Reflecting on 2024: Building, Rewarding, and Charging Toward an Epic 2025
As with many across our industry, 2024 brought both massive wins as well as some intense challenges for our team at SHRAPNEL. Even in the face of adversity, we shipped several successful Early Access releases, launched our Marketplace, and built a very strong foundation for our products moving forward. This is an incredibly hard-working and dedicated team, and we cannot wait to show you all what we have in store next year. We still have work to do, but the future is bright for SHRAPNEL. Thank you to all of the Operators who have joined us on this journey and we’ll see you in the Sacrifice Zone in 2025! — Dave Johnson, Head of Shrapnel
Wow, what a rollercoaster ride 2024 has been! As we reflect on this incredible year, we’re overwhelmed with gratitude, and excitement for what lies ahead. Together, we’ve accomplished remarkable milestones, and our journey is just beginning.
We started the year with exclusive playtests for Operator holders, which grew into larger-scale STX events. The STX events began as focused 3-day testing windows which evolved into week-long playtests. Through eight epic STX events, you played hard and extracted over 141 million Sigma across 3.7+ million sessions.
A Community Like No Other
To the Shrapnel community: thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Your unwavering support, thoughtful feedback, and creative contributions — from comments to videos and photos — have fueled us every step of the way. Seeing the energy and passion you bring to the game has been humbling and motivating beyond words. And 2025? Oh, we’re just getting started!
A Year of Rewards
This year, we celebrated your accomplishments in style. We rewarded players with over 4.3 million SHRAP, more than half a million skins, fragments, and badges — all to reward your dedication and impressive gaming skills. Our marketplace launched, opening up new opportunities for trading and collecting. And let’s not forget the exclusive perks for our Operator holders: airdrops of partnership skins, BTC-inspired weapon skins, rare Schematics, and Volume 2 of our comic series — thank you for being part of the Shrapnel family and sticking with us for the past 2 years!
To keep players engaged between STX events, we introduced Shrapnite (our UEFN Fortnite map) and The Lunatics Discord game. We also allowed players to enlist their SHRAP and steadily accumulate METAL. During the “Shrappy Holidays” event, players could use their earned METAL to participate in a gacha prize mechanic for a chance to win even more. Looking ahead, there will be more opportunities to use METAL in the Printer and Recycle Depot in the new year.
From Concept to Realization
Reflecting on our progress this year, there have been some significant transformations. We began with a basic greybox map and just three weapons, accompanied by the typical early-stage technical challenges — including a notable crash on launch day. Since then, Shrapnel has steadily developed into a more polished experience. Our map has been refined, gunplay and movement mechanics have been improved, and we’ve expanded our arsenal with new weapons and attachments. We’ve also introduced features such as skin fragments, skin crafting and controller support.
Taking Shrapnel Global
2024 wasn’t just about building the game; it was about building connections. We attended over 10 conferences and events, hosting unforgettable SHRAP Houses where friends and creators gathered to celebrate. From showcasing Shrapnel to meeting incredible members of our community worldwide, it’s been nothing short of phenomenal. Along the way, we earned industry recognition: nominated for Best Shooter by Gam3s.gg, two Telly Awards (Gold in People’s Telly for Social Video and Silver for Video Games & eSports), and a Webby Honoree award in Action and Adventure Games.
Looking Ahead to 2025
Behind the scenes, our team has been hard at work laying the foundation for the future. We’re developing a new teamplay game mode, the Operator progression system, and introducing exciting new Sigma abilities — all while welcoming a new CEO and securing fresh funding to propel us forward. 2025 is shaping up to be the year Shrapnel truly takes flight.
Looking back on 2024, I am so proud of the team and all we accomplished. To our Community, thanks for staying on this journey with us. We are coming back hard in 2025, LFG! — Ken Rosman, CEO
As we refine the gameplay and focus on shipping, we’re laser-focused on delivering the ultimate gaming experience. There’s a thrilling new game mode on the horizon, and we can’t wait for you to dive in
