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Years[]
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Come back here later to view information, or help structure the page by adding more information.January 2020[]
Around January 9th, the design of Mines were changed to a more detailed design, and the design of the Firewall Security units' "Fire Bat" weapon was changed to a unique design based off of concept art which was drawn by DuncanDunclub.
The coin system was changed so that the zones were removed and Coins would instantly fill up a bar, there is a theory that many new players mistook the zone progress bars for HP bars.
Sometime after the Christmas Event., Spiking was removed from Databrawl, due to being buggy.
Around January 12th, the design of the infamous Fire Pit was changed from a grid to a more smooth-looking appearance.
Additionally, Xtriel, one of Databrawl's developers, began development of an entirely new map during this month.
On January 21st, the name of the game was changed to "Computer Simulator" as a joke. This brought in a large influx of new players. However, most of the new players were deeply confused and began asking questions such as: “how do I get a weapon”, “where do I buy stuff”, “how do I become better character” and “How do I use this character???” Another thing was that some older Databrawl players weren’t very thrilled about this idea. Additionally, the icon was changed to an icon made by lol738236.
February 2020[]
On February 2nd, an update was released for Databrawl's Battle Zone which buffed the Firewall Security team (health increase, damage increase, and attack speed increase, for both regular Firewalls and Passionwall Security) and re-added Bodiers to the Battle Zone as Special Token-earnable characters.
On February 11th, a complete overhaul was given to the character selection GUI and the Hexadecimal Editor. It gave the Hexadecimal Editor multiple new features like a preset menu, a RGB input area, the default color slider, and a RGB sliding area.
March 2020[]
On March 15th, Nybbles were brought back to the battle version as spawn chances for Virus and Malware.
April 2020[]
On April 1, the second Jokebrawl Dontplay took place, featuring different characters, while some characters such as Sans stayed there. It was reverted back to normal the next day.
May 2020[]
On May 2, Databrawl Test Version got updated by bringing back Bytes and adding the new Captured Bytes. The Captured Bytes are useful for healing the Corruption team they are in.
On May 17, a major update was implemented and featured the following:
- Atmospheric fog was added
- The way Nybbles pick up items was updated
- The fence around Inception Antivirus was removed and Inception Antivirus itself was moved closer to the battlefield
- Coolant Refinery and McDod switched places
- Bytes returned as secondary class for Programs and as rare spawns for Corruptions
- Gyggles were added as a rare spawn for Programs
- Edgygram and Ghostgram were removed
- Spyware's knife had its ability to be thrown removed
- Non-premium programs' fists, Spyware's cloak and disguise, and Happy99's fists were buffed
- A new death animation was added
- Knockback has been added for weapons
- RAM's Princess Protection bubble now prevents enemies from phasing through it.
- The mesh for food bags was updated to a new mesh made by Xtriel.
It was also the first major update since the Christmas Event. Because of the update, Databrawl got an explosion of players and new players.
June 2020[]
On June 21, 2020, Firewall Shot-Batons/Rifle Batons were added to the Battle Zone as new weapons.
July 2020[]
Not much is known on what happened in July.
August 2020[]
Databrawl's game icon as it appeared during the update.
On August 9, 2020, Databrawl received a big update, featuring major additions including Firewall/Passionwall Scouts returning to the game and the new Mediwall class for the Support class of the Firewall team.
More additions can be viewed here.
January 2019[]
On January 1st, 2019, Virus and Malware Titans were added to Databrawl as bosses. However, they were later removed.
Around January 2019, PvP was added to Databrawl Roleplay, for testing. However, it never came to be.
February 2019[]
Around early-February, Fire Beams were added. Those were later removed.
March 2019[]
Under construction.
April 2019[]
On April 1st, the first Jokebrawl Dontplay took place. It was reverted back to normal the next day.
May 2019[]
Under construction.
June 2019[]
Around mid-June, Bosses were removed, and because of that, the Databrawl map was enhanced back to normal. Nybbles were also removed shortly after, but would come back later on.
July 2019[]
Under construction.
August 2019[]
Around mid-August, killcams were added, and ally hearts were removed. However, the hearts were readded later on. Also, Firewall Executors got their Fire Smashes back, due to lag problems with Fire Beams.
September 2019[]
Databrawl's second year anniversary took place on Sept. 28, 2019.
October 2019[]
On October 26th, collectible coins were added to the Battle Zone, and the map was updated to have Corruption graffiti all over the place. Previously, this feature was only in the Test Version for a couple of days before being brought over to the actual game. Two new badges were added that corresponded to the coin update: "Fun for All!" and "Spoils of War".
Databrawl's game icon as it appeared during the 2019 Halloween event.
On October 27, the 2019 Databrawl Halloween Event came to the game, and the majority, if not all of the characters in the Battle Zone were replaced with Hollowboard variants, which were created by Xtriel with some help on the designs from other people for some of the characters. Unlike Databrawl's 2018 Halloween Event, Scareware Beast did not make an appearance as a Special Token character.
The map also drastically changed in appearance, with the names of buildings being reversed and changed to wacky things, such as Software Sweets becoming "Software Sweat" with two backwards S's, possibly a reference to an actual spelling error that players have made in the game when referring to Software Sweets. Another change is that the Patient Rooms in Antiware Hospital was switched to “Death Bed”, while the Help Desks were renamed “Helpless Desk”. The skybox became darkened, the lighting became darkened, pumpkins placed around and such.
Two more new badges were added to the game specifically for the 2019 Halloween Event: "Delightful Treats" and "Tricky Triumph".
Coins were changed to pieces of candy with wrappers on them, and Coin drop-off zones were changed to cauldrons. Drop-off zones had their icons changed accordingly to match the altered appearance of the characters. Background SFX was also changed, with howling wolves being able to be heard in the background.
November 2019[]
Around late-November, the Central Island was elevated.
December 2019[]
Databrawl's 2019 Christmas event occurred.
The Standard Computer seen in the Battle Zone was given a heavy Christmas theme. All of the grass-colored spots became white like snow, the Fire Pit had an icy color, there were various trees with presents surrounding them, and the roads had a red and gold color palette.
Additionally, several characters and objects were reskinned to match the Christmas theme. Viruses became Vicicles, Malware became Charware, Programs became Hollygrams, and Firewall Security units became Firecracker Security units. Certain Token-earnable characters also changed, with Creepers being reskinned into Rudolph Creepers, Scareware becoming Scare Krampuses, Bloatware gaining Santa Claus' attire, Lesser Bloatware gaining elf attire, etc. Additionally, a brand new Special Token character was added, called Freeze Stalagmite. However, some characters received zero changes, such as CIH, Spyware (who only got a Christmas skin in Databrawl Roleplay after the Battle Zone event first started), Happy99, Princess RAM, and Software. Two new badges were also added to allow players to get Christmas Characters in Databrawl Roleplay.
Additionally, Coins were changed to colorful gift boxes, and Christmas-themed music was added as potential music that would play during gameplay.
The 2019 Christmas version of the map was added to Databrawl Roleplay as a location on December 24, 2019.January 2018[]
February 2018[]
Databrawl continued to develop. Mines were changed so that they wouldn't spawn in one singular spot anymore, and that instead they'd spawn randomly around the map. Spawned Mines were also given a glow to help Corruptions spot them.
Databrawl Roleplay was created on February 12, 2018 as a way to keep non-fighting players (AKA "Friendlies") out of Databrawl. These Friendly players were a persistent issue which the creators of Databrawl had been wanting to solve. Before this, all mentions of Databrawl Roleplay were said as a joke, as the creators of Databrawl never intended for Databrawl Roleplay to exist before the Friendly/Roleplayer issues.
When Databrawl Roleplay was initially created, it was very primitive compared to what it has become currently, with much fewer characters, a simpler logo, etc.
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Also, Databrawl hosted a Valentine's Day event that changed Programs to Heartgrams and Program Chubbs to Heartgram Chubbs.
After the Valentine's Day event, Bytes were introduced to the game on February 22, 2018. When they were initially put into the game, they were able to jump. However, this jump ability was quickly removed after a few days due to concerns about the ability potentially making Bytes overpowered.
March 2018[]
Program Hearts were added to the game sometime between late February to early-mid March. During this time, it was planned for Program Hearts to be able to revive dead teammates. Thus, when Program Hearts were initially added, Programs and Firewalls were able to pick them up and put them into their inventory. Unlike Corruptions however, Programs and Firewalls could not use the Program Hearts to regain health. Instead, if a Program or Firewall tried to use a Program Heart, it would be immediately deleted from their inventory (granting them no additional health) and a specific sound effect (intended to be the "revive" sound) would play (albeit slowed down slightly in the game). Due to the revive feature not being fully completed, the dead teammate would not be revived after the Program Heart was used. The implementation of the revive feature was quickly given up on entirely by DuncanDunclub, causing the ability for Programs and Firewalls to pick up Program Hearts to be removed from the game within a few days.
Databrawl had an Easter event that changed the colors of the teams. Viruses and Malware remained pink and blue respectively (although, their team headers on the leaderboard were less saturated and more pastel-like), but Firewalls became green, and Programs (on the leaderboard team header) became yellow, and were also changed to Bunnygrams (with Program Bytes becoming Easter Eggs). Giant eggs that could be stood on were placed around the map, and Program Hearts were changed to Golden Eggs.
Databrawl also received its current logo around March 28. On March 26 and before, Databrawl had a more plain-looking text logo.
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May 2018[]
On May 1st, Databrawl's speech bubbles were updated so that they would be black, with the text matching the color of the player. Previously, Databrawl's speech bubbles were like regular ROBLOX speech bubbles whereas they were white with black text. Sometime between late March and May 2nd, badges were added to the game.
June 2018[]
Sometime around June 24, 2018, in the Test Version the Firewall Security team became a free-to-play team instead of being locked behind a gamepass. It was also around this time that Special Tokens were added to the game for the first time ever in Databrawl's Test Version. During this time period in the Test Version, Special Tokens would spawn in random locations around the map, and they lacked the explosiveness that Tokens currently do in 2021. There were also no Special Character limits, meaning that there could be an infinite amount of any type of Special Character. There were also other differences between the way Special Characters were during this time and the way they are in 2021.
July 2018[]
On July 4th, Databrawl hosted a Fourth of July event. The teams had different colors. Programs were blue, as one of the national colors of the United States. Malwares were yellow, Viruses were green and Firewall Securities still retained their famous red color. The Roblox building's windows were changed to represent the stripes of the United States's flag. The Program Apartments and Software Sweets buildings were changed to be blue. Additionally, the skybox changed to a somewhat Earth skybox. It was reverted back to normal the next day.
By this point, Databrawl Roleplay's menu and logo had been updated.
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August 2018[]
On August 15, 2018, Nybbles (Virus, Malware) were added to Databrawl's Battle Zone.
September 2018[]
Databrawl's first year anniversary took place on Sept. 28, 2018.
October 2018[]
The 2018 Databrawl Halloween Event took place. In the Battle Zone, Scareware Beast became a token earnable character that replaced its standard Scareware counterpart, Hardware was given flames shooting out of its sword and helmet face holes, and the map changed in appearance, with the skybox becoming purple with a big full moon replacing the monitor screen sun that was once present, the Firewall grid becoming green, and pumpkins being placed around the map. There were not many other changes beyond these.
Additionally, at some point during this month, alternates (such as Pretty, Shy, Love, and Muscle versions of characters) were introduced. The first characters to get alternate variants were Motherboards and Programs. After this, alternate Firewall Security types were introduced, then alternates for Corruptions. Later, around late-November 2018, Alternate Programs and Motherboards were added to Databrawl Roleplay.
October 2017[]
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When it was first created, it was considered the beta stage of the game, therefore it was titled "Databrawl [BETA]". However, much later on, Databrawl's earliest stages were referred to as the "Alpha" stages by the developers and the community, despite Databrawl never having "Alpha" in its title at any point.
The four base Data-species (Virus, Malware, Program, Firewall Security) were all present as playable teams, with Firewall Security only being playable through a gamepass purchase that unlocked the team.
During Databrawl's earliest stages, it had a much simpler map, much fewer weapons (perhaps only the Baseball.bat and the Firewall.bat), simpler building designs, and other differences from the current Databrawl.
Databrawl also had a songlist, which could be allowed to play songs handpicked by DuncanDunclub and Saezi automatically, or players could manually select which song from the songlist they wanted to play. Some of these songs were copyrighted, as the ROBLOX audio copyright system had not been present at this point in time.
November 2017[]
At some point during November 2017, the Main Menu was redesigned to include character icons, which were added to spruce up the appearance of the menu.
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Additionally, on November 30, 2017, Mines were fully added to the game. They would spawn in a specific location on the map, between the Inception Antivirus base and the Motherboard Statue, which was a placeholder brain tower in the center of the Fire Pit at this time.
Prior to when Mines had been fully implemented, they were a tool that Saezi (and presumably also DuncanDunclub) could use for testing purposes.
December 2017[]
Databrawl had a Christmas event which changed green "grass-like" spots of the map to white, changed the skybox to a dark icy-blue color, added festive streamers around the buildings, and added snow particles falling from the sky.September 2017[]
The first ever concept of the Databrawl game was created by DuncanDunclub (Project Head) and Saezi (Co-Creator) when one of their previous games called "Protest Simulator" got shut down by ROBLOX for "hate speech" due to the fact that the protesters in the game could change their protesting signs to say various messages (some of them being inappropriate and/or mean-spirited, presumably).
When Protest Simulator got shut down, DuncanDunclub and Saezi had a voting poll where they asked their fans what direction they would like the "replacement" version of Protest Simulator to take. There were 4 options, with the top two picked options being "Food fight" and "Computer world". The direction that won was "computer world", with "food fight" coming in close second. And thus, concepts for Databrawl (AKA "computer world") began to be born.
DuncanDunclub and Saezi started coming up with titles for the game, with Saezi originally having the idea of calling the game "Mainframe", and DuncanDunclub coming up with the idea of calling the game "Databrawl". Ultimately, the title "Databrawl" was chosen to be the name of the game.
DuncanDunclub and Saezi began to design the base four Data-species: Virus, Malware, Program, and Firewall Security, who each were corresponding fill-ins for the original four teams in Protest Simulator (The Viruses and Malware corresponded to the red and blue protesters, respectively. Meanwhile, the Programs and Firewalls corresponded to the citizens and police force, respectively.). They also began to design the Brawler counterparts of the Viruses, Malware, and Firewall Security. During this time period, the Brawlers were instead referred to as "Brutes", since they were the stand-ins for the Brutes that were once in the original Protest Simulator.
After conceiving early designs, they began to attempt to model the characters, however they were not immediately able to figure out how to create the outlines for the characters that were present in their concept art, so these early models lacked outlines and had solid base colors that matched the colors of the corresponding team. Eventually, Saezi figured out how to create the outlines (done via mesh inversion), and thus, the iconic outline-style of the Databrawl characters that was present in the original concept art was also able to be present in the models.
History Gallery[]
History Trivia[]
- Many songs in Databrawl are ripped from other games.
- According to DuncanDunclub, the hit sound for hitting other players in battle was ripped from this YouTube video.
- Databrawl has gotten quite popular and has once appeared on the “Recommended” list of the front page.
- At one point, there was an easter egg related to Protest Simulator. What would you do is say "Protest Simulator" in the chat, and once you do that, a big red text pops up saying "Did someone say Protest Simulator?", and after 5 seconds it would say if you wanted to teleport to a Protest Simulator-like game with the choices of "Yes" or "No". However, this was removed around late-2018.
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