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| 0s | hey guys I'm Ian PR I'm CEO and |
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| 2s | co-founder of 1047 games I'm also |
| 5s | creative director of splitgate and now |
| 7s | splitgate 2 and I'm Nicholas bamian |
| 8s | co-founder and CTO 1047 I do a lot of |
| 11s | the tech stuff a lot of the engineering |
| 13s | you know just make the game happen |
| 15s | basically I'm the guy who has the crazy |
| 17s | ideas and he's the guy who actually |
| 19s | makes them happen so we make a good team |
| 22s | [Music] |
| 25s | yeah so splitgate one actually started |
| 27s | off as an idea I had in high school um I |
| 29s | played portal 2 absolutely loved it fell |
| 32s | in love with that mechanic being the |
| 33s | kind of Halo Call of Duty kid that I was |
| 36s | I thought to myself man this game would |
| 37s | be even more fun if it had guns in it |
| 39s | went to Stamford studied computer |
| 41s | science and for my senior project I |
| 43s | wanted to kind of put this idea that I |
| 45s | had to the test and so I built a |
| 46s | prototype in Unreal Engine of a shooter |
| 49s | with portals very simple idea very basic |
| 52s | it had I think one gun one map very |
| 54s | janky controls at the time so I got |
| 56s | about seven of my friends who had gaming |
| 57s | PCs to come over and I asked them just |
| 60s | play for 45 minutes with me I got to |
| 62s | make sure this thing works we ended up |
| 63s | playing for about 5 hours straight that |
| 65s | day and that was really kind of that aha |
| 67s | moment for me of like I know I'm on to |
| 69s | something Nick and I had met in our dorm |
| 72s | room 10:47 we actually named the company |
| 74s | after the dorm where we started this at |
| 76s | Stanford but it was the following year |
| 78s | where I decided all right I got to |
| 80s | actually do this thing and convinced my |
| 82s | friend Nick um smartest person I've ever |
| 85s | met to go on this crazy journey and it |
| 87s | took me a little bit of convincing but |
| 89s | eventually got Nick to make this game |
| 91s | and see where it goes yeah and we were |
| 92s | thinking we'll just work on it for 6 |
| 94s | months we'll release the game and then |
| 96s | we'll move on with our lives and we were |
| 98s | just completely wrong with the scope of |
| 100s | making games at all as we were |
| 102s | developing there's new things we needed |
| 103s | to make we had to support multiplayer |
| 105s | matchmaking all this stuff just piled on |
| 107s | on top of v and then ended up being 5 |
| 109s | years until we release our final |
| 118s | product we spent two years between 2019 |
| 121s | and 2021 just constantly iterating and |
| 124s | trying to improve the game and I think |
| 126s | listening to the community is a big part |
| 127s | of the reason we were able to have that |
| 129s | breakthrough of success I think one of |
| 130s | the first things we learned was just the |
| 132s | importance of having a good matchmaking |
| 135s | experience and onboarding what we saw |
| 137s | was players would come in they'd |
| 139s | typically lose their first game and have |
| 142s | no clue what's going on and then they'd |
| 144s | quit and that was pretty interesting to |
| 146s | us cuz we knew okay we have this fun |
| 147s | game but how come people aren't sticking |
| 149s | around and then our cons launch we |
| 150s | learned that we didn't have the server |
| 152s | capacity to maintain and then just a ton |
| 154s | of you know features that we wanted to |
| 156s | do that we just didn't have time to do |
| 157s | cuz we didn't plan early on the scope of |
| 160s | the project and the scope of our company |
| 161s | kind of increased and we were trying to |
| 163s | retrofit graphics and trying to keep up |
| 165s | with the update Cadence we just kind of |
| 167s | looked at that and we're like yeah |
| 168s | there's no way we can do that with our |
| 170s | existing codebase our existing content |
| 172s | so we made kind of the difficult |
| 173s | decision of hey let's take a step back |
| 175s | let's build this the right way let's |
| 177s | refactor everything let's upgrade to |
| 179s | Unreal Engine 5 and let's really think |
| 181s | through this thoughtfully and get it |
| 184s | right so split 82 is really a successor |
| 188s | to splick gate one so when we started |
| 189s | off building it we started with what are |
| 191s | the things that make split Gates unique |
| 193s | and special and what are the things that |
| 195s | we want to improve on it's Gunplay its |
| 197s | portals it's movement and so with |
| 199s | splitgate 2 we're taking those three |
| 201s | things to the next level a big goal of |
| 203s | ours in splitgate to was we wanted to |
| 205s | have more meaningful variety with a |
| 207s | purpose one of the first things you'll |
| 208s | notice is there's three classes or |
| 210s | factions Each of which has different |
| 212s | weapons different attachments for those |
| 214s | weapons different perks different |
| 216s | equipments really leaning into that |
| 218s | meaningful variety and a purpose so that |
| 220s | you can play the way you want to play we |
| 222s | wanted 90% of what determines a gunfight |
| 226s | winner to be who has the better aim who |
| 228s | has the better movement who has the |
| 229s | better portal mechanics that extra 10% |
| 232s | is where the equipment and the abilities |
| 234s | come in but really that's the icing on |
| 235s | the cake SPL gate 2 still feels pretty |
| 238s | much like split gate one but with a few |
| 240s | added bonuses we still have the jetpack |
| 242s | feels very similar maybe a little |
| 244s | snappier than the first one movement |
| 246s | very similar Gunplay very similar but |
| 248s | one of the biggest things we've added in |
| 250s | splitgate 2 is our slide mechanic this |
| 252s | was something that we had a lot of |
| 254s | requests in splitgate one and ultimately |
| 256s | I think we ended up with a great slide |
| 257s | that really honestly highlights and and |
| 260s | adds to our portal mechanic being able |
| 262s | to slide through portals gain momentum |
| 265s | maintain momentum all the things that |
| 267s | you would want it just goes hand in hand |
| 270s | so power weapons are back and better |
| 272s | than ever we've now revealed The Big |
| 274s | Friendly bat and it is friendly very |
| 276s | very true to the first game and and we |
| 278s | know fans love the BFB we've also got |
| 280s | weapons like the rocket launcher but |
| 282s | trying to kind of take it to the next |
| 283s | level and so with the rocket this time |
| 285s | around it's a little bit different you |
| 287s | can zoom in with the rocket to fire one |
| 289s | Precision rocket with extra speed it has |
| 292s | less Splash radius you got to get a |
| 293s | direct impact to get a kill or you can |
| 296s | fire all three at the same time you'll |
| 298s | get the free kill you do have that off |
| 300s | though of losing all the ammo and so for |
| 302s | us it's about iterating on what we do |
| 304s | well bringing back fan favorites and |
| 306s | then also some new power weapons that do |
| 308s | function totally different than anything |
| 310s | we ever had in Sp |
| 312s | one again we wanted meaningful variety |
| 314s | with a purpose and so that extends not |
| 317s | just to the core gameplay but it extends |
| 319s | to our mode design as well that means |
| 321s | the type of modes we have each of which |
| 323s | is going to give you a very different |
| 325s | experience you might have Hot Zone you |
| 327s | might have TDM you'll have some fan |
| 329s | favorites from the first game you'll |
| 330s | have brand new things on a larger scale |
| 332s | than ever I'd say within each mode we |
| 335s | always start with design goals and so |
| 336s | with Hot Zone in particular one of our |
| 338s | big goals was more epic moments because |
| 341s | of that capturability of round based |
| 344s | first to two Hills it raises the stakes |
| 346s | of every single Hill cap you'll end up |
| 348s | with those neck and neck fights where a |
| 350s | power weapon or a head shot could be the |
| 352s | difference between winning and losing |
| 353s | the round comparing it to King of the |
| 355s | Hill where it's more of a continuous |
| 357s | thing for 10 minutes where one team is |
| 358s | just inching further and further way you |
| 360s | don't have those repeated epic moments |
| 363s | and this extends also to our overtime |
| 366s | rules one of the things we've introduced |
| 368s | in overtime is when it's round five and |
| 371s | teams are neck and neck it's 2 to2 we |
| 373s | flip the rules on its head and all of a |
| 375s | sudden respawns are disabled this kind |
| 377s | of leads to that epic ending you've got |
| 379s | two evenly matched teams going at it and |
| 382s | it all comes down to the final round |
| 384s | raising the stakes raising the |
| 386s | intensity winner one of our company |
| 389s | values is feedack back as a gift and we |
| 391s | apply this in many ways so part of it is |
| 393s | obviously internally we want to always |
| 395s | be pushing each other elevating each |
| 397s | other um but it also extends to how we |
| 400s | run this company and and how we view our |
| 402s | community which is we want feedback from |
| 404s | the fans that's how we're going to make |
| 405s | a great game we're making this game |
| 408s | ultimately for you without you there is |
| 410s | no game and so we want to hear from you |
| 412s | guys we want to know what do you want us |
| 414s | to keep doing what do you want us to |
| 416s | change what's not working what's fun |
| 419s | what feels good and what's missing and |
| 421s | so it's really as simple as that we view |
| 423s | everything we hear from you even if |
| 424s | you're bashing us like we take it as a |
| 426s | gift and we do something about it summer |
| 429s | Alpha of split G8 2 was really an |
| 431s | opportunity for us to listen to the fans |
| 432s | and get early feedback we were able to |
| 434s | get 100 plus thousand players into the |
| 437s | alpha get tons of feedback from all of |
| 439s | you and already we've made a lot of |
| 441s | great improvements yeah feedback is what |
| 443s | got us here I mean all the learnings |
| 444s | that we went through with split Gade all |
| 446s | the stuff that got us where we are today |
| 447s | is the community so we want to hear from |
| 449s | you you guys we want to make a game for |
| 451s | you guys and yeah that's what we're here |
| 454s | for changes we' made since the summer |
| 456s | alpha one of the main things was taking |
| 458s | away shared progression from Hot Zone |
| 460s | and we kind of knew going into it this |
| 462s | is going to be a potentially |
| 463s | controversial change I wanted to test |
| 465s | the controversial changes because those |
| 467s | are the things we especially need |
| 469s | feedback on now more than ever also made |
| 472s | a lot of changes to balancing we |
| 473s | increase time to kill we knew that the |
| 475s | spl8 one time to kill felt good but we |
| 477s | wanted to push the limits and see hey if |
| 479s | we change it up a little a little bit |
| 480s | how does it feel so we shortened it in |
| 481s | the alpha heard the feedback players |
| 483s | wanted it longer again so that's what we |
| 485s | did it virtually is exactly the same as |
| 487s | splick at one's time to kill now and we |
| 489s | also changed the way that factions |
| 490s | perform as well we saw that everyone |
| 493s | gravitated towards Aros everyone loved |
| 494s | Aros everyone thought Aros was op and so |
| 497s | we've made some changes to try to buff |
| 499s | the other factions and Nerf Aros a |
| 501s | little bit we heard feedback about |
| 503s | players wanting to be able to Sprint |
| 505s | while reloading which is something you |
| 506s | could do in the first game we've added |
| 508s | this and we've actually taken it a step |
| 510s | further to add the ability to slide |
| 512s | while reloading which feels so good a |
| 514s | lot of feedback about Maps lacking |
| 516s | portal walls and portal jumps in |
| 518s | particular so we've already done a lot |
| 521s | to address that we've added portal walls |
| 522s | to all of the alpha maps and with a |
| 525s | number of the maps going forward we've |
| 526s | added more portal jumps so I'd say the |
| 529s | biggest thing that these changes allow |
| 531s | for is just more freedom to have fun to |
| 533s | do what you want to do and so with |
| 535s | splick 82 we really wanted things to be |
| 537s | as responsive as possible |
| 541s | this started as a college dorm project |
| 543s | there's just a lot that we've learned |
| 545s | over the years of like how can we do |
| 547s | this better what did we do wrong whether |
| 550s | it's technically whether it's just |
| 552s | building things in a scalable way |
| 554s | whether it's making maps that are better |
| 556s | visuals that are better we just felt |
| 558s | like if we're going to keep iterating on |
| 560s | this thing that really started off as an |
| 562s | indie school project we're never going |
| 564s | to get to where we want to be this |
| 566s | really is a love letter to splic at one |
| 568s | and truly wouldn't be here without you |
| 570s | guys this was a lot of fun for us to |
| 572s | share what's been in our heads for a |
| 573s | long time and we've been you know |
| 575s | keeping it secret for a few years and |
| 577s | now we're able to share it with you guys |
| 578s | and we want to hear from you head over |
| 580s | to our Discord follow us on Twitter |
| 582s | social media Reddit we really read this |
| 584s | stuff we appreciate all the feedback all |
| 586s | the comments and let us know if you want |
| 588s | more of this I mean if if you guys like |
| 589s | this format we're going to keep doing it |
| 591s | and if you don't we'll adjust just as |
| 593s | the case with everything we do so thank |
| 595s | you guys for tuning in thank you |
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| 603s | [Music] |