️ 
It's that time of year! The Evaverse wonderland event is almost here, hope you're ready to bundle up! We'll be deploying this ice cold patch Thursday morning 12/22  along with the first airdrop of Purrtle Packs from our First Arrivals Snapshot and premint winners! Your darling Purrtles will be ready to join you on the Evaverse slopes for Wonderland as soon as the airdrop is complete. You will have to level up your pack to  max XP for your Purrtle to hatch. 

Being first to hatch **significantly increases** your chances for a high prestige Purrtle, so timing is of the essence!  😍 

Once a Purrtle Pack is max level it will automatically reveal itself in your inventory as a Purrtle! Be sure to refresh the metadata in Opensea to view the stats of your Purrtle Companion.

🎁**EVENT TIMING:**🎁
Starting on 12/22 with the Event, we will have **2x ticket earnings**  for Hoverboarding and Cosmic Cup races until 1/2/23! 🎟️ 

Completing 100 Cosmic Cup or Hoverboarding Races combined will earn you a special airdrop after the event! <:gift:940406795246141502> 

Completing 500 Cosmic Cup or Hoverboarding Races combined will earn you an even more special airdrop after the event! <:gift:950334887754362890> 

Special Airdrops rewards will be revealed during the Wonderland event!! <:snowflake:920119683871567944> 

<:hype:884239487142600754> **COINBASE PREMINT CAMPAIGN **<:hype:884239487142600754> 
The Coinbase Wallet Gaming Days campaign is kicking off on 12/22. The first 1,000 users who complete the criteria with a Coinbase wallet connected to their accounts will receive a additional Purrtle Pack. That means YOU! Everyone is eligible who follows the entrance criteria. 

Details here on Premint: https://www.premint.xyz/coinbase-evaverse-purrtles-collection/

<:bbyes:966039180318756914> **Upcoming Cosmic Cup Patch Notes:** <:bbyes:966039180318756914> 
-We fixed a bug with offline queue not giving rewards properly
-We fixed bug with Cosmic Cup races becoming unplayable 
-Fixed a bug where TR XP wasn't being awarded properly. 

We're going to continue monitoring and fixing bugs throughout the Wonderland Event.

Thank you @everyone

UPDATE: We've fixed the XP/Stamina bugs for Cosmic Cup races. <:bbyes:966039180318756914> 

Theres an issue where the XP UI isn't showing on Hoverboards, but XP is still being applied. We will be rolling out a new build tonight that fixes more bugs, but rewards are fixed now in the meantime.

Be sure to patch to get the latest build 

@everyone

Hey GM <:bb:956628347822166046> 

We're aware of issues with the latest patch affecting XP and Stamina gained in Hoverboarding / Cosmic Cup. We're deploying a fix today and will update this post when the 🐛 are squashed.

Thanks for your patience @everyone

🪙 **COINBASE WALLET GAMING DAYS REVEAL**🪙 
We've incredibly excited to be featured in Coinbase Gaming Days marketing campaign. For 5 consecutive days Coinbase team will feature and in-game promotion with 5 different games with exclusive rewards for users who play with a Coinbase Wallet. We're allocating an additional 1K Purrtles Packs for all players who are the first meet the criteria starting 12/22!

We're honored to be included next to other awesome web3 games and help get Purrtles and new players into the Evaverse to experience Hoverboarding and the Cosmic Cup! 🏆 

The official campaign will start on 12/22 and ending on 12/30! Check out the website below for more details.

https://www.coinbase.com/wallet/gaming-days

https://twitter.com/coinbase/status/1603485989560733696

<:bbyes:966039180318756914> **TURTLE VU MEME CONTEST** <:bbyes:966039180318756914> 
Don’t forget to submit your Turtle Visual Update Memes to Twitter and tag @EVAVERSE to get the @PurrList  and a chance to win some extra tickets or a Hoverboard! B.E.S.T. of Luck!

 ❄️ **WINTER WONDERLAND EVENT** ❄️ 
Winter Wonderland is coming! We're putting the finishing touches on the holiday event and aiming to release the new build alongside bug fixes and  a special audio update by 12/20, just in time for Purrtle Pack drops! We're also putting together an in-game play with devs event so we can all hop in and celebrate what we've accomplished this year together! 

We may even have a couple more surprises in store for you all. 🙃 

 Thank you for being such a valued member of our community. Here’s to the moon in 2023! 🚀

@everyone

🪙 **COINBASE WALLET GAMING DAYS REVEAL**🪙 
We've incredibly excited to be featured in Coinbase Gaming Days marketing campaign. For 5 consecutive days Coinbase team will feature and in-game promotion with 5 different games with exclusive rewards for users who play with a Coinbase Wallet. We're allocating an additional 1K Purrtles Packs for all players who are the first meet the criteria starting 12/22!

We're honored to be included next to other awesome web3 games and help get Purrtles and new players into the Evaverse to experience Hoverboarding and the Cosmic Cup! 🏆 

The official campaign will start on 12/22 and ending on 12/30! Check out the website below for more details.

https://www.coinbase.com/wallet/gaming-days

https://twitter.com/coinbase/status/1603485989560733696

<:bbyes:966039180318756914> **TURTLE VU MEME CONTEST** <:bbyes:966039180318756914> 
Don’t forget to submit your Turtle Visual Update Memes to Twitter and tag <@&908347917885132831> to get the <@&1049387793052336279>  and a chance to win some extra tickets or a Hoverboard! B.E.S.T. of Luck!

 ❄️ **WINTER WONDERLAND EVENT** ❄️ 
Winter Wonderland is coming! We're putting the finishing touches on the holiday event and aiming to release the new build alongside bug fixes and  a special audio update by 12/20, just in time for Purrtle Pack drops! We're also putting together an in-game play with devs event so we can all hop in and celebrate what we've accomplished this year together! 

We may even have a couple more surprises in store for you all. 🙃 

 Thank you for being such a valued member of our community. Here’s to the moon in 2023! 🚀

@everyone

🐢 **COSMIC CUP PATCH**🐢 
We did another round of bug fixes over the weekend, thank you again team for your diligence with reporting! We’ve got another round coming soon. Keep posting your bugs in #🎮┃cosmic-cup  Bugs forum with screenshots and videos so we can tackle the upcoming issues! We're going to continue bug fixing and polishing this week as we prepare to roll out the Purrtle Packs in great numbers.

Here's what was fixed in latest patch:

o Fix for Mac OS users unable to play.
o Fixes for lighting in the Lobby.
o Bug fixes for the Offline Queue Mode not always working.
o Bug fixes for the Offline Race Rewards dialog not showing upon login.
o Bug fixes for the Camera sometimes get disconnected from your player.
o The hotkey for ending spectator view while others race turtles (Spacebar by default) is fixed.
o Several other bug fixes and stability issues.

🔥 **PURRTLE PACK TIMELINE** 🔥 
12/20 The Premint registration ends and Purrtle Packs will be airdropped to winners of the competition who completed the requirements + First Arrivals Holders who were holding during the snapshot taken on 12/7.
12/22 A special Coinbase x Evaverse Collab is going to launch with another 1K wave of Purrtle Packs being dropped to users who win via a special collab premint. 

**ACTIVE PREMINT LINK** ▶️ https://premint.xyz/purrtles-collection

Remember, players who level up their Purrtle Packs first will have majorly increased chances of receiving a rare Purrtle from the reveal.

Want more Purrtles Packs? We're giving away extras to discord members who acquire the @PurrList role through any number of competitions we're rolling out in the following weeks, like the twitter meme contest *(see attached)*

<:catAngry:912443956577591367> **BEWARE OF PURRTLE SCAMS** <:catAngry:912443956577591367> 
We’ve been getting reports of fake Purrtles mint links. Please make sure your links are legit which means they’re either coming straight from one of our devs, or a link from one of our approved partners! This mint is entirely free for our communities, so if you notice anything that says “discount” or “reduced price”, it is definitely a scam.

Happy Racing! <:bbyes:966039180318756914> 

@everyone

🐢 **COSMIC CUP PATCH**🐢 
We did another round of bug fixes over the weekend, thank you again team for your diligence with reporting! We’ve got another round coming soon. Keep posting your bugs in <#1049331850943930448>  Bugs forum with screenshots and videos so we can tackle the upcoming issues! We're going to continue bug fixing and polishing this week as we prepare to roll out the Purrtle Packs in great numbers.

Here's what was fixed in latest patch:

o Fix for Mac OS users unable to play.
o Fixes for lighting in the Lobby.
o Bug fixes for the Offline Queue Mode not always working.
o Bug fixes for the Offline Race Rewards dialog not showing upon login.
o Bug fixes for the Camera sometimes get disconnected from your player.
o The hotkey for ending spectator view while others race turtles (Spacebar by default) is fixed.
o Several other bug fixes and stability issues.

🔥 **PURRTLE PACK TIMELINE** 🔥 
12/20 The Premint registration ends and Purrtle Packs will be airdropped to winners of the competition who completed the requirements + First Arrivals Holders who were holding during the snapshot taken on 12/7.
12/22 A special Coinbase x Evaverse Collab is going to launch with another 1K wave of Purrtle Packs being dropped to users who win via a special collab premint. 

**ACTIVE PREMINT LINK** ▶️ https://premint.xyz/purrtles-collection

Remember, players who level up their Purrtle Packs first will have majorly increased chances of receiving a rare Purrtle from the reveal.

Want more Purrtles Packs? We're giving away extras to discord members who acquire the <@&1049387793052336279> role through any number of competitions we're rolling out in the following weeks, like the twitter meme contest *(see attached)*

<:catAngry:912443956577591367> **BEWARE OF PURRTLE SCAMS** <:catAngry:912443956577591367> 
We’ve been getting reports of fake Purrtles mint links. Please make sure your links are legit which means they’re either coming straight from one of our devs, or a link from one of our approved partners! This mint is entirely free for our communities, so if you notice anything that says “discount” or “reduced price”, it is definitely a scam.

Happy Racing! <:bbyes:966039180318756914> 

@everyone

hey @everyone its COSMIC CUP TIME! <a:HypeHype:916453992702304277> 

Be sure to restart steam if it doesnt patch automatically! Your 50 races starts now!

hey @everyone

I wanted to share an update on where we're at with Cosmic Cup patch. We encountered a issue that was only happening in the build once tested on Steam. It's a camera related issue that was causing the camera to disconnect from your avatar while changing skins. We found a work around, but it's a very poor experience especially for first time players. We can't wait for you all to get into game and play Cosmic Cup but we want to the first impression to represent all the effort in energy the team has been putting into this mode's release. With that in mind, we believe we located the problem and @​Antegar is working his magic to have a new build up later this evening.  I will update the discord with details as soon as the new build is going to launch!

Thanks for your patience! 🙏 

In the meantime, please accept this HD Purrtle video  @​elebelly put together polishing up the avatars for your Purrtle pack drops as a distraction! <a:amaze:715526614334701588>

hey @everyone

I wanted to share an update on where we're at with Cosmic Cup patch. We encountered a issue that was only happening in the build once tested on Steam. It's a camera related issue that was causing the camera to disconnect from your avatar while changing skins. We found a work around, but it's a very poor experience especially for first time players. We can't wait for you all to get into game and play Cosmic Cup but we want to the first impression to represent all the effort in energy the team has been putting into this mode's release. With that in mind, we believe we located the problem and <@745034448013361163> is working his magic to have a new build up later this evening.  I will update the discord with details as soon as the new build is going to launch!

Thanks for your patience! 🙏 

In the meantime, please accept this HD Purrtle video  <@381304323490971648> put together polishing up the avatars for your Purrtle pack drops as a distraction! <a:amaze:715526614334701588>

<:bbyes:966039180318756914> **ITS COSMIC CUP LAUNCH DAY!!!!** <:bbyes:966039180318756914> 

We're thrilled to launch the Cosmic Cup today, this has been such a huge amount of work for the Battlebound team and testament to our vision for fun social gaming in web3! When creating the Cosmic Cup we wanted to go above and beyond for our companion Turtles, which is why switched to the full pilot version of the game, fully upgraded animations, materials, textures, and rigs to create an engaging and fun experience that brings a fresh take to the Evaverse. 

*[Once the final build is pushed to Steam we'll edit this post]*

**Check out and help share our incredible new gameplay trailer for the mode!** 👇 
https://twitter.com/evaverse/status/1600523095944593409

🔥 **BRAND NEW EVAVERSE WEBSITE! **🔥 
We've completely relaunched and updated the Evaverse website in celebration for the release of Cosmic Cup. Huge shoutout to @​Extasis for his masterful work creating this page.  Visit https://www.evaverse.com to check it out! 🚀 

 🙀 **PURRTLE LAUNCH** 🙀 
Purrtles are a brand new collection of adorable companion kitties dressed as Turtles! They have custom rig and animations and will be competitors in the Cosmic Cup.  Over the next 2 months we're partnering with huge players in the space like Coinbase and Magic Eden, YGG, Kongz, and many more to introduce Purrtles into the Evaverse as a free mint through the Purrtle Pack NFTs.  

**What are Purrtle Packs?**
Purrtle Packs are wearable gear that contain your Purrtle soul. Each NFT represents a Purrtle waiting to be unlocked. Players must level up their Purrtle packs by hoverboarding and playing Cosmic Cup. Once fully leveled the full Purrtle emerges, and players that level them up first have the highest chances of getting rare Purrtles from them! All unique First Arrival holders will be automatically airdropped a Purrtle Pack in the first wave, giving them a head start on leveling the packs. The snapshot was taken this morning!

Register for the premint campaign because you could win multiple Purrtle Packs in each wave of WL distributions - 💎  https://www.premint.xyz/purrtles-collection/ 💎 

📢 **SHARE THE NEWS** 📢 
Please help share the news on social media by RT and sharing the news articles to help get the word out about Cosmic Cup and Purrtles release!

https://venturebeat.com/games/web3-studio-battlebound-announces-the-launch-of-cosmic-cup/
https://www.nftgators.com/battlebound-a-web3-studio-by-aaa-gaming-vets-launches-pet-racing-game-cosmic-cup/
https://www.gaming.net/adam-hensel-founder-ceo-of-battlebound-interview-series/

hey @everyone

<:bbyes:966039180318756914> **ITS COSMIC CUP LAUNCH DAY!!!!** <:bbyes:966039180318756914> 

We're thrilled to launch the Cosmic Cup today, this has been such a huge amount of work for the Battlebound team and testament to our vision for fun social gaming in web3! When creating the Cosmic Cup we wanted to go above and beyond for our companion Turtles, which is why switched to the full pilot version of the game, fully upgraded animations, materials, textures, and rigs to create an engaging and fun experience that brings a fresh take to the Evaverse. 

*[Once the final build is pushed to Steam we'll edit this post]*

**Check out and help share our incredible new gameplay trailer for the mode!** 👇 
https://twitter.com/evaverse/status/1600523095944593409

🔥 **BRAND NEW EVAVERSE WEBSITE! **🔥 
We've completely relaunched and updated the Evaverse website in celebration for the release of Cosmic Cup. Huge shoutout to <@995401304476233779> for his masterful work creating this page.  Visit https://www.evaverse.com to check it out! 🚀 

 🙀 **PURRTLE LAUNCH** 🙀 
Purrtles are a brand new collection of adorable companion kitties dressed as Turtles! They have custom rig and animations and will be competitors in the Cosmic Cup.  Over the next 2 months we're partnering with huge players in the space like Coinbase and Magic Eden, YGG, Kongz, and many more to introduce Purrtles into the Evaverse as a free mint through the Purrtle Pack NFTs.  

**What are Purrtle Packs?**
Purrtle Packs are wearable gear that contain your Purrtle soul. Each NFT represents a Purrtle waiting to be unlocked. Players must level up their Purrtle packs by hoverboarding and playing Cosmic Cup. Once fully leveled the full Purrtle emerges, and players that level them up first have the highest chances of getting rare Purrtles from them! All unique First Arrival holders will be automatically airdropped a Purrtle Pack in the first wave, giving them a head start on leveling the packs. The snapshot was taken this morning!

Register for the premint campaign because you could win multiple Purrtle Packs in each wave of WL distributions - 💎  https://www.premint.xyz/purrtles-collection/ 💎 

📢 **SHARE THE NEWS** 📢 
Please help share the news on social media by RT and sharing the news articles to help get the word out about Cosmic Cup and Purrtles release!

https://venturebeat.com/games/web3-studio-battlebound-announces-the-launch-of-cosmic-cup/
https://www.nftgators.com/battlebound-a-web3-studio-by-aaa-gaming-vets-launches-pet-racing-game-cosmic-cup/
https://www.gaming.net/adam-hensel-founder-ceo-of-battlebound-interview-series/

hey @everyone

<:bbyes:966039180318756914> ** COSMIC CUP IS HAPPENING!!!** <:bbyes:966039180318756914> 

We said early December and we meant it! The Cosmic Cup update patch is coming  Wednesday 12/7! We're shipping network upgrades and Turtle Troop updates **TODAY!** 🔥 , and the first pass of the Cosmic Cup and a few surprises later this week! 😉 
 We're going to continue to update the mode and polish it but we want to get this fast paced action racer into the the hands asap.  We've put together an entire blog post on the game design and core mechanics to read up on in advance.

<:flag:519008029396566019> **COSMIC CUP RACING **<:flag:519008029396566019> 
Players piloting their pets in the Cosmic Cup have access to several abilities, with most of them having an energy cost. Players will decide which abilities to use and when to maximize their effectiveness.

All pets start the race with 0 energy. Players can fill their energy bar with every step during the race. However, if you’re too close to competitors, energy gain will be disabled. This feature helps balance the decision between staying away from the pack to recharge your energy or interfering with other players to gain an advantage.


<:flexleft:888186463173345300> **TURTLE TROOP ABILITIES** <:flexleft:888186463173345300> 
**Attack:** Players can launch an attack that will knock other players prone. Players can choose to increase the power of the attack by charging it. However, that will provide a more significant tell for opposing players to dodge the attack. Pets also consume energy while charging the attack.

**Dodge:** Players can dodge attacks and hazards using this ability. There is an energy cost for dodging, so players won’t be able to spam this action.

**Slide:** This free ability lets players trigger a slide that will give them a slight speed boost at the cost of more limited movement control. In addition, players can recover Energy more quickly while sliding. The speed boost gained will depend on the incline, so knowing when to trigger it is part of the skill.

**Turbo Boost:** Triggering this expensive ability will give the player a short but powerful speed boost while slightly reducing control.

**Jump: **Jumping does not cost energy and allows players to avoid obstacles and navigate the race track.

**Double Jump:** Players can trigger a second jump while airborne, allowing them to find better paths or avoid hazards. Double Jump consumes energy.

📈   **TURTLE TROOP STATS** 📈  
Each Turtle based on its metadata will have a lead stat, Power, Zeal, Agility, and Brawn. Each stat will level up but Turtles will always have a set lead stat creating different utility for each type of Turtle NFT.

<:flex:702049290889199646> **Power:**
Increases the Speed Boost gained from using the Downhill Slide ability.
Reduces the slowing effects from inclines.
Reduces the energy cost of the Attack ability.
Lead stat for Galaxy Turtle Troop.

<a:orangefire:989753294714978324> **Zeal:**
Determines the acceleration rate of the Turtle Troop.
Contributes to Stamina gained after an active race.
Lead stat for Shiny Turtle Troop.

<a:pepe_Run:934149953285128303> **Agility:**
Increases the energy gained from taking steps.
Reduces the energy cost of the Dodge ability.
Lead stat for Pristine Turtle Troop.

🦸 **Brawn:**
Reduces stun duration from getting hit with an attack or hitting an obstacle.
Determines the Turtle’s maximum Stamina.
Lead stat for Wild Turtle Troop.

🔥 **FULL BLOG POST** 🔥 
For the full design breakdown and more images check it the entire blog post here! 👇 
https://evaverse.medium.com/cosmic-cup-all-about-evaverses-newest-game-mode-11fd1e4fb373

hey @everyone

Hey @everyone


<:bbyes:966039180318756914> **GET YOUR TURTLES READY** <:bbyes:966039180318756914> 
Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and are enjoying ramping up to this holiday season! We have a few exciting announcements today and we look towards December and the end of 2022. Cosmic Cup is being released next month alongside the network upgrades, turtle visual update, Evaverse HUB level update, new audio SFX, partnership reveals, and MORE! We're going to be announcing the official launch date and game design deep dive this week! 🔥  

🤝  **AZRA AMA**🤝 
I will be joining industry thought leaders tomorrow at 7AM (PST) on their Azra’s Twitter to talk about the future of NFT Gaming, policy updates, and the value add of player agency and ownership. Click below to set yourself a reminder.
https://twitter.com/AzraGames/status/1597819129515642881

🤝 **METALCORE AMA**🤝 
@​Rapkannibale  @​kurazav and @​OSuZQ  be joining the Metalcore team for an AMA tomorrow morning at 10AM (PST).
https://twitter.com/playmetalcore/status/1598074484589821954

🔥 **A16Z FOUNDERS SUMMIT**🔥 
I also have just returned from the first ever a16z crypto founders summit! We had an amazing few days networking, speaking to other founders, and hearing from industry leaders like Brian Armstrong, Marc Andreesen, Chris Dixon and founders of Solana, BAYC, Bonfire studios and so many more builders from across web3 and gaming! There so much positive energy about how we as industry can move past crypto winter, FTX, and a lot of the negative sentiments that are becoming common place is the season we're in. The current landscape is ripe for opportunity, and historically speaking break out successes and the required innovations are built during winter periods and opposition. All in all, the experience was fantastic and Battlebound is supported by such an incredible VC fund that truly cares about our vision, community, and the future of web3 gaming!

Hey @everyone


<:bbyes:966039180318756914> **GET YOUR TURTLES READY** <:bbyes:966039180318756914> 
Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and are enjoying ramping up to this holiday season! We have a few exciting announcements today and we look towards December and the end of 2022. Cosmic Cup is being released next month alongside the network upgrades, turtle visual update, Evaverse HUB level update, new audio SFX, partnership reveals, and MORE! We're going to be announcing the official launch date and game design deep dive this week! 🔥  

🤝  **AZRA AMA**🤝 
I will be joining industry thought leaders tomorrow at 7AM (PST) on their Azra’s Twitter to talk about the future of NFT Gaming, policy updates, and the value add of player agency and ownership. Click below to set yourself a reminder.
https://twitter.com/AzraGames/status/1597819129515642881

🤝 **METALCORE AMA**🤝 
<@115496118166618113>  <@326050062473887755> and <@359013205982445568>  be joining the Metalcore team for an AMA tomorrow morning at 10AM (PST).
https://twitter.com/playmetalcore/status/1598074484589821954

🔥 **A16Z FOUNDERS SUMMIT**🔥 
I also have just returned from the first ever a16z crypto founders summit! We had an amazing few days networking, speaking to other founders, and hearing from industry leaders like Brian Armstrong, Marc Andreesen, Chris Dixon and founders of Solana, BAYC, Bonfire studios and so many more builders from across web3 and gaming! There so much positive energy about how we as industry can move past crypto winter, FTX, and a lot of the negative sentiments that are becoming common place is the season we're in. The current landscape is ripe for opportunity, and historically speaking break out successes and the required innovations are built during winter periods and opposition. All in all, the experience was fantastic and Battlebound is supported by such an incredible VC fund that truly cares about our vision, community, and the future of web3 gaming!

Hey everyone happy holidays from the Battlebound team! <:bb:956628347822166046> 

🦃**THANKSGIVING PARTY**🦃
Our community has grown so much over the past year, you have all become family! We’d love to take this opportunity to thank you for your love and support with a Thanksgiving event,  partnered with Legends at War, by Sabre Games Studios! 🔥 

**WHEN:** 
11/23 - 11/28 at 10AM PST, players can race for the following prizes!

**PRIZES:**
-2X Tickets and 2X hoverboard EXP.
-Top 10 players will be entered into a raffle for a Turtle Troops NFT with Prestige 90-99
-Top 100 players will be entered into a raffle for a Turtle Troops NFT with Prestige  80-89
-Anyone who completed 200 races during this period will be entered into a raffle for a Turtle Troops NFT with Prestige 70-79
-Top 50 racers will receive Beta pass for L.A.W. (Legends at War)

We’ll be having many more event before the start of **Cosmic Cup** to get our beloved Turtle Troop collection into the hands of as many players as possible, so stay tuned to the #🏆┃events for more!

🏆 **COSMIC CUP** 🏆 
Speaking of Cosmic Cup, we're putting the final touches on the Turtle visual update and will be launching that very shortly. We're on track for an early December release and will be sharing much ore details about the mode and design mechanics next week as we get closer to the finish line! In the meantime take a look at some recent level updates! We adjusted the track for close-quarters combat and even more race hazards! 

Here’s a quick update video which also shows the diligent work we’ve completed on player-controlled movements. We can’t wait to share this all with you in early December! 👇 

🔥 **XBORG COMMUNITY AMA STREAM**🔥 
@​kurazav @​OSuZQ  and @​Rapkannibale  will be joining XBorg on Twitch tomorrow morning at 10AM (PST) on their channel to promote the Evaverse! Come support the team and join in on a few races!
https://www.twitch.tv/xborgofficial

Have a great week and eat lots incredible food with family and friends!

@everyone

Hey everyone happy holidays from the Battlebound team! <:bb:956628347822166046> 

🦃**THANKSGIVING PARTY**🦃
Our community has grown so much over the past year, you have all become family! We’d love to take this opportunity to thank you for your love and support with a Thanksgiving event,  partnered with Legends at War, by Sabre Games Studios! 🔥 

**WHEN:** 
11/23 - 11/28 at 10AM PST, players can race for the following prizes!

**PRIZES:**
-2X Tickets and 2X hoverboard EXP.
-Top 10 players will be entered into a raffle for a Turtle Troops NFT with Prestige 90-99
-Top 100 players will be entered into a raffle for a Turtle Troops NFT with Prestige  80-89
-Anyone who completed 200 races during this period will be entered into a raffle for a Turtle Troops NFT with Prestige 70-79
-Top 50 racers will receive Beta pass for L.A.W. (Legends at War)

We’ll be having many more event before the start of **Cosmic Cup** to get our beloved Turtle Troop collection into the hands of as many players as possible, so stay tuned to the <#1012766095402352680> for more!

🏆 **COSMIC CUP** 🏆 
Speaking of Cosmic Cup, we're putting the final touches on the Turtle visual update and will be launching that very shortly. We're on track for an early December release and will be sharing much ore details about the mode and design mechanics next week as we get closer to the finish line! In the meantime take a look at some recent level updates! We adjusted the track for close-quarters combat and even more race hazards! 

Here’s a quick update video which also shows the diligent work we’ve completed on player-controlled movements. We can’t wait to share this all with you in early December! 👇 

🔥 **XBORG COMMUNITY AMA STREAM**🔥 
<@326050062473887755> <@359013205982445568>  and <@115496118166618113>  will be joining XBorg on Twitch tomorrow morning at 10AM (PST) on their channel to promote the Evaverse! Come support the team and join in on a few races!
https://www.twitch.tv/xborgofficial

Have a great week and eat lots incredible food with family and friends!

@everyone

Hey Evatars, time for some game updates! 🎮 

🏆 **COSMIC CUP** 🏆 
We're on track for an early December release of Cosmic Cup, we're polishing animations, networking (see below), and payouts and rewards. We're also leveling up the entire world of the Evaverse hub with brand new terrain, dynamic foliage, and the Evadrome / Cosmic Cup Stadium. We're coordinating with our *top secret* release partnering, PR team, and community partners to launch a massive get in-game campaign that will run over the course of this year and into next year to support the growth of the Cosmic Cup. This will overlap our Wonderland event in December, and give everyone awesome incentives to check out and join the Battlebound and Evaverse community! <:bb:956628347822166046> 

*More on this soon!*

<:TurtleKing:877547773816373249> **TURTLE TROOPS UPDATES** <:TurtleKing:877547773816373249> 
Prior to the launch of Cosmic Cup in early December, we're going to be updated all the Turtle Troops to match the new visual quality bar of the Evaverse. These avatars have full facial rig, custom animations, and will each be playable in the launch of the Cosmic Cup mode! Check out the sneak preview for the updates below! 👇 

<:flex:702049290889199646> **NETWORK UPGADES** <:flex:702049290889199646> 
We're pleased to share the network upgrades @​Antegar has been working on are finally complete!!!! This will bring a huge boost to server stability, voice chat, and lots of flexibility for growth and increasing the max server size. We are still squashing bugs and will continue to as we get this ready for final release.  The next patch we deploy with have the network upgrades completed!

🎁 **EVENT REWARDS DISTRIBUTED**🎁 
Thank you everyone who participated and worked hard during the All Hallows Eva and Guild Wars Event! All rewards have been distributed. Post your new rewards on Twitter and tag us so we can RT! If you are having trouble locating yours, please check the wallet you had connected to your account on 10/31. If it’s still not there, please submit a ticket and our staff will assist you ASAP. 

Stay tuned! We have even more tournaments and events coming up in the next month leading up to Wonderland! ❄️ 

@everyone

Hey Evatars, time for some game updates! 🎮 

🏆 **COSMIC CUP** 🏆 
We're on track for an early December release of Cosmic Cup, we're polishing animations, networking (see below), and payouts and rewards. We're also leveling up the entire world of the Evaverse hub with brand new terrain, dynamic foliage, and the Evadrome / Cosmic Cup Stadium. We're coordinating with our *top secret* release partnering, PR team, and community partners to launch a massive get in-game campaign that will run over the course of this year and into next year to support the growth of the Cosmic Cup. This will overlap our Wonderland event in December, and give everyone awesome incentives to check out and join the Battlebound and Evaverse community! <:bb:956628347822166046> 

*More on this soon!*

<:TurtleKing:877547773816373249> **TURTLE TROOPS UPDATES** <:TurtleKing:877547773816373249> 
Prior to the launch of Cosmic Cup in early December, we're going to be updated all the Turtle Troops to match the new visual quality bar of the Evaverse. These avatars have full facial rig, custom animations, and will each be playable in the launch of the Cosmic Cup mode! Check out the sneak preview for the updates below! 👇 

<:flex:702049290889199646> **NETWORK UPGADES** <:flex:702049290889199646> 
We're pleased to share the network upgrades <@745034448013361163> has been working on are finally complete!!!! This will bring a huge boost to server stability, voice chat, and lots of flexibility for growth and increasing the max server size. We are still squashing bugs and will continue to as we get this ready for final release.  The next patch we deploy with have the network upgrades completed!

🎁 **EVENT REWARDS DISTRIBUTED**🎁 
Thank you everyone who participated and worked hard during the All Hallows Eva and Guild Wars Event! All rewards have been distributed. Post your new rewards on Twitter and tag us so we can RT! If you are having trouble locating yours, please check the wallet you had connected to your account on 10/31. If it’s still not there, please submit a ticket and our staff will assist you ASAP. 

Stay tuned! We have even more tournaments and events coming up in the next month leading up to Wonderland! ❄️ 

@everyone

<a:ALERT:960755602135605248> ** FTX WEBSITE HAS BEEN HACKED **<a:ALERT:960755602135605248>
DO NOT VISIT THE FTX WEBSITE RIGHT NOW - Visit the official TG FTX chat for updates 

It's been an absolutely insane week for crypto and web3 and our heart goes out to every person affected.  We're carefully watching the impact of the FTX implosion and surrounding events.   While Web3 gaming is part of the broader Web3 ecosystem, these events do not impact Battlebound’s vision or day-to-day building. It is important to remember our focus is on creating fun and entertaining gaming experiences. We believe Web3 gaming has already seen a significant shift during this bear market. This next evolution focuses less on value earned and more on empowering players through utility and ownership of digital assets. 

Battlebound held a small % of funds on FTX US and has been able to safely withdrawal all of them into more secure locations.

Please be safe out there! 🙏 

*More game updates coming next week!*

@everyone

Hope you all had a wonderful Halloween and are enjoying All Hallow's Eva event! Let's get into some updates! <:pumpkinhead:1034115041009606747> 

<:bb:956628347822166046>**BATTLEBOUND x NAAVIK METACAST** <:bb:956628347822166046>
I was invited to Naavik, a crypto focused research and podcasting firm, to discuss web3 gaming, Battlebound, and Evaverse! The episode hosted by the MetaCast's Alex Takei just aired! If you like podcasts and want to hear our conversation plugging Evaverse and the future of web3 to the larger crypto industry than def give it a listen here.  This is just the start of amplifying the Battlebound brand in the larger web3 gaming sphere and we'll be doing more content and features down the road as we release more game updates and get closer to launching the token! Listen in here  - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-metacast-by-naavik/id1568736386?i=1000584645509

<:fractal:930330784907272213> **EVAVERSE X FRACTAL** <:fractal:930330784907272213> 
We've partnered with with Justin Kan's Fractal NFT marketplace to support their ETH network launch - https://www.fractal.is/evaverse.  We're going to be collaborating more closely with Fractal in the feature to host giveaways and tournaments on their gaming launchpad. To start we've listed 5 NFTs at floor price from the company vault. We're having conversations now with various marketplaces to leverage future drops and expanding the reach of Evaverse as we get closer to releasing Cosmic Cup and future game modes and systems.

📢 **EVA Space - Whitepaper & Tokenomics AMA** 📢 
Tomorrow morning we're hosting a very special  Twitter Space with the team to discuss the new Whitepaper and the game economy. We've been compiling your questions around tokenomics, economy, and game mechanics and we're going to dive into all of them! 
Set your reminder on Twitter and join us Tomorrow at 10 AM PST  - https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1MnxnpoByBeGO

We'll have a lot of exciting game updates this month as we get closer to the launch of Cosmic Cup, stay tuned! <:bbyes:966039180318756914> 

@everyone

We have some very exciting updates for you all today! 🔥 

👀 **BRAND NEW WHITEPAPER** 👀 
We've revamped our whitepaper with a special focus on the $EVA token and game economy. This covers our version for player ownership, the tokens, how value is accrued to the Evaverse ecosystem and how we plan to scale the game next year. There's a lot of content and some exclusive artwork reveals from both Evaverse and Project A inside. There's more content than we can feasible disclose in a discord announcement, so we encourage you all to spend time reading it. We're going to be hosting a very special AMA next Thursday to answer questions related to the whitepaper, tokenomics, and future of Evaverse. We'll also create a form for everyone to submit questions in advance. 

Check it out here   **https://whitepaper.evaverse.com/**

Submit questions for the AMA here - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdxFAxNfgl81Tc_k-4t8txbM_RP7B7l86OOzIPqIhqLn9qFCw/viewform 

Huge shoutout to @​Hipporit for painting the incredible new splash art asset for the Evaverse that captures the direction and thematic vision of the game perfectly! We have an incredible art team that's producing AAA quality within Battlebound.  This image is the face the updated visual and gameplay direction the team is so hard at work building for the Evaverse. 🔥 

We've also given a facelift to our Opensea profiles and collections and will continue to hit our social media profiles moving forward. If you didn't realize we got the @Battlebound / @EVAVERSE twitter handles now too. Shoutout to @​kurazav who has been promoted to full-time Battlebound Dev status for leading the charge on that.

🪙 **EVAVERSE EVENTS** 🪙 
As a reminder we have 2 major events happening. Guild Wars is happening right now All Hallows Eva kicks off next week. We've increased the reward allocation with additional hoverboard NFTs too. Form your teams and jump into game this weekend! Check out #🏆┃events for the latest rules, prizes, and timelines. We're going to be ramping up more events and  NFT rewards + giveaways from here on out, so let @​OSuZQ know which your favorites are and how we can improve these going forward!

With tournamets, leaderboards, Turtle Troops 2.0, Cosmic Cup, and *more* right around the corner. There's a lot to look forward to this year!

@everyone

We have some very exciting updates for you all today! 🔥 

👀 **BRAND NEW WHITEPAPER** 👀 
We've revamped our whitepaper with a special focus on the $EVA token and game economy. This covers our version for player ownership, the tokens, how value is accrued to the Evaverse ecosystem and how we plan to scale the game next year. There's a lot of content and some exclusive artwork reveals from both Evaverse and Project A inside. There's more content than we can feasible disclose in a discord announcement, so we encourage you all to spend time reading it. We're going to be hosting a very special AMA next Thursday to answer questions related to the whitepaper, tokenomics, and future of Evaverse. We'll also create a form for everyone to submit questions in advance. 

Check it out here   **https://whitepaper.evaverse.com/**

Submit questions for the AMA here - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdxFAxNfgl81Tc_k-4t8txbM_RP7B7l86OOzIPqIhqLn9qFCw/viewform 

Huge shoutout to <@430999599243722752> for painting the incredible new splash art asset for the Evaverse that captures the direction and thematic vision of the game perfectly! We have an incredible art team that's producing AAA quality within Battlebound.  This image is the face the updated visual and gameplay direction the team is so hard at work building for the Evaverse. 🔥 

We've also given a facelift to our Opensea profiles and collections and will continue to hit our social media profiles moving forward. If you didn't realize we got the @Battlebound / <@&908347917885132831> twitter handles now too. Shoutout to <@326050062473887755> who has been promoted to full-time Battlebound Dev status for leading the charge on that.

🪙 **EVAVERSE EVENTS** 🪙 
As a reminder we have 2 major events happening. Guild Wars is happening right now All Hallows Eva kicks off next week. We've increased the reward allocation with additional hoverboard NFTs too. Form your teams and jump into game this weekend! Check out <#1012766095402352680> for the latest rules, prizes, and timelines. We're going to be ramping up more events and  NFT rewards + giveaways from here on out, so let <@359013205982445568> know which your favorites are and how we can improve these going forward!

With tournamets, leaderboards, Turtle Troops 2.0, Cosmic Cup, and *more* right around the corner. There's a lot to look forward to this year!

@everyone

We have some updates for you all so let's dig in!

🏆 **COSMIC CUP **🏆 
The original plan to release Cosmic Cup was end of October, with a PR push and marketing campaign to drive lots of new eyes and players into the Battlebound community. We have all of this in the works, but after much playtesting we've decided to make a design pivot which will delay the ultimate Cosmic Cup release until early December. We wish we could delivery on the original timeline, but we found the auto racing feature as the primary mode not satisfying enough from a player perspective. We aim to onboard brand new players into the Evaverse ecosystem with this mode, and since growing our studio, it's really incredibly that we deliver quality gameplay with all of our future updates. This is super important for Battlebound as we aim to onboard new web2 players into Evaverse and create compelling game experiences for everyone. Here's the snapshot of what's coming with Cosmic Cup.

<:bbyes:966039180318756914>  Cosmic Cup will now have a playable pilot mode. All players online who enter a race will control their turtles, cast abilities, and battle each other on the way to the finish line competing for fastest times. The fastest routes won't always win, as an energy system used to cast abilities  incentivizes players to try new paths and attack strategies. Turtles will have individual stats and levels, and gain experience.  These stats will effect these abilities and playstyles. *More on this to come!*

<:bbyes:966039180318756914>  There will be a free Turtle available to all players to play the piloting mode.  These turtles will level up and gain stats, and will be on an even playing field with NFT Turtles.

<:bbyes:966039180318756914>  NFT Turtles will have a passive earning component where they will run races even while you're offline! Giving you you both tickets and turtle XP. Racing your Turtles, or having scholars race them will recharge them and allow them to continue offline racing.

🪙 **$EVA TOKEN** 🪙 
We've already begun engaging investors for the Evaverse token round.  With end of year in sight, we're keeping this conversations localized to close parties that have been in contact with us throughout the year., and will ramp up fund raising in Jan when most VCs have returned from the holidays.  We are looking to close the round ASAP next year and move on to the airdrop campaign and token launch. We're actively interviewing marketing directors to support this effort and build the go-to-market strategy to support all the game features in the works.  Regarding the airdrop, this is the primary vehicle for getting the tokens into the community's hands. We're targeting ~3% of the entire token to be distributed to holders and players over time as an airdrop and ~45% to be distributed through in-game player rewards. Due to regulatory risk, as it stands, we will not be conducting a public sale. We will have a brand new whitepaper by the end of the month which outlines the tokenomics, strategy, and roadmap for Evaverse and Battlebound moving forward.

🔫 **SHOOTER MODE **🔫 
We've begin prototyping and early stage designs of the shooter mode.  It's very early to call, but the core elements we're most excited about are weapons crafting, unique hero kits and playstyles attached to the weapons, and high levels of traversal.  Although hoverboards will be involved we're prototyping to what extent and how.  It's a given we'll create a version of racing that uses guns though! If you have strong thoughts and ideas please tag @​Rapkannibale @​Slynejob @​Modus  with your ideas!

*Check out a short video from our first shooter mode playtest!* 👇 

Thanks @everyone

We have some updates for you all so let's dig in!

🏆 **COSMIC CUP **🏆 
The original plan to release Cosmic Cup was end of October, with a PR push and marketing campaign to drive lots of new eyes and players into the Battlebound community. We have all of this in the works, but after much playtesting we've decided to make a design pivot which will delay the ultimate Cosmic Cup release until early December. We wish we could delivery on the original timeline, but we found the auto racing feature as the primary mode not satisfying enough from a player perspective. We aim to onboard brand new players into the Evaverse ecosystem with this mode, and since growing our studio, it's really incredibly that we deliver quality gameplay with all of our future updates. This is super important for Battlebound as we aim to onboard new web2 players into Evaverse and create compelling game experiences for everyone. Here's the snapshot of what's coming with Cosmic Cup.

<:bbyes:966039180318756914>  Cosmic Cup will now have a playable pilot mode. All players online who enter a race will control their turtles, cast abilities, and battle each other on the way to the finish line competing for fastest times. The fastest routes won't always win, as an energy system used to cast abilities  incentivizes players to try new paths and attack strategies. Turtles will have individual stats and levels, and gain experience.  These stats will effect these abilities and playstyles. *More on this to come!*

<:bbyes:966039180318756914>  There will be a free Turtle available to all players to play the piloting mode.  These turtles will level up and gain stats, and will be on an even playing field with NFT Turtles.

<:bbyes:966039180318756914>  NFT Turtles will have a passive earning component where they will run races even while you're offline! Giving you you both tickets and turtle XP. Racing your Turtles, or having scholars race them will recharge them and allow them to continue offline racing.

🪙 **$EVA TOKEN** 🪙 
We've already begun engaging investors for the Evaverse token round.  With end of year in sight, we're keeping this conversations localized to close parties that have been in contact with us throughout the year., and will ramp up fund raising in Jan when most VCs have returned from the holidays.  We are looking to close the round ASAP next year and move on to the airdrop campaign and token launch. We're actively interviewing marketing directors to support this effort and build the go-to-market strategy to support all the game features in the works.  Regarding the airdrop, this is the primary vehicle for getting the tokens into the community's hands. We're targeting ~3% of the entire token to be distributed to holders and players over time as an airdrop and ~45% to be distributed through in-game player rewards. Due to regulatory risk, as it stands, we will not be conducting a public sale. We will have a brand new whitepaper by the end of the month which outlines the tokenomics, strategy, and roadmap for Evaverse and Battlebound moving forward.

🔫 **SHOOTER MODE **🔫 
We've begin prototyping and early stage designs of the shooter mode.  It's very early to call, but the core elements we're most excited about are weapons crafting, unique hero kits and playstyles attached to the weapons, and high levels of traversal.  Although hoverboards will be involved we're prototyping to what extent and how.  It's a given we'll create a version of racing that uses guns though! If you have strong thoughts and ideas please tag <@115496118166618113> <@171055495765819392> <@136280072876195840>  with your ideas!

*Check out a short video from our first shooter mode playtest!* 👇 

Thanks @everyone

With Cosmic Cup release on the horizon we're going to have ample content coming down the pipe, in the meantime though we have a very exciting announcement.... 🔥 

<:bb:956628347822166046> **2 NEW FULL-TIME GAME DEVS HAVE JOINED BATTLEBOUND** <:bb:956628347822166046> 

@​Alarack is a Senior Unity Engineer with  10+ years experience. He's worked on everything from small indie games, metaverse simulations, and even Air Force Training Software.  He has decades of Unity experience specifically in building scalable UI systems and is going to be giving the Evaverse a much needed UI face lift in addition to programming new gameplay features.  For the last couple years, he's been making a collectible card game for fun, check out his YouTube channel below for some tutorials! He loves collectible card games, action platformer games, and spicy food.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaeSgLgNke5Z8S4ShKaopkg

@​bradl3d is also joining us as Battlebound's very first lead animator! As Lead Animator he will breathe life into everything Evaverse. With over a decade of animation experience Brad was previously lead animator at Sony Studios where he worked on Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, Marvel's Avengers, The Last of Us Part II, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, and many more titles!  He enjoys spending time with his kids playing Lego, sandbox games, and collecting and customizing action figures.


<:bbyes:966039180318756914>  **Battlebound now has 20 full-time developers from across AAA gaming space!** <:bbyes:966039180318756914> 

We're set on bring about an industry perspective shift on what it means to play web3 games and empowering our community and players with agency, ownership, and fun over time spent playing games they love!  🚀 

Let's give these two a *warm *Battlebound Welcome! We can't wait to see how they level up the Evaverse!!! 👋 

Happy Friday @everyone

With Cosmic Cup release on the horizon we're going to have ample content coming down the pipe, in the meantime though we have a very exciting announcement.... 🔥 

<:bb:956628347822166046> **2 NEW FULL-TIME GAME DEVS HAVE JOINED BATTLEBOUND** <:bb:956628347822166046> 

<@842863328061554779> is a Senior Unity Engineer with  10+ years experience. He's worked on everything from small indie games, metaverse simulations, and even Air Force Training Software.  He has decades of Unity experience specifically in building scalable UI systems and is going to be giving the Evaverse a much needed UI face lift in addition to programming new gameplay features.  For the last couple years, he's been making a collectible card game for fun, check out his YouTube channel below for some tutorials! He loves collectible card games, action platformer games, and spicy food.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaeSgLgNke5Z8S4ShKaopkg

<@1029811818631266325> is also joining us as Battlebound's very first lead animator! As Lead Animator he will breathe life into everything Evaverse. With over a decade of animation experience Brad was previously lead animator at Sony Studios where he worked on Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, Marvel's Avengers, The Last of Us Part II, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, and many more titles!  He enjoys spending time with his kids playing Lego, sandbox games, and collecting and customizing action figures.


<:bbyes:966039180318756914>  **Battlebound now has 20 full-time developers from across AAA gaming space!** <:bbyes:966039180318756914> 

We're set on bring about an industry perspective shift on what it means to play web3 games and empowering our community and players with agency, ownership, and fun over time spent playing games they love!  🚀 

Let's give these two a *warm *Battlebound Welcome! We can't wait to see how they level up the Evaverse!!! 👋 

Happy Friday @everyone

The team has been a little too quiet lately, and anytime that's happening it's because we're focused on shipping a major feature. I want to share an update and let you all know a few things to look forward to this month.

🏆 **COSMIC CUP **🏆 
Cosmic Cup is being released by end of month. We're planning an internal soft launch with our discord family followed by a very large marketing push, coordinated with our partners around the web3 space, and a brand new partnership reveal to support the Cosmic Cup mode.  We'll be sharing more details about the design and how to play the mode coming up next week.  

🔫 ** ARENA SHOOTER** 🔫 
As the art and engineering teams put the finishing touches on the mode and squash bugs over the coming few weeks, our designers are deep into the shooter designs, exploring the game modes, hoverboards, weapon crafting, and modular playstyles.  We're really excited about the potential of this game mode and how it interacts with all our NFTs and in-game utility to tie everything together within the Evaverse.

<a:evamoney:872557688196845599> **$EVA TOKEN** <a:evamoney:872557688196845599> 
We've just now wrapped up all the legal paperwork required to mint and launch the token. This is a major milestone for the studio and team and has been a significant effort between our legal team, game designers, and engineers.  We're now beginning the process of engaging investors to raise an additional funding through the sale of tokens as we line up the release strategy.  There's going to be a huge marketing push leading up to the release of the token, it's not going to happen overnight or come out the blue, but we're making great strides to launch a sustainable tokenized game economy that can grow alongside the game and our community over time. 

We're also putting the final touches on a brand new whitepaper, which will be released this month and thoroughly details the tokenomics, game systems, and how we envision launching the $EVA token and acquiring players through competitive tournaments and major incentives for our NFT holders and community.  

We also hired 2 new developers with incredible game dev pedigrees which we'll be introducing to you all very shortly!  It's going to be an exciting Q4 for the Battlebound team and community! 💎 

👻  We have a few spooky surprises in-store for you just around the corner, plus **A LOT** more! 🐱 

Have an awesome weekend  @everyone

GM Evatars! 🌞


🏎️ **LEADERBOARD UPDATES**🏎️ 
We've just launched the long overdue leaderboard expansion tech. Big thanks to @​Eseye  for his hard work upgrading leaderboards to work in every single race track. If you login to your Evaverse.com account and click “leaderboards” on the left side menu, you’ll be able to see our top racers of all time! You can also filter by time, race track, and even search for yourself to see how you’ve progressed. Love to see these times getting lower and lower!

This is part of a larger infrastructure update happening for competitive Evaverse tournaments for Hoverboarding and Cosmic Cup.  Speaking of Cosmic Cup... hope your Turtles are well fed, October is going to be a big month! <:bbyes:966039180318756914> 

Check out the top spots in #🏆┃leaderboards 


🎁 **EVAVERSE x BORED BOX GIVEAWAY** 🎁 
Our Partners at Bored Box have just launched their second Box, dubbed **The B64**, this is the second box collection created by Bored Elon Musk and as one of our primary gaming partners he has generously agreed to give away 2 box NFTs to our community! <a:party_blob:784146655678300211> 
Each box contains 5 exclusive NFTs from games across web3.  This raffle competition is being held on the premint platform and requires a First Arrivals NFT to enter!

**Requirements:**
- Hold at least 1 First Arrival in the participating Wallet.
- Follow @EVAVERSE_NFT & @Battlebound_io on Twitter
- Join Battlebound Discord and get the ‘Member’ Role
- Input the Evaverse Game Account ID (the same participating wallet from above must be connected to the Game Account ID specified here)

*The Raffle will end on 10/07/2022 at 10 PM PST and the winners will be announced on Monday, 10/10/2022 at 10 AM PST*
*If you have any questions or issues, don’t hesitate to open a #🎫┃ask-staff 

**Join the Raffle**  ▶️▶️▶️   https://www.premint.xyz/evaverse-bored-box-giveaway/  ◀️ ◀️ ◀️ 


⏳ **SANDSTORM x EVAVERSE **⏳ 
Sandstorm has graciously offered to sponsor a builder contest for us! Check out their NFT marketplace made specially for artists and creators. In the past, they’ve partnered with CyberKongz, Galaxy Fight Club, and vEmpire to help create assets for Sandbox and Decentraland. We want to build some Sandbox set pieces to promote the new Cosmic Cup game mode! We encourage you to participate if you think you’ve got what it takes 💪 

https://nft.sandstorm.co/

Details on how to enter: https://twitter.com/sandstormmeetup/status/1577298230341140480

@everyone

GM Evatars! 🌞


🏎️ **LEADERBOARD UPDATES**🏎️ 
We've just launched the long overdue leaderboard expansion tech. Big thanks to <@924922492169101313>  for his hard work upgrading leaderboards to work in every single race track. If you login to your Evaverse.com account and click “leaderboards” on the left side menu, you’ll be able to see our top racers of all time! You can also filter by time, race track, and even search for yourself to see how you’ve progressed. Love to see these times getting lower and lower!

This is part of a larger infrastructure update happening for competitive Evaverse tournaments for Hoverboarding and Cosmic Cup.  Speaking of Cosmic Cup... hope your Turtles are well fed, October is going to be a big month! <:bbyes:966039180318756914> 

Check out the top spots in <#992158083109367859> 


🎁 **EVAVERSE x BORED BOX GIVEAWAY** 🎁 
Our Partners at Bored Box have just launched their second Box, dubbed **The B64**, this is the second box collection created by Bored Elon Musk and as one of our primary gaming partners he has generously agreed to give away 2 box NFTs to our community! <a:party_blob:784146655678300211> 
Each box contains 5 exclusive NFTs from games across web3.  This raffle competition is being held on the premint platform and requires a First Arrivals NFT to enter!

**Requirements:**
- Hold at least 1 First Arrival in the participating Wallet.
- Follow <@&908347917885132831>_NFT & @Battlebound_io on Twitter
- Join Battlebound Discord and get the ‘Member’ Role
- Input the Evaverse Game Account ID (the same participating wallet from above must be connected to the Game Account ID specified here)

*The Raffle will end on 10/07/2022 at 10 PM PST and the winners will be announced on Monday, 10/10/2022 at 10 AM PST*
*If you have any questions or issues, don’t hesitate to open a <#992151218640146592> 

**Join the Raffle**  ▶️▶️▶️   https://www.premint.xyz/evaverse-bored-box-giveaway/  ◀️ ◀️ ◀️ 


⏳ **SANDSTORM x EVAVERSE **⏳ 
Sandstorm has graciously offered to sponsor a builder contest for us! Check out their NFT marketplace made specially for artists and creators. In the past, they’ve partnered with CyberKongz, Galaxy Fight Club, and vEmpire to help create assets for Sandbox and Decentraland. We want to build some Sandbox set pieces to promote the new Cosmic Cup game mode! We encourage you to participate if you think you’ve got what it takes 💪 

https://nft.sandstorm.co/

Details on how to enter: https://twitter.com/sandstormmeetup/status/1577298230341140480

@everyone

🏆 **INTRODUCING THE COSMIC CUP** 🏆 

🥁  After careful consideration, we've landed on a public facing name for Turtle Racing... **Cosmic Cup!**

The Cosmic Cup incorporates the Evaverse competitive thematic with best-in-class auto racing gameplay. It's a competition for not just  Evaverse Turtle Troops, but all  aspiring racers throughout the Evaverse!

The team is hyper focused to deliver this game in October.  We're going to be sharing a lot more details as we get closer to release.  We know a lot of you have had questions about queueing and the racing mechanics so we want to shed a bit of light on that system.
Players will be able to queue your racers by entering the stadium. Your Turtle must have enough stamina to enter the race. If you don't you may purchase a stamina recharge at the SNAX machine, or wait for the stamina to regenerate.  Turtles that have stamina will race whether your online or offline and generate passive rewards.  If you are online you can cut the line and enter your Turtles to the front of the race! <:TurtleKing:877547773816373249> 

Post launch we're expanding the leaderboard system to account for high stakes gameplay and a wagering system as we add new NFTs and future drops into the Cosmic Cup tournament rewards! 🎁 

More on these systems to come! Check out the amazing UX/UI work for Turtle Race created by @​Extasis 


⚠️ **SCAM ALERT** ⚠️ 
There have been reports of multiple copycat Twitter accounts including **_Evaverse_NFT**, **Evaverse_NFT_**, and possibly others. We are NOT having any free mints, whitelist event, or airdrops **currently**. 
Please report these to Twitter while we get them taken down. Here is an example of one of their posts.

**SCAM **👇 
https://twitter.com/_evaverse_nft
https://twitter.com/evaverse_nft_

@everyone

🏆 **INTRODUCING THE COSMIC CUP** 🏆 

🥁  After careful consideration, we've landed on a public facing name for Turtle Racing... **Cosmic Cup!**

The Cosmic Cup incorporates the Evaverse competitive thematic with best-in-class auto racing gameplay. It's a competition for not just  Evaverse Turtle Troops, but all  aspiring racers throughout the Evaverse!

The team is hyper focused to deliver this game in October.  We're going to be sharing a lot more details as we get closer to release.  We know a lot of you have had questions about queueing and the racing mechanics so we want to shed a bit of light on that system.
Players will be able to queue your racers by entering the stadium. Your Turtle must have enough stamina to enter the race. If you don't you may purchase a stamina recharge at the SNAX machine, or wait for the stamina to regenerate.  Turtles that have stamina will race whether your online or offline and generate passive rewards.  If you are online you can cut the line and enter your Turtles to the front of the race! <:TurtleKing:877547773816373249> 

Post launch we're expanding the leaderboard system to account for high stakes gameplay and a wagering system as we add new NFTs and future drops into the Cosmic Cup tournament rewards! 🎁 

More on these systems to come! Check out the amazing UX/UI work for Turtle Race created by <@995401304476233779> 


⚠️ **SCAM ALERT** ⚠️ 
There have been reports of multiple copycat Twitter accounts including **_Evaverse_NFT**, **Evaverse_NFT_**, and possibly others. We are NOT having any free mints, whitelist event, or airdrops **currently**. 
Please report these to Twitter while we get them taken down. Here is an example of one of their posts.

**SCAM **👇 
https://twitter.com/_evaverse_nft
https://twitter.com/evaverse_nft_

@everyone

**GM Evatars**<:bblove:966040364110721087> 

Thanks everyone who raced this past weekend on our 2x tickets event and the relaunch of GPA! We're constantly looking for ways to level up the fidelity and quality of the game with every big content push and patch. It's only going to continue to improve from here! I know its been a bit quiet on our side for the past week, but that's because the team is heads down building something incredibly special for you all. With Turtle Racing on the horizon and a huge marketing push around the mode, partnerships, and upcoming drops 😉  our hands are quite full right now.

But we still want to give a glimpse of what's coming... so here's a sneak peak of the new Turtle Racing stadium we're building in the Evaverse HUB 🔽 

We've also haven't quite settled on a name for Turtle Racing we absolutely love, so if you have more ideas throw them in #💬┃eva-space!!

Plenty more  🔥  to come!!! 

Thanks @everyone

**GM Evatars**<:bblove:966040364110721087> 

Thanks everyone who raced this past weekend on our 2x tickets event and the relaunch of GPA! We're constantly looking for ways to level up the fidelity and quality of the game with every big content push and patch. It's only going to continue to improve from here! I know its been a bit quiet on our side for the past week, but that's because the team is heads down building something incredibly special for you all. With Turtle Racing on the horizon and a huge marketing push around the mode, partnerships, and upcoming drops 😉  our hands are quite full right now.

But we still want to give a glimpse of what's coming... so here's a sneak peak of the new Turtle Racing stadium we're building in the Evaverse HUB 🔽 

We've also haven't quite settled on a name for Turtle Racing we absolutely love, so if you have more ideas throw them in <#991706873009012786>!!

Plenty more  🔥  to come!!! 

Thanks @everyone

**GM Evatars** <:bbyes:966039180318756914> 

We're kicking the festivities off a bit early today!!! Servers are updating and the patch is now LIVE!!!! 

2X Tickets have begun on all race tracks and will last all weekend long. 

The dev team will be jumping into to race a few laps with you all at 11:00 AM PST!

See you on the tracks! 🔥 

@everyone

Hey GM Evatars <:bblove:966040364110721087> 

<:bbyes:966039180318756914>  **RACE TIME** <:bbyes:966039180318756914> 
We're excited to share that the Evaverse Grand Prix A graphics update is shipping... **TOMORROW MORNING!** 🔥 

The team has been working incredibly hard on leveling up the Evaverse game and creating a unique visual style that's home to the Evaverse players and community members. Every game update we make, we learn more as a studio, and improve the overall quality of the products we're delivering. We're going to take our learnings and apply them to the Hub + Turtle Racing Track, and Grand Prix 2/3! We can't wait for you all to play and see what you think! We're also enabling Grand Prix 3 level in a beta phase with new track layout improvements based on community feedback. 

🎫** TICKETS++**🎫
To celebrate we're going to have **2X Ticket earnings all weekend long**, starting **Friday 10 AM PST**, running to **Sunday 10 PM PST.**  

**More Race Track Improvements Include:**
🔵 **Hazard Immunity** - Being repeatedly dismounted is not fun! Players are now immune to a hazard after initially hit by it for a brief window giving them time to escape!
🔵 **Checkpoint Finding** - Players who miss checkpoints will instantly receive a notification. If they do not circle back and hit the checkpoint they will be teleported to it after a short delay.
🔵 **Massive Performance Updates** - Players in GPA should notice a nice increase in FPS, please let us know how the new update performs on your system.

Check out the first segment of GPA in the video below. You'll have to jump in-game to see the rest!

*See you this weekend on the tracks!* 🛹 

@everyone

<:bbyes:966039180318756914> **Turtle Troops - Visual Update** <:bbyes:966039180318756914> 
We have a very exciting announcement today that the team has been working on behind the scenes for months! We the Turtle Racing mode coming together, we wanted to reinvest in our Turtle Troops to get them ready for their big debut.  We've completely rebuilt the Turtle Troops from the ground up with new geometry, textures, shaders, rigs, animations, and materials. We're staying true to everyone's original NFT metadata / visual look but are updated the base game character to match the Battlebound's AAA quality bar. The Turtles now have custom rigs, and facial animations for racing.  Our goal is to create an immersive entertaining and fun experience for Turtle racing and show some love to the most lovable companions in the Evaverse, so far!

Check out the video below showing off the new Turtle Racing animations!

**Contest - Turtle Racing Game Mode Name**
We're running a twitter contest to come up with a name for the Turtle racing game mode.  We'll put together the best entries and let the community vote on the best ones!

https://twitter.com/Evaverse_NFT/status/1567214395058429957?cxt=HHwWioCxhYvM7r8rAAAA

There's plenty more surprises in store for **Turtle Racing** and the upcoming **Shooter **mode! 🔫 

Thanks @everyone

👀 **BRAND NEW UI/UX SNEAK-PEAK! **👀 
The team has been hard at work elevating the Evaverse into best of the best games in terms of gameplay and fun-factor as well as graphics. Our vision is for the Evaverse to speak for itself in the sea of web3 games. This includes a full revamp of the UI and UX for how players navigate and experience the game. We're super excited to share a sneak preview of the full UI redesign that @​Extasis has been building over the past several weeks! <:bblove:966040364110721087> 

We'll be revamping the in-game hoverboard racing HUD next as we work towards making these designs a reality. 

**NEW BATTLEBOUNDER**
Let’s give @​ChrisR47  a warm Battlebound welcome who joins as the studio's first Sr Producer! Chris is a 16 year vet who transitioned led QA teams at EA, Sega, and Telltale Games, before transitioning into the Production role 7 years ago. He’s worked on AAA titles like Battlefield, Tiger Woods, LOTR, Sonic and  Virtua Fighter franchises. He loves Hip Hop and Saved by the Bell.

We’re excited to have him on board to help drive production, timelines, and content delivery across all Battlebound's products!

@everyone

👀 **BRAND NEW UI/UX SNEAK-PEAK! **👀 
The team has been hard at work elevating the Evaverse into best of the best games in terms of gameplay and fun-factor as well as graphics. Our vision is for the Evaverse to speak for itself in the sea of web3 games. This includes a full revamp of the UI and UX for how players navigate and experience the game. We're super excited to share a sneak preview of the full UI redesign that <@995401304476233779> has been building over the past several weeks! <:bblove:966040364110721087> 

We'll be revamping the in-game hoverboard racing HUD next as we work towards making these designs a reality. 

**NEW BATTLEBOUNDER**
Let’s give <@929120935729061940>  a warm Battlebound welcome who joins as the studio's first Sr Producer! Chris is a 16 year vet who transitioned led QA teams at EA, Sega, and Telltale Games, before transitioning into the Production role 7 years ago. He’s worked on AAA titles like Battlefield, Tiger Woods, LOTR, Sonic and  Virtua Fighter franchises. He loves Hip Hop and Saved by the Bell.

We’re excited to have him on board to help drive production, timelines, and content delivery across all Battlebound's products!

@everyone

Hey @everyone

I want to take some time and give you all on update on the number of product initiatives  we have in the works at Battlebound! 

💎 **GP1 VISUAL UPDATE**💎
We're at the tail end of finalizing the visual update for GP1! Check out the 4k screen captures from the level below. The team is hard at work updating every aspect of the map to hit the AAA gaming quality bar we're all experienced in building towards with our previous studios. We're finalizing the lighting, optimizations, and polish before release.  This update is not just a massive win for the game and our community, but going to be central flagship level for our upcoming marketing materials and promotional push. We share the vision that blockchain games shouldn't suffer in quality, performance, and definitely not FUN FACTOR!

With that in mind, we're also working on Hoverboard 1.5 updates, a series of quality of life improvements for new and old players a like. With this update you will see which place your in during the race at all times. You will also see a minimap of the race showing every player and the next checkpoint.  You will also get a notification as soon as you miss a checkpoint, alerting you to turn around.  These systems are going to greatly help new players entering the ecosystem and racing for the first time.

We're also working with a AAA x-Riot Games audio studio called Team Audio,  to develop the hoverboard racing SFX. This is the icing on the cake to create a completely immersive gaming experience around hoverboards.

Afterwards we're going to update GP2 and GP3, and move into the full Hoverboard 2.0 update mentioned earlier, featuring a trick system, nitro boosts, and wall riding. 

🏁 **COMPETE TO EARN **🏁 
While we're finalizing the token launch and engaging investors to raise the token round, we're building a competitive tournament system that will scale to any mini-game and allow not just Battlebound but all partners and community members to eventually host their own tournaments in a fully integrated and supported structure within the Evaverse game. Once launched we'll be hosting a series of high stakes tournaments with substantial rewards for the winners.  More on this very soon!


🪙 **TOKEN UPDATE** 🪙 
We've finalized our tokenomics design and have reviewed it with legal from Fenwick and a16z. This iteration of the tokenomics has received a green light from stakeholders from a risk perspective, and we're in the process of drafting a whitepaper update to break down the entire economic structure and details for the $EVA token. This iteration has evolved into a 1-token ecosystem, that leverages tickets, badges, and the $EVA token to reward players and grant access to new features, game content, future NFTs, land, and more within game.  There will be an airdrop as part of our go-to-market strategy that will reward not just our NFT holders, but our players, scholars, and community members. There will be a lot more details being release on this structure and system next month. You may even hear some of our plans next month airing on industry leading crypto gaming podcasts. 🙃 

<:bbyes:966039180318756914> **TURTLE RACING **<:bbyes:966039180318756914> 
Turtle Racing is progressing very well! We have a number of surprises in store for you all which will be revealed in the lead up to the Turtle Racing mode release. We've put a tremendous amount of resources into Turtle Racing and our vision is to compete with the auto racers of web3 with the most immersive, fun, and entertaining version of this genre of gameplay. We'll be teasing more updates and some very big partnerships surrounding the release of this mode.  Stay tuned!

As always thanks for all your support, patience, and faith in the Battleboud team!  It's going to be paying off in a **BIG **way! 🚀 

❤️

GM @everyone ! Hope you're all having a good week so far!

<:bbyes:966039180318756914>  **Twitch Stream** <:bbyes:966039180318756914> 

Help us make Twitch Affiliate! We’ll be streaming Let’s Play this <t:1660860000>, and EVAFEST on <t:1660932000> with DJ @​kurazav ! 

How are you all liking the streaming schedule so far? Is there a time that would work better for you? Let us know in #💬┃eva-space !

<a:evamoney:872557688196845599>  **Evaverse Midjourney Challenge!** <a:evamoney:872557688196845599> 

Show us your Midjourney creations as well as the prompt you used to create your version of Evaverse! We’ll pick our top 3 for a special prize! You have until <t:1661198400> to enter!

1️⃣ Join Midjourney Discord Server - https://discord.gg/midjourney
2️⃣ Enter a Newbies room.
3️⃣ Send your prompt as /imagine ___ (Be creative!)
4️⃣ Use variations for more options, then **upscale** your chosen image
5️⃣ Share the **upscaled** image with your prompt on Twitter! 
6️⃣ **Make sure you mention @EVAVERSE_nft & use the #evaverse hashtag.**

Here’s some examples from our prompt and image!

/imagine evaverse universe with cyberpunk cities and ready player one minigames flying crafts

GM @everyone ! Hope you're all having a good week so far!

<:bbyes:966039180318756914>  **Twitch Stream** <:bbyes:966039180318756914> 

Help us make Twitch Affiliate! We’ll be streaming Let’s Play this <t:1660860000>, and EVAFEST on <t:1660932000> with DJ <@326050062473887755> ! 

How are you all liking the streaming schedule so far? Is there a time that would work better for you? Let us know in <#991706873009012786> !

<a:evamoney:872557688196845599>  **Evaverse Midjourney Challenge!** <a:evamoney:872557688196845599> 

Show us your Midjourney creations as well as the prompt you used to create your version of Evaverse! We’ll pick our top 3 for a special prize! You have until <t:1661198400> to enter!

1️⃣ Join Midjourney Discord Server - https://discord.gg/midjourney
2️⃣ Enter a Newbies room.
3️⃣ Send your prompt as /imagine ___ (Be creative!)
4️⃣ Use variations for more options, then **upscale** your chosen image
5️⃣ Share the **upscaled** image with your prompt on Twitter! 
6️⃣ **Make sure you mention <@&908347917885132831>_nft & use the #evaverse hashtag.**

Here’s some examples from our prompt and image!

/imagine evaverse universe with cyberpunk cities and ready player one minigames flying crafts

GM @everyone! Happy Monday!

**EVAVERSE EVOLVED 1.0**

We’re set to release the next new batch of exciting updates early next week, just setting up some final lighting polishes on GP1’s new visual update as well as updating the hazards in GP3.

But also…who’s ready for some SNAX?!

**EVAFEST**

Thank you all for joining us last week for EVAFEST! It was so much fun playing with you all while listening to @​kurazav . We’ll be making this a weekly event, which will also be recorded and uploaded to YouTube so you won’t miss out!

Fun Fact! @​kurazav also did some of the music that’s already in Evaverse!

**DOGE POUND X EVAVERSE TWITTER SPACE**

We’re SO EXCITED for tomorrow's Twitter Space! We’ll be chatting with @​damos  and John Lemon from Doge Pound Studios about their journeys in Web3!

As always, we’ll be Twitch streaming this and recording it on Twitter Space, so you can always catch it later. Click below to set yourself a reminder in your local time!

https://discord.gg/358D7kFf?event=1007344591751618560

GM @everyone! Happy Monday!

**EVAVERSE EVOLVED 1.0**

We’re set to release the next new batch of exciting updates early next week, just setting up some final lighting polishes on GP1’s new visual update as well as updating the hazards in GP3.

But also…who’s ready for some SNAX?!

**EVAFEST**

Thank you all for joining us last week for EVAFEST! It was so much fun playing with you all while listening to <@326050062473887755> . We’ll be making this a weekly event, which will also be recorded and uploaded to YouTube so you won’t miss out!

Fun Fact! <@326050062473887755> also did some of the music that’s already in Evaverse!

**DOGE POUND X EVAVERSE TWITTER SPACE**

We’re SO EXCITED for tomorrow's Twitter Space! We’ll be chatting with <@589993480743419939>  and John Lemon from Doge Pound Studios about their journeys in Web3!

As always, we’ll be Twitch streaming this and recording it on Twitter Space, so you can always catch it later. Click below to set yourself a reminder in your local time!

https://discord.gg/358D7kFf?event=1007344591751618560

Hello @everyone! Who’s ready for EVAFEST?! 🙌 <:bbscream:966702843467796530> 🚀 <:bbyes:966039180318756914> <a:evamoney:872557688196845599> 🙌 

<:Ownerfake:892485849504178186>  **EVAVERSE EVOLVED 1.0** <:Ownerfake:892485849504178186> 

We’ve been working on some awesome new tech for Evaverse. Check out the procedural skybox that @​damos  has been working on! With this new system, we’re able to add things like planets, rings, moons, nebulas, and other awesome details to the sky in an optimized way. This also means we can change the sky for each of our levels!

What could this mean for the lore…?

🎛️  **EVAFEST** 🎚️ 

Join us on Twitch today 11:00 AM (PST) for an EVAFEST stream! @​kurazav will be spinning a DJ set for us while we race with the community!

https://discord.gg/CVaCxPZb?event=1007345702688538654

<:bblove:966040364110721087>  **DOGE POUND X EVAVERSE TWITTER SPACE** <:bblove:966040364110721087> 

Don’t forget to set your reminder for next week’s Twitter Space with Damos and John Lemon from Doge Pound Studios!

https://discord.gg/358D7kFf?event=1007344591751618560

Hello @everyone! Who’s ready for EVAFEST?! 🙌 <:bbscream:966702843467796530> 🚀 <:bbyes:966039180318756914> <a:evamoney:872557688196845599> 🙌 

<:Ownerfake:892485849504178186>  **EVAVERSE EVOLVED 1.0** <:Ownerfake:892485849504178186> 

We’ve been working on some awesome new tech for Evaverse. Check out the procedural skybox that <@589993480743419939>  has been working on! With this new system, we’re able to add things like planets, rings, moons, nebulas, and other awesome details to the sky in an optimized way. This also means we can change the sky for each of our levels!

What could this mean for the lore…?

🎛️  **EVAFEST** 🎚️ 

Join us on Twitch today 11:00 AM (PST) for an EVAFEST stream! <@326050062473887755> will be spinning a DJ set for us while we race with the community!

https://discord.gg/CVaCxPZb?event=1007345702688538654

<:bblove:966040364110721087>  **DOGE POUND X EVAVERSE TWITTER SPACE** <:bblove:966040364110721087> 

Don’t forget to set your reminder for next week’s Twitter Space with Damos and John Lemon from Doge Pound Studios!

https://discord.gg/358D7kFf?event=1007344591751618560

Hello @everyone! We’ve got some exciting things happening this week and next!

🥳  **EVAFEST** 🥳 

Join us on Twitch tomorrow at 11:00 AM (PST) for our first ever Evafest stream! @​kurazav will be spinning a DJ set for us while we race with @​breezified  and @​OSuZQ !

https://discord.gg/CVaCxPZb?event=1007345702688538654

<:bblove:966040364110721087>  **TWITCH STREAMING UPDATE** <:bblove:966040364110721087> 

We’ve solidified our Twitch streaming schedule a bit more and we hope you will join us for the following times. We’ve updated our Twitch streaming schedule on the main page as well, which reflects in your local time zone!

Tuesdays at 10AM (PST) - EVA Space
Thursdays at 3PM (PST) - Let’s Play with the community!
Fridays at 11AM (PST) - Evafest with Kurazav!

<:bbyes:966039180318756914>  **DOGE POUND X EVAVERSE TWITTER SPACE** <:bbyes:966039180318756914> 

We set up our first Partnership Twitter Space with John Lemon from Doge Pound! @​damos  will also be joining us to chat. Click on the event below to set yourself a reminder.

https://discord.gg/358D7kFf?event=1007344591751618560

In the future, we’re setting up more Twitter Spaces with our partners to help cross promotion. Let us know if you have any requests in the #eva-space channel! We’d love to hear from you!

Hello @everyone! We’ve got some exciting things happening this week and next!

🥳  **EVAFEST** 🥳 

Join us on Twitch tomorrow at 11:00 AM (PST) for our first ever Evafest stream! <@326050062473887755> will be spinning a DJ set for us while we race with <@814566309567397949>  and <@359013205982445568> !

https://discord.gg/CVaCxPZb?event=1007345702688538654

<:bblove:966040364110721087>  **TWITCH STREAMING UPDATE** <:bblove:966040364110721087> 

We’ve solidified our Twitch streaming schedule a bit more and we hope you will join us for the following times. We’ve updated our Twitch streaming schedule on the main page as well, which reflects in your local time zone!

Tuesdays at 10AM (PST) - EVA Space
Thursdays at 3PM (PST) - Let’s Play with the community!
Fridays at 11AM (PST) - Evafest with Kurazav!

<:bbyes:966039180318756914>  **DOGE POUND X EVAVERSE TWITTER SPACE** <:bbyes:966039180318756914> 

We set up our first Partnership Twitter Space with John Lemon from Doge Pound! <@589993480743419939>  will also be joining us to chat. Click on the event below to set yourself a reminder.

https://discord.gg/358D7kFf?event=1007344591751618560

In the future, we’re setting up more Twitter Spaces with our partners to help cross promotion. Let us know if you have any requests in the #eva-space channel! We’d love to hear from you!

@everyone 

<:bbbest:966040164352815174> **EVA SPACE** <:bbbest:966040164352815174> 
Join us for our weekly Twitter Space at 10AM (PST) Today! We'll talk to our new Brand Ambassadors about what they're working on and what they're most looking forward to.

https://discord.gg/ztRnRMnu?event=1006567276771803197

Happy Monday @everyone! Hope you all had a great weekend!

<:bblove:966040364110721087>  **NEW BATTLEBOUND BRAND AMBASSADORS**<:bblove:966040364110721087> 

Two beloved members of the Battlebound community who’ve been with us from the start, @​breezified and @​kurazav have now officially joined us as Brand Ambassadors! They’ll be working in a full-time capacity to help engage our community and reach out for marketing opportunities. We know you’ve already welcomed them with open arms, so let’s give a big CONGRATULATIONS to them today! Words cannot express how grateful we have been for their hard work and dedication.

Cheers! 🥳 <:bbgrind:966703209211125820> 

<:Ownerfake:892485849504178186>  **EVAVERSE EVOLVED 1.0** <:Ownerfake:892485849504178186> 

We’ve officially begun internal playtesting with GP1 Visual Updates. Here’s a little sample from this morning’s playtest! How cool is this new cave?! 

<:TurtleKing:877547773816373249>  **NAME YOUR TURTLE EVENT** <:TurtleKing:877547773816373249> 

Thank you to all who participated in the Name Your Turtle Event! We have the list of winners here:

@web3_jaack - Donashello
@generalbalut - Mark
@themacmanuk - Love Paper Straws
@​licht00000 - Hydrant Critter

Please open a ticket in Discord and we'll distribute your prize. Thank you!

Check out the poll here: https://twitter.com/Evaverse_NFT/status/1555283431784730626

Happy Monday @everyone! Hope you all had a great weekend!

<:bblove:966040364110721087>  **NEW BATTLEBOUND BRAND AMBASSADORS**<:bblove:966040364110721087> 

Two beloved members of the Battlebound community who’ve been with us from the start, <@814566309567397949> and <@326050062473887755> have now officially joined us as Brand Ambassadors! They’ll be working in a full-time capacity to help engage our community and reach out for marketing opportunities. We know you’ve already welcomed them with open arms, so let’s give a big CONGRATULATIONS to them today! Words cannot express how grateful we have been for their hard work and dedication.

Cheers! 🥳 <:bbgrind:966703209211125820> 

<:Ownerfake:892485849504178186>  **EVAVERSE EVOLVED 1.0** <:Ownerfake:892485849504178186> 

We’ve officially begun internal playtesting with GP1 Visual Updates. Here’s a little sample from this morning’s playtest! How cool is this new cave?! 

<:TurtleKing:877547773816373249>  **NAME YOUR TURTLE EVENT** <:TurtleKing:877547773816373249> 

Thank you to all who participated in the Name Your Turtle Event! We have the list of winners here:

@web3_jaack - Donashello
@generalbalut - Mark
@themacmanuk - Love Paper Straws
<@853622232986943529>00000 - Hydrant Critter

Please open a ticket in Discord and we'll distribute your prize. Thank you!

Check out the poll here: https://twitter.com/Evaverse_NFT/status/1555283431784730626

Happy Friday @everyone !!!

<:TurtleKing:877547773816373249>  **TURTLE RACING** <:TurtleKing:877547773816373249> 

We’re submitting a list of animations to our AAA animation studio, Superseed! Check out some of their past work in the video below:

https://vimeo.com/superseedstudios

Is there a dance move you’d like to see your turtle do?

Let us know in the comments! 👇 
https://twitter.com/Evaverse_NFT/status/1555595538656940033

<:bblove:966040364110721087>  **TURF WARS PLAYTEST** <:bblove:966040364110721087> 

Thank you to those of you who came out yesterday to help me playtest a new community event idea I had. There are a few kinks to iron out, but overall it was a success! We had a ton of fun!

Here’s how it works:

- Divide into two teams, each team picks a sticker for their team (we used turtle approved and cupcake stickers).
- Railguns enabled.
- 5 Minute timer to see which team can post the most stickers on the HUB billboards.

We hope eventually teams will find their own meta, such as the person with the fastest board being the runner, a few people breaking off for defense and offense, and one person helping to protect the runner as they post stickers around the hub.

Stay tuned in the announcements for when we hold another Turf Wars event!

<:Ownerfake:892485849504178186>  **COMMUNITY PAYOUT UPDATE** <:Ownerfake:892485849504178186> 

We have decided to postpone development of the community payout feature for the time being.

The amount of development effort required to make this a safe and fair system in a free-to-play multiplayer game would jeopardize our upcoming releases. We are choosing to protect the badge values everyone has worked so hard to earn.

We will revisit this feature as a perk in our upcoming progression models as a meaningful way for players to interact together inside the Evaverse.

Thank you for your understanding and patience.

We made it through half the week @everyone !! 🏁 

<:bbyes:966039180318756914>  **TURTLE RACING UPDATE** <:bbyes:966039180318756914> 

We like Tortles!! Here’s a highlight reel of updates to turtle racing. We’ve contracted out a big AAA animation studio to really bring these guys to life! While they’re polishing out their animations, we’re working on adding shoves, dodges, and a sprinkle of luck to their racing kits so the matches will be exciting to watch!

We’re still working on polishing the race hazards in the meantime, so the hazards in this track will be updated visually to match our new Evaverse Evolved 1.0 updates.

<:Ownerfake:892485849504178186>  **EVAVERSE EVOLVED 1.0** <:Ownerfake:892485849504178186> 

We’re still on target to release the GP1 visual updates at the end of this month.

GP3 will be back in open Beta soon! We added some updates in accordance with community feedback, plus some bots and a ticket multiplier to make it feel more competitive! We’ll do some final rounds of testing before the final polish.

<:TurtleKing:877547773816373249>  **NAME YOUR TURTLE EVENT** <:TurtleKing:877547773816373249> 

We’re having a naming contest on Twitter! If you have a turtle, you can name it by clicking on the pencil icon next to its name in your Loadouts screen. If you don’t have a turtle, just let us know what you’d name yours! Be creative!

The team and I will pick our top 4 winners by tomorrow at noon, followed by a Twitter poll so our community can vote on their favorite!

Check out the tweet here so you can RT and tag us: https://twitter.com/Evaverse_NFT/status/1554874682620293120

First place - 10,000 Tickets
Second place - 5,000 Tickets
Third place - 2,500 Tickets

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Marta

The Evaverse video game is a multiplayer social platform built for the NFT Community. The game is currently available for all players on PC through the Steam store. Players can create servers, meet other collectors, and show off their Opensea NFTs while playing mini-games and hanging out with other community members in an immersive 3d environment. The long-term vision is to expand the Evaverse game alongside the NFT community. Evaverse NFT holders will propose game updates and future design mechanics as we build out the Evaverse into a massive play-to-earn world.