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Splash N' Grab Now Over - The Final Tally

10 Nov, 2017

So here we are, at the wrap-up time of Decksplash’s Free Week experiment. It has been quite a nail-biting ride for the team, watching numbers climbing, players having fun, maths, wagers and predictions around the studio done. In the end, we fell short of the 100,000 players we set ourselves as a goal.

It’s not all tears, though… The Free Week proved what we suspected at the start: Decksplash is a good game, evidenced by its 79-86 Steam score throughout the week. The players who experienced the game liked it, but in the end there just wasn’t enough of them to guarantee a healthy online community and keep the game’s matchmaking alive for the long run.

The lesson to take home is that, though not the best, this outcome is a good one for everyone involved: its players won’t spend money on a game that
won’t survive the long haul, the team can move on to a new Bossa project with a sense of closure having done their best with Decksplash, and we tried a new way of validating a multiplayer game. Should we have cancelled the game without this experiment, a ‘what if’ would always be there in the back of our minds.

All in all, we create hundreds of games every year during our monthly game jams, the vast majority of them failing to even being shown to the players. Decksplash just went further than the rest before teaching us a thing or two, enabling us to go forth with yet another piece of the creative puzzle we put together every day

So from all of us here in the Decksplash team, Thank you for your support and we’ll see you on our next big adventure!

Love Decksplash.
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We're Halfway there!

8 Nov, 2017

We thought it would be good to take this time at the 50k mark to recap some of the amazing accomplishments that you’ve managed to do so far in this Free Week!
Check out the video below to see a couple of interesting stats!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olqI2aH-AXc

We’ve also got an AMA happening at 5PM GMT over on the iAMA subreddit. Come by to ask us some question and get them answered by our team!
We look forward to seeing you there. Click me to visit the Subreddit

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We Have a Winner PLUS Splash a Dev

7 Nov, 2017

Congrats once again to our competition winner: ChineseDuck, who scored a mental 166,118,960 combo. We’re truly in awe of your splashin’ skills and now know to fear and respect you. Keep an eye out for your well deserved prize which is on it’s way!

Kudos also has to go out to timothyhiggs1993, who blistered to second place and had us rewriting our congrats Tweet at the last minute, and who kept us on our seats for the last hour of the competition.

THAT’S NOT ALL

Don’t forget that tonight we have our “Splash a Dev” event!

Want to try your skills against some of the developers who’ve built Decksplash? Then get online between 5-7PM GMT. We want you to share your victories and exciting moments via screenshots, GIFs, and videos. Make sure to Tweet at #TrickPic so we can retweet them and you can earn your bragging rights.

See you in the splash zone!

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THE DECKSPLASH FREE WEEK IS NOW LIVE!

2 Nov, 2017

Download and play the game now with your friends!

There have been extreme reactions to the news of the Free Week from players with comments ranging from the great, the good, the bad and the ugly. We’re glad that Decksplash has captured people's attentions regardless of what side of the fence you fall on and we’re finally here!

The Splash N’ Grab meter is the best way to keep up to date with our progress in this free week. Be sure to keep checking it out on our website[www.decksplash.com] and the Free Week Steam page to see where we are at.

Remember, we’re looking for that golden number of 100k over the course of the Free Week. To remind yourself why we’ve chosen 100k as our target, watch this video by The voice of Decksplash, Malford. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghKs8JeKJbs

If you wanna help out, we’ve listed a couple of helpful things you can do below!

Tell your friends – Get them playing!
Tell the World – Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, everywhere you can post!
Make Videos, Fan-Art and Livestream!
Scream from the top of the tallest building!
Start a petition and get your local government to discuss the game

Now stop reading this and get in game!
Splash you on the other side!

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The biggest Decksplash news of ALL TIME!

27 Oct, 2017

We’re launching the Splash n’ Grab Free Week!

What's a Splash N' Grab?
It’s simple:

Get In.
Splash Big
Get the Game Released

The Free Week starts the 2nd of November, lasting until the 10th and here’s the plot twist: if 100,000 people total play Decksplash during that time... then you know what we'll do? RELEASE THE GAME. (We’re serious)

Some say we’re mad to do it - Maybe we’ve fallen off our decks one too many times. Who knows?! But we’ve made the decision and it’s time to get this Splash N’ Grab on the go! If we hit that magic 100k, Early Access launch WILL happen on the last day (November 10th), however if we don’t have enough players, then it’s R.I.P Decksplash. You can keep track of the progress during this insane venture by watching the Splash N' Grab meter on the Decksplash Homepage[www.decksplash.com] as it updates in NEAR-REALTIME!

We’ll update the meter as we hit the milestones, so you can be as hyped about it as we are.

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Why the Free Week, Why the Target?

We’ve put together the following video with Malford to answer exactly that: WHY we’re doing what we’re doing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghKs8JeKJbs

We at Bossa have seen way too many multiplayer games released without a large enough community to support them, ultimately resulting in a disappointing player experience: dead servers, a lack of dev support, and a dwindling community that eventually fades away to nothing. That doesn’t sound like a lot of fun to us, and so we’re attempting to do things differently.

Right now, Decksplash has an awesome community, and without them, the game wouldn’t be what it is today -- FACT -- But while dedicated, they’re a relatively small group and we simply don’t know if there’s sufficient demand for the game outside of them.

So we’re leaving it in your capable hands! If we cannot get 100K players to play the game - 100% FREE OF CHARGE! - then that tells us that we probably won’t have enough people at the end of this, who actually intend to pay for the game, and help keep the community thriving.

We could always release the game anyway, for a quick cash injection, but that’s just not the Bossa way, and never will be. It wouldn’t do the game justice. It wouldn’t do the studio justice. And most importantly, it wouldn’t do the community justice.

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Can I do anything to help?!

There is always a way for you to help and this is your chance to make ALL of Decksplash’s dreams come true!
Other than downloading and participating yourself, we need you to be making a real noise about the game, so here’s the short list of danktivities you can take part in:

Tell your friends - get them playing!
Tell the World - Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Everywhere you can post!
Make Videos, Fan-Art and Livestream!
Scream from the top of the tallest building
Start a petition and get your local government to discuss the game

The truth is ANYTHING you do is going to make Decksplash get closer to release, so don’t feel limited to the list above, get creative!

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We Like to Give!

During the Free Week, All players will be pleased to hear that all your loot, levels and coins will be carried across to the full version of the game as a reward.
Aim high and if you reach the top of the leaderboard, finding yourself looking down on those around you with a total to rival the devs, enjoy the smug feeling that comes with being King Of The Deck.
And for this one week only, you’ll be able to unlock and keep the Eirik board set, giving you a unique part of Decksplash history that no one else will be able to get.

You help get 100K people playing, you help get the game get released and we will bow down to you; forever remembered as a champion among mortals!

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WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?!

Head over to the Free Week page RIGHT NOW to add the game to your Wishlist!
This will notify you when the game is available to be played during the Splasn N’ Grab Free Week!
Since you're here, sign-up to the newsletter and check out our latest trailer, created with the community to bring… Something no other studio has shown before! (We’re pretty Proud)
In-fact, here’s the trailer for your viewing convenience!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16eifRRayJg

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