LET'S PLAY SPARKBALL!

HELLO BALLERS

In August, we shared the unfortunate news that our investment deal was pulled and we were stuck with an extremely limited budget to pull off a miracle. And I think we did!

It’s finally time: Let's SAVE Sparkball! - youtube.com/watch?v=05t1M1… -

Art reworks, new UI, improved ball mechanics, performance improvements, unlockable cosmetics, a new hero, and FINALLY – AI BOTS TO PLAY AGAINST. All in now, go check them out!

⚡️How to play:⚽️
- Download at play.sparkball.gg,
- Scheduled Game Nights are posted in our Discord. We’ll match you up with similar skill level players and help you learn how to GET GOOD fast.,
- Outside of game nights, you can play customs anytime with friends or against bots! (Enna bot is insanely good, be careful!). You can also practice in our Sandbox mode. If you can complete target practice in under 20 seconds, you’re ready to go pro!,

⚡️Returning players: ⚽️
- It’s unfortunately not much given our nonexistent budget, but we’ve created a rewards rollup to get you new cosmetics and future exclusive access.,
- Head to sparkball.gg, link your Discord account, and claim your rewards!,
- More details can be found at explore.sparkball.gg/more-info/rewa…,

The biggest support you can give is simply showing up to game nights and telling your friends. We know our consistently off/on schedule sucks and we wish we had the resources to deliver Sparkball the way it deserves to be released. Keeping a steady stream of players over the next few weeks with high engagement on our events is key to helping us secure additional funding to help us get to launch next year.

Our first game night back is tomorrow at 10 AM PST/7 PM UTC, don't miss it!

BALL IS LIFE

Ready to do more than just watch esports?

ANNOUNCING FANTASY SPARKBALL

You'll play the role of an Owner as you build a team a Pro Players that you think will perform best each week.

⚡️Each League you join will have a random choice of 12 players from our pool of Pros. You'll select 5 players out of this group based on which players you think will perform best that week!

⚡️We've created pro cards with fun stats to help you decide, but they don't always tell the story. Don't forget to consider their teammates for the week, the meta, what they had for breakfast, or if it's a full moon.

⚡️You can join multiple Leagues each week to test your skills at building different teams!

There's nothing better than watching sports/esports than when you're invested in certain players, and Fantasy Sparkball is no different. Many of our pros already have distinct personalities and playstyles so pick your favorite and go cheer for them!

To get started: sparkadia.gg/fantasy-league

HELLO COMPETITIVE GAMERS

Organized teamplay with comms in a tournament format is more fun (and less toxic) than solo queue.

That's why we created our weekly "SCOUTING GROUNDS" event where you'll play alongside other high-skill players. Even if you've never played before, we've got coaches and existing pros to help you git gud ASAP!

Top 4 players from each week get to play in our $200 weekly pro tournament!

If you're Platinum or higher in games like LoL, CS, OW, DotA, Valo, or Supervive, you're going to love Sparkball.

⚡️Simply share a screenshot of your rank in our Discord and we'll grant you access to the event. ⚡️

See you on Friday at 11 AM PST/7 PM UTC

CALLING ALL COMPETITIVE GAMERS

If you are Platinum or higher in any competitive game, you are officially invited to our Sparkball Scouting Ground.

Here, we're onboarding the next generation of Sparkball pros where you'll compete in a $200 weekly tournament and be eligible for draft in our upcoming Fantasy Leagues.

Details on how to participate 🔽

SPARKBALL UPDATE:

We've been a bit quiet post Next Fest as we were finalizing an investment deal that would guarantee us a full year to finish development on Sparkball and release next year. Unfortunately, we learned a couple days ago that that deal was no longer happening. Given we've been building the last couple months with the assumption that we were clear for another year, we're obviously in a VERY difficult spot now.

It's an incredibly backbreaking to build a competitive multiplayer game like Sparkball on a limited and uncertain budget. While we certainly made a lot of mistakes, I'm still proud of what we've been able to accomplish and how magical of a game Sparkball is. Gaming is obviously in a terrible spot right now and we just made a few too many mistakes to overcome our position.

But we wouldn't be very OPTI if we threw in the towel before we gave absolutely everything we had to make this a success. We're shifting down to a super small team and spending the next couple months building out what we hope will show that the world NEEDS Sparkball to be finished and fully released. With resources even more limited than they already were, we will be going largely silent until we're prepared to launch Phase 1 of our Save Sparkball plan. We expect this to happen in ~1.5 months. In the meantime, we wanted to at least get this announcement out in the interest of transparency and promise 2 things:

1. We will be using a portion of our last bit of budget to consolidate former incentives (NFTs, badges, Friendship, etc.) and ensure our supporters get something tangible. We'll be launching that Rewards Consolidation and Sweepstakes once Phase 1 Launches.,

2. We will not be attempting to sell anything or directly raise money from our community. We need at least ~$2M to reliably launch Sparkball so any money we take from players (including a token launch) feels unethical until we're confident we can actually deliver long-term.,

The only thing we'll be asking from our players is simply kind words on the internet and showing up to our events - it's you who will help us create that proof that Sparkball is worth saving.

We're very.... very down right now, but not out quite yet. We'll see you in a few weeks with the Phase 1 Launch and we promise to keep shouting LETS PLAY SPARKBALL! until we can't anymore.