Splitgate

Splitgate is a free-to-play multiplayer first-person shooter video game developed and published by 1047 Games.
==History==
Splitgate was developed by 1047 Games. Ian Proulx and Nicholas Bagamian started working on the game as a school project while they were attending Stanford University studying computer science. Proulx was inspired by Portal and Portal 2, and believed that its mechanic could translate well into other video game genres. They worked on the game without funding for six months, and then released a demo for user testing, which became unexpectedly popular as the game drew 600,000 downloads in its first month of release. https://venturebeat.com/2021/05/24/1047-games-raises-6-5m-to-develop-free-to-play-shooter-slipgate/ 
The game was released as a free-to-play title on Steam on May 24, 2019. 1047 Games continued to work on the game post-release and had raised a total of $10 million for the project by May 2021 from investors. https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-05-25-1047-games-raises-usd6-5-million In June 2021, the company announced that the game would be coming to PlayStation and Xbox with cross-platform play supported. https://www.ign.com/articles/splitgate-consoles-release-date-announcement-playstation-xbox-cross-play-ign-expo-summer-of-gaming 
While Splitgate struggled to maintain a viable player base after its initial early access launch in 2019, the game saw a significant surge of players when the game's beta launched in early July 2021, causing it to surpass 600,000 downloads in the first week. Its sudden popularity was unexpected by the developers and led to the game going offline several times to fix server issues. https://www.pcgamer.com/splitgates-final-release-is-delayed-while-studio-revamps-server-infrastructure/ This led to the postponement of its departure from early access while the developers attempted to increase server capacity to handle well over 100 concurrent players. https://www.pcgamer.com/splitgate-dev-cant-just-buy-more-servers-to-deal-with-exploding-player-numbers/ 
In September 2022, the developers announced that they had ceased feature development on Splitgate to focus on a sequel created using Unreal Engine 5. https://www.ign.com/articles/splitgate-devs-end-development-to-focus-on-unreal-engine-5-sequel 
==Channel==
The Splitgate YouTube channel was created on July 7, 2017, they usually upload trailers for their games. Their first video was uploaded on June 1, 2021. 
==References==
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