🗞️DEVELOPERS' CHANGELOG & PATCH NOTES
In this section, we'll list the various updates we've done for the application.
v3.0.0 - April, 2024
Hello fellow readers!
We've skipped a few months of updates in this section, because of major changes taking place in the Pooky gameplay and roadmap. Those changes are available in an updated Whitepaper document: https://whitepaper-update.pooky.gg/
This is probably one of the last updates to this document. You can follow the developers notes in the updated whitepaper, it will follow a very similar structure! https://whitepaper-update.pooky.gg/general-information/changelog-and-patchnotes
Updated the whitepaper with links to the new update
Updated the Stickers Mint list
v2.1.2 - December, 2023
Updated the Sticker mint list to remove the Summer Leagues from the mint pool until they come back, as well as the Nations until we're closer to International competitions.
Updated Ascension base price to 15% of higher rarity mint price (up from 10%)
Updated the Roadmap with a focus on mobile application development.
v2.1.1 - November, 2023
It's been a year since we launched Pooky for the 2022 World Cup! We've reached nearly 100k unique players through those 52 weeks of gameplay, cumulating over 1.8m predictions. Thanks a LOT for your continued support, it means a lot to us.
Patch notes and updates
Mythic rarity is now available, for Pookyballs and for Stickers! This rarity can only be obtained by doing an Ascensionfrom Legendary assets.
Developers' notes:
With Ascension and Mythic rarities both being available, the core journey for any player is now fully available. Anyone can embark with a few Common balls and start climbing up towards higher rarities and higher chances at rewards.
Free-to-play game mode has been revamped:
Basic league has been removed
Free players can now play in any league of their choosing
Moved to Alchemy to handle our blockchain event listening service
v2.1.0 - October, 2023
Ascend your Pookyballs with Ascension! We're delivering on one of Pookys' first promises: you can start your journey from the simplest assets and climb up the highest rarities, up until the never-sold Mythic ball.
Developers' notes:
That option has been asked for a long time to allow changing strategy and correct beginners' mistakes. This should also help making the secondary market more fluid.
v2.0.3 - September 29th, 2023
Marketplace has been revamped for players who do not own any Pookyball yet
Pookyball page has been revamped
v2.0.2 - September 22nd, 2023
Marketplace has been revamped for players who do not own any Pookyball yet
Technical upgrades made the application generally much faster to load
v2.0.1 - September 10th, 2023
Updated Referral program
Refer your friends and get rewards - now fully automated and nearly instant within the application.
Both you and your friends get rewards through a revenue share program. Visit https://pooky.gg/app/more/referral, spread the word and earn.
Get permanent energy
We've added the possibility to purchase permanent energy through the application. Just click the energy button and play more matches, forever!
Prediction cost update
Prediction cost updates from 0 to 2 energy per update.
Developers' notes:
We've slightly rebalanced reward distribution to maintain a good balance of rewards across all Pookyball rarities. Rewards for the top 2-3% ranked players on both the Boosted and the Base leaderboards should be even more appealing now.
v2.0.0 - August 24th, 2023 [Stickers update]
Major update: Stickers
Stickers have hit the game!
Players can now customise at will their Pookyballs.
Read more in the dedicated section: STICKERS
Prizepool growth breakpoints
We've reached the breakpoints for a prizepool growth acceleration.
From 28th August, Pookyballs contribute permanently to prize pools with 1.5% of their MATIC value before VAT, and Stickers contribute permanently to prize pools with 0.75% of their MATIC value before VAT.
v1.2.1 - August 2023
August 9th, 2023
Updated whitepaper, notably:
Developers' notes:
We've slightly rebalanced reward distribution to maintain a good balance of rewards across all Pookyball rarities. Rewards for the top 2-3% ranked players on both the Boosted and the Base leaderboards should be even more appealing now.
This change is not live yet, it will be implemented early in September
August 3rd, 2023
We passed 5000 Pookyballs in August! Thanks everyone for your support in the first steps of Pooky, it's only starting :)
Updated the Stickers whitepaper, notably
updated ROADMAP
Improved the UI of Challenges
v1.2.0 - July 19th, 2023 [Gameweek update]
Gameweek update
Since the start of Pooky, we've treated all matchdays independantly with a single reward pool. We're now moving to a weekly schedule system, with the following advantages:
We can add or remove events without touching the weekly reward distribution
Low-activity period still provide the same weekly rewards to players
Rewards are directed to the players' prefered leagues
Note that this system calculates rewards at the end of Gameweeks. Rewards will be distributed when all Matchdays are resolved. PXP will still be distributed at the end of each match.
Read more: Pro Competition Rewards
v1.1.1 - June 12th, 2023
LEVEL-UP FUNCTION UPDATE
to read the full level up feature - see Levelling up
When levelling up, players currently have 2 costs to pay in the process:
A cost in PXP, which can be covered with POK
A cost in POK
We are adding the possibility to cover the second cost with MATIC. With this change, players still will have the possibility to upgrade balls using only PXP and POK as they currently do. At the same time, it is impossible to bypass the first cost with an external currency, meaning progress still has to be earned.
Numbers change:
Cost 1:
PXP required per level is unchanged
POK:PXP ratio for coverage increased from 0.08 to 0.125
Cost 2:
POK:PXP ratio is unchanged at 0.08
MATIC:POK ratio created at 0.035
We will closely monitor the impact of this change to ensure both progression speed and gameplay are positively impacted. .
v1.1.0 - May 2023
NEW SYSTEM: Rivals
Introducing our first social system: Rivals !
You can now connect with other players and compete against them in a more personal way.
Players will now be able to
visit another player's profile
see their basic stats
see their Pookyballs collection
see the matchdays and leaderboards they are participating in.
Check the in-depth dedicated section of the whitepaper for more information!
BALANCE CHANGES
Exact Score
This is our first major change to one of the attributes - the exact score.
Exact score is a bit of a special one - whatever your prediction, you always have a chance to score it. On top of it, it's the hardest part of your prediction to get right.
We knew it had strong correlation with 1X2 and O/U, and limited how much it was contributing to the total of points since the beginning of the game design. Its contribution was of approximately 25% of users total points, which looked fine at a glance.
However, when diving into live data, we understood that exact score was giving a bit too much benefit to the most likely results, but not enough to the risky ones. This would encourage a gameplay where low risk scores are encouraged over bolder moves - which is not the spirit. Mathematically, this happens simply because in Pooky, you predict on outcome, goals, and exact score in a single prediction, so the odds of Exact Score natively contain the outcome & goals odds.
After this update, Exact Score will give less points to likely results, and more points to rarer results. It should, on average, give slightly more points across the board, but will be less correlated to likeliness of results.
Other attributes
Coming with this, as we want to highlight sports skills, we are further increasing the impact of 1X2 on player points. We will slightly increase the impact of 1/X/2 versus the action points of Over/Under.
Detailed changes
Exact Score computation changed
OLD : 11 times the Odd of the Exact Score
NOW :
20 times the Odd of the Exact Score, minus the points that can be earned from 1/X/2 and Over/Under
Maximum points from Exact Score increased to 320 (from 220)
Minimum points from Exact Score added, at 40
Adjusted 1 X 2 point multiplier to 23 (from 22)
Reduced Over/Under points multiplier to 18 (from 20)
NEW DISCORD ACTIVITY
We're reigniting our partnership with Zealy (previously Crew3) !
Head to our Discord to discover community challenges.
WHITEPAPER UPDATES
Pooky added a pricing policy page to the Whitepaper: Pooky pricing policy. In short, we added a 50% peg between the USD and the MATIC on our marketplace sales, in both directions.
Added the STICKERS in-depth section. Let us know what you think about this on our Discord server - ping Pierre for feedbacks :)
v1.0.1 - April 25st, 2023
Here are our first adjustments since the game went live!
REWARDS POOL UPDATE
Guaranteed minimum on Pro Leagues Rewards Pools has been updated from 500 MATIC to 660 MATIC per matchday, since April 21st
Pookyballs distribution to top5 players has been removed
Developers' notes: we observed that players ranking top 5 rarely had a use for an extra Common Ball. With this change, we allow more flexibility for the same monetary value.
REFERRAL PROGRAM UPDATE
Referring a new player now awards 5 MATIC to the referrer
Conditions can be found on https://pooky.gg/app/more/referral
PRESSURE RULE UPDATE
Updating a prediction from ball A to ball B now costs 1% prediction to the ball B
Developers' notes: some players used a small loop to spend the pressure on a deprecated ball, and save pressure on their main ball. This change should affect quite a low part of the playerbase.
TWITTER LOGIN REMOVED
As part of their new API plans, Twitter Login is now a (quite expansive) paid plan. As such, we have decided to sunset our support of Twitter Login. Affected users have been
NEXT DROP TIMER
Following player feedback that they lack visibility on the next drops, we added a timer to the marketplace when a given drop is soldout, and the next one is planned.
WHITEPAPER UPDATES
Added detailed explanation about two upcoming features: Stickers & Rivals
Corrected a few typos
v1.0.0 - March 23rd, 2023 [Play & Earn Release]
We're now live!
First of all, huge thanks to all players who participated in Pooky so far, from the Discord opening in September, the World Cup in November, the mid-season of European leagues, and most recently the Genesis collection mint. A lot of you have been there along the way to help build with us, provide feedback, and challenge us to do better. Thank you again!
Then, some highlights on major evolutions from there.
ENERGY UPDATE
Cost per prediction in all leagues has been increased to 10.
Energy now refills on Mondays, instead of Sundays
Developers' notes: As planned from the start, we have increased the prediction cost to 10 per predictions. This means, players can do at least 10 predictions, and progressively more as they upgrade their collection.
Total energy increases and refills will be supported with the Stickers update and the Crafting update.
We understand that we offered players a reduced cost of predictions for a significant period of time, and we hope this change will not bring confusion.
BASIC LEAGUE AND PRO LEAGUE
Players can now compete on those two competitions. The same Energy is used to predict on both leagues.
PRO LEAGUE FEATURES
Those will be the National and International competitions you all know: English league, European tournaments, German league...
All matches available on the Pooky platform are featured in the Pro leagues
Play & Earn Leagues are accessible with Common, Rare, Epic, or Legendary Pookyballs
BASIC LEAGUE FEATURES
Basic League matches will be chosen by the team to ensure some variety and action throughout the week. Basic League will generally feature several competitions per week, of 4 to 8 matches, to allow anyone to join the party mid-week.
Basic Leagues are reserved to Basic Pookyballs to ensure fairplay. Top ranking players will earn a Common Pookyball, giving them access to the Pro leagues.
REWARD POOLS
PRO LEAGUES
Rewards pool start at 500 MATIC, 35k POK, and 5 Pookyballs
90% is distributed on the Boosted Leaderboards
10% is distributed on the Base Leaderboards
50% of ranked players are eligible to MATIC rewards ; 100% of ranked players are eligible to POK rewards.
The pool size will increase based on total Pookyballs minted on our marketplace
See Pro Competition Rewards for more on the topic.
Developers' notes: If you like doing your own analysis, this spreadsheet should help you work around your possible rewards.
BASIC LEAGUE
Basic League is only accessible with Basic Pookyballs. Fair play only !
Top ranking players will receive a Common Pookyball, which will allow them to participate in the Play & Earn leagues!
POOKYBALL DROPS
After the Genesis collection, we will start dropping Regular collection supply in our Marketplace. We'll manage the supply closely to make sure player's collections stay quite unique!
You can expect drops from weekly to monthly frequency, depending on time
You can expect the same rarity distribution - see Pookyball supply for more.
Kicking things off, the launch of the game comes with an extra 100 Pookyballs.
KNOWN ISSUES
The number of matches you have predicted is not displayed correctly in the Home page and in the League page. Predictions are still correctly registered.
Some European team colors are a bit off (Italy, Ireland).
Top bar of the matches says "match 0" instead of counting matches in the league.
Marketplace bottom counter is off by 1,000 units.
Developers' notes: we decided to ship despite those few issues to allow predicting on March 23rd's matches. Thanks for understanding!
WHAT'S NEXT ?
The team will actively listen to feedback, even more than usual, during the coming weeks. Join Discord to let us know what you think!
We're working on 4 major axis:
Our first social feature: Rivals. Get close and personal, challenge other players, and show them who's the strongest competitor !
Multiply customisation options to get a truly unique Pookyball with STICKERS
Our social-economy system, allowing people to craft, use, and trade secondary items to refine their strategy: Crafting
Improve new player experience and in-app answering to common questions. Our goals:
in 15', anyone can get started with Pooky
in 5', any question should find an answer
v0.3.1 - March 10th, 2023
MORE ENERGY FOR POOKYBALL OWNERS
As planned in Energy section, Pookyball owners now benefit from a higher max energy. You can read more either in the Energy section, or in this article on our blog: https://pooky.gg/blog/pressure-and-energy-management
Important note: when the full game is released, the energy cost per prediction will increase to 10 energy points per prediction.
Developers' notes: to give a little immediate thank you to people participating in the Genesis Mint, we've pushed the energy update in production before the game. Happy predicting ! We also decided to not increase already the energy cost from 4 to 10. As the game is still in F2P state, and we have large European tournaments, we did not want to limit the experience of F2P players already.
v0.3.0 -- March 08th, 2023
REFERRAL SYSTEM
We have implemented a first referral system. Every time you refer a friend, you'll earn a MATIC reward. Every 5 refered friends, you'll get an extra bonus.
Those rewards will be distributed on Mondays/Tuesday - the distribution is not automated yet, more on that will come in the next weeks!
Head to https://pooky.gg/app/more/referral, grab your link, and show your friends who's best at predicting!
POOKYBALL REWARD DISTRIBUTION
We have distributed the Pookyballs earned by players since the World Cup started.
If you earned a Pookyball directly in the app by winning a Leaderboard, it is now available to claim in your account. It will be visible a few minutes after claiming.
If you earned a Pookyball outside of the app, through a contest, raffle, or giveaway, it has been airdropped directly to your wallet.
ONBOARDING CHALLENGES UPDATES
Repressure challenge reward is now 60 PXP (was 5 POK)
Reach Level 5 on the Basic Ball challenge now rewards 60 PXP (was 5 POK)
Reach Level 15 on the Basic Ball challenge now rewards 360 PXP (was 12 POK)
Reach Level 20 on the Basic Ball challenge now rewards 35 POK (up from 25)
Developers' notes: putting POK too early in the path of the players meant being faced with gas fees before you have discovered the game, and created a negative experience. We have made challenges more tailored to discovering players, and are actively working on removing the adoption hurdle that gas fee represents.
Those challenges will reward more PXP, which will accelerate the players to complete the onboarding goal of level 20 where players can get a significant claim of POK.
OPENSEA SETUP
v0.2.0 -- February 28th, 2023 [Mint update]
We have released our Genesis Collection!
Head to https://pooky.gg/app/marketplace and grab your Pookyball for the upcoming Play-and-Earn game.
The sale is limited to 1,000 units ; on top of which we have distributed the rewards earned to winners of the game since November.
v0.1.4 -- February 08th, 2023 [Core Gameplay Update]
Balance changes
Note that numbers are still subject to change, as we thrive to bring the best equilibrum to our players.
SCORE MUTLIPLIER UPDATES
Exact Score Multiplier has been reduced from 12 to 11. This means exact score will, on average, award 8.3% less points.
1 - X - 2 Multipliers have been increased from 20 to 22. This means they will, on average, award 10% more points.
Developers' notes:
The previous multipliers were creating quite a lot of variance, and rewarded chance a bit too much. With this change, we're hoping to reward better players with a constant understanding of the game, while keeping a major incidence of the exact score on your ranking. On average, this should not impact the average amount of PXP earned by a player.
EXPERIENCE CURVE UPDATES
Leveling factor has been reduced from 1.085 to 1.075.
POK Factor for levelling has been reduced from 9% to 8%
Developers' notes:
While we're pretty happy with how fast the Basic Pookyballs are levelling, the NFT Pookyballs were slowing down a bit too fast. Updating those numbers should help players reach higher levels at a faster pace.
ONBOARDING REVAMP
Onboarding has been fully reviewed to help players discover the core mechanics of the game.
Reduced the initial amount of Basic Pookyballs offered after sign up from 2 to 1
Added a guided questline of 4 Challenges to guide the player through the first predictions, rewards, and level up.
After completing those challenges, players are able to choose a second Basic Pookyball.
Developers' notes:
Our players reported frequently that after their first predictions, they were not acquainted with core mechanics. This was particularly true for the first session, where after doing your first round of predictions, you were running of actions to do. This change should help new players understand how the Pooky game works!
Other changes
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE and EUROPA LEAGUE have been added to the pool of available Leagues.
Alpha Luxury concept has been removed. Rarity pyramid has been slightly modified as a consequence.
Energy price has been added to the Energy section
Pressure price has been added to the Pressure section
Prize pool mechanics for the V1 have been added in Pro Competition Rewards. Note that those mechanics will last three to six months, before being replaced by a new tokenomics system. You can visit SUSTAINABLE TOKENOMICS for more information.
SMART CONTRACTS ADDRESSES have been updated with the latest addresses
v0.1.3 -- January 31st, 2023
Players are now able to claim their POK rewards
Players are now able to claim their MATIC rewards
Marketplace has been updated with the latest supply information
v0.1.2 - January 26th, 2023
First version of the Smart Contracts of the game has been deployed. You can find them at SMART CONTRACTS ADDRESSES.
v0.1.1 -- December 14th, 2022
Players are now able to predict on the National leagues for France, Italy, Germany, England, Spain
Each leaderboard now awards a promotional reward of 200 POK, 250 MATIC, and 1 Common Pookyball spread amongst players
Energy cost to predict increased from (0) to (4) per match
v0.1.0 -- November 15th, 2022 -- V0.1.0
We released the World Cup demo version. In this version, players can compete against each other in 16 leaderboards of 4 matches, and receive promotional rewards.
Each leaderboard awards a promotional reward of 500 POK, 130 MATIC, 2 Common Pookyballs, and 1 Rare Pookyball spread amongst players
Energy requirement has been set to 0 for the World Cup event, to allow players to predict on the whole event without constraint.
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