Decksplash

Decksplash is a cancelled skateboarding video game that was being developed by Bossa Studios for Microsoft Windows.

Decksplash
Developer(s)Bossa Studios
Publisher(s)Bossa Studios
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows
ReleaseCancelled
Genre(s)Sports
Mode(s)Multiplayer

In November 2017, Bossa Studios announced that Decksplash was cancelled after not reaching its intended goal of 100,000 players during a Steam free week.

Gameplay

Decksplash is a team-based skateboarding turf wars video game in which a player controls a physical skateboard without a skater. Players score points by painting the field with their team's colour. The amount of paint a player spreads is dependent on their combo.[1][2] Combos are determined by any combination of flips, manuals, and grinds.[3]

Development

In January 2017, Bossa Studios announced Decksplash. Rock, Paper, Shotgun compared the game to the likes of Splatoon and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater,[4] while PC Gamer compared it to Rocket League.[1]

In November 2017, Bossa Studios released a free build of the game on Steam. They challenged the community, stating that if 100,000 players downloaded the game during the free week, the game would be released into Steam's early access program, otherwise, the game would be discontinued.[5][6] A week later, the studio announced the game's cancellation after the player count failed to reach the stated goal.[7] According to PCGamesN only about 36,000 people total tried the game during their free week, with no more than 464 playing it at any given time.[8]

References
  1. Paget, Mat (13 May 2017). "Decksplash is the Rocket League of skateboarding". pcgamer. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
  2. "Decksplash is a messy competitive skateboarding game". destructoid. 24 January 2017. Archived from the original on 14 November 2017. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
  3. "DualShockers' Game of the Year 2018 Staff Lists — Ben Bayliss' Top 10". DualShockers. 21 December 2018. Archived from the original on 9 February 2019. Retrieved 9 February 2019. Despite those circumstances, Decksplash utilized interesting and weird controls that previous Bossa Studios titles such as I Am Bread and Surgeon Simulator are famed for and had players riding skateboards that could be flipped, perform grinds and manuals to tie large combos together. The core idea of Decksplash was that the bigger the combo landed, the more of the team's paint coverage is splashed out from the skateboard.
  4. O'Connor, Alice (25 January 2017). "Splatoon goes skateboarding in Surgeon Sim dev's Decksplash". Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Archived from the original on 10 November 2017. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
  5. Horti, Samuel (26 October 2017). "If Decksplash does not reach 100,000 players during a free week then Bossa Studios will cancel the game". pcgamer. Archived from the original on 10 November 2017. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
  6. Phillips, Tom (3 November 2017). "Surgeon Simulator studio's Decksplash needs 100k people to play this week or it's canned". Eurogamer. Archived from the original on 10 November 2017. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
  7. O'Connor, Alice (10 November 2017). "Wipe out! Bossa Studios cancel Decksplash". Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Archived from the original on 10 November 2017. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
  8. "Decksplash didn't have 100,000 players last week, so now its developers are moving on". PCGamesN. 10 November 2017. Archived from the original on 26 November 2020. Retrieved 21 November 2019.


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