What a Year For Block Riders: Snappy 2022 Recap & What’s Coming
2022 was our birth year, and what a year it’s been. We’ve smashed milestone after milestone, and moved from strength to strength — we’ve seen the rise and fall of empires — weathered crashes unlike any others.
You might say, we’ve been around the block.
Okay, sorry.
Let’s take a look into the past…
It’s July. We launched stealthily, sneakily — and marketed with YouTube and community channels through Telegram. We chilled around 8–10k for a week or so before catching the right eyes.
Off to the races, so to speak —In August we premiered a rough teaser trailer for the original game — it looked a little different back then. We also dropped our first line of NFTs shortly after — and sold all 500 in under 10 minutes.
Before I had chance to get home and mint myself some. 😭
Fast forward through month of development, and a couple rounds of degens jeeting us down under 30k — and we release the first demo of the game, a whole month late — can I get an Amen?
Then things got weird, and in a Blueberry Trainwreck haze of creative madness — I changed the entire game, because we have no chill and we won’t settle for mediocrity.
We revamped the game’s graphics.
We added an open world (just casually added one).
We completely threw the UI out of the window, and loaded it all into a payphone — which is quite a boujie move if you ask me.
Oh, and somewhere among all of that — we migrated 1:1 from the shires of Mount Binance to the greener pastures of the Ethereum chain — without any problems, hitches or disgruntled grunters (mostly).
Then after some quiet time with further game development — we released the new Ethereum genesis NFTs. Not one of our finest moments, but definitely a learning experience and an opportunity to make some lemonade.
We sold under 50 of our Ethereum NFTs, and it was a dark week for my mental health — it was honestly a struggle — it’s a lot of hard work.
If only one remembers to turn on the light.
- Dumbledore
But it’s not the end of the world — we just have to get on with it and see how we can fix it — how can we make our NFT line more enticing to customers.
- Integrate the NFTs into the game (Duh!)
- Re-brand/Re-message
- Bundle them. Everybody loves a bundle.
Enter the Founders Pack.
Minting one of our Ethereum NFTs now grants the player one of 71 mystery vehicles and some exclusive in-game (trade-able nft) swag that will only be available to Founders — there will be a separate write up on this don’t worry, it’s coming.
Which leads us perfectly onto the future..
Leading into 2023 we’re going to start breaking our silence and letting the world know about us again — in the totally-paraphrased words of one of our community members “Once we start we can’t go quiet again” and it’s very true.
So we have updates already done, that we’re going to feed in gradually so we can stay slightly ahead at all times, which allows us to adapt our marketing strategy (and give me time to actually execute it, and manage the 20 million other aspects of the project).
I’m not going to to go into detail, and I’m not going to give time frames or deadlines — but here’s a very brief sneak peak, in no particular order (there will be full write ups and dev videos on their way) at some of what’s coming in 2023, which will soon be available as an updated road map on the website.
Version One Release: NFTs are Integrated.
That’s right. Version one will release soon, and NFTs will be fully integrated. You connect your wallet, and before entering a race you’ll be able to select from the cars you have available in the connected wallet.
Soft Launching: BlockPass & Tournaments
I’ve been working on player account management and how to best achieve that in a secure way so it can work as a solid foundation for token transactions as well as NFT transactions — but most of all we need a way to uniquely identify each player to run tournaments and community events.
Bridging & Binance Pegged Token
Explains itself — I’m in talks with a reputable (you will have heard of them) blockchain team about outsourcing a pegged Binance token and our own internal bridge to facilitate moves back and forth from other chains, starting with Binance.
We’re also looking into the possibilities of pegged tokens on Polygon, Optimism and Arbitrum.
Self Serve Advertising Dashboard
To keep things easy for advertisers wanting to reach to our players, and in-turn make it easier for our game to generate revenue — we’re building a self-serve advertiser dashboard where advertisers are able to upload their media, select where they want to show it and for how long in a simple way — integrated right into the Blocks Dashboard.
Flooz, Coin Market Cap & Coin Gecko
Not much that needs to be said here — you know we need volume for CMC and CoinGecko, and it‘s just not been worth micromanaging that volume but we’ll be starting to drop some pumps in here and there over the next few weeks.
Flooz is a different beast, it gives us fiat on ramp in an instant — and we’re talking with them. Update on this shortly.
NFT Marketplace
The marketplace is something I’ve moved inside the game and it’s coming with version one — it’s actually beautiful, and gives us the foundation to simply trade NFTs between players in-game with a trading screen like any other RPG game — which is a genuine game changer.
Rounding off
It’s been a good year, and we’ve weathered storms — literally 2 of the most brutal crypto crashes in history.
Undeterred.
Forward Riders✊
https://www.blockriders.com
