The word alpha might conjure up a virile chimp beating its chest, howling, and ready to mate — but in this context, it has nothing to do with chimps OR mating 😉

In short, alpha simply means — this is a super duper, early, unpolished version of the game.

It’s a lot like this house:

This is the alpha version of a soon to be a nice, luxury home.

But, UNLIKE that house…

Zombie Battleground is ACTUALLY FUNCTIONAL and FULLY PLAYABLE 😎

Just check out this alpha gameplay footage:

Alpha gameplay footage — our Game Director, Roy Shapira, plays a match using the Toxic Faction

In fact — just yesterday, we released this bad boy to our loyal, early Kickstarter backers.

…and a lot of them are fully caffeinated and slaying zombies on the blockchain as you read this! 😱

Other than our early backers — the public is DEMANDING that we release the game early 😐

I gotta confess — we didn’t anticipate how many people would be actually interested in a one-of-a-kind CCG/TCG that ran ENTIRELY on the blockchain.

Sure — we know that blockchain games are going to blow up very soon, but it’s tough the predict how these things will actually turn out.

Turns out we totally underestimated the demand for something like Zombie Battleground.

To recap…

1,693 early adopters pledged $320K+ in just 2 months on Kickstarter.

early adopters pledged $320K+ in just 2 months on Kickstarter. Over 12 MILLION+ people were exposed to Zombie Battleground content and advertisements during the campaign (impressions measured across Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and YouTube) — and are now aware that blockchain gaming is a thing.

people were exposed to Zombie Battleground content and advertisements during the campaign (impressions measured across Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and YouTube) — and are now aware that is a thing. In addition to our early backers, approximately 22,938 people are on a WAIT LIST to receive an announcement when we release the open beta to the public later this year. (If you want to join the waiting list and get alerted when we open up more alpha tester slots, sign up here 📧)

to receive an announcement when we release the open beta to the public later this year. (If you want to join the waiting list and get alerted when we open up more alpha tester slots, sign up here 📧) Over 14K+ folks entered into our raffle to win Zombie Battleground goodies. (We’ll be announcing winners soon!)

entered into our raffle to win Zombie Battleground goodies. (We’ll be announcing winners soon!) Even though we only released the Trading Post during the last week of the campaign, almost 50,000 packs of cards were purchased in that one week using ETH and LOOM tokens, via the the Loom Trading Post.

…and that doesn’t even include the countless number of gamers that have already started doing exclusive livestreams on Twitch and YouTube.

And the coolest part is…

Zombie Battleground hasn’t even been released to the public yet.

We’re super thrilled to not only be building a revolutionary blockchain game, but to also have such an incredibly passionate player base BEFORE the game is even released to the public.

GameChain: Over 60,000+ blocks processed in the first 24 hours