1 year of Dark Country project: Unveiling huge 2020–21 updates

5 min readNov 6, 2020

Hey, Dark Country adepts! It’s been an unusual year to all of us. At the same time, it’s been a year of growth for Dark Country project.

Let’s recall

1 year ago we purchased a domain for darkcountry.io so literally that was a start. In fact DC Team started to conceptualize the game a bit earlier, but actual coding and artwork started about that time we got a domain.

January — February, we got an initial boost and started with a sale of our Exodus packs, as well as a small demo of what Dark Country is about.

In April and May we moved into a remote work environment like the rest of the world, but it even pushed us to communicate better. About that time we introduced Standard packs (100 new cards) that will form a full deck to play a game.

In September 2020 was no doubt a big month for all of us. Our community grew almost 2x during 2 weeks. We introduced DC Heroes as a new asset class as well as made successful sales on WAX blockchain.

October 2020, since the launch of DC Game (September 15th) we managed to release 8 minor and major updates of Dark Country game, such fast pace is approaching us to Alpha 2.0. We got over 2000 matches played. In October, we launched Heroes Fight Club, as a separate web based game — https://nest.dapplica.io/heroesfightclub.

But this is just beginning, we are happy to share with you our event plan and updated roadmap

November 6

Finish of Heroes Fight Club Tournament #1
Heroes Fight Club launched only weeks ago, but already has a fan base. October 30th, we launched the first tournament with a great prize pool, where the main prize is 3000 WAX.
For more details follow link https://darkcountrygame.medium.com/dark-country-heroes-fight-club-tournament-1-23a83cc7f172

Live Streaming, DC Heroes 2.0 with new game mode introduced
DC Heroes will struggle with Blockchain Heroes!

November 11th

BGA Demo Day. DC Game Showcase
As you may know, Dark Country is a fellow member of Blockchain Game Alliance starting from March 2020. BGA is running its first demo days in November.

November 19th

Cultists Packs 3 hours limited Sale with unique NFTs
Cultists Packs will include unique limited NFTs named DC Cultists. It will have new Mechanics and Card Set.
Standard and Cultists packs Batch Unpacking

November 20

Dark Country Alpha 2.0 launch for users with Early Access Tickets
Dark Country game will be available to everyone who has Early access tickets. This is the stage where we plan to make all of the card balancing, improve visual and sound effects, get rid of major bugs and make the game stable.

December 2020

Big Partnership and user base expansion
Dark Country team is always looking for opportunities for growth and expansion. We are talking with several companies to boost our user base or have win-win cooperation on different platforms, blockchains, regional representatives.

In December we are preparing a big partnership launch as an event or series of events.

January 2021

Dark Country game Public Beta version launch
Trading Card part of the game is pretty much ready with all the sound and visual effects, no major bugs and open for the general public.
We will introduce leaderboard and more sophisticated matchmaking as well here. Also this is the stage where we will start porting our game to mobile devices.
We wanted this to be more than just a Trading card game, so card battles are just a means to defeat Your opponent on the battlefield and win something from him.
Spirits intro and spirits sale — https://darkcountrygame.medium.com/spirits-the-way-to-make-your-nft-10x-rarer-c80533d1a98a

User Created Content Program Announcement for new Expansion pack
This would be a call to our community and artists you might know to join forces with the DC artist team, we will offer a share from every item sold that artists will contribute. Preliminary we will do community voting on candidates or actual artwork.
We might do a new expansion pack based only on user created content, or mixed one along with our artwork.

February 2021

Launch of Heroes Fights Arena inside Dark Country TCG
Arena is a place where Dark Country Heroes meet our trading card game for the first time. Every hero will have it’s special ability which will boost a certain type of deck.

Players will gear up, pick potions and other consumables that they think will be useful and enter the arena against their opponents.

Only one hero will come back alive though, so this is a fun and exciting way to burn or upgrade Your heroes and we know that You like that.

Spring 2021

New Expansion Set Release
TCG games are normally releasing several content expansions along with new mechanics, to return old players and attract new ones. This is core lifecycle of any game.

Mobile Game version
DC Team always mentions that we are focusing on getting into a bigger gamers audience, so we will make a support of mobile version to reach mobile app stores.