DuskBreakers Community Update — December 2021

Happy holiday season, DuskBreakers community! It has been a wild and eventful couple of months, and we’re ecstatic to be closing out 2021 on a high note. We’re proud to be a part of one of the strongest communities in the NFT gaming space, and we’d like to share with you a few end-of-year updates to detail where things are headed as we roll into the new year.

First off, congratulations again to everyone for participating in a groundbreaking Play-to-Mint experience. Healthy secondary sales volume and a robust floor price indicate sustained demand for our collection and reflect a strong community. In addition to keeping an eye on the economics, we’re going to focus on the following to ensure continued success.

• Leverage hype: We’ve learned a lot about the crypto / NFT space and the role that marketing plays in generating engagement. We will not sacrifice our primary objective of building fun games, nor that of advancing the Web3 gaming space and achieving sustainable growth… but we’re going to make sure that as we get closer to launch, way more people can be exposed to this awesome project that we’ve all built together.
• Quality partnerships: We will ensure that any partnerships or promotions that we initiate in the future will provide value to the community as a whole, raise our project profile, and feel considered and integrated into our roadmap.
• More consistent community engagement and programming: We feel that we have the best community in the game, and we want you to feel that you all are getting consistent value when you come back and support us day in and day out. We’re going to be creating regular programming that keeps you entertained while we keep cooking on mini-games and our flagship Web3 game.
• And finally — social gaming: The leaderboard from our Play-to-Mint was a revelation! We promise to bake in the social and community aspects of gaming into everything we do moving forward. Again, our community is our strength. Each and every one of you will play a role in our collective success. Our games and experiences will be designed to show off this strength.

Beyond lessons learned, we have some other things to announce! In terms of our flagship game (dropping in the second half of 2022) — we will reveal concept art and screenshots once they’re in a good place. We can say that it’s going to be so much more than our Play-to-Mint minigame. DuskBreakers is an entry point into the Metaverse. Your Breakers will adventure through the Dusk in full 3D, and their lives back in Machafuko will be vibrant, colorful, and full of opportunities to work with or against your fellow Breakers!

Also, regarding timelines — we’re going to continue taking a software development approach to how we build. We want to get our games out into the hands of our community sooner rather than later. You will not need to wait years to play the game.

So, what happens between now and the flagship game? Plenty!

More Minigames! We have plans to drop a brand new arcade mini-game with a different game mode in the next month or so. We don’t want to ruin the surprise there, but whew… I’m sure you thought the Red Gribble was bad. You’ll have to revisit all of your strategies in order to complete the new challenges.

Website Updates! Our website will be undergoing some major updates as well. We’re looking into some fun ways to create deeper integration between your in-game performance and your on-chain Breaker, including searchable Breaker profiles on the website.

Story! New lore is coming at you. Our writers have a few more things to polish as we prepare the first installments of our web-comic, but keep an eye out for more on that front as we begin to unfurl our expansive DuskBreakers universe.

More Dimensions! Finally, we promised to take the universe from 2D to 3D, and we’re going to keep this promise! We have started the process of converting all of our Breakers into 3D models. Of course, you will be able to use these models to play our DuskBreakers game. We are also investigating making these models compatible with games in the Metaverse. We will release more details around how to get your models as we move forward.

Team Building

Thus far, the core team has been working passionately (and extremely hard) together to bring you DuskBreakers. As the scale of our creation and community continues to grow on a daily basis, it becomes critical that we bring on more talent to help us build out the world and a complete set of fun experiences.

Towards that end, we are actively scouting for qualified candidates for the following roles:

• 2D or 3D artists or animators (including concept, texture, or character)
• Engineers
• Game systems designers
• Project managers
• Community managers
• Social media managers

If you are or know of anyone interested in any of the above roles, please do email us at scheduler@metatheory.gg. All the better if we hire from the community :)

Thank you again for all your support and feedback. Remember, You Break It, You Take It!

Happy Holidays from the DuskBreakers team!