One year ago today, Split or Steal launched on Kongregate after a short 10 weeks of development, as something that was nothing more than a small side-project distraction with the hopes of maybe finding a couple of dozen people willing to try it out.
Since then, amid 7 Major Updates across 3 Platform launches, over 4 million rounds of Split or Steal have been played, and a total of 20 Trillion Coins have been won and lost.
Thank you to everyone who's joined us over the past year - and an additional thank you to everyone who has helped SoS become self-sustaining both through Patreon, and by supporting the game through in-app purchases.
It's been absolutely humbling to see something go from an expensive side-project, to supporting itself and hosting thousands of daily games. A huge thanks to you all - and with that, here comes the 1.7.2 Birthday Mini-Patch notes!
Coin Boost Events
The first event is already live - with every game played between now, and midnight on the 12th offering double coins! (Yes, that's quadruple coins if you've already got the doubler!)
Following this, every weekend will offer a +25% coin boost for all games played.
The event list will be expanded as time goes on to include more mechanical/gameplay-focused events - more info on those coming soon.
Daily Rewards
For everyone who's stuck with SoS and logged those daily minutes and hours - you'll now be introduced to your Daily Rewards after playing 10 games.
Coins are on offer for the first 10 games you play within a day - with Artifacts then being awarded for your 40th game in a single day. These rewards scale up with consecutive days played - adding +20% to the rewards for your first 5 days, and +2% to all rewards for each day following this (maxing at 300%).
The rewards are currently targeted towards providing the value of one Coin Infusion, and one Artifact Grant every month (at a 5-day bonus value).
New Cosmetics
A small collection of new lights have been added to the cosmetics store.
I'll be hoping to expand further on the lighting cosmetics over the next while - if you've any ideas on what you'd like to see on there (or if you've any cool vector art you'd like to see in-game!), then be sure to let us know on our Discord!
Art Grant Buffs
Art Grants weren't feeling great for players that were far along in progression - these have been buffed to more heavily reward you based on the total amount of Artifacts you've opened to date. These buffs are additionally reflected in the new Daily Artifact Rewards!
1.7.3 And Beyond
With the positive response to the smaller/more-frequent updates, I'm hoping we can get a small few more of these out before moving on to the longer development times needed for the next major update.
I'm hoping the Public API can be included within the mini-updates cycle before hitting the 1.8 Development period - more news on this coming soon.
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Remember to keep yourselves safe, and join us on our Discord if you're looking for any new self-isolation banker/thief buddies. More updates are on the way - and until next time, we'll see you all in the Vault! ❤️