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⚡️ 2024 Recap: $1M Prize Pools, 1.5M Users & More! 🏆️
Hi, Slingers 🎉
With 2024 coming to a close, there's no better time to celebrate the achievements that the community's creativity and passion fueled this year 🥳
Let’s take a look back at these memorable milestones
👥 Community Growth
1.5M active website users generated 3M views 👀
X reached 393k followers, driving 8.8M impressions 😱
Discord's 51,129 members sent 100k+ messages this month 💬
Zealy drove 57.2k participants to claim 599k quests ⚡️
🏭️ Game Factory
Launched with a $1,000,000 prize pool across multiple highly competitive seasons 🏆️
6000+ hours of gameplay and 50%+ retention rate 📱
Introduced new mechanics for a more engaging experience 🔧
Rewarded players for sharing insights that improved gameplay 🙌
🎮️ Game Development
Game Jam #1: 471 SlingJammers delivered 90+ submissions:
Best Overall Game: Sparksteel 🥇
Runner-up: Volt Runner 🥈
Honorable Mentions: Voltage Velocity, System Overload, and more 🏅
Meow Slayers introduced innovative mechanics like Chariot Boosting 😼
Slipshot emerged, boasting immersive gameplay and a sleek movement system 🎯
🖼️ Genesis NFT
2000 free to mint NFTs (excluding gas) offering ecosystem utility:
$SLING airdrop 🪂
Boosts in Game Factory’s $1,000,000 prize pool 🏭️
Staking and governance benefits 🗳️
📢 Marketing
Expanded reach to 850k+ members across X, Telegram, and Discord 👥
Ran campaigns like the most recent Zealy sprint with $30,000 in prizes with record participation ⚡️
Nurtured partnerships with key brands like Motorverse and STR8FIRE, securing opportunities for community rewards and growth 🤝
🛠️ Product & Token Updates
Initiated the migration of $SLING from Polygon to Arbitrum 🔄
Introduced on-chain governance voting and deployed the Slingshot Layer-3 network ⚖️
Enhanced UI/UX in the dApp, Game Factory, and ecosystem 🖥️
Launched Slingshot dApp’s Alpha testing phase ⚙️
🏆️ Community Achievements
The Slingshot Squadron served as a beacon of leadership, content creation, education, and event hosting 🎖️
Weekly Discord events, from UGC contests to AMAs, kept the server buzzing with activity 🕹️
📊 Raw Data
Website 🌐
Active users: 1.5M
Views: 3.0M
X 🐦️
Followers: 395k
Impressions: 8.8M
Likes: 436K
Reposts: 202K
Replies: 45.1K
Discord 👾
Total Members: 51,129
Messages: 100,000+/month
Zealy ⚡️
Participants: 57.2K
Quests Claimed: 599K
Game Factory 🏭️
Retention rate: 50%+
Hours of Gameplay: 6,000+
👀 Looking Ahead
Slingshot stands stronger than ever 💪
To every Slinger who played, built, engaged, or shared — thank you 🙏
Let’s make 2025 even more remarkable 🍾