Going into gaming sometimes we go at it alone. We start off with solo,1 player game but eventually we want to branch out to multiplayers games whether it be Call of Duty, Overwatch, Dead by Daylight, Fortnite, FFXIV and the list can go on and on. But where can we find teammates? Irl friends are always the go to but, if you’re the only gamer in your field finding teammates can be scarce.
I was contacted by the Head of Growth of a new app called eBlitz. A new gaming app created Nov of 2021. What does eBlitz have to offer in the gaming world and how does this solve your problem of not having teammates?
The app is designed to help gamers find non-toxic gaming buddies/teammates to play with in a single swipe, for all their favorite multiplayer games!
Robert Luke Elden- Head of Growth, eBlitz Ltd
The gaming world just got a little bit easier, well in terms of finding teammates. The app can be found in the Apple and Google play stores.
iOS – bit.ly/eblitzios Android – bit.ly/eblitzandroid
The app runs very smooth and holds a lot of information for you to connect to the right teammate for your needs. As a simple swipe & match that helps you find reliable teammates. Have the openness to chat with them before you play so you can see how you mesh in conversation and go over how you expect to play the game and what you expect out of your teammates. Because let’s face it, sometimes you just want to have fun and play the game win or lose and then you may be a little bit more competitive and need your teammates to match that same energy.
When creating your account, you start off by picking the games that you want to find teammates for. The only gripe I have with it is that it limits you to only 5 games. As a variety gamer I have a range of games in my library and depending on my mood and what friends I have, I definitely saw more than 5 games that I wanted to add. But I stuck with the top 5 games I probably play more during the week.
A great addition to the app is you can set up your own schedule showing the times and days you are most available to play. This well stop from having to give people bad news that you can’t play with them because of your personal schedule or any other issue that keeps you from playing. It could also make you a hot commodity after they see your stats and then people may align their schedules with yours to get that time to play with you.
Let’s take to the founder and get to know a little bit more about eBlitz.
Arron Wu-eBlitz Ltd
What made you create and start eBlitz?
Gaming has always been something I’d rather do with friends, and as Covid started, hanging out over games became much more frequent. Matching availability with my friends was notoriously difficult, so I often found myself needing someone to play with.
The experience was highly frustrating. The in-game match systems rarely delivered a real conversation and people just did their own things (or shouted abuse at each other). I also tried a variety of team finder platforms, and they invariably tended to be very time consuming (e.g. discovering groups, sending multiple posts in different groups) or I simply did not fit in (I enjoy winning but I would not call myself a competitive player).
So, I asked myself – why isn’t there a solution where people can instantly play together and have a good time? I went on to talk with a lot of gamers, and I was surprised by the amount of people facing the exact same predicament as I did! We then created a prototype of how we imagine matching should work, and I have never played COD Mobile or Fortnite in silence again!
Where are you sitting at right now with downloads to the app?
We’ve recently just hit over 120k downloads (in 4 months) and we’re growing every day!
How many work on this app or are you at this alone?
We have a team of 7 talented team members across product design, engineering and marketing at the moment. I am very fortunate to have found such a team of passionate believers in the eBlitz mission. We have come a very long way since the first private beta, and we are continuing to put out new updates every week to respond to user feedback, this would not be possible without extraordinarily hard work from the team.
Are you a gamer yourself?
I definitely had some of the happiest childhood memories with gaming: the weekend afternoons in the arcade playing Tekken, the detours after school for some LAN sessions on Counter Strike or Red Alert, and connecting our Game Boys (still physical cables back then!) for some Mario Karts during lunch breaks.
The multiplayer games now are all online and more global than ever, yet I felt it frequently makes the feeling of ‘togetherness’ harder to come by. Therefore a big part of my motivation is to recreate that simple happy feeling by focusing on how people connect and play together. What made the arcade and LAN parties special are still heartwarming to everyone, we just need to express them in a new way.
Do the gamers put in their game stats or does it connect to said games/accounts for them?
We are believers in minimizing efforts, so stats should be automated, it does mean we don’t have a lot of stats for now (we don’t have official connections with a lot of games yet). We are having an exciting pipeline of discussions with game developers about integration though, so hopefully this is something we can change soon!
The app coordinators already show a taking to listening to the users of the app. They have just added a new update that lets you message a new potential partner 2 times before you get a response. Right there on the app the state.
You have asked for this many times, now you have it…
app update response
Ios or Android check out the new and growing gaming app eBlitz and find partners to run with for the things you need and know their gaming level and stats so you always have a perfect match up to your gaming needs.
Check out the eBlitz website as well and stay up to date with what’s coming. https://eblitz.gg/
Galaxy out,
Luna
**photos in the body of the message are stock photos provided by eBlitz for press usage and those in the slideshow are my one taken from my usage of the app.
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