In this sixth release of DEGEN Updates, we share a recap of Marketing and Community news, Product and Game Development updates since our last publication, and a look ahead at the coming 2 weeks!
8/04/22: Ali pushed a new Nifty Smashers build — v0.32.2 (Windows). This build featured a fix for ghost issues, where some DEGENs would not load properly in the game. Shout out to Nasty for reporting and troubleshooting with the team! Check out the update in our Discord.
8/10/22: Ali pushed a new Nifty Smashers build — v0.35.1 (WebGL/Windows).
WEN Game
8/10/22: Ali pushed a new WEN Game build — v1.0.7(WebGL). This build added the Nifty League intro to the game.
What’s Next?
Ship Compete & Earn in Nifty Smashers (delayed, but estimated for the coming 2 weeks — primarily BE work remaining). The internal team has been testing the new brawler game mode, which has been lots of fun! Sahin, our Sr. Game Dev, came in like a dark horse out the gate. Watch out DEGENs!
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Slack #general was poppin’ with some silliness during testing. Satoshi may be cloning his favorite DEGENs? Why would he put them in jail though? Who knows 🤪
Ship our new Moon Map with Compete & Earn. We’ve tested this internally and BOY is it fun!
Continued work on Core Gameplay Loop for Niftyverse
Continued work on 2D Animation System — Will has shared some exciting videos of DEGENs with wearables from comic burning!
Product Updates
Added support for Mt. Gawx in the dashboard including the game card, leaderboard, gamer profile stats, etc.
Stabilized and improved our crypto wallet connection and transaction signing experience, which resolved all bugs related to metamask interaction
Shipped improvements to Leaderboards on mobile, making it possible to view all game Leaderboards at any time from the convenience of your phone — hooraa! We also added a time-based filter to all Leaderboards! May want to toggle around on those, we heard Satoshi is the #1 user of this feature 👀
Shipped a handful of other bug fixes including copy updates and improvements, fixed enable/disable rental, fixed broken desktop app verification flow, resolved “time played” in the gamer profile, shipped incorrect data across the Earnings Cap Progress bar feature
We optimized the bundle size, so the dashboard is now loading faster and more lightweight
Brian upgraded from create-react-app version v4 to v5, which is a massive technical upgrade — LFG
We now have viewable and consumable data in our BI analytics dashboard, which will help us make quick business decisions with confidence and ease as we scale 📈
What’s Next?
Backend, external site, and docs preparation for the launch of Compete & Earn
Ship more improvements to the dashboard Cowswap API integration (fee notifications, etc.)
Updates to the content and structure of niftyleague.com
Continued collaboration (Business Development, PR, Marketing) and smart contract development work with our L2 Partner.
Community & Marketing Updates
Moonlight
First onboarding sessions with our new web3 marketing, community, and branding agency, Moonlight! Moonlight is still in stealth mode, but the team of founders and operators come with stacked experience from places like Adidas, 100 Thieves, Activision, Disney, MTV, Google, StockX, EA, RedBull, MLB, Venmo, FaZe Clan, NCAA, Youtube, Fortnite and more. Bolo and Morgan are excited to have more talented builders and strategists join as we prepare for the Niftyverse sale and Alpha, and all the other awesome games/products we’ve got on the timeline in the coming months!
Bolo and Morgan are experimenting with Tik Tok — follow Nifty League and check out our latest videos, highlighted below:
8/12/22: Bolo hosted an AMA in Non Fungible Arcade’s Discord server (Twitter) with Dr. JPEG. Our favorite cowboy kindly gave away a DEGEN to a lucky NF Arcade member 😏
