Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024!
It’s hard to believe that we launched MARVEL SNAP globally over a year ago, back in late 2022. So much has happened since then! Some of our favorite moments include launching SNAP’s first new game mode (Conquest!), officially launching on Steam and the recent introduction of Deck Builder. Above all though, the best part has been building MARVEL SNAP with such a widespread, international community. From the endless memes that make us laugh, to the fan art that takes our breath away, to your in-depth and incredible feedback, we hope that you continue sharing your passion, creativity, and ideas with us as we march into 2024. But most important of all as we enter the New Year, we hope you continue to make SNAP an awesome place for anyone who wants to participate. Be kind to each other and from the bottom of our hearts…
Thank you, Merci, Grazie, Danke, Gracias, ありがとう, 감사합니다, Obrigado/Obrigada, 谢谢, Gracias, ขอบคุณ, 謝謝, Terima kasih, Спасибо, Cảm ơn
Now, let’s talk about the future of MARVEL SNAP… It’s a bright one!
Coming Soon
Items listed here are in the final phase of development, and these features are almost ready to release to players! We’re cleaning up, polishing art, and squashing bugs. Our Quality Assurance teams scrape over all the little details to ensure we have as smooth an experience for players as possible. Once features are “Coming Soon,” we can start to plan release dates, timelines and share some insight with players.
The team is hard at work putting the finishing touches on a few much-anticipated features:
- Album Improvements
- In-Game Events
- Character Mastery
- Selectable Card Effects
- Selectable Borders
- New Infinity Splits
- Collectible Reactions
What are Album Improvements?
Thank you to everyone who provided feedback on our new Album feature in December. We’re actively making improvements that include more albums, easier to complete albums, albums with various sizes, and more ways to collect emotes! Imagine a Dan Hipp “Parent Album” that combines all of the Dan Hipp albums and rewards you for progress on each of the many Dan Hipp albums. Keep the feedback coming and stay tuned as we continuously improve this feature.
What are Selectable Card Effects and Borders?
One of the most requested features in the game since beta has been the ability to pick your border and set it up with the best Infinity Split combo you have unlocked on your favorite variant. Guess what? It’s coming soon! Gone are the days where you had to leave a card at a specific border or regret upgrading a card past a border you liked more. Now with Custom Card, you will be able to keep upgrading a variant as much as you want to chase even cooler combos while setting your Custom Card to your current favorite border and Infinity Split combo.
We are also preparing for a second phase of Custom Card you may see in the In Development section called Collectible Borders. Collectible Borders will be a brand new cosmetic type with new, never-before-seen Card Borders that you can acquire and apply to a character to unlock that border for that character’s Custom Card. If you think the current borders are great, wait until you see what is cooking!
What are In-Game Events?
On Snap, we aim to keep the game fresh every week, so in 2024, we’re introducing in-game events. Over the year, we will gradually add new and varying types of events. The first one looks like it’ll be something we’ve tentatively titled ‘Leagues.’ When a League Event is active, you will be matched up against a small number of other players near your skill and collection level. During the event, you will compete to see who can earn the most cubes to earn awesome rewards. Do you have what it takes to win your League?
We hope this is the first of many different types of events we’ll introduce over time. During and after each event we will take in your feedback and make adjustments for new events and iterations of existing events. Make sure to share your feedback with us on Discord and fill out our posted surveys!
What is Character Mastery?
Has your love of friendly sharks caused you to collect every Jeff variant? And how perfect does that Ink split with black Krackle flare look on your Chibi Jeff? Well, now is the time to show off your mastery of playing and collecting each character in Marvel Snap! After Character Mastery launches, every cosmetic you collect for a character will contribute towards unlocking brand new Splits and exclusive rewards. If you thought Gold, Ink, and Krackle were fun, we have even more fun on the way! Earned your 4th Iron Man variant? Gain Iron Man Mastery. Earned your 3rd Gamora avatar? Gain Gamora Mastery. Split Venom for the 157th time, gain Mastery. As your Mastery for a character goes up, you unlock new and cooler Splits and eventually a brand new cosmetic type, Reactions. Exclusively available as a Mastery reward for each character, reactions are the fun emoji you can show off on cards and locations. What if your reaction was Goose or Wolverine? Your opponent will immediately know your dedication and love for that character when you show it off.
In its current Design, every few levels of Character Mastery you gain unlocks a Mastery Milestone. Each character has unique Mastery Milestone challenges for you to complete! Imagine reaching Deadpool Mastery 10 and unlocking a challenge to have Deadpool be over 100 power in a match. Completing a Mastery Milestone will earn new rewards for that character potentially including new Split unlocks, a new Collectible Border, or currencies to help you continue to increase your Collection Level. This is the current design, and it may change by the time we launch it, but we can’t wait to share it with you!
In Development
Game features in this section are actively being developed, iterated, and improved upon. Our production team dedicates team resources, generates tasks/timelines, and ensures we’re moving forward. Features and systems in this bucket can change dramatically – we might find our initial idea wasn’t fun OR we might discover we can achieve our goals in an unexpected way!
Here are some features that are currently in development:
- Clans 1.0
- Collectible Borders
- Booster Vats
- More Event Types
- In-Game Graveyard
What is Clans 1.0?
We’ve heard your requests for a more social experience in Snap, and we’re excited to announce we’ve been actively prototyping the first version of clans. This new feature will enable you to join or create clans, working together to complete missions and earn collective points. The more points your clan accumulates, the greater the rewards for all members. The Clans feature will be rolled out in phases, allowing us to gather feedback and refine the system along the way… Stay tuned for more updates as we get closer to releasing the first version of Clans.
What are Booster Vats?
Do you dream of picking a character to get boosters after a match? Booster Vats are a new feature geared towards targeted booster acquisition for characters of your choosing! Booster Vats will come in sizes from small to Hulk-sized which award more and more boosters as the Booster Vat gets larger. Pick the Booster Vat size you want to use, pick the character you want to target, complete an objective to crack open the Booster Vat, and then collect your Boosters!
In Concept
We have BIG dreams about what we’d like to bring to the future of MARVEL SNAP! The first step towards these dreams is turning ideas into concepts through discussion, documentation, and planning. Features currently in the “In Concept” phase have been initially scoped out and given shape but have not yet had any engineering or development work done in the game itself.
This is where we’d love your feedback the most! Concepts listed in this section may be elevated in priority, rescoped, or scrapped entirely… or we might hear something completely new from the community!
Here are some of the future concepts we’re thinking about for MARVEL SNAP:
- New Game Mode
- New Game Boards
- Clan Competitions
- Ultimate Variant Evolution
- New Card Mechanics
Clan Competitions
What are Clan Competitions? We don’t quite know yet. As we described in the Clans 1.0 section, we’re going to release the Clans feature in phases and learn a ton along the way. Depending on what we learn, that will inform what we might want to explore (or not explore) in the future. Some type of feature that allows entire clans to battle it out against each other sounds really fun to us in theory, but it’ll remain as just a design document until we learn more about Clans.
New Game Mode
We have a lot of different ideas for our next new game mode and are working through the concepts. The next step will be that we’ll choose a few to go through a prototyping, testing, and evaluation plan to help us figure out what’ll be the most fun.
Let us know what you think, and please continue to share your ideas for the future of MARVEL SNAP!
